• The Altered Hours – On My Tongue EP

    December 8, 2017 - By 

    In many eyes the country’s best band, Cork’s The Altered Hours have just announced details of a forthcoming new EP, On My Tongue, and an accompanying European tour. The follow-up to their stellar 2016 full-length In Heat Not Sorry, the five-piece will release the four-track On My Tongue via Art For Blind Records and Penske Recordings early next year. A typically first-rate effort from the band, lead single ‘Open Wide’ premiered over on Clash. To coincide with the release, the band will also embark on a nine-date European tour across February-April, which incorporates shows on March 29th at Dublin’s DBD Venue, Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre on 30th. Yours truly will…

  • The Altered Hours Announce New EP, European Tour

    December 6, 2017 - By 

    Arguably the country’s best band, Cork’s The Altered Hours have just announced details of a forthcoming new EP and an accompanying European tour. The follow-up to last year’s stellar full-length In Heat Not Sorry, the five-piece will release the four-track On My Tongue via Art For Blind Records and Penske Recordings early next year. A typically first-rate effort from the band, lead single ‘Open Wide’ is currently premiering over on Clash. To coincide with the release, the band will also embark on a nine-date European tour across February-April. Yours truly will host the Belfast date, which will also feature drone pop masters Documenta,…

  • Win Tickets to The Altered Hours, Katie Kim & Will Carruthers @ Live at St. Luke’s

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    We’ve a pair of tickets to give away to the downright unmissable The Altered Hours, Katie Kim and Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3/Spiritualized) at Live at St. Luke’s in Cork on Sunday (October 29th) night. To enter, simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of The Altered Hours debut album?

  • The Sudden Club Weekender

    October 20, 2016 - By 

    Across the weekend of December 9-11, Cork’s The Kino will play host to The Sudden Club Weekender, a series of must-see shows curated by the Southern Hospitality Board. With full weekend tickets priced at a very reasonable €36 and one night tickets ranging from €12-€16, the shows will be headlined by Limerick hip-hop masters Rusangano Family, Cork psych five-piece The Altered Hours and London-based singer-songwriter Rozi Plain. See the full show details below. The Sudden Club: Rusangano Family + Bantum Friday 9th December, 7.30pm Price: €16 The Sudden Club: The Altered Hours + The Bonk Saturday 10th December, 7.30pm Price: €13 The…

  • The Altered Hours Announce Irish Fall Tour

    October 10, 2016 - By 

    Having released and widely toured their debut album In Heat Not Sorry at the start of the year, Cork psych five-piece – and arguably the country’s very best live proposition right now – The Altered Hours have announced a four-date Irish fall tour. To coincide with the dates, IHNS has been re-pressed and will be available on limited edition orange vinyl via Art For Blind Records, Penske Recordings and at all upcoming gigs. Check out the dates – and a tour promo video – below. November 18: Lavery’s, Belfast December 3:  Kasbah Social Club, Limerick December 10: The Kino, Cork December 15: The Grand Social, Dublin…

  • The Altered Hours w/ Girls Names & Gross Net @ Roisin Dubh, Galway

    February 29, 2016 - By 

    Should post-punk still be allowed to be a thing? Is post-punk bloody revival still a thing? Like, is it not the case that by now the innumerable expanse of bands that exist under that vague banner have managed to forge something unique and individual from those initial influences? I don’t know what we’ll call it instead. Does it matter? It’s just that it is concerning that many acts seem to bear the weight of that label, being painted with a brush that has been in need of replacing for quite some time. Some seem so ready to slump tiredly into…

  • The Altered Hours – In Heat Not Sorry

    January 14, 2016 - By 

    About 20 seconds into In Heat/Not Sorry, it dawns on you that you’re in for something else entirely. For a band that’s drawn with such fearless and bold strokes in previous singles and EPs, opener ‘Who’s Saving Who?’ impresses and awes with its restraint and confidence, setting the tone for the whole record. What we have here is the sound of a band coming into itself, the Cork psych-rock outfit arriving at a destination of sorts after years of exploration. Raw and feral, yet considered and focused, the album hits its stride as its opening gambit of mid-paced movers comes…

  • Stream: The Altered Hours – Silver Leather

    December 8, 2015 - By 

    Unveiled with a string of European dates for Spring – including a Belfast show hosted by yours truly on Friday, February 26 – Cork five-piece The Altered Hours will release their hugely anticipated debut album, In Heat Not Sorry, via Art For Blind and Penske Recording on January 29. The second single to be taken from that, five-minute cut ‘Silver Leather’ reveals the more rapt and ruminative side to the band, evincing a woozy netherworld full of brilliant restraint and shoegaze-leaning dark psych wonder. Stream the track and check out the band’s forthcoming tour dates below. Sat 19th Dec – Connolly’s of Leap, Co. Cork (IE)…

  • Stream: The Altered Hours – Way of Sorrow

    September 21, 2015 - By 

    To say we have intently dug The Altered Hours‘ summoning psych wizardry over the last few years would be something of a towering understatement. Not unlike their fellow rebel county alchemists The Vincent(s), the band have always tapped into something primordial and rooted in darkly spectral, deeply charismatic allure; a conjuring that has only grown more potent and steadfast over time. With their fervidly-sought debut album, In Heat Not Sorry, set for release via Art For Blind Records/Penske Recordings in January, the Cork band have whetted our psych-inclined appetite yet further with ‘Way of Sorrow’, a brisk and purposeful burst of chugging force…

  • Monday Mixtape: Elaine Howley (The Altered Hours)

    June 1, 2015 - By 

    Since we kick-started out Monday Mixtape back in January, we’ve had some truly excellent playlists courtesy of Niall Kennedy of ASIWYFA, Ciaran Lavery, Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich, Girls Names’ Claire Miskimmin, Ciaran Smith of Crayonsmith, Quasi’s Sam Coomes, September Girls, No Spill Blood’s Ror Conaty, Ricki O’Rawe of Not Squares, Sargent House’s Cathy Pellow, The Mighty Stef’s Stefan Murphy, Dara Kiely of Girl Band, Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, Ryan Vail and Autumns’ Christian Donaghey. Today, we continue that altogether tasteful tradition with none other with Elaine Howley of Cork psych-rock wizards The Altered Hours, who selects ten of her all-time favourite songs…