My Chemical Romance will play Dublin in the summer. The recently-reunited New Jersey emo five-piece will play their first Irish show since 2011 at Royal Hospital Kilmainham on June 23rd. Support for the date is yet to be announced. Tickets cost €72.50 and go on sale on Friday, January 31st at 10am.
Doubling up as his first Irish solo show in six years, Kurt Vile will return to play Dublin in the summer. Marking the last date in a forthcoming European tour, the Pennsylvanian artist will stop off at Vicar Street on Friday, June 12th. Tickets cost €35.00 and go on sale on Wednesday, January 15th at 9am. Check out Kurt Vile documentary (bottle back) below.
No band embodies the term “NI alt-rock royalty” more comfortably than Andy Cairns, Neil Cooper and Michael “The Evil Priest” McKeegan aka Therapy? On Saturday, September 26, the trio will take over Belfast’s Limelight 1 for a career-spanning, 30th anniversary show. In a statement, the band said, “‘We’re delighted to celebrate 30 years at the coalface of rock (no splits/no ‘hiatuses’) with a run of special anniversary shows next year! When we formed the band back in East Antrim little did we know we would be together through thick and thin to celebrate such a milestone.” Tickets for the show cost…
DC post-hardcore legends Jawbox will play their first-ever Irish show in the summer. Comprising J. Robbins, Bill Bardot, Kim Coletta and Zach Barocas, the band will stop off at Whelan’s in Dublin on June 9th as part of a forthcoming European tour. Tickets cost €27.00 and go on sale this Friday at 9am. Jawbox released four studio albums across 1991-1996. Revisit the video for ‘Savory’ from their major label debut, below.
English neo-psych maestros Temples will play Dublin in the spring. The trio, who released one of the albums of the year in Hot Motion in September, will return to the city to play the Button Factory on 2nd March 2020. Tickets cost €18.50 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.
Blanck Mass is set for a couple of Irish shows next year. The scintillating noise project of Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass will stop off at Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on Friday, March 13th and Dublin’s Workman’s Club on March 14th. Tickets for Belfast go on sale Thursday at 10am (price TBC). Dublin tickets are priced €16 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.
The Flaming Lips will make their return to Galway next year. The Wayne Coyne-fronted psych-pop maestros – who last played the festival last year – will play the Big Top at Galway Arts Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Tickets cost €49.50 and go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 29th. Back in July, the band released their fifteenth studio album, King’s Mouth. Revisit an older classic below.
King Krule will play Dublin next year. Taking place as part of his 2020 Northern American and EU tour, the English artist and multi-instrumentalist, born Archy Ivan Marshall, will play the Olympia Theatre on Thursday, March 19. Tickets cost €30 and go on sale this Friday at 10am. Check out the video for new single ‘Hey World!’ below.
Hands down one of the greatest songwriters alive today, Richard Dawson will return to play a couple of Irish shows in 2020. With his band in tow, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne artist will play Belfast Empire Music Hall on February 20 and Whelan’s in Dublin on February 21. Tickets are priced at £17.50 and €18.95 respectively.
Mark Kozelek aka Sun Kil Moon will play Dublin and Bangor next year. The Californian artist, who is also a founding member of Red House Painters, will play a fully-seated show at Dublin’s Liberty Hall Theatre on Saturday, May 23 and Bangor’s Wesley Centenary Church on Friday, May 22 2020. Tickets cost €29.50 and £30 respectively and go on sale at 9am this Friday from here and here.