• Exhibition: The Core Project @ RUA RED

    August 22, 2017 - By 

    The Core Project is the latest exhibition from Irish artist Matthew Nevin, and is currently on show in Tallaght’s RUA RED creative hub. The work is one that Nevin has been developing since 2010 and sees the artist present over 150 videos of individuals in each sovereign state in the world. The participants are all responding to the same question: What is going to happen next? Nevin ensured each was ignorant to this question prior to filming their video, which results in a more visceral than calculated response being captured and documented. Modern life, and the art world included, is becoming more and more intertwined with technology…

  • Premiere: the 202s – Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie)

    July 26, 2017 - By 

    Dublin trio the 202s have shared the third single from their forthcoming third album. Following from ‘Up In Thin Air’ earlier this year and ‘Oh My My’ in January 2016, the band’s own brand of indie-pop shines through once again on ‘Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie). With a healthy dose of krautrock’s percussive clatter, coupled with ambient, melodic textures and a distorted vocal, the track is one that rests in your mind for hours after listening, tickling the nerves in head that nudge you back to it again and again. Our Will Murphy described the 202s as a band…

  • Watch: Comfy Coffin – Content as a Cog

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    The self-proclaimed “lonely one man band” of Utrecht-based Wicklow man Bobby Mink, the music of Comfy Coffin stems from a place slap-bang between instantly accessible and brilliantly left of center. New single ‘Content as a Cog’ finds Milk – who is currently seeking a drummer in the Amsterdam area – in inspired form, layering everything from harp and squeezebox over fuzzed-out guitar and bass to deliver a track bursting with real alt-pop finesse and resourcefulness. Better still, the video kicks several shades of ass. Have a peek.

  • Watch: Malojian – Some New Bones

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    Having released one of the Irish albums of last year in the Steve Albini-produced This Is Nowhere, Stevie Scullion’s Malojian have spent the last while working on its follow-up, the brilliantly-titled Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home. The lead track from that, ‘Some New Bones’ is a spirited return that marries psych-dappled textures and a Motorik groove with swaggering guitar patterns and brief passages of sublime orchestration. Adding another dimension to the release is Colm Laverty’s stellar video, which comprises archive footage from BFI’s digital archive and newly-shot footage from Malojian’s recording sessions at Rathlin East Lighthouse in February. Combined, the…

  • Watch: The Hot Sprockets – Right Spots

    June 7, 2017 - By 

    Dublin’s blues rock dedicants The Hot Sprockets have shared a tripped-out new video for their recent single ‘Right Spots’. Taken from their forthcoming album Dream Mover which is set to land later this year, ‘Right Spots’ is an infectious and driving outing to watch a bar fight to. If there are no bar fights around, the visual accompaniment for the track curtesy of Little Beast founder Luke Sweetman, three animators and a 30-strong crew is a much more vibrant affair. A feast of hand-drawn psychedelia, neon lights and uncanny-valley choreography, it’s a lot to take in, but an awful lot of fun to…

  • Watch: BAILER – In For A Penny, In For A Pound

    May 24, 2017 - By 

    Cork metalcore maestros BAILER are back with a fierce new single in the form of ‘In For A Penny, In For A Pound’. Rounded off with one of the more curious Irish music videos we’ve seen in a while – an accompaniment the quartet aptly summed as featuring “skateboarding gorillas drinking Buckfast and Dutch Gold, and engaging in a high action chase with raging hicks in a Honda Civic” – it’s another pleasingly face-melting effort that is worth it for that pinch harmonic at 1.32 alone. You’ll never watch Planet of the Apes the same way again.

  • Watch: Robocobra Quartet – You’ll Shrug (Live)

    May 4, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of a string of Irish and UK dates over the summer, Belfast’s Robocobra Quartet have unveiled a live video of ‘You’ll Shrug’, a highlight from Chris Ryan-fronted band’s debut album, Music For All Occasions. Filmed at the launch of said release at Belfast’s Reedemer Central Church back in November, the track’s sprawling tangents and sax-laden primal scream is captured in slick multi-shot monochrome courtesy of Belfast artist Stuart Calvin. Have a peek and endeavour to make one of these dates: May 12: Dublin – Whelan’s May 19: Brighton – Great Escape Festival (Hope & Ruin) May 19: Brighton – Great Escape…

  • Exhibition: And Europe Will Be Stunned @ Golden Thread

    May 9, 2017 - By 

    This week is the last to see Yael Bartana’s video trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned in Belfast’s Golden Thread Gallery. The Israeli artists trilogy of video pieces are broken into three works: Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), Mur i wieża (Wall and Tower) and Zamach (Assassination), which were released in 2007, 2009 and 2011 respectively. Bartana’s work explores propaganda, the migration of people and the longing and desires of people. Her output sees the a disassociation between fiction and reality hard to navigate, a process that increases the impact of the work. And Europe Will Be Stunned continues until May 13th, with full details about…

  • Exhibition: How We Got Here @ Platform Arts

    May 17, 2017 - By 

    How We Got Here, an exhibition featuring the wok of 1st year MFA students from Belfast School of Arts, is due to end this week in Belfast’s Platform Arts. 12 artists feature in total, with the work exploring themes including memory and femininity. The exhibition is spread across both galleries within Platform Arts and includes collage, sculpture and painting. The gallery is open 12-6 Wednesday to Friday, before closing on Saturday 11-4. Full details are available here.

  • Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory

    April 4, 2017 - By 

    Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory (Image Courtesy of Heike Thiele) Cléa van der Grijn’s exhibition Reconstructing Memory has just finished in The Model in Sligo. The show is due to travel to Limerick and Dublin before heading stateside to Minnesota’s Rochester Arts Centre. If you didn’t get the chance to see van der Grijn’s exhibit before it’s closure you can view it below, and if you did you can relive it once more via a walkthrough an commentary by the artist. You can also read a response to the show written by Rebecca Kennedy here which discuss the main…