Just wanted to throw up a quick notice that Eli “paperboy” Reid’s gig tonight is still not sold out, so incase you thought the ship had sailed on potentially seeing him we just wanted to point out that tickets are still available. He plays The Academy tonight and is supported by a band called The Pacific’s (** I must correct [...]

Canadian Celtic rockers Enter The Haggis are coming to Ireland this month, in fact in less than 2 weeks to play 3 dates around Ireland in support of their worldwide release of Gutter Anthems. This new album is their SEVENTH studio album. The album has been out in the US and Canada since March 09, and it will now go [...]

I’ve said it before and this time is no different, Whelans is probably my favourite venue in Dublin to see a gig. I’ve seen plenty of gigs across numerous venue’s and the intimate nature of a Whelans gig where the crowd are so close to the band, there is no barrier, no security, its just you and the band. Unfortunately [...]

EMI will be releasing a 42 track, double CD epic collection of a song per act from some of Ireland’s best acts around this coming Friday in Tower Records. The release was delayed back there last month and is now set for release this Friday in Tower Records at 5.30pm (Cathy Davey is there at 1.30pm that day) and featuring [...]

ClockWork Apple is back in Whelans Upstairs on the 28th of May. Joining them for a new night of debauchery will be Dublin indie-electro merchants Crayonsmith, Synth pop rockers who are somewhat in the vein of Fight Like Apes, Dublin’s Sleep Thieves and finally Northern Irish and the Melodic and epic music of Silhouette The gig is on May 28th upstairs [...]

One of our favourite Irish bands Ham Sandwich are back in action, something were more than delighted to be saying on this blog. We saw them play the BBC Introducing Stage in Glastonbury and thought they were going to explode on the music scene everywhere. Having reported last month that Johnny had left the band (who had written a lot [...]

Review by Aidan Cuffe Photography by Kieran Frost I headed into town in blistering sunshine which had shone most of the day which made the walk down to the Olympia this evening such a pleasant walk. There’s nothing like a mix of sunshine, strolling and heading down to see a top international artist strut her stuff in a small intimate [...]

We always love have a mix of tickets competitins here on goldenplec. From established acts coming to Ireland to up and coming acts that need a push. This week the Paddy Usher band contacted us asking us to run a competition for them with their gig in The Academy, Dublin coming up on May 8th for the single launch We [...]

FRANK TURNER has announced that he will be coming to Dublin for a gig at the end of May. This is his biggest UK, Ireland and Europe tour to date, and may well be your last chance to see him in a venue as small and intimate as The Academy 2. The gig is Saturday May 29th 2010. It will [...]

The Amazing O Emperor, who we caught live at HWCH are going to be playing Whelans on May 6th just over a week away. We want to send two lucky winners along to see them live, and when its bands like this that we really enjoyed and want others to see its truly great to be able to send people [...]