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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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Madlib, J. Rocc, Chali 2Na live

Despite being vapid for the previous few days due to cold and flu-like symptoms, I…

Plaid in the Post

Something I’ve wanted to do for a good while is present a selection of a…

Weekend Jukebox#2

A selection of nine songs for your weekend delectation. Enjoy. Proving they are definitely old…

Have you heard the new Bloc Party tune?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Bloc Party’s attempt at number one / dancefloor success? The synthetic vocodered vocals suggest…

MJEX on the Radio

John of Messiah J and the Expert was on Breakfast Express with Joe and Keith…

Free and Legal: Herv’s Flot and Retent

Herv’s got a supa dupa new album called Flot and Retent jam packed full of…

The Leaf Label artists /live dates

Along with Lex Records, The Leaf Label has stood out for me this year as…

Win passes to James Chance & Cap Pas Cap

As part of the This is Wanted weekender this weekend, Maximum Joy are having a…

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…