Fresh off a sold-out May bank holiday weekend in Dublin, Heineken Greenlight lands in Cork from Thursday May 28th to Sunday May 31st with over 20 acts across nine venues.
Heineken Greenlight is a new live music series built around intimate city venue takeovers across bank holiday weekends throughout 2026. – “creating ‘pinch me’ city gig experiences that fill bank holidays with live music across the year.”
Inhaler headline the South Gate Complex on Friday May 29th. Canadian indie outfit Men I Trust play The Savoy on Saturday alongside Cork’s own Cliffords. Florence Road – who are an Irish band on the rise, with their Dublin 3Olympia show already sold out – play Cyprus Avenue on Saturday with KhakiKid as very special guest.
Jazzy, fresh from her first Coachella appearance, plays Reardens Le Cabaret on Saturday night. Nightmares on Wax DJs The Bodega on Friday. Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin Criminals plays a DJ set at Seventy Seven on Sunday. Le Boom open the weekend at the Voodoo Rooms on Thursday. Jenny Greene plays Sky Bar on Sunday with Stevie G and Friends.
More acts are still to be announced across all venues.
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Full schedule so far:
Thursday May 28th
Voodoo Rooms: Le Boom (live) plus more TBA
Friday May 29th
South Gate Complex: Inhaler
Bodega: Nightmares on Wax, Boola Boom, Jusme
The Woodford: Grooveline and Bantum
Saturday May 30th
The Savoy: Men I Trust, Cliffords
Cyprus Avenue: Florence Road plus KhakiKid
Reardens Le Cabaret: Jazzy plus more TBA
Sunday May 31st
Seventy Seven: Huey Morgan DJ plus more TBA
Sky Bar: Jenny Greene, Stevie G and Friends
Tickets on sale Thursday at 11am via heinekengreenlight.ie. Further acts and venue details to be announced in the coming weeks.
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.
