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Foil Arms & Hog

A mixture of skits, audience participation and improvisation. With over a billion views, you may know the guys from their online videos, but it’s on stage that they’re at their best. With celebrity fans including Woody Harrelson, Emma Thompson and Mr. Bean himself, come see why Foil Arms and Hog have become one of the world’s most recognized sketch groups. After sold-out shows at the London Palladium, New York Town Hall and Sydney Opera House, the Irish trio embark on their biggest world tour to date. Some of what is said about these guys: ‘They’re just fantastically funny’ (The Times)....

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Jen Brister: Reactive

Aiken Promotions Presents Jen Brister “Reactive”  Cork Opera House | 23rd April 2026 Vicar St | 25 April 2026 Tickets On-Sale Now Finding herself in a constant state of exacerbation at the state of the world and people in general, Brister has been told she needs to chill the hell out. Can Jen find her zen? It seems unlikely to be honest…   Jen is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer, as seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, QI and Mock The Week. Following a sold out 2022 tour, Jen is back on the road with her...

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HamsandwicH

Aiken Promotions Presents HamsandwicH Vicar St 3rd October 2025 Tickets on sale now! “The Live Album” Now available on Double-Vinyl exclusively at the band’s live shows. HamsandwicH New Album: “The Live Album” – Double-Vinyl Vinyl Release Release date: Dec 5th, 2024 Route 109a Recordings (Self Release), Catalog Number: rou039 Recorded Live in the 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Oct. 21st, 2023. Recorded and mixed by Darren Clarke, Mastered by Danny Kalb Design by Colm Molloy, Cover photo by Glen Bollard HamsandwicH: Niamh Farrell, Podge McNamee, Darcy HamsandwicH have been one of Ireland’s most...

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The D.A.M. Trilogy “Back To Berlin Tour 2025”

“First, there were the spiders from mars…then came the D.A.M. Trio…” Bowie’s influential Berlin Trilogy musicians reform for a major 16 date European tour… Carlos Alomar presents The D.A.M. Trilogy BACK TO BERLIN TOUR 2025 The ‘faster’ songs from Low, Heroes and Lodger are the focus of 16 shows with an expanded band, including Tin Machine’s Kevin Armstrong and vocalist, Cunio David Bowie’s right-hand-musicians during his late-1970’s Berlin period reunite to celebrate the legacy of the albums they made together as Carlos Alomar presents The D.A.M. Trilogy – touring over 16 European dates in...

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Jimeoin

    Jimeoin’s cheeky no-gimmicks sense of humour, superb material and broad appeal keeps audiences in stitches across the globe. The press call him the master of microscopically and sublimely observed human behaviour and rave that he’s still very much at the very top of the stand-up comedy game – and we definitely agree! You might be one of the hundreds of millions of fans who have viewed his online comedy clips, or perhaps you’ve seen his laugh-out-loud TV appearances on ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘The Royal Variety Performance’ or ‘Conan O’Brien’… but NOTHING beats seeing this Irish...

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Al Porter “Algorithm”

Why does Instagram think he needs to get assessed? Can you learn to love renting in a house share? Can his parents deal with empty nest syndrome? Why is his brother the golden child? And much more! One of few Irish comics ever nominated for a Perrier Award (like Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran before him) Al’s 2023/24 show “Now” was critically acclaimed with reviews like, “Gloriously upbeat! No self pity… Irrepressible stand up storytelling (Chortle ★★★★) and ★★★★ “Dazzling…Brilliant and very funny” (The Scotsman) AL PORTER’s ALGORITHM is trying to find a formula for living in a world on...

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RIOT

Aiken Promotions Presents RIOT Vicar St 17 – 20 July 2025 Tickets on Sale Now The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation is back. THISISPOPBABY’s all-star squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street, Dublin. Join Emmet Kirwan, Panti Bliss, Up & Over It, Lords of Strut and The Sirens, along with a surprise special guest each show, as they meet at the barricades once again. Do not miss the legend that is RIOT. “A wild night of entertainment that will make you want to change the world” The Age, Melbourne

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Harry Hill “New Bits & Greatest Hits”

Aiken Promotions Presents Harry Hill “New Bits & Greatest Hits” Vicar St 19th September 2025 Tickets on sale now! The Badger Parade is back on! Join me on my Diamond Jubilee lap of honour as I celebrate 60 Glorious Years of fun, laughter and low level disruption! Marvel! As I offer new insights into the hot topics of the day such as the demise of the SCART lead, The Culture Wars, the differences between crab sticks and rhubarb and the origins of Tirimisu! Guffaw with delight! As I delve into my back catalogue using my patented ‘Old Bit Randomiser’ for old favourites like...

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Mogwai

Aiken Promotions Present Special Guests ~ Cloth  Mogwai formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar) and Martin Bulloch (drums). Since 1997, the band have released ten studio albums, with their most recent, 2021’s As The Love Continues, being a commercial and critical success, reaching number 1 on the Official UK Album Charts, amassing a Mercury Prize nomination and winning the Scottish Album of the Year award. The band have also contributed to and written scores for...

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The Horne Section’s Hit Show

Aiken Promotions Presents The Horne Section Vicar St. 23 November 2025 Tickets on sale now! THE HORNE SECTION’S HIT SHOW They have two series of their own Channel 4 TV show, an iTunes-chart-topping podcast and now they’re tuning up their instruments once more to tour the country: it’s the Horne Section’s Hit Show! “Britain’s Funniest Band” (The Guardian) have made appearances on The Last Leg (Channel 4), Peter Crouch’s Year-Late Euros (BBC One), they are Dictionary Corner regulars on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the only band to ever host  Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Separately,...

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Sara Pascoe “I Am A Strange Gloop”

Aiken Promotions Presents Sara Pascoe “I Am A Strange Gloop” Vicar St 20th February 2026 Tickets on sale now Plosive Live in association with Curtis Brown presents… Sara Pascoe: I Am A Strange Gloop Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn’t wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them? THIS SHOW IS THAT THOUGHT. In that it doesn’t make much sense and is a bit weird on reflection. Sara Pascoe is a comedian and her children don’t sleep and her kitchen won’t clean itself and her husband “doesn’t want to be in...

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