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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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SXSW announce first acts including The Murder Capital, Just Mustard, Lilla Vargen & more

The world’s most renowned music industry showcase SXSW, based in Austin Texas today announced the…

Listen to Rigsy’s final BBC Across The Line show after 19 years on air

Big up the Northern Irish radio legend.

Lankum’s ‘The Young People’ is a beautiful, mournful & uplifting song about cherishing your friends, watch the Bob Gallagher video

With their second album The Livelong Day due on Friday October 25th, Lankum have released…

Forbidden Fruit announce 2020 dates & changes to a 2 day festival

Forbidden Fruit will in 2020 on the dates 30 May and 31 May, meaning the…

Georgia for small Dublin show

Georgia, the English percussive electronic pop artist is set to play The Sound House in…

Our first ever live Nialler9 Podcast with guest Bantum

Live in Kino at the Cork Podcast Festival. Big Thief’s second album of the year, Kneecap’s song memeification of Brits Out & diving into Pitchfork’s album of the decade list.

We are putting on a Beastie Boys appreciation night in Lost Lane later this month

Cause you can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop!

“It’s sending a message to Artists that Ireland doesn’t value them.” The National Campaign for the Arts respond to Budget 2020

The National Campaign for the Arts has responded negatively to yesterday’s Budget 2020 announcement by…

Kojaque is doing a public interview with Trinity’s Philosophical Society this Friday

Kojaque is among the upcoming guests at Trinity College Dublin’s Philosophical Society interviews and Q…

Caribou to play Iveagh Gardens show next summer; hear stirring new soulful track ‘Home’

A full European and North America tour has been announced.

Here’s how things have changed for Arts & Culture funding in Budget 2020

The details of Budget 2020  were revealed by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe today and…

Pusha T has remixed the Succession theme song

The Roys immortalised by King Push.

Franc Moody will return in 2020 for a Button Factory show

It’s the band’s fourth gig in quick succession in Dublin.

Angel Olsen’s expansive sonic reflections (Nialler9 Podcast)

Plus songs of the week from Chromatics, Cat Le Bon and Just Mustard.

David Gray is cashing in his Ireland White Ladder card with a 20th anniversary tour

At one point since the release in 1998, David Gray’s White Ladder was purported to…

2ManyDJs & The 2 Bears lined up for District 8 Christmas gig

2manydjs will be back in Dublin before Christmas for a show on Friday December 21st…

Seven years on, Chromatics release a new album that’s not Dear Tommy

Closer To Grey is an album of all new material.

Autre Monde’s ‘On The Record’ is a great song about the irresponsible pursuit of making music professionally

Sax solo, Arcade Fire influences on a song about “the addiction to making pop songs and irresponsibly chasing the perma-receding horizon of professional musicianship.”

Bodytonic to open a The Bernard Shaw-style space on the Northside

Bodytonic is to reopen a The Bernard Shaw-style place on a new premises on the…

A second Julia Jacklin Dublin date has been added

Two of Australia’s finest.