“It’s good to be home” says Conor Adams, frontman of All Tvvins after playing their first song in The Olympia Theatre tonight, Book. And it seems that the feeling is mutual, the crowd could not be happier to have the band back on home turf after they have been away touring across Europe in support of their debut album ‘IIVV’ for the last while. In tonight’s show All Tvvins show just why there has been so much talk about them, and this definitely feels like the beginning of something huge. From the moment they take to the stage they have…
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Hip-hop legends De La Soul live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Hare Squead. Photos by Aidan Kelly Murphy.
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It’s only June but summer 2016 seems to be the one that just keeps on giving. The glorious weather is only the setting to our sweet isle being visited by not one, two but three musical giants in little over a week, and these standalone shows all sit in the midst of a rousing festival season. For some it may be a little too much but in a world losing legends at every turn it’s simply unthinkable to pass up an opportunity to take in another one who lies so comfortably in the canon. Bryan Ferry may not be the…
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Catfish and the Bottlemen live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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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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The phenomenal Joanna Newsom with support from Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Róisín Murphy live at the Olympia Theatre last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Suede live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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The Vaccines live at the Olympia Theatre last night with support from Pleasure Beach. Photos by Ste Murray.
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Johnny Marr is a man in a rush right now. This past March’s sophomoric effort Playland arrived a little more than a year after his solo debut The Messenger and he’s already trying out new material live. “This is a new song, but don’t be afraid,” he says with a smile before launching into ‘Spiral Cites’ to the approval of the crowd. It seems architect of some of the indie pop’s best loved songs seems to be working at a pace we haven’t seen since the mid 80’s when classic songs were falling out of Rickenbacker back in his bedroom…