Dylan Gossett at Iveagh Gardens review: A blue-collar rock hero wrapped in country colours
A gritty voice, old-school country instincts and an enthusiastic Dublin audience combine for an impressive performance
By Ed Power
Wet Leg at TCD review: Exuberant, witty and captivating – this band are only getting started
Rhian Teasdale is a captivating performer, with an uncanny ability to look as though she’s dancing around her bedroom
Lily Allen Performs West End Girl in Dublin: This tour has elicited pushback for a reason
Lily Allen acts her way through her autofictional album West End Girl with humour and pathos, but this show is slight as well as startling
Florence + the Machine at Marlay Park: Bewitching, five-star evening as Welch casts spells
Seventeen years on from her debut album, Florence Welch remains an artist born for the largest of stages
Paul Weller is all business on a night of highlights at Fairview Park
Band play 30 or more songs from one of the greatest catalogues in music
By Pat Carty
Ethel Cain at Fairview Park: A mesmerising performer with a beautifully cinematic voice
The American singer-songwriter brings atmosphere, intensity and emotional depth to a captivating Dublin performance
By Ed Power
The Cure at Marlay Park: Rainswept gloom purveyors shine in an apocalyptic heatwave
Robert Smith and co deliver magnificent performance for black-clad fans under aching blue sky
By Ed Power
The Wow! Signal review – Only Muse can make this gravity-defying sound. It’s ludicrous but great fun
By Ed Power
Katy Perry plays all the hits at Malahide Castle but almost in a hasty tribute-act fashion
Hot N Cold star entertains fans with a gig that focused heavily on early career hits
By Niamh Browne
Lewis Capaldi in Marlay Park: Charming and very funny. This is a moving show
CMAT opens Capaldi’s show with gorgeous, glittering, country-inflected pop songs
Louth Contemporary Music Society: Coming Together review – New music makes festival’s strongest impression
Beat Furrer’s boundary-blurring music features alongside work by Jürg Frey, Caroline Shaw, Julius Eastman, Harry Partch and Frederic Rzewski
Olivia Dean at Marlay Park review: Brilliantly affirmative gig fuelled by approachable star power
On Sunday, the second of two emotional, sold-out Dublin concerts, the Grammy winner brings her album The Art of Loving vividly to life
By Ed Power
Metallica at the Aviva review: no encore, no One, no Enter Sandman. Not tonight
Nothing Else Matters but no Enter Sandman as rock’s great survivors tell crowd: ‘See you Sunday’
Foreign Tongues review: The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous
By Ed Power
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: SJ McArdle, Loah, Chuck Squires, Roger Doyle and Big Sun
June 2026 releases include All My Dream Companions Gone, Materia Medica, The Late Great Chuck Squires, Idir and 001
No sleep ’til Wicklow: Mike D brings a note of mayhem to a laid-back Beyond the Pale
Review: The former Beastie Boy throws himself around like your dad cutting loose when the wedding DJ plays Nirvana
By Ed Power
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is brilliantly catchy and beautifully bittersweet
By Ed Power
Guns N’ Roses blast through the old tunes brilliantly at 3Arena, but where are the new songs?
The world doesn’t need another Guns N’ Roses world tour. It needs a new Guns N’ Roses album
Nick Cave at Malahide Castle review: Electrifying drift between intimate confession and apocalyptic revelation
The shamanic visionary continues to reinvent his back catalogue through haunting duets and a prowling, punky spirit
David Byrne at St Anne’s Park review: For Burning Down the House the sodden field becomes a communal jig
On record, the musician’s recent material can feel too keen to radiate positivity. Live, however, the songs are infectiously fun
Aldous Harding review: At one point it could be Dolly Parton singing over a David Lynch film
The indie star’s gift is to make normal life feel like a scary story spun around the campfire – or from a psychiatrist’s couch
By Ed Power
Niall Horan: Dinner Party review – Sorry, Harry Styles. This is the year’s best 1D album
By Ed Power
Addison Rae in Dublin review: Old school pop star exudes joy and glamour on rainy night
Moving and singing like a Gen Z Britney Spears, few other artists make putting on a show for your fans feel like such uncomplicated fun
By Ed Power
CMAT at St Anne’s Park review: Five-star performance by a pop star at the top of her game
‘My dream is to see a CMAT show,’ the singer tells the 20,000 or more people in front of her in Dublin. The crowd are thrilled to be seeing this one
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – Like a highlight reel of the Beatle’s adventures in rock
By Ed Power
The Lemon Twigs in Dublin: Retro brothers’ gig is a close second to a full-on time machine
At Vicar Street, Brian and Michael D’Addario narrow the gap between 2026 and 1966 to the point where it’s hard to spot the difference
By Ed Power
Christopher Cross at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre: Thrilling night shows that great pop is eternal
Review: Slick, brisk Dublin concert features Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) and Ride Like the Wind, among other yacht-rock classics
By Ed Power
Ed O’Brien: Blue Morpho review – Like a sobbing friend you’d gladly spend all night in the pub with
By Ed Power
Paul Simon in Dublin review: An emotionally flooring, intimate performance
Like a great conductor, Simon steers his incredible band around songs that speak to his layered career
By Siobhán Kane
Doja Cat’s Dublin show feels as if it could go off the rails – but the star stays in complete control
Doja Cat proves herself a magnetic performer, dancing almost nonstop in Dublin’s 3Arena
Drake: Iceman review – The rapper can write great pop. But this is a listless, forgettable album
By Ed Power
Tame Impala in Dublin: Sometimes it’s hard to understand what Kevin Parker is aiming for
Psychedelic sounds and dazzling light show create sense of digital disorientation in 3Arena
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Goodtime John, Molly O’Mahony, Mick Flannery, Tony St Ledger, Mac Giolla Ghunna
May 2026 releases include Good as Gold, Waiting on the World, The House Must Win and Man on a Bridge
Aldous Harding: Train on the Island review – Hypnotic, wonderfully bizarre goth pop
By Ed Power
Super Furry Animals in Dublin review: Welsh band’s return is a welcome tonic
Two-hour extravaganza at the 3Olympia Theatre is packed with songs that are all infectious as hell
Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons review – This album wants to soar. But it’s firmly earthbound
By Ed Power
Big Thief at 3Arena: Gen Z’s favourite indie band steal the show with brilliantly cathartic concert
Adrienne Lenker and her bandmates provide a night of highs, lows and heartbreaking digressions
By Ed Power
The Prodigy in Dublin review: Five stars for an epic show with feral energy
You’d call it an old-school night were it not for all the young people in the 3Arena crowd and for the slick production
By Una Mullally
Noah Kahan: The Great Divide review – 17 tracks about being a bit outdoorsy and hugely famous
By Ed Power
Tori Amos in Dublin review: This mother of dragons still knows how to roar
Game of Thrones vibe adds sense of the epic to Amos’s stark warning about tyrants in our midst
By Ed Power
Zayn was always One Direction’s best singer, but his album Konnakol is another missed opportunity
By Ed Power
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Pádraig Cooney & Bedtime Now, BK Pepper, Phoeno, Cable Boy, Oscar Blue
April 2026 releases include Wet Work, Pagan, Comfort in the Knowing, Forever and Birds in Winter
Tomora: Come Closer review – Mesmerising melding of minds between Tom Rowlands and Aurora
By Ed Power
Belle and Sebastian in Dublin review: A warm, wistful hug of a show from 1990s indie heroes
At the 3Olympia, the Scottish band insult Trump, quote Churchill and serve up winning qualities of nostalgia in charming anniversary concert
By Ed Power
Gorillaz in Dublin: Damon Albarn takes selfies and signs autographs without missing a note in compelling show
From Mark E Smith to Idles frontman Joe Talbot, it wouldn’t be a Gorillaz show without a rotating cast of guests
Sallins Inquiry Now review: Christy Moore and Damien Dempsey put fire into benefit gig’s call for investigation
The musician Cormac Breatnach unites artists in renewed call for State apology and inquiry into wrongful conviction of his brother Osgur, Nick Kelly and Brian McNally
By Siobhán Long
Danny Brown in Dublin review: Maximalist sound with a performance that never loses its core
At the 3Olympia, what’s most striking is the way the rapper pushes himself into difficult territory yet retains astonishing speed and precision
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