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Co-founder Sunil Sharpe hopes the discussion event series Where Is The Night? will reignite momentum in the stalled changes to Ireland's licensing and alcohol sale laws

Irish nightlife advocates Give Us The Night, co-founded by DJ Sunil Sharpe, are holding public talks across Ireland over the next month. The discussions, taking...

Irish clubs’ extended opening hours licensing will not be in place this year

"We were told [in early 2021] worst case scenario, it would take two years... It really feels like we've been strung along here", Give Us The Night campaign founder Sunil Sharpe said

Nightclubs in Ireland will have to wait even longer for the anticipated opening-hours extension to come into effect. The 6 AM late licensing laws, which...

Ireland clubs soundproofing

Overall, €2 million is to be made available for eligible night clubs and venues

Clubs in Ireland are set to receive funding for soundproofing through a newly launched government initiative. Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht...

night-timeforum

It comes as the country's licensing laws get a long-awaited shake-up

Ireland's first-ever annual Night-Time Economy forum happens this week. Taking place at the National Gallery of Ireland from 2 AM to 5 PM on Tuesday...

Irish electronic artists to speak on importance of club culture at Berlin embassy

Sunil Sharpe, Cormac and ELLLL will all take part in the panel

Berlin's Embassy of Ireland will host a special panel event focused on the importance of club culture this week. The event will take place on...

Ireland nightclubs

Plans include drafting specialist advisors for six towns and cities, extending opening hours for cultural spaces, and a series of large-scale pilot events aimed at diversifying night-time options. 

A night-time economy pilot programme is being launched in Ireland, with specialist advisors representing pubs, bars, clubs and other venues set to be appointed in...

Running for six weeks in September 2022, the project is a response to the "dissapearance of the Irish nightclub"

A new pop-up club is opening in Dublin, conceived by a collective of architects, event producers, and club creatives — Temporary Pleasure. 

The as-yet-unnamed venue...

Throughout the pandemic, grassroots activists and nightlife representatives have worked tirelessly to create a more sustainable, accessible and protected environment for dance music. DJ Mag...

Bristol has had an advisory night-time panel since 2018, where nightclubs meet with people from licensing, planning and musician’s unions. It’s one thing to have...

Just four weeks after fully reopening

Clubs in the Republic of Ireland will be required to close at midnight from tomorrow — Thursday 18th November — as the country reintroduces several...

A pilot club event will also take place this month

Nightclubs in Ireland will be able to fully reopen from 22nd October, the Government has confirmed.

A four-stage reopening plan has been approved by the...

"Irish venues, nightclubs and music events are being disregarded," Sharpe says in the letter

Irish DJ Sunil Sharpe has penned an open letter to senior Irish politicians about what he describes as a neglect of the events industry.

Sharpe...

Opening times in the country are the most restrictive across the UK and Europe

A new campaign has been launched to support the Northern Irish night-time economy.

Launched today (17th June) Free The Night was created to push for...

Ireland’s venues and event promoters have struggled under archaic legislation for years, but thanks to the work of the Give Us The Night campaign, it...

Clubbing in Ireland has been in crisis since long before the pandemic shuttered the island’s nightclubs last March. Over the past five years, developers have...

Next up on Earwiggle is Spanish techno duo NX1. Hear the gravelly and propulsive ‘EW4’ now

Spanish techno duo NX1 are next up on Sunil Sharpe’s ever-reliable Earwiggle label.

A four-track selection of caustic, banging techno, the simply titled ‘EW’ EP...

Sunil Sharpe and DeFeKT AKA Tinfoil offer their 2018 album up for remix treatment. Hear Rebekah’s typically ferocious techno rework of ‘Friendly Safe Fumes’ now...

Last year, Irish techno and electro stalwarts Sunil Sharpe and DeFeKT teamed up once again as Tinfoil to release their debut LP, ‘On A Roll’...

Irish techno mainstay Sunil Sharpe is live at #DJMagHQ
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Sunil Sharpe’s Earwiggle launches the ‘Eel Behaviour’ compilation series with ‘Conger’. Giant Swan’s ‘The Sun Inside Jaden Smith’ closes the EP with typically gritty electronics...

Sunil Sharpe’s Earwiggle label has six new compilation EPs lined up under the curious title, ‘Eel Behaviour’.

Each release will be named after a particular...

Solid Blake and CTRLS join forces as Historical Repeater. ‘Scientific Calculator’ drops next week on Earwiggle with ‘Flashdrive’ leading the electro supercharge with fierce abandon...

Individually, CTRLS and Solid Blake have been causing a stir in underground techno and electro spheres for some time now. Danish DJ/producer CTRLS has become...