• John Maus Announces New Album, Will Play Dublin in November

    August 29, 2017 - By 

    Having been off the radar over the last while in order to focus on completing his PhD, Austin experimental pop master John Maus will release his first album in six years, Screen Memories, via Ribbon Music on October 27. A month later, on November 24, Maus will play The Grand Social in Dublin, thanks to the joint efforts of Skinny Wolves and Aiken. With guests still to be announced, tickets for the show are priced €18.50 and go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, August 30. Screen Memories opening track ‘The Combine’ is released today, in which Maus intones with an apocalyptic stateliness, “It’s going to dust us all…

  • Robert Plant Set For Dublin and Belfast Dates

    August 18, 2017 - By 

    Following the release of his forthcoming new album, Carry Fire, Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant will play two Irish dates in early December. Accompanied by the Sensational Shape Shifters -a band comprising John Baggott on keyboards, moog, loops, percussion, drums, brass arrangement, t’bal, snare drum, slide guitar, piano, electric piano, bendir; Justin Adams on guitar, acoustic guitar, oud, E-bow quartet, percussion, snare drum, tambourine; Dave Smith on bendir, tambourine, djembe, drum kit; and Liam “Skin” Tyson on dobro, guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, twelve-string – Plant will play Belfast’s Ulster Hall on Saturday, December 2 and Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy…

  • The Menzingers Set For Irish Dates

    August 14, 2017 - By 

    Pennsylvanian punk rock quartet The Menzingers will kick off a European tour in the New Year with a brace of Irish dates. Culminating in Amsterdam in mid-February, the tour – which will feature support from PUP and Cayetana – will see the foursome play Dublin’s Whelan’s on January 28 and Belfast’s Limelight 2 the following night, January 29. Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday at 9am. The Menzingers released their fifth studio album, After the Party, at the start of the year. Stream it below.

  • LCD Soundsystem To Play Three Headline Shows at the Olympia

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    Here’s some news to ease those Monday morning blues: LCD Soundsystem will headline three very special shows at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre across September 27-29. Marking the band’s first headline shows since reforming in 2015, they will be the James Murphy-fronted band’s only Irish appearances this year. Tickets – which go on sale this Friday at 9am – are priced €54.50. LCD Soundsystem will release their fourth studio album, American Dream, on September 1.

  • Pussy Riot Announce Dublin and Belfast Shows

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    Five years on from their highly-reported performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Russian feminist protest punk rock group Pussy Riot have announced they will play shows in Ireland later this year. Riot Days – which accompanies band member Maria Alyokhina’s written memoir of the same name – is a show directed by Russian theatre director Yury Muravitsky that traces the story of the band’s notorious guerilla protest and what followed in the aftermath. Marrying punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest, the show will stop off at Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday, November 23 and Belfast’s Mandela Hall…

  • Protomartyr Set For Dublin Show

    July 10, 2017 - By 

    Having last played the city in March last year, Detroit post-punk heroes Protomartyr will return to Dublin for a show at Whelan’s on Saturday, November 18. Support on the night will come from Sauna Youth and Tuam’s finest, Oh Boland. Tickets on sale now priced €16.50 excluding booking fee. Protomartyr released one of the albums of 2015 in The Agent Intellect. Revisit it below.

  • Richard Dawson To Play Dublin and Belfast

    July 5, 2017 - By 

    Let’s cut right to chase: Richard Dawson is one of the greatest living solo artists. A truly inimitable proposition, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne folk musician will play Dublin’s Whelan’s and Belfast’s Black Box on November 22 and November 23 respectively. With the former – which will also feature Katie Kim -presented by Enthusiastic Eunuch Promotions and the latter by Moving On Music – who have hosted Dawson on these shores below – tickets for shows, which will feature Dawson and full band, are priced €16.50 and £15 (£10 concession) via here and here.

  • Shellac Announce Irish Shows

    July 5, 2017 - By 

    Chicago post-hardcore masters Shellac will return to Dublin to play a show at Tivoli Theatre on Saturday, September 30. Supported by special guests Il Sogno Marinaio (featuring the almighty Mike Watt), the trio of Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer last played the city back in 2013. Tickets for Tivoli go on sale this Friday here. Update: the band will also play Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Friday, September 29 and Belfast’s Black Box on October 1. Tickets €25/23 and £18.

  • The Breeders Set For Dublin Return

    July 4, 2017 - By 

    Four years on from a memorable show in the same venue, alternative rock legends The Breeders will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 16. Having recently been in the studio recording the follow-up to 2008’s Mountain Battles, quartet of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macperson will stop for the show as part of a forthcoming European tour that kicks off in Glasgow and culminates in Paris. See the full dates below. Tickets for Vicar Street are priced €35 and go on sale this Thursday, July 6 at 9am.

  • Liam Gallagher to Headline Samhain Festival

    July 3, 2017 - By 

    Currently experiencing a revival via his debut solo album and last week’s set at Glastonbury, it’s been announced that Liam Gallagher will headline the Sunday night of this year’s Samhain Festival at Weston Airport in Dublin on October 29. With Annie Mac headlining the Saturday night, Gallagher will be supported by The Strypes and Touts. Tickets are priced €59.50 and go on sale this Friday at 9am.