Dublin’s finest rapscallion Gavin James is one of those lads that you can’t help but love. He’s had an incredible year so far between selling out Whelan’s twice, supporting Kodaline on their UK tour and winning Choice Song of the Year. So it seems only right that his biggest headliner to date is our Gig of the Week. Get down [...]

We’re pointing you in the direction of Vicar Street and those Little Green Cars. The lads and lass have gone from strength to strength and are playing their biggest headliner to date on Saturday night. After knocking the socks off the Yanks over the past two months, the Dublin band are back home with their long awaited début album ‘Absolute [...]

Festival season is finally here!! The confirmation of Electric Picnic last week may have tipped our excitment levels over the edge. So now it’s time to dust off the wellies, pop on your trilby and coordinate your sunglasses with your raincoat. It seems only right that Gig of the Week goes to Vantastival in Bellurgan Park, Co Louth. The family friendly festival [...]

 Another week bites the dust, which means we’re another week closer to festival season. The excitement is mounting with the announcements confirming Electric Picnic and Oxegen, albeit Oxegen’s pre-announcement of their big announcement was all a little lack lustre. They’re certainly keeping us on the edge of seats though. Well back to the present and this week we’re getting excited about Solar Bears album release party in [...]

It’s one of those quieter weeks on the gig front, maybe everybody needs a bit of a break before festival season kicks off with Vantastival and Dublin’s Camden Crawl in two weeks. Two weeks, that flew in and it’s nice of the sun to finally make an appearance too. Anyway back to the topic on hand, that’s Gig of the [...]

The weekend is well and truly over so if you’re anything like us you’re probably already planning the next one. Thursday seems like a good place to kick it all off with our Gig of the Week. The auspicious title goes to Californian folk duo The Milk Carton Kids, who will be swinging into Whelans on Thursday evening. Kenneth & Joey [...]

Well Team GP had a very busy Easter weekend besides from gorging on all the Easter Eggs we could get our mitts on, we also pulled off a cross country music extravaganza titled Coast to Coast: Tea and Toast, which you can read all about here. So Gig of Week is a bit delayed this week,  apologies if this caused [...]

We’re not ones to blow our own trumpets here at Goldenplec but this week we are bringing you something a little bit different and very special, so much so that we think it merits Gig of the Week. If you haven’t heard of Coast to Coast: Tea and Toast, where have you been?? It is our cross-country dash where we’ll [...]

Well we hope you all enjoyed your Paddy’s Day celebrations. There was so much happening and Team GP got to most of it of course so we’re feeling a little bit jaded today (not hungover, at all). Luckily that doesn’t stop our busy team, so here’s a look at what’s happening this week. Gig of the Week goes to quirky [...]

Gig of the Week this week is looking towards Upstairs @ Whelans on Wednesday.  BBC Introducing Ones to Watch and Other Voices favorites Little Bear are joining forces with Limerick and San Francisco hybird Moscow Metro.  They played alongside the likes of Beth Orton, Marina and the Diamonds and SOAK at Other Voices Derry, not bad company to be in. [...]