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Every week our photographers can be found running around the pits of Ireland’s venues. You might have seen some of the photos during the week but we thought we would take some of the best pictures we took this week and put them in a handy summary for you.

This is the quality live music you missed or caught this week.

Queens of the Stone Age at the O2

Red light (cameras hate red light) and forced perspective (the technical term for being told to “stand here and don’t move”) made Queens of the Stone Age one of the more difficult gigs we covered this week, but still managed to walk away with the likes of this.

Queens of The Stone Age by Debbie Hickey

Queens of The Stone Age by Debbie Hickey

The Pixies at The Olympia Theater

It’s the Pixies, in one of the most stunning venues not only in Ireland, but Europe. This captures everything about the opening night of the Dublin run of gigs perfectly.

The Pixies by Kieran Frost

The Pixies by Kieran Frost

The Orb at The Button Factory

Capturing live visuals is difficult to say the least, this is one of those photos that just does it perfectly.

The Orb by Dave Kelly

The Orb by Dave Kelly

Múm at The Button Factory

There is just something really atmospheric about this….

Mum by Shaun Neary

Mum by Shaun Neary

Coheed and Cambria at The Academy

Hair swishing rawk, perfectly captured!

Coheed & Cambria by Sean Conroy

Coheed & Cambria by Sean Conroy

The Lumineers at The O2

The Lumineers bouncing round The O2’s stage.

The Lumineers by Shaun Neary

The Lumineers by Shaun Neary

Kodaline at The Olympia

Kodaline kicking off a 3 night run of the Olympia.

Kodaline by Michelle Geraghty

Kodaline by Michelle Geraghty

Austra at The Button Factory

Anyone else kicking themselves they missed this one? Austra got nothing but good reviews for their Button Factory headline show, backed up by amazing photos like this…

Austra by Aaron Corr

Austra by Aaron Corr

White Denim at Whelan’s

Texan experimental rock insanity in Whelan’s….

White Denim by Dave Kelly

White Denim by Dave Kelly

Ms Mr at The Academy

Ms Mr’s at least looked like they enjoyed their first Irish headline show….

Ms Mr by Kieran Frost

Ms Mr by Kieran Frost