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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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9 new songs from Irish artists you should hear

Featuring new music from Banyah, Benjamyn, Twin Diver, Pretty Please, Bedrooms, Pagan, Kubb, Ocena Tisdall, NTF and more.

Dublin cultural space Jigsaw has closed – the city needs spaces like it

The pandemic’s effects on our city’s landscape is currently hard to ascertain when everything is…

You can’t go to a gig yet but you can apparently go to a Bon Jovi drive-in concert screening

While we wait for clarification around live events, New Jersey’s finest Bon Jovi are seemingly…

Soda Blonde – ‘In The Heat Of The Night’

Soda Blonde will release their debut album Small Talk on July 9th and the band…

National Campaign for the Arts ask for timeline from government for reopening of arts & live sector

The National Campaign for the Arts steering committee has put out a statement calling on…

Kojaque announces Irish tour

Kojaque has followed up last week’s debut album announcement with news of an Irish tour…

New Music Friday Edit: The Chemical Brothers, Little Simz, Flying Lotus, David Keenan, Space Dimension Controller, The Juan Maclean & more

It’s New Music Friday, which means there’s loads of new songs out. Here are the…

New releases out today: Field Music, Jinx Lennon, Alfa Mist, Sufjan Stevens & more

The best new releases out this week.

Toygirl remind you to look after yourself on fourth single ‘Water’

The five-piece Dublin-based band Toygirl have established a palette of alt-soul pop over three singles…

Podcast: #BrokenRecord & the campaign to fix streaming

Support Nialler9 on Patreon The lack of income in the last year for musicians during…

X Collective’s Chloë Agnew, Zapho, Senita, Toshín, & Gemma Bradley release single ‘WB’

After announcing their formation last year, the X Collective artists Chloë Agnew, Zapho, Senita, Toshín…

Watch For Those I Love’s 17-minute live music film Holy Trinity

For Those I Love has premiered a 17-minute “live music film” written and directed by…

“When writing electronic music you never have to consider when someone needs to take a breath.” ELLLL on creating music for Crash Ensemble to perform at New Music Dublin

“When writing electronic music you never have to consider when someone needs to take a breath.”

Django Django, Stendhal Festival, Offica & Alfa Mist announce gigs

With the end of the pandemic in sight, gigs are being announced again. Here’s some…

The Altered Hours sign to Pizza Pizza Records; hear ‘All Amnesia’

The Cork alt-rock band The Altered Hours have released a new single ‘All Amnesia’ today…

Jai Paul marks 10 years of ‘BTSTU’ with new “Myspace” profile page & unreleased track ‘Super Salamander’

It was 2011 when the truly enigmatic Jai Paul arrived with the track ‘BTSTU’ and…

Billie Eilish at Electric Picnic. Photo credit: Charles Reagan
Government approves ticket touting bill & bans the resale of tickets above face value for large events

Ticket touting and the reselling of tickets above ticket price could be a thing of…

Smoothboi Ezra writes songs from an autistic gender non-binary perspective; hear ‘Stuck’ from new EP

The 19-year-old Greystones-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Smoothboi Ezra has announced a new EP on…

The best live stream gigs & events happening this week

All times are Irish / GMT. Wednesday April 21st Tame Impala announce InnerSpeaker Live @…

Villagers announces new album Fever Dreams; hear ‘The First Day’ inspired by Another Love Story Festival

Conor O’Brien has announced that his fifth studio album Fever Dreams will be released on…