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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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Young Hearts Run Free’s Yule! whopper lineup in Dublin 8 next weekend

Young Hearts Run Free annual shindig Yule! at the Dublin Food Co-op on Newmarket Square,…

Intro: Sisters – Limerick London-based noise-pop band

Sisters are a new alt-rock band consisting of Andrew (drums), Aoife (bass/vocals) and Niall (guitar/vocals)…

Nanu Nanu – ‘Dirt’ (video)

http://vimeo.com/77690647 Alien-pop is still a handy shorthand for what Laura Sheeran and Marc Aubelle do…

Fight Like Apes – ‘Carousel’

Looking through the Fight Like Apes discography (i.e. listening to the music they’ve released), some…

Win tickets to Saturday @ Other Voices Dingle

It’s only a weekend away now. Other Voices returns to Dingle in Kerry for its…

Daniel Avery and Erol Alkan for Dublin Phantasy Sound label show

One of the makers of the best albums of November with Drone Logic, Daniel Avery…

Todd Terje – ‘Spiral’ / ‘Q’

Todd Terje’s already due to feature in the highlights reel for 2013 thanks to ‘Strandbar’…

Watch Inni-K’s ‘Find Your Beat’ as Gaeilge video and book her for your Christmas party?

I shared details of Inni-K’s Fundit campaign a few weeks ago and now the Kildare…

Biggles Flys Again – ‘Morning’ (The Casanova Wave Remix)

Biggles Flys Again’s Remember Saturday album (stream here) continues to bear some lovely fruit after…

Intro: Benjamin Clementine – classic London piano songcraft

Four years agom Ghanaian/British 20 year-old, Benjamin Clementine left a desolate suburb of London after conflict with a…

Listen to Ikonika, Tourist and Lxury remixes of Chvrches’ track ‘Lies’

While Chvrches‘ debut album Bones Of What You Believe is a decent debut, I’ve found…

Listen to Kildare duo Benihana’s debut EP

Benihana, the electronic twosome from Naas are Will Molloy and Billy Archbold. They released some…

Early bird tickets for Indiependence and Castlepalooza available for Christmas

Two of Ireland’s midsize August festivals, Cork’s Indiependence and Offaly’s Castlepalooza have announced early bird…

Subaltern – ‘Black Cat’

It was last summer when Alex Lawes & Sean Merrigan first appeared with a brance…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide

The 7-day gig guide to Dublin music and events If you’re looking for tickets to…

Other Voices Dingle day-by-day lineup, Willis Earl Beal, David Arnold and Josef Salvat added

Other Voices have been dripfeeding out the details of their twelfth season but here’s a…

Watch Bouts’ NSFW video featuring Irish couples having sex

It’s not every week, or every year you see an Irish music video with nudity…

The top 10 tracks of the week & playlist

10 songs you should hear right now… 1. Daniel Avery – ‘Naive Response’ A towering…

Clockwork Noise – ‘The Tourists’

I gave a talk last night about Music In The Digital Age for Budweiser’s Future…

Album of the week: Daniel Avery – Drone Logic

The debut album from London’s Daniel Avery is delightfully out-of-step with what’s going on in…