Girli live at the Academy in Dublin with support from Tillie. Photos by Ian Davies
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It’s almost 45 years to the day since Gary Numan appeared with Tubeway Army in one of the all-time memorable Old Grey Whistle Test performances, promoting the then-new album Replicas. The band, led by some shamanic, androgynous alien cyborg, felt like a transmission of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders as imagined by William Gibson or Philip K. Dick. A totem for the lost and alienated, his words sought out glimpses of humanity and connection in the darkest corners of a dystopia caused by the excesses of technology, and this was reflected in the music, a literal post-punk antithesis to the…
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Tenacious D live at the 3Arena in Dublin. Photos by Sean McMahon.
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Mitski live at the 3Arena in Dublin with support from Richard Dawson. Photos by Ian Davies
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Sprints live at the Ulster Sports Club in Belfast. Photos by Aislinn McGinn
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Shobsy live at the Workman’s Club in Dublin with support from Chubby Cat. Photos by Ian Davies
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Bluestate live at the Workman’s Cellar in Dublin with support from Affection To Rent. Photos by Harry Rich
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Gig for Gaza took place at Cyprus Avenue in Cork last Sunday featuring live performances from The Altered Hours, Elaine Malone, Pretty Happy, Fixity and more. Photos by Erin Plaice
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Elaine Malone and RF Chaney live at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Photos by Thom McDermott
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One afternoon in 2016, I necked an industrial vat of coffee and proceeded to make the case for the Quietus that, when all is said and done and hyped and re-issued, ad infinitum, Trompe le Monde was Pixies 1.0 at their most downright irresistible. Marking their shapeshifting, space-obsessed last hurrah before combusting two years after its release in 1993, it’s spent the last three decades astride its predecessor, Bossanova, as a genre-mangling snapshot of the band being indie rock’s OG mentalists par excellence. Eight years on, I’m more sure than ever that, for all their relative dearth of Kim Deal, it’s…