alt-j to play Collins Barracks this August for 'Wider Than Pictures' gig series

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