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The Gloaming live from The National Concert Hall to be broadcast on Easter Sunday

Footage from the last night of The Gloaming’s five-night residency at The National Concert Hall Dublin earlier this month by filmmaker Philip King will be broadcasted on RTÉ 1 on Easter Sunday, April 1st at 11:05 pm.

“Given the power of The Gloaming’s live performances and the unique relationship between the band and their audience, I’ve long wanted to find a way to capture the energy and beauty on film. I’m delighted to say that we’ve done just that. We were able to take a photograph of this incredible band at a unique moment in time. The Gloaming: Live at the National Concert Hall is something very special.” – Philip King

Posted on March 28th, 2018

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The Gloaming are releasing a live album featuring recordings from their legendary National Concert Hall gigs

The Gloaming will be releasing an album of live recordings taken from two years of their residencies at the National Concert Hall on March 2nd on Real World Records on CD, double LP and digitally.

Anyone who has witnessed the band live can attest to their transcendent playing and it’s even more palpable in the flesh than on record so the decision to release a live album from their landmark gigs makes a lot of sense.

It also makes sense in the way that the band – and they are, lest we forget, Iarla Ó Lionáird (Voice), Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (Hardanger d’Amore), Dennis Cahill (Guitar), Martin Hayes (Fiddle) and Thomas Bartlett (Piano) work. This is a group whose music and tunes in recorded form were and are snapshots of a time, and their classical/contemporary/trad songs are constantly in a dialogue with itself, stretching, elongating and morphing over time.

The live recordings on this album to come are just that – snapshots of a group at a height they don’t look likely to come down from.

The album also marks their upcoming sold out NCH dates on March 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, their only live appearances of 2018.

At Nialler9, you can hear a sneaky first listen to the live album’s opening track ‘The Booley House’.

Pre-order

Posted on February 2nd, 2018

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The Gloaming announce their only live shows for 2018 worldwide in Dublin

The Gloaming have announced a 4-night residency at the National Concert Hall for
March 2018, which will be their only live shows worldwide in 2018.

The dates are 5-8 March and tickets are on sale Friday 17 November at 10am priced from €40 + fees from all Ticketmaster outlets or from the National Concert Hall.

This year’s run of 7 shows were instant sellouts so be quick.

Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill recently released an album with a Quartet and Thomas Bartlett produced Adrian Crowley’s new album. Iarla with Eighth Blackbird, Dan Trueman and Paul Muldoon worked as Olagon and Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh released a new album with This Is How We Fly.

The last Gloaming album was 2016.

Posted on November 10th, 2017

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The Gloaming announce 3 more Dublin shows for 2017

After selling out their first run of shows for 2017, The Gloaming have announced three more shows for the National Concert Hall from March 6th to 8th next year. These seven shows will be their only Dublin shows next year.

The band’s second album was premeried here earlier this year.

Tickets are €35+ fees and go on sale Tickets tomorrow, Wednesday 5th October at 10am.
Get them from:

  • NCH Box Office (Open 10am-6pm daily)
  • Via Telephone at +353 (0) 1 417 0000
  • Online from www.nch.ie

SATURDAY 11 MARCH – SOLD OUT
SUNDAY 12 MARCH – SOLD OUT
MONDAY 13 MARCH – SOLD OUT
TUESDAY 14 MARCH – SOLD OUT

Posted on October 4th, 2016

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The Gloaming are back in the National Concert Hall for a run in 2017

The Gloaming will return to the National Concert Hall for a run of shows in March 2017 from Saturday 11th March to Tuesday 14th of March. These shows will be their only Dublin shows next year.

The band’s second album was premeried here earlier this year.

Tickets from €35+ fees go on sale at 10am on Friday 30 September.

Get them from:

  • NCH Box Office (Open 10am-6pm daily)
  • Via Telephone at +353 (0) 1 417 0000
  • Online from www.nch.ie

Posted on September 23rd, 2016

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The Gloaming to play the gloaming hour at Body&Soul

The Gloaming have been announced to play at at twilight (otherwise known as gloaming) on the Friday of Body&Soul.

It will be the band’s first ever outdoor festival show in Ireland and I can’t think of a better place for the band to play than that main stage on the summer solstice weekend.

Festival director Avril Stanley said:

“We have long harboured an ambition to present The Gloaming at Body&Soul and we are thrilled that they will join us this Summer Solstice. Body&Soul’s June timing is aligned with the ancient Celtic Solstice tradition and The Gloaming’s stunning, virtuosic talent will be a fitting complement to this special time. Even more special for our audience is that their sets takes place during the actual gloaming; that spectacular time before dark when the sky is still illuminated though the sun has set.”

The Gloaming released their superb second album earlier this year and it was premiered in full here first.

There aren’t many tickets left for the festival now.

Posted on June 1st, 2016

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Body&Soul add The Gloaming, Hudson Mohawke, Neon Indian, Gold Panda and more

Body&Soul have announced their second round of acts today to add to a lineup that includes Santigold, St. Germain, Mercury Rev, Wolf Parade, Floating Points and more.

Heading to the Summer Solstice music, arts and culture festival in Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath from June 17 – 19th are:

The Gloaming at Body & Soul outdoors will be only magic.

Tickets

Body&Soul operates a 5 Tier Ticket system for Weekend Camping Tickets. Tiers 1-4 have now sold out. Tier 5 tickets are now go on sale. Tickets can be paid for in instalments – 50% payable on booking, 50% taken on June 1st.

General and *Family Weekend Tickets:
Tier 5 €169.50 incl booking fee

Combined Weekend & Bus (return from Dublin) Tickets:

Tier 5 €198.50 incl booking fee

All via Ticketmaster.

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Posted on March 30th, 2016

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Album of the week: The Gloaming – 2

This weekend, and part of the next week, The Gloaming will take up a sold out five-night residency in the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Arriving just in time for those performances, is album number two from an international band with an Irish heart, a trad band with a contemporary worldview.

Together, fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh, pianist Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and Chicago-born guitarist Dennis Cahill weave music that crosses genre boundaries between Irish trad, contemporary classical and ambient music.

Recorded in Real World Studios in December, The follow up to that Choice Music Prize-winning first album, this second album was recorded live in a short time period of five days (as was the first).

The pleasing aspect of album two is that snapshot feel. The dynamic between the musicians has strengthened resolving in a recording that is more confident in its purpose yet also content to not cover over the arrangements with too much distraction, allowing the rich emotion in the music to dominate.

The band have stated in the past that the recordings are often a starting point for what comes after – the live performances. The songs have found themselves stretched, elongated and changed from its origins. Album two finds these songs in a spacious setting.

When you have seasoned players who have such talent and put that to alchemic use, the songs are always in transition, living, morphing and being interpreted. The songs take the tradition (‘Repeal The Union’, ‘Slán le Máighe’, ‘Casadh an tSúígáin’) but go outside the boundaries in interpreting it.

Ó Lionáird’s vocals add grace and warmth, the fiddles emote to the heart, the piano and guitar support and nourish these songs. This is a five-way process, as heard on first single ‘Fainleoig’.

This is the sound of five great musicians playing to best of their abilities. The best part? The best versions of these tunes may be yet to come.

Hilary White’s interview for State with the band is well worth a read by the way.

The Gloaming 2 – Tracklist

1. The Pilgrim’s Song
2. Fáinleog (Wanderer)
3. The Hare
4. Oisin’s Song
5. The Booley House
6. Repeal the Union
7. Casadh an tSúgáin
8. The Rolling Wave
9. Cucanandy
10. Mrs Dwyer
11. Slán le Máighe
12. The Old Favourite

Posted on February 24th, 2016

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Watch The Gloaming perform ‘The Pilgrim’s Song’ live at Real World Studios

The Gloaming are one of the best bands around but live, is where they really ignite.

Ahead of the February 26th release of their second album, and following on from the new tune ‘Fáinleog (Wanderer)’.

For this video performance captured in December, we get the best of both worlds with the performance in Real World Studios, the one that ended up on the album as the opener.

Posted on February 4th, 2016

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Hear the new single from The Gloaming – ‘Fáinleog (Wanderer)’

The Gloaming’s second album, simply titled The Gloaming 2 will be released on February 26th on Real World Records.

The contemporary trad supergroup, fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh, sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, pianist Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), and Chicago-born guitarist Dennis Cahill, reconvened in December to record the album and ‘Fáinleog (Wanderer)’, the album’s first sound exemplifies the band’s beatific rich music that crosses the border between Irish trad, contemporary classical and modern spatial textures.

‘Fáinleog (Wanderer)’:

It’s the followup to their Meteor Choice Music Prize winning debut.

Bartlett, with help from Glen Hansard covered David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ in tribute to the great man this week:

The Gloaming 2 – Tracklist

1. The Pilgrim’s Song
2. Fáinleog (Wanderer)
3. The Hare
4. Oisin’s Song
5. The Booley House
6. Repeal the Union
7. Casadh an tSúgáin
8. The Rolling Wave
9. Cucanandy
10. Mrs Dwyer
11. Slán le Máighe
12. The Old Favourite

Tour dates

ON TOUR in the United Kingdom/Ireland 2016
26 February London – Union Chapel SOLD OUT
27, 28 February; 1, 2 & 3 March 2016 – Dublin – The National Concert Hall SOLD OUT
21 September Bristol – Colston Hall
22 September London – Royal Festival Hall
23 September Manchester – Bridgewater Hall
24 September Edinburgh – Usher Hall
25 September Birmingham – Symphony Hall
All shows on sale now

Posted on January 14th, 2016

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The Gloaming announce two Dublin shows & album #2

The Gloaming will play two shows at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on February 27th (Friday) and 28th (Sunday) next year, following a London show at Union Chapel on the 26th.

Tickets for all shows will be on sale on Friday 25 September at 10am priced at €27.50 – €32.50 plus fee.

They will be releasing their second Gloaming album around then. More news as we get it.

Posted on September 22nd, 2015

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Sounds from a Safe Harbour curated by Bryce Dessner of The National for Cork

Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a new festival put together by Cork Opera House’s Mary Hickson with curated lineup by Bryce Dessner of The National taking place around the city of Cork from September 17th to 20th.

Billed as a festival of music, art and conversation, music will come from The Gloaming, Julianna Barwick, My Brightest Diamond, Sam Amidon, a collaboration between Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner, New York So Percussion and Nadia Sirota, a bunch of Icelandic artist including composer Valgeir Sigurðsson, Amiina, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kjartan Sveinsson, Skúli Sverrisson and the record label Bedroom Community; This Is How We Fly; English organist James McVinnie, Donal Dineen, Crash Ensemble, Eat My Noise and more.

Wave Movements – a new composition by Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire will be the focal point of Sounds from a Safe Harbour. It will be performed at Cork Opera House by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and accompanied with film by the celebrated Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Many of the events are inspired by the “harbour environs, themes of waves, water and movement.”

There will be screenings of Sigur Ros’ ‘Heima’ and The National’s ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ with conversations and a music trail to be announced. Cork Opera House, The Everyman Palace Theatre, UCC, Port of Cork, Triskel Christchurch, Firkin Crane, Crawford Art Gallery, Wandesford Quay Gallery and Sternview Gallery are some of the venues involved.

Tickets on sale from May 21 with more announcements in June.

“Sounds from a Safe Harbour has grown exponentially from my initial conversation with Mary Hickson into a huge, imaginative celebration and contextualisation of the initial idea alongside the port aspects of Cork,” says curator Bryce Dessner. “Rolling with the water, wave and sea themes, we decided to look to the river, the harbour and the port in making Sounds from a Safe Harbour. I’m especially looking forward to bringing ‘Wave Movements’ to Cork and performing it along with another composition of mine entitled ‘St. Carolyn by the Sea’, which myself and my brother Aaron will perform live the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.

“Collaboration is a huge part of my own practice and I enjoy very much exploring cross genre engagement. We have injected this energy into our festival and will be presenting music, art, film, conversation, dance and food across the weekend. The unifying factor being the music, this is the special glue that brings Sounds from a Safe Harbour home.”

Posted on May 7th, 2015

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The Gloaming win the Choice Music Prize Irish Album of The Year

Congrats to The Gloaming for winning the Choice Music Prize – Irish Album of The Year award last night. Their self-titled beautiful album is rich with true artistry which takes something traditional and makes it anew. A modern Irish classic and a deserved winner.

For winning, The Gloaming received a cheque for €10,000, a prize which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) – as well as a specially-commissioned award.

RTE 2 Television will broadcast a one-hour highlights programme of the Meteor Choice Music Prize on Sunday March 8th at 10.50pm.

Listen to the magic they can make…

Also for a bonus video, watch Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Martin Hayes teach Jeremy Irons how to play fiddle:

Posted on March 6th, 2015

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Listen to the Nialler9 TXFM new music 2015 special show

The first Nialler9 show of 2015 was broadcast last Thursday at 10pm on TXFM. The two hour show leaned forward and featured some of the best new music coming out in the first months of the new year: from All We Are to Emmy The Great; Laura Marling to Jape, Marina & The Diamonds to Lapsley, Dan Deacon to Panda Bear. HAve a listen below.

You can listen live on Thursdays to the show on 105.2FM, online, the iOs app, Android app or if you missed it, along with all the other shows, via the listen back section

https://soundcloud.com/nialler9/nialler9-txfm-show-jan-8th-new-music-2015

Tracklisting

Tennis – ‘I’m Callin’
All We Are – ‘Feel Safe’
Jape – ‘Seance Of Light’
Laura Marling – ‘Short Movie’
Emmy The Great -‘Swimming Pool’
Real Lies – ‘World Peace’
Purity Ring – ‘Push Pull’
Ibeyi – ‘Mama Says’
Oh Wonder – ‘The Rain’
Jessica Pratt – ‘Back, Baby’
Marina and The Diamonds – ‘Happy’
Hinds – ‘Between Cans’
Girlpool – ‘Blah Blah Blah’
The Drink – ‘Microsleep’

Kanye West – ‘Only One’ (feat. Paul McCartney)
D’Angelo – ‘Ain’t That Easy’
Meltybrains? – ‘IV’
Shamir – ‘On the Regular’
Hayden James – ‘Something About You’
GL – ‘Take Me Back’
KStewart – ‘Close Enough’
Eaves – ‘Timber’
C Duncan – ‘For’
iZem – ‘Sadeo’ (feat. Feather)
Lapsley – ‘Brownlow’
Dan Deacon – ‘Feel the Lightning’
Panda Bear – ‘Boys Latin’

https://soundcloud.com/nialler9/nialler9-txfm-show-jan-8th-new-music-2015

Posted on January 12th, 2015

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