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Una Mullally

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Kraftwerk bring their catalogue to the Tate Mondern

(photo via Gothamist.) Kraftwerk are set to perform a residency at the Tate Modern in February, playing eight of their albums in full, one each night. The series of concerts will happen in the Tate’s Turbine Hall. Their musical retrospective …

Just Love gig this Sunday

Heathers, Brian Kennedy, This Club, Royseven, Bitches With Wolves, and more join forces this Sunday for a fundraising gig for Marriage Equality taking place in the Mansion House in Dublin. You can buy tickets here.

10 Things You Should Do At HWCH

Irish music has changed A LOT in 10 years; the scene, the sound, the bands, the ways of becoming successful, the audience. The Hard Working Class Heroes festival has seen, instigated and been part of plenty of that change since …

Heathers are all grown up, and other weekend gigcidents

Early enough into Heathers’ headline gig at the Academy on Saturday night, Ellie Macnamara remarked that she and her sister Louise genuinely thought the crowd would be about two rows deep, leaving them enough room to breakdance on the venue floor, …

What’s Rejjie Snow up to?

Ireland’s most intriguing rapper posted this video last week: Alex/Lecs/Rejjie was also photographed by Cameron Alexander for the current fashion issue of Clash Magazine and apparently he’s also playing the upcoming Becks Rhythm Weekender thing, which will present many Dubliners …

More praise for Jessie Ware

Spotted this piece in the Arts section of the New York Times last week, trying to shoehorn some kind of trend into what is essentially an article in praise of Jessie Ware and AlunaGeorge, two acts that you can’t seem …

Fight Like Apes @ Whelan’s last night

As much as I’m a fan of the other bands that played the Rubyworks 10th Birthday gig in Whelan’s last night (The Minutes, Funeral Suits, Deep Valley), what I really wanted to hear was new material from Fight Like Apes’ …

Your Phoenix Park aftermath round-up

The column inches dedicated to what happened at Swedish House Mafia and Co. are longer than the queue for the portaloos at Florence + The Machine, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing more to read about it. Jim Carroll focuses …