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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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Kindness – Otherness

Adam Bainbridge’s Kindness project could have very easily been one of those oddities that never…

Silences – ‘Sister Snow’

Silences were one of my picks of the recent Hard Working Class Heroes lineup and…

Talos – ‘Bloom’

Eoin French aka Talos released one of the songs of the year in ‘Tethered Bones’…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // October 21 – 27

Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun |…

The best tracks of the week

See this page for a Soundcloud playlist of all the tracks. 1. Tei Shi –…

Watch FKA Twigs’ new Google Glass/ dance remix video thing

FKA twigs’ new video thing is less a music video more a Google Glass concept…

Take in the vistas of Morocco in the video for TĀLĀ’s ‘Alchemy’

After her debut EP, the Iranian/English musician Tala has followed up her debut EP with…

Listen to Caribou’s Essential Mix

Caribou’s new album Our Love demosntrates that Dan Snaith is is now fully immersed in…

Ekkah – ‘Last Chance To Dance’

London via Birmingham duo Ekkah, made an impression online with their debut single ‘Figure It…

OneKnown – ‘JST BKZ’

UNKNWN, the fertile project of Chris Hanna and Gemma Dunleavy is no more, the pair…

Glass Animals will be back to Dublin in March

This is no surprise due to the demand for the band’s weekend show in Whelan’s…

Listen to Iggy Pop’s exquisite John Peel lecture

If you’ve a spare hour and you’ve not listened to it yet, I would suggest…

Listen to this week’s Nialler9 TXFM show

The Nialler9 TXFM show airs every Thursday night at 10pm for two hours. You can listen live on 105.2FM, online, the TXFM…

Listening Post: Krystal Klear picks some of his favourite tracks

Ahead of his headline set in his hometown of Dublin at The Academy next Sunday…

Watch the brilliantly weird new Wildbirds & Peacedrums video

Wildbirds & Peacedrums‘, the Swedish husband and wife duo Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin have…

Listen to Toby Kaar’s newest remix of We Cut Corners’ ‘Every Thief’

Toby Kaar might have gone very quiet on the live front in the last while…

Jessie Ware announces Dublin & Belfast gigs

Jessie Ware’s second album Tough Love is out in the world now and as a…

Tei Shi – ‘Bassically’

Argentinian-born NYC-based singer Valerie Teicher aka Tei Shi has returned on a whole new level.…

Watch a short documentary about the Belfast godfather of punk Terri Hooley

Just last night I  watched Good Vibrations, the film about Terri Hooley, the music-mad maverick…

Gaze Is Ghost – ‘Revolvere’ / ‘Murmuration’

I’ve been keeping tabs on Derry-born Laura McGarrigle. Her atmospheric orchestral songs as Gaze Is…