National Concert Hall welcomes Something Happens, Hothouse Flowers for 2026 lineup

The National Concert Hall has announced their summer and autumn concert lineup, including the return of their Landmarks Series. The series invites influential Irish artists to play their seminal albums in full.

Something Happens will open the series on Friday, June 12, with a performance of their albums Been There, Seen That, Done That and Stuck Together With God’s Glue. 

The Dublin pop rock band first gained acclaim when their single 'Burn Clear' appeared in the 1988 crime thriller film The Courier. The band's lead singer Tom Dunne currently serves as chairperson of the Irish Music Rights Organisation.

On Saturday, July 4, Paddy Casey will take the NCH stage. He'll play his debut album Amen (So Be It) and the best-selling Living, which went platinum in Ireland approximately 15 times in its first year.

Revisit our 1999 review of Casey's Amen (So Be It) here.

Casey and Something Happens both took the stage at Forest Fest in Co. Laois last summer. Check out photos here and here.

The Landmarks Series will continue with an appearance by Hothouse Flowers on Thursday, September 17. The Irish trad rockers will give a full performance of their 1990 album Home.

In addition to its Landmarks Series, NCH has announced a show from American jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny on Thursday, July 16. He'll be joined by Chris Fishman and Joe Dyson of his Side-Eye III project.

Metheny is the only musician to have won Grammy awards in ten different categories, boasting 20 Grammys in total.

Tickets for the series will go on sale Wednesday, March 4, at 10 am via nch.ie.