Like a man in a tuxedo on a nightclub dance floor, Nils Frahm stands bang on the border between contemporary classical music and electronica.

Tiny Magnetic Pets started out the wrong band in the wrong place.

The weekend confrontation between Turkey, Holland, and Germany may seem a remote, Mitteleuropa sideshow but it is not at all.

Kieran Goss will have enjoyed Germany’s eleventh hour World Cup triumph. The Sligo-based acoustic songwriter has toured Mitteleuropa for years, routinely selling-out 1,500 capacity venues from Dusseldorf to Dresden. He has, in some ways, become an honorary German.