This weekend marks marks the 50th anniversary of Woodstock – the legendary festival that welcomed 500,000 revellers to upstate New York for ‘Three Days of Peace and Music’. For those that

Beatyard 2019 takes place at Dun Laoghaire Harbour this Saturday and Sunday, with Groove Armada, Chvrches, Jungle, Grandmaster Flash, Greg Wilson and a host of others set to keep the

For those of us unlucky not to get a ticket to this year’s Glastonbury Festival, the next couple of days will likely bring plenty of wine-fuelled cursing at BBC’s coverage

Following its inaugural jaunt across the Irish Sea in June 2000, Creamfields Ireland 2001, which took place on this day (23 June), 18 years ago, stepped things up with an

It’s been said that in this era of Trump, Brexit et al, that politics is beyond satire. In the realm of Electronic Dance Music (or should that be Event Driven

Today, 25 September, marks 19 years since a festival that marked a turning point in dance music in Ireland… Homelands Ireland 1999. Taking place at Mosney Holiday Centre, Co. Meath,

The great Feargal Quinn, arguably Ireland’s finest retailer, calls it the ‘Boomerang Principle’. It’s a simple premise. Put as much effort as you can (within reason) in to ensuring that

Ok, I admit it, I was a bit apprehensive going into this year’s Electric Picnic festival… The initial lineup announcement earlier this year – featuring pop heavyweights such as Dua

I’ve written in the past on this blog about how the EDM scene (the hyper-commercialised, Instagram-friendly variant of trance music) has become, in many ways, a parody of itself, with

There are just days to go until the World Cup kicks off in Russia this Thursday, and while a number of the acts performing at the event at Moscow’s Luzhniki