Makers of my current favourite album of the year, Alt-J are playing the Olympia Theatre next year on May 3rd. It’s a long way away but the band are clearly busy being awesome til then to return. Tickets on sale this Friday at 9am through ticketmaster.ie. Price €22.90 plus fees.
BUT, if you want to be the first people to get your hands on tickets to the gig before Friday, email [email protected] with the subject “THIS IS FOR MATILDA” and your name and address and I’ll pick a winner by 4pm on Thursday.
Winners notified.
Here they are performing on French TV:

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with which company are they selling – ticketmaster?
Yep, it’ll be ticketmaster.ie
DID I WIN?? GWAN.
I presume its next Thursday so?
Winners were notified last night! 🙂 🙁