June Gig Guide: Ethel Cain, CMAT, Loyle Carner & More
Words: Dray Morgan
It’s big gig season and that means back to back billings of international artists whose tickets we’ve been holding onto for the best part of the year. Fairview Park is set to open the gates to big beat, country and hip hop fans alike, Malahide Castle gets the James Murphy treatment, Weezer combined with The Smashing Pumpkins to create an unstoppable force and much more.
Ethel Cain
Doors: 19:00
Venue 3Olympia
Tickets available here
Mother Cain, we cannot wait. Ethel Cain has taken over the minds and ears of a generation of sadgirls. Nobody makes Southern USA look so aesthetic. There’s something so serene yet so unsettling about Ethel’s work. Taking a cinematic approach to the monotony of small-town living, Ethel has won over the hearts of the isolated culchie emos and the masses alike.
Doors: 17:30
Venue: 3Arena
Tickets available here
“The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer” are five words to send an ageing millennial into a coma. A perfect storm of The Smashing Pumpkins with a dash of Weezer, makes for a guitar-heavy cocktail that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
ØXN, Junior Brother, and Pretty Happy
Doors: 19:30
Venue: The Button Factory
Tickets available here
A night in aid of the Gazan struggle, containing Irish folk music from artists who have transported the genre into the cultural zeitgeist. Junior Brother has been a District favourite for a while now. Tracks like the cinematic feat that is ‘Junior Brother’s Favourite’ which dropped last year, as well as ØXN’s more mysterious sound, is enough to shake you to the core.
CMAT
Doors: 19:00
Venue: Fairview Park
Tickets available here
We were going through CMAT withdrawals, then she dropped ‘Aw, Shoot’ and before you know it we’re queueing up at Fairview Park. With a number one Irish album last time out, it’s no wonder that the natural evolution is to play one of the highlight shows of the summer.
Fatboy Slim
Doors: 19:00
Venue: Fairview Park
Tickets available here
Fatboy Slim looks like your uncle that gets on the decks at the family party and absolutely shuts it down. When we say veteran, we mean it. The man wrote the Big Beat Manifesto and then distributed it across the world. Once a world record holder for the most top 40s hits under different aliases, Fatboy Slim domination is long from over.
LCD Soundsystem
Doors: 17:00
Venue: Malahide Castle
Tickets available here
Another highlight of the summer is James Murphy & co. touching down in Malahide at the end of the month. The master of melancholy, the man’s genius knows no bounds. There are two types of people, those who dance to ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ and those who cry to it.
Loyle Carner
Doors: 19:00
Venue: Fairview Park
Tickets available here
Get you a man that can do all and look good whilst doing it. Whether Loyle Carner is cooking it up in the kitchen or the studio, we tend to eat it up. Joining the splendid lineup set to grace Fairview over the summer, Loyle will be returning to perform his most recent project Hugo.
