Amorphis live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Textures. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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MMOTHS album launch at District 8 in Dublin, with support from Toby Kaar. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Lost Avenue live at Sandino’s in Derry. Photos by Mickey Rooney.
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Following on from its well received debut last August, the announcement that a second Reverberation Festival is scheduled to take place next month, was music to the ears of the ever growing Irish Psych loving fraternity. In anticipation of the festival, the inaugural appearance of Holy Wave to Dublin, is billed as the event’s official launch party. First up is This Other Kingdom, a four piece who play a mix of bombinate-esque shoegaze fused with psychedelia that can draw you in their world so effortlessly, it’s hard not to be converted there and then. Just picture The Black Angels fronted…
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I sometimes wonder how often, if ever, bands think about how the sound they craft in a studio translates to a live stage. Some groups are simply ‘studio bands’ – they sound better when they can endlessly and obsessively tinker with the sonic possibilities of technology. Others see the live setting as a different set of circumstances altogether, something with the living potential for a more sensory collective experience, something that can become a genuine reason to senselessly roar at your friends in a smoking area. While this is all pretty vague stuff to be beginning with, I promise it…
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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin over the weekend, with support from Matthew Logan Vasquez. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Saturday March 12 2016. A hidden location in Belfast’s city centre. No, not a meeting of some clandestine secret society, but a fundraising gig for Belfast hardcore rockers Hornets. As they’ve previously done (to raise money for a tour) the band chose a tiny studio location, holding a maximum of eighty people, to have ‘a bit of a do’, including an art gallery, a raffle, and a couple of up and coming young bands as support. First of these bands was Unyielding Love, who describe themselves as grind/noise. They gather ‘onstage’ (the end of the room) and begin their set…
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Comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog live at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick over the weekend. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Ahead of some UK and US dates over the next few weeks, Wicklow’s Enemies played two sold out nights at Dublin’s Bello Bar at the weekend. Support came from Bantum. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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The phenomenal Joanna Newsom with support from Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.