Cate Le Bon will play two Irish shows next year. Supported by Mega Bog on both dates, the Welsh avant-pop singer-songwriter will play Belfast’s Empire Music Hall on Friday, March 18th and Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Saturday, March 19th. On sale this Friday, October 15th from 10am, tickets cost £24.00 and €28.00 respectively. On 4th February, 2022, Le Bon releases her sixth studio album, Pompeii, via Mexican Summer. Watch the video for lead single ‘Running Away’ below. Photo by H. Hawkline
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Tool have announced their long-awaited return to Ireland. The acclaimed, Maynard James Keenan-fronted quartet will play Dublin’s 3Arena on May 6, 2022. Tickets go on sale this Friday (October 1) at 10am. The show – which takes place as part of a forthcoming UK and European arena tour – marks the band’s first show in Ireland since 2006. Revisit a stone-cold Tool classic below.
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Parquet Courts are coming back to Dublin. Having last played the city back in 2018, the New York indie-rock quartet will play the Helix in Dublin on Saturday, June 11. The announcement comes as part of news of the band’s forthcoming seventh album Sympathy For Life and its accompanying world tour. Tickets for the Dublin show cost €29.80 and go on sale on Friday, September 24. Watch the video for the band’s new single ‘Black Widow Spider’ below.
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Indie rock legends Pavement are coming back to Dublin. 11 years on from last playing the city, the Stephen Malkmus-fronted band will play Vicar Street on November 10, 2022 as part of their latest reunion. The show follows a string of dates in the UK, including four dates at the Roundhouse in London. Tickets for the Dublin show go on sale this Friday, September 10 at 10 AM. Best be quick.
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Bob Mould has announced a solo show for Dublin. The ex-Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman will play a solo electric show at Whelan’s on January 19 2022. Tickets are priced €29.50 and go on sale this Friday (July 23) at 10am. The show, which coincides with the upcoming release of his Distortion: Live vinyl boxset, sees Mould perform solo versions of music from across his 40+ career, including some Hüsker Dü classics.
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Dinosaur Jr. have announced a Dublin show as part of a forthcoming UK and Ireland tour. As well as playing Manchester, Hull and Glasgow, the J Mascis-fronted trio return to Dublin’s Vicar Sreet on Sunday, March 27 2022. The band last played the venue – and Dublin generally – back in November 2016. Tickets for the show go on sale at 9 am on Thursday, July 29th. Photo by Cara Totman.
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The War on Drugs are coming back to Ireland. Accompanying the news of their first album in four years, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, the Philadelphia indie-rock band have announced they will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Thursday, April 14 2022. Marking their first headliner in the city since 2014, tickets for the show go on sale this Friday, July 23rd at 10am. I Don’t Live Here Anymore is out via Atlantic Records on October 29th. Check out the video for the album’s lead single ‘Living Proof’ below.
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Eels are set to return to Belfast and Dublin. The Mark ‘E’ Oliver Everett-led band will kick off their Lockdown Hurrican tour with shows at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on March 11 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on March 12. Speaking about the shows, E said, “We’ve got a lot of pent-up energy from all the time spent cooped-up and unable to rock. It’s going to be an extra-special treat this time. We always have the greatest time playing live, but this is gonna get crazy. Attendees will want to keep their cameras rolling, because we may explode.” Tickets are priced from €45.05 and go on sale on Friday,…
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Tori Amos is set to play Dublin and Cork next year. As part of a forthcoming European tour, the U.S. singer-songwriter will play Cork’s Opera House on March 17 and the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on March 18. Tickets go on sale next Friday (July 16) at 10 AM. Revisit a stone-cold Tori Amos classic below.
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St. Vincent is coming back to Dublin. Off the back of the release of her sixth studio album, Daddy’s Home, Annie Clark will play Fairview Park in Dublin on June 26. Marking her first date in the city since a two-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in 2017, the show doubles as her biggest Irish headliner to date. Tickets are priced at €49.90 and go on sale on Friday, July 9th at 10am. Read our review of Daddy’s Home here.