Beyond the Pale took place at Glendalough Estate in Co. Wicklow over the weekend featuring live performances from Grace Jones, Leftfield, Thundercat, Oneohtrix Point Never, Hot Chip, Little Dragon, Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul, For Those I Love, Candi Stanton, Pillow Queens, Just Mustard, Squid and more. Photos by Leah Carroll Day 1: Day 2: Day 3:
The return of Hot Chip to the Limelight in Belfast. Photos by Niall Fegan
Saturday of All Together Now 2019, featuring Patti Smith, Pillow Queens, Lisa Hannigan, Junior Brother, Fehdah, Hot Chip, Jose Gonzalez, David Keenan and more. Photos by Ciaran Foley
Hot Chip will play Belfast in the Autumn. The Alexis Taylor-fronted, English indie electronic band will play Limelight 1 on Wednesday, October 16. They recently announced a show in Dublin the following night. Hot Chip release their seventh album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, via on Domino on June 21. Tickets for the Belfast show go on sale at 10am on Friday, May 10.
Hot Chip are the best. You know it, we know it, they know it. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see them at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on October 17. To enter, simply send your answer to the following question to: What is the title of Hot Chip’s second studio album?
Best known as Hot Chip’s typically cheeky, earnest-voiced frontman, Alexis Taylor embarked on an exploratory solo adventure back in 2008 trading the group’s funky and percolating electro-pop sound for something a little more introspective and intimate. His 2014 solo endeavour, Await Barbarians, saw him on almost every instrument which led him to create a record that was much more quiet and vulnerable this time round, honing in on his dreamy, effortless falsetto and the beautifully simplistic piano keys. Ahead of his at The Workman’s Club in Dublin on September 15, Paula Murphy talks to the London-born musician. What prompted you…
Before gracing the launch of Metropolis in Dublin on Saturday, Hot Chip played a sold-out Limelight 1 in Belfast on Friday night. Colm Laverty captures the latter show for us here.