First Fortnight is heading into its 11th year of raising awareness and trying to erase the stigma of mental health in Ireland and further afield. The first few weeks of January are always a struggle […]
Wire still kicking into the future on Primed & Ready
“Are you scoping the future?” sings Wire’s Colin Newman in the first line of ‘Primed & Ready’ — the second single off the band’s upcoming 17th album Mind Hive. Dunno about you, but over their […]
Face To Face with Dublin Bowie Festival 2020
In the four years since David Bowie’s death, tributes have stopped feeling like a wake, and rather a celebration of maybe the greatest pop music icon of them all. As we’re hoovering up pine needles, […]
Moo Kid’s 2019 in 20 albums
“We’re all so sick and tired of seeing things as they are,” sings Nick Cave on Ghosteen‘s epic ‘Bright Horses’. “The fields are just fields, and there ain’t no Lord.” Sick and tired is the […]
And So I Watch You From Afar put a lid on their debut album
And So I Watch You From Afar opened their 2009 debut album with a track called Set Guitars To Kill, and then set about doing that over the next 10 years. The Northern act are […]
Dave Clarke: Still kicking the doors in
The Baron of Techno returns to Dublin tonight to knock some shape into your Advent calendar with some DM boot kickdrums. Get all your shopping done before tonight — it’ll be a late one, and […]
Scary Eire: ‘The return of the Celtic Funk Warriors’
With Irish hip-hop going through a commercial and critical golden era, here’s a chance to catch the original OGs for a Christmas party tomorrow night. Scary Eire laid the groundwork 25 years ago, as the […]
