GOAT GIRL: Grand Social, Dublin, tonight (€12.50) “Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the Tories on the top/Put the DUP in the middle and we’ll burn the fucking lot.” No, it’s not some obscure […]
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Irish gigs round-up
King Krule, The Academy, Dublin, Wednesday. The title of King Krule’s latest album The Ooz could double as a one-word sum-up of the album as a whole — a slithering, nocturnal, nervy journey inside Londoner […]
Irish gigs round-up
PUSSY RIOT, Button Factory, Dublin, Thursday. It’s impossible to simply focus on the music of Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot, and try to ignore the infamous scandal of three members arrested in 2012 after performing in […]
Going the Distance: Columbia Mills interview
Columbia Mills have just released one of the late-stage Irish albums of the year, their debut A Safe Distance To Watch. The album builds on their previous EPs, — melancholy shoegaze and electronica with a […]
Out with the old: Columbia Mills interview
When you hear a band has an ‘80s influence’ your brain can’t help join the dots between breezy synthpop, power ballads and the cliched garish outfits. Columbia Mills have a distinctive 80s sound — but […]
Gigs round-up: June 12-18
TELEVISION, Academy, Dublin, tonight, & The Limelight, Belfast, Tomorrow New York’s Television were always on the more cerebral end of the punk spectrum. Their 1977 debut Marquee Moon is still held up as one of the defining records of […]
Moo Kid 