• RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2024 Shortlist Revealed

    January 6, 2025 - By 

    The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024, in association with IMRO & IRMA, has just been announced. Following yet another phenomenal year for Irish music, the list of nominees is as follows: A Lazarus Soul – No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens Curtisy – What Was The Question Fontaines D.C. – Romance  Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs a Hero KNEECAP – Fine Art NewDad – MADRA Niamh Regan – Come As You Are  Róis – Mo Léan Silverbacks – Easy Being a Winner SPRINTS – Letter To Self Further information and shortlists…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 9th February

    February 9, 2024 - By 

    Alpha Chrome Yayo, Gurriers, Lucy Gaffney, DUG and Niamh Regan are among the heavy hitters for new Irish music this week. Delve in below. Gurriers – Des Goblin Alpha Chrome Yayo – Home for Hitodama Home for Hitodama by Alpha Chrome Yayo Lucy Gaffney – Big Love DUG – Jubilee Cosha – Fire Me Up Niamh Regan – Madonna Really Good Time – Retreat To The Cubicle Stomptown Brass – The Earth Was Flat Ria Rua – Asking For It Asking For It by RIA RUA

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 4th November

    November 4, 2022 - By 

    On this, the penultimate Bandcamp Friday of 2022, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week from Pretty Happy, Jape, Ex Isles, Le Boom, Thumper, Akrobat, HousePlants & more Pretty Happy – Boots Echo Boy by Pretty Happy Ex Isles – Deaf Republic Deaf Republic / The Smallest Plot Of Land by Ex-Isles Jape – Secret Area Akrobat – Eskimo THUMPER – Summer Assault Beauty Pageant – Born to Stay Le Boom w/ Andy – Next Time Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance – Republic of the Weird Republic of the Weird by Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance HousePlants…

  • In Photos: Secret Song at Levis, Ballydehob

    October 5, 2022 - By 

    Secret Song took place at Levis Corner House in Ballydehob featuring live performances and spoken word from Susan O’Neill, Seba Safe, Maija Sofia, Stephen James Smith, Daithi, Niamh Regan, Declan O’Donovan and more. Photos by John Sheehy Click here to purchase tickets to the Secret Song Online Show, where the entire event and behind the scenes footage has been recorded and available to view from 10th October.

  • Irish Tracks of The Week: 25th March

    March 25, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks to drop this week, featuring Ciaran Lavery, Axis Of, Niamh Regan, Buí, EFÉ, Fontaines D.C, April, The Wicc, Stomptown Brass, Laytha and more Ciaran Lavery – I Am Old Enough To Know What Love Is Axis Of – Blackcomber EFÉ – KIWI ​​ Buí – Walls Stomptown Brass – Let Me Stay The Wicc – Wolf Fontaines D.C – Skinty Fia Niamh Regan – Late Nights Zaska w/ Jess Kav – Calm Down Laytha – Wavey Gamey Fizzy Orange – Oh Carling! Zapho – Tell Your Mother April – When It Comes To You…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 25th February

    February 25, 2022 - By 

    Here’s our round-up of the best Irish music to drop in the past seven days, featuring Robocobra Quartet, Ragerra, Daniel Walsh, Just Mustard, Clara Tracey, CMAT and more. Robocobra Quartet – Heaven Ragerra – Runaway ​​ Daniel Walsh – BANG BANG BANG BANG Clara Tracey – Harry Clarke Deaf Joe – Shadow Work Just Mustard – Still Niamh Regan & Ciaran Lavery – Winter In Eden In the Meantime (EP) by Niamh Regan CMAT – Every Bottle (Is My Boyfriend) Wallis Bird – Pretty Lies Ye Vagabonds – Blue Is The Eye Aonair – Millennial Bug Aonair · Millennial Bug…

  • Line-Up Announced For Cork’s Quiet Lights Festival

    October 6, 2021 - By 

    Islander have announced details of the fourth outing for Cork winter festival, Quiet Lights. Set to return to various venues in the city across 18th-21st November, this year’s bill is another brilliantly curated affair featuring Lisa O’Neill, Junior Brother, Maija Sofia, Joshua Burnside, Trá Pháidín, Brigid Mae Power, Niamh Regan and more. Check out the full line-up below. “After losing out on hosting Quiet Lights by mere days due to renewed restrictions last year, we are excited (and a little nervous) to be bringing our little festival back to Cork this year,” said festival director Jonathan Pearson. “We’re very proud…