As part of the Wider Than Pictures series at the National Museum of Ireland Collins Barracks in August 2022, alt-J will perform on Thursday, August 25th.

Earlier this year, the Mercury Prize-winning, chart-topping band released their new album The Dream via Infectious Music/BMG.

alt-J are one of the most successful British bands of the millennium. Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, and Thom Sonny Green have released four studio albums that, between them, have sold in excess of two million copies and their songs have been streamed over two and a half billion times.

Their 2012 Mercury Prize and Ivor Novello Award-winning debut An Awesome Wave, was followed two years later by their number one, GRAMMY, and BRIT Award-nominated album This Is All Yours.

Released in 2017, RELAXER flew straight into the top 10 of the UK album chart ahead of a summer of major international shows - including a headline show at London’s O2 Arena and headline performances at numerous festivals - and became their second album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Hot Press' Pat Carty dubbed the album "wildly inventive and pretty brilliant" in his review of The Dream: "There’s nothing to forgive, mind, as one listen to lead single ‘U&Me’ – a bluesy guitar, the puncturing chorus and then the addition of the woo-woo backing vocal – attests. When Joe Newman sings about “holding on to the memory of that day for the rest of my life,” he is, apparently, remembering the good times of being at a festival with his pals, and we’re all looking forward to experiencing that again, hopefully while singing along with him."

Tickets from €51 including booking fee on sale Friday, 24 June at 10am

WIDER THAN PICTURES 2022

Aug 25: Alt-J plus special guests

Aug 26: Simply Red plus special guests

Aug 27: RTE Concert Orchestra performs the music of Thin Lizzy

Aug 28: Fleet Foxes plus special guests