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Hidden Agenda proudly presents
DANIEL AVERY (LIVE)
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Opium Live • Fri 03 April 2026 • 7:30pm
Dan’s message about the Live show:
Every artist tells you to expect big surprises when they come back, especially these days. It starts to become meaningless but you trust me right? I can confidently tell you this is a fully reborn version of the live show, entirely different to anything you’ve seen from me before. The new album Tremor takes great inspiration from my guitar music past so I’ve formed the band of my dreams. This, however, is not solely a rock show. There remains a pulsing, techno heart to proceedings but nor is this, I hasten to add, a drummer struggling to keep up with a backing track. The show is intense and loud and beautiful in equal measure. A tremor is coming and I can’t wait for you all to feel it. Tickets on sale now.
TREMOR
Revered producer and composer Daniel Avery returns with a new album and live show, his most ambitious works to date. Channelling every corner of his sound, Tremor is a bold and transportive body of work through euphoric shoegaze, submerged techno, ambient soundscape and industrial bliss. It remains unmistakably Avery, yet dramatically evolved.
With the album Avery has welcomed an inspiring cast of collaborators, including the likes of Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels (Quicksand / Rival Schools), bdrmm, Julie Dawson (NewDad), yeule, Ellie, Art School Girlfriend, yunè pinku, and Cecile Believe. Each artist leaves their indelible mark, yet the record’s true power lies in the communal spirit at its core.
“This is a living and breathing collective,” says Avery. “Since the earliest recordings, Tremor felt like a studio in the sky, a space in time through which we could all pass as artists” he reflects. “It’s the welcoming spirit of acid house with the doors flung open wider still to allow in every influence from my musical journey: the warmth of distortion, the stillness inside intensity, the transcendental beauty of noise… They have always been there in my music but now it feels like those ideas are being transmitted in Technicolor. This is a record for the post-rave comedown kids, the guitar heads and anyone else who wants to come along for the ride. Everyone is welcome.”
Tremor will be released by Avery’s new home of Domino on 31st October.
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Aiken Promotion proudly presents
CLARA LA SAN
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Opium Live • Tue 7 Apr 2026 2025 • 8:00pm
Renowned for her richly personalised, effortless style of hook-rich songcraft, Clara La San is a composer, producer, and singer who has developed a resounding reputation for writing and arranging songs that feel instantly familiar and timeless, with a distinctly fresh appeal.
The 2023 self-release of her single In This Darkness earned her solo sound 100s of millions of plays on streaming services, pinpointing her status among the prized songwriters of her generation.
Whilst her music is patently steeped in a holistic listening of myriad musical strands – from early 00’s R&B to contemporary rap instrumentals – she braids her influences with inspirations from cinema scores and up-to-the-second sound design to express a singular style of soul for the 2020s and beyond. This palpable sense of classically emotive but modernist production is matched by a rare ability for realising top line vocal melodies, layered in blushing harmonies that instantly imprint on the memory and have kept her growing and devoted fanbase, including many other artists and peers, returning for more.
Clara La San deploys her enviably natural feel for extended melody at the service of telling stories borne from lived experience. Her discreet, observant skill at divining sensual poetry from everyday life has only grown in stature since early guest vocal appearances prompted her to front her own mixtape, Good Mourning, co-produced with Jam City and released in 2017, since deleted from DSPs – only adding to the mysterious allure weaved across her persona.
Subsequent songwriting credits for the likes of Yves Tumor and Bicep have proven her range and unleashed Clara La San’s confidence in a solo sound that speaks to her maturity and dare-to-differ approach to working in the music industry.
Clara La San’s debut album Made Mistakes finely balances a renewed conviction in her solo sound with an empathetic vulnerability that identifies her as equal parts R&B siren and elder sister to a generation of young women who are increasingly taking control of their agency, finding their place in the world.
Somewhat shadowy and avoidant of the spotlight previously, with Made Mistakes we are opened up not just to her music, but the whole Clara La San audio-visual world, finally unlocked for fans to interpret and ultimately lose themselves in.
From any perspective, Clara La San’s is a remarkable story of biding one’s time, trusting instincts and never forcing oneself to “play the game”. Her strategy, like her music, is a rare example of swerving tricks or stunts in favour of allowing flavours to enrich and come to fruition in their own time. The result is an artist and sound whose music resonates and gratifies timeless needs and feels, whilst entirely emblematic of her generation.
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€25.90 available online from Whelanslive.com
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DME Promotions proudly presents
FULL OF HELL
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Opium Live • Thur 9th April 2026 • 6:00pm
Full of Hell burst forth with incredible force from the small, dagger-shaped city of Ocean City, Maryland, 15 years ago. Over five full-lengths, five collaborative full-lengths, and countless splits, EPs, singles, and noise compilations, they’ve evolved at extraordinary speed, their music becoming more complicated and technical without ever slowing down or losing its soul. Everything on a Full of Hell album feels like a blur: smears of guitar, harsh noise shaken like gravel in a bag, singer Dylan Walker’s snarl and bite carrying him into outer space or into the core of the earth. They’re coiled, interlocking, impossible to penetrate, and they move with alarming speed.
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DME & MCD Promotions proudly presents
BLACKBRAID
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WINTERFYLLETH + NOCTEM
Opium Live • Sat 11 April 2026 • 6:00pm
Blackbraid is an American black metal project from the Adirondack Mountains, New York, formed in 2022. The project is the solo endeavor of its creator, Jon Krieger. Krieger is Native American, and is also known by his pseudonym Sgah’gahsowáh, a Mohawk name meaning “the witch hawk”.
Blackbraid’s formation was first announced on February 7, 2022. Krieger was by that point a lifelong musician and had previously been involved informally with friends’ projects, but Blackbraid is both his first serious project and his first solo one.
Blackbraid is part of the growing indigenous black metal scene in the United States. The project’s first single, “Barefoot Ghost Dance on Blood Soaked Soil”, was released shortly after on February 13, 2022. The song’s lyrics allude to historical events such as the Wounded Knee massacre, which took place in 1890, and the more recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests of 2016. A second single, “The River of Time Flows Through Me”, was released on March 16, 2022, and deals with the passing and fluidity of time. Blackbraid’s debut album, Blackbraid I, was released on August 26, 2022. Krieger, a multi-instrumentalist, wrote and tracked the entire album apart from the drums, which were tracked by his friend Neil Schneider. Schneider also recorded, mixed, and mastered Blackbraid I. The cover art was done by Adrian Baxter.
The album melds conventional black metal with elements of traditional indigenous music, such as the Native American flute, and acoustic interludes. It was released to general critical acclaim, featuring on Rolling Stone’s Best Metal Albums of 2022 list, Metal Injection’s list of best underground metal albums of 2022, and Decibel’s Top 40 Albums of 2022 list. Following its independent release on Bandcamp, it reached #1 on the website’s metal chart and charted at #2 across all genres, in addition to being named one of the site’s best metal releases for August 2022.
Blackbraid announced its first full tour in spring 2023, as part of the Decibel Magazine Tour (presented by Metal Blade Records) and in support of Dark Funeral, Cattle Decapitation, and 200 Stab Wounds. It also announced festival appearances at Hellfest 2023 and Copenhell 2023.
Krieger has stated that a second album would be forthcoming in 2023, which would be “an expansion of the sound developed in the first album” and into which he plans to incorporate more native instrumentation. In April 2023, it was announced the band’s second album, Blackbraid II, would be released on July 7.
Blackbraid II was released on July 7, and received further acclaim, with many critics considering it to be an improvement over its predecessor.
Musically, Krieger has cited Dissection, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Opeth, Enslaved, Wolves in the Throne Room, Panopticon, Immortal, Bathory, and Mayhem as influences.
Lyrically, Krieger deals primarily with the themes of Native American history and connection to nature. Blackbraid I contains lyrics referring to genocide of indigenous peoples; of the track “Barefoot Ghost Dance on Blood Soaked Soil”, Krieger said, “This song is about the suffering and genocide of my people all across these continents, and our resistance to it. I think in my head I was loosely writing about the Wounded Knee Massacre when I started but it quickly evolved into something much broader. It is definitely a war song.”The single’s cover art features American photographer Edward Curtis’s 1908 photo “Sun dance pledgers–Cheyenne”. Krieger has also used other Curtis photographs on Blackbraid merchandise, including “Kutenai Duck Hunter” and “Atsina Warrior”.
However, Krieger has also been clear that Blackbraid is primarily an emotional outlet for him, saying, “I think music can be a powerful weapon no matter how it is used. Obviously, I would like to see strides towards decolonization made, but when it comes to Blackbraid, the project is largely just an outlet for my own emotions and is not politically oriented whatsoever.”When asked whether he saw Blackbraid as resistance against far-right politics in black metal, he stated, “Obviously I hate nazis and consider them to be the biggest cowards on Earth, I’d happily beat a nazi’s ass any day but I’m not going to let the fact that they play music ruin black metal for me either.”Blackbraid’s music is “anti-Christian in nature”, but “also not really about Satan”.
Krieger views Blackbraid as a project that can help listeners reconnect with nature and help him explore his own relationship with nature: “For some Indigenous people, they think nature is ours, but I think it belongs to everyone, though Indigenous Americans really do seem to be more connected with it…And it doesn’t take much to enjoy nature. You just need to open your eyes. You’re already connected; you’re just actively ignoring that connection. I think with Blackbraid, that’s really what I want the music to do. I don’t really need to educate people because they already know it’s there; they’ve just forgotten, and I want Blackbraid to kind of reawaken things they may not think about every day.”
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MCD proudly presents
SLEEPER
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Opium Live • Sat 18th April 2026 • 7:00pm
Britpop icons, Sleeper announce a headline Opium, Dublin show as part of the ‘Inbetweener’ greatest hits tour –18th April 2025. The tour celebrates 30 years of their classic single and top 5 Debut Album, ‘Smart’.
Tickets from €38.65 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale NOW! Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50)
Sleeper enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in the mid 90s with their debut album ‘Smart’ reaching number 5 in the UK album charts. The band went on to achieve 8 Top 40 singles across 3 Top 10 albums with well over 1,000,000 sales. They garnered front covers across the music press and appeared numerous times on key music shows of the time; including Top Of The Pops; an episode of which Louise Wener presented.
Sleeper enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in the mid 90s with their debut album ‘Smart’ reaching number 5 in the UK album charts. The band went on to achieve 8 Top 40 singles across 3 Top 10 albums with well over 1,000,000 sales. They garnered front covers across the music press and appeared numerous times on key music shows of the time; including Top Of The Pops; an episode of which Louise Wener presented.
Together, the band have toured to sell-out crowds in the UK, US and Japan and played the main stages of Reading and Glastonbury. They toured with Blur, supported REM at Milton Keynes Bowl and toured the US with Elvis Costello, who later recorded a version of their top ten hit, What Do I Do Now?
Their music is characterized by astute, observational lyrics and big, hook driven melodies. Wener was an iconic front-person, heading up a movement that brought women centre stage in guitar music.
Sleeper split In 1998 and walked purposely away from the limelight. Wener carved out a career as a successful novelist, publishing her auto-biography, Different for Girls in 2010. Sleeper re-formed in 2017 – releasing top 20 album The Modern Age in 2018 – produced by long-time collaborator, Stephen Street. They’ve played numerous sell-out tours since their comeback, including dates at Shepherd’s Bush Empire and the Roundhouse and summer festivals including Latitude and Tramlines.
Speaking about the upcoming tour, Sleeper front woman, Louise Wener says “Inbetweener is where it all started for us – our first hit single – and we can’t wait to head back on tour to mark the 30th anniversary. Sleeper gigs are a joyful experience, and this tour will be especially celebratory; mixing songs from our entire back catalogue as we head into something completely new.”
Sleeper Irish tour dates
April 17th 2025 Cyprus Ave, Cork / April 18th 2025 Opium, Dublin / April 19th 2025 Limelight, Belfast
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