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Behind the scenes of Kilkenny Roots Festival 2026📸

Here’s a glimpse into what the weekend looked like through the lens of FoxEyeView🦊

Grateful to have been part of it🎶

#kilkennyrootsfestival #foxeyeview #behindthescene #livemusic #visitkilkenny

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

Sold out Kilkenny rodeo 🤠

Thanks for selling out our first rodeo in Kilkenny, Partners 💋

Big love and praise to @cameonoisepromotions for hosting us and to @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ for blowing the barn doors wide open 🚪

Now that we’re incredibly famous and big in Kilkenny we’ll be sure to bring this roadshow back to town 🐴

📸 @black_mantra_photography

MAYhem presents.....
DAN TIERNAN
Cleere's, Kilkenny
Thurs. May 14th, 2026

🎟 Tickets at MAYHEM.IE

What’s MAYhem?

MAYhem is a brand-new comedy festival running right through May in Kilkenny — a natural (and probably long overdue) next step after more than 30 years of Cat Laughs. We’re really excited to get this up and running. People always say the festival is over too quickly, so this is about stretching that feeling out: more nights, more shows, and something happening every evening across six fantastic venues in the city centre.

It’s all stand-up — a mix of familiar names and brilliant new voices — playing in intimate rooms across Kilkenny, where comedy is always at its best. No big plan needed. Drop in after work, grab a pint, and catch a show. Come once, come a few times, or just see where the month takes you.

Kilkenny audiences are famous for a reason, and there’s nowhere better to experience live comedy. MAYhem simply gives that energy more room to breathe. And thanks to the support of Kilkenny County Council, there are no booking fees — just great value, every day in May!

#mayhem #johncleeresbar #cleereskilkenny #kilkennycomedy #keepdiscovering

TONIGHT @ CLEERE'S
PRESENTED BY CAMEO NOISE PROMOTIONS
UNCULTIVATES
SUPPORT BY WRECKLESS TONY, NECROTIZED

OH I DO LIKE THAT.

⚠️LOW TICKET ALERT⚠️

UNCULTIVATES are a group of riff-totin’ cowboys from Southern (Ireland) Texas. Mathy post-hardcore is the name of their business, and let me tell ya partner, business is good. Despite only being around for a hot minute, this gang of unlawful citizens has quite the rap sheet. Their convoy has already traveled the breadth of the UK and Ireland with other well known bandits such as Gama Bomb, Hundred Year Old Man, Mastiff, Party Cannon and Codespeaker. UNCULTIVATES put on a hardcore rock-rodeo in every town, city and saloon they visit. Patrons of such events can expect riffs, ruckus, and to leave with less teeth than they showed up with. UNCULTIVATES have done all this with just one bullet in the chamber. In 2024 they released their debut single ‘SECOND RODEO’, which got all the fine folk hootin’ and a hollerin’ for more. Now they’re back with a fully loaded revolver, their debut album ‘This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution’. Due for release on February 6th via HORSEBOX Records. UNCULTIVATES ain’t afraid of getting their hands dirty, and recorded the entire album themselves. They were assisted with the mixing and mastering by the fastest platinum disc slinger in the north-west, Joe Clayton (Conjurer, Ithaca, Underdark)

⚠️LOW TICKET ALERT⚠️
C.W. STONEKING
Cleere's, Kilkenny
Sat. June 6th, 2026

Last tickets are at www.cleeres.com

C.W.Stoneking fell in love with the blues when he was in his teens. Born in Katherine, in Australia’s remote Northern Territory, CW was the son of an American school teacher with a passion for music. He vividly remembers being eleven years old and stumbling across ‘Living With The Blues’, an early blues compilation, in his father’s music collection.

Soon his curiosity led him to Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James and Bukka White, gospel blues, Chicago blues, ragtime, Hokum blues, with each sub-genre revealing more amazing music. It seemed like there was an endless universe of blues to explore, one that was much more interesting to Stoneking than the mundane world of late ’80s pop that was all around him at the time.

#cwstoneking #cleereskilkenny #livemusickilkeny #kilkennymusic #johncleeresbar

⚠️LOW TICKET ALERT⚠️
C.W. STONEKING
Cleere's, Kilkenny
Sat. June 6th, 2026

Remaining tickets on sale now at www.cleeres.com

C.W.Stoneking fell in love with the blues when he was in his teens. Born in Katherine, in Australia’s remote Northern Territory, CW was the son of an American school teacher with a passion for music. He vividly remembers being eleven years old and stumbling across ‘Living With The Blues’, an early blues compilation, in his father’s music collection.

Soon his curiosity led him to Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James and Bukka White, gospel blues, Chicago blues, ragtime, Hokum blues, with each sub-genre revealing more amazing music. It seemed like there was an endless universe of blues to explore, one that was much more interesting to Stoneking than the mundane world of late ’80s pop that was all around him at the time.

#cwstoneking #cleeres #johncleeresbar #livemusickilkenny #kilkennymusic

🚨70% OF TICKETS SOLD🚨

Tickets are moving fast for tomorrow night’s @uncultivates show @johncleeresbar 🔥

Support from @reckless_tony_official and @necrotized_ ❤️‍🔥🤘❤️‍🔥

🎟️ Remaining tickets available from link in bio

TONIGHT @ CLEERE'S
RÓISÍN 'O
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT

#roisino #cleeres #johncleeresbar#gigskilkenny #livemusickilkenny

ON SALE NOW
DUKE SPECIAL
CLEERE'S, KILKENNY
THURS. NOV. 19TH, 2026

TICKETS AT WWW.CLEERES.COM

By nature, Duke Special (aka Belfast’s Peter Wilson) is a curious person. He is curious about music, theatre, books, poetry, art, love, life, redemption, death and 78RPM records. All of this is evidenced by the variety of musical adventures throughout his career. He has released 17 albums and EPs, toured all over the world and has been involved in a diverse array of other projects, including writing the music for Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed 2009 production of Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s National Theatre and being commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to write a series of original songs based on photographs for their exhibition of the photographers Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand.

#dukespecial #cleeres #livemusickilkenny #gigskilkenny #johncleeresbar

🚨THIS SATURDAY - 60% SOLD🚨

@uncultivates are bringing their album tour to Kilkenny on Saturday - 9th May

Support from @necrotized_ and @reckless_tony_official

3 bands - €10 ticket ❤️‍🔥

📍 Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny
📅 Saturday, 9th May 2026
🎟️ Tickets available from link in bio

#kilkenny #irishmetal #metal

⚠️LOW TICKET ALERT⚠️
MIKE JOYCE
ORIGINAL DRUMMER WITH THE SMITHS
IN CONVERSATION

THE LAST TICKETS ARE ON SALE AT -
WWW.CLEERES.COM

As a band, The Smiths need no introduction. Formed in 1982 and disbanded in 1987, all five of their studio albums reached the top five in the UK charts. They are widely lauded as one of the most influential bands of all time.

This is Mike’s open-hearted story of what it was like to play the drums in The Smiths. Throughout his honest and witty reflections, Mike answers the question ‘where did it all go right?’ – a question he and bassist Andy Rourke, with whom he had a deep and very special relationship, used to often ask each other.

Rather than simply retelling the well-documented iconic moments of the history of The Smiths, in The Drums, Mike conveys ‘the feeling’ of his time in the band. His off-piste, frank perspective allows him to recontextualise the canonised stories with beautifully vulnerable, human insight. His story willresonate with the millions of Smiths fans who will rejoice in joining Mike in his love and admiration for the band that changed lives and provided such rich inspiration to the musicians that followed them.

Mike’s honest, entertaining and deeply human memoir truly conveys what it felt like to be a member of The Smiths, when you are the self-confessed biggest Smiths fan in the world.

Mike Joyce said: ‘I’ve been asked numerous times, ‘What was it like being in The Smiths?’ That’s one hell of a question to answer! On most occasions, my answer’s been, ‘Have you got a couple of days to spare?’ It felt like going into any detail to explain what it was really like would be impossible. The only way it seems to do that would be to commit to paper. It’s been quite a journey going back forty years to re-live some of the experiences encountered during my time with the band. I hope readers feel I’ve answered that question.’

To celebrate the publication of his memoir, Mike Joyce will be heading out this November for a series of special events.

#cleeres #cleereskilkenny #thesmiths #thesmithsfans #livemusickilkenny