BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Foggy Notions - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://foggynotions.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Foggy Notions REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260819T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260819T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260210T091922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T120100Z UID:10000181-1787167800-1787180400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:CHAT PILE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS & U:MACK PRESENT\nCHAT PILE\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nRAGANA\nBUTTON FACTORY\n19TH AUGUST\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nCHAT PILE\nBUTTON FACTORY\n19TH AUGUST\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n€32.50\n26 available\n\nDecrease ticket quantity for CHAT PILE\n–\n\nQuantity \n\n\nIncrease ticket quantity for CHAT PILE\n+\n\nQuantity:\n0\nTotal:\n€0.00\nGet Tickets \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nEXTRA DATE 20TH AUGUST ON SALE NOW – TICKETS \nLike the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake\, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating\, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive\, unrelenting\, and outlandish of a sound has struck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream\, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems. \nBesides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film\, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record\, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work\, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s country” to the entirety of humankind. “Cool World covers similar themes to our last album\, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale\, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad\, at home\, and how they affect one another\,” says vocalist Raygun Busch. \nThough very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous\, sludgy noise rock\, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting\, but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings\, with examples of gazy\, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to God’s Country to still capture the immediate\, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile\, we also knew that with Cool World\, we’d want to stretch the definition of our “sound” to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory\,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record\, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” \nBesides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound\, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties\, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers\, Drab Majesty\, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge. \nThe proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence. Whether it be the cycle of creating and passively consuming literal and figurative violence on sister tracks “Camcorder” and “Tape”\, the diminishment of crimes against humanity by way of foreign policy and colonialism on “Shame”\, or the mental anguish of hopelessness on “The New World”\, Cool World is an apocalyptically bleak record. Sure\, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught\, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms\, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest: undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the moment but leaving a looming dread in the back of one’s mind for how close the horrors depicted mirror reality. \n“If I had to describe the album in one sentence\,” explains Busch\, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire\, so I won’t resist – Cool World is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.” \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/chat-pile-button-factory-dublin-19-aug-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CHAT-PILE-2ND-Night-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260820T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260820T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260213T091957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T121308Z UID:10000186-1787254200-1787266800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:CHAT PILE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS & U:MACK PRESENT\nCHAT PILE\nSPECIAL GUESTS \nRAGANA\nBUTTON FACTORY\n20TH AUGUST\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n CHAT PILE\n BUTTON FACTORY\n20TH AUGUST\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n €32.50\n 0 available\n \n Decrease ticket quantity for CHAT PILE\n –\n \n Quantity \n \n \n Increase ticket quantity for CHAT PILE\n +\n \n Quantity:\n 0\n Total:\n €0.00\n Get Tickets\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nEXTRA DATE ADDED AND ON SALE NOW. \nLike the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake\, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating\, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive\, unrelenting\, and outlandish of a sound has struck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream\, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems. \nBesides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film\, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record\, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work\, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s country” to the entirety of humankind. “Cool World covers similar themes to our last album\, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale\, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad\, at home\, and how they affect one another\,” says vocalist Raygun Busch. \nThough very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous\, sludgy noise rock\, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting\, but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence. Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings\, with examples of gazy\, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to God’s Country to still capture the immediate\, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile\, we also knew that with Cool World\, we’d want to stretch the definition of our “sound” to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory\,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record\, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” \nBesides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound\, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties\, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers\, Drab Majesty\, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge. \nThe proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence. Whether it be the cycle of creating and passively consuming literal and figurative violence on sister tracks “Camcorder” and “Tape”\, the diminishment of crimes against humanity by way of foreign policy and colonialism on “Shame”\, or the mental anguish of hopelessness on “The New World”\, Cool World is an apocalyptically bleak record. Sure\, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught\, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms\, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest: undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the moment but leaving a looming dread in the back of one’s mind for how close the horrors depicted mirror reality. \n“If I had to describe the album in one sentence\,” explains Busch\, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire\, so I won’t resist – Cool World is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.” \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/chat-pile-button-factory-dublin-20-aug-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CHAT-PILE-2ND-Night-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260824T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260824T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260212T165007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260621T133237Z UID:10000185-1787601600-1787612400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:PROSTITUTE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nPROSTITUTE\nVENUE UPGRADE\nWORKMAN’S CLUB\n24TH AUGUST\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nPROSTITUTE\nTHE WORKMAN’S CLUB\nVENUE UPGRADE\n24TH AUGUST\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n€20.00\n47 available\n\nDecrease ticket quantity for PROSTITUTE\n–\n\nQuantity \n\n\nIncrease ticket quantity for PROSTITUTE\n+\n\nQuantity:\n0\nTotal:\n€0.00\nGet Tickets \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nDue to phenomenal demand Prostitute’s Irish Debut has been upgraded to Workman’s Club on Monday 24th August. All existing tickets remain valid and final tickets on sale now. \nFormed in 2020 in Dearborn\, Michigan\, Prostitute is an experimental post-punk and Arab rock band. Born out of the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdown\, the band’s debut album\, Attempted Martyr\, was written in the midst of global and personal turmoil\, capturing the zeitgeist of a world unraveling. A loose concept record\, it chronicles the rise and fall of a doomed zealot whose pursuit of holy vengeance spirals into a psychotic orgy of violence\, greed\, and lust. \nThe band was initially formed by Moe Kazra who enlisted childhood friends Andrew Kaster and Dylan Zaranski\, with Ross Babinski and Bret Wall later completing the lineup. Together\, they self-funded the album\, working with legendary engineer Chris Koltay to shape a sound that’s both abrasive and hypnotic—an unrelenting blend of warped guitars\, primitive basslines\, frenzied drumming\, and corrosive synthesizers\, interwoven with samples from diverse cultures\, ranging from African to Middle Eastern and East Asian influences. \nTracks like “All Hail” (inspired by the 1977 Hanafi Siege of Washington D.C.) immerses listeners in a volatile\, hostage-like environment. “Judge” channels Milton’s Satan in a chilling rallying cry\, while “Body Meat” grapples with religious desperation and the tenuous boundary between faith and madness. Khachab and Kaster’s lyrics have been described by Pitchfork as “disturbingly poetic” with the ability to “lacerate with image alone.” Crude sloganeering and scenes of horrific violence are juxtaposed with literary allusion and Islamic symbolism\, creating what the band calls a “theatricalization of terrorism.” Through this lens\, they examine and critique the xenophobic stereotypes targeted at Arabs\, distorting them into grotesque caricatures. \nOver the past four years\, Prostitute has established a reputation for their punishing\, high-energy performances. The band’s live shows\, described as “dangerous” and “volatile”\, finds Moe delivering politically charged sermons atop a deafening bacchanal of sound. In 2023\, Prostitute performed at the re-opening of the iconic UFO Bar in Detroit\, followed by a series of benefit concerts for Palestine\, Lebanon\, and Sudan. These performances solidified their growing presence\, leading to invites to play at No Rest Fest and New Colossus Festival. \nAs Prostitute continues work on their sophomore album\, they are delving deeper into electronic and Arabic dance influences\, drawing inspiration from the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon. Their sound continues to evolve\, with new tracks incorporating dabke rhythms\, Arabesque melodicism\, and industrial synth textures\, all while retaining the same anarchic energy that defines their unique sound. \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/prostitute-dublin-august-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Prostitute-WC-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260826T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260826T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260408T085239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T131750Z UID:10000214-1787774400-1787783400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nTHE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH\nNATIONAL CONCERT HALL\n26TH AUGUST\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on now. \nThe Tallest Man On Earth (aka Kristian Matsson) shares his new song “Colors\,” his first new music in three years. \n“Kristian Matsson is undoubtedly one of the country’s most skilled artists in the genre.”  – Dagens Nyheter \n“The most common way to describe his music is a young BOB DYLAN’s singing With God on our side – same nerve\, same authority – DI Weekend \n \n“Matsson has made some of the best and most-compelling folk songs of the 21st century.” — Paste \n“The Tallest Man on Earth has released some of the best modern folk music of this century. He writes elegant\, homespun ballads that draw you in toward the proverbial campfire.” – GQ \nSwedish singer-songwriter The Tallest Man On Earth aka Kristian Matsson is announcing the song “Colors” today\, his first new music in nearly three years. Recorded by Mattson in his home studio\, the song whirls and swirls with his violin\, guitar playing and signature croon. Yearning for the verdant inspiration of summer\, head below to listen and watch the song’s new video featuring handheld camera footage from Kristian and his crew on a recent run of European shows. \nThe Tallest Man On Earth has captivated audiences using “every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around\, crouching\, stretching\, hip-twitching\, perching briefly and jittering away…” (The New York Times). He will be playing a selection of festival and headline shows in Sweden and Ireland and the Uk this summer. Head below to check out all upcoming tour dates. \nCritics often draw comparisons between The Tallest Man on Earth and Bob Dylan\, citing similarities in both songwriting and vocal style. Matsson himself has acknowledged Dylan’s influence\, revealing that he started listening to him at the age of fifteen. Fascinated by Dylan’s covers\, he delved into their origins\, which gradually introduced him to early American folk artists like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. However\, Matsson is quick to distance himself from being part of any specific tradition\, stating\, “I don’t want to be part of a tradition. I just want to do what feels natural to me. This is how I play\, and this is how I write songs.” \nHis 2023 album ‘Henry St.’ marks the first time Matsson recorded an album in a band setting. As described by Matsson\, it’s the “most me album yet\, because it covers so many of the different noises in my head. Having been away from it taught me that making music and performing is what I’m doing for the rest of my life\, and I’m so grateful for it. It has given me new confidence and playfulness. This is what I do. It’s unconditional.” \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/the-tallest-man-on-earth-national-concert-hall-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Tallest-Man-On-Earth-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260826T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260826T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260310T165717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T174835Z UID:10000198-1787774400-1787785200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:EARL SWEATSHIRT & MIKE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nEARL SWEATSHIRT & MIKE\nSPECIAL GUEST\nHARRISON [SURF GANG]\nVICAR STREET\n26TH AUGUST\n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nFoggy Notions proudly presents EARL SWEATSHIRT & MIKE – Home on the Range Tour 2026 with special guest HARRISON [SURF GANG] live at Vicar Street on Wednesday 26th August. Tickets on general sale Friday 13th March at 10:00. Sign up at foggynotions.ie for presale access. \nPOMPEII // UTILITY \n“Feel like all of this life that I have\, man\, this shit could inspire a book\,” MIKE raps with conviction on “F.E.A.R.”\, the eighth song on a new collaborative album\, POMPEII // UTILITY\, with rapper and friend Earl Sweatshirt. The record’s whopping 33 tracks\, produced by NYC’s hyper-present post-pandemic supercollective SURF GANG\, compile an intimate chronicle of experience\, memory\, and kinship into a record that\, in breadth and detail\, digests like a book. A project several years in the making\, POMPEII // UTILITY unites two kindred spirit rappers from opposite coasts within SURF GANG’s world-building genius\, to trace a musical bond and mutual admiration shaped through early collaborations and features\, shared stages\, mutual friends\, and a devoted fanbase. \nAcross several albums and widespread critical acclaim\, Earl Sweatshirt has cemented himself as a definitive poet chronicling growth\, self-discovery\, and the resonant moods of a generation. MIKE is a quintessential old soul — his calm delivery and measured questioning carrying a quiet wisdom. Once making waves in NYC’s underground hip-hop circles with the [sLUms] collective\, MIKE’s inner world has come further into focus as his career has expanded.  \nStructured as a double-sided experience — MIKE on one side\, Earl on the other — POMPEII // UTILITY unfolds through a rotating cast of side quests and characters from within its shared creative ecosystem. Jadasea\, Anysia Kym\, Niontay\, Na-Kel Smith\, and Lerado Khalil all make appearances\, passing through the album’s vast terrain\, while behind the scenes\, SURF GANG producers EvilGiane\, Harrison\, Elipropperr\, and Flea Diamonds (with input from additional producers) wield the gritty\, raspy\, animated beats that build its container. The production is fast-paced and immediate\, rough around the edges\, embracing in-real-time energy over polish\, at times pushing MIKE and Earl into uncharted territory. While each has orbited it selectively\, they haven’t fully lived inside the SURF GANG universe until now\, making POMPEII // UTILITY feel like an anticipated\, full-circle collision of worlds. \nThe album began simply: SURF GANG’s Harrison sent around beats that both artists recorded over the course of a month or two before deciding to develop it into a full project. The album’s title and conceptual framework draw from the eruption of Pompeii\, with themes of building and destruction reflected in both the artwork and ethos. During one particularly baked studio session\, the energy in the room slipped into a haze where they describe feeling “frozen in time\,” sparking the image of Pompeii.  \nArriving on the heels of 2025 albums from both rappers — MIKE’s Showbiz! and Earl’s Live\, Laugh\, Love — POMPEII // UTILITY plays like a victory lap that traces their friendship back over more than a decade. On his side of the album\, MIKE raps with loose self-assurance\, a man who is fully aware of how far he’s come. Part reflection\, part flex (Europe feels like his backyard now he boasts on “NOT 4TW”)\, he sets the tone for a project that sounds like it was undeniably fun to make. Lyrically\, Earl moves between reckoning and recalibration. On “Locusts\,” the father of two raps\, “My olders taught me it’s the only way\,” uncovering motivation as necessity. “C’est la vie to my older friendship” he raps\, acknowledging how life moves on\, relationships evolving and dwindling. On “Kirkland\,” lines like “I got no horse in this race\, nothing obstructing the flight path” feel like moments of hard-won perspective. \nMasters of internal monologue\, both rappers unmask across the project with signature self-interrogation\, swapping unanticipated flows over SURF GANG’s quick\, browser-tab-like structures. On “this2shallpass\,” Earl sounds almost like Chief Keef in his big-talk: “Before we start\, let’s get one thing reestablished\, it’s only up that’s the destination.” On “Rectangle Lens\,” he channels Chicago rapper LUCKI’s meditative haze\, while on “Chali 2na” and “Don’t Worry\,” his voice pitches upward\, as if speaking to a younger version of himself. Both rappers treat language carefully: fragmented\, coded\, and sometimes withheld. Embedded in their artistic alignment and kinship is a layer of intergenerational mourning — music that holds the weight of grief which predates them yet endures: colonial violence\, exile\, and rupture\, without turning it into performance. On “#FREE #MIKE\,” lines like “I made a flame in the dark” and “Niggas changed so I had to be out” read as MIKE’s meditations on freedom in a world that can feel like a prison. \nAt its core\, POMPEII // UTILITY embodies a shared ethos that has always tied MIKE and Earl together: collaboration as community-building. It evokes African and diasporic traditions where art and story are collective\, iterative\, relational — part of a larger whole. MIKE raps about survival as a child of the diaspora\, carrying memory through sound. Earl\, whose lineage is steeped in political thought and activism\, carries a diasporic consciousness that reverberates beneath his poetic sensibility. Where two rappers going head-to-head might otherwise incite rivalry or comparison\, POMPEII // UTILITY offers something rooted and communal — a shared understanding of care\, joy\, grief\, process\, and responsibility to something larger than yourself. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/earl-sweatshirt-mike-vicar-street-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/EARL-MIKE-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260830T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260830T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20260525T180320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260621T134415Z UID:10000233-1788120000-1788130800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:WAY DYNAMIC DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nWAY DYNAMIC\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nSNOWY\nWHELAN’S\n30TH AUGUST\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nTickets will be available on May 27\, 2026 \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\nWAV TICKETS\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nFoggy Notions are proud to present the Irish Debut of Way Dynamic. Tickets on sale Wednesday 27th May at 10:00. \nWay Dynamic\, the solo project of Melbourne’s Dylan Young\, will soon release internationally Massive Shoe – a third album that’s playful and understated\, luminous and textured. Massive Shoe is minimalist folk-pop\, art rock and baroque pop\, produced and largely played by Young\, who moonlights in Melbourne’s beloved Cool Sounds and Good Morning and has played drums with Snowy Band and Kankawa Nagarra. It’s tempting to only compare these timeless songs to those of yesteryear\, but there’s a sensibility\, a turn of phrase\, that feels deeply contemporary: it’s telling that Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield described “Miffed It” as her “favourite song in a VERY long time”\, and Katie and MJ Lenderman have both taken Way Dynamic on tour. At the same time\, Sir Elton John said that he “just cannot stop listening” to “Ibiza”. Young’s songs don’t shy away from sentiment\, or equally from silliness: on any given song he might evoke a cruisy trip through hell or earnestly lament a miscommunication. Whether the journey is to space or along the Seine\, we’re very much along for the ride. \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/way-dynamic-dublin-august-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Way-Dynamic-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260831T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260831T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211948 CREATED:20251028T100000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T090733Z UID:10000109-1788204600-1788215400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:MAC DEMARCO DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nMAC DEMARCO\nULSTER HALL BELFAST\n31ST AUGUST\nSOLD OUT\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale now. \nGuitar is the first studio album from Mac DeMarco since 2019’s Here Comes The Cowboy. Following the two most recent releases – the 199-track One Wayne G and the instrumental\, tour-inspired collection Five Easy Hot Dogs\, Guitar features 12 new songs written\, performed and recorded in its entirety by Mac between November 16th-28th in 2024 at his home studio in LA. Mac writes\, “I think Guitar is as close to a true representation of where I’m at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper. \nDeMarco is a Canadian self-produced multi-instrumentalist\, songwriter\, and recording artist. Raised in Edmonton\, Alberta\, he currently resides in Los Angeles\, California. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/mac-demarco-ulster-hall-belfast-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MAC-DEMARCO-Website-Belfast.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260905T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260905T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260618T083242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T083824Z UID:10000251-1788638400-1788647400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:HANA STRETTON DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nHANA STRETTON\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nWOOM\nUNITARIAN CHURCH\n5TH SEPTEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 19\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale Friday 19th June at 10:00. \nHana Stretton is a British-Australian music producer and composer\, recognised for her singular\, deeply distinctive sound. Her stunning debut\, Soon\, quickly became a beloved work within the experimental lo-fi community. Phil Elverum described her music as “mysterious\, deep\, resonant\, inhabitable\,” and his label PW Elverum & Sun went on to release the album in 2024.Deeply connected to the natural world\, Stretton’s work traces a vivid journey—from the dusty Australian bushland of Soon to the Pacific Ocean on her forthcoming LP\, tiarn. Set for release this year\, the new record takes an unexpected cinematic turn\, weaving together classical and electronic influences.In 2023-2024\, Hana toured with Jessica Pratt\, Mount Eerie and Julie Byrne as well as selling out London’s RAH Elgar Room\, and appearing at festivals such as Haldern Pop and Sound Of Bronkow Festivals. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/hana-stretton-unitarian-church-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Hana-Stretton-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260909T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260909T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260422T085236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260509T142252Z UID:10000218-1788984000-1788993000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:DÚN LAOGHAIRE FOLK FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nDÚN LAOGHAIRE FOLK FESTIVAL\nPAVILION THEATRE\n9TH – 13TH SEPTEMBER\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nFoggy Notions & Pavilion Theatre presents Dún Laoghaire Folk Fest 2026 at Pavilion Theatre September 9th – 13th. \nThis is the third edition of Dún Laoghaire Folk Fest\, a project we started with Pavilion Theatre in 2021 during COVID\, when only 50 people could attend each show! Surreal times\, but fond memories. A second edition followed in 2022 with full houses\, and it’s great to be back after a three-year gap supported by the Pavilion’s Patron Award. We greatly appreciate their support for independent promoters\, curators\, performers and producers in this challenging climate. \nThe mood of this year’s curation draws on psychic happenstance\, gloom-folk\, the authentic voice\, and the elemental energy of Dún Laoghaire itself. Coastal towns feel at the coalface of climate: one day sun-glitter\, the next a tempestuous dance of wind and wave. Whatever the season\, it’s an inspirational environment for music and singing. \nWe warmly welcome legendary overseas artists\, including Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle\, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar\, plus Irish debuts from Tessa Rose Jackson and Garefowl. Thanks to Campbell Baum of Broadside Hacks for the chance to celebrate Lal & Mike Waterson’s seminal 1972 Bright Phoebus album with an extraordinary line-up of contributors. And\, of course\, our homegrown artists Andy Irvine\, Brigid Mae Power\, Ellie O’Neill\, Art Lorigan\, and emerging voices Roisin Gowen\, Aongus and Rua Rí.  \nTickets go on general sale Friday April 24th\, 10am   \nJacqui McShee’s Pentangle\, Wednesday September 9th    \nBroadside Hacks presents BRIGHT PHOEBUS REVISITED\, Thursday September 10th. London based promoter and record label Broadside Hacks present a celebration of Lal and Mike Waterson’s cult album Bright Phoebus\, featuring Marry Waterson\, Eliza Carthy\, and special guests Lankum’s Daragh Lynch\, Matt Deighton\, Martyn Barker\, and Ben Nicholls.  \nBonnie “Prince” Billy\, Friday September 11th & Saturday September 12th special guests:  Sep 11th Garefowl / Sep 12th: Brigid Mae Power \nAndy Irvine & special guests Tessa Rose Jackson & Roisin Gowen\, Saturday September 12th\, afternoon show (doors 1.30pm) \nEllie O’Neill & special guests Aongus & Rua Rí\, Sunday September 13th\, afternoon show (doors 1.30pm) \nDestroyer (solo) & special guest Art Lorigan\, Sunday September 13th \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/dun-laoghaire-folk-festival-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/format-1080x1080-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260914T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260914T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260407T134956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T144058Z UID:10000211-1789412400-1789426800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nKURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nRYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND\nVICAR STREET\n14TH SEPTEMBER\n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 10th April at 10:00. \nReleased in God’s year of 2026\, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America in Kurt Vile’s fine city of Philadelphia\, Philadelphia’s been good to me finds one of our nation’s greatest songwriters staking a claim on his hometown. “This is my ‘bringing it all back home to Philly’ record\,” Vile says. “I’m treating it like my last one. I put everything into it. It’s my best vocal record. It’s my best electric guitar record. It’s my most organic record\, made in the comfort of my own zone.” \nLargely self-produced\, with assists from Adam Langellotti\, keys wiz Matthew Jugenheimer\, drummer Kyle Spence\, guitarist Jesse Trbovrich\, and longtime Violators boardsman Rob Schnapf\, the record embodies Vile’s understanding of music as a conversation between people across time and space. The title track is an ode to his hometown that doubles as an homage to Tom Petty’s homage to California. The barn-burning “Chance to Bleed” features guest spots from Memphis OGs Natalie Hoffman and Greg Cartwright but boasts a music video proudly shot at the Philly venue Kung Fu Necktime and features a cameo by local legend Schoolly D. “You Don’t Know Cuz It’s My Life” is Kurt’s take on a stadium anthem\, building up to a laid-back yet triumphant chant of “I’m from Phil-a-del-phiaaaaaaah!” that you can imagine a crowd of Eagles fans screaming along to\, Twisted Teas pointed towards the heavens. \nMake no mistake: Philadelphia’s been good to me is the sound of Philly’s constant hitmaker coming back to kick ass\, son the haters\, and put on for the City of Brotherly Love — and in true Kurt Vile fashion\, doing so while sounding more relaxed than ever. Between the 250th anniversary of America and its hosting of select World Cup games\, 2026 is shaping up to be a big deal for Philadelphia. “And then there’s one other thing\,” Vile says. “I gotta be that third thing. Because I am Philadelphia. I gotta own it. I gotta rise to the occasion.” \nRyan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats from the Soul is a masterclass in reducing the sublime to the prosaic\, immensity to infinitesimally\, and vice versa (the trick can only work both ways). Everything in our universe is essentially flotsam or jetsam\, rubbish heaps of fragments and shards. We\, especially\, are jerry-rigs of bubblegum and driftwood\, inconsistencies and incoherencies\, dead dreams and necrophagous hopes. The record functions in parallel with Kafka’s winking dictum that there is an infinite amount of hope in the universe\, just not for us. New Threats suggests that maybe\, just maybe\, something like redemption is possible\, but only once we’re entirely emptied out and hawked in toto down at Walden Pawn. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/kurt-vile-the-violators-vicar-street-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Kurt-Vile-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260915T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260915T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260526T200225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T083045Z UID:10000237-1789502400-1789513200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nRYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND\nGRAND SOCIAL\n15TH SEPTEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on May 29\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 29th May at 10:00. \nFoggy Notions presents the return of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band to Dublin heading the Grand Social in Dublin in addition to their special guest slot with Kurt Vile & Violators at Vicar Street on September 14th.  \nIn 2025\, the band released their second studio album\, “New Threats from the Soul”\, which Pitchfork included in its ‘Best New Albums’ section\, praising Ryan as “an essential new voice in American indie rock.” Go give this already-classic Americana record a listen!  \nNew Threats from the Soul is a masterclass in reducing the sublime to the prosaic\, immensity to infinitesimally\, and vice versa (the trick can only work both ways). Everything in our universe is essentially flotsam or jetsam\, rubbish heaps of fragments and shards. We\, especially\, are jerry-rigs of bubblegum and driftwood\, inconsistencies and incoherencies\, dead dreams and necrophagous hopes. The record functions in parallel with Kafka’s winking dictum that there is an infinite amount of hope in the universe\, just not for us. New Threats suggests that maybe\, just maybe\, something like redemption is possible\, but only once we’re entirely emptied out and hawked in toto down at Walden Pawn. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/ryan-davis-the-roadhouse-band-dublin-september-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ryan-Davis-website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260919T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260919T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260115T085509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T150213Z UID:10000169-1789846200-1789857000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:HOLY FUCK DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nHOLY FUCK\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nTHE ITCH\nBUTTON FACTORY\n19TH SEPTEMBER\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nHOLY FUCK\nBUTTON FACTORY\n19TH SEPTEMBER\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n€24.50\n69 available\n\nDecrease ticket quantity for HOLY FUCK\n–\n\nQuantity \n\n\nIncrease ticket quantity for HOLY FUCK\n+\n\nQuantity:\n0\nTotal:\n€0.00\nGet Tickets \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nFoggy Notions are proud to present Holy F**K & Special Guests The Itch live at Button Factory on Saturday 19th September. Final tickets on sale now. \nHOLY FUCK – ‘EVENT BEAT’ \nAt a time when even entire classic rock bands are being AI generated\, Holy Fuck are now more relevant than ever. The Canadian quartet have forged their reputation for making electronic music with a human touch. While many artists create that core electronic via laptops\, loops and drum machines\, Holy Fuck keep every element as live as possible. The intoxication they inspire comes not from cold\, staid perfection\, but from the ragged energy that comes from four musicians relishing sharing a moment. Factor in the chaos born from improvisation and skipping a click track in favour of loose\, raw\, real percussion\, and it’s easy to see why Holy Fuck are renowned for their pulsating\, unorthodox thrills. \nAs the passage of time marches to its own relentless beat\, it’s almost frightening to note that it has been six years since their previous set\, 2020’s ‘Deleter’. Given the well-documented events that followed that year\, the normally road-weary band – Brian Borcherdt\, Graham Walsh\, Matt ‘Punchy’ McQuaid and Matt Schulz – spent two years entirely apart from each other. \nIn March 2022\, they finally reconvened in an old village hall in rural Nova Scotia. The main purpose was to simply reunite and rehearse\, but new song ideas soon flowed out of them. And that was the starting point for their upcoming album ‘Event Beat’. \n“The catalyst for this record and the beginning of the recordings that we did was us just getting back together again\,” states Graham. “It was something unique to us. It was all of us living together one in space and with no distractions and just working on music in the middle of nowhere. It’s a way I really like to work. For at least half of the songs on the record\, it was just us holed up together. Which was great!” \nIntuition\, muscle memory\, an almost telepathic link? Call it what you will but the shared synapses between the quartet were soon fired up. “Having our own language that we can speak so easily together is really important to us\,” asserts Brian. “We all have our own piece to bring to the conversation\, and it’s idiosyncratic to us because we’ve been dedicated to it for so long. Hopefully that’s encouraging to other bands who feel like they’re on a similar path.” \nNonetheless\, there were challenges. At one point a storm knocked out the power\, forcing them to start up a generator. More importantly was the presence of a local who objected to the volume of their sessions. You can talk long into the night about musical influences\, but nothing shapes the direction of a record quite like the practical obstacle of having to placate a neighbour. \n“That became a production challenge\,” notes Graham. “We still wanted to jam\, but while being as quiet as possible. Matt couldn’t hit the drums really loud. So we made these more low-key ambient things. It was like\, how quiet can we be and still do what we do?” \nBrian concurs. “We were making these quite pastoral\, vibey soundscapes\, and I thought we were going to have an ambient record on our hands. I thought this was going to be almost like new age music or something.” \nHitting play on ‘Event Beat’ reveals that Holy Fuck totally circumvented that idea\, as opening track ‘Evie’ swirls between pulsating bass\, punk-funk grooves and luminous synth flourishes to offer an hypnotic calling card for the rest of the album. It was an idea that dated back until 2016’s ‘Congrats’ and that was salvaged after Brian spent six years listening to its initial idea on headphones until they could unlock what made it work. It also provides what he calls an “infinity loop” or a “streaming hack” for fans who play the album on repeat\, as the end of the final song\, the title track\, loops straight into the ‘Evie’ intro. \nAt the other extreme\, ‘Gold Flakes’ is a typical “Holy Fuck studio jam” driven by Matt McQuaid’s rolling bass. But its dreamy Krautrock march is given an additional flair with a flurry of musique concrète-style sound collage elements which unveils more details with each repeated listen. Instigating movement more than provoking than the mind is the swaggering ‘Czar’\, full of popping J. Dilla-ish bass\, happy accidents and random chaos that is proving to be a challenge as they plan future live shows. As Brian sighs\, “I’ll have to get really tight with my imperfections.” \n‘Elevate’ is the one track that leans most heavily into those new age preconceptions\, but with Holy Fuck being Holy Fuck it takes a detour into the unexpected and keeps layering up fresh sonic elements at every turn. “I really like those epic techno songs like Orbital and Underworld\,” smiles Graham. “This was my attempt at something like that. Just dance floor euphoria.” \nThroughout the record\, the vocals drift through the ether like a conversation with an imaginary friend. There’s no overarching concept\, but Brian highlights a recurring motif of momentum “towards something that is beyond personal control\, either at the mercy of some bigger system or some unspoken will.” And while ‘Deleter’ called upon guest vocals \nmore than ever\, this time they’re conspicuous only by their absence. There was no grand strategy though\, just the realisation that the record excelled without them. Brian did\, however\, call on two members of his spacious semi-classical ambient project Quilting: Mairi Chaimbeul who contributed harp to title-track ‘Event Beat’\, and Sahara Jane Nasr\, the South Asian violin-like instrument the sārangī \nThe album also emerged in the wake of an unexpected Holy Fuck rediscovery after ‘Tom Tom’ featured in a key scene in Amazon Prime Video hit animated series ‘Invincible’ – and it’s now their most streamed track with twelve times the number of its nearest competitor. Brian and Graham recall a discussion with their then-label\, who were somewhere between curious and indifferent about their choice of ‘Tom Tom’ as a lead single for the ‘Congrats’ album. As Brian continues\, “There’s something validating when something happens years later for such a random reason that you wouldn’t have predicted.” \nThe unpredictable happened once more when ‘Lost Cool’ resurfaced in the Academy Award winning body horror ‘The Substance’. Graham took the opportunity to see it on the big screen. “I was in the big theater watching it\, and then remembering back to listening to the demo that I made of just the drum beat and the synth bassline in my car\, cranked up driving through Toronto\, just like\, this is fun. It’s kind of cool to put it all into perspective\, and have that cycle happen.” \nBetween those spotlight moments and the vibrancy of ‘Event Beat’ and it’s clear that Holy Fuck are as relevant as ever. It can’t be attributed to any one thing. Perhaps it’s the conviction to keep going and sticking to their guns regardless of music’s latest trends. Maybe it’s the pure compulsion to keep at it even after many of their early peers have drifted away. Or it could be them setting an example to younger musicians that playing live off the floor can still be a creative thrill – as demonstrated by their incoming ‘At Work’ video performance series. \n“What I hope people take away from it is an appreciation is the togetherness and the humanity in the music\,” concludes Graham. “Music should be played and enjoyed together. When that raw punk sound comes off the stage you should just enjoy it and relish that experience. It’s wonderful and awesome.” \nThe Itch:\nAs architects of formidably nagging hooks\, The Itch could scarcely be more aptly named. Pairing effervescent art-pop with wryly self-aware lyrics\, Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy make sardonic floorfillers that burrow deep under your skin and linger in your consciousness long after the music stops. \nConsequently\, their debut album\, It’s The Hope That Kills You\, doesn’t just demand attention\, it commands it\, withproductions that feel both playfully nostalgic and utterly contemporary. \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/holy-fuck-button-factory-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Cen-Holy-Fuck-Website-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260919T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260919T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260501T095454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T095912Z UID:10000222-1789848000-1789858800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:DEAD BOB DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS & U:MACK PRESENT\nDEAD BOB\nWORKMAN’S CLUB\n19TH SEPTEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n DEAD BOB\n WORKMAN’S CLUB\n19TH SEPTEMBER\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n €28.00\n 100 available\n \n Decrease ticket quantity for DEAD BOB\n –\n \n Quantity \n \n \n Increase ticket quantity for DEAD BOB\n +\n \n Quantity:\n 0\n Total:\n €0.00\n Get Tickets\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nJohn Wright\, drummer of hardcore legends No Means No\, brings his new band Dead Bob to Dublin’s Workmans Club on Saturday September 19th. Tickets are on sale now. \nDead Bob \nAfter the release of “Life Like” in April of ’23 John Wright (Nomeansno\, Hanson Brothers) had unwittingly launched himself back into the music world. Forming the live band with the amazing talents of Ford Pier (DOA\, Reostatics\, Vengeance Trio)\, Byron Slack (Invasives)\, Kristy Lee Audette (Rong)\, and Colin MacRae (Pigment Vehicle)\, Dead Bob began to hone a live sound and quickly became a juggernaut on stage. From the fall of ’23 they clocked in 130 shows in 2 years in 15 countries and released a single in ’25 on Antena Krzyku in Poland for the first extensive European tour. Over this time a second record was in the works and as ’26 dawned the final touches for “Nothing Changes Everything” were completed and preparations for an April 21 release\, exactly 3 years after Life Like\, were underway. So was a new set.  Featuring new songs and new old songs and showcasing the range and talent of these players\, Dead Bob continues to be dynamic unpredictable and of course\, f*****g loud!   \nDead Bob plans 3 tours this year\, 2026\, starting in eastern Canada in May and then twice overseas\, June and Sept.   \n  \n  \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/dead-bob-workmans-club-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DEAD-BOB-Instagram-Post-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260925T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260925T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20260204T184846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T140431Z UID:10000178-1790366400-1790377200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:WILLIAM TYLER DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nWILLIAM TYLER\nBELLO BAR\n25TH SEPTEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on February 6\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale Friday 6th February at 10:00. \nWilliam Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/william-tyler-bello-bar-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/William-Tyler-Website-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260930T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260930T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211949 CREATED:20251015T212428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T162433Z UID:10000087-1790798400-1790809200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:LUTE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nLUTE\nGRAND SOCIAL\n30TH SEPTEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n LUTE\n GRAND SOCIAL\n30TH SEPTEMBER\nOVER 18’S ID REQUIRED\n €22.50\n 146 available\n \n Decrease ticket quantity for LUTE\n –\n \n Quantity \n \n \n Increase ticket quantity for LUTE\n +\n \n Quantity:\n 0\n Total:\n €0.00\n Get Tickets\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nPlease note this show has been rescheduled to 30th September. Existing tickets remain valid. \nWe’re excited to announce that Lute\, the Charlotte-born rapper and lyrical force from Dreamville Records\, is heading overseas for his first-ever headlining international tour! Lute first made waves with his breakout mixtape “West 1996 Pt. 2”\, and solidified his place as one of Dreamville’s most dynamic storytellers with his critically acclaimed debut album “Gold Mouf”. He also earned a Grammy nomination and achieved 2xPlatinum status for his standout contribution on Dreamville’s “Under The Sun” alongside J. Cole and DaBaby. After previously joining labelmate Bas on tour in Europe\, this marks Lute’s long-awaited moment to take center stage and bring his own headlining show across Europe and the UK. Fans can expect sharp lyricism\, heartfelt narratives\, and the captivating energy that have made him one of hip-hop’s most authentic voices. \nCharlotte\, North Carolina rapper and Dreamville affiliate Lute delivers humble\, introspective lyrics\, often referencing his life struggles and his parenthood. His thoughfulness is often paired with mellow\, soul-tinged production and his style evolved on records like his 2017 studio debut proper\, West1996\, Pt. 2\, and its 2021 follow-up\, Gold Mouf.Lute was born Luther Nicholson in 1989 and first burst onto the underground hip-hop scene as a member of the rap collective Forever FC\, alongside Jimmy Kelso\, High I’m Ry\, and Schyler Chaise. Lute delivered his first solo mixtape\, West 1996\, in 2012 while s:ll a member of Forever FC\, but took a backseat after the birth of his daughter. With the group and Lute receiving plaudits from the likes of Rick Ross and Pete Rock\, it wasn’t long before he was snapped up by J. Cole in 2015\, signing to Cole’s then-burgeoning Dreamville imprint. His first effort for the label arrived at the end of that year on the compilation Revenge of the Dreamers II in the form of “Still Slummin’\,” a posthumous production by J Dilla. \nTwo years later\, the single “Juggin’” appeared and signaled Lute’s return. His debut album\, 2017’s West 1996\, Pt. 2\, followed\, with guest appearances from Earth Gang and Elevator Jay. Lute next appeared on the chart-topping 2019 compilation Revenge of the Dreamers III\, collaborating with J. Cole and DaBaby on the platinum-certified single “Under the Sun.” He released several singles in 2020\, including “Life” and “Get It and Go\,” and in October of 2021\, his second studio album\, Gold Mouf\, appeared. The highly collaborative project featured a host of special guests and contributors\, including performances from Saba\, JID\, Ari Lennox\, Westside Boogie\, and others\, with sequencing help from Phonte and executive production from Big Poohand Big Dho. In 2022\, a deluxe version of Gold Mouf was released with six additional tracks. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/lute-grand-social-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LUTE-SEPT-Instagram-Post-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261003T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261003T223000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260112T125243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T180859Z UID:10000166-1791057600-1791066600@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:ÓLAFUR ARNALDS - FALLING APART TOGETHER DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nÓLAFUR ARNALDS – FALLING APART TOGETHER\nNATIONAL CONCERT HALL\n3RD & 4TH OCTOBER\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale 21st January at 1pm. \nFalling Apart Together \n18 attempts at dismantling the distance \nA live experience by Ólafur Arnalds \nAward-winning artist\, composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds returns with his most daring and adventurous project to date. \nFalling Apart Together is an attempt at dismantling the distance between us. A concert hybrid that reveals the layers we construct in order to feel safe\, the moments in which those layers tremble and the sense of intimacy and shared humanity that emerges when we allow ourselves to be exposed. \nTogether with his team of devoted craftsmen and musicians\, Ólafur presents a spellbinding blend of past and new material in a show that challenges the boundaries of what a concert can be. \nAfter his globally acclaimed tours following re:member and some kind of peace — which sold out such iconic halls as Royal Albert Hall\, Elbphilharmonie\, Sydney Opera House\, and Walt Disney Concert Hall – performing to hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide — Ólafur returns with his most intimate and boundary-pushing work to date. \nFalling Apart Together explores what becomes possible when we let ourselves unravel just enough to collectively open up. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/olafur-arnalds-falling-apart-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OLAFUR-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261004T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261004T173000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260212T094535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T095007Z UID:10000183-1791126000-1791135000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:ÓLAFUR ARNALDS DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nÓLAFUR ARNALDS – FALLING APART TOGETHER\nNATIONAL CONCERT HALL\n4TH OCTOBER\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nAdditional matinee performance added for Sunday 4th October. Tickets on sale Friday 13th February at 10:00. \n  \nFalling Apart Together \n18 attempts at dismantling the distance \nA live experience by Ólafur Arnalds \nAward-winning artist\, composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds returns with his most daring and adventurous project to date. \nFalling Apart Together is an attempt at dismantling the distance between us. A concert hybrid that reveals the layers we construct in order to feel safe\, the moments in which those layers tremble and the sense of intimacy and shared humanity that emerges when we allow ourselves to be exposed. \nTogether with his team of devoted craftsmen and musicians\, Ólafur presents a spellbinding blend of past and new material in a show that challenges the boundaries of what a concert can be. \nAfter his globally acclaimed tours following re:member and some kind of peace — which sold out such iconic halls as Royal Albert Hall\, Elbphilharmonie\, Sydney Opera House\, and Walt Disney Concert Hall – performing to hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide — Ólafur returns with his most intimate and boundary-pushing work to date. \nFalling Apart Together explores what becomes possible when we let ourselves unravel just enough to collectively open up. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/olafur-arnalds-falling-apart-together-sunday-matinee/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/OLAFUR-Instagram-Post-MATINEE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261012T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261012T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260519T202801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260522T085331Z UID:10000230-1791835200-1791846000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:ARAB STRAP DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nARAB STRAP\nWHELAN’S\n12TH OCTOBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on May 22\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n WAV TICKETS\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 22nd May at 10:00. \nArab Strap announce new album Half-Told Tales Released 4th September via Rock Action Records. \nWith a rose in my fist\, \nand a song in my lungs\, \nI reach for a hand\, \nand I’ve got you\, you\, you. \nArab Strap’s new album Half-Told Tales\, the group’s ninth\, will arrive almost three decades to the day since their first single was released. “We’re thirty years old this year\,” says the duo\, “So we decided to celebrate by doing what we enjoy most: by making new music.” \n \nThe band have never sounded more relevant on the state-of-affairs lead single ‘You You You’\, a track that bubbles to life sounding like some long-lost killer Italo disco record – with Moffat’s vocal refrain of the song’s title creating one of the most outright melodically infectious songs the band have ever made – and that’s before Malcolm Middleton’s punchy and spiralling guitar lines burst through it. The result is something that feels like an entirely new genre. “A sort of disco-metal incantation\,” suggests Moffat. “With a message of future felicity and fellowship that – fingers crossed – might make you dance and giggle too.”  \n \nLyrically\, the song is emblematic of some of the themes on the album. “‘You You You’ is an attempt to remind ourselves\, and hopefully others\, that the world’s not full of awful people\,” says Moffat. “That there are millions of us out there dealing with the same worries every day: from the rising costs of absolutely everything\, our mental and physical health\, the constant slaughter and tyranny in our newsfeeds\, to playing an unwitting part in the military-industrial complex\, and the endless warping of reality. It can often feel like a complete absence of human decency – it’s no wonder that despondency can feel like our default disposition.” However\, while the song digs into these troubles and tumultuous times\, it does so with a purpose. “It was designed as a kind of invocation\,” says Moffat. “To bring forth the stubbornly elusive spirits of hope and solidarity.”  \n \nThe push-pull dynamic that exists in such songs – where grooving\, fluid beats nestle up against rip-roaring guitars – is reflective of the back and forth approach the band have during the songwriting process. “The excitement comes because me and Aidan like and hate different things\,” says Middleton. “There are things in the record that individually we might not choose but that’s why I like this album so much\, because it’s not the one I wanted to make. I don’t think it’s what Aidan wanted to make either\, it’s this bit in the middle. It might not be 100% what we want but it’s good for the band\, and it works.”  \nArab Strap have also announced a new tour for the Autumn including a visit to Eastern Europe.  Tickets and info at arabstrap.scot \n  \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/arab-strap-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ARAB-STRAP-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261014T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261014T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20251126T083951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T084604Z UID:10000134-1792006200-1792018800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:MERCURY REV DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nMERCURY REV\nVICAR STREET\n14TH OCTOBER\n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nFoggy Notions are proud to present Mercury Rev celebrating 25 years of “All Is Dream” live at Vicar Street on Wednesday 14th October 2026. Tickets on general sale Friday 28th November at 10:00. Sign up to foggynotions.ie mailing list for presale access. \nSince forming in 1989 in Buffalo\, New York\, Mercury Rev has made a career of boldly exploring the fringes of artistic perception\, channeling colors and sounds and visions that always seem just beyond our mortal reach. The Guardian hailed the group as “a rarity in indie rock: a band who have continually evolved their sound\, pushing at the boundaries of what rock music actually means over 25 years\, borrowing from jazz\, funk\, doo-wop\, techno\, folk and more along the way\,” while Rolling Stone praised their “majestic chaos\,” and the BBC lauded their “shimmering psychedelic pop\, immersive indie-rock\, [and] spectacularly engrossing passages of sumptuous instrumentation.” \n  The band’s 1991 debut\, ‘Yerself Is Steam\,’ landed on Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time\, and their 1998 breakthrough\, ‘Deserter’s Songs’\, upon its release was named NME’s Album of the Year\, Pitchfork’s 100 Favorite Records of the 1990s (2003)\,Melody Maker’s All Time Top 100 Albums (2000)\, Uncut’s  200 Greatest Albums of All Time (2016) and multiple 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die lists. Diverse musical collaborations with legendary artistic luminaries as well as major festival and network television performances around the world have solidified their status as One of America’s most pioneering groups capable of straddling the line between mainstream appeal and progressive musical experimentation… \n In 2026\, Mercury Rev will be on tour celebrating 25 years of their album ‘All Is Dream.” Upon release in 2001\, the Austin Chronicle wrote\, “Mercury Rev has not only matched the Herculean effort of ‘Deserter’s Songs\,’ they’ve surpassed it.”  Q magazine listed ‘All Is Dream’ as one of the best 50 albums of 2001\, with Uncut listing it in their Top 10 and Mojo in their Top 15 of that year. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/mercury-rev-vicar-street-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/MERCURY-REV-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261018T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261018T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20251117T100004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T171131Z UID:10000128-1792351800-1792364400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:THE MOUNTAIN GOATS DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nTHE MOUNTAIN GOATS\nVICAR STREET\n18TH OCTOBER\n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale now. \nThe Mountain Goats’ new album ‘Days’ is out on August 7th\, 2026\, via their label Cadmean Dawn! Pre-order/pre-save: https://30tgrs.ffm.to/days LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE “CHARLIE SHEEN REACHES OUT TO THE FEDS”  \nToday\, the Mountain Goats—John Darnielle\, Matt Douglas\, and Jon Wurster—announce their 24th full-length album\, Days\, out August 7th\, 2026. To mark the announcement\, the band is sharing its driving lead single “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” \n  \n“This album began life as Grunges\, a sequel to Goths\, after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’ A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how All Hail West Texas happened. These songs are loosely about the 70s\, 80s\, and 90s\, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days\, each one a little further back than the next\, sometimes miraculously seeming clearer as they recede and sometimes blurring into unrecognizable shapes which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes troubling. Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still\, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need\, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody\, really. Nobody at all\,” says John Darnielle. \nThe band has announced world tour dates through the end of 2026. The tour kicks off May 15 at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring\, MD and includes stops throughout North America\, Europe\, United Kingdom and concludes with stops at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles\, CA and Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York\, NY. \nDays was produced by John Congleton and recorded at Sear Sound in Manhattan\, still managed by the legendary Roberta Findlay. The sessions featured Rob Jost on bass and French horn\, group backing vocals from Catherine Russsell\, Jamie and Carolyn Leonhart\, and layered backing vocals by Janis Siegal of The Manhattan Transfer on “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums.” Additionally\, old friend Matt Nathanson contributed vocals to “Candlebox\,” and Mikaela Davis added harp to “Going to Fennario.” \nHi it’s John Darnielle and this is the new Mountain Goats bio. Every time you make a record you have to have a new bio and it’s a whole thing. Sometimes you have to have conversations about who’d be a good person to write the bio and other times one of the press people does it and you vet it and it goes through a whole process\, but we are eliminating the middle man this time. My other job involves writing prose and I’m regarded as decent enough at it so let’s fast forward through the prelims here. \nDays is the something-somethingth album by the Mountain Goats. If that last phrase has a number in it then you will know it has been edited by bad people and you should stop reading now. If it says “something somethingth” then we are still together. Like at least two other tMG albums\, specifically Goths and Beat the Champ\, Days gets born one day when I have a funny idea. The idea in this case was writing a followup to Goths about the 90s and calling it Grunges. I made this joke on the popular recipes blog “Bluesky” and accompanied it with a brief ad-lib called “Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn” that I recorded in my back yard. \nBut the thing about jokes is there’s often something deeper underneath them\, most theories of comedy attest to this\, don’t get me started. I’d written out a fake track listing for Grunges but then I wrote a poem about Layne Staley in the underworld getting rescued by Orpheus and I started thinking about the past\, a popular theme among writers for many years now\, and then I got both sad and smitten with wonder by how the past is a place upon which you both can & can’t enact a sort of renovation: can\, by changing perspectives; can’t\, because you can’t actually move any parts around or change anything. \nYou think about this stuff as you get older\, if you’re lucky enough to be getting older. \nWe recorded the album at Sear Sound in Manhattan\, still managed by the legendary Roberta Findlay\, with whom I was fortunate enough to have a talk on the phone during the session; Rob Jost played bass on it; he plays in the pit on Death Becomes Her; he also plays French horn here. The group backing vocals are by Catherine Russsell\, Jamie Leonhart\, and Carolyn Leonhart; the layered backing vocals on “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums” are by Janis Siegal of the Manhattan Transfer\, who was tracking on another floor in the same building while we were at Sear. Giant honor for me to have Janis\, I am a huge Manhattan Transfer fan. I called my old friend Matt Nathanson to add vocals to “Candlebox.” He knocked it straight out of the park. Mikaela Davis added harp to “Going to Fennario.” You can read about all this in the credits. \nLooking back on what I’ve written I see that “bio” isn’t exactly what you’d call this\, as it tells you very little about me\, or about Jon Wurster\, the best drummer in rock and if you think I’m exaggerating then bless your heart\, or about Matt Douglas\, who plays guitars and horns & writes horn arrangements and plays keys besides. I played piano and guitar but mainly I’m the singer. Other biographical details are honestly insignificant to my way of thinking\, who really cares\, but I get that my opinions about this stuff are a little out of step with the zeitgeist. \nThis is Days by the Mountain Goats. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/the-mountain-goats-vicar-street-october-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TMG-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261020T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261020T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20251202T100021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T110718Z UID:10000138-1792524600-1792537200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:AUTECHRE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS & U:MACK PRESENT\nAUTECHRE\nVICAR STREET\n20TH OCTOBER\n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale now. \nFollowing extensive sold out touring throughout 2025\, Autechre’s Sean Booth and Rob Brown are set for another busy year with further live performances in Japan in February and newly announced dates across Europe in September and October 2026\, including their biggest ever headline show\, in London. \n  \nLatest new music: AE_2022-Out Now at AE_STORE  \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/autechre-vicar-street-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/autechre-Instagram-Post-1-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261030T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261030T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260609T193227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T152058Z UID:10000249-1793390400-1793401200@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:NICK HAKIM DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nNICK HAKIM\nWORKMAN’S CLUB\n30TH OCTOBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 12\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nFoggy Notions are proud to present Nick Hakim live at Workman’s Club on Friday 30th October. Tickets on general sale Friday 12th June at 10:00. \nNICK HAKIM – I CAN SEE \nNick Hakim sits somewhere between an analytical philosopher\, mystic poet\, and abstract painter. To hear him speak of music is to encounter someone who fully understands its power\, who has been moved by its magic and seen its miracles. He’s devoted to music as both an ancient artform and eternal medicine. To hear him play music is to feel these truisms in live time. It’s a spirit that the New York-based songwriter has carried in his music—both as composer and collaborator. From early LPs like 2017’s Green Twins and 2020’s Will This Make Me Good\, to his new album\, I Can See\, Hakim has pursued the truth in every note he’s written\, every lyric he’s sung. His truth\, though\, is more akin to the abstract and intangible than the factual—more Borges than George Washington. It’s a cosmic assuredness that manifests throughout I Can See; a belief that the good in the universe is good for a reason. \nThere’s a song on I Can See that offers insight into the way Hakim wrote\, imagined\, and recorded the album. “Real Here Now” tells the story of a house. It’s a house not dissimilar from the one Hakim grew up in\, but in this domicile\, he can interact with family members who have since left this realm. It’s a lo-fi subdued soul-pop jam and features some of Hakim’s most direct lyricism to date: “Haven’t seen you in a minute\, I’m good\,” he begins. In describing the composition\, Hakim refers to the “feeling of a song\,” how he wanted “Real Here Now” to exist as a nostalgic reminder of the feeling he has when imagining this space; a place in which those who have left find their voices again. “It’s connected to hearing someone sing songs you used to always hear. Now\, you just a have a memory of them.” How sweet it would be to hear them just one more time\, Hakim expresses on the song. \nLike almost all of I Can See\, “Real Here Now” was recorded during the same time as Hakim’s last LP\, 2022’s Cometa\, but it exists in an entirely different universe than the one in which that project rests. It also\, to a certain extent\, exists in a different world than some of I Can See. Half of the album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Texas\, and the other half was pieced together in Hakim’s New York apartment. Both sessions took place during the pandemic\, and as such\, I Can See is a living\, breathing reaction to Hakim’s shifting space in the world. It’s an image of an artist coming to terms with their reality\, captured in such a way that it reveals new angles with each subsequent viewing—or\, in our case\, each subsequent listen. \nThough these songs are older and they represent an uncertain period in Hakim’s life—when he was finishing up a record deal\, forming the world of Cometa\, and getting out of an extended relationship—I Can See is defined by its clarity. It’s a sharpness alluded to in the title\, like feeling a car rattle as it amplifies potent low end or sitting in a hot tub in zero degree weather. “This record felt very cohesive from the beginning. It felt very precious to me and the tricky thing was figuring out what songs to put on the record\,” he explains. He arrived at Sonic Ranch with about 40 demos and began picking out which ideas would make it onto the LP. Some of the songs on the album\, like “Real Here Now\,” are presented as faithful iterations of those first sketches. It lends the album a tactileness\, an emphasis on dynamics that is enhanced by this duality. \nTake album closer “Water\,” which was recorded at Sonic Ranch. It’s a piano ballad in which the songwriter implores his subject to “keep watering\,” alluding to\, “Being so grateful for someone that is nurturing.” He sings of “the sweetest love” he’s “ever known\,” accented by the ghostly rattling of a barely-there synth. It’s presented without the buzzes and room tone that courses through the home recording songs\, and it hits like a punch in the gut. \nIt’s a song about knowing love exists\, and how that feeling is almost as good as the love itself; it’s a comfort in the fact that such pureness can exist in the universe. He is satisfied to capture this as well as he can\, knowing that the power of love lies in its ability to elude proper definition. He wrote the song after getting out of that long relationship\, and it’s only from this perspective that he could sing of the concept in this way\, untethered from experience and free from heartbreak. “The sweetest love one could know might be far away\, but it’s always there\,” he explains. \nI Can See is a defining statement from an artist who has yet to put out a record that is anything but. And yet\, Nick Hakim’s fourth solo LP is a different experience than his previous efforts. It’s bolder\, stronger\, more confident. Hakim is more intimately attuned to his vision\, and there’s not a note on the album that’s out of place. Nick Hakim might shudder at anyone calling him a healer\, but this is certainly music for healing\, for taking a breath and facing the world with confidence\, lucidity\, and joy. “There’s something very gentle and very medicinal about this music. Obviously\, we all want our music to be heard by people\, but I have a different intention with this record\,” he explains\, before adding: “The intention is for it to connect with people that need it.” \nWritten by Will Schube \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/nick-hakim-dublin-october-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nick-Hakim-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261103T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261103T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260407T203725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T160926Z UID:10000213-1793734200-1793746800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:TORTOISE DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nTORTOISE\nBUTTON FACTORY\n3RD NOVEMBER\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nTickets will be available on April 10\, 2026 \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n  \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 10th April at 10:00. \nTortoise is widely considered one of the most influential music groups of the last 40 years\, with a wide-reaching impact on the contemporary music scene. Pitchfork says: “Imagine a graphic showing all the bands the five members of Tortoise were in before they came together and then all the bands they went on to play with after. At the top of the funnel you have groups ranging from dreamy psych-rock to earthy post-punk crunch\, including Eleventh Dream Day\, Bastro\, Slint\, and the Poster Children; on the ‘post-Tortoise’ end are groups focusing on electro-jazz and twangy instrumental rock like Isotope 217\, Chicago Underground\, and Brokeback. In this graphic\, Tortoise is the choke point\, the one project that has elements of all these sounds but is never defined by nor committed to any of them. Instead\, Tortoise floats free\, a planchette moving over a Ouija board guided by 10 sets of fingers\, where everyone watches the arrow float in one direction but no one is quite sure how it gets there or who is doing the pushing.” \nThe band\, which originally formed in Chicago in 1990\, comprises Dan Bitney\, John Herndon\, Douglas McCombs\, John McEntire\, and Jeff Parker. \nInitially hailed as pace-setters of an emergent\, cinematic instrumental evolution of alternative rock\, the Chicago Tribune called Tortoise’s sound “mood music that refuses to be shoved into the background\, as inviting as it is challenging.” Releasing just seven albums since 1990 — including classics like 1996’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die\, 1998’s TNT\, and 2001’s Standards —Tortoise has steadily and intuitively evolved across its life\, creating genreless music that is as timeless as it is ahead of the curve. \nThe band’s legacy goes beyond its recorded output\, as well. Per the New York Times: “While Tortoise’s albums have experimented with the editing and overdubbing possibilities of the studio\, the band thrives performing in real time.” Rolling Stone deems Tortoise “a live marvel\,” while Pitchfork further says the band’s performances reveal that “at heart\, they’re a supremely fun band\, wide open to all sorts of sonic possibilities.” \nIn October 2025\, Tortoise released Touch\, the first new album from the groundbreaking group since 2016 via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. Lead single “Layered Presence” featured a video filmed by Mikel Patrick Avery Watch the video\, listen to “Layered Presence\,” and preorder Touch here. \nWith Touch\, the Tortoise bandmembers — Dan Bitney\, John Herndon\, Douglas McCombs\, John McEntire\, and Jeff Parker — harness their collectivist songwriting approach\, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky\, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT\, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise’s unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock\, hand-cranked techno rave-ups\, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise’s now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding\, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved. \nThe stylistic diversity is also a reflection of the band’s current operating circumstances: With two members now in Los Angeles\, another in Portland\, and just two remaining in the band’s Chicago hometown\, their creative process has shifted dramatically from when they lived together in a loft space in the late 1990s\, honing their sound over endless hours of collective experimentation. \nRecorded between the three cities — Los Angeles\, Portland\, and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect\, recenter\, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date. \nTouch is the culmination of a long-gestating reunion\, the results of which Tortoise first shared this past March\, when they released “Oganesson” — “an off-kilter\, 7/4 funk tune with a spy-movie ambience” (New York Times) that is included on the new album — ahead of a career-spanning opening night performance at the boundary-crossing music festival Big Ears. They followed that with the Oganesson Remixes EP\, which featured reworks of the track from poet and activist Saul Williams\, prolific mastering engineer Heba Kadry\, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney\, indie music icons Broken Social Scene\, and International Anthem labelmate Makaya McCraven. \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/tortoise-button-factory-dublin-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TORTOISE-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261106T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261106T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260430T104446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T105234Z UID:10000221-1793995200-1794006000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:PELICAN DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS & U:MACK PRESENT\nPELICAN\nSPECIAL GUESTS\nNO SPILL BLOOD\nWHELAN’S\n6TH NOVEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on May 1\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n WAV TICKETS\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale Friday 1st may at 10:00. \nPelican has always been a band that’s not just from Chicago\, but distinctly of Chicago. Formed in 2000 by guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec alongside brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg on bass and drums respectively\, Pelican’s foundation was built upon the rule-free\, genre-agnostic scene synonymous with the Fireside Bowl. “The ‘90s in Chicago was a free-for-all. Everyone was just coming from a place of pure creativity\,” says Shelley de Brauw. With Schroeder-Lebec returning to the band following Dallas Thomas’ departure in 2022\, this reunified version of Pelican allowed the band to tap back into the spirit of their formative era and build something distinctly new with Flickering Resonance.  \nWhile longtime Pelican fans will recognize the album as an update to the band’s ethos—one that’s been constantly evolving since their very first EP—their new partnership with Run For Cover Records emphasizes something that’s always been implicit to the Pelican formula. These songs take as much inspiration from titanic ‘90s post-hardcore\, space-rock\, and emo as they do traditional metal\, showing that though Godflesh and Goatsnake records occupied the shelves of Pelican’s songwriters\, so too did Quicksand\, Christie Front Drive\, and Hum. “A lot of people didn’t hear it at first\,” says Schroeder-Lebec. “I was like\, well\, I guess the metal world is where we fit. But now\, we’re more willing to acknowledge all the suits we’re wearing.” \nOn Flickering Resonance\, Pelican doesn’t attempt to reinvent itself as much as emphasize the elements that were so often overlooked. Though Pelican’s thick sonic backbone remains intact\, the songs on Flickering Resonance show a more humanistic side of the band. Tracks like “Evergreen” and “Indelible” tease Pelican’s doom-metal roots\, but these songs feel equally\, ebullient and truthful\, playing like Texas Is The Reason songs transmuted into a post-rock landscape. Recorded with longtime musical compatriot Sanford Parker\, who recorded their first EP\, Pelican begins this new chapter of their career with an album that’s neither full reinvention nor back-to-roots revivalism. After so much time apart\, and with so much life having been lived between the original Pelican lineup’s last recording sessions together\, the band approached it with renewed vigor and a more communal spirit. \n“There was more room for openness and critique with the understanding that we’re all trying to craft the best song possible and that every suggestion is valid until it’s proven invalid\,” says Shelley de Brauw. That process allowed everyone to embrace the material with a shared vision. “We didn’t move forward unless we all wanted to move forward\, and that felt like real community building\,” says Schroeder-Lebec of this unified approach. “I went from seeing it as my art and my craft to our craft that we were shaping together.” \nIn doing so\, Pelican allowed themselves to look at their music less as a means of hard-earned catharsis and more as an appreciation for the glimmers of joy that occur even in the bleakest landscapes. Songs like “Cascading Crescent” and “Indelible” don’t languish in what’s been lost\, these tracks see the band embracing what remains in their hands instead of lamenting what’s slipped through their fingers. It’s a concept that’s mirrored in the artwork of Christian Degn that graces the cover of Flickering Resonance. It’s a piece built off the concept of flame meditation\, and how the smallest flames can often bring about the biggest transformations. A song like “Flickering Stillness” exemplifies this feeling through its sonic expanse\, putting the band’s sonic density and hyper-focused clarity on display\, but with an emphasis on the profound human connections that have kept Pelican going all these years.  \n“When Laurent left and we were able to carry it through\, there became a real sense of gratitude for the fact we still have this artistic outlet and a community of people who want to be a part of it” That feeling of deep\, grounded appreciation isn’t just one that’s within the band members\, it’s expressed in every track on Flickering Resonance. Because at the very core of Pelican\, are four individuals who have grown both separately and together\, and always will. \nLike a distant light faintly glowing in the darkest night\, Flickering Resonance is a reminder of all that has passed us by\, but also all that is still to come. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/pelican-dublin-november-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/PELICAN-Instagram-Post-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261107T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261107T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211950 CREATED:20260607T175345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T203420Z UID:10000242-1794081600-1794092400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:QUIET LIGHT DESCRIPTION:FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nQUIET LIGHT\nBELLO BAR\n7TH NOVEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 10\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nFoggy Notions are proud to present Quiet Light for their Irish Debut at Bello Bar on Saturday 7th November. Tickets on general sale Wednesday 10th June at 10:00. \nQuiet Light (AKA Riya Mahesh) is a Texas-based producer\, singer\, and multi-instrumentalist. Her songs are\, in her own words\, “dream sequences” — her Lynchian\, liminal electropop sounds are both frozen in time and built to withstand its weathering\, weaving sharp\, sparse songwriting with gossamer strands of ambient\, electronic\, and folk. Her 2020 self-titled debut EP Quiet Light foregrounded a virtuosic run of independent\, self-produced records\, including 2023’s Blue Angel Sparkling Silver and Fourth of July\, Going Nowhere (2024)\, and Pure Hearts (2025). Along the way\, she’s earned critical acclaim from outlets like The FADER\, been co-signed by Iggy Pop\, and provided direct support for Cameron Winter\, Erika de Casier\, Nilufer Yanya\, and Chanel Beads on tour. Now\, with her forthcoming mixtape Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2\, her debut release on True Panther (Oklou\, Jawnino\, Grace Ives)\, she proves she’s a generational voice that’s here to stay. The tape plays out like a dreamy smash cut of the places\, faces\, and influences that brought Mahesh here as she delivers her most assured project yet\, following her own inner compass to new\, revelatory heights. As she puts it: “This record is for people who dream about what their life could be like.” \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/quiet-light-dublin-november-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Quiet-Light-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261108T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261108T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211951 CREATED:20260623T180535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T144211Z UID:10000254-1794168000-1794178800@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:MGNA CRRRTA & IDEASFORCONVERSATIONS DESCRIPTION:MODERN LOVERS CURATED BY FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nMGNA CRRRTA\nIDEASFORCONVERSATIONS\nGRAND SOCIAL\n8TH NOVEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 26\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 26th June at 10:00. \nAs part of the inaugural MODERN LOVERS\, a new music programme curated by Foggy Notions across multiple venues in Dublin City from Nov 8th to 16th rising hyperpop duo MGNA Crrrta and NYC’s word of mouth sensations ideasforconversations make their Irish Debuts at The Grand Social on Sunday 8th November. \nMGNA Crrrta:MGNA Crrrta is the electronic girl duo Farheen Khan & Ginger Scott. Obsessed with designer dresses\, heat tools\, aliens\, uncovering the secrets of the universe\, psychedelic pics\, and gritty synthesizers\, MGNA Crrrta creates music that feels like an angsty endless daydream. Inspired by Ke$ha\, Grimes\, and Crystal Castles\, the girls chase the euphoria and Pür Love. \nThe release of their mixtape Beautiful Disaster on February 20\, that has drawn the attention of tastemakers including Pitchfork\, Dazed\, i-D\, and V Magazine. \nIdeasforconversations:NYC-based dance duo ideasforconversations’ music feels refreshingly optimistic\, telling bright sonic stories through glitchcore breaks and vocal chops. \nThe two musicians are opposites in many ways\, but that’s one of the things that makes a duo so powerful\, especially in electronic music\, where you can basically make anything happen. It’s the beauty of modernity\, often abused\, but so\, so\, harmonious when treated with care. \nTheir first solo EP\, No Bad Words\, is one such project\, both purposeful and chaotic as it moves between manipulated vocals and frequencies in ways that are almost entirely unfamiliar\, but still somewhat nostalgic\, with a vast sound catalog and truly unconventional ways of fusing together ideas. \nNo wonder they’re booking so many gigs. The city is going crazy for them\, and pretty soon\, it’s going to be many cities. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/modern-lovers-mgna-crrrta-ideasforconversations-grand-social-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MGNA-CRRRTA-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261110T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261110T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211951 CREATED:20260623T184644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T144805Z UID:10000256-1794340800-1794351600@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:MX LONELY DESCRIPTION:MODERN LOVERS CURATED FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nMX LONELY\nBELLO BAR\n10TH NOVEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 26\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 26th June at 10:00. \nAs part of the inaugural MODERN LOVERS\, a new music programme curated by Foggy Notions across multiple venues in Dublin City from Nov 8th to 16th MX Lonely (Julia’s War Records) will make their Irish Debut at Bello Bar on Tuesday 10th November. \nIn MX LONELY’s world\, monsters are multifaceted things. They’re the creatures we used to imagine lurking in the shadows as a child; the all-too-real evildoers who abuse their power or line their pockets with suffering; the vices and flaws that we grapple with throughout our lives\, and what we can become while under their grip. On their debut full-length album ALL MONSTERS\, the Brooklyn-based band search dark corners\, force open doors and exhume these monsters\, via a heavy\, murky alt-rock sound that’s equally streaked with beauty. \nAs their first entirely self-recorded release\, ALL MONSTERS sees the band  synthesist/vocalist Rae Haas\, guitarist Jake Harms bassist Gabriel Garman and drummer Andy Rapp — capturing a live\, immediate\, analogue sound which embodies the feeling of their live show\, while also creating a more longform and nuanced experience than they have before. Going forward\, they aim to keep heading out on the road and building a community based on mutual catharsis. “I think that’s kind of the manifestation or the prayer in this\, is for everyone to have the space and tools to work through their own monsters\,” Haas says. Though committed to introspection\, ultimately MX LONELY want to bring others into their world. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/modern-lovers-mx-lonely-bello-bar-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MX-Lonely-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261110T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261110T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211951 CREATED:20260623T185727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T081122Z UID:10000257-1794340800-1794351600@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:WENDY EISENBERG & DAN ENGLISH & SUPERFAN DESCRIPTION:MODERN LOVERS CURATED BY FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nWENDY EISENBERG\nDAN ENGLISH\nSUPERFAN\nGRAND SOCIAL\n10TH NOVEMBER\n\n\n\n \nTickets\nThe numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\nTickets will be available on June 26\, 2026 \n\n\nTICKETMASTER\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar \n \n\nGoogle Calendar\niCalendar\nOutlook 365\nOutlook Live\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 26th June at 10:00. \nAs part of the inaugural MODERN LOVERS\, a new music programme curated by Foggy Notions across multiple venues in Dublin City from Nov 9th to 16th acclaimed Brooklyn artist Wendy Eisenberg makes their Irish debut headlining an incredible bill featuring Dan English & Superfan. \n“No two Eisenberg records have sounded the same: They have made fractured jazz records\, shredding rock epics\, banjo improvisations. To mine this expansive new territory\, Eisenberg has turned to what they call “weirdo country interpreters” – Richard Dawson\, the Mekons\, Joanna Newsom. Eisenberg’s compositional intelligence has a near-merciless quality\, zeroing in on feelings of calm and unsettling them.” – Pitchfork\, Best New Album 2026 \nWendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter\, improviser\, and virtuoso guitarist\, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting\, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalog highlights including 2020’s ‘Auto’ and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler ‘Viewfinder’\, they’ve made a signature of ambition. \nAs Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021\, “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism\, but a genuine artistic essence. \nFor the longing listener… The music of composer Dan English is the communing of the head and the heart sharing secrets. The songs subsume time into feelings and images of purity\,  sonically and spiritually\, and then\, somewhat masochistically\, play with lyrics drawn from the dingier parts of life: love\, family\, and capricious head-spaces. It’s movie-music; eternal scores for an espionage film with a protagonist who’s a clandestine\, time-traveling romantic tailing the spirit itself. Born in a quiet town in Iowa\, he grew up chasing invisible things: codes in books\, echoes in movies\, half-sentences in songs. English found himself glued to the radio from an early age and\, after picking up guitar at 10\, language and sound conspired. Following a move to New York City\, Dan released his first album “Fruit Boy”  in 2018 followed by 2020’s “In Grace” EP. His newest offering\, Sky Record (June 2025)\, is his second full-length album and continues to expand upon and probe the depths explored in his  previous work. The music is part confession\, part séance— lush spells where the sacred and the stained trade places. Emotions arrive in disguises: tenderness (smoke)\, grief (rhythm)\,\nsilence (a cathedral on the verge of collapse). \nSuperfan is the songwriting veil of Kali Priya Flanagan\, Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and producer. Initially imagined as a solo act\, ambitious string arrangements crafted in collaboration with cellist Omeed Almassi have come to define Superfan’s noisy and magnetic pop soundscape. Kali began studying music at age four and writing songs at age eleven\, signing his first record deal at age fourteen while refining his singular musicality across piano\, drums\, bass\, upright\, and violin. Now having just signed with London based label AD 93 (Joanne Robertson\, YHWH Nailgun\, Dagmar Zuniga)\, Superfan is set to release the sophomore album My Piledriver Heart (MPDH). The album marks the birth of “Acousticello”\, the extensive live collaboration between Flanagan and Almassi\, which has defined Superfan’s performances and recordings over the past two years. MPDH captures the duo’s ambitious string arrangements with naturalistic intent and pop magnetism. If Superfan’s critically acclaimed 2024 debut\, Tow Truck Jesus [The FADER\, Office\, Flaunt\, Alt Press]\, captured the raw immediacy of emotions surrounding the throes of his transition in direct and deeply personal terms\, this sophomore album operates differently. MPDH operates differently. Spanning ten tracks\, MPDH is a mature and melancholic record that explores aspects of the interpersonal and intrapersonal from the vantage point of a man no longer in transition. \nLISTEN NOW \n\n\n\nALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/modern-lovers-wendy-eisenberg-dan-english-superfan-grand-social-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Wendy-Eisenberg-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261111T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261111T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211951 CREATED:20260623T183300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T135337Z UID:10000255-1794427200-1794438000@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF DESCRIPTION:MODERN LOVERS CURATED BY FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF\nNATIONAL CONCERT HALL\n11TH NOVEMBER\n \n TICKETS\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on general sale Friday 26th June at 10:00. \nAnna von Hausswolff makes her Irish debut at the National Concert Hall for the Modern Lovers festival programmed by Foggy Notions. The Swedish musician released her sixth album ICONOCLASTS last year to worldwide acclaim. \nAnna von Hausswolff is a Swedish musician and composer whose work carves out space for the celestial and the transcendent to enter into the modern world. Following her breakthrough album\, Ceremony (2012)\, von Hausswolff’s subsequent releases quickly cemented her as an artist of unpredictable and vast creativity\, always moving forward\, always melding tradition with experimentation in unimaginable ways. \nTaking the pipe organ\, with its ancient whirring character\, as her instrument of choice\, von Hausswolf’s sound has long played with the ethereal qualities of breath: of taking in\, holding\, and releasing it. This sometimes takes the form of colossal\, doom-laden rock songs\, and at other times\, as intimate organ pieces. \nOn ICONOCLASTS\, her sound evolves again\, bringing a poppier and more vibrant element to her moving songs. ICONOCLASTS is von Hausswolf’s sixth LP\, and her debut release on Swedish record label YEAR0001. Produced by von Hausswolf and longtime collaborator Filip Leyman\, it is an opus of stirring movement\, anthemic ritualism\, and maximalist composition\, marking a new chapter in von Hausswolff’s music and featuring appearances from Ethel Cain\, Abul Mogard\, Iggy Pop and Maria von Hausswolf. \n“The Swedish composer and organist makes imposing\, monolithic music\, but the themes she addresses in her singing—love\, heartache\, renewal—are resolutely human in scale.” – Pitchfork \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/modern-lovers-anna-von-hausswolff-national-concert-hall-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Anna-Von-Hausswolff-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261112T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261112T230000 DTSTAMP:20260624T211951 CREATED:20260623T190821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T144936Z UID:10000258-1794513600-1794524400@foggynotions.ie SUMMARY:GB DESCRIPTION:MODERN LOVERS CURATED BY FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS\nGB\nDAVID DEBARRA\nBELLO BAR\n12TH NOVEMBER\n\n \n \n \n \n\n Tickets\n The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking “Get Tickets” will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.\n Tickets will be available on June 26\, 2026\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n TICKETMASTER\n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n\n\n Google Calendar\n\n\n iCalendar\n\n\n Outlook 365\n\n\n Outlook Live\n\n\n \nTickets on sale Friday 26th June at 10:00. \nAs part of the inaugural MODERN LOVERS\, a new music programme curated by Foggy Notions across multiple venues in Dublin City from Nov 9th to 16th acclaimed Copenhagen artist GB makes his Irish debut with support from one of Dublin’s most unique pop songwriters\, David deBarra. \nGB is an artist from Copenhagen who crafts texture-heavy\, adventurous guitar music cut with a pop sensibility. His debut record\, the collage-based cult hit Gusse Music\, which was released via storied CPH label Posh Isolation in 2024 – the final vinyl LP the label issued before they closed down. The following year saw the release of his double-EP\, Ressed / Falter\, on London’s untitled (recs). His newest release\, Herzsprung\, will be out August 21 on AD 93. Danish musician Gustav Berntsen\, who records as GB\, has signed to AD93\, where he’ll release his new album Herzsprung on August 21. Berntsen pieced together the LP’s lyrics from copies of Metro\, a London daily newspaper\, then paid for studio time with the money he made from appearing in Jaguar’s 2024 ad campaign. David deBarra is a singer-songwriter from Dublin with an experimental approach to pop and rock music and a background in arrangement and composition for voice. He has just released his second album ‘Rest in Peace\, Brian Wilson’ which is available for free on Bandcamp and streaming platforms. \nThe music is energetic and direct\, recalling the ethos of the best of 90s rock\, while also giving a nod to 60s and 70s classics\, recalling at different times the likes of Weezer\, Judee Sill\, The Beach Boys\, Green Day\, Bob Dylan\, Neutral Milk Hotel\, The Four Seasons and Elton John. But these comparisons don’t quite capture the essence of the music\, with David’s idiosyncratic compositions brimming with melodic colour and harmonic depth\, his deeply personal and disarming lyrics\, and the alternatively maximalist and minimalist productions pushing his sound into new territories. \nLISTEN NOW \n \n \n \n ALL SHOWS URL:http://foggynotions.ie/concerts/modern-lovers-gb-david-de-barra-bello-bar-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://foggynotions.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GB-Website.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR