Riff-loving maniac (check – photographer) Liam Kielt snaps Californian heavy metal band DevilDriver, Sylosis and Bleed From Within lay music’s equivalent of the smackdown on Belfast’s ass (Limelight 1) on Monday, April 7. We hope that makes sense. Check out Liam’s photos from the show below.
Formerly of The War on Drugs, American indie-rock singer-songwriter Kurt Vile played Dublin’s Whelans on Monday, April 7, supported by Pall Jenkins of The Black Heart Procession. Talk about a winning combination. Our photographer Aaron Corr was there to capture the night.
Ian Pearce was in attendance for a talk and show by some of the greatest pioneers of electronic, experimental and Krautrock music at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Koncertsalen on Thursday, April 3. Headed by the groundbreaking Tangerine Dream, the performance also featured Michael Rother performing the music of NEU! and Harmonia, as well as Dieter Moebius of Cluster and Harmonia. Not only was this the first time that the bands had played on the same bill together, it was the first time that Michael Rother and Edgar Froese had ever met – which is nothing short of incredible, considering. Check out a rather enlightening…
Shaun Neary captures Dublin folk-rock quartet The Riptide Movement and Dakota 66 at Dublin’s Vicar Street on Friday, April 4.
Do you want to know what love is? Good – so you should. Whilst we can’t help you out with that, our photographer Shaun Neary hit up Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on Tuesday, April 1 to shoot British-American rock veterans Foreigner. If you can’t make the connection, we apologise for the confusion. Check out his photos – also including FM and Not Hot Ashes – below.
Photographer Isabel Thomas shoots Co. Wicklow post-rock five-piece God Is An Astronaut at Dublin’s Whelan’s on March 22.
In this installment of Instatour, we go from Asia to SXSW with sister duo Heathers. We see them taking in beaches in Malaysia, playing at Paypal and shooting some hoops in Texas. All the usual stuff.
Our photographer Shaun M Neary captures hip-hop artist Daniel Dumile AKA MF Doom and Mo Bonix at Dublin’s Sugar Club on Sunday, March 23. Read our feature on masked musicians such as MF Doom here and check out Shaun’s photos below.
Brid O’Donovan shoots Dublin indie rock band Little Green Cars at Cork’s Opera House on Friday, March 14.
Colm Laverty went along to the latest installment of Distillation at Belfast’s Oh Yeah Centre on Friday, March 14. Supporting headliners, alt-punk trio Axis Of was Dublin duo TVVINS and Belfast-based electronic trio Affleck.