It may be four years since Toronto quartet Holy Fuck last graced these shores – and six since they last treated us to a headline show – but they certainly haven’t lost their ability to bring in a crowd, if tonight’s packed out Whelan’s is anything to go by. Perhaps this being their only Irish date this time around has helped attendance, not to mention their formidable live reputation, but it’s heartening to see people haven’t forgotten about them in their absence, and with a long awaited and steller new album Congrats under their belts there’s a palpable excitement in…
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Death Grips live at the Limelight in Belfast. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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Meltybrains? live at Billy Byrne’s Bar in Kilkenny. Photos by Ian McDonnell.
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The Frank and Walters live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Eoin Dolan. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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King Kong Company live at the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Tara Thomas.
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Making Monsters live at the Eglantine in Belfast with support from No Great Loss and Those Ghosts. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Hare Squead live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Soulé. Photos by Lucy Foster.
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Orchid Collective live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Star Parks. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Patrick Freeman, Strange Pavement and Adam Murphy performing live at Citog in the Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Belfast alt-folk five-piece The Emerald Armada live at the Goat’s Toe in Bangor with support from Jamie Martin, Joshua Burnside and Hannah Lynn. Photos by Ruth Kelly.