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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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!Kaboogie Friday night

I nearly didn’t make it to The Bug and Warrior Queen on Friday. Post-work apathy…

Burial new album preview mixed by Kode 9

The enigmatic Burial is about to release his second album Untrue on November 5th. Personally,…

Tonight: The Bug and Warrior Queen

!Kaboogie are back in Traffic tonight with the extra subwoofers for this great lineup. Coming…

Free and Legal: Love Music Hate Racism

Love Music Hate Racism is a UK campaign that brings people together through music to…

Roísín Murphy: Perfect Pop

Roísín Murphy’s second solo album Overpowered was released in Ireland last week and it is…

Mashup: Radiohead vs Eve

Those Hood Internet dudes consistently bend my ear their direction due to the quality of…

Jape – Floating video

While we wait for the rest of the world to catch up with what’s happening…

More Reverse Engineering

Since coming out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago, Reverse Engineering have been rocking…

Super Furry Animals @ Vicar St

“Tonight’s show is dedicated to Elvis Presley..” chuckles Gruff, picking up his guitar ready to…

DJ Robbie Coffey – 12p Mix Up

I asked Robbie to do a mix for nialler9 when he DJed at a recent…

The Hype Machine 2.0

The music blog aggregator The Hype Machine has rolled out a new version of the…

Worst Interview ever

Sigur Ros confirmed that they are indeed mono-syllabic humourless Icelandic entities when they appeared on…

Kevin Drew @ Tripod

Gav was at the Kevin Drew show last night. Here is how his night went…

Sebastien Tellier’s new tune is a monster

As I was compiling tunes for the October podcast over the weekend, I came across…

MIA / Battles mashup by Diplo

Considered to be one of the highlights of Diplo’s recent Pitchfork mix, this mashup of…

Weekender

The weekend was stuffed with gigs mainly thanks to the Green Synergy festival that dominated…

South Park rips on Bono

Finally Bono gets his cartoon comeuppance from the kings of satire, South Park in an…

I can’t f**kin wait for this…

Friday 21st November. Tripod. THE GO! TEAM CADENCE WEAPON SUPER EXTRA BONUS PARTY I cannot…

Shape of Broad Minds – Dublin Nov 9th

Jneiro Jarel and Shape of Broad Minds make their Irish debut on Friday the 9th…

Cian O Ciobhain / Shock Podcast

Great tracklisting on Shock’s new podcast compiled by An Taobh Tuathail/SiSi host Cian O’Ciobhain. Includes…