2026 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

The Nal · 25-11-2025 03:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017336#Comment_124017336

Course. I'm referring to Neiler in Cork, Lips in Galway.

walkonby · 25-11-2025 04:32PM

joey the lips is playing?!

Awww its feckng flaming lips :(

The Nal · 25-11-2025 04:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124016855#Comment_124016855

Sepultura are an odd one. Shows what a name means. They're like Mike Loves Beach Boys really. Have been since the 90s.

PTH2009 · 25-11-2025 04:48PM

Malahide Castle an odd venue for Michael Buble

He came out of his cave anyway

hold my beer · 25-11-2025 05:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017851#Comment_124017851

Thought the same myself. Who goes to a Buble concert, is it all elder women?

PTH2009 · 25-11-2025 05:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017924#Comment_124017924

Mad mothers day out, Hope the bars will have plenty of Gin & Tonic cans in stock

Did he actually ever play a 'Christmas Concert' here or anywhere?

jimosterberg · 25-11-2025 05:19PM

They are doing two nights in a few cities. They take a night off in between shows.

Doesn't mean they will here but could be done

garyskeepers · 25-11-2025 05:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124016571#Comment_124016571

cant find a presale code :( Use ?=did stuff doesn't seem to be working

The Iron Giant · 25-11-2025 05:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017934#Comment_124017934

He's generally played summer gigs here (be it Croke Park, Aviva or 3Arena).

I've brought my mum a good few times to see him and to be fair, its a fun show for what it is, with some good tunes (relative to the genre of music that he's in) and he's a really self-deprecating fella. I think once he started into one of the Christmas songs in a gig in the middle of the summer to take the piss out of himself.

All that said, a fully standing gig for him is a very strange choice.

COH · 25-11-2025 05:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017951#Comment_124017951

The night-train presale is a unique code for those who pay for the GNR fanclub. The promoter/artist presale has not begun yet

Goldengirl · 25-11-2025 07:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017934#Comment_124017934

Think he did , not sure if it was NCH or Bord Gais .

Iirc it was pretty sold out but I don't know any " mad mothers " to check 😋

PTH2009 · 25-11-2025 07:39PM

Zac Brown Band and Ashley McBryde added to the lineup for Garth Brooks in Hyde Park

Suppose it'll have to do

evillive · 25-11-2025 07:59PM

You change the text prompre to entpre (promoter presale to entertainer presale to pick tix) but still needed the NIGHTRAIN password, no chance I was paying some of the prices quoted but plenty of €130 or so tix still up there for side of upstairs seats or standing

Will try again tmoro

I'll take a nightrain code if it was going though

PTH2009 · 25-11-2025 08:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124017999#Comment_124017999

Maybe he's bringing his live shows to 'strange new places'

cannco253 · 25-11-2025 08:36PM

how many of the GIAF are repeats?

Flaming lips, saw doctors, block rocking beats, Bell X1.

James are the only thing different that’s worth looking at so far (not counting emile sande).

DarMul17 · 25-11-2025 10:35PM

It’s actually been a fairly remarkable run of announcements around the country for 2026, and it’s not really a mystery why promoters keep booking these places, the crowds turn up, they buy early, and they don’t assume anything is guaranteed.

James Taylor in the Marquee on 10 July.

Bell X1 heading back after yet another set of Saint Luke’s gigs that disappeared in minutes, as usual.

Zach Bryan taking in Cork and Belfast because the demand more than justifies it.

Michael Bublé lined up for Limerick.

The Flaming Lips returning to the Big Top, where the last runs were packed out.

Florence + The Machine, Kings of Leon, Clutch and Pixies giving Limerick one of the strongest lineups it’s had in years, and people are buying for those at a pace that speaks for itself.

Cork has Neil Young and CMAT anchoring an already stacked summer.

Galway has James returning to a crowd that turns shows into instant sellouts.

Waterford’s All Together Now continues to pull huge numbers and top-tier bookings on the strength of an audience that’s anything but passive.

What’s striking is how different the attitude is once you step outside the usual comfort zone: people plan, they travel, and they don’t wait until the week before the show to decide if they “might” go. That’s exactly why the big acts keep coming back, consistent demand, strong sales, and crowds who treat the gigs as once off opportunity.

And to be honest, it’s nice that for once we don’t have to travel up to the capital for a change, we don't take our opportunites to see someone for granted and nice to see a different crowd.

Stillill42 · 26-11-2025 12:06AM

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If your point is that it's great to see a load of great acts appearing around the country, fair play. There's very few on here that aren't delighted to see quality artists hitting Galway or Waterford or Cork or wherever. Not sure there's any need for the implied digs at music fans from the big smoke.

damianmcr · 26-11-2025 10:12AM

The Kooks tickets on sale today. £60 each. Is it just me or is that a crazy price?

COH · 26-11-2025 10:19AM

Guns N Roses ticket process on Three presale was delightfully painless anyway.

Pudsy33 · 26-11-2025 10:21AM

That's doesn't seem out of the ordinary these days

Still Ill · 26-11-2025 10:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124019408#Comment_124019408

Pretty much what I'd expect unfortunately tbh

optogirl · 26-11-2025 10:37AM

Johnny Marr Iveagh Gardens 10th July - god damnit, I'll be away. 1st World Problems I'll grant you.

Wooderson · 26-11-2025 11:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124019061#Comment_124019061

Been a run of this nonsense on 'ere recently. Really boring GAA-level stereotypes.

The Nal · 26-11-2025 11:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124018816#Comment_124018816

Agree 100%. And it’s great not having to witness grown men roaming around Dublin in GAA shorts eating chicken fillet rolls.

It’s the capital city, not a local parish seven-a-side in some forgotten swamp at the edge of civilisation.

hynesie08 · 26-11-2025 11:25AM

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Your weird rant might have a point if all bar 2 of those acts weren't playing Dublin, and 1 of those hadn't played to 180,000 people here last year, where they'll sell more tickets, yet again subsidising the rest of the country.

If this means I can go to a gig without some lad drinking a can of premixed cocktail that's been in his gooch for 7 hours telling me that "coppers is some spot" because it doesn't count as kissing your cousin if you can't hear the parish bells then all the better.