- Music
- 14 Jul 25
Brògeal announce upcoming Irish tour dates
Tickets will go on sale Friday, July 18.
Scottish band Brògeal have announced a string of upcoming Irish shows this October, with gigs at Belfast, Dublin, Limerick and Kilkee.
The announcement follows yesterday's performance as support for The Wolfe Tones at Limerick's Thomond Park.
Hailing from Falkirk in central Scotland, Brògeal mix folk, punk, indie rock and pop influences. Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Daniel Harkins said the band's genre-blending style is at the heart of its appeal.
"The thing about our music is that it transcends all age groups," Harkins said.
"You’ve got 14-year-old boys with their mums, they’re all going mental, you've got old punks, middle-aged women, young adults, old people, everybody's digging it, you know? There's something for everybody because you've got your folky influences, The Pogues, with this indie edge and pop sensibilities."
Harkins and banjo player Aidan Callaghan founded the band as a punk group. After bonding over their love for Irish folk, The Dubliners and The Pogues, they were joined by accordion player Sam MacMillain and evolved into a folk band.
Bassist Euan Mundie and drummer Luke Mortimer joined later on, contributing pop and indie influences to Brògeal's current style.
Their most recent track 'Tuesday Paper Club' was released last week. The song describes a pub where Harkins once worked in which patrons tended to be quiet and judgmental, according to Harkins.
"They wouldn’t talk to each other until they’d had about five pints," Harkins said.
"So I just thought it would be really cheeky to write about them. Just talking about the mundanity of what they were up to while being so judgmental, you know?"
Tickets for their Irish shows will go on sale Friday, July 18 via Ticketmaster.
See the full list of dates and venues below:
Wednesday, October 29 – Voodoo, Belfast
Thursday, October 30 – The Academy, Dublin
Friday, October 31 – Kasbah at Dolans, Limerick
Saturday, November 1 – The Greyhound Bar, Kilkee
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