For the first time in his career Greg Dulli, The Twilight Singers frontman, will embark on a solo tour which will see him make stops in five different countries for a total of 29 shows. Its approved by American rock magazine Spin. His Irish dates are Whelan’s Dublin on Wednesday 27 October, Spring and Airbrake Belfast on Thursday 28 October, Roisin Dubh Galway on Friday 29 October and Cyprus Avenue Cork on Saturday 30 October. These shows will also mark the debut of several brand new songs from the forthcoming Twilight Singers album scheduled for release on Sub Pop Records next year. The last release from the group was five years ago.
Following a one-off MTV show with Arcade Fire in Spain, The Temper Trap head across the Atlantic for headline shows in the US and a prestigious three-date support slot with The Pixies in Mexico, before returning to Australia to end a second whirlwind year on their homeland festival circuit. In between, the Melbourne four-piece play a string of dates in the UK and Ireland in late October including two night at Dublin’s Tripod venue on Sunday 31 October and Monday 1 November.
LadyDoll are an alternative rock band, who are going from county to county supporting their third single “Punchbag” and their debut album, ‘The Knife Thrower and His Wife’. Along the way they’ve gotten national radio coverage, and a live TV performance on RTE2’s The Café, Recently LadyDoll won the much sought after Jack Daniels JD Set, beating off stiff competition from some of Ireland’s best up and coming bands, as well as impressing the panel of judges, including Tim Burgess of The Charlatans. LadyDoll’s music would be most suitably classified under the genre of ‘Dark Rock’ infused with pop undertones. They play Tuesday October 26 in Roisin Dubh, Galway, Thursday 28 October in the Odessa Club, Dublin, Friday 29 October in Harrisson, Dundalk, Thursday 4 November in Auntie Annies, Belfast and Friday 5 November in The Weavers, Drogheda.
Best known for his work on The Late Late Show, world-class pianist and proud father Frank McNamara will perform with his four talented children, ranging from age 9 to 14, in two hours of music, song and fun incorporating light classical, Irish, West End tunes and pop in Cork Opera House on Tuesday 26 October.
Sean Costello will perform as Mario Lanza in Cork Opera House on Sunday 31 October. Mario Lanza, the Italian American tenor and Hollywood star was only 38, and at the height of his career when he died suddenly on 7 October 1959. In a short career spanning only 10 years, Mario Lanza became the biggest star of his generation. At the height of his career he even out-sold Elvis Presley. Sean Costello, tenor, will be the main singer in the show. Special guests are Niall Morris (formerly of The Celtic Tenors) and soprano, Sandra Oman. Vladimir Jablokov will lead the musicians from The Slovak Festival Orchestra.
Bill Coleman has a new album out and channelled his inner Bosco for the artwork (Time lapse video of painting the covers and all the other bits explained). He’s supporting the album (and sometimes the art) with a tour of Ireland namely…
Saturday 23 October - The Exchange, Dublin (Artwork Display)
Wednesday 27 October - The Spirit Store, Dundalk (Downstairs)
Thursday 28 October - The Roisin Dubh, Galway (Upstairs)
Friday 29 October - The Passionfruit Theatre, Athlone
Thursday 4 November - Mutant Cabaret, The Roundy (Upstairs), Castle Street, Cork
Saturday 6 November - Triskel/Plugd Records, Caroline Street, Cork
Thursday 18 November - Boyles, Slane
Limerick trio We Should Be Dead release a new single “Breathe In” on 22 October and have just released this video to accompany it. It’s taken from their current album Dreamstate.
The band will be playing around the country over the next month or so including a show at HWCH this Saturday at the Mercantile, 10.30pm.
Saturday 30 October - Bar Ritz, Castlebar
Thursday 4 November - Auntie Annie’s, Belfast
Friday 5 November - Spirit Store, Dundalk
Saturday 20 November - The Forum, Waterford
Sunday 26 December - Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick
It Must Be The Music is a night of Musical entertainment in aid of Action Breast Cancer, brought to you by Laoise O’Hanlon, joined by a variety of Cork women singers, including Kay Deering, Jamie Harper Kingston, Roos Demol, Bernie Harrington,Sinead Tracey, Jenny Bradley and Molly Lynch. Its on in Brogan Inn, Bandon on Friday 29 October
“Whose line is it anyway?”with special guest Phill Jupitus comes to City Limits Comedy Club in Cork on Friday 29 October at 8.30pm. True to the “Whose line” tradition four brave performers will arrive with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. Willed on by the crowd (well, maybe willed), through improvisation they create whole sketches and comic dramas that are … new. The TV show of the same name, “Whose Line Is it Anyway?” is a pale imitation when compared to this live show.
Featuring Stephen Frost, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Phill Jupitus.
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Following his debut single ‘Jigsaw’, Ryan Sheridan has announced his first headline Irish tour. Fans can catch the Monaghan man in December at …
Thursday 2 December in Dundalk, The Spirit Store
Friday 3 December in Galway, Roisin Dubh (Upstairs)
Saturday 4 December in Dublin, The Sugar Club
Sunday 5 December in Cork, Cyprus Avenue
Following on immediately from their Hard Working Working Class Heroes 2010 gigs, is the FMC (First Music Contact) six-date tour with And So I Watch You From Afar, Fionn Regan and Jape all performing across two weekends in November. First Music Contact, with funding from The Arts Council’s Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme, will tour the acts around the country in an effort to enable Irish audiences to have access to Irish headline acts for a reasonable price.
The gigs are…
Thursday 11 November – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Fionn Regan – Jape – And So I Watch You From Afar
Friday 12 November – The Pav, Cork
And So I Watch You From Afar - Fionn Regan – Jape
Saturday 13 November – Dolans, Limerick
Jape- And So I Watch You From Afar – - Fionn Regan
Thursday 18 November – The Spirit Store, Dundalk
And So I Watch You From Afar – Jape - Fionn Regan
Friday 19 November – The Dew Drop Inn, Kildare
Fionn Regan – And So I Watch You From Afar – Jape
Saturday 20 November – Whelans, Dublin
Jape - Fionn Regan - And So I Watch You From Afar
Codes announced a November headline show at Dublin’s Button Factory on Saturday 27 November.Codes are an alternative/electronic quartet from Dublin. Never ones to be content with trend-following, the group have taken the recognisable 4-piece band formula and moved it into something entirely their own. Codes winter inspired debut album “Trees Dream In Algebra” was recorded in Gloucestershire UK & mixed in Auckland, New Zealand with acclaimed producer Greg Haver (Manics, SFA) and mastered in NYC by Greg Calbi (U2,Interpol,Kings of Leon). The record was nominated for last years Choice Music Prize. Codes are: Daragh Anderson (Vocals, Guitars, Samples), Eoin Stephens (Bass, Vocals, Synth), Paul Reilly (Drums, Vocals, Samples) and Raymond Hogge (Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Synth).
The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour returns to Dublin’s Academy venue in Friday 4 February with this years amazing headline act Good Charlotte. Doors 6pm, First band on stage at 7pm. This is an over 14s event. No alcohol will be served in the venue.
Originally formed as a poppunk act in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1996, the band—vocalist Joel Madden and his identical twin brother guitarist Benji Madden along with guitarist Billy Martin, bassist Paul Thomas and the latest edition drummer Dean Butterworth—have sold over 10 million records to date, penned countless mainstream radio hits such as “The Anthem,” “Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous” and “Hold On” and shared the stage with everyone from Justin Timberlake to Third Eye Blind. They are joined by Four Year Strong and Framing Hanley. Four Year Strong, hailing from Massachusetts are a pop punk hardcaore melodic group who have just finished touring their latest album Enemy of the World. They have toured with acts like Faith No More, Janes Addiction, Placebo, You Me At Six and Paramore to name but a few. More acts have yet to be announced.
Imagine if Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil. Thats the Circus of Horrors. They bring their “Four Chapters from Hell” show to the Cork Opera House on Wednesday 3 November. Expect dare-devil flying trapeze to a vampiric crow woman suspended only by her hair, from whirlwind roller skaters to sword swallowers. All this plus pickled and bendy people, voodoo warriors, knife throwers and an almighty cast of 26 of the wildest, weirdest but most of all greatest performers on earth.
The Wicklow based ambient instrumental rock group, God Is An Astronaut, hit the road across Ireland this November for a string of live dates in support of their new album “Age of the Fifth Sun”. Special guests are the US post rock outfit Caspian. Having a band of this stature join them is testament to their phenomenal popularity across the world. Live dates are:
Wednesday 3 November – Dolans, Limerick
Thursday 4 November – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Friday 5 November – The Forum, Waterford
Saurday 6 November - The Academy, Dublin
Sunday 7 November – The Limelight, Belfast
Ray Lamontagne & The Pariah Dogs have announced an extra Olympia Theatre date as part of their visit on Saturday 5 March in addition to their originally schedule date on Friday 4 March.
Also Playing
Belfast
Thursday 28 October
The Dirty 9s, Radar, Queens
Castlebar
Saturday 30 October
Windings, Bar Ritz
We Should Be Dead, Bar Ritz (Halloween Party)
Clonmel
Thursday 28 October
‘The Naked Fish Tour’ An intimate night with Jerry Fish. O’Keefes’s Clonmel
Dublin
Monday 25 October
Graham Corrigan, Captains Live Blanchardstown
Art Party with Peter Murphy, The Lennon Family Project, Dance, live painting & DJ Vinnie Vegas, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Tuesday 26 October
Friend?, Captains Live Blanchardstown
Gentle Tuesdays, with The Mighty Stef & Friends, First Floor The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Wednesday 27 October
Spies, single launch ‘Liars Call Me King’, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Sacred Animals, Whelans upstairs (with At Last An Atlas)
Thursday 28 October
Jaded Sun, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Sweet Jane, Captains Live Blanchardstown
Friday 29 October
‘The Naked Fish Show’ The Songs and Tall Tales of Jerry Fish & Friends, plus late show with Jerry Fish & The Mudbug club, special guests on th night include Mick Flannery, Lisa Hannigan & Lisa O’Neill. The Sugar Club, Dublin.
Harmonic Series: Polvo, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Carthage, Music Maker, Dublin
Leopold, Captains Live Blanchardstown
Saturday 30 October
The Over Kills, Captains Live Blanchardstown
Halves, Album Launch, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Fiach, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (Nighthawks in aid of Oxjam)
Sunday 31 October
Strange Brew Halloween party, feat. Le Galaxie, The Cast Of Cheers, Lost Chord & Daithi O’ Dronai. The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
Galway
Tuesday 26 October
Windings, NUIG Sessions Galway
Thursday 28 October
Windings, HMV Galway, (in store performance) 4pm
Windings, Roisin Dubh,
Mullingar
Friday 29 October
Windings, The Stables, Mullingar. Doors 8pm /FREE
Bipolar Empire, Punt Bar, Co. Louth, Doors 8pm
