Casual Erasure fans may have thought the pop maestros gave up on the party with the title of their last album World Be Gone – and song titles like Oh What A World and Lousy […]
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National treasures: The Gloaming set for another seven nights at the NCH
This is the third year in a row that The Gloaming have had an extended run at Dublin’s National Concert Hall — and if they kept selling tickets they could probably play for a month. […]
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NILS FRAHM, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Monday German pianist and avant-garde composer Nils Frahm has had a few striking performances in ireland in recent years — his last NCH appearance and a transcendent concert at Belfast City […]
Have we any patience left for Morrissey?
In 2008, Sparks released the song ‘Lighten Up, Morrissey’ – an arched eyebrow nod to Stephen Patrick’s reputation as indie music’s greatest curmudgeon. Some 10 years later, Baltimore rapper JPEGMAFIA has a song on his […]
Franz Ferdinand on the Ascent again
It takes balls to call your fifth album Always Ascending – especially if your singles from over a decade ago are still trailing behind you as a reminder of past chart dominance. But Franz Ferdinand’s […]
Kendrick Lamar is for the children – and everyone else
Ol’ Dirty Bastard once proclaimed that “Wu-Tang is for the children”, a claim so absurd it’s been a perpetual meme ever since. ODB made the audacious claim at the 1998 Grammys after crashing the stage […]
Tick off these Irish gigs in your diary
IMAGINING IRELAND: 21st Century Song, National Concert Hall, tomorrow. A couple of weeks ago, Dublin MC Mango put out the tweet: “I started rapping out the back of school by the bike sheds. Now they’ve […]
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MOON DUO, Button Factory, Dublin, tonight, e16 Portland act Moon Duo hit the devil’s music at right angles — indulging in psychedelic krautrock jams and shoegaze fuzz, with references to occult figures like Aleister Crowley. Their […]
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HELENA HAUFF, District 8, Dublin, tomorrow. Hamburg producer and selector Helena Hauff is one of the highest profile artists sticking to her electro guns, with her releases and DJ sets oozing with frazzled exposed wires […]
Shane MacGowan beyond the Streams of Whiskey
When the National Concert Hall announced a 60th birthday tribute to Shane MacGowan, there was a collective wtf double-take that he’d managed to make it this far — and the same cliches were flying around […]
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CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE: Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Monday Dublin went headlong into a Bowie wormhole last week, with tribute shows, lectures, exhibitions and stage plays as part of the Dublin Bowie Festival, – but we’re not done just […]
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LOAH: Roisn Dubh, Galway, Sunday Dublin-based singer Loah returns to Ireland after her first London show last night — with added ruckus from Limerick hip-hop crew Rusangano Family. Her new video for the track Nothing off her […]
Happy Mondays: Is it great when they’re straight?
A real hint that the Happy Mondays are finally maturing is their new set of promo shots — maybe their only half-sensible photos in three decades. The Mondays class of 2017 look like they’re extras […]
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King Krule, The Academy, Dublin, Wednesday. The title of King Krule’s latest album The Ooz could double as a one-word sum-up of the album as a whole — a slithering, nocturnal, nervy journey inside Londoner […]
Neil Hannon: Ireland’s most unlikely national treasure
E ven if Neil Hannon hadn’t released any albums in the last 20 years, he’d still be one of Ireland’s real cult heroes and national treasures. Hannon’s Divine Comedy may have lost their chart clout […]
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