LETS GET READY FOR MASS 🕯️🙏🏼⛪️🎤
BACK ON THE D1 STAGE NEXT FRIDAY 30TH IN THE ABBEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ✨ FOR @brigit_dublin W @district.magazine@annad.poetry + @essiraymusic WILL ALSO BE GRACING THE ALTER
TICKET LINK IN BIO CANT WAIT 2 C U xx
St. Brigit’s festival is on 30th January. The fest is all about giving the women who’ve pushed Irish music forward their flowers. There are few who standout as much as @gemmadunleavy_ . She’s been the voice of Dublin ever since her anthem ‘Up De Flats’ graced our ears in 2020 and now she’s headlining Friday night of the celebrations.
Back in the Georgian mountains a few months ago studying ancient sacred songs and microtones 🇬🇪❤️🤍
Forever grateful to my teacher Malkhaz, for sharing his wealth of knowledge and being a home away from home 💚 and to Beso and Kheti for their songs, recipes and feeding my interest in understanding traditions and ancestry!
Gaumarjos!!!! 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
Few cute bts from fairview by @sparkiemcguinness and @b3rkeley_
Special shout out to me magic hands ma 🥹 for making me outfit, the best since leather arse died and available for all ur alterations / custom looks at @alterationcreations 💚
P.S. UP DE FLATS! is 5 today 🥹 I shared my community and you all joined us on this joyride the last 5 years 💚
To celebrate I’ve dropped the last 🙁 5 vinyl into @absysrecords on the Richmond road. Once they’re gone that’s it ✨
Thank u for keeping us warm 💚
Up de fuckin FLITZZZZZZZZ!
@sparkiemcguinness 📸 1/2/5/9/12/13
@b3rkeley_ 📸 3/4/8/10/14
Fairview park!!
Thank u to all u legends getting out to the tent early on the hottest day of the year. Playing to 8000 ppl in the same park I used to listen to Dj Rankin in as a teenager 😂
This was a special one for me 💖 🥹
And to @kneecap32 and crew for having us 💚 it’s always a privilege to share the stage w u
Lights and Visuals from @phelanben and @aisling_phelan@sparkiemcguinness on the good pics out of the bunch
@alterationcreations 💖 for me outfit
In the words of @clonliffehouse local star Gemma Dunleavy will be supporting @kneecap32 this Thursday in fairview park along with @gurriersband
I spent me teenage weekends in that park, gangs of us drinking the blue stuff listening to DJ Rankin. This is a full donut moment!
We’ll be celebrating Mo Chara’s victory against the Brits with a bang
Best gig of the summer and it’s in our stomping ground
UP DE FUCKIN FLATZZZZZ!
PS it’s sold out but that didn’t stop us getting into Croker Amiright?
We lost an incredible person on thursday
Conor Biddle, the immense talent, top buzzer and kindest soul who literally and metaphorically kept us all lit ⚡️
Despite his talent, his generosity & enthusiasm seemed to be the centre point of everyone’s stories about him, so I’ll share mine…
I first met Conor in 2015 when I played Metropolis festival & he was lighting the stage.
It was my first solo festival, i was being over ambitious & prepared for it as if I was a main headliner. Conor, who didn’t know me, saw what I was trying to do & came up during sound check asked me what I wanted & spent the next 20 minutes designing lights for my set as if I had privately booked him.
The lights were fucking class!
It didnt matter that it was 2pm & there was barely anyone there. Conor lit the stage as if it was the last set of the night & i was buzzing, hoping one day i’d get to work with him again
How lucky would I be cause over the next 10 years we’d work together on so many shows & festivals. He was there with me as I grew from empty festival stages to my headline olympia show, always believing in encouraging & enhancing anything I did. Not only lighting the stage but helping with visual and design ideas, showing me nieces and nephews around the venues, calling over in the middle of his up the walls schedule to make a touring set up that I could operate without him.
He always wanted to take what you gave him to the next level and seeing his talent and career grow over the last 10 years has been a privilege. No matter how busy he got or how his career grew and it did, massively, the encouragement or effort he put into people never spread thin, instead it grew with him & that’s something so rare
I’m so grateful we got to tour together in November with Kneecap and crew. Getting to experience the rig he had designed every single night was a privilege & seeing the joy in him behind that desk was infectious (see slide 2) 🤣 he gave us some of the best laughs of the tour & i’ll cherish them forever
Thinking of his friends & family, especially his loving husband sean 💔
The sky will forever be well and truly lit up
Glisten with the stars Conor Biddle
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Precious time spent high up in the Georgian mountains this year under the invaluable teachings of Malkhaz Erkvanidze
Thinking of all of my Georgian friends who have been protesting on the streets for over a month now
Sakartvelos gaumarjos! 🇬🇪
Last show of the year opening for @kneecap32 at a sold out SSE Arena 🤯
It’s been a joy and a privilege to play with the lads over the last 2 months but Saturdays show was truly something special. A beautiful tribute to @moglaibap ‘s Da, 9000 people singing back @kneecap32 tunes As Gaeilge in a sold out arena. No better way to honour his legacy and I’m so grateful to have gotten to witness it. Forever in awe of yous @kneecap32
Ar dheis Dé go raibh d’anam dilís Gearóid
Miss getting ready every night with me girls and a bottle of WKD 😭
Big thank u to my ma who sewed together half of my tour looks the day before we left @alterationcreations 💚💕💚
Ready to go again w @kneecap32 for Cork and the biggest home coming show for the lads in Belfast
Over n Ou
Up de flats!
xx
FROM 7BOTTLES OF TEENAGE WKD IN FAIRVIEW PARK TO PLAYING TO FAIRVIEW PARK!
GUESS WHOS JOINING @kneecap32 NEXT JUNE?! W @gurriersband
ROLL UP D1 and D3 IM PLAYING ON HOME TURF!!!
Only a handful of tickets left, link in me stories xxx
Two weeks on tour around England and Scotland with the best crew✨🍾💚🍾✨
To every single one of you who came out and made the shows what they were, you’re all legends! From the Leeds football crew @leedshydeparkwomenplusfc who came to the very first show in their Up De Flats socks to Asher who hung out of the barrier for nearly every single show til London 😊😊
Loved seeing familiar faces from last years tour and meeting so many of you all after the shows. Can’t wait to come back!
@kneecap32 to the world, I miss getting to see the show every night already!
Shout out to my Bróisín @b3rkeley_ and to the best TM (tour ma) @shannon.brothers
And massive massive thank u to @cultureireland for supporting this tour 💚💚
PS. Have u got ur tickets for Cork and Belfast?
Thank you to @mrrngllghr and @b3rkeley_ for the pics
