Pride Profiles: Smoothboi Ezra
Meticulously balancing hope and melancholy, Smoothboi Ezra has established themselves as a songwriter wise beyond their years outside of the Dublin or greater Irish alternative scene.
Pride Profile: Jack Ward
Limerick producer Jack Ward is creating genre-traversing electronic music, blending elements of traditional house and techno with pop melodies and structures.
Pride Profiles: Roo Honeychild
Roo Honeychild does it all: DJing, club promotion, A&R, the list goes on.
Pride Profiles: HALLI
HALLI’s music makes us nostalgic for encounters that we’ve never experienced before.
Pride Profile: banríon
Ní Haicéid’s tender, unguarded approach gives her songwriting an honest and unique perspective, one that places her alongside a number of strong queer voices in Irish music today.
Pride Profiles: St. Bishop
Ste Bishop—better known by his moniker St. Bishop—may only have one EP out, but his glossy pop sound already has incredible mainstream potential.
Pride Profiles: SOAK
Ever since SOAK emerged from the Derry music scene at age 16, the songwriter’s coming of age can be tracked tangentially to their musical output quite easily.
Pride Profiles: Jack Rua
Jack Rua is a beam of light for the Irish pop scene, meshing the various facets of the genre into a brilliant, unmissable gem.
Pride Profiles: Celaviedmai
Mai’s music is raw and vulnerable, moving from intense self-confidence to uncertainty often within the same breath.
Pride Profiles: Problem Patterns
Composed of musicians Beverley Boal, Bethany Crooks, Ciara King, and Alanah Smith, the four-piece queercore noiseniks ensures that each member has a voice, quite literally.
Pride Profiles: Dani Larkin
Dani Larkin’s music is indelibly tied to her relationship with the Irish land.
Pride Profiles: Sprints
Direct and deliberate, Sprints speak keenly to life as a young person in Ireland.
Pride Profiles: Rebecca Locke
A darling of both Irish Twitter and the fledgling live music scene in Dublin City, it goes without saying that Rebecca Locke’s brand of frenzied confessional pop deserves equal credence to their online shitposts.
Pride Profiles: Gadget and the Cloud
Gadget and the Cloud, aka Kelly Doherty, whisks you away with her brilliantly layered electronic music.
Pride Profiles: Babylamb
A quintessentially queer quartet, Babylamb having been hitting all the high notes since their first single “Bodyright.”
Pride Profiles: Niall McDowell
Antrim singer/songwriter Niall McDowell is the latest artist making country music cool again.
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