• Arctic Monkeys Set For 3Arena

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    With their forthcoming sixth studio album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, set for release on May 11, it’s been announced that Arctic Monkeys will play Dublin’s 3Arena on September 24. As well as play TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow in July, the band will play the following UK and Irish dates – supported by the Lemon Twigs – throughout September: 6 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 7 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 9 United Kingdom – London – The O2 10 United Kingdom – London – The O2 15 United Kingdom – Birmingham – Arena Birmingham 18…

  • Johnny Marr Set For Album Launch Show in Dublin

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    Johnny Marr will play a show at the Button Factory on Saturday, May 12 to mark the release of his third album, Call The Comet. The Smiths legend and solo artist will play the Dublin venue as part of a 12-date run across Europe and the US. “Call The Comet’ is my own magic realism,” says Marr. “It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society. The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too. It’s something that people like me can relate…

  • At The Drive-In Set For Dublin Return

    April 4, 2018 - By 

    Two years on from their last headline show in the same venue, post-hardcore heroes At The Drive-In will return to play Dublin’s Vicar Street on July 10. The Cedric Bixler-fronted band – who released their fourth album album In•ter a•li•a last year – formed in El Paso in Texas in 1994. Tickets for Vicar Street show are priced at €47 and on sale at 9am on Friday.

  • Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Set For Dublin Show

    March 26, 2018 - By 

    Having released ‘Middle America’ – their first single in four years – last month, it’s been announced that Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 19. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 9am. SMATJ will release their new album, Sparkle Hard, on May 18 via Domino Records. Check out the artwork and brand new single, ‘Shiggy’, below.

  • Girls Names Announce New Album, Belfast & Dublin Shows

    March 26, 2018 - By 

    Marking the release of their forthcoming, Tough Love-released fourth album album, Stains on Silence, Belfast three-piece Girls Names have announced new dates in Belfast and Dublin. The Cathal Cully-fronted threesome will play Belfast’s Black Box on Friday, June 15 and Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, June 23. Tickets for the former are £14.50 (Black Box Members £12); Dublin is €16. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, March 28 at 10am and 9am respectively. Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, Girls Names suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. Frontman Cathal…

  • Snow Patrol Announce Seven-Date Irish Tour

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    Snow Patrol have announced a seven-date Irish tour ahead of the release of their new album, Wildness, set on May 25. Marking the Northern Irish band’s first live dates in five years, Gary Lightbody and co. will play the following. Derry – Millennium Forum 11th May Cork – Opera House 12th May Killarney – INEC 14th May Dublin – Olympia 15th May Wexford – Opera House 16th May Galway – Leisureland 18th May Belfast – Ulster Hall 20th May Tickets go on Friday, March 30 at 10am.

  • Ariel Pink Set For Dublin Show

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that L.A. lo-fi multi-instrumentalist maestro Ariel Marcus Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink will play Dublin’s Button Factory on August 16. Co-promoted by Aiken and Skinny Wolves, tickets for the show are on sale now priced €22. Ariel Pink released his stellar 11th studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, via Mexican Summer back in September last year.

  • Bloc Party Set for Silent Alarm Show at 3Arena

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    As part of a run of six European shows, Bloc Party will perform their debut album, Silent Alarm, at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 22. Hands down their finest hour, Silent Alarm was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2005. The double A-side ‘So Here We Are/Positive Tension’, ‘Banquet’ and ‘Pioneers’ were released as singles. Tickets are on sale on Monday, March 25 at 9am, priced €49.50 including booking fee.

  • Four Irish Acts set to play London St. Patrick’s Day Show

    March 14, 2018 - By 

    In the kind of lineup we’d kill for back home, London is lucky enough to bear witness to a St. Patrick’s Day celebration that we’d hold our watch to, packed with fiercely singular hibernophiles & noteable outsiders. It’s the first edition of the national stereotype-subverting Cushty Gamut, and takes place at New River Studios, Ground Floor Unit E on the Eade Road. Five live acts perform in the main venue, comprising four of our own who’ve made the trip across the pond. They are: Cork cosmische, drone voyagers Percolator – who released our Irish album of the 2017, Sestra. Dublin noise rock quartet Hands Up Who Wants To Die, who’ve returned recently with new frontman Rory O’Brien…

  • Beach House Set For Dublin Return

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    Having last played the city in the same venue back in 2015, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House will return to play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Saturday, October 12. The announcement comes accompanied with the release of ‘Dive’, the second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming seventh album, 7. Tickets for the Dublin show in October are priced at €35 and go on sale this Friday. Read our 2015 interview with Victoria Legrand from Beach House here.