Scooter at 3Arena, Dublin
December 6th, 2022 | by Loreana Rushe
Rave music in the mid-nineties always seemed otherworldly to me and its connoisseurs were as alien as the sounds. Tropical …
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Sinead O’Brien at Cyprus Avenue, Cork
October 28th, 2022 | by Mike Ryan
Fresh off the release of her debut album Time Bend And Break The Bower, Sinead O’Brien brings her hypnotic performance …
Dreamachine at Carlisle Memorial Church, Belfast
July 28th, 2022 | by Brian Coney
“Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.” Six years before Timothy Leary …
Mitski at Vicar Street, Dublin
April 27th, 2022 | by Sarah Deegan
A large white wooden door hangs in the centre of the stage. Five musicians dressed in black step into position. …
La Bohème @ Carlisle Memorial Church, Belfast
September 28th, 2021 | by Ian Patterson
“Love, alone command me!” The venue for Northern Ireland Opera’s comeback opera after eighteen months of Covid-19-inflicted anxiety, lockdown and …
Myles Manley – Cometh The Softies
November 27th, 2020 | by Cathal McBride
Myles Manley’s new album has been a long time coming. After a series of EPs earlier in the decade, along …
This Is How We Fly @ Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
January 17th, 2020 | by Ian Patterson
The setting is unusual for This is How We Fly’s gig at Navan’s Solstice Arts Centre. It isn’t the circle …
Villagers w/ Aldous Harding @ Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
July 15th, 2019 | by Jack Rudden
It’s an overcast but stiflingly warm evening as concert-goers begin to filter into Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens. Amongst this crowd is …
John Cooper Clarke @ Ulster Hall, Belfast
May 1st, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
“It’s let’s see who’s still alive in Belfast night”, the fifty-something-year-old man said, entering the foyer of the Ulster Hall. …
SOAK – Grim Town
April 25th, 2019 | by Mitchell Goudie
A northern voice cuts through the chatter; “this train is for the following categories of passenger only—recipients of universal credit …
