Egg Twelve Records presents:
 
Ward (+ support)
 
Ward is the alias of Sean Ward, an 18-year-old multi-instrumentalist and producer from Waterford. Only producing music for under 2 years, the ‘one-stop-shop’ artist has progressed rapidly, quickly turning himself into an artist who is regularly churning out radio ready pieces of bedroom pop.
 
Signing to Waterford’s independent Egg Twelve Records in early 2020,  ‘In Two Minds’ and ‘Childsplay’ garnered huge support across National, Dublin and Regional radio stations.  The first track of the EP ‘Childsplay’ made it into the Top Ten Irish Breakers Chart as well as securing features across Hot Press, Goldenplec and many more. 
 
Ward’s previous single ‘In Two Minds’ was crowned ‘Track of the Week’ on RTE 2FM and Spin South West alongside features in music bloggers and taste makers such as District Magazine, Nialler9’s Irish tracks of the week, Thin Air, Hot Press and Goldenplec.com and many more. 
 
‘Strawberry Jam’ is the debut EP from young Irish musician Ward. It is a tribute to summer times, and the relationships built up and broken down within them. The EP features groovy basslines to match heavy drum grooves, contrasted by light and danceable keys, all complemented by dashes of guitar goodness deposited throughout the running time. This instrumentation is used as the canvas for the catchy melodies and punchy lyrics that Ward delivers on each track. 
 
'17-year-old wunderkind...' - Hot Press Magazine
 
'Ward is grabbing attention with his freewheeling, self-produced ANTHEMS!' - District Magazine
 
Ward - Childsplay (Official Music Video) 
 
Ticket Information
General Admission: €12.00 incl booking fee

Ward

The Grand Social

The Dublin Bowie Festival & The Grand Social present:  EARL SLICK  JMay 26, 2023   7:30 PM  Tickets €21.00 + booking fee @Tickets.ie  --------------------------------- We are thrilled to present the legendary guitarist Earl Slick to Dublin for an intimate show in The Grand Social on Saturday 11th of June 2022.    Earl was initially hired by David Bowie to replace the iconic Mick Ronson on his Diamond Dogs tour in 1974 and stayed on with Bowie, recording lead guitar on his seminal Young Americans and Station To Station albums. Slick reappeared on Bowie tours over the years and contributed to his Heathen, Reality and The Next Day albums.   Slick also famously played guitar on John Lennon's final two studio albums, Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey before joining the New York Dolls in 2011.  Earl Slick is indeed  Rock n Roll royalty

Earl Slick, Live in concert

Live Free Tour Booking Presents:
 
Pears - (Fat Wreck Chords)
 
The band was formed in early 2014 by Zach Quinn and Brian Pretus, a year after the breakup of their previous band The Lollies. Quinn and Pretus enlisted former bandmate Alex Talbot to play bass and friend John Bourgeois as their drummer. The band played their first show on Mardi Gras Day with Epitaph Records band Off With Their Heads, which gained the interest of Ryan Young. After a short run with two drummers Bourgeois (who recorded Go To Prison) and Tim Harman (who went out on their 1st tour), PEARS enrolled Jarret Nathan of the Philadelphia band Push Ups.
 
PEARS debut album Go To Prison was self-released by the band, and was later released on vinyl through Anxious and Angry records. The band went on United States tours with bands such as Dwarves, Red City Radio, Teenage Bottlerocket, Off With Their Heads, Direct Hit, Lagwagon, and The Suicide Machines; and their first European tour with Red City Radio off the heels of a European release of the record by German punk label Gunner Records
 
The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords, and released their sophomore album, Green Star, on April 1, 2016. Band members Zach Quinn, Erich Goodyear, and Brian Pretus are also in the band Little Bags
 
Ticket Information:
 
General Admision: €20.50 (Incl. Booking Fee)

Pears (Fat Wreck Chords)

UK thrashers Evile will hit Ireland in January 2023 in The Grand Social
 
 
Evile are an English thrash metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2004. They have experienced numerous line-up changes over the years, with drummer Ben Carter being the only member of the original line-up to have stayed consistently. The current line-up consists of Carter, lead guitarist and vocalist Ol Drake, bassist Joel Graham, and rhythm guitarist Adam Smith, who replaced Drake’s older brother Matt in 2020.
 
Evile are notable for being part of the thrash metal resurgence movement of the mid-to-late 2000s, and they were highly praised by Kerrang! for “Carrying the genre’s whole ‘revival’ on their shoulders.” To date, the band has released five studio albums: Enter the Grave (2007), Infected Nations (2009), Five Serpent’s Teeth (2011), Skull (2013) and Hell Unleashed (2021); a sixth studio album is in the works, as of June 2021.
 
 
Ticket Information
 
Gen admission: €20 incl booking fee.

Evile

The Grand Social Presents:
 
The Ultimate Police
 
The Ultimate Police are the ultimate tribute to The Police, covering the trio's assured, reggae injected rock from their debut album Outlandos D'Amour right through to their final album Synchronicity...! 
 
Massive hit's like Message in a Bottle, Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, So Lonely, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, Don't Stand So Close To Me, King of Pain, Walking on the Moon and Can't Stand Losing You, next to deeper cuts like Driven To Tears, Invisible Sun, Spirits in the Material World, Beds Too Big Without You and Next to You are performed in an incendiary two hour show. 
 
Ticket Information:
 
General Admission: €17.50 incl booking fee

The Ultimate Police

Live Free Tour Booking Presents: The Doors Rising
 
The authentic sound of The Doors. The Doors Rising are a UK based Doors Tribute band capturing the sound, feel and experience of the psychedelic 60's.
 
 
Ticket Information:
 
General Admision: €20.00 (Incl. Booking Fee)

The Doors Rising

This summer, revered rock institution Titus Andronicus have stoked fans’ excitement for their forthcoming seventh studio album The Will To Live with a string of singles that have run the gamut from concise and hard-hitting (“(I’m) Screwed,” “Give Me Grief”) to burly seven-minute epics (“An Anomaly”), leaving listeners breathlessly curious about what could possibly follow. 
Today, those questions are answered with the album’s final pre-release single, the rollicking, rapid-fire 'Baby Crazy', which Vulture described as “an ethics lesson wrapped in a tuneful punk jam." With a barrage of pounding piano chords, ribbons of saxophone and a heart-racing rhythm, the album’s ambitions to achieve “Ultimate Rock” are laid bare in just over four minutes. If you were waiting for 2022's answer to 'We Didn't Start the Fire', it's here. The track is accompanied by yet another unforgettable official music video, which finds frontman Patrick Stickles simply belting the densely-worded track as the lyrics scroll by. "As inscrutable as some of my artistic choices may sometimes appear, I do wish to be understood, as communication is the purpose of all art,” Stickles says. “This led me to approach this song as something of a user's guide for the album, wherein I explicate as clearly as I can the meaning behind the recurring symbology I utilise throughout -- the mother, the father, the baby, etc. It is my hope that this will lead the listener to a richer listening experience... or they can just tap their foot to it, whatever works." Stickles will further explain the story behind The Will To Live in a Reddit AMA on r/indieheads this Friday at 6pm BST.
Watch the lyric video for 'Baby Crazy' here: https://youtu.be/9V_7YPH6wMwPRE-ORDER THE WILL TO LIVE 
After ravenously taking in The Will To Live’s early singles, fans will finally get the chance to see Patrick Stickles and co. perform them live as they kick off the first leg of their 2022–23 world tour with their record release show on September 30th at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. The band has today also announced a run of UK and Ireland dates for 2023 as well. Please find a UK/IE touring itinerary further below and for complete details and ticket information, please visit titusandronicus.net/tour.
 More about The Will to Live:With The Will to Live, Titus Andronicus invite listeners on a journey from fear to faith, from anger to acceptance, from grief to gratitude, all chasing the mythical ideal of Ultimate Rock. Drawing on maximalist rock epics from Who’s Next to Hysteria, the band have crafted their richest, densest, and hardest-hitting album to date, matching the sprawl and scope of their most celebrated work while also streamlining their ambitious attack to greater effect than ever before. “It may strike some as ironic we had to go to Canada to record our equivalent to Born In The USA,” says Stickles, “but the pursuit of Ultimate Rock knows no borders.” Titus Andronicus made their long-awaited return to the stage in November of 2021 to celebrate the anniversary of their landmark second album, 2010’s The Monitor. The act of playing that material before an ecstatic audience left Stickles determined to deliver an album that would reach for those same lofty heights, this time relying less on the reckless fire of youth, but more on the experience and perspective at which a band only arrives with a thousand shows under their belt. To reach this level of focus and clarity, Stickles had to stand on the nexus of triumph and tragedy. He credits a newfound domestic bliss and steadfast mental health regimen for his own recent stretch of personal stability, as well as the endurance of what has become the longest-running consistent lineup of Titus Andronicus – Liam Betson on guitar, R.J. Gordon on bass, and Chris Wilson on drums, all of whom featured on 2018’s A Productive Cough and 2019’s An Obelisk. On the crueler side of the coin, The Will to Live was created in large part as an attempt to process the untimely 2021 death of Matt “Money” Miller, the band’s founding keyboardist and Stickles’ closest cousin. The result proves a milestone for Titus Andronicus, an ambitious, forward-facing work which stands tall on the nexus of triumph and tragedy, fuelled by newfound focus and clarity, showcasing a uniquely gifted rock ‘n’ roll band at the very peak of their creative powers. “Certain recent challenges, some unique to myself and some we have all shared, but particularly the passing of my dearest friend, have forced me to recognise not only the precious and fragile nature of life, but also the interconnectivity of all life,” Stickles says. “Loved ones we have lost are really not lost at all, as they, and we still living, are all component pieces of a far larger continuous organism, which both precedes and succeeds our illusory individual selves, united through time by (you guessed it) the will to live. Recognition of this self-evident truth demands that we extend the same empathy and compassion we would wish for ourselves outward to every living creature, even to those we would label our enemies, for we are all cells in the same body, sprung from a common womb, devoted to the common cause of survival. “Naturally, though, our long-suffering narrator can only arrive at this conclusion through a painful and arduous odyssey through Hell itself – this is a Titus Andronicus record, after all.”
 
Ticket Information
 
General Admission: €22.00 (Incl booking fee)

Titus Andronicus

Karma Police: A Tribute to Radiohead
 
Delving deep into the back catalogue of the cult anthems that shaped a generation, Karma Police deliver authentic, note for note live renditions of Radiohead's most acclaimed and beloved songs.
 
Covering the band's entire career, from 1993's "Pablo Honey" up to and including 2016's "A Moon
Shaped Pool", Karma Police, a six piece band made up of some of the most in demand session musicians, perfectly recreate the best of Radiohead, playing anthems like; Creep,
High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Paranoid Android, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Pyramid Song, 15 Steps and many, many more.
 
Formed in 2019, its members having previously worked with artists such as; Prince, Paul Brady, Glen Hansard, Damien Dempsey, Sinead O' Connor, Picture This, James Vincent McMorrow, Villagers, Jack L, Gerry Fish, Cathy Davy, Karma Police offer an incredible tribute to Radiohead, a live music experience that perfectly encapsulates the raw energy, power and excitement of a Radiohead show.
 
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Ticket Information:
 
General Admission: €20.00 incl booking fee

Karma Police - A Tribute to Radiohead

The Grand Social Presents: John Blek plus Guests
 
Blek is an artist with a story to tell. With his timeless emotive voice and layered fingerstyle
guitar you will be transported from scene to scene as his expansive songbook unfolds.
 
John Blek is Cork City born and bred currently residing only a mile or two from his childhood home but listening to his music you can hear the influence of travel and experience. His parents, both of whom were primary school teachers, had to bribe him to stay in school after his 16th birthday with the promise of a new guitar on the completion of his final exams. 
 
Such was John’s belief in his ability and chosen path in life that he was willing to forgo the more traditional education sought by his peers. This conviction carries through to his art. His music is written from such a personal place that it creates the sense that he grew up with these songs, that they are in his blood – and in a way he did, they are his thoughts, his words, his sounds and his stories. Though not all autobiographical, like many of the great painters, an element of the artist exists in every portrait.
 
While Blek is a solo artist he regularly collaborates, and indeed will write new music with collaborators in mind. As a result, it never feels like another artist is merely gate crashing his music instead it works as a beautiful harmonious meeting of artists who understand each other. 
 
Recent collaborations include Kris Drever & Kit Downes who both join John on his album “On Ether & Air”, Joan Shelley who embodies Laura, one of the characters in Blek’s duet “The Body”, Nathan Salsburg of the Alan Lomax Archive who, with John is currently investigating lesser known folk songs that traveled from Ireland to America in the mid 1800s with the support and funding of the `Arts Council of Ireland and fellow Corkonian Mick Flannery who duets with him on Revived a single from the 2020 album “The Embers”.
 
Ticket Information:
 
General Admission: €20.50 incl booking fee

John Blek

Live Free Tour Booking Presents: Boss Keloid plus Elder Druid.
 
 
Ticket Information:
 
General Admision: €17.50 (Incl. Booking Fee)

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Dublin

Dec 8 Thursday

Ward

Dec 10 Saturday

Pears (Fat Wreck Chords)

Dec 16 Friday

The Ultimate Police

Dec 29 Thursday

Karma Police - A Tribute to Radiohead

Jan 20 Friday

The Doors Rising

Jan 21 Saturday

Evile

Feb 17 Friday

John Blek

Mar 3 Friday

Boss Keloid

Apr 2 Sunday

Titus Andronicus

May 26 Friday

🔥Earl Slick, Live in concert

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