Gig Reviews - 2026

Yeah, I was in the circle and there were teenagers +. Directly in front of me were 3 generations of a family.

A mate of mine was there and left at the break. Said it was awful, flat as a pancake, loves Roy Keane, but no vibe between himself and Roddy Doyle, and he reckons Keano thrives when with Neville, Carrragher etc such as on the Overlap.

I've just been to see Gemma Hayes in the NCH. A fantastic gig a proper Irish artist who should be bigger but that's the breaks.She has the voice the songs a great guitar player and has the band to go with it.Fifth time to see her and she just gets better.

Harsh to just blame the crowd. It was a **** show. The first couple of songs were great. Just seemed like his mic was too low in the mix. People were just confused at first and then annoyed that he wasn't singing. His band were great, and the talking was a shame, but it was inevitable. For Black Steel he stood with his back to the audience smoking a spliff. He didn't even hold a mic for Overcome either.

Shame. He's obviously not ready to perform.

I didn’t just blame the crowd - I just called out what I experienced in the context of the previous post. The crowd would’ve ruined any gig for me. The ones around me weren’t reacting to Tricky’s performance - they were going to have their conversations throughout the gig regardless of who / what was going on on stage. Same experience for me at too many gigs these days. If I was any artist on stage, I’d be tempted to walk off and take the money if the crowd can’t shut up to that extent.

I agree with all of the comments on Tricky’s performance - it was a carbon copy of his performances on the last tour. I would never waste my money seeing him again. I was surprised to hear some folk on the way out saying they enjoyed it - to me it was the biggest disaster of a gig since the Cat Steven’s debacle years ago. I have no idea what he is thinking presenting that to the world, repeatedly. I mean, he’s not actually present at his own gig. I’m pretty sure he smoked at least 2 spliffs during the 55 minutes with his back to the crowd? I get that not everyone’s doing what Massive Attack do live these days but he could at least show up and perform. As I said, I’ll enjoy his music at home but based on the last few years, he’s not capable of putting on a live show these days.

People talking loud at gigs is getting worse imo. I went to Daniel Avery a couple of weeks ago and even with ear splitting levels of techno, I could still hear the two arseholes talking behind me. Same with the two pricks behind me where I was sitting at Super Furry Animals..

Noticed the same while standing for Super Furry Animals last week and was seated for Tricky upstairs - first couple of songs people behaved, but you could hear the hum of chatter around the room after that. No idea if that bothers him or not, or if it was his issues with the sound (he ran over side of stage early on and may have been arguing about the sound).

First time seeing Tricky and having wanted to see him for years but always seemed to miss him - and I knew what to expect going in having read reviews from his London show. I really liked the changes made to the Maxinquaye tracks and the band were superb - slight changes to the arrangement on Overcome and Black Steel were great, but it was all the band with 2% Tricky.

The band and Marta are still worth seeing if you've no clashes, and he might drop a few more words. Who knows.

was at them in Waterford the week b4

Top class

Incredible stuff.