A.S. Fanning, Louis Brennan and The Travelling Circus of Misery Silent Green, Berlin 28th February 2024 Nick O’Leary braved an evening at an old crematorium to see A.S. Fanning and Louis Brennan and The Travelling Circus of Misery kick off their German tour as part of the Zeitgeist Irland 24 festival. Walking through the gated […] The post A.S. Fanning, Louis Brennan and The Travelling Circus of Misery: Silent Green, Berlin – Live Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

The Otherness: These Many Mistakes (Self Released) Streaming/Download Out Now Argentinian rock band The Otherness return with single from planned new album.    Louder Than War have championed the South American 4 piece, The Otherness, since John Robb wrote about them back in 2012 here. What held true about the Patagonian band back then still […] The post The Otherness: These Many Mistakes – Single Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

The Long Road Festival Stanford Hall, Leicestershire 25th-27th August 2023 Welcome home old friend. The Long Road Festival returned this bank holiday weekend to celebrate three days of country, Americana and roots, bringing with it over 80 artists across the weekend, both international and some home grown talent to boot. I started my festival catching […] The post The Long Road Festival 2023 – Photo Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

All Together Now Curraghmore Estate, County Waterford, Ireland 4th-6th August 2023 Things got deliciously weird at times, as the people of Ireland descended upon Curraghmore Estate for the fourth All Together Now festival. It became clear things were going to be strange when an armchair, seemingly of its own accord, glided over in my direction, […] The post All Together Now 2023 – Festival Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

WOMAD Festival Malmesbury, Wiltshire 27th – 30th July 2023 There is no festival like WOMAD for the sheer breadth in the line-up. The infectious exuberance of so many acts from around the world turns this unique gathering in Wiltshire into a joyful celebration of music in which the unexpected always triumphs. When I looked through […] The post WOMAD 2023 – Festival Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

All Together Now 4th-6th August 2023 Curraghmore Estate, Co. Waterford, Ireland All Together Now returns to the pretty, hilly landscape of Curraghmore Estate for its fourth chapter From late adolescence through the earliest years of adulthood, each of my calendar years was punctuated, in the main, by my attendance at Ireland’s premium festival, Electric Picnic. […] The post All Together Now 2023 – Festival Preview appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Random Killing: Bring Out Your Dead (Cursed Blessings) LP/DL Out Now The latest album from veteran Toronto punks Random Killing shows they have no intention of slowing down with age. This record ranges between powerful speedy punk, chunky hardcore and crossover with a little extra variety thrown in. All served up on green and black […] The post Random Killing: Bring Out Your Dead – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Wu-Tang Clan and Nas London, O2 June 12th 2023 Back in the UK for a co-headline show with fellow New York hip-hop legend Nas, the Wu-Tang Clan put on a relentlessly driving show on the last leg of their European tour which has everyone bouncing, including Tom Parry. From the first thumping beat, the Wu-Tang […] The post Wu-Tang Clan and Nas: O2, London – Live Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

As the pop circus hits Liverpool, Tim Cooper remembers going to Ireland to cover a very different kind of Eurovision Song Contest. Staged in a tiny one-horse town in Co. Cork, with war raging in the Balkans and Eastern Europe’s new nations beginning to emerge from the former Soviet bloc, it was the start of […] The post The Changing Face Of Eurovision – Ireland 1993 Remembered appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Stella Donnelly Flood (Secretly Canadian) LP | CD | DL – buy here Out Now While Stella Donnelly’s second album feels like a bit of a reinvention, it doesn’t abandon what made her first one so memorable. Elliott Simpson reviews. You’d never mistake Stella Donnelly for anyone else. On her debut album – the terrific […] The post Stella Donnelly: Flood – album review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more