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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260408T100000
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SUMMARY:NO IRISH NEED APPLY?
DESCRIPTION:This new temporary exhibition within EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum asks how the millions of Irish people in England have fared over the past 200 years. Based on landmark economic history research using new big data analysis\, it tracks the wealth\, health\, and living standards of Irish migrants and families of Irish descent\, showing that the Irish were substantially poorer than their English neighbours for generations. \nNo Irish Need Apply? highlights the extraordinary contribution Irish women and men have made to the English economy and wider society through their hard work\, vibrant culture\, and political activism. The exhibition also includes the words and music of Irish migrants in England captured in Philip Donnellan’s 1965 film “The Irishmen”\, in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute. \nThe exhibition has been developed by the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics & Political Science from research by Professor Neil Cummins and Professor Cormac Ó Gráda (UCD). It has been curated by Dr Christoper Kissane\, Engagement & Impact Lead\, LSE Dept of Economic History.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/no-irish-need-apply/
LOCATION:EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum\, 1 Custom House Quay Dublin\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibition,History,Other Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510
DTSTAMP:20260204T090226Z
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SUMMARY:Do You Come From Gomorrah?
DESCRIPTION:Written by Frank McGuinness \nDirected by Sarah Baxter \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Never breathe a word of what I went through there…” \n\n\nDo You Come From Gomorrah? is a world premiere from Frank McGuinness\, one of Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights and will be performed by Ryan Donaldson (Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme\, 2016 and Tartuffe\, 2023). \n‘I recognise my breed\, when I come across the men who look as if they have seen a ghost…’ \nA young man relives his time caged in a reformatory where money and terror shaped him\, his faith\, his sexuality. \n‘I do not like the past. It is not kind to me. It does not belong to me.’ \nHe relives the violence and loyalty that shaped him and the province of Ulster he loves\, yet must leave. \nStark\, unsettling\, in the darkest of nights\, holding on to hope\, who is it that asks “do you come from Gomorrah?” And where is Gomorrah? So near\, so far… \nCommenting on the play\, director Sarah Baxter says ‘I’m excited to be directing the world premiere production of Do You Come From Gomorrah? by Frank McGuinness – it’s always an honour to work on the premiere of a new play and a responsibility I take on joyfully. Ryan Donaldson has a brilliant understanding of Frank’s writing\, and I can’t wait for audiences to see him bring this complex\, beautiful story to life.’ \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCast: Ryan Donaldson\n\n\nWriter: Frank McGuinness\nDirector: Sarah Baxter\nSet and Costume Design: Alyson Cummins\nLighting Design: Sinéad McKenna\nComposer: Tom Lane\nSound Design: Martha Knight
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/do-you-come-from-gomorrah/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Drama,Film & Theatre,Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260531
DTSTAMP:20260330T114338Z
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SUMMARY:NCH presents Christy Moore
DESCRIPTION:Christy Moore is set to return to the National Concert Hall for four highly anticipated performances. \nFans can also look forward to an Expanded Edition of his Number 1 album A Terrible Beauty\, which will be released later this year on Claddagh Records. The new edition will include five brand-new tracks\, adding to the original 13-song collection. \nAmong the standout tracks is the single Boy in the Wild\, co-written by Christy and the late Wally Page. The powerful video for the song recently earned top honours at the 2025 Shark Music Video Awards in London\, winning both Best Music Video and Best Direction. \nThe album also includes ‘Black & Amber’\, written by Brian Brannigan of A Lazarus Soul\, who also wrote album track ‘Lemon Sevens’. Elsewhere on A Terrible Beauty\, stories of resilience\, memory\, and social struggle weave together across its tracks\, blending personal reflections with broader societal critiques. From the powerful meditation on conflict and defiance in ‘Sunflowers’\, an ode to Ukraine\, it moves through tributes to historic figures and tragic events\, such as Ann Lovett and Lyra McKee. Songs like ‘The Big Marquee’ and ‘Cumann na Mná’ celebrate The Rebel County and the Ireland Women’s Football Team respectively in Christy’s signature tongue-in-cheek style\, while tracks like ‘Palestine’ and ‘Snowflakes’ call out injustice and hate. Christy Moore’s music resonates powerfully with audiences worldwide\, capturing universal experiences with a rare\, evocative touch. A Terrible Beauty is a striking showcase of his unique ability to bring shared stories to life.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/nch-presents-christy-moore/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Music,Trad & Folk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260503
DTSTAMP:20250828T084355Z
CREATED:20250828T084355Z
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SUMMARY:The Beekeeper of Aleppo
DESCRIPTION:Proudly presented by Martin Dodd for UK Productions Ltd in association with Nottingham Playhouse\, adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler\, from the International No.1 Bestseller Christy Lefteri. \nFrom the producers behind the hugely successful West End and Broadway stage adaptation of The Kite Runner. \n‘I was scared of the bees at first\, but now\, they make me feel alive. They are like a society in complete harmony with itself. Not like people at all\, but maybe what people have the potential to be’  \nNuri is a beekeeper\, his wife\, Afra\, an artist. They live a simple life\, rich in family and friends\, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo – until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war\, they are forced to escape. On their terrifying journey\, they must face the pain of their own unbearable loss alongside incredible danger. Above all\, they must journey to find each other again. This compassionate and beautiful play is a story of connection – between friends\, families\, and strangers. \n‘A story of loss\, love\, resilience and hope. … it’s impossible not to be moved.’ The Observer \nWinner of the Aspen Words Award\, Runner up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and one of The Times top three bestselling books of 2020\, Christy Lefteri’s best-selling novel is adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai\, and Matthew Spangler who adapted The Kite Runner. The production produced in association with UK Productions had its world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse in early 2023 and went on to tour the UK\, receiving rave reviews wherever it played. \n  \nRunning Time & Special Effects: \n\nApproximately 2 hours 20 mins including interval.\nThe show contains strobe lighting\, flashing light\, haze and sudden loud noises.\n\nAGE GUIDANCE:\n\nAge Recommendation: 14+ (Under 16’s must be accompanied by a parent/guardian aged 18+)\nNo under 3’s permitted in the auditorium
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/the-beekeeper-of-aleppo/
LOCATION:Gaiety Theatre
CATEGORIES:Drama,Film & Theatre,Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260503
DTSTAMP:20260310T121048Z
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SUMMARY:The Madonna of Asia
DESCRIPTION:Once Asia’s brightest star\, Rin Asari (Mai Ishikawa) was poised for global fame with the release of her first film in English. But soon after\, she vanished. It’s 2014. Rin\, in her forties\, lives quietly in Dublin. By chance\, she connects with Tara (Clare Barrett)\, a woman living in Hong Kong\, bringing up the past she has tried to forget. When Rin receives an offer to return to the screen\, she must confront what she left behind. \nInspired by the golden age of Hong Kong cinema\, THE MADONNA OF ASIA weaves together live performance\, vibrant projection and multilingual storytelling. Moving between myth and memory\, this piece traces a woman’s journey from icon to exile – and back to herself. \n. \nWritten\, directed and featuring design by Linbury Prizewinner Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍. \nPerformed in English\, Japanese and Cantonese. Japanese and Cantonese dialogue is captioned in English. Run time one hour. \n\n\n.\n\nFeatured by Chris McCormack in The Irish Times as one of 2026’s headline plays.\n\n.\n\nPraise for Choy-Ping’s work: \n“Formally\, thematically\, politically\, there is very little work being made in Ireland that dares as much as Choy-Ping’s.”\n— Carys D. Coburn \n“To be displaced from a place is also to be displaced from language. Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s practice creates a space that foregrounds these themes in new modes of performance across technical and substantive levels\, equally displaced from theatrical tradition.”\n— Michelle Chan Schmidt \n\n\n“Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s set design is a stroke of genius.”\n— Chris O’Rourke\, The Arts Review\, on Boyfriends by Ultan Pringle\n\n.\n\nSupported by Dublin City Council Project Arts Grant and Incubation Space Award\, Irish Theatre Institute\, PROPEL Programme with Strollers Network\, Rough Magic Theatre Company and The New Theatre Artist in Residence Programme.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/the-madonna-of-asia/
LOCATION:The New Theatre\, 43 Essex St E\, Dublin\, Leinster\, D02 Y306\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Drama,Film & Theatre,Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510
DTSTAMP:20260309T121009Z
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SUMMARY:Sorry You Felt That Way
DESCRIPTION:An award winning domestic thriller about love and the things we wish we didn’t know. \nEmma met Adam in a Tesco at a strange time in her life. After six months of romance and joy she decides to move out of her mouldy box room and into his apartment. Things are looking up for Emma.\nBut on her first night in her new home Adam’s ex-girlfriend is waiting for her in the sitting room and she no longer feels safe. \nFollowing on from a sold out\, award winning run Sorry You Felt That Way returns to Smock Alley Boys’ School. \nWinner of The Fishamble New Writing Award 2024 \n“A must see” – Trinity News\n“A thought piercing piece” – Reviews Hub \nAge Suitability: 16+\nWarnings: Strong language / References to domestic abuse \n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE COMPANY\nHarry Butler is a actor and writer from Dublin. He trained at The Lir Academy in Dublin. His first play ‘Changing the Sheets’ played in Dublin\, London and Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. ‘Changing the Sheets’ has recently been translated into Italian in being performed in Naples and Rome in Spring ‘26. \nAnthony Biggs is former Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End in London as well as The Playground Theatre in London. His work has been performed in the West End and Off Broadway.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/sorry-you-felt-that-way/
LOCATION:Smock Alley Theatre\, 6-7 Exchange Street Lower\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 8\, D08 EH67
CATEGORIES:Drama,Film & Theatre,Theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260503
DTSTAMP:20260119T094144Z
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SUMMARY:James Joyce Centre Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Guides from the James Joyce Centre take you through Dublin\, exploring the history of the city and the various locations described by Ireland’s greatest writer\, James Joyce.\n\nThough Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland\, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the inner city\, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing\, demonstrating just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ was to the author’s life and art. The tour visits such stops as Belvedere College\, the Gresham Hotel\, the James Joyce Statue\, Davy Byrnes\, and the National Library.\n\nThis is an excellent and fun introduction to Joyce in a bustling part of the city.\n\nThe James Joyce Centre offers two tours: Introducing Joyce’s Dublin and Footsteps of Leopold Bloom.\n\nEvery Thursday\, Friday & Saturday at 11 am. Duration 2 hours.\n\nAdmission to the James Joyce Centre is included. \nThe James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture\, Communications and Sport.
URL:https://dublintown.wpenginepowered.com/event/james-joyce-centre-walking-tours/2026-04-30/
LOCATION:The James Joyce Centre
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Tours
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260504
DTSTAMP:20260119T094144Z
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SUMMARY:James Joyce Centre Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Guides from the James Joyce Centre take you through Dublin\, exploring the history of the city and the various locations described by Ireland’s greatest writer\, James Joyce.\n\nThough Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland\, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the inner city\, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing\, demonstrating just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ was to the author’s life and art. The tour visits such stops as Belvedere College\, the Gresham Hotel\, the James Joyce Statue\, Davy Byrnes\, and the National Library.\n\nThis is an excellent and fun introduction to Joyce in a bustling part of the city.\n\nThe James Joyce Centre offers two tours: Introducing Joyce’s Dublin and Footsteps of Leopold Bloom.\n\nEvery Thursday\, Friday & Saturday at 11 am. Duration 2 hours.\n\nAdmission to the James Joyce Centre is included. \nThe James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture\, Communications and Sport.
URL:https://dublintown.wpenginepowered.com/event/james-joyce-centre-walking-tours/2026-05-01/
LOCATION:The James Joyce Centre
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T140000
DTSTAMP:20260330T114941Z
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SUMMARY:Those Hucklebuck Days: The Songs We Danced To
DESCRIPTION:Alan Carney\nEvelyn Grant (Narrator)\nLinda Kenny\nDamian Smith \nThe Singalong Songbook pays homage to the popular showband era. In this heady tribute to pure nostalgia\, Those Hucklebuck Days: The Songs We Danced To revisits those hits that played each day on the radio and dominated the ballrooms of romance. The brilliant Singalong Songbook team\, joined by showband legend Art Supple of the Victors Showband\, will help you relive magic memories as they remember the crazy showband days in Ireland\, particularly Dublin.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/those-hucklebuck-days-the-songs-we-danced-to/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music,Pop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T213000
DTSTAMP:20260303T121402Z
CREATED:20251112T101553Z
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SUMMARY:Just Mustard
DESCRIPTION:Just Mustard’s heady blend of noise\, trip hop\, and electronic-influenced music has helped them build a reputation as one of Ireland’s most thrilling new bands\, both live and on record. \nTheir have announced their highly anticipated headline show in one of Dublin’s most iconic venues\, 3Olympia Theatre\, on Friday 1st May 2026. \n\n\nFormed in Dundalk\, Ireland\, Just Mustard consists of vocalist Katie Ball\, guitarists David Noonan (also backing vocals) and Mete Kalyoncuoglu\, bassist Robert Hodgers Clarke\, and drummer Shane Maguire. \nAcross their first two albums – 2018’s Wednesday and Partisan Records debut Heart Under from 2022 – the Irish band had become masters at creating haunting noise rock\, Katie Ball’s bewitching vocals swirling amongst the sounds like smoke. Heart Under\, defined by a maelstrom of dark industrial noise and dreamy textures\, explored themes of grief and longing\, with imagery of being submerged deep underwater and gasping for air. On the remarkable WE WERE JUST HERE\, the band reemerges\, leaning towards the light and the rush of euphoria. A pollyanna is defined as an excessively cheerful or optimistic person. For it to be the title and inspiration of the opening track and lead single from Just Mustard’s third album\, WE WERE JUST HERE\, signals a Damascene moment for the Dundalk five-piece. \nAcross these 10 tracks\, the band’s signature elements are still intact: guitars that are warped beyond recognition\, twisted sound design that draws from the luminary world of Aphex Twin and cavernous low ends. Guitarists David Noonan and Mete Kalyoncuoğlu continue to take their instruments to wild and unrecognizable places\, while the rhythm section of bassist Robert Hodgers Clarke and drummer Shane Maguire bring thudding sub bass and clattering percussion respectively. This time though\, it’s all been channeled into a warmer and more anthemic path\, opening up a new dimension of sound for the band. \n“I was trying to write more optimistically\, and feeling like a fraud sometimes\,” Ball says. “To find ‘POLLYANNA’ as a title\, I was looking up different words for toxic happiness. I was trying to achieve happiness even if it wasn’t always helpful. Euphoria was a word that kept coming up – trying to feel euphoric\, but at a cost.” \n“I don’t wanna go where I can’t feel a thing\,” she sings on the bold and melodic “DREAMER”\, while the album’s title track – the perfect mix of their thudding signature guitar sound and new commitment to lightness and warmth – explodes into technicolor noise after Ball’s declaration: “I just wanna make it feel good.” \nThe singer adds: “I was trying to put myself in places of physical joy to try and get that euphoric feeling.” Across the album\, songs draw from a wide spectrum of emotion and feeling\, with characters searching for ecstasy\, holding onto love and grasping for the rush of feeling alive. The vocals foreground these feelings\, and the intricately crafted compositions behind them back up the urge\, whether on the propulsive “SILVER” or the explosive “ENDLESS DEATHLESS”. \nProduced by Noonan and the band\, they aimed for directness and immediacy with their songwriting. While their approach to composition had previously been inspired by their love of electronic music\, starting with instrumental loops and textures and later weaving vocal ideas around them\, the band made a conscious decision to reverse engineer this process on WWJH. For them this meant adopting a more traditional method\, looking to the swirling rock and dynamic song structures of Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine and striving for big\, bold\, fully encompassing songs. \n“The vocal structure was the most important thing\,” Noonan says of how the songs for WE WERE JUST HERE were built. With choruses bursting with melody and brightness\, Ball’s vocals rise higher in the mix throughout the album\, partly as a purely sonic decision but also to hammer home feelings of positivity\, albeit sometimes conflicted ones. \nWhile it presents an expanded emotional palette for the band\, everything is still directed through their unique lens\, feeling Lynchian in the way it shoots for happiness but ends up with something stranger\, more complicated and more fascinating. \nThe strange and distinct universe the band create on record is reinforced with haunting interludes of warped speech and noise: “We wanted to create levels of texture in the album that could recall different layers of memory and time\, also injecting some of our own personal experience of creating into the finished tracks. We used snippets of voice memos from the writing process\, some elements are from the first recorded version or from various demos\, and in the studio used a mixture of digital and analogue equipment and 1/2” tape processing.” \nThe idea of place was also key when writing\, the band thinking about clubs and dancefloors as settings which directed them to strive for something immediate and urgent. “When we were writing the songs\, we could actually sometimes see different rooms and imagine playing this song in this venue”. While most of the rooms popping into his head weren’t cavernous arenas\, the band’s extensive 2023 tour of South America in support of The Cure also pointed towards the opportunity for a bigger and more expansive sound. \nWE WERE JUST HERE was recorded at the Black Mountain studio just outside of the band’s hometown of Dundalk. As with Heart Under\, they brought in David Wrench (Frank Ocean\, FKA twigs) to mix the record. “It’s amazing how he seemingly added more melody to the songs just through processing\,” Noonan says\, relishing in handing the album to someone else after “our hands had been all over it\,” with Wrench pulling out even more depth and strength to Ball’s vocals. \nAs a band more interested in gesturing towards themes rather than ramming narratives down listeners’ throats\, WE WERE JUST HERE was the perfect title for the new album. The band reflect; “If you put the emphasis on any of the four words\, it can mean something different.” \nAs such\, you can ingest Ball’s lyrics as a conflicted and toxic grasp at positivity\, or a cathartic breakthrough into blissful\, true euphoria. Whichever way it’s received\, it arrives in the package of a revelatory new album\, one that takes Just Mustard’s music to ecstatic new places. For Heart Under\, a core concept of the album was to make listeners feel like they were travelling through a tunnel. With WE WERE JUST HERE\, they explode out into the blinding light.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/just-mustard/
LOCATION:3Olympia Theatre
CATEGORIES:Electronic & Dance,Music,Rock & Indie,Shoegaze
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T220000
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SUMMARY:CHARLIE NOORDEWIER
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Noordewier comes LIVE to Whelan’s on the first of May 2026!
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/charlie-noordewier/
LOCATION:Whelan’s
CATEGORIES:Music,Rock & Indie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T223000
DTSTAMP:20260128T124712Z
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SUMMARY:Kiera Dignam
DESCRIPTION:Renowned vocalist and daughter of Irish musical icon Christy Dignam\, Kiera Dignam plays The Grand Social on May 1st\, 2026
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/kiera-dignam/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Music,Pop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260501T230000
DTSTAMP:20260409T102107Z
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SUMMARY:Bleech 9:3
DESCRIPTION:When Bleech 9:3 songwriters/guitarists Barry Quinlan and Sam Duffy first crossed paths in their early twenties\, it almost seemed inconceivable that they hadn’t met before. Throughout their tumultuous teenage years spent gigging in various projects around Dublin\, they’d lived near-parallel lives mired by the chaos-purgatory spiral of addiction; like two shadows cast by the same light but never touching. \nIn the throes of the early stages of recovery – when a better life still felt elusive and intangible\, something to be hoped for\, though not necessarily to be believed in – Barry and Sam were introduced to each other at a 12-step rehab programme. Barry soon signed up to be his new friend’s sponsor and take him through the process\, and felt energised by the similarities in their ambitions and worldview. \n“I think to find someone your own age\, with the same dreams as you\, from the same city and is also suffering from the same thing… we knew immediately that we could help each other\,” recalls Sam. “You can lose your mind thinking about how rare that is.” \nHowever unsteady their respective circumstances may have been at the time\, a brighter\, more creative future suddenly came into focus. In between “secret” writing sessions the foundations of Bleech 9:3 were born\, giving Barry and Sam purpose to move forward. “From the point of view of recovery and sobriety\, we shared an intrinsic understanding of each other. It felt like we were building something very\, very special\,” says Barry. \nThree years on from Barry and Sam’s chance meeting\, and Bleech 9:3 are on the crest of a wave. Completed by James Quinlan (bass) and Luke O’Neill (drums)\, the band are one of the most in-demand new live acts on the circuit\, after a storming 2025 saw them open up for Keo and Shame alongside booking sold-out headline shows. They became a word-of-mouth wonder in a matter of months\, earning early acclaim from press and radio\, before the year culminated in an electrifying three-night residency at London’s Blue Basement. \nWith only a handful of singles to their name\, Bleech 9:3 have established a sound that’s as evocative as it is crunchy and in-your-face\, deftly gliding between sharp\, irrepressible melodies and heavy blasts of distortion whenever the mood demands. They draw from a shared adoration of seminal acts like Radiohead\, Deftones and Nirvana\, as well as more contemporary names like Fontaines D.C. and Sleep Token. \nFollowing the release of new single ‘Cannonball’\, Bleech 9:3 stand on the edge of something momentous. Fresh material is in the works and a devoted fanbase continues to surge\, while a run of over 150 live dates looms large. The road ahead might be rich with possibility – but the band’s existence alone is proof that from the ashes\, something fearless can be reborn.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/bleech-93/
LOCATION:Whelan’s
CATEGORIES:Alternative,Music,Rock & Indie
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SUMMARY:SIGNAL Vol.1
DESCRIPTION:SIGNAL VOL.1 – Launch Night A new chapter in Dublin’s electronic music scene. SIGNAL is a carefully curated experience built around sound\, atmosphere and connection. House • Afro House • Melodic House & Techno • Tech House • Indie Dance DJ Barberina & DJ Vlad.Key (UA) An international crowd. One dancefloor. Wigwam\, Dublin May 1\, Doors 22:00 SIGNAL the groove has arrived.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/signal-vol-1/
LOCATION:Wigwam
CATEGORIES:Electronic & Dance,Music
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