Category: Arts & Music
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Artist Showcase: Banríon
This week’s Artist Showcase will take a look at the work of Banríon, a Dublin based indie-rock band. Eric Ryan spoke to members of the band to find out more about the creation of their debut project Airport Dads and their plans for…
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‘The balcony is a place for communication’: Japanese pianist Rie Matsushita on the Italian music movement
TheCiry.ie spoke with the Puglia-based pianist taking on the music industry in Italy at a crucial time
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The 1975 enchant Dublin with a charismatic, colourful and career-spanning set
As British pop-rock band The 1975 descend upon Dublin this week as part of their sold-out tour, TheCity.ie’s Kate Brayden reviews the band’s career-spanning set and triumphant return to the 3Arena.
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What’s lost in Dublin’s move to a more globalised youth culture
Dublin’s contemporary nightlife has seen an invasion of techno, hip-hop, and clubbing, filling the vacuum where traditional music and drinking culture used to be. That being said, I am not against new music in Ireland in any sense. New music is part of…
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The beginning of the end: Extreme music legends Slayer kick off third leg of final world tour in 3Arena
For thirty-seven years double Grammy award winners, Slayer, have pioneered extreme music in the relative mainstream, being one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time. Especially in the early MTV years alongside their contemporaries in Anthrax, Megadeth, and Metallica. Their…
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Annie Mac Claims the Mic as Host of BBC Sound 2018
John Burke covers this year’s BBC Sound to find the music industry’s next big global superstar
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Vinyl comeback seen on Dublin streets
Dublin’s city centre has found itself inundated with the oddest of entrepreneurial ventures over the past few months. Apparently, Dubliners just can’t get enough craft beer, poké, expensive coffee and €3 doughnuts that are packed with enough sugar to induce Type 2 diabetes.…
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Mic Christopher remembered
On the 29th November 2001, Ireland lost one of its most eclectic and talented troubadours. Singer-songwriter Mic Christopher – aged just thirty two – died tragically after an accidental fall on steps in the Netherlands, the same night he opened for his musical…
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Fingal outspend neighbouring county councils in public art
Fingal County Council has spent more on commissioned works of art under the Per Cent for Art scheme than any other suburban county council in Dublin in the past five years. From 2012 to 2017, Fingal County Council spent exactly €327,474 on funding…
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Dude-Fest – Where have all the women gone?
We, as Irish people, love a good festival. Every year we wait patiently for the likes of Electric Picnic or Body & Soul to throw out their ever-expanding lists of who’ll be rocking the fields that summer, before spending the equivalent of a…
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