• The Thin Air Tracks of the Week: Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Foxygen, Irma Vep etc.

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    While it’s been significantly quieter on the home front compared to last week, the last few days have yielded some serious gems here in Ireland and much further afield. Here’s The Thin Air’s Tracks of the Week, featuring Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Myronik and more. Irma Vep – Still Sorry Sublime psych-pop from the Manchester-based DIY artist. AE MAK – I Can Feel It In My Bones One of Ireland most singular acts return with an almighty earwormer. Cloud Nothings – Modern Act Here, the new Cloud Nothings (pictured above) sounds very Cloud Nothings-y. This a good thing. Buckles n’ Son…

  • Cracked Actor: Needing David Bowie

    March 10, 2016 - By 

    Today marks the 2 month anniversary of David Bowie’s passing. Steven Rainey discusses his impact, as featured in Not Gospel in our current issue of The Thin Air magazine. Illustration by John Harrild. In 1993, David Bowie appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, performing his take on ‘Nite Flights’ by The Walker Brothers. Bowie is doffing his cap to one of his all-time inspirations, but he looks uncertain. He’s technically promoting Black Tie, White Noise, the first album to be released under the name ‘David Bowie’ in six years, but there’s more at stake; Bowie is testing the water…

  • Where To Get The Thin Air Magazine

    February 20, 2015 - By 

    We’ve been getting quite a few people asking where exactly they can pick up a copy of our free, monthly magazine, so here’s a full list of where you can grab one in Belfast and Dublin. We’ll be fully expanding our distribution to Derry, Galway and Cork from March – fun times! Belfast Laverys, Woodworkers, Boojum (Botanic and Chichester Street), Black Box, Established Coffee, Voodoo, Black Bear, Cuckoo, Oh Yeah Centre, The Bar With No Name, Filthy McNastys, Dragon Records, Sick Records, Bubbacue, Pavilion Bar, Errigle Bar, Sinnamon (Botanic and Stranmillis), The Garrick, Nero (Europa, Rosemary Street & Fountain Street), QFT,…

  • Where to find The Thin Air magazine: an Illustrative Guide

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    It’s finally here! Our first ever print issue of The Thin Air magazine. “Where can I find it?” we hear you cry. Well, fear not, as we asked Aoife Dooley to kindly illustrate two handy maps on where you can pick up your very own copy. It was very important to us at TTA towers (ahem) that U2 and Van Morrison – our biggest supporters – were included on these maps. Belfast: Sick Records, Voodoo, Oh Yeah Centre, QUBSU, Boojum, Black Box Derry: Abbazappa Records Dublin: Tower Records, Twisted Pepper, Boojum, Kaph, Bernard Shaw, Fumbally, Roasted Brown, 3FE Cork: Triskel Arts Centre All…

  • In Photos: The Thin Air Magazine Launch @ Bar Sub

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    On Saturday night we (rather excitably) launched our physical magazine at Belfast’s Bar Sub. We could have had a group of spazzed-out, talentless street urchins banging a couple of bin lids in the corner all night and worried not, so to have Belfast party-starters par excellence Not Squares, fast-rising indie rock trio Hot Cops and DJ David Baxter AKA Kab Driver soundtrack the magazine’s birth was nothing short of amazeballs*. Our photographers Colm Laverty and Sara Marsden popped down to capture all the action – as you can see below! * first and last night we will ever use that word to describe anything… promise.…