New Galway festival AISÉIRÍ features Shampain, Just Mustard, One Leg One Eye and more
Galway DJ Shampain curates a one-night festival with promoters Strange Brew this December 21st.
AISÉIRÍ is a new one-day festival happening at Galway’s Leisureland venue before Christmas.
Galway DJ Shampain headlines and the line-up also features Dundalk alt-rock band Just Mustard, experimental Galway producer Olan Monk and Ian Lynch’s trad,drone and noise project One Leg One Eye.
Buy tickets from €26 from Roisin Dubh.
Expect the weird and wonderful in terms of both sight and sound as Salthill’s oldest venue becomes the host for one of the city’s most exciting names in music for quite some time.
Meshing live and electronic sounds together in a big dance hall very much harks back to a particular 90s atmosphere, and despite this obvious cry for nostalgia, AISÉIRÍ comes to fruition with a forward facing lineup of unique Irish talent in the form of Dundalk’s Just Mustard, Galway’s Olan Monk and Dublin’s One Leg One Eye.
Just Mustard’s heady blend of noise, trip hop, and electronic-influenced music has helped them build a reputation as one of Ireland’s most thrilling new bands, both live and on record. Their 2018 debut Wednesday earned acclaim at home and abroad – most notably capturing a RTE Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album of the Year. The band who have previously supported The Cure, wrapped a worldwide tour with Fontaines D.C. and joined Wolf Alice for some dates before finishing the year with their headline, halfway round the world tour of Heart Under. The band’s second album earned them their second nomination for the RTE Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album of the year and was also crowned as Resident Records #1 Album Of The Year.
Olan Monk is a musician, songwriter and performer from Connemara in Galway. Over the past couple of years their music has reached many different corners of the music world, collaborating close to home with the likes of Maria Somerville, while also reaching ears via multiple guest appearances on NTS Radio. Olan’s label, CANVAS, which they co-run alongside experimental producer Lugh, has opened the artist up to many co-conspirators and shows a wide range of audio inspirations that are reflected in their music. The past couple of months have seen them release new music in the shape of a track on Scenic Route’s debut VA release as well as an appearance on Moin’s latest and highly anticipated new album.
One Leg One Eye, the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Irish group Lankum), released the acclaimed debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me on Nyahh Records in 2022. One Leg One Eye explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply imbued with a sense of Irish history and myth. Debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental.
