SWANS, Button Factory, Dublin, Tuesday, €25. A real Swansong here, as Michael Gira has called time on the current incarnation of the revered avant-rock act, with Dublin among the final run of shows. Swans have […]
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Just a little Patience: How Guns N’ Roses finally got it together
THE last time Guns N’ Roses played Ireland you wouldn’t have laid any bets on them returning. The gig in the then-O2 Arena was a crazy night that was ripe for dissection on Joe Duffy’s […]
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SEU JORGE: Vicar Street, Dublin, Wednesday, €40 It’s been a year and a half since David Bowie died, so thankfully the mawkish tributes and overblown covers are drying up, to return once a year on his anniversary. […]
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CHERRY GLAZERR, Whelan’s, Dublin, Tuesday, €15. Death Grips fans may know Clementine Creevy from her psyched-out chant of “giving bad people good ideas” in the song of the same name, battered by gabba beats and industrial frazzle. […]
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THOR & FRIENDS: St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda, tonight. There isn’t a more aptly-named musician in the world than the godlike Thor Harris – one of the most revered percussionists around and the backbone […]
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THERAPY? Whelan’s, Dublin, Tuesday; Empire, Belfast, Wednesday; Spirit Store, Dundalk, Thursday. This Therapy? Tour is dubbed ‘Wood & Wire’, an acoustic project that sees the trio bring the noise without their amps turned up to 10 and all the levels in […]
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KATIE KIM & CRASH ENSEMBLE, Grand Social, Dublin, tomorrow. Katie Kim’s 2016 album Salt was one of last year’s highlights, earning a Choice Prize nomination for its haunting ambient folk, full of raw emotion and droning […]
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BEAK>, Limelight 2, Belfast, tonight, Friday 31st (£18.50). With Geoff Barrow’s other band Portishead missing an album since 2008 and with no immediate plans to tour, he’s once again on the road with BEAK>, for some sleek krautrock analogue […]
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RUN THE JEWELS, The Limelight, Belfast, Wednesday, SOLD OUT & Olympia, Dublin, Thursday, SOLD OUT The last time Run the Jewels played an indoor gig in Dublin I was so late I had to watch the gig through a […]
Just Shut Up – it’s Stormzy’s year
Last month Stormzy seemed like the world’s biggest pop star — even if it was for one week only. The London MC has been grime’s biggest hope since Wiley and Dizzee Rascal, the most likely […]
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LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY: The Limelight 2 Belfast, tonight, Friday 17th (£22.50) & Whelan’s, Dublin, Sunday (€25). Jamaican legend Lee Scratch Perry is 81 in a few days, but he’s still got the mischievous glint of a teenager and a head […]
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Woweembeem presents AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA, FARAH ELLE, FAKOLI & PAPA LOU: Sugar Club, Dublin, Thursday 16th (€13) Woweembeem is a Dublin-based crew who run “parties and podcasts promoting Afrobeat, reggae, Latin & rare grooves”, running their […]
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FLOWDAN: The Grand Social, Dublin, tomorrow, Saturday 4 (€9) Grime MC Flowdan would’ve torn the paint off the walls at the recent gig by his frequent collaborator The Bug at Opium Rooms — but better late […]
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SLEIGH BELLS, Whelan’s, Dublin, Sunday 19th, €19. One of the early decade’s biggest buzz bands, Sleigh Bells’ first two albums Treats and Reign of Terror were clashes of maximalist electronics and hyper noise-pop, and the blood-spattered white plimsolls […]
Drake’s more than a meme generator – just about
Drake may be a living, breathing meme, but he’s arriving in Ireland on the back of eight sold-out gigs at the O2 Arena — so he’s no joke in fairness. Drizzy has already spent the […]
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