2026 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

They also played a bunch of songs outside the album each time on their anniversary tour, cracking set lists.

I’m actually with fanirish on this one. If anyone understands what was technically advertised it’s probably our resident intern, quietly studying gig announcements from the other side of the office wall during their placement.

Typical Boards reaction though, giving out about a gig half the thread weren’t even at and won’t be attending again in the summer anyway. It was clearly advertised as her performing the album, the whole thing staged like a theatrical piece around it. She sold an album show. People went. They got the album. Yet ye still feel need to take potshots on this forum at someone who regularly posts a different opinion.

The outrage mostly reads like the usual box-ticking audit crew turning up with the mental spreadsheet open, stopwatch running, setlist mentally rated, value-for-money calculations underway. If you’re there to tick boxes and score the gig like a Leaving Cert paper, it was probably never going to be for you in the first place.

Relax lads. It’s Friday, not many announcements were this week, we're only in March, reduce the petty bickering. Winter’s finally over.

Surely some of ye are meant to be at work… unless you’re already queuing for the next tick-box show.

When Massive Attack played Point in 2019 for Mezzanine XXI tour they didn't play anything that wasn't on Mezzanine

It was strictly a very moody and heavy revisit and reworking of the album on its 21st anniversary

i heard a few disgruntled punters giving out about the lack of "the hits" but TBH i think keeping the gig contained to material from the album helped build and maintain the dystopian atmosphere.

That plus the visuals by 3D and Adam Curtis made for a spellbinding show

Remember this was in the middle of Trump Mark 1 and we thought things looked like the end of days back then - in hindsight and by comparison to today, they were halcyon days

it’s probably our resident intern, quietly studying gig announcements from the other side of the office wall during their placement.

Can you please just stop this bullsh1t? This kind of behaviour is so nasty, so totally designed to belittle and denigrate. Whether fanirish can take it, or is as bad in other ways, is not the point. It's really disgusting to read on a thread that's meant to be about music. No whataboutery makes it ok to write such utterly toxic targetted comments all the time, looking for every opportunity to take a pot shot - even when you are supporting the point at hand. It's horrible to continuosly read, it reflects really badly on you with the constant reference to intern/behind the office wall spying. Just give it up please end engage is decent honest debate.

And there is no "our". This is your construct that you continually poison the thread with. Getting thanks from either weak or other nasty people, typical bully behaviour.

Im really not trying to be overly inflammatory or fan the flames more and I hope this can be my last devils advocate to this and we can return to gig discussion, but Fanirish is quite rude and insulting when it suits with his comment on 'reading comprehension' being an example from this thread alone, amongst a few other personal experiences, so he can take it if he dishes it, what he receives isn't even rude it's more of a sleight against the air of superiority he adopts than it is insulting like his reading comprehension comment, ye don't all have to leap to his defence every time he invites a situation like that, he can 'defend' himself, but really he is the instigator in all these situations despite what the barrage of comments along the lines of 'poor Fanirish, why is everyone talking about Fanirish (cue wall of comments calling out and talking about people talking about Fanirish)' would suggest or have people believe.

The new Arlo Parks tune on Help 2 is decent as well

You are right in saying the latter... It was only a few weeks ago actually, gas

More standing tickets for night 1 of Shinedown in the Olympia released

Have to say really enjoying Those Damn Crows, will definitely go in for them

it was on the poster and all the blurb

Haha I saw what you did there, Jeff Lynne is surprisingly still fairly good.