In 1998 Eden debuted amid a shroud of Boybands and bubblegum pop. Then known as In Utopia, the band toured the 2fm Beat On The Street and supported Boyzone on their UK & Ireland tour while flying back and forth throughout Europe where they toured extens...

 

Jack Beats are a multiple DMC award winning DJ duo made up of Niall Dailly (DJ Plus One of Scratch Perverts fame) and Ben Geffin (The Mixologists). They have had an immediate and profound effect on the club scene since teaming up back in 2007; producing transcendent remixes for La Roux and Florence & The Machine amongst others and releasing their genre bending ‘U.F.O’ EP on Hervé’s Cheap Thrills label. Citing influences as diverse as Timbaland, A Guy Called Gerald and Sebastian, the two began to hone a style fusing elements of House, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and Dubstep with old school Electro and Baltimore, emerging with what became the signature Jack Beats sound.

 

Known as Andreas Meid to his mother, D.I.M. began making music little over five years ago yet has been steadily gaining support from the usual suspects; Erol Alkan, Tiga & Felix Da Housecat all heavily pushed his collaboration with TAL, 'Lyposuc' to make it a huge track in 2009. As a founder member of Boysnoize Records he has released a plethora of worldwide floor fillers such as ‘Is You’, 'Airbus' and 'Sysiphos'. As well as 'Don't Go' produced with Boys Noize under the name 'Puzique' His remixography is highly impressive. Taking the scalpel to acts Diplo, The Presets, Chromeo, A.C Slater & Project Basslne as well as providing a more dancefloor friendly take on popier tracks from Florence & The Machine, La Roux & Lady Sovereign. He's also remixed our very own Jape's anthem 'Floating'.

 

MEET THE STARS of the Absolut Gay Theatre Festival Dublin in a night of Celebration at the 2010 Gala Concert and Absolut Awards Ceremony. Special Guests and Presenters will be on hand as selected highlights are highlighted of the numerous productions in this year's Gay Theatre Festival.

 

Seated show.

 

CocoRosie's fascination with combining things that clash continues to drive their process in both song and production. Their current creative environments range from hi-fi studios to simple field recordings (i.e. dolphin and whale sounds). Some inspirations to their hearts at the moment are Cher, Beethoven and finding true love's kiss.

 

Best known for her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.

 

Magda & Sebo K have been filling clubs & entertaining crowds around the world with their brand of innovative forward thinking techno. We've united them for what promises to be one of the biggest nights of techno seen in Dublin for quite a while. Coming into the mix under the encouragement and instruction of Dan Bell and Claude Young, Magda began DJing in 1996 working her way through the underground party circuit, via promoters, such as: Syst3m, and joining the all female DJ collective: Women on Wax, it was only a short while before she began appearing regularly at Detroit area events and clubs. 1999 saw Magda's initial forays into techno, electro and house evolve. Her DJ sets were becoming increasingly minimal and the records in her box reflected a love of weird, challenging music. Invited by Richie Hawtin to open for him at his millennium celebration: Epok, Magda was entering a new phase in her career. The second part of this double bill, Sebo K is a resident at Berlin's esteemed Watergate club has become an unstoppable force in the electronic music scene. Alongside his now timeless original productions, Sebo has done remixes for some of the most respected labels and artists on the planet including Poker Flat, Mule Electronic, Radioslave, and Efdemin. Meanwhile, his tracks have appeared on a nearly uncountable number of compilations and mixes by DJs such as M.A.N.D.Y., Richie Hawtin, Steve Bug, Dennis Ferrer, Loco Dice, and Dixon. His love for deep house combined with his ability to transition seamlessly between minimal techno and straight house.

 

‘Songs From The Red Room’ is the first Shakespears Sister album for over a decade. Siobhan Fahey returns to a pop landscape that has dramatically changed during her career of more than 20 years, and yet this album represents a female pop icon at the top of her game, as effortlessly innovative and exciting as any of her contemporaries.

 

Unlike many of their more club-bound colleagues, Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown have roots planted firmly in American electro.

 

A tribute to the Smiths/ Morrisey.

 

Album launch "Dreams in America".

 

Hosted by Martin Donohoe

 

Kevin Doherty is a Donegal-born singer-songwriter. 'Telegraph' is his new album.

 

In the Summer of 1979 former 'Tír Na Nóg' songwriter Sonny Condell (Vocals / Guitar) was sharing a flat in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin with Greg Boland (Guitarist), whom he had befriended during the recording of 'Camouflage', his debut solo album on the Mulligan label. They were joined around this time by Philip King (Vocals / Harmonica) who, having decided to quit teaching for a carreer in music, had also become their flatmate. Greg had just left 'Stagalee' and they began doing some informal gigs together in the local art college and 'The Meeting Place'. Philip had also approached Mulligan with the aim of securing a solo album deal but, as the trio's performances were being well received, the idea of combining the approach to Mulligan as a group became an attractive alternative. All that was needed was a collective name...

 

Former e.s.t bassist

 

Free admission before €10.

 

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (previously A Silver Mt. Zion, The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Choir and Thee Silver Mountain Reveries) have had many names, which just about says everything you need to know. Odd, but worth it.

 

The issues touched on, while sensitive, are more social than political on this occasion. The world DIEUDONNÉ portrays here represents a return to his earlier apolitical comedic roots.

 

The issues touched on, while sensitive, are more social than political on this occasion. The world DIEUDONNÉ portrays here represents a return to his earlier apolitical comedic roots.

 

The issues touched on, while sensitive, are more social than political on this occasion. The world DIEUDONNÉ portrays here represents a return to his earlier apolitical comedic roots.

 

The issues touched on, while sensitive, are more social than political on this occasion. The world DIEUDONNÉ portrays here represents a return to his earlier apolitical comedic roots.

 

Filthy Dukes introduce themselves: "We are Filthy Dukes. We were DJs, now we are a band and DJs and also producers. It was just Olly and Tim playing records, it sometimes still is in fact, then we started to work with Mark to make music. We have made a debut album, Nonsense In The Dark that's out right now. We have also released some singles and done a bunch of remixes so keep an ear and eye out because they're all rather splendid."

 

MC Eric Lalor & Paul Currie

 

Hadouken! return with their hugely-anticipated second album, ‘For The Masses’, on January 25 2010. The follow-up to 2008’s ‘Music For An Accelerated Culture’, their 100,000 selling debut album, ‘For The Masses’ was recorded in Groningen, Holland with gilded Dutch electronic producers Noisia and is released on Hadouken!’s own Surface Noise Recordings. ‘For The Masses’ is a landmark modern dance-rock album that cements Hadouken!’s reputation as Britain’s most forward-thinking and dynamic young band. “We know what our fans want,” says singer James Smith.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

Featuring: Cormac Breathnach Martin Dunlea And many more...

 

Sidney Samson, one of the biggest Dj’s in the world right now and creator of the chart-topping RIVERSIDE is coming to The Button Factory for his DEBUT Irish Dj set on March 5th. Support for one of the pioneers of Dutch House, comes from the rising star of the Irish dance scene, Lorcan Mak.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

DownTownSounds celebrates it's 9th Birthday at Nightflight on Friday the 26th of February and they have invited one of their all time favourite djs and a regular at their parties in Ri Ra back in the day, Maurice Fulton, to select the music on the night.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

The band Search was created in 1981 by five Malaysian youths from the southern state of Johor, who started off playing their particular brand of rock music in a number of clubs around Kuala Lumpur. Widely acknowledged as being the band most responsible for increasing the popularity of the rock music genre in Malaysia, Search has earned a dedicated and consistent following among many Malaysians worldwide, one that seems only to grow in strength year-on-year. However, neither the band’s music nor following is exclusive; they cross language and cultural barriers, and music lovers from all over the world constitute a growing fan base.

 

“The song conjures up some deep emotions about love lost and chances missed, things that might have been but never were and is quite heart-wrenching really, if you can listen to this song and not feel anything then you have no soul.” - Rawkstar.net

 

Eddi Reader's sixth solo album, follows one of the most successful records of her near-quarter century career. Though she has always dipped into traditional song - The Blacksmith from her beautiful debut solo record Mirmama; I Loved A Lad; Ay Fond Kiss and Jock O'Hazeldean with Fairground Attraction, the band that made her a star - this was something different: an album of songs by Robert Burns that came about almost by accident , became a word-of-mouth hit and soundtracked her long-come return home to Scotland.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

Dutch legends The Ex, will be bringing making an appearance in Dublin as part of a very special one off tour "The Ex + Brass Unbound". The show will see the band cut loose with a rhythmic and propulsive set, enlisting four world-class horn players to make up Brass Unbound: Swedish force of nature Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone), Chicago jazz heavyweight Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Italian wild card Roy Paci (trumpet) and boundary busting classical futurist Wolter Wierbos (trombone).

 

Andreas Meid, D.I.M. to you and me, began producing in 2005. Since then as a founder member of Boys Noize Records, he has released worldwide floor fillers such as ‘Is You’, “Airbus” and ‘Sysiphos”. Most recently his latest single ‘Lyposuct’, featured heavily in summer festival sets from the likes of Felix Da Housecat, Boys Noize, 2 Many Djs, Erol Alkan and Tiga. D.I.M is renowned for highly energetic Dj performances.

 

With Mark Little. Second Republic: A New Constitution for Ireland? With a panel including Brendan Halligan, chairman of the Institute of International and European Affairs; lecturer and columnist with The Irish Times, Elaine Byrne; Senator Rónán Mullen; and one of Ireland’s foremost constitutional experts Gerard Hogan SC. There will also be entertainment of a political and scandalous hue from Paddy Cullivan and The Emergency: Live.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

It was the renowned BBC DJ John Peel who in 1972 gave Finbar Furey and his brother Eddie their big break by voting their combination of uilleann pipes and guitar as act of the year. When the younger brothers Paul and George joined the fold, several years later, The Fureys enjoyed a string of best-selling records all over the world. With Finbar as lead singer, songs such as ‘When You Were Sweet Sixteen’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Green Fields of France’, ‘Red Rose Café’ and ‘The Lonesome Boatman’ established them as one of the most popular acts to come out of Ireland. They became one of the first Irish folk groups to play on Top of the Pops.

 

Lorcan McDonnell AKA 'Lorcan Mak' was born in 1989 in Dublin. He began DJing in 2002 and first took an interest in producing around the year 2004. His love for music began at an early age, experimenting with many musical instruments as a child. But in the end he chose the computer as his way to create music. Self taught in most industry standard DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), Lorcan is renowned for his super clean, Techno Fuelled, House productions and his sub crushing DJ sets.

 

You’ll be spoilt for choice in The Button Factory on Friday night with three must see acts taking to the stage. Niamh de Búrca has toured extensively in Northern Spain with Callino and has also sung in Estonia, and at the L’imaginaire Irlandaise Festival in France. She was the featured singer in the critically acclaimed stage show ‘Ragús’ in Galway. Mick O’Brien learned the Uilleann pipes in the renowned Piper’s Club, Thomas Street, Dublin. His first teachers included Leon Rowsome and Seán Seery. Mick has performed with various groups including Eurovision winners Secret Garden. Mark Kelly is a long-standing member of the world-famous Altan.

 

Since he burst onto the scene in 2005 with the oddball classic ‘Deep Throat’ Barclay Crenshaw, aka Claude VonStroke has risen rapidly to very top of the DJ/Producer spectrum. His early productions, ‘Chimps ‘, ‘The Whistler’ and of course the mighty ‘Who’s Afraid Of Detroit’, were a true breath of fresh air amongst the stifling onslaught of minimal. Its not too big a statement, to say that it was these releases, with their inspired construction, crazy samples, and heavy basslines that really brought ‘fun’ back to the world’s dancefloors at a time when its was deemed ‘cool’ to be moody.

 

Mary McPartlan and multi-instrumentalist Rick Epping kick off Thursday night’s performance at the Button Factory. They will be followed on stage by Matt Molloy, John Carty and Arty McGlynn. Master Concert Flute Player, Matt Molloy played with supergroups; The Bothy Band and Planxty. Since 1979 the virtuoso flute player has been a member of The Chieftains. Fiddle master, John Carty was born in London. He is a member of At the Racket and Patrick Street who tour internationally. Both John and Matt were awarded the TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year awards.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

Featuring John Spillane with: Conal O Grada, Johnny McCarthy, Colm Murphy, Gearoid O'Duinnin... plus surprise guests.

 

It will cost a meager €10 and you will be treated to a fantastic line up of music while every euro you pay will go directly to Partners in Health, one of the best charities working in Haiti, having been based there for 20 years. They employ local people and have medical centers set up all over the country. 94% of money donated to them goes directly towards aid programs.

 

Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

 

80s Vs 90s. Two DJs. Two channels.

 

In 1981, just 5 years before his untimely demise, Thin Lizzy legend, Phil Lynott, asked long-time friend Smiley Bolger to, “Do a vibe for me sometime”. Bolger, a DJ and Promoter, had just won the Alternative Eurovision Song Contest and Philo (as Smiley called him) loved the idea. This throwaway remark would spark the longest running annual commemoration in rock music history, held in Dublin each year on the anniversary of Philo's death. The band Philip fronted, Thin Lizzy, has been an insurmountable inspiration to musicians worldwide. Their hugely unique twin guitar sound has been emulated, but never surpassed. His words, whether spoken or sung, are a heartwarming reminder of the depth of his character and show a poignancy and depth matched only by his wicked sense of humour. Each year, on the anniversary of Philo's death, people from around the world gather in Dublin to pay respect to The Rocker at The Vibe For Philo. Standing shoulder to shoulder are the 'older crowd' of Philo's friends and contemporaries beside the next generation of musicians, artists and fans who help keep those memories alive...

 

This year's DEAF Festival's opening night has the honour of presenting the debut Irish performance of the wonderful Soap & Skin, aka eighteen year old Anja Plaschg. Having grown up on a pork farm in the small village of Gnas in rural Austria, Anja's spellbinding live performances have been stunning Audiences and filling concert halls across Europe. She performs alone, with a grand piano and electronics, her breathtaking vocal's displaying a depth of talent rarely seen in such a young artist.