• Win a Workman’s Club Wellington Weekender Festival Pack

    June 21, 2016 - By 

    Featuring everything from Cian Nugent, The Greenshoe Craft Market and The Altered Hours to Black Bank Folk, Toby Kaar and Too Fools, this year’s Workman’s Club Wellington Weekender from June 24-26 is most definitely one for the calendars. To be in with a chance of winning the following festival pack for what’s set to be a great three days and nights in the Dublin venue, simply Like our Facebook page here and send a blank e-mail to info@thethinair.net with the subject “Workman’s”. A Wowburger meal for 2 on Friday 24th 4 x Wellington Weekender Cocktails on Saturday 25th A meal for 2 in…

  • Blank Realm @ Workman’s Club, Dublin

    October 1, 2015 - By 

    It’s fair to say that Australian four piece Blank Realm may not be a name that rings a bell to most folk on this side of the world right now. The band began its life in the Brisbane suburb of Westlake in 2005 and is made up of siblings Daniel, Sarah and Luke Spencer, with Luke Walsh completing the line-up. In recent years the UK based independent label Fire Records has been distributing the band’s last few albums, including 2014’s well-received Grassed Inn and this year’s storming follow up Illegals in Heaven. Having started off as more of an experimental,…

  • The Co-Present Move Radio Slot & Upload Catalogue

    August 13, 2015 - By 

    The great people of the Co-Present on Radiomade.ie have, in one year and nine months of broadcasting, had some of the finest Irish acts come in and record live sessions with the team’s wingman Gav Hennessy. So, in an immeasurable act of kindness, they’ve made available each one of the 168 tracks recorded from various live sessions, available on Clowdy. As well as that, presenter Dwayne Woods has announced that this Friday’s show will be the final weekday show before a move to the more accessible 3-5pm slot on Saturday afternoon. To celebrate this, they’ve organised three days of awesome Irish music…

  • Tandem Felix w/ Jawbone @ The Workman’s Club, Dublin

    May 18, 2015 - By 

    Does life imitate art or the other way round? A fundamental question for aesthetes answered simply enough when, prompted by the seated musicians on stage, the audience follow cue and inhabit the dark, seated parameters of the Workman’s Club. Despite the resulting floor space having the inhospitable air of a school disco (circa 1999, god knows what they’re like now) the atmosphere’s closer to a dim lit jazz club. Fitting, perhaps, for the clever work of Jawbone; a folk/blues collective who stray into honky-tonk, swing and delta for good measure. More a showcase than a straight set, the members pay…