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 […]
Category: Gig previews
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 […]
Gigs round-up: December 4-10
OTHERAPY? Button Factory, Dublin, Thursday. IT’S hard to imagine that 20 years ago Therapy? were on the Donington Monsters of Rock festival bill above Slayer — a blip in the metal/time continuum. In the mid-90s […]
Gigs round-up: November 27 – December 3
THUNDERCAT, The Sugar Club, Dublin Sunday & Monday. Bass virtuoso Thundercat was one of the stars on Flying Lotus’s freewheeling broken jazz epic You’re Dead!, but his slapping and high fretwork at FlyLo’s gig in Vicar Street […]
Gigs round-up: November 20-26
CHELSEA WOLFE, Button Factory, Dublin, Wednesday. Californian Chelsea Wolfe has released one of 2015’s dark masterpieces in her eighth LP Abyss. With track titles like Carrion Flowers, Simple Death and Color of Blood, you have a good idea what you’re getting before you take the plunge, but it’s […]
A Sort of Homecoming: U2 land in Dublin
Apart from maybe Bruce Springsteen playing a show in New Jersey, the most powerful homecoming in rock’n’roll has got to be U2 landing in Dublin after a worldwide trek. The last time they were cool […]
Gigs round-up: November 13-19
IN DREAMS: David Lynch revisited, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Wednesday David Lynch productions can’t be separated from their scores and songs — from Angelo Badalementi’s misty Twin Peaks theme to the jazz interludes and skuzzy rockabilly […]
Gigs round-up: November 6-12
JOHN GRANT, Vicar Street, Dublin, Monday & Tuesday It’s hard to think of any other artist with a higher approval rating in Ireland than John Grant. The Colorado singer-songwriter got his latest gold star when he filled […]
Gigs round-up: October 30 – November 5
DEVIL’S NIGHT DISCO, District 8, Dublin, Tonight, E22.50-40. BLOOD never flows as red as it does in the old 1970s Italian horror movies, and giallo maestro Dario Argento is getting a double-bill screening of Suspiria […]
Gigs round-up: October 23-29
CORK JAZZ FESTIVAL, Various venues, Cork, till Monday Electro pioneer Gary Numan joked on Newstalk recently that he’ll need to learn the saxophone if he’s to fit in at the Cork Jazz Festival — and […]
Gigs round-up: October 16-24
JOHNNY MARR, Limelight, Belfast, tonight, and Olympia, Dublin, Sunday Morrissey’s been treading water, announcing his live retirement and facing a collective snigger over his debut novel – but his old partner Johnny Marr just gets the head down […]
Gigs round-up: October 9-15
KID INK, Vicar St, Dublin Tuesday LA rapper Kid Ink’s big- gest hit so far is a daft in da club banger that features Chris Brown and butchers Robyn S — but he’s not all […]
We can be Heroes: HWCH 2015
Indian summer or not, it’s about time we brought our festivals indoors after tearing the arse out of it in fields for the last few months. It’s the 13th edition of Hard Working Class Heroes, […]
Gigs round-up: October 2-8
THE ORB, Limelight, Belfast, Tomorrow It’s 25 years since The Orb rewired a movement strung out on 150bpm hardcore and warehouse raves, by adding ambient house to electronic music’s family tree. Formed by Alex Patterson […]
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