Prima Facie sold out in about four minutes. I know it was the Gaiety but I was surprised with no queue or waiting room.
Im not sure about that Ireland punches well above its weight for big acts.
The Foos is an odd one, if they are coming as far as Liverpool Dublin is a short hop and there is a nice gap in Marlay park for them if they wanted to play.
12 shows in a month is probably their limit. The North America tour is 12 cities across 4 weeks as well. shouldn’t be forgotten that Taylor Hawkins was complaining before his death that the foo fighters was too gruelling for him. His friends and family were quoted as saying he was complaining to Dave that too many shows was leading to his exhausation.
You make very serious points and then return to glib nonsense when people cite credible examples that don't make sense. Anyone paying attention can see a trend away from rock music in bookings for Dublin. Foos this week simply makes no sense, neither did Radiohead. I want to have my concerns allayed and move on, but the evidence simply doesnt allow for it.
Any/all pissweak singer songwriters get their time here. Recent spike in US "new-country" an evolution of this strong suit with our promoters. They seem easy and cheap to arrange shows for.
We've given up on a lot of decent rock bands in Dublin. Example I cite repeatedly and don't get a credible response is the lack of decent explanation for Gizzard not playing Dublin in 8 years.
your making it out to be worse than it actually is. Didn't Gizzard play ATN a few years ago.
Predictable response. Yes they did. And? Im referring to Dublin.
The Gizz thing makes no sense to me.
And nobody has explained it.
One gig in the Olympia close to a decade ago and one festival appearance at ATN, which I think may not have gone ahead (?)
I know the argument is always that they are not big enough for an Arena and too big for the Olympia but I've seen then in La Riveria in Madrid which is 2,500 capacity. They'd surpass it with two nights in Vicar Street or the National Stadium. You could name dozens of bands who are comparable in size and have played there. Sure Mac Demarco and Alex G have gigs coming up this month and they'd have better streaming numbers if that's the metric.
It's odd when every other mid sized indie band comes here fairly regularly.
I understand we can sound entitled but in this case it is just strange.
Not exactly every other mate. Glad to hear another on 'ere that raises an eyebrow tho.
foo fighters are only playing 11 cities on this European run. The fact that ireland didn’t get one date can be due to any number of factors which can be out of the control of the promoter here. mcd can’t force Dave grohl to play Dublin.
Radiohead are doing a 5 city residency, again out of the control of the promoter. the reality is what when aging millionaire artists have reached a certain age they choose their touring schedule suit themselves and their family. They aren’t going to to be killing themselves going to 30 different cities over a month or two.
I have given you a credible explanation for king gizzard before. King gizzard played all together now in 2022. Their 2025 European dates consisted of residencies in a select number of cities and included orchestra, rave and Rock and roll sets. the skipped here in 2023 tour as it was too soon after All together now and for 2024 tour the fee they were asking for didn’t make sense for any Irish promoter in a suitable venue. I know that promoters were chasing them on every European tour since but it just never made sense.
The great Dublin tragedy — Foo Fighters won’t grace us this time, so the whole tour must be a failure.
Remember lads, not everyone lives within a dart ride of Marlay or the Aviva. Some of us are used to hopping on a plane for gigs — it’s really not that traumatic. Book a flight, see a new city, different crowd, maybe even have a pint somewhere that doesn’t serve Guinness in plastic cups.
The collective hand-wringing over Foo Fighters skipping Dublin is starting to sound like a national emergency. You’d swear Grohl himself declared the country unfit for rock.
Some gentle perspective: not everyone lives within a leisurely Luas ride of the Aviva. Out west, we travel for everything — gigs, flights. We’ve long accepted that if you want to see a major act, you pack a bag and make a weekend of it. Funny thing is, most of us manage it without composing an essay on promoter incompetence.
If you genuinely want to see the Foos, it’s hardly a hardship. Liverpool’s a short hop away, Madrid’s a grand excuse for sunshine and sangria, and you’ll probably spend less than you would on one Dublin hotel night and a few rounds in town. Take a few days off, meet new faces, soak in a different crowd.
The band’s doing twelve shows in a month. They’re not on a pilgrimage to please every postcode; they’re running a streamlined tour. It’s logistics, not betrayal.
And perhaps it’s time to ease up on the “real music” purism. People can enjoy pop, country, or whatever else fills a venue — it doesn’t make them lesser fans, and it doesn’t threaten rock’s sacred order.
So yes, no Irish date this time. It’s mildly disappointing, not a cultural extinction event. Remember — it’s a gig, not the end of the world.
The summer 2025 residencies were rock and roll. A subsequent tour ongoing as we speak is alternating rave/orchestra shows. So our illustrious cadre of promoters can't make either work? Not a chance of selling first Dublin show since Feb 2018? Mkay.
If Joe Sh1t the Maga Ragman is playing, can guarantee he'll be booked for the 3arena tho.
And so there's no huge problem of bands skipping Ireland. Your response was predictable too just so you know
It’s not up to the promoters it’s up to king gizzard/their agent/manager who control their own schedule. all that promoters can do is submit offers for agent to consider based on fee, type of venue demanded, venue availability and suitable venue based on artist demand/fee requested. king gizzard are in a no man’s land here. Not popular enough for a reduced capacity 3 arena and too expensive for an Olympia theatre. only real option going forward is a festival offer.
Pity - I'd love to see them again but not at a festival setting.
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It's a bizarre sense of entitlement
Having a hissy fit 'cos a band you like isn't bothered playing in the city you live in
Bizarre anti Dublin sentiment morelike. Its the largest city, with the most venues and the biggest fanbase. Park the animosity at the door, lads.
Flogging a dead horse at this stage
Jesus
Anti Dublin sentiment 😂 😂
Absolutely clueless
I was born, raised and live in Dublin ffs
Live tractor area stop it
why is that gig even in Dublin, should it not be on in the midlands somewhere, or at the bottom of the ocean
And yet you respond favourably to the dublin transport guru luxuriating in the wonders of air travel for gigs.
They sold out that same venue already this year, so it's not exactly a dead horse is it. The demand is clearly there. Just because it's not your favourite cool underground rock band doesn't mean that it's not popular and should be ridiculed.
Normally I'd agree, but it has a "Live Tractor Area". So ridicule is more than fair in this instance.
And?? What's your point caller?
Have you never considered travelling outside of Ireland for a gig yourself? You should give it a go some time. Couple of days away in a foreign city while taking in a gig is a great trip.
I'm off to London in 2 weeks to see Radiohead. Would've been good to see them here but for their own reasons they decided to do 4 gigs in 5 cities instead of a full tour across the continent. Buy hey ho, I'm not getting all pissy about it and blaming Irish promoters for not bothering their holes to bring them over here to do a show.
Ive been abroad for hundreds of shows over the years. Good for you if you love travelling for shows, búla bus chief.
*bualadh bos
Yeah I enjoyed the trip to London for the Aphex Twin gig at Field Day, it was a buzz to experience a UK equivalent to Longitude/Forbidden Fruit and a pretty amazing electronic line up in 2023. It was like that in the 70s and 80s too, all the big bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple limited their gigs to a handful of dates at Earls Court or Wembley, either go to see them in London or not.
The last time Floyd tried to organise a gig in Dublin was 1988 at the RDS and that turned into fiasco and David Gilmour has really never came back to Ireland to gig since 1984, but Waters has taken advantage and played Dublin and Cork a few times. Scotland gets missed a lot too with some tours but now Edinburgh and Glasgow has some decent sized venues and does a bit better these days for gigs.
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Wonder how the show would do if all phone/Internet providers cut connections in the area for that day. No snaps/tik toks and all that jazz
