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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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Bloggers, Journalists and Remixers on The Indie Hour

Aoife has just uploaded last week’s two hour Indie Hour special which features appearances from…

Ponytail last night

Last night in Whelans was awesome. €14 for 4 bands, roughly 200 minutes of music.…

Ladyhawke – Album Megamix

Did you enjoy ‘Paris is Burning’ from our most recent Podcast by New Zealand’s Ladyhawke?…

Ponytail tonight

With R.S.A.G, Gentle Friendly and The Vinny Club, Whelans, €14. I haven’t looked forward to…

New Madlib – ‘The Ox’

We know Madlib releases a new album every month at this stage so let’s get…

Roll Up Your Sleeves: The DIY Counterculture

A trailer for an Irish documentary exploring DIY culture and ideas is now up. The…

Chris Morris – ‘Motherbanger’ (Pixies parody)

Staying with the archive theme for another post, how about this splendid Pixies parody by…

Jape covers Toto’s ‘Africa’

Richie Egan has bestowed upon us his inspired cover of that seminal 1982 paean ‘Africa’…

Sweet sweet Trinidad

Last month, there was activity on The Avalanches myspace page that suggested that the near-nine…

State v2.0 – Get Busy

I’ve been working all day and night on this. A new site with an important…

Electric Picnic in Videos

Some clips from the weekend. Please share your links and finds in the comments. Dan…

Electric Picnic in Photos

What a weekend! Full report coming. Here is the result found on my camera when…

Electric Picnic Mixtape

A mixtape of 17 artists playing Electric Picnic this weekend. ZIP file available also. YAY!…

nialler9 Podcast #18: Aug 08

This is the soundtrack to your weekend. Whether that is driving down to the Picnic…

Unknown Pleasures #4

In an effort to shine a light on the unknown artists and songs that pass…

It’s a re-up

Looks like the server issues have been taken care of and the site is back.…

I’m going to sing Mariah Carey’s ‘Ken Lee’…

 

Monkey – Journey to the West

Monkey the album – the latest installment in the collaboration between Damon Albarn and Jamie…

This tune has been taking off…

I’m starting to hear it in DJ sets and record shops now. It’s got a…

The Catchup Mashup – August 20th

I’ve done a few of these before but I want to be Damien Mulley so…