This year’s Electric Picnic is just around the corner and details of the some of our favourite areas of the festival have appeared. Spread across four music stages, the Body and Soul line-up is as follows: Body&Soul Stage Public Service Broadcasting / Moses Sumney / Aldous Harding / Nick Hakim / HMLTD / New Jackson […]
Reports are coming in that Chester Bennington of Linkin Park has committed suicide. The 41 year old singer, who had six children, was found hanged in Los Angeles.
It’s not been a good few weeks for the smaller events on the Irish festival circuit, with BARE In The Woods cancelled last month – followed recently by the Killarney Folk Festival. Now this weekend’s Simma Down one dayer, hosted by party crew Sim Simma and due to feature the likes of mynameisjOhn, Super Silly […]
The initial line-up for this year’s Metropolis Festival is out, and it’s a whopper already. Taking place in the RDS over the October bank holiday weekend (Saturday, October 28th and Sunday, October 29th), the weekend will once more feature art, live music, conversation, DJs and more. On the music front, so far we know that […]
Having already released a splendid lineup of headliners, a preliminary Other Voices stage lineup, and the usual weird and wonderful tidbits we’ve come to expect, Electric Picnic have revealed more heavyweight acts. Joining the party from 1-3 September in Stradbally are the likes of Elbow, Phoenix, Birdy, Mura Masa, Bicep (live), Rejjie Snow, Everything Everything, […]
With a lineup boasting the likes of Le Galaxie, Wild Beasts, David Kitt, Shit Robot, Bitch Falcon, I Have A Tribe, Daithi, Le Boom, Aik J, and many more homegrown talents, Castlepalooza 2017 should make for a grand one. Taking place 4-6 August in the grounds of Charleville Castle, Tullamore, State has a pair of […]
With the news of new album Dark Days + Canapés due for release on the 18th of August via Play It Again Sam, London’s experimental spoken word king Ghostpoet (Obaro Ejimiwe) has announced a headline show for the Button Factory on the 24th of October. Of the new LP, Obaro says; “there’s a sort of […]
St Vincent, aka the eminently talented Annie Clark, has announced a Dublin show for the Olympia Theatre on October 20th, as part of her wider Fear The Future tour which is set to take in dates across the UK, Europe, and the US. While global fan pre-sale begins on June 27th and general on-sale for the […]
Berlin-based pianist and composer Nils Frahm has announced two upcoming Irish shows. The influential electronica and contemporary music maestro will play Dublin’s NCH on the 26th of February 2018, and Belfast’s Mandela Hall on the 27th. Having taken something of a hiatus in this year, Frahm’s return to the live stage promises to feature new material, […]
With a highly anticipated show coming up this Saturday, June 24th, in Dublin’s Bello Bar, Show Me The Body have shared a fairly freaky video for latest single ‘Trash’. Drawing comparisons to the likes of Death Grips, Girl Band, Sleaford Mods, and Ho99o9, the experimental NYC outfit tear through two and a half minutes of jagged […]
Taking place 16-18 June in the Workman’s Club, Dublin, The Wellington Weekender have announced that Katie Kim, Pleasure Beach, Katie Laffan, Aoife Nessa Frances, and more will provide the musical festivities over the weekend. There’ll be DJs, BBQs, whiskey tasting, plus Steve Bennett hosting a good, old fashioned Hipster Bingo. Whatever that is. Best thing is, […]
Having recently taken over Monday at Forbidden Fruit in the grounds of the RHK, Bon Iver has been named as a headliner for Cork’s upcoming Sounds from a Safe Harbour, which takes place 14-17th of September. Justin Vernon, the man behind the Bon Iver guise, has been revealed as the top billing for Cork Opera […]
With the frankly beautiful announcement that At The Drive-In and Black Honey will support Royal Blood on their upcoming tour, including a 3Arena date on the 26th November, State has a pair of tickets to give away to see the alt-rockers do their proverbial thang. The run of shows is set to be Royal Blood’s biggest headline tour to […]
You may be the kind of person who enjoys the odd gig, or you may be the kind of person that likes to relentlessly attend live music events of every shade until your milennial ennui dissipates into the carnivalesque, gin & tonic-soaked ether. Whether you’re the former, the latter, or somewhere in between, we’d like to […]