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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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Liza Flume is back with ‘Bodies’

Liza Flume has been quiet since last year’s ‘Sheets’ and the video of her performing…

The Lumo Club DJ Chart

Since we last month’s regular night, we’ve had two special festival Lumo events – our…

Lyttet producer Phare drops some euphoria-tinged electronica on ‘Up’

As one half of Lyttet, Peadar Kearney makes softly-lit shoegazing ambient music with Claire Nicole…

Limerick’s Proper Micro NV adds some neo-soul to his electronic music on ‘Revive’

21 year-old Limerick electronic producer Rory Hall AKA Proper Micro NV has recently hit a…

Portishead dedicate their bleak Abba ‘SOS’ cover to Jo Cox

Portishead’s dystopian and brilliantly bleak cover of Abba’s ‘SOS’, from the soundtrack to the movie…

Watch We Cut Corners’ handwritten projection video for ‘On Avoiding People’

Earlier this month, we got wind of We Cut Corners’ first song from their forthcoming…

Hard Working Class Heroes opens music applications for October 2016

Hard Working Class Heroes festival has made its annual call the Irish bands, musicians, and…

Celtronic: KiNK, Âme, Rival Consoles, New Jackson, Barnt, Gerd Janson for Derry next week

The 2016 edition of Celtronic electronic music festival takes place next week June 29th – July…

The Avalanches’ third LP song ‘Subways’ is a magical callback to their debut

The Avalanches’ three songs from forthcoming album WildFlower have improved upon each other which is…

Sigur Ros release new single & video ahead of Sunday’s Dublin gig

If you’ve had a hankering to visit or revisit the beautiful country of Iceland, Sigur…

Longitude Festival announce two-day tickets

Longitude Festival is a month away and with a lineup like above, there’s a good…

Róisín O, Enemies, Ailbhe Reddy, Dermot Kennedy & Dublin Gospel Choir for Denise Ryan fundraiser

Last year, I featured a fundraising gig for Denise Ryan who has been suffering with…

The Sugar Club launch a month-long Dublin Music Film Festival: Films Of Note

The Sugar Club have made music movies a central part of their programming since Choice…

A 12 year-old boy from Rush, County Dublin directed the new Aphex Twin video

As announced last week, Aphex Twin will release a new Cheetah EP on Warp on…

Watch Girl Band’s new anxious paranoid video for ‘In Plastic’

If you caught Girl Band’s main stage performance at Body&Soul, it was yet another reminder…

First listen: Adultrock’s Talabot-esque analogue dance cut ‘Push & Pull’

Gavin Elsted is my DJ cohort in Lumo Club (Body & Soul went well …

Hear Hozier’s new single for the new Tarzan movie

Yep, such is the leap in path of global popularity that Andrew Hozier-Byrne has been…

Nialler9’s Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

Email to be in the draw for free entry: Saturday: Lumo Club @ Bar Tengu (€5, 11pm)…

Download Four Tet’s new Randoms collection

Kieran Hebden has collated some music he’s released on once-off compilations dating from 1996 to…

Hear Justin Bieber reimagined as a drippy ’80s pop star

You’ve all seen Game Of Thrones the ’90s version but what about music? Am I…