On Tuesday, October 29th, Dublin’s National Concert Hall will play true to a special one-off event commemorating Tom Waits’ seminal seventh studio album, Swordfishtrombones. Featuring a veritable dream team of musicians in Nadine Shah, Soap&Skin, Lisa O’Neill, Dorian Wood and Matthew E. White, British instrumentalist David Coulter will oversee Swordfishtrombones Revisited on the night. With a six-piece band in tow, Coulter & co. will reinterpret tracks including ‘6 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six’ and ‘In The Neighborhood’ from the critically-acclaimed 1983 album. We’re teaming up with NCH to give away a pair of tickets to the show. To enter, simply Like…
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Ahead of their Idles & Us EP launch tonight (Thursday, October 24) at Belfast’s Radar, Belfast-based photographer and all-round gent Liam Kielt caughtup with bassist and vocalist from Belfast-based hardcore/noise three-piece PigsAsPeople to get the lowdown on some of his favourite ever records, everyone from post-rock pioneers Slint to two records from his much beloved Fugazi. Fugazi – Repeater I first heard this when I was about 14. At that point I was really into things like Billy Talent and Alkaline Trio, who I still love. I came across ‘Waiting Room’ and decided to check them out. I went on Wikipedia,…