Saturday night at Banger Cliff saw a very rare live appearance from Dublin's Dechord. Comprised of Alan and Maura O'Boyle, under various guises they've both released some of the most celebrated Irish techno and electro of the last 25 years. 
This live recording is comprised nearly entirely of brand new unreleased music written especially for Sherkin.

Photography by Malcolm McGettigan

Dechord - Live at Open Ear '22

ZOiD is a multi-genre, multi-instrumentalist from Dublin town, who brought some of his techno machines down to the North Shore for us on Saturday evening, steppin' things up as we manouvered our way into another late night on Banger Cliff...

Photography - Malcolm McGettigan

ZOiD - Live at Open Ear '22

The North Shore as a kosmische entity became a realised on Saturday morning of this year's festival, courtesy of Kate & Ross. Get yerself vertical there.

Kate Butler & Don Rosco @ Open Ear '22

We all need a little breather from the chaos come Sunday morning at a festival. Fulacht Fiadh helped sooth our bodies and mind (and wake them back up againt too) with some droned out sounds from the ether.

Fulacht Fiadh live @ Open Ear '22

Cork's Doubt closed out Banger Cliff on Saturday night showcasing the hard drum sound of the Flood imprint he co runs. Flecks of techno, bass and rave back themselves up againstmetallic percussion, spilling out gloriously onto the raptured dance floor.

Doubt @ Open Ear '22

For the first time in a decade Tr One performed live , on the Sunday evening of OE '22 delivering an hour of machine soul, slowly but surely heating up the dancefloor as we went into the closing stretch of the festival.

Tr One Live @ Open Ear '22

Our Friday night came to a close with a masterclass in soulful, funk-laden drum 'n' bass dj set from Subtle Audio / Limerick's Code. Get on it.

Code @ Open Ear '22

Ahead of his Dublin debut on Friday 5th May at our OE party in Pawnshop, Bill has sent through an exclusive mix recorded live in Austin, Texas. Set it up!

Bill Converse - Hotline Mix (Live In Austin TX)

Ahead of his live performance at our party in Pawnshop on Friday 5th of May Material Zero delivers us an exclusive slice of bass-laden techno to give us a taster of what to expect...

Material Zero - Transient Canopy

A little christmas treat - A recording from our party back in May in Pawnshop, where Pablo Santos and Little O held it down for the final couple of hours upstairs.

Open Ear @ PawnShop with Pablo B2B Little O

Hey! Our first exclusive mix comes from Paudi Ahern, one of Irelands finest deejays and someone who's set we are seriously hyped for at this years festival. Get a taster of what to expect right here.

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Paudi Ahern - Open Ear Dj Mix

We take a trip into the mind of Naive Ted, with a brand brand (we mean just got mastered a few days ago) new track of his brand of beats one can move ones body to.

Naive Ted - Death Of Me

Recorded on Friday the 2nd of June at 23.15
One of Ireland's most revered dance music producers delivering a live set to a packed tent on the Friday night, gearing us up for the whole weekend.

Automatic Tasty @ Open Ear 2017

Recorded on the 3rd of June 2017 at 3pm. 

Olan, boss man at All City digs deep for an hour of music spanning across the globe and across many styles

Olan (All City) @ Open Ear 2017

Recorded on Sunday the 3rd of June at 01.30
The closing set from the Saturday night of 2017's festival. Paudi mixes, juggles and cuts his way through house, techno, bass, electro and new wave in his own, idiosyncratic style, like its nobodies business. Check!

Paudi Ahearn @ Open Ear 2017

Recorded on Monday the 5th of June, 2017 at 00.00.

A last minute replacement for Whirling Hall of Knives, Barry Greaves turned out to be a super-sub par excellence, delivering a killer hour of left-of-centre techno to a tent ready, willing and able to go along for the ride.

Barry Greaves @openear 2017

Recorded on Sunday the 4th of June at 23.15

As the final night of the festival started to close in Cáit brought it with a mix of rave-inflected house music side by side one or two classics, masterfully taking control of the tent.

Cáit @ Open Ear 2017

A brand new, currently unreleased cut from Mikron who will be bringing thier live set to the Northshore Stage on Friday night of this year's OE!

Mikron - LRO (Open Ear Exclusive)

Breen is a house and techno producer, co-founder of the awesome Dublin Digital Radio and also yknow, a DJ too. Hence why we got him to do this party-starting mixxxx to get you in the zone for Open Ear 2018!
Dance up on yourself.

Breen - Open Ear Mixx

Sectionfive with some words on the weekend + tracklist...

"If you weren't there you are probably sick listening to the rest of us. 

What a weekend on Sherkin! 

The island, people, weather and organisation - Open Ear was truly something special and it was all one of our own. Massive massive shouts to the team and north shore fam whose hard work made the entire weekend so effortless for everyone else.

I was lucky enough to play the pub on Sunday evening leaving plenty of time to get into the rhythm of the island and take it from there. Aside from a couple of tunes there was no plan other than party buzz and heavy on the xylophone. Things went well I think, with plenty smiles and tops off. One verdict suggested it was “like Ibiza without the dickheads” which isn't bad for our corner of the world. Genuinely chuffed to be part of such a ferociously high standard of music all weekend. 

Just 44 weeks till we’re back. "

Sectionfive – Jolly Roger Open Ear 2018

(Extract) Skerkin Island woman RTÉ ‘Pieces of Land’ documentary 1976 / 
Linkwood – Outside In
Vision of Panorama - Heartbeat
The The - Giant
DJ Cat – Morning Gigolo
Peach Boys – Journey Dub
Hugh Masekela - Don't Go Lose It Baby
Cultural Vibe - Mind Games
Dana Kay – Give Me Your Body
Sandy B - Student Night
Kingdom Come – Groovy Baby
Marian Finucane’s cost of drugs radio snip
Microbonez – La Musica Que Me Gusta
Manabu Nagayama, Soichi Terada - Low Tension
Fresh & Low - New Life
John Daly – Pandora (Box Mix)
D5 – Sides of Space
Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget
Night Christ – Conversation Policy
Norm Tally - Travlin
Groove Armada – Love Sweet Sound (Kolshe mix)
Dinosaur – Kiss me Again
Lipps Inc – How Long

Sectionfive - The Jolly Roger, Open Ear 2018

As dusk hit the North Shore on Sunday night of Open Ear 2018, Lerosa delivered a one off special live performance created just for this very moment on Sherkin Island...

Lerosa - Live @ Open Ear 2018

For the first of our previews for Open Ear 2019 we've got a brand new recording from Patrick Kelleher and his Cold Dead Hands featuring Brian Conniffe and Squrehead's Ian McFarlane (check out that bassline!). Funk-laden synth pop for dreamers...Patrick will perform on Saturday night on our mainstage, accompanied by his frequent collaborator Brian Conniffe.

https://openear.ie/2019-programme

Patrick Kelleher And His Cold Dead Hands - All That You've Done

Up next for our festival previews is Prun hailing from Mayo.
When it really boils down to it, we want Open Ear to be a platform for those too often overlooked by other stages and festivals around the country. While it’s not to say that Prun hasn’t slayed his own fair share of dance-floors over the years we still reckon there’s plenty of you out there who’ve yet to experience. 

For his mix Prun lays down some of that serious electro business. Flex yerself.

1.  Rolando Simmons - Cycle
2.  Kosh - Benefit of the Doubt
3.  Silicon Scally - Thermal Image
4.  Eargoggle and Obergman - Macho Macho
5.  Anthony Rother - 3L3C7RO COMMANDO
6.  Plant 43 - Lo-Res Dreams
7.  Univac - Syncotron u70
8.  E.R.P. - Overcast
9.  Random XS - Give your Body (Delta Funtionen Remix)
10. Ole Mic Odd - Back 2 the Booty
11. The Exaltics - Ten Days
12. Shinra - Pinwheel
13. Illektrolab - 6.Real Pimp
14. Privacy - The Flow
15. Detroit in Effect - Sike Yo Mind
16. Drexciya - Anti Vapour Waves
18. Luke Eargoggle and Kan3da - Night Smoker
19. Transllusion - Dimensional Glide

Prun - Open Ear '19 Dj Mixxx

Ordnance Survey is the latest project from Neil O'Connor who previously performed at Open Ear last year under his Somadrone guise. The Ordnance Survey album, featuring collaborations with Irene Buckley, Seán McErlaine and John McEntire amongst others, will be released this Thursday, when O'Connor, alongside Gareth Averill will open up OE'19. In preparation for this, Neil has kindly given us "King Trio" as a lil taster...

Ordnance Survey - King Trio

Be you a dance-floor enthusiast or a type to indulge in spotting trains, Eliza has got you covered. Going under the radar for too long, the last couple of years has seen Ireland cop itself on to the kinetic selections of Eliza. We already had her do serious damage to an Open Ear dancefloor at our Dublin Christmas party, which was really just priming us and the main Open Ear tent on Sherkin for a serious, bassbin-rattlin’ showdown.

Eliza Open Ear DJ Miiiiixxxxxx

Gash Collective's Lolz delivers 90 minutes of slow mo hammers and heartbreakers recorded in Banger Cliff on the Sunday of OE '19

Lolz - Live at Open Ear '19

Prun flexxes the electro and techno as the party stepped up a gear on the saturday night on the North Shore of OE '19

Prun - Live at Open Ear '19

Banger Cliff and Open Ear comes to a rowdy close early on Monday morning with a loose selection featuring Carl Craig, Surgeon, Radioactive Man, Scan 7, Ten Years Lost +++ from Apartment Record's Kenny Hanlon.

Kenny Hanlon - Live at Open Ear '19

Live electronic body music courtesy of the punk stylings of Rising Damp from the Sunday evening on Banger Cliff.

Rising Damp - Live at Open Ear '19

Tousist draws in the dance floor slowly but surely, in a master class of atmospherics late on the Sunday night in Banger Cliff

Tousist - Live at Open Ear '19

Open Ear is an annual festival that takes place on Sherkin Island, Ireland. We aim to traverse a multiplicity of musical languages & landscapes, and to have a dance.

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