• The PVP Unveil First Single ‘Callan’ Ahead of Their Debut Album

      Following our Inbound feature last year, Limerick supergroup The Personal Vanity Project have released their debut single ‘Callan’, with a video directed by Graham Patterson. Creating a blur of psychedelia-infused indie rock formed in 2021, the group comprises drummer/vocalist Brendan McInerney (Bleeding Heart Pigeons), keyboardist James Reidy (His Father’s Voice), and guitarist/vocalist Chris Quigley (Cruiser).  This release comes with the announcement of their eponymous debut album, set for release through Pizza Pizza Records on May 25. The single falls somewhere between My Bloody Valentine’s warbling sonic mastery, Duster’s expansive wistfulness and J Mascis’ fuzzed-out amp worship. The album was produced…

  • Meet Gleo: A New Ambient and Experimental Series in Limerick

    If live music has one grand, immutable law, it’s that most venues are usually only as vital as the sounders who inhabit them. In Limerick – a city we have been known to refer to as the beating heart of the island’s independent scene – it’s a sentiment you will often find spilling over in rooms like Dolans, The Commerical and Pharmacia. Without these spaces and the heroes that helm them, the sounders would know each other much less and a whole community would suffer for it. Yet for all the obvious rude health, for Jack Brolly and Caimin Walsh,…

  • Féile Na Gréine Announce 2023 Line-up

    The line-up for this year’s Féile Na Gréine has been announced. Doubling up as the Limerick DIY festival’s biggest programme to date, this year’s outing takes over various venues across 18th-20th August 2023. As ever from one of the island’s most tuned-in – and infinitely sound – creative collective and promoters, it’s another wonderfully eclectic, thoroughly stacked line-up of gigs, site-specific performances no workshops across three days and nights. Among this year’s many highlights are a whole host of TTA favourite including Robocobra Quartet (pictured), FONDA, Eimear Reidy and Natalia Beylis, Jane Deasy, Katie Kim, Naive Ted, Search Results and…

  • Irish Tour: Kraftwerk

      Kraftwerk live at King John’s Castle in Limerick and Trinity College in Dublin. Photos by Ian Davies and Monika Ruman King John’s Castle by Ian Davies Trinity College Dublin by Monika Ruman

  • Irish Tour: Biig Piig

    Biig Piig live at Cyprus Avenue in Cork, Dolan’s in Limerick with support from Yune Pinku and The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Celeste Burdon, Ian Davies and Kate Lawlor. Cyprus Avenue in Cork by Celeste Burdon Dolan’s in Limerick by Ian Davies The Academy in Dublin by Kate Lawlor

  • Out of Place: Film Screening Tour

    Off the back of being nominated for Best Documentary at the Irish Film Festival London last November, Féile na Gréine documentary Out of Place will hit the road for a selection of screenings later this month and into February. A self-described “meditation on the role music plays in building community, exploring the tensions that emerge when musicians struggle to carve out a space for themselves in their city,” the Graham Patterson-directed documentary features performances from Denise Chaila, God Knows, Hey Rusty, His Father’s Voice, MuRli, and Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies, providing an intimate portrayal of a local music scene…