It’s been an extraordinary year for Belfast duo Bicep, who have made the leap from techno clubs to theatre venues on the back of their 2017 debut album, which joins the dots between techno house, […]
All the right noises: October 2018 in 20 tracks
UUUU – Electric Blanket (from s/t EP) UUUU’s debut s/t was one of Moo Kid’s albums of 2017, and the follow-up EP takes the experimental project into further slithery territories. The four U’s are Graham […]
Winter is coming: Metropolis 2018 breakdown
VILLAGERS Conor O’Brien’s Villagers’ live set-up has been transformed with the release of his brilliant electronic-based fourth album The Art of Pretending to Swim. At the recent Other Voices weekender in Ballina there were added […]
Still making Sense of it all: The restless art of David Byrne
After the release of the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, David Byrne would never be able to play another regular rock show. Jonathan Demme’s document of Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues tour […]
Letting the days go by: Talking Heads in 10 songs
One of the most iconic bands to emerge from the late-70s New Wave and post-punk era was also one of the weirdest. You’ll know Talking Heads’ go-to songs like Psycho Killer, Road To Nowhere and […]
IDLES: giving landfill indie a kick in the teeth
Bristol punks IDLES are one of the few English guitar lad bands who are punching up through the underground with something to say — helping to finally banish second- and third-hand indie bands still waiting […]
Same as he ever was: When David Byrne played the Galway Arts Festival (2004)
Any anoraks out Byrne-watching on July 26 might have bumped into a stranger in a strange land. According to his online tour journal, the singer took his fold-out bike for a ride on Salthill Prom […]
