The Black Angels live at The Button Factory in Dublin with support from Tamar Aphek. Photos by David McEneaney
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Destroyer live at The Button Factory in Dublin with support from Ashley Shadow. Photos by David McEneaney
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Houseplants live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Henry Prune. Photos by Ian Davies
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The initial seeds of BNQT were planted by Midlake’s Eric Pulido while touring their Antiphon album back in 2013. He hoped he could convince several of his favourite vocalists into a collaboration of sorts that mirrored something akin to the Traveling Wilburys crossed with The Band, with vocal and songwriting duties being shared. Fast forward to April of this year and BNQT’s debut Volume.1 finally blossomed, with Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, Travis’ Fran Healy, Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapronas and Band of Horses Ben Bridwell joining Pulido and some of his fellow Midlake colleagues; Jesse Chandler, Joey McClellan and McKenzie Smith. With…
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Austra live at the Button Factory in Dublin. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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It’s a much different atmosphere that greets Poliça as they take the stage at the Button Factory tonight. For one thing, this venue is considerably roomier than Whelan’s, the location of their last visit in March 2013. For another, they managed to avoid being messed up by the ferry journey. Battling nausea and general shakiness, they made the best of an unwanted situation. Tonight, however, they come out fighting. The band – Channy Leaneagh on vocals, Chris Bierden on bass & dual drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson – are a force to be reckoned with on stage, and the increased…
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Hare Squead live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Soulé. Photos by Lucy Foster.
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The Button Factory plays host to the first night of Battles’ European Spring tour tonight, in support of their latest album La Di Da Di. Having sold out not too long after it was announced last year, the desire for the trio’s return to Dublin is immense. Tonight’s sole support, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith takes to the stage first with an impressive array of synths, sequencers, connective wires and blinking lights, evocative of a young Delia Derbyshire at the BBC radiophonic workshop. She begins with a series of robotic loops, which advances into Laurie Anderson territory as she distorts her vocals through…
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Philm featuring drummer Dave Lombardo live at the Button Factory in Dublin on Wednesday night with support from New Secret Weapon. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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The Mission frontman Wayne Hussey played an intimate sit down gig at the Button Factory last night in Dublin. Photos by Shaun Neary.