The Welsh indie-alternative band Super Furry Animals’ indoor Dublin show sold out already so they’ve been announced for a big outdoor show this summer.
Super Furry Animals will play Wider Than Pictures at the National Museum Of Ireland at Collins Barracks with support from electro barfly Baxter Dury and Irish indie-rockers Really Good Time.
A really good bill.
The gig takes place Sunday August 30th 2026 and tickets go on sale priced €63.20 plus fees next Friday January 31st, from ticketmaster.ie and singularartists.ie.
Artist pre-sale begins from Wednesday January 28th at 10am from ticketmaster.ie.
The previously announced Dublin show takes place in May.
Over 16s only, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
The 2026 Wider Than Pictures concert series features, so far:
Aug 25: Amyl and the Sniffers + special guests Mannequin Pussy and Spider
Aug 26: Amyl and the Sniffers + special guests Mannequin Pussy and Spider
Aug 28: berlioz + special guests (TBA)
Aug 29: Mac DeMarco + special guests (TBA)
Aug 30: Super Furry Animals + special guests Baxter Dury and Really Good Time
About Super Furrys
An unchanged line-up since day one (save for the loss of original singer, Rhys Ifans, to a glittering Hollywood career), the Furries reunite as the instantly recognisable Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Daf Ieuan, Guto Pryce and Gruff Rhys for another journey into memories and magic.
First emerging in 1995 after their signing to Creation Records, the band grabbed headlines for their unusual promotional tactics, including the famous Super Furry Animals Tank, giant inflatable bears, Yeti costumes and the inevitable Yeticide that followed. Releasing their debut, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, the band alchemised an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences, cutting a resilient shape all their own amidst the headrush of nineties and noughties guitar music.
Their first UK Top Ten album, Radiator cemented the band into the echelons of bona fide indie dance floor classic band, while their following seven, adventurous long-players added many more indie-psych-pop jukebox standards to universal cultural consciousness.
Unmissable on stage as well as off, Super Furry Animals finally return to celebrate over thirty years as a band in the bright days of spring 2026, following the reissue of their much-loved 2005 album, Love Kraft in October 2025.
Baxter Dury | Credit: Tom Beard – Download High Re
How did the tale of Baxter Dury’s latest, greatest album to date, his masterpiece, begin? Serendipitously…
It was Sunday June 28, 2024, and Baxter had just stepped from a rapturously received set on The Park Stage at Glastonbury Festival. After towelling himself down, a familiar figure approached him backstage. It was Paul Epworth (Florence + The Machine, Glass Animals, Paul McCartney, U2, Adele) the lauded producer/songwriter whose creations have draped themselves across the airwaves of the 21st Century more successfully than any other Briton.
Together they dreamt up Allbarone’s nine-track tour-de-force, stripping everything away and building Baxter’s most melodically direct, futuristic collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and January.
Baxter Dury is not prone to self-congratulation or the prideful boast. He does not humble brag. He describes his accomplishments with the air of a man awaiting the other shoe to drop. Nevertheless, even he knows that Allbarone is the album of his career so far. Push him hard enough, he’ll almost say so himself.
“I don’t want to say it’s contemporary,” he summarises. “Because I sound like a cunt using that word. But it does sound really contemporary. It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really.” Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming: “I’m top of the world!”
Really Good Time | download hi res
The band Rolling Stone describes as “intent on living up to their name”, Really Good Time are a Dublin band that sound like the ‘Vertigo’ era of U2 covering Viagra Boys, or early Pixies and LCD Soundsystem records in a blender with some cheap speed.
Their music toes the line between noisy and melodic, weird and anthemic. In their four years of existence, their mission has always been about finding ecstatic release within a crowd of bodies, moving together amidst waves of amplification.
The band began as friends, meeting many years ago while sharing small stages and warm beer, playing with different acts within Dublin’s close-knit music scene. As they started playing together, a set of guiding principles emerged: if something isn’t immediately exciting, discard it or speed it up; if there’s ever a concern that something is too cheesy/poppy or too weird/noisy, eliminate that worry by leaning into it; if a song doesn’t feel like it would be unbelievably fun to gig, it isn’t for this band.
Since then, they have sold out headlines in Dublin, independently toured the UK, built a loyal following around a live show like bottled lightning and released a string of singles and videos that have firmly established their own world of art-rock bravado. In this world, it makes perfect sense for an emerging act to declare themselves the greatest band on earth and to give their second music video a red carpet premiere at a local pub.
Releasing their debut EP Escape From the Mountain of Spit in 2023, the EP and lead single received high praise from Steve Lamacq (BBC), drawing favorable comparisons to early QOTSA and The Walkmen on his roundtable review. This coincided with the band taking to larger stages at home and abroad with prominent festival slots and support for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, The Murder Capital, and The Scratch.
Really Good Time are having one, and they emphatically wish for you to join them.
Super Furry Animals with special guests Baxter Dury and Really Good Time play the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin on Sunday, 30th of August 2026, as part of the Wider Than Pictures concert series (subject to venue licence).
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.
