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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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Free Hypnotic Brass Ensemble gig this Wednesday

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble played a gig last night in The Sugar Club where they also…

Listen to Little Dragon’s new album Nabuma Rubberband

Everything we’ve heard from Little Dragon’s new album Nabuma Rubberband, the Swedish band’s fourth album…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // May 6th – May 12th

Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon Ticket giveaways this week: Thursday: Martha Reeves and The Vandellas @ The Button Factory (€28) Friday: We…

Longitude Festival add 35 new acts including RBMA stage

Whoop. Longitude have just added a ton of bands to the lineup for the festival…

Phoria – ‘Emanate’

Phoria are a Brighton five-piece band introduced here last year. You might remember that three…

Lydia Ainsworth – ‘White Shadows’

Lydia Ainsworth has spent much of recent history composing music for film, art installations and…

The Antlers announce European tour with Dublin date

The Antlers have a new album incoming this year in June called Familiars and they’ve announced…

Album of the week: Fatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch

Listening through the discography of Kuwait-raised Senegal-born artist Fatima Al Qadiri (raised by Russian-educated parents),…

The top 10 tracks of the week

Tracks of the Week playlist 1. Dat Oven – ‘Icy Lake’ A weird and wonderful…

Watch a documentary following UNKNWN in NYC and SXSW

Chris Hanna and Gemma Dunleavy aka UNKNWN have come out behind the shroud and were…

TXFM show // Playlist 005

Every Thursday night at 10pm, I get two hours of the airwaves on TXFM to…

Listen to Michael Fassbender sing ‘I Love You All’ from the film Frank

Frank, the new Lenny Abrahamson film (Adam & Paul, What Richard Did), inspired by the…

Nialler9 Chart: The best tracks of April

The chart: Little Dragon – ‘Paris’ Todd Terje – ‘Delorean Dynamite’ Ben Khan – ‘Savage’…

Lykke Li – I Never Learn

For her third album (of a loose trilogy including 2008’s Youth Novels and 2011’s Wounded…

Tycho is playing Hidden Agenda in July

Ghostly International’s Tycho (San Francisco producer Scott Hansen, also known as artist ISO50) is known…

Salva – ‘Drop That Bitch’ featuring Kurupt, ScHoolboy Q, Problem & Bad Lucc

A top-grade bass-heavy club track from Salva who managed to rope in Kurupt (it’s been…

Baths – ‘Ocean Death’

A stylistic change of direction is something that might not be a smart move for…

Let’s French festival happens in Dublin in May with Le Galaxie DJs, Daithí and Lasertom

Let’s French is a music festival that has happened in Dublin since 2006 and put…

Watch Ships perform ‘None Of It Real’ at home for This Greedy Pig

Simon and Sorca conceived and developed their band Ships in their Dublin home so it…

Hear Deady cover Crystal Waters’ house classic ‘Gypsy Woman’

Here’s a nice bit of serendipity. I’ve been playing the seven minute version of ‘Gypsy…