• Live Line-up For NI Music Prize Announced

    October 18, 2022 - By 

    The live line-up for this year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize has been revealed. Celebrating the very best of Northern Irish music released over the last 12 months, the annual ceremony returns to Belfast’s Ulster Hall on Wednesday, November 16th. Various artists will compete to walk away with the prestigious Album of the Year prize, as well as Live Act, Video, Single and ATL Artist of the Year. Go here for the shortlists. Performing on the night will be nominated acts SOAK, Cherym, Leo Miyagee, Rory Nellis, and Robocobra Quartet. Also taking to the stage will be Dea Matrona – who won Best Single…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th May

    May 20, 2022 - By 

    Another great week of Irish music sees new releases from the established likes of SOAK, Fixity, Talos Sean Being and Melts, while some debut singles & EPs drop from Yard and Pastiche. Fixity – Always Again [feat. Philip Christie] Sean Being – Faux Window FAUX WINDOW by Seán Being Yard – Lawmaker Melts – Spectral SPECTRAL by MELTS Soak – Swear Jar Talos – Dance Against the Calm Pastiche – Freak Show Symphony EP

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – April 8th

    April 8, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Paddy Hanna, SOAK, Iona Zajac, Súil Amháin x Quantum Foam x Tuath and more Paddy Hanna – Yoko Ono Yoko Ono by Paddy Hanna Iona Zajac – Red Corn Poppies Súil Amháin x Quantum Foam x Tuath – ​​Dúchas Iarlais by Tuath X Súil Amháin X Quantum Foam Group Zero – We Need Water SOAK – Purgatory Dirty Dreamer – The Everyday In Bloom Deadbeat Drew – Pick Up The Phone cbaki – New Girls Every Night Happyalone – Car Crash modernlove. – Don’t Wanna The Burma – Don’t Believe…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – January 28th

    January 28, 2022 - By 

    It’s that time of year again, as many of Ireland’s finest acts release new singles to announce their prospective AOTY contenders, as well as a smattering of singles from exciting emergent acts, including the likes of the Thumper, Soak, Naked Lungs, Willhouse feat. GI, Wynona Bleach, My Tribe Your Tribe, Jossle, Rowan and Wallis Bird. Thumper – Overbite Wallis Bird – What’s Wrong With Changing? Soak – Last July Book of the Dead – Mercury At Greatest Eastern Elongation MERCURY AT GREATEST EASTERN ELONGATION by BOOK OF THE DEAD My Tribe Your Tribe – I Stay Quiet I Stay Quiet by My Tribe Your Tribe…

  • SOAK Announces New Album, Irish Shows

    January 25, 2022 - By 

    SOAK has announced details of a new album, as well as Irish dates later in the year. The Derry singer-songwriter, born Bridie Monds-Watson, will release their third album, If I Never Know You Like This Again, via Rough Trade Records on 20th May. The follow-up to 2019’s Grim Town, the album is made up of what Monds-Watson describes as “song-memories”. It was co-written with long-time collaborator Tommy McLaughlin and recorded at Donegal’s Attica Studios. Accompanying the announcement is news of upcoming Irish dates in February and May. See below for those, as well as the the lead single from If I…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – July 31st

    July 31, 2020 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring SOAK, Ailbhe Reddy, God Knows, Róisín Murphy, Sinead White, Fontaines D.C., Colm Warren and more SOAK ft. Gemma Doherty – I’m Alive Ailbhe Reddy – Between Your Teeth God Knows ft. BONY & MuRli – We Move The Needle Róisín Murphy – Something More Sinead White – Giant Spiders Uly – why did you go use your head? Fontaines D.C. – Love Is The Main Thing Bitch Falcon – Gaslight Colm Warren – Void KPZhhl-qJps

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Announce OK? Festival

    March 2, 2020 - By 

    North Coast instrumental rock trailblazers And So I Watch You From Afar have announced details of a new music and arts festival in support of mental awareness and suicide prevention. Created to “celebrate community and to encourage asking the question… are you ok?” OK? will unite some of the country’s best acts at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on Saturday, March 28th. Raising money for Aware NI, PIPS and Help Musicians, the show will feature sets from ASIWYFA, SOAK, General Fiasco, David Holmes, Phil Kieran, Joshua Burnside, New Pagans, Catalan!, Pillow Queens, Junk Drawer, Jordan Adetunji, Careerist, Cherym, Problem Patterns and Gnarkats.…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: SOAK

    February 5, 2020 - By 

    In our final episode of season 2, Danny Carroll meets Bridie Monds-Watson aka SOAK, to talk about her song ‘Everybody Loves You’.  The first single released from her second album Grim Town (Rough Trade 2019), ‘Everybody Loves You’ sees Bridie’s songwriting and recording process significantly shifting gears.  Here, she breaks down the elements that went into the dream-pop ballad – be it a lush string section or “soggy cardboard” guitars.

  • Win Tickets To Other Voices Dingle

    November 15, 2019 - By 

    Ireland’s foremost musical TV moment is with us again as Dingle is overtaken up by Other Voices over the weekend of November 29-December 1. With tickets for the intimate TV recording available only through competition via Other Voices and partners, we’re delighted to be offering a chance to win two tickets for the Music Trail over the full weekend, as well as the St. James’ Church TV recording on Saturday night. This year’s lineup is yet another veritable who’s who of Irish music, as well as a number of international names. St. James’ Church features Editors, Whitney, Angie McMahon, SOAK, Joy Crookes, Ye Vagabonds, The Murder Capital, Jafaris & Arlo Parks – each performance at…