Ireland

Live Review: Dadi Freyr / Mickey Callisto – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 02.06.2022
Icelandic Eurovision star Daði Freyr made his Dublin debut on Thursday, 2nd of June, with support from Mickey Callisto, and it was magic!

Live Review: Teddy Swims / Saibh Skelly – The Academy, Dublin 29.05.2022
Atlanta singer songwriter Teddy Swims stopped off in Dublin on his ‘Tough Love’ world tour, and it was powerful!

News: Ed Sheeran releases new remix with Irish rapper Denise Chaila
Irish rapper Denise Chaila has teamed up with Ed Sheeran for a remix to his song ‘2step’, and it’s out now!

Track: Sons of Southern Ulster release a gorgeous version of anthemic track ‘Polaris’, remixed by the legendary Peter Briquette (The Boomtown Rats), and announce new EP
Last year’s album ‘Sinners and Lost Souls’ from Ireland’s Sons of Southern Ulster was a revelation: I wrote: …it is an album that fuses both a folk tradition with a punk sensibility – and after all, both art forms are born from oppression and conflict to provide a cathartic release. There is a bridge here …

News: Villagers announce new album and share video for triumphant, endorphin-releasing single ‘The First Day’
Villagers can do no wrong in my very humble opinion. They are one of the few bands where you know that their new music is always going to be emotionally and creatively transportative, taking you to places you may never have imagined. They have released consistently excellent albums ever since their wondrously eerie debut ‘Becoming …

Track: The Clockworks – Enough is Never Enough
One of the most inventive and exciting bands around at the moment, Galway’s The Clockworks have released another blistering track ‘Enough is Never Enough’, which combines a driving musical assault with acerbic lyrics and an assured swagger. Swimming in the same stream as bands like compatriots The Murder Capital and Fontaines DC, The Clockworks have …

Album Review: Sons of Southern Ulster – Sinners and Lost Souls
It would be hard to talk about the new album from Sons of Southern Ulster and not to reference the currently exploding Fontaines D.C. – the same vein is gloriously plowed: Irish punk poetry wrapped in a visceral anger and melody. Given Sons of Southern Ulster’s debut album ‘Foundry Folk Songs) came out in 2016 …

See: The Clockworks – The Future Is Not What It Was
Clocking in at just 2 minutes and forty-one seconds, ‘The Future Is Not What It Was’, the new single from The Clockworks, immediately makes it clear this is a band with a future, built on the genes of a very admirable past. The angular, stop/start delivery is reminiscent of the very best of the post …

Premiere: Zali reveals new video for That Girl
Irish pop/soul powerhouse has today revealed a new song, That Girl, and we’re delighted to premiere the accompanying video here on Backseat Mafia. It’s a luxurious, warm slice of R&B, Zali’s vocal a placebo to these weird and worrying times, as she swoons around the engaging melodies. Of it, Zali told us exclusively “‘That Girl’ …