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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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Watch Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly’s Willie Clancy school documentary

Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly filmed this documentary featuring Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh looking at Willie Clancy week…

Shit Robot – ‘Feels Real’ featuring Luke Jenner of The Rapture

The new single from Marcus Lambkin’s Shit Robot finds the trademark disco synth swagger in…

Break Bread – Listen to tracks made by 15 producers from a set of samples & rules

Break Bread is a fortnightly beat cypher challenging numerous producers to make a beat with…

New music picks: Poliça, RDGLDGRN, His Clancyness & Snakehips

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…

Zomby – ‘Soliloquy’

Zomby is back with a new album this year, which will be a sprawling 33-track…

Bjork, Arctic Monkeys, David Byrne And St.Vincent, My Bloody Valentine, The Knife & more for Electric Picnic 2013

Finally, after all the hullabaloo, the Electric Picnic 10th lineup is with us: Bjork, Fatboy…

Last Days Of 1984 – ‘Lost Hearts’

Last week’s Sacred Animals/Last Days Of 1984 collaboration was a right grower. This week, the…

Win tickets to A$AP Rocky in Dublin before they go on general release

Update: these tickets are gone. A$AP Rocky is coming to town on May 24th for…

Mount Kimbie – ‘Made To Stray’ (video)

Any excuse to feature this tune and a half from Mount Kimbie. A trippy video…

Young Wonder – ‘Time’ (video by Feel Good Lost)

Young Wonder’s amazing new single ‘Time’ gets a nice video by Feel Good Lost. The…

Nialler9’s Best New Music weekly

A roundup of 15 tracks featured on and off the blog that have been getting…

New: Quasimoto – ‘Planned Attack’

Lord Quas is baaaack. “The poor-man’s Gorillaz” as Stones Throw sometimes bills him. Sadly though,…

Sinkane – ‘Warm Spell’ (Video)

A man appears in an alternate reality inhabited by foreign terrain and populated by sirens.…

Win tickets to the Camden Crawl Dublin opening night party

The Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin is only one weekend away now. The festival is taking…

Maud In Cahoots – ‘Dance With Me’

I rather like this Maud In Cahoots track primarily because it sounds a bit like…

Kode9 – ‘Xingfu Lu’

The drunken and disorderly Kode9 track ‘Xingfu Lu’ has been floating around for a while…

Celtronic Festival has an impressive electronic lineup

Celtronic 2013 takes place in Derry every year but 2013’s lineup from Wednesday June 26th…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide & Playlist // April 23rd – 29th

Highlights: Egyptian Lover, Solar Bears & Letherette, Chelsea Wolfe, Death Grips, A Hawk And A…

SOHN – ‘Bloodflows’ (video)

He goes by the name of SOHN (pronounced Sonn). His track ‘The Wheel’  was enough to set things…

Janelle Monáe teams up with Erykah Badu on new single ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’

The ArchAndroid is back. Janelle Monae’s new single ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’, is a psychedelic funk cut which…