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Gallery: Lindsey Stirling at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts, Orlando,02.08.24

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Gallery: Chicano Batman/ Lido Pimienta at Union Transfer, Philadelphia, 13.05.2024

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Gallery: CSS/ Sloppy Jane at The Foundry, Philadelphia, 06.05.2024

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The Blue Lounge is one of the biggest jazz venues in Scotland and has a dedicated jazz night every Thursday. Tonight we they had the Ghana/scottish guitarist and composer Nathan Somevi and his trio featuring Rachel Duns on saxophone and Alex Palmer on drums. A quaint old fashioned venue the place has a wonderful vibe …

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It had been way too long. The door leading to the downstairs bar at the Bowery Ballroom was waiting like a time portal back to life before March 2020. So many shows, such a part of my life for so many years – and we were back, just like that. Before I could start weeping, …

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The 4 members of band Pillow Queens onstage
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Dublin’s Pillow Queens self-released their debut album In Waiting in 2020 setting up their own record label to do so. The success of the album has been phenomenal and it was a joy to hear that number 2 has already been written, recorded and is ready to release. But thats getting ahead of ourselves. Tonights …

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THE ERSTWHILE packet port, maritime centre and now university hub of Falmouth-Penryn, down on the south Cornish Coast, has been consistently punching above its weight this past decade and a half in terms of really good venues with really eclectic music policies. The venues may have come and gone, but Falmouth was generally a little …

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In the intimate upstairs at Whelans, two future pop stars peddled their significant wares to a enthusiastic sold out crowd. Opening up was singer-songwriter T A D H G, who played a half hour set on the piano, sounding and performing a bit like Elton John, as if there were ever a better compliment. T …

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Red Rum Club Thursday evening saw Liverpool’s intoxicating indie-pop band Red Rum Club play a special intimate gig at the Leadmill to mark the release of their fabulous third album ‘How To Steal The World’, which dropped last Friday. Having discovered Red Rum Club through my son Dan whose own band played on the same …

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Words: Max Falvey Pictures: Ian McDonnell // Carl McGrath “I want tequila on the rocks, I want the keys to all the locks, and I never wanna lockdown again!’. With an unrivalled level of swagger and oozing with pandemic angst, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes began their latest tour in Dublin last night, promoting their …

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As the screaming starts at a quick sound check and the crowd are going crazy for some classic pop punk songs (Paramore and My Chemical Romance help the time pass a bit quicker), the atmosphere in the room – Rock City, Nottingham, is becoming electric. The Hunna can’t enter the stage at a better time; …

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A PILGRIMAGE of sorts, to see the Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg (although these days it’s the Bard of Bridport, not so many miles east along the Dorset coast); who’s playing this date of a hugely virally-delayed tour in the lofty surrounds of the university’s Great Hall, pine-panelled and architecturally brutalist and blessed with good …

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Hermitage green are a Limerick based five piece rock band consisting of Dan Murphy (guitar and vocals, Barry Murphy (Bass and vocals), Dermot Sheedy (drums and bodhran), Darragh Graham (percussion, digeridoo and banjo), and Darragh Griffin (keys and guitar) who fuse many different styles while using a plethora of instruments, from harmonicas to digeridoos and …

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