It's a tale of two albums this week. The fifth album from Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, 80 minutes) and Beach House (Once Twice Melody, 85 minutes). Two albums which bring up the question of artistic intention, album length

A few weeks ago, Myself and Andrea took a day trip to Galway city to visit the Black Gate Cultural Centre. In 2020 both Andrea and I were big champions of Niamh Regan’s debut album Hemet which was released on Black Gate’s label, Indeed, we talked to Ni

There's been a lot of talk in Andrea and Niall's circles this week about the ethics of having a Spotify account in the wake of the Joe Rogan / Neil Young flareup. So we thought we'd finally get one of our old pals, Liz Pelly, a NYC writer who has writ

It's a new year, but the same old us. Andrea and Niall kick off 2022 (yes, we did a bonus episode last week but the duo are back) with a sense of rejuvenation and a bag of songs and albums to enthuse about. We are talking albums from Bill Fay, Mitski,

Sunil Sharpe and Robbie Kitt of The Give Us The Night Campaign join us to talk the modernisation of the licensing laws and the open consultation which close to the public this week.

Kicking off the new year on the site with a radio show available to all today (the shows are normally available to Patreon members only). While December was all about the End Of Year lists, it was a welcome break to writing about new music but I was s

It's the final part of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts, and as tradition, it's the one where and Niall and Andrea Cleary get loose. With wine and whiskey coffee in hand, we nominate winners in increasingly esoteric categories, aka

It's part two of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts, and Niall and Andrea Cleary are talking their favourite songs of the year. We pick 10 songs each with a single crossover, and discuss songs from SZA, Self Esteem, Big Thief, Snail

Part one of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts is here, and Niall and Andrea Cleary are talking their favourite albums of the year. 10 albums each with a lot of crossover are up for discussion including albums from Self Esteem, For T

On this week's Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea and Niall are talking about Adele. “Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently” With her fourth album 30 smashing all records again, we review the record which primarily focuses on Adele's divorce and