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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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Wah Wah Club moving to South William

After four months in situ at The Grand Social, Wah Wah Club is up and…

Premiere: Dublin math rock band Yonen have a crazy good animated music video for ‘Tokyo’

The celestial x math-rock of new Dublin four-piece Yonen has found the perfect visual bedfellow…

Aphex Twin is the latest act announced for Forbidden Fruit

After last week’s reveal of Orbital as Saturday headliners, today it’s been announced that Aphex…

Ailbhe Reddy gets the electro-pop remix treatment from Blend Bold

After dropping her recent single ‘Relent’, Ailbhe Reddy has shared a electronic pop remix of…

Nialler9 & PRS For Music present Output showcase: Le Boom, Jealous Of The Birds, New Portals, Beauty Sleep

Nialler9 & PRS for Music are team up to cohost four of Ireland’s brightest new…

Alt-J, Pixies, James Vincent McMorrow, Bell X1 & more for Trinity College summer gigs

The Pixies just announced they are to play a new series of Dublin gigs called Trinity…

4 albums to listen to this week

With so many releases flying at you, here are recommended vetted listens from Nialler9 for…

Watch All Tvvins’ play ‘Darkest Ocean’ from last night’s Other Voices

Other Voices kicked off again last night on RTE2. Among performances from Austin from Willie…

Soulé drops new single ‘Good Life’

Dublin singer Soulé’s debut single ‘Love No More’ made a big enough impression locally that…

Loose Joints Podcast #6: Gib Cassidy

Our first Loose Joints Podcast of the year with your hosts Nialler9 and Sally Cinnamon…

Life Festival just added 15 acts including Rudimental, Patrick Topping, The Magician, Veronica Vasicka, Goldie…

Further to the recent drip-feeding of act announcement that has been coming from Life Festival…

You need to watch 1200 people covering Nirvana’s ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ at once

After 1000 Rockers performed ‘Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters simultaneously in Cesena, Italy…

Other Voices returns to TV screens tonight, here’s what’s on the show

Other Voices’ new series on RTÉ starts tonight on RTÉ2 at 11:30pm and it’s going…

Music Cork conference & showcase weekend announced for May

Music Cork is a new conference and showcase event taking place in Cork city from…

Check out not 1 but 3 Daft Punk Teachers mixes from Dubliner CK
https://soundcloud.com/factmag/ck-daft-punk-teachers-influences-mix-vol-iii

CK is a Dublin DJ who originally put together a podcast for Bodytonic back in…

Fionn Regan returns with new single; watch the new video starring Cillian Murphy

Fionn Regan will release his first album in five years this April 14th. The Meetings…

Output Belfast announce keynote speaker Bob Lefsetz, PJ Harvey producer Rob Ellis & London’s Night Czar

Output Belfast -the one-day music conference has announced much of its live band lineup and…

The female-fronted F. Festival is coming back to Dublin in March

In 2016 F. Festival debuted as Ireland’s first multi-faceted female fronted festival. Today it announced…

A new festival for Dublin: Spectrum brings jazz, electronic and more together

Spectrum is a new festival by Improvised Music Company, in association with Note Productions and…

Orbital are playing Forbidden Fruit this year

Forbidden Fruit have announced that the reunited Orbital are playing the festival this year on…