It has issued a tender for a feasibility study. The documents include few details, but they do confirm the likely future uses for the historic building.
“In this dream world, Dulu wanders soundscapes that feel endless in every direction, each song resembling fragments of different half-remembered hallucinations.”
Seán Keenan and Gearóid Peggs – buddies “separated by sea, producing remotely from Dublin and London” – have spent the longest year recording nostalgic tunes.
“I like a certain amount of tradition, such as the long-form music project, and ‘92 Degrees’ is, for me, the most complete drill release this island has produced yet. If this isn’t the best Irish album in a while, it’s for sure the hardest.”
“In a way, Róisín Machine finally brings her around to the kind of record that might have launched her star in the mid-2000s,” writes Dean Van Nguyen on the Irish disco musician.
Ailbhe Reddy’s “Personal History” and Kean Kavanagh’s “Dog Person” are two debut albums with vastly different perspectives on coming-of-age in the city.
“In Waiting” is “a classic Irish guitar music debut, a proud affirmation of queerness, the power and the peril of organised religion, and a love letter to Dublin”.
What links both releases is that they are statements from two young virtuosos determined to show and prove; turn up and throw down, writes Dean Van Nguyen.
