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RTÉ News
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Sligo's Love Is A Stranger festival announces full line-up
Susan O'Neill, God Knows, RÓIS, and Negro Impacto are among the acts playing Ballymore's mini festival Love Is A Stranger in Sligo on 17 May. UK DJ Crazy P, Ultan O'Brien, Dotts O'Connor, Perlee, Pearse Mc Glouglin, Art Of Algebra and Dean Bryce will also appear at the one-day event in and around the renovated 18th century barns and grounds of Juniper Barn. The event's Wild Folk Dining experience, hosted in the Turf Barn, will also return with pop-up food outlets, along with Blaze It Sauna at Juniper Lake, and local artisan traders, the LIAS Kids Area and Garden Disco. This year's edition also features a screening and Q+A with leading members of the northwest surfing community, Alice Ward and Noah Lane, who will share their surf shorts, Salt and Blow In. Speaking about the event, Festival director Emmet Condon said, "With just a few weeks to go - we are so excited to return to the stunning Sligo countryside, as summer begins to bloom, with another trademark ALS collection of Irish and International live artists and DJs. "A well as The Wildfolk Dining Experience, secret pop up gigs, the Blaze It Sauna by Juniper Lake, a collection of artisan food providers, the LIAS Kids area and more - as we kick start festival season in truly beautiful fashion once again with 24 hours of magic at Love Is A Stranger : Juniper Barn on May 17th." here.
Irish Independent
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
TV on the Radio frontman and Star Wars actor Tunde Adebimpe delivers a slice of slanted and enchanted indie
TV on the Radio are no longer a going concern but frontman Tunde Adebimpe has just released his debut solo album. Thee Black Boltz retains much of the eclecticism that made his old band so appealing to those who like their indie slanted and enchanted. Even at a mere 35 minutes long, there's a cornucopia of ideas and genres. Adebimpe, whose varied career includes stop-motion animation and acting (his latest TV gig is Star Wars: Skeleton Crew) is a compelling presence on these 11 songs. The urgent Magnetic, all fuzzy guitars and synths, finds him 'thinking about the human race in the age of tenderness and rage' while the stark, arresting Drop is a beatbox masterclass. A jaunty giddiness characterises many of the songs, but it is clear that pain is being exorcised. The playful, upbeat stylings of God Knows cannot disguise the fact that he's singing about a relationship that's gone badly awry. 'God knows you're the worst thing I've ever loved/ You're bad news but we've still got to have our fun.' And, on the tender ballad ILY, he sings about his younger sister who died during the pandemic. It's heartbreaking: 'Tell me that the end is not the end.' Co-written with the album's producer Wilder Zoby — who is probably best known for his collaborations with hip-hop duo Run the Jewels — it's the album's most conventionally structured song, but once heard, difficult to forget. Unlike TV on the Radio, Beirut are still going, but then that act was all about the talents of Zach Condon rather than a grouping of like-minded subversives. Condon's first couple of (Balkans-inspired) albums coincided with Adebimpe's band's much heralded early run and, despite the odd wobble, he's kept the quality high. His latest, A Study of Losses, is typically unconventional. Commissioned by a Swedish acrobatic troupe — of all things — it features 11 songs and seven instrumentals. Sophisticated, textured arrangements elevate the likes of Forest Encyclopaedia, which features Condon's sombre, sorrowful singing. A highlight, Caspian Tiger, has a hymnal quality, a wonderful vocal delivery, and a confluence of strings, artfully arranged by Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. It's an album to get lost in.
