An exciting new addition to the Dublin gig calendar, with a first wave of announcements heavy on Irish debuts and underground credibility.
Foggy Notions have launched Modern Lovers, a new annual multi-venue programme running across Dublin City from November 8th to 16th. Phase One features nine acts, several making their Irish debut.
MGNA CRRRTA, Ideasforconversations – The Grand Social, November 8th
MGNA Crrrta is the electronic duo of Farheen Khan and Ginger Scott, making music that channels Ke$ha, Grimes and Crystal Castles into something they call an angsty endless daydream. Their February mixtape Beautiful Disaster drew attention from Pitchfork, Dazed, i-D and V Magazine. New York dance duo Ideasforconversations bring glitchcore breaks and vocal chops that sound unfamiliar and nostalgic at once.
Wendy Eisenberg, Dan English, Superfan – The Grand Social, November 10th
Acclaimed Brooklyn artist Wendy Eisenberg makes their Irish debut headlining a bill of some of the most essential underground songwriters working today. Pitchfork named their self-titled eighth album Best New Album of 2026, praising their “near-merciless” compositional intelligence. Iowa-born, New York-based Dan English brings his confessional, séance-like songwriting from new album Sky Record. Superfan is the project of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Kali Priya Flanagan, newly signed to AD93, releasing sophomore album My Piledriver Heart built around the extended live collaboration with cellist Omeed Almassi she calls “Acousticello”.
MX Lonely – Bellobar, November 10th
MX Lonely’s ALL MONSTERS on Julia’s War is their first entirely self-recorded release – a live, immediate, analogue sound that captures their show more directly than anything before it. Vocalist Rae Haas describes the project’s purpose simply: “the manifestation or the prayer in this is for everyone to have the space and tools to work through their own monsters.”
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Anna von Hausswolff – National Concert Hall, November 11th
The Swedish composer and organist makes her Irish debut at the National Concert Hall. Her sixth album Iconoclasts, produced with longtime collaborator Filip Leyman, is a maximalist, anthemic record featuring Ethel Cain, Abul Mogard and Iggy Pop. Pitchfork called her music “imposing, monolithic” while noting the themes – love, heartache, renewal – remain “resolutely human in scale.” A genuinely significant booking for the room.
GB, David deBarra – Bellobar, November 12th
Copenhagen’s Gustav Berntsen, who records as GB, makes his Irish debut. His 2024 debut Gusse Music was the final vinyl release on the storied label Posh Isolation before it closed. New album Herzsprung, out August 21st on AD93, was written from cut-up copies of the London newspaper Metro, funded by money he earned appearing in a Jaguar ad campaign. Dublin’s David deBarra supports – his new album Rest in Peace, Brian Wilson is a free release that moves between Weezer, Judee Sill and Neutral Milk Hotel without sounding quite like any of them. It was one of my favourite albums of February.
Bassvictim – Opium, November 15th
London duo Maria Manow and Ike Clateman make their highly anticipated Irish debut. Their blend of drum’n’bass, electroclash and punk is deliberately chaotic and blown-out rather than polished – debut album Forever and EP ? trade in gritty nostalgia and adolescent urban wandering, privileging urgency over technical perfection.
Tickets go on general sale Friday June 26th at 10am, with presale access for Foggy Notions members and subscribers on Thursday June 25th.
More acts to be announced in the coming weeks. Full details at foggynotions.ie/modern-lovers.
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.
