2019 Irish Gigs (Rumoured & Confirmed events)

Ol' Donie

sydthebeat wrote: »

anybody on the fence about seeing them... id highly recommend them.

always a great entertaining and fun occasion.

Couldn't agree more. They're incredible live.

Mushy

sydthebeat wrote: »

anybody on the fence about seeing them... id highly recommend them.

always a great entertaining and fun occasion.

I'm all over it. First band I ever saw live, last time was in same venue pre-renovation.

This is immediate gig of the Year potential

PTH2009

seen The Darkness twice and it was a great show. They supported Queen last year in Marley Park and were great even though they had a pretty short set.

First time was at Daytripper in Waterford in 2015 and they rocked the place even with Justin Hawkins not interacting much with the crowd

They could of done with adding them too the Slane line up tbh

ghostdancer

Plaid

https://www.facebook.com/events/406033489978799/permalink/406034496645365/

u:mack in association with Whelans
Present
Plaid (A/V live)
Thursday June 13
Whelans Of Wexford Street
Tickets €20 from https://bit.ly/2UGcJNA
Doors 8pm


Plaid return with a new album on Warp records, Polymer, they bring their new AV live show to Whelans on Thursday June 13!

Forging ever bolder and emotive paths through electronic music, Plaid are set to release their 10th studio album ‘Forging ever bolder and emotive paths through electronic music, Plaid are set to release their 10th studio album ‘Polymer’ on June 7th via Warp Records. The album’s 13 tracks cover energetic bangers, bright melodic visceral rhythms and hypnotic wombic textures to create perhaps their most cohesive, direct album to date.

The innovative duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner have been expanding the realm of electronic music as Plaid since they diverged from trio The Black Dog in the early 90s. In 2019, Plaid stand alongside the likes of Aphex Twin, Autechre and Nightmares on Wax as mainstays of the Warp label as it reaches its 30th anniversary, celebrating achievements in music like few others. Their adventurous and playful approach has taken them to working with Björk and drawing comparisons to fellow collaborators Mark Bell, Arca, Haxan Cloak and more recent Releases by Skee Mask and Daniel Avery. They’ve worked with the London Sinfonietta, the Southbank Gamelan Players, composed for Felix’s Machines robotic sculptures, and soundtracked events as diverse as reindeer migration in northern Europe to a level in popular platformer Little Big Planet 3. In a live capacity their show straddles both a contemporary and club capacity, able to pack venues from Sydney Opera House and Southbank to Bloc and Berghain.

Covering a wide range of emotions, influences and inspirations; ‘Polymer’ is an album for modern times. It’s creation was informed by a manifesto of Polyphony, Pollution and Politics; clashing themes of environment, synthetics, survival/mortality and humanity’s (dis)connection.

Plaid say:
"The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives.”

The opening machinic grind of ‘Meds Fade’ conveys the fading effects of medication and the emerging clarity of the grey envelopes of reality. With the ever rising techno tension of ‘Maru’ we feel the final, exhausting push to reach a goal.

In turn, ‘Dancers’ is blissfully euphoric: an ode to free movement for free movement’s sake, inspired by seeing meteor showers, the milky way on a clear dark night and people dancing in an audience. Snippets of voices lend a human element, albeit twisted by machines: ‘Ops’ loops a wordless refrain with synthetic echoes over D&B rhythms.

‘Drowned Sea’ was directly inspired by finding decades old plastic packaging washed up on the coastline and reading about microplastics in the food chain. Like particles of plastic, Plaid distilled sounds through granular synths, reducing the whole but unable to completely destroy it.

Closing track ‘Praze’ - an old word for meadow - relates to the disappearance of most of Britain’s wildflower meadows. The out-of-times, Penguin Cafe Orchestra-esque plucked melodies feel like a final melancholic reminder that, despite the complexities of life in 2019, hope still remains.

Tracklist:
01. Meds Fade
02. Los
03. Maru
04. Ops
05. Drowned Sea
06. The Pale Moth
07. Dancers
08. Nurula
09. Recall
10. All To Get Her
11. Dust
12. Crown Shy
13. Praze

https://plaidmusic.co.uk
https://warp.net/artists/91413-plaid

Plaid will be bringing their new live AV show to the following venues:

30/05/2019 Plaid Milan Santeria
08/06/2019 Plaid Birmingham Mama Roux Tickets
13/06/2019 Plaid Dublin Whelans
14/06/2019 Plaid Berlin Gretchen Tickets
20/06/2019 Plaid London EartH Tickets
21/06/2019 Plaid Norwich Norwich Art Centre Tickets
22/06/2019 Plaid Manchester The Deaf Institute Tickets
27/06/2019 Plaid Moscow 16 Tons
28/06/2019 Plaid St Petersburg MORZE
29/06/2019 Plaid Rome Social Park
10/08/2019 Plaid Viana do Castelo Teatro Sá de Miranda
21/09/2019 Plaid Brussels C12
28/09/2019 Plaid Barcelona Nitsa Tickets

Furious-Red

PTH2009 wrote: »

seen The Darkness twice and it was a great show. They supported Queen last year in Marley Park and were great even though they had a pretty short set.

First time was at Daytripper in Waterford in 2015 and they rocked the place even with Justin Hawkins not interacting much with the crowd

They could of done with adding them too the Slane line up tbh

Seen them on their reunion tour back in 2011??? and then caught them when they played here in Newbridge and both times they were brilliant. Permission To Land is just a fantastic rock record imo.

Zardoz

Mushy wrote: »

I'm all over it. First band I ever saw live, last time was in same venue pre-renovation.

This is immediate gig of the Year potential

That was a good gig last time but a bit short ,barely 70 minutes .

Mushy

Zardoz wrote: »

That was a good gig last time but a bit short ,barely 70 minutes .

70 minutes of class though. Genuinely don't remember it being that short

Duffy98

Anyone have any info on Slane its just under a month and a half away and no news of any acts being added to the bill id nearly take anyone at this stage

PTH2009

Duffy98 wrote: »

Anyone have any info on Slane its just under a month and a half away and no news of any acts being added to the bill id nearly take anyone at this stage

Yeah its frustrating esp for the cost of the tickets

I knw it was announced with Metallicas Euro tour MCD should of had other bigish acts booked and announced them before tickets went on sale

Reckon gates at 2pm we will get a local band at 4pm and then those Norwegian guys, ghost and then Metallica

dasdog

ghostdancer wrote: »

Plaid

Thanks for posting. The Polymer stuff sound great - it should be an interesting evening.

kg703

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah its frustrating esp for the cost of the tickets

I knw it was announced with Metallicas Euro tour MCD should of had other bigish acts booked and announced them before tickets went on sale

Reckon gates at 2pm we will get a local band at 4pm and then those Norwegian guys, ghost and then Metallica

They did say there would be two more acts added and one would be Irish so I’d expect two smaller acts to be announced at some point

Duffy98

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah its frustrating esp for the cost of the tickets

I knw it was announced with Metallicas Euro tour MCD should of had other bigish acts booked and announced them before tickets went on sale

Reckon gates at 2pm we will get a local band at 4pm and then those Norwegian guys, ghost and then Metallica

Yeah its very poorly organised its supposed to have sold terribly but who knows. MCD are starting to post stuff about it so hopefully they announce some act that will fill a slot. With my ticket I can walk in at 1 so they should have some act to start the day off its going to be a long wait to see metallica nearly 6 hours id say if your going off general admission at 2 they might not come on till 8:30-9pm its a bit of a joke considering its well over €100 for a decent view and not even a word of whos playing cause i cant see 2 acts entertaining us for nearly 6 hours

Ash.J.Williams

Furious-Red wrote: »

Seen them on their reunion tour back in 2011??? and then caught them when they played here in Newbridge and both times they were brilliant. Permission To Land is just a fantastic rock record imo.

That newbridge gig was class

Duffy98

Duff McKagen is announcing some European dates to promote his new album hopefully he plays a show here would love to see him. More than likely he would be playing the Olympia Theatre if he were to play here.

Duffy98

Follow up* Duff Mckagan is playing at the electric picnic festival for his Irish date on his european tour , very disappointed he could have definitely done a show here in the Olympia instead of a 40 min slot at a festival, he would have sold well as well considering the massive fanbase gnr has over here

Wrongway1985

Duffy98 wrote: »

More than likely he would be playing the Olympia Theatre if he were to play here.

I woulda thought Whelans but surprisingly it's confirmed it's Electric Picnic.

Furious-Red

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

I woulda thought Whelans but surprisingly it's confirmed it's Electric Picnic.

Yea i would have said Whelans or maybe the Button Factory. He would'nt have been big enough for the olympia imo. The last time he played here with one of his bands they did the Academy but im not sure if that even sold out.

Duffy98

Furious-Red wrote: »

Yea i would have said Whelans or maybe the Button Factory. He would'nt have been big enough for the olympia imo. The last time he played here with one of his bands they did the Academy but im not sure if that even sold out.

It's a weird one that cause like anyone who would actually want to see him can't cause its been sold out with months and its on the saturday and they dont do day tickets only for Sunday. Not the end of the world but its a bit of a weird date for him considering he could of just done a show with fans instead of festival goers

Furious-Red

Duffy98 wrote: »

It's a weird one that cause like anyone who would actually want to see him can't cause its been sold out with months and its on the saturday and they dont do day tickets only for Sunday. Not the end of the world but its a bit of a weird date for him considering he could of just done a show with fans instead of festival goers

Unless he does a headline tour after the festival run? Maybe they are hoping by having him play EP and if they announce a headline tour they may have picked up a few extra fans etc?

Duffy98

Furious-Red wrote: »

Unless he does a headline tour after the festival run? Maybe they are hoping by having him play EP and if they announce a headline tour they may have picked up a few extra fans etc?

Yeah maybe who knows haha Slash is playing up in Belfast as well in June dont know why he didnt come down south of the border for a date

SteM

Duffy98 wrote: »

It's a weird one that cause like anyone who would actually want to see him can't cause its been sold out with months and its on the saturday and they dont do day tickets only for Sunday. Not the end of the world but its a bit of a weird date for him considering he could of just done a show with fans instead of festival goers

Not really that weird, he'll get a bigger cheque to play EP than he would playing Whelans or the Button Factory. No promotional costs or venue hire for the promoters either like there would be with a smaller headline show.

Ol' Donie

Duffy98 wrote: »

It's a weird one that cause like anyone who would actually want to see him can't cause its been sold out with months and its on the saturday and they dont do day tickets only for Sunday. Not the end of the world but its a bit of a weird date for him considering he could of just done a show with fans instead of festival goers

Ah, this is rubbish.

I'd love to see Duff play, but I'd hate to go to that nonsense, even if there were still tickets available.

Duffy98

Yeah was hoping for a date similar to what Chris Shiflett of the foo's did that was one of the best gigs of the year for me got to meet him take photos etc. It would have been class to see Duff in a small intimate venue on his own with actual fans , I doubt he would have even have been aware that ep's been sold out with months tbh with ya , there will be plenty more gigs announced anyway in the mean time

Duffy98

Ozzy Osbourne Rescheduled date is February 2nd 2020 was posted on his facebook page this morning

sweetie

Edwyn Collins playing Liberty hall and Belfast £24/€30 on sept 14th and 15th. Delighted!

PTH2009

Duff at Electric Picnic jesus so odd

I imagine not many of the 'lads' there would knw who he is and when they find out will keep shooting GNR requests

Duffy98

PTH2009 wrote: »

Duff at Electric Picnic jesus so odd

I imagine not many of the 'lads' there would knw who he is and when they find out will keep shooting GNR requests

Poor management that in fairness like even billy corgan filled the olympia theatre so i cant see why he couldn't play there , people like myself going to that would likely be interested in that gig wasted opportunity unfortunately and yeah i can imagine hes going to get a lot of gnr requests haha

phunkadelic

Furious-Red wrote: »

Yea i would have said Whelans or maybe the Button Factory. He would'nt have been big enough for the olympia imo. The last time he played here with one of his bands they did the Academy but im not sure if that even sold out.

His band Walking Papers played the Pint(now the Wiley Fox/Sound House) in 2013 and Whelans Upstairs in 2018.
Both small venues, he wouldn't have a hope of filling the Olympia

Awesomeness

Huge 4 days for Rovers and the top of the league. They could be 13 points clear Friday night or just 4 with Dundalk having a game in hand

Hopefully Bohs can take some points off them tonight.

PTH2009

Awesomeness wrote: »

Huge 4 days for Rovers and the top of the league. They could be 13 points clear Friday night or just 4 with Dundalk having a game in hand

Hopefully Bohs can take some points off them tonight.

Wrong thread there mate ha