Leftfield are playing at the National Stadium this summer.
Neil Barnes and Adam Wren are back to Dublin this summer, presenting a Leftfield live show at National Stadium on July 18th.
It’ll be the band’s first Irish show since their Beyond The Pale set in 2023, and first Dublin show in six years.
My experience of seeing Leftfield live in the early 2000s is still among my favourite live gigs of all-time. There’s a live rip on Youtube from Homelands 2000 that is among the best live festival sets from an electronic act you will hear anywhere, building city-sized rhythms out of their classic early albums Leftism (1995) Rhythm & Stealth (1999).
Of course, Leftfield has had lineup changes and a long time away since then. Neil Barnes (with Adam Wren replacing Paul Daley these days) returned to releasing albums after 16 years with 2015’s Alternative Light Source and 2022’s This Is What We Do.
Tickets are €44.50 plus fees on sale Friday 22nd March at 10am from Selective Memory.
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.
