2025 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

Look no finances will vanish/swap hands as regards the promoter and the venue quit acting like you unaware it's not the same monopoly with your mumbo jumbo haha.

I don't understand the outcry of trying to maximise profits. It's what the vast majority of all businesses do. The music industry is a business at the end of the day. To make money. Just like we go to our day jobs to do same.

One day whilst you are working in your small office, your employer comes to you and says that you can work in the bigger office over there, where there are more people, and you'll get paid more money. And don't worry, the cost will be passed on to the clients/customers - How many people here would genuinely "Ah, no thanks. My morals won't let me do that".

At the end of the day, it's not on the scale of Oasis, where there are millions of euros/sterling involved. It's a relatively unknown US band (no disrespect intended. I just mean in the overall scale). Trying to maximise a living in a tough industry.

3 arena has hundreds of suppliers/staff. How are these magically paid? How can it pay light, heat, insurance, staff wages if it charges its main client who do 70% of shows in the building nothing?
its would also be breaking multiple Irish laws.

username is apt given how wrong you are about businesses operate.

It's more it's just bad optics when they've evidently completely underestimated their pull. Like something clicked after of "oh we can make more out of this now by increasing capacity but also charging more".

GGig tix are pricey enough without venue and price changes after the original sale date. If they had gone straight with 3 arena and charged the new price, then it wouldn't be the same, even if it is pricey for the band in question. It's almost like it's dynamic pricing.

Again, I understand what you mean in that the principle of it gets people worked up. I'm old enough and been around long enough not to care about optics in life. It is what it is, and I try not to get emotional about those things. I don't really see anything wrong in the first paragraph you outlined. Yes, the promoters and band probably saw an opportunity to capitalise a bit extra on post-Glasto popularity. But why wouldn't they. It happens every day - from something small like last weekend punters selling bottles of water outside Croke Park for €3 a pop because it was about 30 degrees outside. Legal firms charging big clients more because they know they'll pay for it. Holiday makers paying €15 for suncream in the little supermarket in a holiday villa in Spain. Guinness being €5 down in the local bar, €7 in temple bar, and then €8 for a pint of plss Guinness at a gig. But people will still pay for all of these things.

I 100% agree with you in ticket prices. I specifically refer to tickets over the €100 mark. And the crazy stuff about Oasis tickets. But I generally don't really mind gigs priced around the €50-€70 mark. They are affordable, and can provide an efficient enough evening out if a few cans are consumed beforehand, keeping the price down. There was a time when I spent approx €15 for a CD for a band. If I wanted to listen to new music, even only once a week that would be 52Cds, nearly €800 per annum. Nowadays, Artists receive very little on music sales, and depend almost on gigging. I can accept the modestly priced tickets, as a return for not having to buy music (other than spotify subscription)

Spare a thought for those of us who paid €25 for tickets to Bernard Butler in Roisin Dubh in Galway tomorrow night, when tickets first went on sale, and then got an email yesterday offering tickets for €5 because it's clearly not selling. 😉

It's only funny when that happens to big acts/live nation gigs, case in point Slayer in Cardiff recently. Certainly crap for original buyers

Vieux Farka Touré - Sugar Club, Tuesday 14th October: https://thesugarclub.com/tc-events/vieux-farka-toure-2/?mc_cid=388152306e&mc_eid=f2ef1bc2c4

Also in Belfast Limelight the following night and Cyprus Avenue, Cork on the 27th. I'm guessing the Cork gig is for the Jazz weekend.

€25 will go towards Bernard, so I wouldn't have a problem with others paying a fiver later.

€25 is a fair price.

Nothing yet just showed up in my account of the venue and date change

How dare you expect an email about a change of date and venue..

WHELAN’S SUMMER WATCH 2025

They ran something similar over Christmas and it was great. €6 a night. You're guaranteed to find someone you'll enjoy.

THURSDAY 17TH

MAIN ROOM
20:30-21:00 SNUG
21:15-21:45 DELIVERY SERVICE
22:00-22:30 BLACK NYLON
22:45-23:15 SILVERGLASS
23:30-00:00 CROÍTHE
00:15-00:45 LAST APOLLO
01:00-01:30 WOBBLIN JUDE
01:45-02:15 TELEBOX

UPSTAIRS
20:15-20:45 LAURA DUFF
21:00-21:30 ZOE CLARKE
21:45-22:15 TROYOKAY
22:30-23:00 LLAMA CULT
23:15-23:45 THANKS MOM
00:00-00:30 BLUBOTL
00:45-01:15 CIRCA
01:30-02:00 HALF LEFT

FRIDAY 18TH

MAIN ROOM
20:30-21:00 MAC STEADY
21:15-21:45 BINMEN
22:00-22:30 SARAH BROOKI
22:45-23:15 DOSE
23:30-00:00 CABLE BOY
00:15-00:45 BBFT
01:00-01:30 DIGDEEP
01:45-02:15 WIFESWAP

UPSTAIRS
20:15-20:45 PRETTY POLICE
21:00-21:30 BABYRAT
21:45-22:15 LARA FITZSIMONS
22:30-23:00 SOFTDRINK MILLIONAIRE
23:15-23:45 CARSTEN2X
00:00-00:30 GAG REFLEX
00:45-01:15 PUBLIC WARNING
01:30-02:00 KIPPAX

SATURDAY 19TH

MAIN ROOM
20:30-21:00 PEBBLEDASH
21:15-21:45 BURGLAR
22:00-22:30 DREAM BOY
22:45-23:15 SELL EVERYTHING
23:30-00:00 DANZI
00:15-00:45 ANEMOIA
01:00-01:30 TBA
01:45-02:15 WALLFELLA

UPSTAIRS
20:15-20:45 KLEIO
21:00-21:30 SITTING ROOM
21:45-22:15 DONNY
22:30-23:00 PUCK
23:15-23:45 CIUNAS
00:00-00:30 FOR NINA
00:45-01:15 EPPIE
01:30-02:00 NOVA DREAM

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