Metric live at The Academy in Dublin with support from Lo Moon. Photos by Harry Rich
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Overhead, The Albatross live at Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from The Monotypes. Photos by Mark Earley
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The Frank & Walters live at Cyprus Avenue in Cork. Photos by Philip Corkery
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Damien Dempsey live at the Black Box in Galway with support from Declan McLaughlin. Photos by Mark Earley
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Lankum live at Vicar Street in Dublin with support from Djackulate. Photos by Mark Earley
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Rave music in the mid-nineties always seemed otherworldly to me and its connoisseurs were as alien as the sounds. Tropical hot Summers with swarms of lads buzzing and cycling through the area with haircuts like sweaty spider legs crushed under the weight of a baseball cap. Postman Pat sweets, Tangle Twisters and a can of Lilt for 36p. Booted out of the house to play on the road but instead melting the black tarmac lines with a magnifying glass while a half-licked ice cream dripped down my legs. I’d stare for hours aimlessly at galaxies forming in oil stains left…
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The Scratch live at Dolan’s in Limerick with support from Ispíní na hÉireann. Photos by Aoife Moloney
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Inhaler live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Lucy McWilliams. Photos by Jane Donnelly
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Clipping live at Opium in Dublin with support from Evicshen. Photos by Harry Rich
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Soda Blonde live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway and Dolan’s in Limerick with support from Neil Dexter. Photos by Ian Davies and Niall McKee. Roisin Dubh in Galway by Niall McKee Dolan’s in Limerick by Ian Davies