The Hold Steady made a welcome return to Belfast over the weekend. They also posed for a band shot before they kicked off their gig in the Limelight 2 on Friday night. Photos by Shaun Neary.
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We Cut Corners played the Academy in Dublin last night with support from Spies and Jennifer Evans. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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The Subways made a welcome return to Limelight 2 in Belfast last night, bringing along electro grungers Young Aviators and Texas punkers Purple. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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Six months on from their show in Dublin, Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced that they will play Cork’s Live at the Marquee on Thursday, July 10 2014. Having last performing there back in 2008, tickets for the show will be able from Monday, December 16 at 9am. To purchase tickets go to Ticketmaster. In the meantime, there’s this masterpiece:
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Tickets for Arcade Fire and alt-rock pioneers Pixies at Dublin’s Marley Park on Sunday, June 29 have gone on sale. Set to be one of the most must-see Irish summer shows of 2014, the event was announced on Tuesday afternoon. Along with confirming the show – as well as a date at Cork’s Marquee on June 30 – the Pixies revealed Paz Lenchantin from A Perfect Circle and Zwan as their new bassist. Co-produced by former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, Arcade Fire released their fourth studio album, Reflektor, back in October. Tickets for the show – priced at €61.50 – are available to…
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Fast-rising musician Emma Sweeney and guests will perform a night of cutting edge Irish traditional music at Belfast’s MAC on Thursday, October 10. A finalist at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2003, Sweeney will perform music from her album Pangea, which was released early this year to critical acclaim. Despite her age, Sweeney she accumulated an impressive amount of live experience performing alongside a host of respected traditional musicians including Dick Gaughan, Cara Dillon, Mike McGoldrick and Dezi Donnelly. The performance is part of Not So Trad, a new series of MAC music events offering traditional music with a fresh, modern approach…
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Our photographer Ruth Medjber snapped Manchester four-piece Everything Everything at Dublin’s Academy on Tuesday, October 9. Support on the night came from the equally impressive Thumpers and Outfit. Check our her photos from the show below!
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The massively talented Diarmuid Kennedy captured Edinburgh alt-rock quartet A Fight You Can’t Win stop off at Belfast’s Voodoo Bar recently in what turned out to be an unforgettable show (particularly for an otherwise unremarkable Sunday night). With the Matthew Bakewell-fronted foursome delivering a storming – highly entertaining – set, the equally riff-fuelled wrath of Bellos and Dutch Schultz proved themselves to be perfect support at either end of the travelling band’s raucous set. Check out Diarmuid’s photos below!
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Three days after they released their first song in nine years – ‘Bagboy’ – the Pixies have announced the first leg of a forthcoming world tour, stopping off at Dublin’s Olympia on November 18 and November 19. With the band’s frontman Frank Black stating the band will play “songs that we haven’t played in ages or never live before” the Muffs’ bassist Kim Shattuck has been confirmed as a replacement for the band’s founding member Kim Deal, who left the band last month. With the first having sold out, tickets for November 19 show are available to purchase via Ticketmaster…