As promised a long time ago, I will be making the photos I take over the course of the Fourth Best project available for public use under CC BY 4.0 through Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special...

THE DROUGHT IS OVER www.fourth.best/a-painful-co...

all together now festival: Good (...and 3,985 more words) www.fourth.best/atn-in-revie...

can we make tiktoks without resorting to slop? an investigation www.tiktok.com/@fourth.best...

maybe we should do merch

ode to gigs of various shapes and sizes www.fourth.best/the-rooms-iv...

NOT BAD

oh so that's why this has been getting clicks again huh

Announcing the new album by Mineral Stunting, ‘Come Rain Come Shine’ on Drift Ritual two singles, ‘Sink Dub’ and ‘Chasm’ available to hear now full album releases on April 8th, available as Digital and CD mastered by The Bastard driftritual.bandcamp.com/album/come-r...

only one person has posted the Choice winner on BlueSky so we could totally take over with a disinformation campaign that says it's actually Curtisy right

certified classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2oJ...

MAYBE WE LIKE THE MISERY chats with @nialler9.bsky.social and AI artist "Kawaii Hoe"! north kerry noise! a björk quote! a @peretsky.bsky.social shoutout! a trading card game! indonesian tiktoks! the choice music prize! techbro scum! charli xcx! JPEGMAFIA! father ted! www.fourth.best/music-is-wha...

five years of listening to music and scribbling about it in a google doc in this site's first guest post www.fourth.best/guest-post-o...

in the Whelan. straight up "watching it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. Ones

👑🌇🌆 www.fourth.best/jarjarjrs-ca...

When the likes of Hozier and Fontaines DC play the 3Arena, do they owe us an Irish support act? For the Fontaines, it might settle an ancient score. My latest: www.fourth.best/fuckin-diddl...

In October I shot another interview with Ahmed, With Love. The footage ended up being... pretty unusable, I'm still new to this. It still ended up being one of my favourite things I've written for the site though. www.fourth.best/im-a-silly-w...

From this September: an hour-long chat with Dylan Murphy at River Runs Round about the future of Irish music media: www.fourth.best/fourth-best-...

From this August: thoughts from the ground at Féile na Gréine, a festival that made me rethink festivals www.fourth.best/feile-na-gre...

haven't posted here in a minute let me get you up to speed

new issue of the newsletter on journeys, trad, jazz, "psychogeography" and my pick for the most underrated band in the country www.fourth.best/tra-phaidin-...

two bits from Fourth Best this weekend. I. a story about the tension between art and industry. a (re)introduction to the two Irish rap albums of the year. a labour of love called the Irish Hash Mafia. www.fourth.best/irish-hash-m...

fourth best on location

at the Curtisy show with 2 cameras for a gig report. if you're not already all the way in on Curtisy - you'll find a room full of people who are any time he plays Dublin, to a crowd who's learned the lyrics to a record that dropped three days before.

Lessons learned about the archive from a handful of livestreams from empty venues, some shit I have lying around on my SD card, and Limerick's spirit of defiance. Covering Citrus Fresh, Féile na Gréine, the South West All Stars and more. www.fourth.best/sound-heads-...

Julia Louise Knifefist + E The Artist last night upstairs at Whelan's Both artists coming off of blistering digital hardcore works on Bitten Twice and with imminent features on Carlos Danger's record, the energy translates in a tiny room. Kinetic, essential.