LEVELZ, The Wiley Fox, Dublin, tomorrow, €16 Factmag once called Levelz Wu-Tang meets the Happy Mondays, and I’m nicking that right now. The Manchester-based crew are a loose collective of grime and hip-hop MCs, producers, musicians […]
Category: Gig previews
Gigs of the week: August 12-18
OUT TO LUNCH WEEKENDER, Yamamori Tengu, Dublin, tonight-Sunday, €35 per day, €65 for weekend (€5-8 for opening party) Over the last two years or so, Out To Lunch have been Dublin’s most consistent promoter for booking […]
Gigs of the week: August 5-11
THUNDERCAT, The Sugar Club, Dublin, Monday, €22.50 Bass virtuoso Thundercat’s slapping and high fretwork is one of the aces up Flying Lotus’s sleeve on the psychedelic jazz odyssey You’re Dead!, and he got a mighty cheer […]
Gigs round-up: July 22-28
KNOCKANSTOCKAN, Blessington Lakes, Co Wicklow, Today-Sunday, €115 (€50 Sunday only) After the big commercial blockbuster overload of Longitude, Knockanstockan will be a palette cleanser for some. The most independent of the established ‘boutique’ festivals, the annual Wicklow […]
Lionel Richie: Hello, is it meme you’re looking for?
You know where you stand with Lionel Richie. His last tour was called ‘All the Hits’ — like you ever expected him to go rogue and do a Dylan. Lionel is one of the old-school […]
Gigs of the week: July 15-21
DAVE CLARKE, Opium Rooms, Dublin, tonight, €17.50-20 We nearly lost the Baron of Techno on Monday — he was in the back of a car that crashed and crumpled to bits in Serbia on the way […]
The Fourth Coming: Stone Roses and the nostalgia loop
One of the biggest music feeding frenzies of recent years was The Stone Roses’ release of their comeback single All For One — which let to equal parts of derision and relief, depending on who […]
Gigs round-up: July 8-14
PIXIES, Live at the Marquee, Cork, Wednesday and Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Thursday. Back in 2004, the Pixies’ comeback was an even bigger deal than the Stone Roses’ return a few years ago. They had imploded […]
Gigs round-up: July 1-7
Faithless and Le Galaxie, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, tomorrow, €14.65 On paper it looks like Faithless could get their ass kicked on Le Galaxie’s home turf, as no amount of festival overkill can kill off enthusiasm […]
Gigs round-up: June 24-30
SIGUR ROS, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, Sunday. The last time we had some glacial Icelandic tuneage up at Kilmainham it was Forbidden Fruit highlights Kiasmos. But this time we’re not expecting anyone from Sigur Ros to be […]
Gigs round-up: June 17-23
FOALS, Belsonic, T13, Belfast, Thursday. Back in February I wondered whether the 3Arena would swallow up Foals a bit too much, diluting their intensity and sabotaging frontman Yannis Phillippakis’s stagediving buzz. T13 may be another […]
Gigs round-up: June 10-16
SLAYER & ANTHRAX, Olympia, Dublin, Tuesday, SOLD OUT & Live at the Marquee, Cork, Wednesday, €44 Apart from AC/DC, you won’t see a higher concentration of headline band T-shirts than at a Slayer gig. Slayer are the most […]
Gigs round-up: June 3-10
BRYAN FERRY, Olympia, Dublin, Wednesday and Thursday, €71.50-83. It’s been a few decades since Bryan Ferry was considered part of the art-rock avant-garde, but behind the smoking jackets, white suits and bow ties lies one […]
Gigs of the week: May 20-26
YESTIVAL, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, tomorrow, €15/20 This time last year we were in the middle of the marriage referendum campaigns, and there was only really going to be winner. It seemed like every musician and artist […]
Gigs of the week: May 13-19
HOT 8 BRASS BAND, Sugar Club, Dublin, tonight and tomorrow, both SOLD OUT There’s always one of your mates banging on about some cover band they saw at a festival doing quirky versions of pop hits. […]
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