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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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Nadia Ksaiba – ‘Virtual Lover’

Nadia Ksaiba is a London-based DJ on NTS where her Rhythm Connection show with Dan…

Hunters Moon Festival takes place this weekend

Hunters Moon Festival is a three-day indoor festival which explores and celebrates the world of…

Premiere: Bouts – Nothing Good Gets Away (album stream)

Bouts are a Dublin rock band made up of Barry Bracken (Vocals, Guitar), Colin Boylan…

First listen: Arcade Fire – Reflektor

Yesterday I had the opportunity to hear the fourth Arcade Fire album Reflektor in full.…

Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind (review)

Perhaps ill-advisedly, Kieran Hebden, having just finished his latest album in June took to Twitter…

Playlist: Tracks of the week #18

New songs you should hear this week… This week’s new music is very Irish-heavy with…

Intro: Ghost Maps – Halfset’s Jeff Martin’s new project

Instrumental Dublin band Halfset are by now, a band pretty much considered defunct and with…

Premiere: The Mighty Stef – Iveagh Flats EP

Stefan Murphy’s name is the title but The Mighty Stef are very much a band…

Aoife Underwater – ‘You Didn’t Break’

Here’s a musician who I featured three years back who went quiet shortly afterwards. The…

Win tickets to Shangaan Electro in The Sugar Club

A special South African dance music event this Thursday night, October 17th presented by U:mack,…

Alarmist – ‘Bunda Internacionale’

Dublin band Alarmist have been quiet since last year’s live dates. The band’s debut EP…

James Vincent McMorrow – ‘Cavalier’

With James Vincent McMorrow’s second album Post Tropical on the way in early 2014 (January…

Dioscó Na mBó – ‘Brassanova’

While the name conjures up some sort of novelty Irish language Studio 54-loving mad cows…

Intro: aMinus – Kool Thing drummer’s electro-pop project

Valentin Plessy is best known to us as the drummer for Kool Thing or if…

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

The 7-day gig guide to Dublin music and events.

Watch Sleep Thieves’ one-shot video for ‘Sparks’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBXKd_NFNIo&feature=youtube_gdata_player The video for Sleep Thieves’ song Sparks‘ by Neil Hoare keeps it simple by…

Spies – ‘November Sun’

Dublin rock band Spies received a hige amount of attention for their superb single ‘Distant…

Ben Bix – ‘Meiji Cloud’ (video)

Ben Bix is a singer, musician and producer who also plays in Dublin band Meltybrains?…

Birthday Sex – ‘Wurp’

Tom and Harriet are a London duo that make up Birthday Sex, a wonky electronic…

Replete – ‘Never This Way’

I’ve been keeping an ear to Kilkenny man Pete Lawlor’s aka Replete’s productions for a…