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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
thethinair.net | Brian Coney
Belfast’s Deeply Armed have been making subterranean waves for a while now. Tracks passed hand to hand via samizdat channels. Whispers between heads. Andrew Weatherall was an early booster. David Holmes played out a psychedelic version of one track at select ritual-like occasions. But now the trio break cover with ‘The Healing,’ a debut 12” that feels like a signal flare from a long-dormant dream.
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2 months ago | 
thethinair.net | Stevie Lennox
Cork’s, and arguably Ireland’s premier pedal steel player David Murphy released one of our favourite albums of last year with debut LP Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar. A sublime collection of interpretations of traditional songs, it was another part of a growing body of work that is reshaping the role of the pedal steel away from its American roots and into global folk and contemporary music.
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2 months ago | 
thethinair.net | Brian Coney
It’s been a while – too long – since we last heard from Galway’s Field Trip. And while we’ll get into the hows and whys of that shortly, the return alone is cause enough for celebration. Today, we’re pleased to premiere ‘I Get Down’, a textbook harmony-laced gem that reaffirms just why the triom became one of the country’s most quietly beloved garage-pop bands.
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2 months ago | 
thethinair.net | Cathal McBride
Few bands have shaped the landscape of punk rock like Buzzcocks. Seminal is an understatement: since the late ‘70s, their blend of biting lyricism, sharp melodies, and unrelenting energy has cemented them as icons of the genre. Now fronted by long-time member Steve Diggle, the band continues to push forward, balancing their legendary catalogue with new material that keeps their spirit alive.
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2 months ago | 
thethinair.net | Brian Coney
Another beyond-deadly week for Irish music delivers brand new Search Results, Junior Brother, Deeply Armed, ghoulgirl, New Jackson, Awesimon & and Pat Lagoon. Search Results – WrinkleVIDEOJunior Brother – Take Guilt (Live at Vicar Street0VIDEODeeply Armed – The HealingVIDEOghoulgirl – not hanging aroundAwesimon & Pat Lagoon – One and Only New Jackson – LIVE ONES 2 is the editor of The Thin Air.