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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The Bug & Warrior Queen interview

A$$Quake are bringing The Bug and Warrior Queen back to Dublin to the new Bodytonic…

Music Alliance Pact – October 08

A monthly feature where music bloggers across the world share a track from their home…

Video: Q-Tip – ‘Move’

Industry rule #4080 /Record company people are shady / So kids watch your back because…

Video: Passion Pit – ‘Sleepyhead’

Amazing video for what is fast becoming my song of the year. Those are real…

The 13 Faces of Lightning Heads

There’s a bit of an Afrobeat resurgence happening lately isn’t there? From the Nigeria Special…

Videos: Death in Vegas

One of my favourite acts of all-time. Watch the videos for ‘Dirt’, ‘Aisha’, ‘Neptune City’…

Music nerds unite! Table Quiz?

The lads from Sugarlips and Egoeccentric are putting on a music quiz this Tuesday night…

Photos: SEBP remix launch

What a night! That was a party. ALT was jammed with 680 people the final…

Friendly Fires and Jape

I finally got around to listening to the Friendly Fires album and I’m enjoying quite…

Kids Rock

If things ever go tits up for Coldplay, here’s the market they can move into.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone new EP

I hate that name. I haaate it. It’s the ultimate “sad-loser-in-his-bedroom-playing-plinky-plonky-music-on-his-keyboard-in-the-dark” stage name. Totally emo.…