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Harmless Noise

A music blog from Ireland.

Harmless Noise

I love Irish music

Harmless Noise documents quality music from all over Ireland on a daily basis. Treat your ears, eyes and mind to the featured tracks, news, videos, upcoming gigs, interviews and much more, carefully compiled with the odd splash of irreverent humour. Maintained by one carefree lady owner. All queries, contact Nay: harmlessnoise@gmail.com

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  • To celebrate that Major Grave has done well and got himself a spot on the newest Big Dada Grime 2.0. compilation, Standard Radio are holding a free night upstairs in Sin É tomorrow night, Saturday 18 May. The only Irish producer in this particular field (and disclaimer here, I don’t know much and welcome more [...]

  • There’s a really good gig on in Whelan’s tonight from a bunch of musicians who do not play on an all-too-regular basis – A Lazarus Soul, The Instructions and The Hedge Schools. They have some seriously impressive collective efforts amongst them. Have a click not just through the embeds below but the full set of [...]

  • Take a minute to let this poster sink in and then er, make time or love for this gig. The most excellent TenPastSeven play a midnight show at Whelan’s this Saturday night 18 May with Family Planning. I may be wrong but it seems like the first Dublin gig for the trio in quite some [...]

  • Video :: Swords

    May 16th, 2013
    Video :: Swords

    Bit NSFW this: in the words of the Internet….that escalated quickly!  The beginning of this video for All The Boys had me groaning slightly thinking that I was going to end up writing about the unacceptable sexual objectification of human beings. And well, the disappointment soon gave way to a very different look of shock. Well [...]

  • A remix like this was always gonna be intuitively good as the bonds between Young Wonder and SertOne are about as tight as they come, with frequent collaborations, such as Rachel guesting the vocals for Breath on the last SertOne EP. I’m a big fan of the nonconformist beatmaker from the North and absolutely adore [...]

  • ‘Viewer discretion advised’ is a very different alert to ‘NSFW’ but I feel obliged to make some mention of a warning because the footage in this video For Ribbons by Decomposing In Paris is the kind that evokes strong feelings. Becca Hopkins sings here, emphasising hope, set to poignant piano and muted but urgent drums [...]

  • A new band for your audio perusal, Shadows and Dust, with a video for Homely Ground. The song is from their first EP Each Year Forever which is released on 7 June and will feature six tracks. The artwork by Hungarian artist Sarolta Bán incorporates photography by Sean Carey, drummer for Bon Iver. I like [...]

  • Welcome back to another month of the MAP mixtape, representing Ireland for May is Rachael Boyd with Aim Too High. I was bowled over by her music after hearing a Sun Glitters remix last month. The original compositions found on her Soundcloud are fascinating to me, and I’m really looking forward to hearing the full [...]

  • The eighth Castlepalooza festival line-up was just announced yesterday. While there are more to be announced, the preliminary line-up already boasts some impressive names. The festival takes place in the grounds of Charleville Castle in Tullamore from 2-4 August. The big draws from international grounds must surely be Ghostpoet, Ceephax Acid Crew, Cymbals, Kutmah and [...]

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  • Interview :: Nick Kelly

    “We will be one big super-ego!” joked Nick Kelly last week when I ask if there’ll be enough room on stage for the collective talents of the Peripheral Visionaries. If Freud’s theory of the psyche proves correct, each member will be both artist and critic, and with Joe Chester, Julie Feeney, Nick Kelly and Sean

    Interview :: Nick Kelly
  • Q&A :: Candice Gordon

    Welcoming the news of an EP release and Irish tour dates. I got in touch with Candice Gordon to ask some quick questions about her music. Over the past year this Berlin-based singer and guitarist has been releasing quality music videos to draw attention to her many-hued, spirited blues rock renditions, the most recent for

    Q&A :: Candice Gordon
  • Interview :: Solar Bears

    A new Solar Bears album Supermigration is here, released today, two years on from the release of She Was Coloured In. That’s a fair stretch in Internet time but it’s surprising how precisely and neatly the band have dropped this second album, a 40-minute, 12-track collection on Planet Mu, the UK label that has released everything Solar

    Interview :: Solar Bears
  • Interview :: Windings

    A long and twisting road has led to this juncture at which the band Windings have just released a third album I Am Not The Crow . I chatted to Steve Ryan last week ahead of a gig in Coleraine, the first leg of their album tour. They play Whelan’s in Dublin this Saturday 8

    Interview :: Windings
  • Gig :: Bouts / Tremoya / Amateur Historians

    Good times and guitars ahead this Saturday for Bouts‘ last gig of 2012. ‘An Evening With Bouts’ will be a special headline show in which they perform all the great catchy songs they’ve put out in the last year, along with a lot of new material they’ve been working on ahead of the second album.

    Gig :: Bouts / Tremoya / Amateur Historians

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  • The eighth Castlepalooza festival line-up was just announced yesterday. While there are more to be announced, the preliminary line-up already boasts some impressive names. The festival takes place in the grounds of Charleville Castle in Tullamore from 2-4 August....

  • Last week I posted the news of Glasgowbury 2013 and the poster’s just been released, showing the Derry festival to be shaping up nicely. Dozens more names are still to be announced but so far the line-up includes ASIWYFA,...

  • This weekend the Camden Crawl takes over Dublin for its second year. Billing itself as a metropolitan springtime festival with 150 music and comedy acts across two days and fifteen venues, the inauguration of the Dublin Crawl was boosted...

  • Just a quick mention of some festival updates that have come in; new additions to the Forbidden Fruit line-up, ticket deals for Body & Soul, a free compilation album from Camden Crawl Dublin, free tickets to the Knockanstockan launch...

  • This July, Glasgowbury returns to Eagle’s Rock and for the first time in its 13 years, the festival will take place over two days. Last night the preliminary line-up was announced and with ASIWYFA, The Answer and The Japanese...

  • Since it was announced that Electric Picnic was definitely going ahead, there’s been fun dreaming up ridiculous billings for the festival (some quite far-fetched fun) but tonight a confirmed line-up for  was announced at the festival launch.  Not the...

  • Festival :: Indiependence

    March 29th, 2013
    Festival :: Indiependence

    On Wednesday night acts for Indiependence 2013 were revealed, bringing some to-be-expected, some interesting and some downright weird names to the Irish festival circuit. It was announced last week that UK chart-toppers Bastille were headlining, and last night followed...

  • Festival :: Forbidden Fruit

    February 28th, 2013
    Festival :: Forbidden Fruit

    Forbidden Fruit has dominated the Irish festival scene for the past couple of years as promoters POD drew in big names for the green city space of the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham over June bank holiday weekend. Yesterday (5...

  • Festival :: Longitude

    February 28th, 2013
    Festival :: Longitude

    Twin to the UK’s Latitude, last week a new three-day, curfewed festival Longitude was announced by MCD. Set in the grounds of Marlay Park in south Dublin, Longitude is well able to take on any competition, with what’s considered...

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