All Together Now returns to Curraghmore Estate, Co. Waterford for its seventh chapter from Thursday July 30th to Sunday August 2nd 2026.
The Circle by Jameson Music stage at All Together Now Festival has consistently offered one of the most varied lineups at the festival in a secluded setting in the trees on the grounds of Curraghmore and its fifth year is no different.
Headlining this year are acclaimed US rapper and producer MIKE – fresh from his collaborative album with Earl Sweatshirt – and Mercury Prize-winning artist MS Dynamite. SOAK makes a welcome appearance following the recent release of ‘death valley fridge magnet’, their first new solo music in four years.
The rest of the lineup is strong across the board. Manchester punk, noise and cosmic jazz outfit Maruja make their Irish festival debut – one of the most viscerally exciting live bands in the UK right now. Fellow Manchester indie artist Freak Slug is coming too. pôt-pot bring their Choice Music Prize-nominated debut album to the stage. One Leg One Eye – the haunting project from Ian Lynch of Lankum and George Brennan – is one of the more intriguing bookings of the weekend.
A surprise headliner will be announced closer to the festival.
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One Leg One Eye
The haunting project from Lankum founding member Ian Lynch and Dublin musician George Brennan is one of the more intriguing bookings of the weekend. One Leg One Eye explores black metal, folk, noise and drone while being deeply imbued with a sense of Irish history and myth – 2022 debut …And Take The Black Worm With Me was partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where Lynch’s father worked. Second album CRONE, released in May on AD 93, is a sonic invocation of the Morrigan in her darkest form, with the legendary Olwen Fouéré’s guttural, elemental vocals running through it. They’ve just toured with Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Expect the most transportive set of the weekend.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Saturday 1st August
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Anz B2B Jio
A tantalising collaborative B2B Circle moment. Manchester’s Anz is one of the most joyful DJs in UK dance music, moving between UK funky, garage, electro and rave euphoria, while Dublin’s Jio has become one of the capital’s essential selectors through club nights like Supper and labels like Pear. Together across a Circle booth, this should be one of the dance highlights of the weekend.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Sunday 2nd August
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Pebbledash
The Cork alternative rock six-piece established themselves as one of Ireland’s more eclectic bands with the Four Portraits of the Same Ugly House EP – moving between atmospheric eeriness, dark guitar passages, shoegaze crescendos, emo-slowcore and a trad-influenced vocal style, without ever rushing. Last year’s To Cast The Sea In Concrete built on it, their track ‘Carraig Aonair’ featured in Netflix’s House Of Guinness, and they’ve played with Cardinals on the Masquerade tour.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Saturday 1st August
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Monjola
The Dublin alternative R&B artist has been a Nialler9 favourite since the early days of the Chamomile Records crew alongside Aby Coulibaly. Working with his brother MOIO on production, Monjola makes suave sonic earworms that marry singing and rapping, journeys through the labyrinth of past relationships as heard on the It’s Not That Deep EP and a run of singles that have landed on our best Irish songs lists. ‘Weight On Me’ is the latest.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Sunday 2nd August
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Maruja
The Manchester punk, noise and cosmic jazz outfit make their Irish festival debut – one of the most viscerally exciting live bands in the UK right now. The band’s Irish connections run deep: as we’ve covered before, saxophonist Joe Carroll’s Sligo roots inspired the Knocknarea EP (an Anthony Fantano EP of the year), with artwork drawn from photos his great-grandfather took in the county as electricity first arrived. The improvisational side of their work comes across like Godspeed You! Black Emperor in free jazz mode.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Saturday 1st August
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Negro Impacto
Chi-Chi and Strangelove make up the Dundalk duo Negro Impacto, one of our favourite bands out of Ireland, making vibey R&B pop music. As we said of recent single ‘Soft Fruit’, no Irish band does it quite as smooth, their sunny neo-soul taking in R&B, rock, funk and gospel, with earned comparisons to The Internet and Steve Lacy, but i’d put Negro Impacto on my stereo first.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Saturday 1st August
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Rory Sweeney (live)
The Dublin producer, DJ and sound artist plays live, his debut solo album Old Earth one of the more quietly acclaimed Irish electronic records of the past year – “a meditation on time, decay, memory, and myth in the digital age” featuring RÓIS, Saoirse Miller, Curtisy, EMBY, Roo Honeychild and more. Sweeney is also the man behind the Irish Hash Mafia mixtape (one of my Irish albums of that year), and as he told us, he’s bringing trad “closer to electronic music and bass music in the least tacky way possible, by finding the droney bridging points in between.” One of the busiest and best in the Irish underground.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Friday 31st July
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pôt-pot
The Cork/Lisbon band bring their Choice Music Prize-nominated debut album to the stage. pôt-pot are inspired by psych and krautrock bands like Neu!, CAN and Spacemen 3 and the motorik beats and drones of those forebearers, bringing psych-rock sounds with harmonium drones, vocal harmonies and Mark Waldron-Hyden’s Lou Reed-esque vocals. Warsaw 480km, released on LA label felte, was one of the most singular Irish guitar records of the past year.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Friday 31st July
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Jamz Supernova
The BBC 6 Music presenter and Future Bounce label founder is one of the great selectors in UK radio, championing club music from the global underground – broken beat, amapiano, gqom, UK funky, Latin club and everything adjacent. Her DJ sets carry that same borderless energy, and a Circle set from Jamz is a guaranteed education and a party in one.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Friday 31st July
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MIKE
The acclaimed US rapper and producer headlines The Circle, fresh from his collaborative album with Earl Sweatshirt. As we said when he last played Dublin, the beloved rapper has come a long way from making waves in underground hip-hop circles with the [sLUms] collective formed in New York in 2015 – he has since released numerous critically celebrated albums, earned Pitchfork’s Best New Music accolade twice, and toured with artists like Blood Orange, Earl Sweatshirt, The Alchemist and Freddie Gibbs. His hazy, sample-warped, diaristic rap is a perfect fit for a late Circle slot.
Plays The Circle With Jameson Music: Friday July 31st
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
