Halves are headlining the Meeting House Square stage at Hard Working Class Heroes tonight where they’ll be playing tracks from their recent Boa Howl album and joined on-stage by Rachael Boyd too. Before that, here’s an excellent Sacred Animals rework of ‘Tanager Peak’ which features Gemma Hayes. Darragh Sacred Animals has turned the original’s graceful slant into something otherworldly and and dreamlike. A very different take on things.

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.