"...a lightness of touch that makes complex compositions and ideas seem like misty clouds floating around your brain, before you wake up from the dream and realise you have just enjoyed a song about a fairytale monster" - Siobhán Kane on Agnes Obel.
Agnes Obel will play St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny on August 11th as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival, with support from Cian Nugent.
We've a pair of weekend tickets to give away for The Body&Soul Festival which returns to Ballinlough Castle this weekend. The Field, Cloud Castle Lake, Lisa Hannigan, The Jimmy Cake and Holy Fuck are playing, among many others.
The third Bottlenote Festival of improvised music takes place this weekend in Block T, Smithfield.
The BUMP! Muzik Festival in Clare are currently looking for proposals from designers, engineers, artists & assorted other creative types for installations, projections & sculptures for the festival site.
Attention Corkonians: After the success of last year's Cork Rock City compilation, those crazy bastards down at Drop-D.ie are going to do it all over again.
The 2011 Dublin Writers Festival takes place this week, with Pulitzer, Whitbread, Booker, T.S. Eliot , Costa & a pair of Nobel Prize winners among its 43 participating writers.
The Dublin Zine Fair 2011 takes place in Ranelagh Arts Centre on Saturday August 27th.
The initial batch of acts lined up for the 2011 Electric Picnic has been announced (officially, this time).
The full lineup for each night of the FMC Tour 2011 has been announced. Heathers, Adebisi Shank & O Emperor will be joined by Owensie, Norabelle, Carried By Waves, The Crayon Set, Dead Red Light & Eaten By Bears.