For purely nostalgia purposes…
06/01 – First Fortnight Therapy Session: We Cut Corners, Erin Fornoff, Martin Staunton, John Cummins, Sacred Animals, Kalle Ruan, Ben Carrigan, Jinx Lennon, John Saunders (Workman’s Club, Dublin)
14/01 – First Fortnight Finale: Le Galaxie, Royseven, Cashier No.9, dRea (The Button Factory, Dublin)
23/01 – Never Shout Never (The Academy, Dublin)
28/01 – The Saw Doctors (Olympia Theatre, Dublin)
04/02 – The Outcasts, Paranoid Visions (The Button Factory, Dublin)
05/02 – Kerrang Relentless Energy Tour: New Found Glory, The Blackout (The Academy, Dublin)
09/02 – Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls (Vicar Street, Dublin)
15/02 – Trinity Orchestra perform Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon (Trinity College Exam Hall)
17/02 – Young Guns (The Academy 2, Dublin)
18/02 – Ham Sandwich, Little Xs For Eyes (The Academy, Dublin)
19/02 – Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Wallis Bird (Olympia Theatre, Dublin)
22/02 – Grouplove, Kanyu Tree (The Academy, Dublin)
01/03 – Rubberbandits, Lethal Dialect, DJ Flip (The Academy, Dublin)
03/03 – The Maccabees, We Cut Corners (The Academy, Dublin)
10/03 – Jeff Taylor, Hurrah! A Bolt Of Light, Mutts, Niall Connolly and Duke Special (Rockwood Music Hall, Lower East Side, New York)
10/03 – Rubberbandits (Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, New York)
16/03 – Love Music Hate Racism: Donna Dunne, Nation Of The State, Verse Chorus Verse, Ciaran Lenehen (Sweeney’s, Dublin)
17/03 – Razorlight, Mylo, The Delorentos (The Station Building, Dublin)
23/03 – Wonder Villains (The Academy 2, Dublin)
24/03 – The Dubliners (Croke Park, Dublin)
02/04 – OFWGKTA, Syd Da Kid (Olympia Theatre, Dublin)
06/04 – Coast To Coast Tea & Toast – Goldenplec Charity Event: The Clap (Portmarnock), Clara Rose (Dunboyne), She’s A Beauty (Maynooth), _Strays (Mullingar), Rowdy Dow Dow (Longford), Red Sail (Strokestown), 21 Outs (Castlebar), Mister Ebby (Ballymoe), We Town Criers (Roscommon Town), The Rusty Fixtures (Athlone), Little Smoke (Portlaoise), Fighting For Jane (Newbridge), Liz Seaver, Sives, Boy Lights Fire, Couch Sufer (Malahide Yacht Club).
13/04 – Knockanstockan Launch: Sarah Red, Enda Reilly (The Grand Social)
21/04 – Ham Sandwich, Last Days Of 1984, Elevens (Record Store Day – Tower/ Elastic Witch)
21/04 – The Riptide Movement (The Academy, Dublin)
24/04 – Pieta House Launch: Delorentos & We Cut Corners (acoustic) (The Mercantile, Dublin)
25/04 – Duke Special (Workman’s Club, Dublin)
28/04 – Russian Circles, Deaf Heaven, Enemies (The Button Factory, Dublin)
04/05 – Ham Sandwich, Eleventyfour, Tarantella Fall, Fox jaw Bounty Hunters, Blood Letting, The Rambleers (Vantastival, Belurgan Park, nr. Dundalk)
05/05 – Cathy Davey, Jinx Lennon, The Original Rudeboys, The Amazing Few, Machine Gun Baby, Soldiers Can’t Dance, The Bonny Men, The Barley Mob, Ka Tet, Trap Door, Karma Parking (Vantastival, Belurgan Park, nr. Dundalk)
06/05 – Raglans, Inni-K, Champagne Animal, Cold Steel Feel (Vantastival, Belurgan Park, nr. Dundalk)
11/05 – We Are Scientists, Le Galaxie, Elaine Mai, Daithi (feat. Elaine Mai), Come On Live Long, Ambience Affair. (Whelan’s/ The Village, Camden Crawl Dublin)
12/05 – Mystery Jets, Fionn Regan, Dels (Whelan’s, Camden Crawl Dublin Meteor private event)
12/05 – Rubberbandits, Let’s Buy Happiness, Underscore Orkestra, Clock Opera, Edi Vine (Whelan’s/ The Village, Camden Crawl Dublin)
18/05 – Delorentos, The Minutes, We Cut Corners, Paul Noonan, Colm Mac Con Lomaire (JD Roots, The Button Factory)
20/05 – The Jezabels, Late Fragments (The Button Factory, Dublin)
24/05 – Alt-J (The Academy, 2, Dublin)
26/05 – Discovery Gospel Choir, The Wildes (Africa Day, IFSC, Dublin)
26/05 – The Hot Sprockets, Fox E and the Good Hands (Soul Picnic, Merrion Square, Dublin)
29/05 – Spector, Sleep Thieves (Whelan’s, Dublin)
01/06 – Indie Week Ireland – Leading Armies, Sunday Recovery, The Vickers (The Mezz, Dublin)
02/06 – Leftfield, Friendly Fires, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Holy Fuck, Factory Floor, Bear In Heaven, Le Galaxie, The Shit Robit Show (Forbidden Fruit, Kilmainham Hostpital, Dublin)
12/06 – Blink 182, All American Rejects (The O2, Dublin)
26/06 – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and The Vaccines (Croke Park, Dublin)
27/06 – We Are Losers, The Runaround Kids (Twisted Pepper, Dublin)
29/06 – Twin Terrace (Tower Records, Dublin)