Brian Coney

Belfast

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Articles

Music For Domes w/ RÓIS at Docs Ireland

1 week ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

One of the most quietly spellbinding events at this year’s Docs Ireland doesn’t take place in a cinema, but under a full 360° dome, in the night sky simulator of Armagh Planetarium. Premiering this Friday, June 20th, Music for Domes is a new immersive documentary experience that sees award-winning Irish artist and long-time TTA favourite RÓIS join forces with the always-visionary Hosta Projects for a journey unlike any other.
Pavements at Docs Ireland 2025

1 week ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

One of the outright highlights of this year’s Docs Ireland (and there are many) Pavements is what happens when a band that made irony sacred becomes the subject of a documentary that doesn’t believe in borders. Part doc, part fiction, part mockumentary, part museum, part musical, part meta-headfuck, it’s a 90s indie fever dream that starts with the 2022 reunion and spirals into something way stranger, way funnier, and way more moving than it has any right to be.
David Byrne Set for 3Arena Show

2 weeks ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

David Byrne has announced a brand new Dublin date as part of his forthcoming world tour, with An Evening With David Byrne set for 3Arena on Friday, March 13. The show marks his highly-anticiapted return to the venue seven years on from his unforgettable American Utopia tour stop back in 2018. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, June 13. The show arrives in support of Who Is the Sky?, Byrne’s first album in seven years, landing September 5 via Matador.
Under the Drum 2025

2 weeks ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

Already one of the island’s most vital small festivals, Under the Drum returns to the lush, rewilded grounds of Breckenhill, just outside Belfast across 8–9 August. Lovingly curated by siblings Will, George and Rosanna Reade, the festival unfolds across a family-run site that’s been rewilded over 37 years. Every tree was planted with care and every corner of Breckenhill hums with something honest.
Track-by-Track: Confirmation Getup - Style Time

1 month 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.
Sounds from a Safe Harbour Returns with One of Its Strongest Line-Ups Yet

1 month 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.
Arrival, Not Return: An Interview with Daniel Bedingfield

2 months 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.
Repeat to Remember: Insatiable by Divide and Dissolve

2 months 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.
In Photos: Kamasi Washington w/ Emma-Jean Thackray at 3Olympia, Dublin

2 months 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.
In Photos: Poor Creature w/ Nev Clay at Whelans, Dublin

2 months ago | thethinair.net | Brian Coney

With their debut LP All Smiles Tonight due in a couple of months, Poor Creature headlined Whelan’s in Dublin with support from Nev Clay. Photos by Erin Plaice.