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You’ve got to be curious about Alice, the off-kilter Genevan trio formed by mother/ daughter/visual artist pairing Yvonne and Lisa Harder with their friend, graphic novelist Sarah Andre. Self-styled as a DIY micro chorale, their three voices and second hand keyboards conjure up songs that sneak way beyond any Occitan/French folky starting point. For sure …

Words & Photos: David McEneaney. It’s sadly pretty rare to arrive at a gig these days and see that it has already filled up before the support band had even started, but considering it was Lo Moon who were the opening act it made sense that this was the case.I had only heard about them …

Tropical Fuck Storm

Tropical Fuck Storm have announced the upcoming release of their ‘Submersive Behaviour’ 12″, on 3rd February 2023 via Joyful Noise Recordings, it will feature the band’s new single ‘The Golden Ratio’, which is out now. ‘Submersive Behaviour’ is the Australian art-punk combo’s take on the ‘covers record’ concept. ‘The Golden Ratio’ is joined on the 12″ by three tracks from their recent …

Somehow the art pop partnership that is Flash Amazonas manages to fizz on the same wavelength although they admit to taking a leftfield approach to creating their very own avant soundscape. Since meeting at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2015 Madrid based alt-pop purveyor Julian Mayorga and Japanese producer/instrumentalist Ryota Miyake has gradually morphed …

Poet / Spoken Word mistress Sinéad O’Brian played to a 300 strong crowd in Dublin’s Whelan’s with support coming from Corks art punk outfit Pretty Happy.The openers played a fantastic 30 minute set of intensity and then the main played a 45 minute set of fuzzed up noise poetry. Pretty Happy. Sinéad O’Brien, Gallery & …

American art-punk/indie-rock band Geese arrived in Dublin’s The Sound House and played to a full room which was great to see considering they were up against a few other major shows on around Dublin on the night. The band themselves didn’t really have much to say, they just got on and done what a good …