Glastonbury lineup: the xx, The Jacksons, Katy Perry, Solange, Lorde, Barry Gibb, RTJ, Haim, Stormzy…

Emily Eavis today tweeted out the first big lineup for Glastonbury’s Worthy Farm this year…

5 acts added to Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit Fruit added some regular visitors to Ireland and some new names to Dublin’s…

Paul Noonan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gavin Glass & more to perform in Kilkenny for Chernobyl anniversary

Paul Noonan (Bell X1), Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gavin Glass, Ollie Cole, and Ian Doyle (The…

Cork festival Townlands Carnival announce first acts: RubberBandits, MC Dynamite, Stomptown Brass, Jack O’Rourke & more

Townlands Carnival returns to Rusheen Farm Estate, Macroom, Co. Cork from July 21st to 23rd…

This Louth Music Society have already been sampled by the xx & Mike Posner in 2017

The Louth Contemporary Music Society are in a rare position. Since the start of the…

The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

Win guestlist here: Thursday: Booka Brass @ The Sugar Club (€17.50) Friday: Out To Lunch with Sassy…

New seaside festival Live On Air announced for Sligo: The Riptide Movement, Rusangano Family, Wyvern Lingo, Meltybrains? , This Side Up

A new festival to take place by the seaside Enniscrone, Co. Sligo has been announced…

Castlepalooza add more acts: Le Boom, Cinema, Hvmmingbyrd, Tu-Ki, Farah Elle, Lumigraph & more

Castlepalooza already announced the first bands and comedy acts for this year’s festival in Charleville Castle,…

The Nialler9 Weekly Cork Gig Guide

WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH: CIT Battle of the Bands Final @ Cyprus Avenue (8pm, €2) The…

Village People, Deacon Blue, Boney M & All Saints are playing the Punchestown Festival

The Punchestown Festival filled that Oxegen-shaped hole on the Irish festival circuit for pure nostalgia…

Pet Shop Boys for Dublin gig

Pet Shop Boys are to play Bord Gais Energy Theatre on Tuesday September 5th in…

Knockanstockan announce gig series in lieu of festival this year

As was announced last year, Knockanstockan is on a fallow year in 2017 but the…

Aspiring Irish women DJs – there’s a day of female/ LGBTQ workshops lined up

Last week, I pointed out the lack of women on a small dance music festival’s…

Electric Picnic 2017: The xx, A Tribe Called Quest, Duran Duran, Chaka Khan & more

Electric Picnic tickets went on sale this morning and all of the tiers are already…

More Musictown shows announced: Daedelus, Richie Jape, Katie Kim, Music Trail, Sounds of the Square

MusicTown 2017 is a 10 day festival happening in Dublin city from April 7th to…

The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

Win Free passes: Saturday: JFDR @ The Sugar Club (€12.50) Saturday: Myles Manley, Strength NIA @ The Workman’s…

Julie Byrne & Nadia Reid for double headline Dublin show

Julie Byrne & Nadia Reid will both play a show together at Whelan’s in Dublin…

Sunflowerfest announce first acts: Rubberbandits, Le Galaxie, Or:La, Ryan Vail, King Kong Company & many more

Northern Ireland’s only three-day music and arts festival Sunflowerfest has announced its first acts headed…

The Nialler9 Weekly Cork Gig Guide

TUESDAY MARCH 21ST: Tunesday @ Mr. Bradley’s (9.30, free) At last – a regular filler…

Magnetic Fields & Kristen Hersh for National Concert Hall’s Perspectives Series

Magnetic Fields and Kristen Hersh (Throwing Muses) are lined up for one and two National…