Politically-charged Northampton rapper Slowthai live at The Academy in Dublin with support from Luka Palm. Photos by Ivan Rakhmanin.
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Limerick’s finest, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies with support from Mob Wife and Problem Patterns at McHughs in Belfast. Photos by Charly Sproule
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Pavement’s Scott Kannberg aka Spiral Stairs with support from Shrug Life’s Danny Carroll alongside Naoise Roo. Photos by Leah Carroll.
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Iconic U.S. art-punk band Pere Ubu, live at The Grand Social in Dublin. Photos by Ivan Rakhmanin
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Kojaque with support from Luka Palm at the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Ivan Rakhmanin
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We’d the utmost pleasure of hosting the debut Irish shows from Welsh noise rock heroes Mclusky at Belfast’s Voodoo and Dublin’s Workman’s Club at the weekend. Two sell-outs and two extraordinary sets from easily one of the best bands of a generation. Extended gratitude to Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre and And So I Watch You From Afar for the lend of van and gear respectively. Our photographer Colm Laverty nipped down to the Belfast show, which also featured sets from New Pagans and Junk Drawer.
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Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet, live at The Telegraph Building, Belfast. Photos by Niall Fegan
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Put succinctly, Villagers make beautiful music. The reason that their songs are quite so beautiful, and the reason that they connect on such a deep level with their audience, is that all of the white noise, static and blasts of Stax horns are anchored by the state of being human and all of the frailty and vulnerability that comes with it. In a scene so often dominated by archness, cynicism and borrowed nostalgia, Villagers are all about heart-on-the-sleeve sadness and fist-in-the-air joy, and this forms the core of what makes tonight’s performance so compelling, and the thread that is woven…
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Maija Sofia, live at Yamamori Tengu in Dublin. Photos by Ivan Rakhmanin.
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A career-spanning set from Foo Fighters, with support from Hot Milk and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, live at Belfast Vital 2019. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.