The supremely unGoogleable !!! will play Dublin later this year. Otherwise known as Chk Chk Chk or whatever you want to call them, the Sacramento dance-punk heroes will stop off at Whelans on November 21. The show marks 10 years since they last sold out the venue. Tickets cost €25 and go on sale this Friday (June 28) at 3pm.
Body/Head, the American experimental electric guitar duo comprised of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, will perform in Dublin next month. Kicking off Gordon’s exhibition ‘She bites her tender mind’ – which runs in the building’s Courtyard Galleries from July 27-November 10 – the pair will play The Irish Museum of Modern Art on July 27. The performance takes place as part of An Evening With Kim Gordon, which will also poet Elaine Kahn and guitar Heather Leigh. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, June 19th at 9am, priced €25.00.
Olympia, Washington trio Sleater-Kinney will play Dublin next year. Set to release their St. Vincent-produced ninth studio album, The Centre Won’t Hold, in August, Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss will stop off at Vicar Street on March 1st, 2020. The band last played the venue in 2015 as part of their No Cities To Love tour. Tickets for their show next March go on sale on Friday, June 21st at 10am, priced €33.65.
Deerhunter will play an intimate show in Dublin later this year. Having last played the city back in 2015, the Bradford Cox-fronted band will play Whelan’s on November 2nd. Tickets are priced at €35.00 and will go on sale on Friday at 9am. Back in January, Deerhunter released their eighth studio album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Watch the video for single ‘Death in Midsummer’ below.
Four Tet is set for a date in Belfast later this Summer. The London producer, born Kieran Hebden, will play the Telegraph Building on Friday, August 30th. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 14th at 10am. Pre-sale access is available here.
Let’s face it: they don’t come more legendary than Pere Ubu. Forty-four years on from forming in Cleveland, Ohio, the hugely influential, David Thomas-fronted post-punk pioneers will play Dublin’s Grand Social on Saturday, September 21st as part of their farewell tour. This will be the band’s first show in the city since 2013. Tickets are on sale here.
Saharan desert blues heroes Tinariwen will make their long-awaited return to Dublin at the end of the year. Having released nine albums over the last 18 years, the group will return to play The Olympia Theatre on Monday, November 11. They last played a headline show in the city, at the Academy, in 2009. Tickets are priced €33.65 and go on sale this Friday (June 7) at 9am.
Gary Numan will return to Dublin later this year. The pioneering synth-pop artist and genre-warping artist will play the Olympia Theatre on September 22nd. The show takes place as part of his (R)evolution 40th anniversary tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 8am, priced €34.65.
Two Door Cinema Club have announced two Irish shows for October. The Northern Irish indie-pop trio will play Belfast’s Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on October 15 and Belfast’s Telegraph Building on October 16. Pre-sale starts tomorrow (Wednesday, May 8) at 9am. Tickets go on sale on Friday. Two Door will release their new album, False Alarm, on June 14.
Hot Chip will play Belfast in the Autumn. The Alexis Taylor-fronted, English indie electronic band will play Limelight 1 on Wednesday, October 16. They recently announced a show in Dublin the following night. Hot Chip release their seventh album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, via on Domino on June 21. Tickets for the Belfast show go on sale at 10am on Friday, May 10.