Vicar Street, Dublin Weird ‘Al’ Yankovic doesn’t really make sense. A parody artist, whose satirical swipes at popular culture have mostly revolved around food, who has somehow not only managed to survive over 30 years in the business and score a number 1 album on the billboard charts, but has also been a constant presence in a plethora of cultural touchstones. Although he is mostly a fringe player or is the butt of a joke. How has someone like Al managed to survived longer than probably 80% of the groups he has pastiched? If last night’s performance in Vicar Street…
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Paradise Lost and Lucifer embarked on an Irish Tour taking in the Limelight in Belfast and the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Liam Kielt and Isabel Thomas. Limelight 2, Belfast by Liam Kielt The Academy, Dublin by Isabel Thomas
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Gojira and Dead Label embarked on a tour of Ireland together, taking in the Limelight in Belfast and The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Liam Kielt and Francisco Michel. The Limelight, Belfast The Academy, Dublin
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Blues Pills with support from RavenEye at the Limelight in Belfast. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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The Bronx and Torche delivered a devastatingly good double headline performance at Belfast’s Limelight 1. Our photographer Sara Marsden was there to capture the action.
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Rae Morris live at the Limelight in Belfast. Photos by Ruth Kelly.
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Dutch Uncles live at the Limelight in Belfast with support from R51. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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Biopolar Sunshine live at the Limelight in Belfast with support from Ryan McMullan. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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It was shortly after delivering a memorable, thrashy show in Stiff Kitten back in 2010 that Idlewild quietly disappeared from music. It is fair to say that we missed them. Now, with the itches for solo projects having been successfully scratched and the time taken to patiently develop new material, the band returned to Belfast touring on the back of their first album in five years. The Limelight 2 was packed to absolute capacity. ‘Everything Ever Written’, despite being a good album, is unlikely to have brought such a crowd. This was clearly a loyal audience collected many years before…
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Idlewild live at the Academy in Dublin over the weekend. Photos by Aaron Corr