Foo Fighters will play two Irish shows next year. Six years on from making their debut at the same festival as part of their 2012 Wasting Light tour, the band will return to play Belfast’s Tennent’s Vital on August 19th. They will also play Dublin’s RDS Arena on August 21st. Tickets for both shows go on sale on Friday (November 23) at 10am. Go here to register for pre-sale.
L.A. jazz giant Kamasi Washington will return to play Dublin next year. Off the back of playing this year’s Beatyard – as well as the National Concert Hall last June – the trailblazing saxophonist, composer, producer, and bandleader will play Olympia Theatre on March 3, 2019. Tickets for the show are priced at €40 and go on sale this Friday at 9am.
2-Tone heroes The Specials have announced their return to Dublin next year. Having last played the city back in 2014, the Coventry band will play Olympia Theatre on April 11th. The show is part of the band’s 40th anniversary tour, and coincides with the release of a new album, Encore – the band’s first new music in 37 years. Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 2 at 9am.
Bristol trip-hop legends Massive Attack will stop off in Dublin next as part of a tour celebrating their seminal 1998 album, Mezzanine. Promising a “totally new audio/visual production” the show at Dublin’s 3Arena on Sunday, February 24 will also feature Elizabeth Fraser, the Cocteau Twins singer who lent her vocals to the album’s second single ‘Teardrop’. The show will re-imagine Mezzanine via “custom audio reconstructed from the original samples and influences”, and is described by Robert Del Naja AKA 3D as “a one off piece of work; our own personalised nostalgia nightmare head trip”. Tickets are priced €49.50 and go on sale…
Four years on from playing the Dame Street venue, Manic Street Preachers will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Sunday, May 12th, 2019. The show will mark the 21st time the Welsh alt-rock heroes have played the capital, with their first show in the city being March, 1992 as part of the Generation Terrorists tour. This new date will come off the back of the 20th anniversary reissue of the band’s fifth album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Tickets go on sale at 9am from Friday, October 26th, priced €54.50.
Sharon Van Etten will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on March 23, 2019. The New Jersey singer-songwriter and actress – who last play the Dublin venue in 2015 – will release her new album, Remind Me Tomorrow, tomorrow. Van Etten’s Dublin show takes place as part of a 33-date world tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am. Ticket price including booking fee is €25.00. Photo by Ryan Pfluger
The legendary Giorgio Moroder will play his first ever live show at Dublin’s 3Arena on April 8. The show is part of a new tour production, A Celebration of the 80’s will see the pioneering Italian songwriter, producer and DJ perform the highlights from his prolific career in “a spectacular stage show with dazzling visuals and lighting alongside his band and vocalists.” Moroder commented on his first ever live show: “It is something I have always wanted to do, fans kept reaching out to me, asking if I would ever do a real tour. Back in the days it was…
It’s official: The Cure will play Dublin’s Mahahide Castle on June 8th, 2019. Doubling up as the Robert Smith-fronted band’s first Irish headline show in 7 years, the show promises 40 years of hits and more. Back in July, the band celebrated their 40th anniversary in July with special sold-out concert in London’s Hyde Park, almost 40 years to the day since their first ever show. Performing to 65,000 strong fans, the set included the likes of ‘Pictures Of You’, ‘Lovesong’, ‘Inbetween Days, ‘Just Like Heaven’, ‘A Forest’, ‘Lullaby’, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and more. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced…
This Friday, the second of our run of shows co-presented by esteemed Belfast tastemakers Moving on Music takes place at the Black Box, when British punk-jazz quintet WorldService Project make their first Belfast performance. Blending the third-eye-opening freneticism of Return To Forever or late 60s Zappa with an acerbic surrealist Britishness that’s one of few ties to any place of origin – look for a cameo from nightmare fuel himself, Mr Giggles. A fine example of nominal determinism, their rootlessness & contempt for genre classification has led to a confluence of math-rock, prog, punk, and the kind of contemporary, groove-laden fusion carried out by the likes of Snarky Puppy, rooted in the playfulness of Mingus & Coltrane to counteract their clearly schooled…
Ethereal Waterford drone-folk artist Katie Kim is one of Ireland’s most enchanting auteurs, and prolific collaborators, having worked on projects with Radie Peat, David Kitt, Milosh & The Waterboys over the last few years. She’s set to drop Salt Interventions tomorrow alongside Crash Ensemble, and we’re delighted to be able to bring you an early listen ahead of its release tomorrow. The album was recorded at the Grand Social back in 2017 in a performance of the same name by Guerrilla Studios’ Spud Murphy, with the show being performed at the likes of the Music Town and Body & Soul Festivals. Based around Katie’s Choice Music Prize-nominated debut album Salt, it…