We go down to the indie disco every Thursday night

August 3, 2015 6:51 PM

Irish indie rock: kinda like Scottish indie rock, but way less beards. Have you thought about Irish indie rock since the glory days of Ash, Mundy and My Bloody Valentine? There's more than U2 and Hozier happening in the Emerald Isle.

To get you started, here are some Irish music blogs: Nialler9, The Last Mixed Tape, GoldenPlec,ChordBlossom

Now let's see what's going on in Ireland/Northern Ireland!

Dublin
My Tribe Your Tribe
Butterfly Explosion
Villagers
Kate’s Party
The Star Department
Overhead, the Albatross
Little Xs for Eyes
Pilotlight
Atriums
Come on Live Long
Ghost Estates

Midlands Region
The Winter Passing

Galway
DOTT
Pockets

Cork
Former Monarchs
Young Wonder
Elastic Sleep
The Hard Ground

Belfast
Paper Man (band defunct, now The Sea, Close By)
And So I Watch You from Afar
Runaway GO
Girls Names
The Divine Comedy

Limerick
Silent Noise Parade
Sisters

Mullingar
The Academic

Armagh
His New Atlas

Derry
SOAK

County Wicklow
God is an Astronaut
SAILS
Columbia Mills
All the Luck in the World

County Tyrone
White Male Actors
Don’t Shoot

Here is a giant YouTube playlist if you don't want to click on all those links.

posted by banjo_and_the_pork (6 comments total)

I am interested in this. Thank you!
posted by limeonaire at 9:38 PM on August 3, 2015

This is relevant to my interests. My interests are relevant to this.
posted by fallingbadgers at 10:34 PM on August 3, 2015

...meanwhile, a dispatch from the Welsh music scene...
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:30 AM on August 4, 2015

Actually I like the Academic.

There's TX FM as well, it's a commercial indie station owned by a conglomerate, they have some Irish music streaming too.
posted by Swandive at 3:42 AM on August 4, 2015

Nice, thanks, Swandive!

Also, I made a Spotify playlist that has most of these songs on it.
posted by banjo_and_the_pork at 5:35 AM on August 4, 2015

kinda like Scottish indie rock, but way less beards.

Hmm. I can make do without the beards I guess, but there's still a deep-seated undercurrent of misery and hopelessness in every song, right? I mean without that it's like it's not even music.
posted by eykal at 5:54 AM on August 4, 2015