A Winged Victory for the Sullen play Dublin
We may have missed a trick here. News just reaches us of an Irish return for neo-clasical/godlike duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen, who play as part of the New Music Dublin Festival in March. It was just over a year ago that they played two Irish dates, including the Half Moon here in...
Horsemen Pass By at Cork Film Festival Club
Cork Film Festival is in full flow by now and the Vitaphonic Festival Club in the middle bar of Cork Opera House looks like a very welcome addition to the wider programme. Through the week you’ll find the considerable talents of DJ’s Cian Ó Cíobháin, Ian Fiasco and Phil Hope on show, bands such as...
Cork Film Festival for Music Fans
You’ll have heard that the 57th Corona Cork Film Festival begins next weekend with a landmark event, a live performance by the Bill Frisell Quartet to The Great Flood, a film by Bill Morrison (interestingly, the second Bill Morrison film work to play in Cork this year, after the Titanic piece during the Midsummer Festival...
Cork Jazz Festival | Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three @ The Crane Lane, in Pictures, 26.10.12.
Photography by Bríd O’ Donovan
Hunters Moon Festival, Preview
Black Sun curator Vicky Langan gives us a rundown on the 2nd Hunters Moon Festival, taking place this weekend This weekend in the North-West of Ireland, lovers of psychedelic, dronesome, out-there music, art and film will revel for three days and nights at Hunter’s Moon Festival , an independent experimental arts festival located in Carrick-On-Shannon....
Belfast Music Week 2012, Full Programme
Belfast Music Week 2012 runs from Nov 4-11, with plenty of tasty things going on, including a performance by Orbital, who return to the city for the first time in 20 years. Here are the full details. There will be live music in a rich variety of places, including iconic venues such as the Ulster...
Hard Working Class Heroes and I.
Last weekend brought the tenth Hard Working Class Heroes festival to Dublin and right by its side stood the music photography exhibition. Always a fiercely strong showcase of the vast range of music photographers in Ireland, it also can be (or was for me) something that young photographers strive for. Having your work exhibited is...
Clonakilty International Guitar Festival: The Redneck Manifesto, in Pictures, @ Debarra’s Folk Club, 22.09.12
Photography by Bríd O’ Donovan
NOISE Weekender Tickets
From today, you can pick up your tickets for the NOISE Weekender at Plugd Records. For a reminder of the full line-up, go here. A print out of this full line-up will accompany every ticket bought, so you won’t be left short. €24 gives you access to everything (subject to capacity in certain cases, check...
NOISE Weekender Line-up
And so we can finally share with you the full details of (what we think you’ll agree is) an exciting line-up for the first NOISE Weekender, in conjunction with Plugd Records. We’re certainly excited about it. There’s going to be lots of great music that weekend. As you scan the info below, be sure to...
NOISE Weekender – Full details
Triskel Arts Centre – TDC, Plugd Records, Gulpd Cafe September 28, 29, 30 Cork online music zine Noise and Plugd Records have teamed up to host the first Noise Weekender, taking place at Triskel Arts Centre, Plugd and Gulpd Cafe from September 28-30. In keeping with both Noise’s and Plugd’s policy of finding and sharing...
Office Playlist: Electric Picnic, Madness Altogether.
Today brings the first day of Electric Picnic 2012 and it also brings my first encounter with the festival. As a music photographer and avid music fan, I have been to countless gigs this year and I have decided that for this playlist I will only include bands that I am looking forward to, but...
