• Gigs of the Week: Patrick Kelleher, Kab Driver, Dear Desert, Gifted, The Wedding Present, Radar

    You’re looking well, you know that? Really well. Gym, is it? Cutting back on the soft drinks, was it? Walking to work in the morning, are we? But enough of the flirting: here’s our Gigs of the Week. Slick back that hair and get out there: much toe-tapping, gallivanting and/or wrecking the gaff awaits. New Natives: Patrick Kelleher, Bouts, Fangclub, Psychics @ The Grand Social, Dublin – Thursday, November 6 The humongously tasteful folks at New Natives will host a stellar four-act bill at Dublin’s Grand Social on Thursday night. Headlined by the inimitable and sorcerous Patrick Kelleher, the show will also features…

  • In Photos: The Thin Air Magazine Launch @ Bar Sub

    On Saturday night we (rather excitably) launched our physical magazine at Belfast’s Bar Sub. We could have had a group of spazzed-out, talentless street urchins banging a couple of bin lids in the corner all night and worried not, so to have Belfast party-starters par excellence Not Squares, fast-rising indie rock trio Hot Cops and DJ David Baxter AKA Kab Driver soundtrack the magazine’s birth was nothing short of amazeballs*. Our photographers Colm Laverty and Sara Marsden popped down to capture all the action – as you can see below! * first and last night we will ever use that word to describe anything… promise.…

  • Gigs of the Week: The Thin Air Magazine Launch, Hidden Agenda, Joshua Burnside, Hard Working Class Heroes, Madball, Red Rock

    With the new semester back in full swing, the old gig calender has suddenly become a lot busier than usual. This, of course, can only be a thing. Whilst some of us are still lamenting the unexpected loss of two much-loved Irish acts in UNKNWN and Adebisi Shank, the future remains very bright indeed – something we feel is perfectly illustrated in our Gigs of the Week for the next few days. Dig. The Thin Air Magazine Launch Party: Not Squares, Kab Driver, Hot Cops @ Bar Sub, QUBSU – Saturday, October 4 Biased, us? Seriously, though, Not Squares (pictured) remain one…