Haunted Dancehall

National Concert Hall Dublin

Saturday 25th October

3:00 pm
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Foggy Notions and the National Concert Hall present Haunted Dancehall 2025 a multi-room sound world of ambient, experimental club and electro-acoustic music.

The Bug presents Machine feat. Magugu | Róis | Shabaka

Sliver Salon: Dr. Liam Cagney

Saturday 25 October 2025
3pm – 11.00pm

3 Rooms of Music – One Ticket – €39.50 On Sale Wed. 8th October 10am www.nch.ie

The National Concert Hall (NCH), in partnership with Foggy Notions, is proud to announce the return of Haunted Dancehall on Saturday 25 October 2025 from 3pm to 11pm. Voted The Irish Times Festival of the Year in 2022, Haunted Dancehall is a unique, one-day celebration that transforms the NCH into a multi-room sound world of experimental and boundary-breaking music. Across three stages, audiences will encounter an unforgettable mix of live performances by some of the most significant and imaginative voices in contemporary electronic and experimental music today.

This year’s line-up includes

· one of the most uncompromising and visionary figures in underground electronic music The Bug presenting Machine featuring Magugu a breakout voice in contemporary grime and bass music.

· Róis the Irish multi-instrumentalist weaving together sean-nós, folk, electronics, and jazz into music that is both ancient and futuristic.

· Shabaka; a global leader in spiritual jazz, now redefining his practice with transcendent, flute-based works.

· modern experimental electronics artist and Manchester producer Andy Stott, who has spent the last decade pushing the emotional and sonic boundaries of club music.

· Joanne Robertson, a musician, painter, who has appeared on acclaimed works such as Black Metal and Backstage Raver with Dean Blunt. Robertson has just released one of the most critically acclaimed works of 2025 in her new album Blurrr.

· Elaine Howley one of Ireland’s most original voices, blending analog synths, tape loops, and spectral vocals.

· Dylan Henner who emerged onto the ambient scene in 2020 with releases on Phantom Limb, Dauw, and AD93.

· Milan W. (aka Milan Warmoeskerken) of the Flemish experimental scene whose 2024 album Leave Another Day has become a cult classic.

· Jasmine Wood, hailing from the DIY underworld of Portland, Oregon, Wood’s music fuses ambient folk, experimental textures, and performance art.

· Saoirse Miller, an emerging Irish voice exploring folklore, mysticism, and ambient electro-acoustic music, merging harp-like melodies with processed field recordings and abstract textures.

· and Quade the Bristol-based quartet (Barney Matthews, Matt Higgins, Tom Connolly, Leo Fini) who describe their sound, half-jokingly, as “doomer sad-boy, ambient dub, folk, experimental post-rock.”

From seismic low-end dub to meditative jazz, lo-fi folk to immersive soundscapes, Haunted Dancehall 2025 provides a unique opportunity to experience the work of extraordinary artists, working at the cutting edge of new and genre bending music.

Beyond the music, Haunted Dancehall also hosts the Sliver Salon – a live conversation series exploring the intersections of music, culture, and ideas by Dr. Liam Cagney and an author by the queer press, Sliver. Cagney is a musicologist and author from Donegal living in Berlin. His latest book is the upcoming Berghain Nights: A Journey Through Techno and Berlin Club Culture.

Haunted Dancehall is part of the National Concert Hall’s ambition to opening its spaces to new collaborations and diverse voices. The event is presented in collaboration with Foggy Notions and is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Artwork: Craig Potterton

Photography: Shane Connaughton