• All Together Now Announce 2022 Line-Up

    All Together Now have announced a stacked line-up for its return next summer. Across the August Bank Holiday (July 29-July 31 2022) the festival will make its return to Curraghmore Estate in Co. Waterford after a three-year break. And it was well and truly worth the wait. Across 18 stages of music, art, theatre, spoken word, comedy, food and more, the festival will feature sets by the likes of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Underworld, Sinead O’Connor, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, DJ Koze, Jungle, Groove Armada, Honey Dijon, Dry Cleaning, Joy Orbison and more. And there’s an absolute…

  • First Acts Revealed for Forbidden Fruit

    Tame Impala, Jungle and Underworld are amongst the first acts announced to play this year’s Forbidden Fruit. Set to return to Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham during the June Bank Holiday of June 3-5, Flume, Groove Armada, Kiasmos and Battles also feature amongst the first wave of acts to be confirmed. With many more acts set to be announced, check out the current line-up below. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, February 10) at 9am.

  • Stream: Fabric – Jungle

    Of the increasing number of new bands to emerge in Derry over the last while, Fabric are easily one of the more curious propositions. Having formed in the summer of last year, Ruairi Coyle (drums) and Lorcan Hamilton (bass/vox) are, according to their Facebook bio, “striving to invent a new sound by exploring many different genres/artists and musical styles.” You might as well aim high, right? Accompanied with wonderfully bombastic b-side ‘Ascot Blondes’, the duo’s debut single, ‘Jungle’ is certainly hard to pin down. At a push, we’d be inclined to say it sounds a bit like Death From Above 1979 jamming Joy Division (or…

  • Jungle – Jungle

    If the early years of the second decade of the 21st Century are looked back on by culture historians and future mars-dwelling anthropologists, then the most striking thing that hopefully hits them isn’t just our society’s over-reliance on dance bangers and international rappers but also the grey period that alternative music went through. Alt-J, Metronomy and to a lesser extent Future Islands are helping build up a series of strong copyright cases by releasing each other’s songs; weak bladdered knock-offs of LCD Soundsystem which although not terrible, aren’t anything special. Into the fray step Jungle. Jungle starts off promisingly enough.…