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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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Introducing…The Cool Kids

Rockin’ a line of hip hop harking back to the days of EPMD and Eric…

Bertie Ahern is a Dirty C**t

Well its election time in Ireland so I felt it was ripe time that the…

Sunday Song Shocka

The Funniest story of the week appeared in the Guardian on Saturday: Radio 1 was…

Super Furries in the Studio

Recording their new album Hey Venus! The first song you hear is the title track.…

Song of the Week – Feist – 1234

I’ve been sick the last few days hence the lack of updates. Dizziness, headaches and…

Gig Madness – May & June

May and June are absolutely jam-packed with Gigs, there’s bound to be a few I’m…

New Beastie Boys Album!

It’s called The Mix-Up and is out on July 10th. It’s an all instrumental album…

Los Cojolites

Nialler tends to sniff out anything truly “fresh” before me, so this piece, like so…

Festival Friday..More Electric Picnic Artists

Forget Lovebox, this is more like it. New Additions ERASURE / MIA / MANIC STREET…

Another Festival?.. Lovebox

LOVEBOX DUBLIN Saturday July 21st, Malahide Castle, Dublin Groove Armada Super Furry Animals The Rapture…

Nine by 9

Here we have 9 songs which have either creeped into my inbox or which I’ve…

New M.I.A – Boyz

Totally awesome annoying dick Zane Lowe had an exclusive first radio play of M.I.A’s “Boyz”…

Justice – D.A.N.C.E video

Impressive t-shirt action you will enjoy if you get a chance to watch this before…

“Use the laughing bits as a tool to get at my genius”

We’ve all met people like this. Those who are so obsessed with their own god-like…

Podcast 002 – April 07

No, it wasn’t a once off. The second nialler9 podcast is here, presented by Aoife…

It takes a Nation of Oprahs…

Since its beginnings in the 70’s, Hip Hop has been scorned and villified in the…

Bjork live on SNL

Some kind of indication of what kind of live setup to expect at Electric Picnic…

Attention! Dry County

Another Irish band who I’m looking forward to releasing their debut album are Dry County.…

TTC playing Dublin in May

French hip hop at its finest (and silliest) TTC will be playing in the Village…

Song of the Week » Maximo Park – Our Velocity

I’ve been playing Maximo Park’s “Our Velocity” from new album Our Earthly Pleasures on repeat…