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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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Win tickets to Booka Shade and Brodinksi

Ticket giveaway time: Booka Shade have been around for 25 years now and their music…

Daphni & Owen Pallett – ‘Julia’ / ‘Tiberius’

Dan Snaith aka Caribou’s main man has had a fine line in dance productions under…

Barndance Festival stage times & festival info

Barndance festival, the BYOB festival in a secret location has shared some stage times and…

Record Store Day – what’s happening around Ireland

I have some thoughts about Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent music shops…

Nightbox – ‘In The Rural’

Irish via Toronto band Nightbox have come back with new material to follow up their…

Imploded View – ‘Withering Lights’

I’m really liking this new track from Longford producer Imploded View. ‘Withering Lights’ has a…

Listen to Record Store Gay compilation #3

The Outhouse is an LGBT resource centre on Capel Street in Dublin there to support…

Leftfield DJ set, Beardyman & more added to Sea Sessions

Sea Sessions said they were done with announcing their lineup for the festival in Bundoran,…

Gruff Rhys, Ray Davies & Polar Bear for Dublin Writers Festival

Dublin Writers Festival is happening around the city over nine days in May from may…

Twin Shadow – ‘To The Top’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqdvHxdeJjQ&feature=youtu.be Last year, Twin Shadow gave us a new track in the form of ‘Old…

Listening post: YOGI pick their favourite tracks

London bass-heavy trio YOGI pulled off a major coup by having Pusha T on their…

The Minutes – ‘Supernatural’

‘Cherry Bomb’ has been getting a baiting on Irish radio for the last month so…

I Have A Tribe – ‘Yellow Raincoats’ (video)

Patrick O’Laoghaire gets stuck in the snow. Directed by Emma Nathan.

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // April 15th – 21st

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

Here’s a good Irish rap song about hurling…

Yep, you read that right. Kilkenny’s Captain Moonlight teamed up with some of Dublin’s finest…

Kwabs – ‘Something Right’ (produced by Sohn)

London singer Kwabs (ugh, that name) stood out with his deep voice on last year’s…

Róisín Murphy – ‘Ancora Tu’

Róisín Murphy will release the Mi Senti EP on May 28th, a six-track collection of…

Preview: Music highlights from the Darklight Festival programme

Darklight Festival takes place in and around Smithfield from 24th – 27th April and amongst…

TĀLĀ – ‘Serbia’

Last week I shared the debut solo track from English/Iranian polymath TĀLĀ on a track…

George Maple & Slime – Sonnet’

Aussie singer George Maple and London producer Slime teamed up this year on ‘Begin to…