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INSANE: Lankum - The Real Truth

Poor Creature: All Smiles Tonight review – Lankum and Landless members steep tradition in lightness

Masters of atmosphere, Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody contrast hauntological synths with robust noise on this playful debut

The Guardian - UK

“Ableton allows me more room for playful experimentation - it’s more creatively fulfilling than Logic”: Maria Somerville on the DAWs, uilleann pipes and vintage Korg drum machines behind new album Luster

Danny Turner speaks to Maria Somerville about how collaboration and a longing for home shaped the dreamlike atmospheres of her sophomore full-length

MusicRadar

Fontaines D.C. announce huge Belfast show with local heroes Kneecap

Fontaines D.C. expand their summer tour plans with a second show in Ireland

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"You won’t want to miss the gig of the year." Fontaines D.C. and Lankum will play a one-off Dublin show together next month, and a tickets ballot is now open

Guinness announces Lovely Days Live, a festival weekender featuring "Ireland’s hottest musical talent alongside global sensations"

Louder

Lankum's Hammersmith Apollo show is spellbinding and dread-drenched. What a shame the crowd can't shut the hell up

In spite of their particularly shouty crowd, Lankum give a dazzling performance at their biggest UK show to date

Louder

The autumn gig guide: everything to watch in London

The nights are drawing in? Fend off the chill with some of the capital’s hottest gigs

Evening Standard

Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

This festival of heavier sounds from the fringes was a blast, from chilling Gazelle Twin to Daisy Rickman’s Krautrock-folk, noise icons Melt-Banana and locals Flesh Creep

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Lankum provide “the best folk horror soundtrack never written” at their euphoric, highly-moving Glastonbury set

Irish folk group Lankum give a tear-jerking, intense performance for their Saturday afternoon slot at Glastonbury Festival

Louder

“I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts

Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK

Metal Hammer

The 2024 Ivor Novello nominations for songwriting have been revealed

77 British and Irish songwriters and composers make up this year's nominees, announced tonight at London's Groucho Club

Wallpaper

Who are the new greats of Irish music? Five musicians to watch out for

The world lost three great Irish musicians in 2023: Shane MacGowan, Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Dignam. While their music reflected their individual struggles and resilience, it also grappled with the evolving essence of Irish identity. Their work stands as a reminder of Ireland’s complex history.

The Conversation

Lankum review – more like an exorcism than a gig

The Dublin doom-folk favourites crown a momentous year with a magnificent assault on the senses and a set rich in hypnotic tales of woe

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Radie Peat from Lankum’s cultural highlights

The Irish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist on her favourite tattoo artist, the TV show she watches with her children and a pagan one-man show

The Guardian - UK

‘We’d roll joints and watch Netflix with him!’ Irish folk artists on the creative genius of Shane MacGowan

Lankum, the Mary Wallopers, Lisa O’Neill and John Francis Flynn recall their encounters with late Pogues singer – and explain how his music got to the heart of Irish identity

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ØXN: CYRM review – Irish folk debut full of unsettling dark magic

Featuring grisly trad tales, striking vocals, two members of Lankum and shades of PJ Harvey, this is a compelling record from Claddagh’s first signing for nearly two decades

Evening Standard

Behind the scenes at the Mercury Prize 2023 - ‘My dad jumped on my back, my mum’s crying, it was mad’

Ezra Collective brought the crowd to its feet and showed why they were worthy winners

The Guardian - UK

‘We are extreme’ … how Lankum’s heavy mutant folk made them Mercury favourites

They play 30 instruments between them and make folk songs sound like heavy metal. As their latest album competes for the Mercury music prize, we meet Irish experimental noise-makers Lankum

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor was ‘completely fearless in face of conservative Irish society’

She sparked a ferocious backlash when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US TV show Saturday Night Live in 1992.

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Evening Standard

Mercury Prize 2023: Here’s a breakdown of every nomination, from Arctic Monkeys to Young Fathers

Ezra Collective, Jockstrap, and Shygirl are also standouts from the shortlist

The Guardian - UK

Mercury prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys tie Radiohead’s record for most nominations

There are first-time nods for the likes of Fred Again, Lankum, Jockstrap and Raye, and repeat recognition for acts including J Hus and Jessie Ware

The Guardian - UK

The best albums of 2023 so far

From the unique sonic world of Yaeji to the dark folk music of Lankum, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year

The Guardian - UK

Lankum: False Lankum review – folk radicals get in touch with their softer side

Without diluting their power or abandoning their gothic intensity, the Dublin group’s fourth album lulls the listener with songs of exquisite softness and deeply affecting harmony

The Guardian - UK

One Leg One Eye: And Take the Black Worm With Me review – gorgeousness and menace

Lankum mainstay Ian Lynch’s debut as One Leg One Eye is an immersive world of created sounds and raw, resonant singing

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