2025 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

That's it like ticket is one thing but that place is just a rip-off like I've taken it to just heading abroad to see half these bands like another poster said we do get skipped and my opinion is if they won't come here I'll get a cheap flight from Cork Airport and see them,

Went to Metallica in Amsterdam last year, I paid a good bit I stayed for 5 days and got early entry both days and I think it must have come out to flights+hotel+tickets around 800 euros which for 5 days and I stayed next to the place, you'd never get that here, and it was better the Slane when it came to the setlist they played across 2 nights everything I wanted that i didn't get at Slane

Had to do it as well for AC/DC went over to Wembley got up the front and it was unbelievable ( I do hope I make the concert film hahaha) but seriously it cost about 400 euros ticket, flight all that, it's just too expensive to justify going up to Dublin at times,

Support is LS Dunes, a supergroup including Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance. That’ll be a good show

Mostly small to mid sized indie bands for me who seem to have skipped us recently, especially since the pandemic & Brexit. Probably not financially viable for them.

Two examples - Real Estate currently on a UK & Europe run have skipped us. They were supposed to play Vicar St in 2020, it got canned and they haven't been back since.

Nap Eyes announced a tour today with no Irish date. Thought they sold out Whelan's last time here in 2019/2020.

We do well for sure but skipping us definitely seems to be a trend.

Sorry, but I gotta disagree. It’s anything but a trend. As before there are sod all acts that repeatedly avoid Ireland. Some might skip us on a tour but then turn up for the next one. Nap Eyes have been here twice in the past 8 years, effectively 2 in the last 6 with two years shut down for Covid. Real Estate haven’t been for a decade. They’re an outlier.

Even on the west coast it’s rare to not have at least two overseas touring acts a week and it’s hard to get to all. In the past 6 days alone I’ve missed Valerie June & Evan Dando whilst catching the Bluetones. In the next ten days, despite the Comedy Festival effectively closing three venues, Mercury Rev & the Crash Test Dummies are here.

Even a decade ago there’s not a hope in hell that in a three month period in Galway I’d get the above acts plus Leftfield, Kneecap, The Undertones, Pixies, NewDad, Kneecap, Arab Strap, Waterboys, Bonnie Prince Billy, Snööper, Lightning Seeds, Madness and several others on tour. We’re getting more acts than we have had, far closer to overload that being passed over. Long may it continue.

Yes. Saw both that one and the previous one without Christine but this one was pretty special.

Yeah I was chatting with family about the price because they saw Stevie in the 3 while I was at AC/DC and they spent a small fortune to just see Stevie so god knows how much it would be for the rest of them..

I'd say you'd be talking 200-300 a ticket easily with the way it's going these days, like if rise against are charging nearly 70 euro for the Olympia surely they'd charge 2-3x times that surely, all the nostalgia farewell tours are a fortune these days

Price of gigs / events are just going to get higher, like I was offered tickets to the champions league final in London and it was ranging from the 100's-1,000's and the decent seats were nearly 1000,

At the same time these are luxury goods so they aren't essential whatsoever but they are always sold out so there clearly is a market for it and people do pay, I'm happy I've seen the vast majority of bands that I've wanted to see and can bow out (I'm only 26 😂😂) before we get into the insane money territory of dynamic pricing, I'm still hopeful of an Oasis ticket popping up on resale days beforehand but that would be about it.

If it's something your dying to see like WrestleMania then may as well go as it's only going to get more expensive as the years go on, I'd love to go to that sphere and the act I'd make the effort for would be Tool as I think it's the perfect venue

There was a fairly big gap before we got Malahide and the 3Arena show.

Oxegen donkeys years ago and maybe another festival after that?

No guarantee they'll play here but hopefully.

Reviews for the new record are really positive.

I went to S&M 2 for my honeymoon! Would recommend it at any price.

Saw Doctors playing Cork in June.

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