The Live at the Marquee series has brought many acts to Cork over the years, but none as important as Kraftwerk. The German electric pioneers could well be the most influential act of all time […]
Category: Gig previews
At the Drive-in lead the Irish gigs highlighter
At The Drive-In Vicar Street, Dublin, Tuesday, €47 At The Drive-In are now over two years into their reunion tour, and it never ruined their legacy after all. When the El Paso post-hardcore act split […]
The balls you’d need to replace Freddie Mercury
It takes some balls for a band to carry on losing a singer, fighting a relentless niggling feeling that you’re always being held against the original. Even if it’s a success the spectre is always […]
It’s Showtime at Sea Sessions
AS IRELAND’S only surf and music festival, expect the average punter you meet at the seaside bash to have a lot more stamina than your regular session rollover head covered in grass stains and last […]
Roger Waters leads the Irish gigs highlighter
ROGER WATERS, 3Arena, Dublin, Tuesday (only €131 tickets left) & Wednesday,€76-131 Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters’ 2013 visit to Dublin to perform The Wall was one of the most visually stunning gigs in recent memory, with […]
Steve Davis leads the Irish gigs highlighter
STEVE DAVIS, Cyprus Avenue, Cork, tonight, €15 ONE of my favourite gig memories of recent years is seeing Steve Davis – yes, that Steve Davis – play a four or five-hour set at Tengu in […]
This week’s Irish gigs highlighter
A-HA, Live at the Marquee, Cork, Tuesday, SOLD OUT Norwegian icons A-ha pop come to Cork armed with some timeless classics. Over the band’s 10 albums since 1985, the band have flirted with blues, rock […]
In this together: Nick Cave’s growing bond with fans
When our rock stars hit 60 it’s usually time for retrospectives, best-ofs and classic album tours, but Nick Cave is an artist who’s continually raging against the dying of the light. Cave turned 60 last […]
AVA Festival: It’s all about the Belfast crowd
AVA creator and organiser Sarah McBriar was boasting in the Irish Times this week about the festival’s USP — the unpretentious up for it Belfast crowd. If you’ve got that as a base for an […]
Here’s a radio documentary about why you should be at Open Ear this weekend
With AVA festival and Forbidden Fruit this weekend and Life Festival last week hoovering up thousands of techno buzzers, a select few hundred are heading to the wilds of Cork for the underground electronic music […]
Here’s your top 10 Forbidden Fruit acts this weekend
Life Festival in Mullingar got the head start on the summer season last weekend, with nearly every weekend booked up with sessions up and down the country. And as usual, Forbidden Fruit in Dublin is […]
Damo Suzuki leads the Irish gigs highlighter
DAMO SUZUKI, Grand Social, Dublin, tomorrow, €18. Japanese artist Damo Suzuki is on a never-ending tour as a ‘sound carrier’, summoning decades of experience on the fringes of experimental music. Best known as the vocalist of […]
Shake your Honey-maker at Life Festival this weekend
Life Festival jumps the gun on the bank holiday weekend with the first big weekender of the summer season – while also avoiding the clash next week of Open Ear and Forbidden Fruit and […]
Lookin’ good today for BBC Biggest Weekend
When the Biggest Weekend was announced, Beeb bosses claimed it would be “the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC”. No pressure then. With Glastonbury taking one of its occasional years off to […]
This Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs Dublin gig is an indie-head’s wet dream
As ‘one night only’ promises go, a team-up of Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs was a wtf indie wet dream when it was announced last December. Both acts were booked in Europe around the same […]
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