All Tvvins live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Æ MAK. Photos by Sean McCormack.
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Frightened Rabbit live at Belfast’s Limelight 1, Kilkenny’s Set Theatre and Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Colm Laverty, Ian McDonnell and Sean McCormark. Limelight 1, Belfast As strange as it may sound, Frightened Rabbit are at their best when they are on the verge of falling apart. Watching the band rip through selections from their back catalogue this evening, it is striking just how often they are precariously balanced on the edge of chaos. It is this very quality that makes their music so beguiling. The remarkable tension in any given Frightened Rabbit song stems from a finely wrought balance…
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The Frank and Walters live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Eoin Dolan. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Dowsing, Ratboys and Shrug Life live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Orchid Collective live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Star Parks. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Patrick Freeman, Strange Pavement and Adam Murphy performing live at Citog in the Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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A self-proclaimed constantly evolving, conceptual punk band based in Orange County, California, The Garden at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Race the Flux’s farewell show at the Cellar in Galway, with support from Punch Face Champions. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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There’s been plenty said over the past couple of years about the over-reliance on particular tropes and techniques in Post-Rock, Math-Rock and, from other camps, in movie and TV soundtracks. There are always, of course, exceptions to this who manage to keep these realms of music interesting and exciting, from Battles to Adebisi Shank, from This Will Destroy You to Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (the men behind the marvellous soundtrack for Netflix’s Stranger Things). The ways in which artists or composers avoid the traps and pitfalls of complacency and the rehashing of the same sounds and tricks over and…
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Oh Boland, our August cover stars SlowPlaceLikeHome, Sunset Kings, Search Party Animal, Bob Skeleton, Field Trip, Bitch Film and New Pope at Strange Brew’s 12th Summer Shindig at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Vincent Hughes.