Brian Coney

1 week ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

Long-time heroes of Ireland’s underground electronic scene, Paul Morrin (Spectac / Front End Synthetics) and Dunk Murphy (Sunken Foal / Countersunk, have finally joined forces in the studio as Confirmation Getup. Though their friendship dates back to schoolyard mischief, they’d never actually made music together until now. The result is Style Time: a heady, gloriously crooked suite of modular funk, skewed electro and machine-led oddity.

2 weeks ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

Few festivals on the island offer the kind of sustained, deep magic that Sounds from a Safe Harbour manages to conjure. Returning to Cork City from 11th to 14th September for its 10th edition, the festival remains one of Ireland’s most consistently rewarding fixtures – an unpredictable, collaborative gathering rooted in ritual, risk, and resonance.

1 month ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

“For most of my life, I’ve lived with enormous, driven agony. Now, I wake up and I’m okay. Someone dies – I grieve, but I’m still okay. I could lose everything – money, reputation – and I’d still be okay. Something in me has healed, at a core level.”Go on there: forget everything you thought you knew about Daniel Bedingfield.What you thought you knew was only the sudden glint on the surface of something far deeper, freer, and more alive.

1 month ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Brian Coney

There is no such thing as background noise in Divide and Dissolve’s world. Every note, every groaning chord, every keening saxophone line sits foregrounded, heavy with intent. On Insatiable, Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed’s most emotionally unguarded and orchestrally scaled work to date, doom becomes a medium for not reckoning alone, but reckoning transfigured by love. Opener ‘Hegemonic’ isn’t so much an overture as a warning.

1 month ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

The literal main man Kamasi Washington and his band, with support by Emma-Jean Thackray, at the 3Olympia. Photos by Matt Gorman.