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Irish Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The Lumineers at St Anne's Park: Stage times, set list, ticket information, how to get there and more
The Lumineers , an American two-man folk band made up of Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, are set to return to St Anne's Park on Saturday, two years since their last performance there. The Dublin concert is part of their Europe and UK tour leg for their latest and fifth album, Automatic, that launched earlier this year in February. David Baron, the producer, has worked with artists such as Noah Kahan, Shawn Mendes and Shania Twain. Simone Felice and The Lumineers were also involved in the production of this album. The duo's powerful songwriting and confessional lyrics are expected to pack a punch at the sold-out show. If you are one of the lucky ones to have secured tickets, you are in for a treat. When and where is it? The Lumineers play at St Anne's Park in Clontarf, Dublin, on Saturday May 31st. READ MORE What time should I arrive? Gates open at 5pm, with the first act expected to take to the stage at 6pm. A full list of stage times is not yet available, so keep an eye on The Lumineers' socials for more information on the day. The event should be finished up before 11pm. Concertgoers are advised to arrive half an hour before the show starts. There is no queuing allowed before gates opening, meaning you will be turned away if you arrive too early. Who is playing? The Lumineers are headlining on the night, with support from American singer-songwriter Michael Marcagi. What songs they play? The band are expected to play a mix of songs from across their five studio albums, with the odd cover thrown in for good measure. Here is the 28-strong set list from the band's recent concert at the AO Arena in Manchester: Same Old Song Flowers In Your Hair Angela You're All I Got A.M. RADIO Asshole Charlie Boy (With Michael Marcagi) Plasticine Donna Ho Hey Dead Sea Brightside Sleep On The Floor Gloria Gun Ativan Where We Are Slow It Down Strings Automatic Don't Look Back In Anger (Oasis Cover) Ophelia Big Parade Leader Of The Landslide (With a snippet of The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want') So Long Reprise Cleopatra Stubborn Love How do I get to and from the gig? Anyone going to The Lumineers is advised to plan and book return travel arrangements in advance, allowing at least an extra two hours travel time to and from the venue. Traffic and parking delays are forecast, and you are advised to walk, cycle, use public transport or private coaches. Further detail is outlined below. Travel by bus: Marathon Coaches are among those offering direct, private services, with a return bus operating from Northwall Quay Bus Stop 7623 in Dublin city centre to a range of destinations across Dublin, Meath and Kildare. JJ Kavanagh Event Coaches also pick up from locations in Limerick, Nenagh, Roscrea, Portlaoise, Kildare, Clonmel, Callan, Kilkenny, Waterford and Carlow. Dublin Bus run services in proximity to St Anne's Park. Routes from Abbey St Lower include 6, H1, H2, H3 or 130. Visit for more information. Travel by train: The Dart will run services to and from the concerts each day. You are advised to alight at Harmonstown Dart station. Visit for more information. Travel by car: Attendees are advised to use public transport, as there is no public parking at the event. The car parks at St Anne's Park are not open during events, and towing and clamping is in operation for anyone who parks illegally. The final hurdle: When you reach the site, there are two entrances. You may enter through whichever of these is most convenient for you, and organisers advise that both routes require about a 1.3km walk from the park entrance to ticket scan/entry. • Green entrance: Sybil Hill on to main avenue. • Blue entrance: All Saints Road, via Tennis court entry. Are there any tickets left? Unfortunately, tickets for the concert are sold out. But you may be lucky to secure some verified resale tickets at . Please be mindful of any scams involving tickets. If it seems to good to be true, it usually is. Anyone attending should download tickets to their phone in advance, in case there are issues around internet connection when entering the park. It is important to remember that screenshots will not work on the day, as barcodes are live and updating regularly. There is a box office on the main avenue, where the green and blue routes meet, for those who need to collect their tickets. What is security like? Under-16s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to enter St Anne's Park. Strict security checks will be in operation, and you are advised not to bring a large bag or backpack as you may experience delays or even be refused entry. Prohibited items include glass or cans, umbrellas, alcohol, garden furniture, camping or collapsible chairs, e-scooters and e-bikes, flares, professional cameras and audio recording equipment. A full list can be found here . There are no readmissions to the concert, so if you leave you cannot get back in. What does the weather look like? Temperatures should get to a high of 19 degrees, but Met Éireann has forecast spells of rain showers over the coming days, with breezier conditions than of late also expected. Given St Anne's Park is a standing venue on a grass surface, you should bring boots or runners as well as layering up. It may help to have a raincoat or poncho alongside your sun cream.
CBC
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Beloved B.C. musician Dan Mangan on his new album, Natural Light
Vancouver's Dan Mangan has always had a knack for providing comfort on a rainy day, a moment of reprieve during heavy times. His 2018 track, Troubled Mind, captured both the woe and the absurdity of the world as we know it, and 2022's In Your Corner (for Scott Hutchison) mended hearts broken by the loss of a Scottish music legend. His latest album, Natural Light, released Friday, builds on his polished folk sound and honest, sometimes validating lyrics through songs like Cut the Brakes, Diminishing Returns and Soapbox. He's been playing the latter of the three at live shows for a couple of years. It's become a hugely important song for Mangan. "It's about the, sort of, what is it about us that we repeat our worst histories over and over and over and over again? And how can we learn from those things? Why do we fall into fear? Why do we fall into hatred? Why can't we just be good to each other?" he said. "Everybody wins, you win, you feel good when you're kind and other people win … and yet the scarcity mentality is sort of, I don't know if it's driven into us in a Darwinian sense, into our evolution, we feel like we must protect ourselves so deeply. "It just sort of seems to be becoming more and more and more relevant as the months go by." Mangan sat down for an interview with CBC's North by Northwest host Margaret Gallagher. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Where does the title Natural Light come from? This album did have a different title for a little while — it was called Contained Free, which was sort of like a mantra coming into the record. I wanted to feel contained. I wanted it to feel like it was this thing that happened all in one place, but I wanted it to feel creatively uncontained. So we thought it would be, and we delivered it to [the label] Arts and Crafts. They were like, 'we really like this record, but we feel like the title is a bit academic, or heady or cerebral or something, could you think of a title that was a little bit more in line with how the record feels?' I was really frustrated. Once you've closed the door on a decision, you think that you don't have to deal with that anymore. And so I went upstairs and had a shower, and I turned off the light in the bathroom, and I cracked the blinds. I prefer to bathe in natural light. And it just occurred to me that this record feels sort of like when light is coming through a window, the sunlight is coming through, and you see all the dust particles. I feel like this record feels like those little dust particles. It Might Be Raining is the first track on the album. What's the inspiration behind that song? My kids are 12 and eight, and I feel as they approach their adolescence that I'm thinking about their world and thinking about the world as it was when I was their age in the 90s, and what a different world it is, and in some ways what a totally similar world it is. I realize that there are going to be hardships in their life from which I cannot spare them, and I don't know what those hardships necessarily are. They're going to go into the world and they're going to discover things that speak to them. When I was a teenager, I found music, I found art, I found films that had nothing to do with my parents. That felt good. It felt like I was seeing myself articulated back. And so it kind of breaks my heart that they're going to go out in the world and they're going to discover things that speak to them that have nothing to do with me personally. And that's beautiful, and that's what I want for them. But it's hard. You recorded your album unexpectedly over six days with four friends by a lake. Who are those friends, and how did you come to be by that lake unexpectedly? Since 2018, I've had a band which is Don Kerr on drums, Jason Haberman on bass, and Mike O'Brien on guitar. We have played hundreds of shows together. We've never been in the studio together. And since then, I've made several records, but they were with American producers, American musicians. Jason had this place that he had just gotten in the fall. He was really excited about it, and he was going to go and open it up for the summer, and we figured, let's just go. We can cook for each other, we can swim, we can bring microphones, we can bring some gear and have zero expectation of what we were going to accomplish. I had dates set in Los Angeles later to record an album. And then when we got in there and we set up some microphones, we thought we would demo, we thought we would do some writing, etc. But I'd just written the song It Might Be Raining and I played it for the guys and they were like, "let's just have a rip." And we did like three takes, and it was done. It was like, bam, that's the song. The next morning, they were like, well, do you have more songs or what do you want to do? And I was like, I have like 12 other songs up my sleeve. A lot of these songs have been living in me for five, six years. It was this miracle snowball effect. It Might Be Raining kind of started it. It was the catalyst. The second day, we recorded two songs. The third day, three songs. The fourth day, we recorded four songs. It got faster and more exciting, more creatively vibrant and explosive every day. I've never experienced anything even close to that, ever. What role do you as an artist play in these difficult times? I'm never short of opinions online, and I tend to post about political things, and anytime I get a message like that kind of shut up and sing, stick in your lane cliché, I'm sort of like, this is my lane. This has always been my lane. I don't think every artist needs to be political, but I think that if you look at, over the course of time, what is the truly great art and what art lasts, it's often political to some extent. It's hard for art to not be political. Good art should reflect some part of inner truth. You send that out in the world, and someone else sees that smoke signal and they feel their own existence articulated back to them. And that feels warm and fuzzy because it tells them that they're not alone. Art is the great connector. It's the glue that bleeds into the cracks between us and helps connect us and keep us together. I do love the video for Diminishing Returns. Tell me about that day. We recorded it on the very first sunny day, a beautiful Sunday that we had on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. The video is very simple. I put a GoPro on the edge of my guitar and I wander down the street playing this song. This song is a funny one because it's talking about climate change. In a sense, it's a climate denial anthem in that it's sort of saying all this stuff is really real and we might be in it for it, but also, you know, having sex in the afternoon is pretty awesome, too. We see the news reports, and we understand that all of these existential threats are upon us. And yet, we renew our mortgages, we go to the dry cleaner, we buy the two-year subscription because it's cheaper. Meanwhile, at night, we're doom scrolling and we're freaking out about what's next. I think that there is, in me, a little bit of a Buddhist, that it's like, OK, but what can I focus on right now? How can I bring joy? I can't necessarily control climate change, but something I can do is just enjoy the beauty that's right in front of me. This song might have one of my favourite lyrics on the record, which is: I don't presume to know what is in store or just how many wolves are at the door, but I've seen your body bending with the morning light ascending. And I will die defending our diminishing returns.
RNZ News
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
The Mixtape: Hannah Everingham
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Hannah Everingham Photo: Loren Jalyn Kett Folk musician Hannah Everingham joined Maggie Tweedie for The Mixtape. The Ōtautahi-born singer-songwriter fuses folk sensibility with a tropical inflection. Her debut album, Between Bodies (2022) was met with positive acclaim across Aotearoa. Recorded at co-producer Thomas Isbister's home studio, Everingham's sophomore album, Siempre Tiene Flores (2024), makes for a fresh and exciting listening experience. It was celebrated with a tour of the country, including dates in Tāmaki Makaurau, Pōneke and Ōtepoti. Everingham chooses an eclectic mix of songs from Tongan gospel to Christchurch's underground club scene to UK Post Punk musician and filmmaker Gina Burch. Hannah's Selection: Eliana Glass – Good Friends Call Me E Tui Mala Ma'afu – Sisu Keke Ofi Pe Josephine Foster – Waterfall Hannah Everingham- Don't be Crass Colter Carson – Tabu Gina Birch – Big Mouth Coyotes – Bill Callahan
CBC
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Beloved Newfoundland musician Mark Hiscock has died
Mark Hiscock, a lifelong musician based out of St. John's, has died. He was 53 years old. Hiscock was a mainstay of Newfoundland and Labrador's musical landscape, and was a founding member of the well-known folk band Shanneyganock — known for tunes steeped in the province's long history of storytelling. The band, which was formed more than 30 years ago as a musical duo, developed a strong following and regularly performed across Canada. In a previous interview with CBC News, Hiscock said even after performing for decades, he wasn't tired of life on the stage. "There's times when you think, 'Jeez, how did we manage to get this far?'" he said. "And then there's other times you look out, when you're playing in front of the crowd like tonight, and you go, 'This is the reason we've done it.' We do it for the fans." WATCH | From the CBC archives, Mark Hiscock talks about making music his life: Mark Hiscock lived his dream of being 'the musician up on stage' 20 minutes ago Duration 1:22 As the province mourns the loss of beloved musician Mark Hiscock, we're sharing this memory of Mark doing what he loved best. In 2019, CBC produced a short documentary on Shanneyganock's 25th anniversary. In this excerpt, Mark talks about the lifelong ambition that drove him to keep playing and performing. According to the band, Hiscock was one of province's best button accordion players. Beyond that, he also had a solo career, released albums and worked with other artists. Shanneyganock is scheduled to perform at the 37th annual East Coast Music Awards on Thursday at the Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's. Singer Chris Andrews told CBC News the band still plans to play that performance, and dedicate it to Hiscock. In 2020 the band received a lifetime achievement award during an ECMA gala.
