SHINE EASTER MONDAY, Mandela Hall, Belfast, Monday, SOLD OUT Proving the Belfast techno institution isn’t on a whopper hangover after its 20 years of Shine series that finished off 2015, they’ve hit the bullseye again. Shine’s annual […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
Still in Command: At The Drive In’s first Irish gig in 16 years
AT The Drive-In have just begun that most un-punk of endeavours — the reunion tour. So many legends before them have gone down that route that it’s now a surprise when it doesn’t happen. Take a […]
Gigs of the week: March 18-24
BATTLES, Button Factory, Dublin, Tuesday, SOLD OUT Rarely do bands hit that sweet spot between the head at the gut. Battles get nine tenths of the way there on record, but on stage they’re the full house […]
dälek return to hip-hop’s outer limits with new track Guaranteed Struggle
We know it’s Monday but allow us to cast some more gloom over things, just to keep you on your toes. New Jersey experimental hip-hop act dälek have released a new track off their first album […]
Gigs of the week: March 11-17
EMBRZ, Grand Social, Dublin, tonight, €10 Kildare producer Jack Casey aka EMBRZ has been adding his hazy minor key brush strokes to high-profile acts like the 1975 and Ellie Goulding recently, so there’s a buzz […]
Little Green Cars interview: ‘We know who we are as a band now’
The ‘difficult second album’ is such a cliche that it’s a bit lame to ask Little Green Cars for their take on it, but there’s a point with their new LP. Ephemera, the Dubliners’ follow-up to 2013’s […]
Gigs of the week: March 4-10
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, tonight, & Roisin Dubh, Galway, tomorrow & Cyprus avenue, Cork, Sunday. LEE ‘Scratch’ Perry is 80 so this is one of the last times you’ll catch him live in Ireland. We can go on […]
Gigs round-up: February 27-March 3
Joanna Newsom, Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Thursday, SOLD OUT. JOANNA Newsom is one artist in the last decade who fans have built a cult around — which also means she’s one of the most divisive. She’s […]
National treasures: The Gloaming set for five nights at NCH
It seems daft that this time last year the Gloaming were outsiders to win the Choice Music Prize — up against all the hype and bluster over Mr Hozier. Some 12 months later, they’ve sold […]
Gigs round-up: February 19-25
Fat White Family, The Limelight 2, Whelan’s, Dublin, Tuesday, & Limelight 2, Belfast, Thursday. Fat White Family said recently they’ve “tried to go to the extremes of what’s tasteful” on their new album, and they’ve got […]
Irish gigs round-up
JULIA HOLTER, The Button Factory, Dublin, Wednesday. JULIA Holter’s fourth album Have You In My Wilderness is still reverberating in critics’ heads as one of the albums of 2015 – in nearly all of the end-of-year […]
Gigs round-up: February 5-11
Roisin Murphy, The Limelight, Belfast, Wednesday, & Olympia, Dublin, Thursday. One of the standouts at last year’s Electric Picnic, Roisin Murphy is taking her glitterball house and electro-pop show back to the clubs where it belongs. The former Moloko star’s […]
Gigs of the week: January 29-February 4
SOULFLY, Academy, Dublin, Tuseday, & Limelight 2, Belfast, Wednesday. One of metal’s biggest ever schisms has split Sepultura fans in two since frontman Max Cavalera left in 1996 to form Soulfly, leaving Derrick Green in […]
Snow Solid Crew: Rise Festival in Les Deux Alpes
Hitching a cable car down the French Alps with So Solid Crew at Rise Festival goes down as my most surreal festival moment of 2015 — and that includes Grace Jones hula-hooping her way through […]
Musique non stop: A day at the Red Bull Music Academy in Paris
Imagine you’re in your college canteen and legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance are having coffee at the next table. After skulling your cuppa you rush to lectures past electronic composer Dorian Concept on the […]
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