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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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Body & Soul announce The Shapeshifter’s Ball for Halloween

Body & Soul are putting on The Shapeshifter’s Ball, a special “evening of Immortal Proportions,…

Output puts on free night of music in Belfast with Go Wolf, Ships, Ryan Vail, Rosie Carney, Katharine Philippa & more

A few weeks ago Generator NI announced Output’s daytime  series of talks with names like Andrew…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // September 30 – October 6

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

Homebeat’s Fading Light festival details announced for this month

Homebeat’s Fading Light festival returns for this year from Friday October 24th to Monday October…

Minimum Maximum @ Block-T in photos

Minimum Maximum in Block-T on Friday night was one of the best Nialler9 gigs yet.…

Thom Yorke just released a new album through a paid Bittorrent bundle

In a world in which U2 give away an album and Beyoncé releases an A/V…

Album of the week: Aphex Twin – Syro

When someone has a reputation and a mystique as strong as Richard D James it…

Watch Voids’ ‘Knowing’ video and hear their murky Begin EP

On Monday, I introduced you to new music from Voids. If you weren’t familiar with…

Young Hearts Run Free presents the No Idle Day Festival in October

Young Hearts Run Free have put together a small but beautifully-programmed festival taking place in…

Listen to last night’s 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…

Win tickets to the Pulse By Absolut Le Galaxie launch

On October 9th, Le Galaxie will launch the video for their new song ‘Carmen’ featuring…

James Vincent McMorrow – ‘You Know’

Despite a constant tour for Post-Tropical, James Vincent McMorrow has still found time to give…

Alt-J – This Is All Yours

Right, your band have won a Mercury, you book a big arena tour (they play…

Watch the video debut of new Irish rapper Simi Crowns – ‘Pressure’

Lagos-born but Dublin-reared, rapper Simi Crowns‘ debut song ‘Pressure’ walks an admirable line between pop-orientated…

Premiere: Listen to the new album from Hands Up Who Wants To Die

Three years after their debut was released on the now defunct Richter Collective (with Adebisi…

Goodbye Adebisi Shank (-_-) : my ten favourite songs

Today, Adebisi Shank announced that they would be no more after this weekend’s Dublin shows…

Jennifer Evans to release her debut album in November, hear new single ‘Colours Of Bruises’

Jennifer Evans has been an artist to watch for three or four years now but…

Adebisi Shank call it a day with two final shows this week

One of the best Irish bands who existed, and one of my favourites since I…

Hozier – Hozier (review)

It was only this week, last year, that the ‘Take Me To Church’ video was…

Intro: Voids – cold front / warm bass duo from Galway

The Galway duo Voids (just Alison and Andrew) have been around since 2012 creating trippy…