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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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Nialler9’s Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

Email to be in the draw for free entry: Saturday/Sunday: Invisibl Skratch Picklz: DJ Qbert, D Styles…

Anderson .Paak – ‘The Season / Carry Me / The Waters’ (video)

The creator of my favourite album of the year since January, Anderson .Paak has been…

Lisa Hannigan debuts the ballad ‘Ora’ ahead of this Friday’s album release

Before At Swim arrives on Friday’s release day, Lisa Hannigan has revealed another track from…

Watch Maija Sofia’s new Sandymount Beach-set video for ‘Stains’

The Galway-born Dublin-based singer songwriter Maija Sofia has released some fine gossamer lo-fi songs in…

RIP Stephen Martin, Rainy Boy Sleep

The body of 29-year-old musician Stephen Martin AKA Rainy Boy Sleep, who had been missing…

Hear two new Bon Iver songs from the new album 22, A Million

Bon Iver played their new album in full in his hometown of Eaux Claire at…

Download Mix & Fairbanks’ edit of Indeep’s ‘Last Nite A DJ Saved My Life’

Mix & Fairbanks have been knocking it out of the park in Ireland lately, from…

Album of the week: All Tvvins – llVV

Band origin stories are usually littered with groups that weren’t great, were too young to…

Electric Picnic Red Bull Tropical Garden lineup: Mr Scruff, New Jackson, Fish Go Deep, Nialler9, Donal Dineen & more

Red Bull will move out of the forest at Electric Picnic and into the main…

Derry musician Stephen Martin aka Rainy Boy Sleep has been missing for three weeks

Update: Martin’s body has been found. 29-year-old musician Stephen Martin AKA Rainy Boy Sleep has…

Colour Canyon – ‘Neon’

When not making music with little xs for eyes or Carriages, Michelle Considine and Harry…

First Listen: Everything Shook’s gothic electro debut Drinking About You
https://soundcloud.com/everything-shook/sets/album-drinking-about-you-by/s-ezpB6

Robyn Bromfield, Jessica Kennedy, Áine Stapleton’s music as Everything Shook falls somewhere between ambient electronica,…

Cal Folger Day – ‘Rawking Chair’

Cal Folger Day is an American songwriter who has been based in Dublin for a…

Hear ‘She’ll Kill You’ from Stranger Things soundtrack Volume 1

I’m enough of a fan of Stranger Things, and the soundtrack by Kyle Dixon and…

Mongoose address the 8th amendment on ‘Doing Things Wrong’

The four-piece folk band Mongoose released a harmony-lead collection of rambunctious folk pop music last…

Listen to a Quiet Headphones Walk playlist

I spent the weekend on the small island of Inishturk off the coast of Mayo,…

New Order are launching a beer

New Order have had a fine year and half with the release of Music Complete…

Watch a live version of Talos’ ‘Your Love Is An Island’ in Reykjavik, Iceland

Cork man Eoin French latest Talos song ‘Your Love Is An Island’ is one of…

Intro: Sensual pop time with Tender’s ‘Outside’

New North London based artists Tender (James Cullen and Dan Cobb) recently signed to Partisan…

Watch a new video for No Monster Club’s ‘I’m Retired’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhccjQY8Ig Last year, Bobby Aherne aka No Monster Club released his best album yet People…