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Chris Kent in Vicar Street: The Cork comedian’s relaxed style handles darker material with ease

Kent weaves a range of subjects together seamlessly from the housing crisis to feeling uneasy at luxury hotels

Blindboy in Vicar Street: There is a plenty of charm but the show needs elevating

When guest and host riff well and bounce off each other, it’s an enlivening conversation

Comedian Shane Daniel Byrne: ‘You get good at changing the topic of conversation when you’re young and secretly gay’

One of Irish comedy’s recent breakout stars built his following on Instagram during the pandemic, and is about to embark on a nationwide tour with his show, But He’s Gay

Patti Smith to play two shows at Dublin’s Vicar Street

The Patti Smith Quartet will be playing the intimate venue on June 27th and 28th next year

An Audience with Dolly Alderton: Agony aunt has zippy line in posh swearing – but it’s not her who gets biggest laughs

Review: The almost entirely female audience at Vicar Street is treated to a blend of salty wisdom and cocktail-bar irreverence

Kojaque in Vicar Street: Flawless performance as the Dubliner shows his talent and ambition

The Cabra rapper’s dresses himself up as deli-worker, devil, or dodgy Dáil-adjacent wheeler-dealer and shows his work full of complexities

Hania Rani at Vicar Street: An extraordinary show sweeps the audience to a twilight realm

Review: The Polish pianist and composer remains under the radar in the English-speaking world. But around Europe she’s a star in the making

Haircut 100 live in Dublin: ‘There’s love here, isn’t there? Let’s do it!’

Irish debut for 1980s pop band filled with upbeat energy and their fan base are thrilled to have them

Plans for Dublin to get new 2,000-seater music and arts venue

Harry Crosbie has unveiled plans to build new concert venue twice as big as Vicar Street in Dublin’s Thomas Street

Profits treble at Christy Moore music business

Singer’s shows are booked out to January of next year, according to his website

The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end

The best movies, music, art and more coming your way between September 9th and 15th, 2023

Lankum at Vicar Street in pictures

Dublin band Lankum played three sold-out concerts in the last week of May 2023

‘A lot of history is a very, very dark comedy in which people behave quite badly’

The cult podcasters behind The Rest is History visited Dublin recently to record episodes about Ireland’s past with their trademark self-deprecating humour and lightly worn erudition

The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book and the ones to catch before they end

The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Harry Crosbie proposes large new music venue and festival space in €25m docks site development

Proposal includes building an music venue that would be twice the size of his Vicar Street property

Weyes Blood review: Five stars for Natalie Mering’s gorgeously spectral Dublin concert

Singer’s dazzling voice – not to mention banter – helps overcome technical glitches to give outstanding performance at Vicar Street

The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end

The best movies, music, art this week, including London band Dry Cleaning, a film about the music scene in Limerick, and a Blood Brothers revival

Weyes Blood: ‘The standard is so low in terms of what young people are used to hearing, it all gets a pass’

After her wisely acclaimed 2022 album, Natalie Mering thinks orchestral pop is more radical than ‘boring’ experimental noise

Community space set up for Ukrainians in Vicar Street warehouse

Centre has eight tents where services will be provided, such as English language classes

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