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Irish Independent
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Queues form in Limerick as Grammy-winning musician plays intimate gig at music shop
When news of an Irish Grammy-winning artist playing an intimate gig in Limerick city spread, fans came far and wide to get a glimpse of the musician and his award-winning tunes. Cian Ducrot is currently taking the stage at the Cruises Street Golden Discs store this Tuesday afternoon to captivate the small crowd with songs from an upcoming album due for release next month.
Extra.ie
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
In Pics: Cian Ducrot lights up The Marquee at homecoming show
Cian Ducrot returned to Cork for two sold-out shows over the weekend. It was a homecoming for the singer-songwriter as he performed at Live at The Marquee. The concerts are another milestone in Ducrot's meteoric rise. Cian Ducrot performing at Live at The Marquee in Cork. Pic: GMCD His debut album Victory has reached No. 1 in Ireland and the UK. Cian Ducrot has amassed billions of streams while delivering hits like All For You and I'll Be Waiting. He also won a Grammy as co-writer of SZA's hit single Saturn this year. Cian Ducrot performing at Live at The Marquee in Cork. Pic: GMCD Last year, he played two sold-out headline shows for 36,000 fans in Dublin and Cork before embarking on an American tour with Calum Scott. The Live at The Marquee series continues this week. Cian Ducrot performing at Live at The Marquee in Cork. Pic: GMCD D-Block Europe will be taking to the stage on Tuesday and Wednesday. Michael McIntyre will then do three nights at the venue. Cian Ducrot performing at Live at The Marquee in Cork. Pic: GMCD The comedian is bringing his MACNIFICIENT! show to The Marquee on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There has already been performances from The Mary Wallopers, Amble, Kingfishr, Olly Murs and The Waterboy throughout the summer.
Irish Examiner
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Cian Ducrot review: Homecoming to remember with two sold-out nights at the Marquee
Cork singer-songwriter Cian Ducrot celebrated a homecoming to remember at the first of two sold-out gigs at Live at the Marquee on Saturday night. The rain which fell from early afternoon in the city didn't stop fans from flocking to the Marquee to witness the first of the All For You singer's two shows at the tented venue. Ducrot, who had previously shared how much he loves coming back home to play on Cork soil, was met with cheers and screams as he walked on stage, arms outstretched. Ducrot's effortless ability to connect with his audience was immediately clear, with his set inspiring raw, hand-on-heart emotion from the audience. Ducrot's songs, which explore themes of love, loss, heartbreak and personal struggles, and focus on emotional honesty and vulnerability, resonated with the crowd from the beginning. Getting right into his set, he kicked the night off with an upbeat performance of Who's Making You Feel It which had the Marquee crowd dancing and singing along. He then took to his piano for a solo to kick off his next song Little Dreaming before continuing the upbeat set with Heaven and Shalalala. 'Cork, how are you? This is the most incredible feeling that I have ever felt. I just want to say I love you so, so much,' he said, letting the crowd know how much it meant to him that his fans managed to sell-out two back-to-back shows at the venue - his first time playing the iconic venue. Fresh from a string of gigs in the UK, the Passage West-raised singer continued the gig by asking the crowd to 'raise your hands if you've had your heart broken recently' before choosing to bring fan Orlaith up on stage. Both sitting on the piano, he dedicated his next song The Book Of Love to Orlaith. The only time the Marquee fell silent was when Ducrot swapped his guitar for the flute for Kiss And Tell, a nod to just how talented the musician is at turning his hand to the many instruments he can play. Cian Ducrot playing Live at the Marquee. Picture: Larry Cummins Supporting Ducrot on Saturday night was country pop group Remember Monday. The group, consisting of members Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele, gained prominence after appearing on The Voice UK in 2019 and went on to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song What the Hell Just Happened?. Singer-songwriter Hetta Falzon will warm the crowd up at Sunday night's gig at the Marquee before Ducrot takes to the stage for a second night. Raised in Cork, Ducrot studied music in London before moving back to Ireland to pursue his dream. He rose to fame with his singles All For You and I'll Be Waiting, both of which gained popularity via TikTok and charted highly in Ireland following their release in 2022. He went on to make his main stage debut at Electric Picnic in 2023 which he previously described as a stand-out moment in his career to date. His debut studio album Victory was released on August 4, 2023, and reached number 1 in the UK and Ireland. With over 801 billion streams, Ducrot's music continued to make an impact long after the release of his first album and he went on to play to a total of 36,000 people across two headline shows in Dublin and Cork before touring as support for Calum Scott across North America. Most recently, he introduced a handful of new tracks in the shape of Here It Is, Something I Can't Afford, Can't Even Hate You, and Your Eyes and received his first Grammy nomination as the co-writer of SZA's smash hit Saturn. Ducrot is also set to play a headline concert at Dublin's 3Arena on Saturday, December 20.
Irish Times
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The Guide: The Murder Capital, Cian Ducrot, Forest Fest and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
Event of the week Live at the Iveagh Gardens 2025 Saturday, July 19th, The Murder Capital, 6.30pm, €39.90; Sunday, July 20th, Leon Bridges, 6.30pm, €49.20 (sold out), The sequence of outdoor shows at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin – surely Ireland's prettiest city-centre outdoor venue – comes to a close this weekend with two disparate music acts. The Dublin postpunk band The Murder Capital (Saturday, July 19th) are fast approaching mainstream attention with three critically acclaimed albums – When I Have Fears , from 2019, Gigi's Recovery , from 2023, and Blindness, from this year – and live shows that thrum with intensity. The US singer-songwriter Leon Bridges (Sunday, July 20th) is a cooler and calmer presence, with a silky rhythm and blues/soul sound not too far removed from the likes of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. Gigs Cian Ducrot Saturday and Sunday, July 19th and 20th, Live at the Marquee, Cork, 8pm, €67.40, Cian Ducrot. Photograph: Freddie Sinstead From studying classical flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London, busking, and playing pub gigs in his native Cork to travelling to Los Angeles, where he cowrote SZA's Grammy-winning song Saturn, Cian Ducrot has certainly put in the hours. Such commitment has paid off, not only winning support slots with Ed Sheeran and Teddy Swims but also reaching number one in Ireland and Britain in 2023 with his debut major-label album, Victory . A follow-up, Little Dreaming, is scheduled for release on Friday, August 1st, so alongside familiar multimillion-streaming tracks such as I'll Be Waiting, Part of Me and All for You, fans will hear new songs. Couldn't get a ticket for these shows? Ducrot is due to play his largest headline show so far at 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday, December 20th. The Doobie Brothers Monday, July 21st, 3Arena, Dublin, 6.30pm, €146.25/€111.25, After The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers are probably the best-known legacy US band on this side of the Atlantic. After forming in 1970, they surged in popularity five years later, when they were joined by the soul singer (and regular Steely Dan band member) Michael McDonald, who appears on many of their classic hits (including the soft-rock perennial What a Fool Believes). Regrouping in 1987, the current band features the original founding members Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons; McDonald returned to the fold full time in 2019, just in time for their 50th-anniversary tour (delayed by Covid-19). Adult-oriented rock? Yacht rock? Whatever way you roll, take it easy. Wasp Tuesday, July 22nd, National Stadium, Dublin, 7pm, €43.50; Wednesday, July 23rd, Telegraph Building, Belfast, 7pm, £42.45, Songs titled Wild Child, On Your Knees, Chainsaw Charlie, Scream Until You Like It and Animal (F**k Like a Beast), a band name standing for We Are Sexual Perverts, and shock-rock stage theatrics influenced by Kiss and Alice Cooper. A hint more than 40 years after the release of their self-titled debut album, the US heavy metal act might be anachronistic to some, but Wasp's admirers remain steadfast. Expect the band's mainstay Blackie Lawless to deliver a show that is, according to the heavy-metal site 'the aural equivalent of a primal scream'. Festival Forest Fest Friday-Sunday, July 25th-27th, Emo Village, Co Laois, 1pm, €150/€125/€85, Franz Ferdinand. Photograph: Paul Owens A few years ago Forest Fest emerged as a something-for-everyone music festival, albeit with an emphasis on names familiar to many music fans who came of age in the 1990s. It has enhanced that offering year by year, adding stages to accommodate equally familiar names with lower profiles but plenty of loyal fans. Main-stage acts include Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand, Travis, Kula Shaker, Dandy Warhols, The Stranglers and Nick Lowe. Village-stage acts include The Farm, Alabama 3 and Reef. The Forest Fleadh stage includes performances by Sharon Shannon, Stockton's Wing, Mary Coughlan and Freddie White. Film Australian Dreams Until Tuesday, July 29th, IFI, Dublin, various times and prices, The resurgence of film-making down under in the 1970s led to the Australian new wave, which introduced directors such as Peter Weir, Ken Hannam, George Miller, Gillian Armstrong, Philip Noyce and Jane Campion, and actors such as Sam Neill, Judy Davis and Bryan Brown. The Irish Film Institute's Australian Dreams strand continues with a mix of critically acclaimed features (Breaker Morant, Mad Max 2, The Year My Voice Broke), influential indigenous work (My Survival as an Aboriginal, Bedevil, Radiance), cult (Bad Boy Bubby) and curios (BMX Bandits, featuring one of Nicole Kidman's first film roles). Comedy Paddy Power Comedy Festival Thursday-Sunday, July 24th-27th, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, various times and prices, Fern Brady Irish names you'll know include Tommy Tiernan, Jason Byrne, Deirdre O'Kane, Alison Spittle, Barry Murphy, Kyla Cobbler, Peter McGann, Justine Stafford, Tony Cantwell, Killian Sundermann and Emma Doran. Lesser-spotted comedians include Scotland's Fern Brady and Daniel Sloss, the Irish-Italian Vittorio Angelone (who, says Monocle, 'is at the coalface of comedy that pushes boundaries') and the American Rosebud Baker. Still running Riot Until Sunday, July 20th, Vicar Street, Dublin, 7.30pm, €41, Riot ensemble. Photograph: Ian Douglas A dazzling illustration of the links between insurgent artists and their equally committed audience, Thisispopbaby's award-winning cabaret/circus/spoken-word show returns by popular demand. Panti Bliss, Emmet Kirwan, Lords of Strut, aerialist Omar Cortez Gonzales, and surprise special guests snap, crackle and pop one more time. Book it this week Common Threads, Burren, Co Clare, October 10th-13th, Galway Comedy Festival, October 21st-27th, Púca Festival, Athboy/Trim, Co Meath, October 30th-November 2nd, Oxn and Richard Dawson, NCH, Dublin, November 20th,
Irish Examiner
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Five For Your Radar: Graham Norton in Bantry, Roger Waters on screen, Cian Ducrot
Literary: Graham Norton Maritime Hotel, Bantry, Friday, July 18 Wrapping up this year's West Cork Literary Festival on Friday evening is Graham Norton - now the author of five books, the most recent of which is Frankie - who will be in conversation with Ryan Tubridy. The former RTÉ presenter promised on social media that one thing it definitely won't be is boring. There are multiple events around Bantry on the final day of the litfest, including Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors, in conversation with Lisa Harding at Marino Church at 2.30pm. Graham Norton is in Bantry for West Cork Literary Festival. Picture: Darragh Kane Gigs: Cian Ducrot, D-Block Europe, Kingfishr Live at the Marquee, Saturday-Thursday, July 19-24 Live at the Marquee is nearing the end of its run for another summer with a whole host of sold-out shows to round things off. Local hero Cian Ducrot makes a triumphant homecoming this weekend, with D-Block Europe bringing the hip-hop vibes on Tuesday and Wednesday, before Kingfishr, who look primed to be one of the biggest acts in the country by the time 2025 is out, take to the stage on Thursday for their second gig of the series. Cinema: Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill Live From Prague - The Movie Omniplex, Wednesday, July 23 Directed by Sean Evans and Roger Waters, This is not a Drill is being screened in cinemas around the world, including Omniplex outlets in Ireland. Pink Floyd founding member Waters plays songs from his Pink Floyd days and his solo career, a timespan of 60 years, in this 2.5-hour show. Recorded in Prague in 2003 as part of his Final Farewell tour, it's a huge operation and immersive experience, that, if not seen live in the flesh, is best experienced on cinema screens. Roger Waters' live concert runs in cinemas around the world. Exhibition: Enchanted by Marlay Marlay House, Thursday, July 24 Celebrating Marlay Park's 50th anniversary of being in public ownership, Enchanted by Marlay is a joint art exhibition featuring local artists Kate Bedell, Helen Hyland, Yelena Kosikh, and Jennifer Rowe. The exhibition will be hosted in the ballroom of Marlay House and runs for three days. The opening will be officiated by historian Peadar Curran. Streaming: Mr Bigstuff Sky Max/Now TV, Thursday, July 24 A bit of a surprise hit when it hit TVs last year, notching Danny Dyer a Bafta for best male in a lead performance, Mr Bigstuff returns for season two on Thursday. Promising a host of guest stars, the opening episode picks up two weeks after the revelations of the season finale. Mr Bigstuff is created by Ryan Sampson, who stars alongside Dyer as two estranged brothers. Set in suburban Essex, the series was a huge hit with audiences, becoming Sky Max's highest-rated new original comedy in three years.
