At the Irish Football Programme Club fair, people hunt for the rare and the strange
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Gareth Jones, standing over his own extensive collection, sprawled out over several tables.
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A sessions series continues to lure new audiences to modern harping
“I wanted to take the harp out of the drawing room, even out of the pub."
Dean: Zoé Basha and Martina and The Moons light up an afternoon
From rich interpretations of Appalachian folk to belligerent alt-rock.
The Love and Darkness of Seán “Doctor” Millar
The five-decade music career of the Liberties musician never quite reached the commercial heights that he, and others, had aimed for in his twenties. But is that important, really?
Dean: The classic hiss of Ireland’s first ever Pavement covers album
“I feel confident in declaring this to be the first local release to use such a concept.”
Remembering Brian “The Furrier” Furlong – legendary musician and lover of waistcoats
At the end of August in Donnycarney, his brothers and friends carried his coffin to the sound of one of his last performances.
Dean: For Those I Love’s righteous anger cannot be faked
"Carving the Stone" is a gritty, gripping piece of work forged in fury and frustration at a darkening in the Dublin atmosphere.
In a new album, a bodhrán shapeshifts again and again
“It’s coming during this wave when people are bringing trad music into modern spaces. But it came out of pure experimentation,” says musician Ian Nyquist.
Dean: Soda Blonde embrace the melancholy
And Danny Groenland puts “his activist spirit front and centre”.
A supergroup of experimental musicians look to fuse synthesisers with the “world within” the Irish harp
The eponymous debut album from the band Throwing Shapes is due for release on 7 September.
With “Memento Vivre”, a musician conjures a storm to tell her story
When Murky Anyango started to record what would eventually become her debut album, she wanted it to be a solo endeavour in every respect.
Dean: deathtoricky emerges from the underground
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
In an Inchicore industrial estate, a members’ club invites people to mingle and jam
“The biggest thing that happens here and the most fantastic thing to see is people feel they own it,” says organiser Kamil Che.