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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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New Music: Neon Neon – Raquel

Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys are currently mixing their album under the Neon Neon moniker…

Battles – Leyendecker (Remix)

When you first heard Leyendecker from Mirrored, the song already sounded like a leftfield hip…

Arcade Fire presents…

Following on from the bogus website leading to the announcement of a new Radiohead album,…

BSS presents Kevin Drew – Spirit If…

Kevin Drew is a likeable bloke. He asks audience members at gigs to sing for…

HWCH in photos

[kml_flashembed movie=”https://nialler9.com/blog/images/hwch.swf” height=”500″ width=”487″ /] Thanks to photographers who let me use their Hard Working…

Scary Photoshop cover art pt.1

Wowza! Now it’s your turn…

Hard Working Class Heroes review

nialler9 contributor and SEBP member Mike giving it air-tennis socks at HWCH on Friday night.…

Interesting Chart…

According to Alexa, nialler9 is now more popular than hotpress.com. Eoghan is right, online subscription…

New Radiohead album In Rainbows in ten days

Clever boys. I have been hoping that a band would take the album-release process and…

nialler9’s Burfday Mixtape

It’s my birthday today, huzzah! So to celebrate, here is a mix I made recently…

Trailer for what I’ve been working on for the last ten months…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qKb5qU5h7s[/youtube] Wahoo! Finally finished. I did the interactive DVD-Rom part of the project. This is…

Great Prefuse 73 mix

Over at Analog Giant: Brand new Prefuse 73 hip hop mix featuring material off the…

Hit or Miss

This idea is blatantly stolen from Matt at Ear Farm. What it is: Put music…

Free shit! Backlash passes

Photo courtesy of Ian Oliver. Thursday night (27th), Super Extra Bonus Party and Le Bien…

SFA – Run Away video

I love Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. I love Super Furry Animals. So put the two together…

Bonde do Role’s DJ Gorky In-DEED Mix

Last week, DJ Gorky of Bonde do Role played a 37 minute live radio mix…

Feist – Tripod

Back in May, I said (along with plenty of others) that Feist’s new album The…

M83 – Digital Shades

Ambient music. Hmm. After nearly 25 years on this planet, I’m not entirely convinced. Sure,…

The Burning Shoulder..

While talking to Bobby outside Jeffrey Lewis last week, the question of good Irish albums…

Ladies and Gentlemen, Sex Mob…

In which Don momentarily takes a diversion from his Memphis series to talk Jazz. There’s…