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22 Oct 2025

Treats in store for the music lover at Dundalk Gaol

Array of great acts coming to the Oriel Centre, Dundalk Gaol over the coming months

Treats in store for the music lover at Dundalk Gaol

Picture House to perform in the Oriel, Centre Dundalk Gaol on Saturday 7 December

Reporter:

Donard McCabe

05 Nov 2024 8:59 PM

There's lots of treats in store for the music lover with an array of great acts coming to the Oriel Centre, Dundalk Gaol over the coming months.
First up is Mark Geary on Saturday 9 November. With five studio and three live albums, touring and live performances are in Mark's lifeblood. Mark Geary has featured on bills with musicians as diverse as Glen Hansard, John Prine, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay and The Frames plus extensive headlining tours in Europe, the US and Switzerland.
Kicking off the Christmas season, Nineties indie pop group Picture House, who shot to fame with hits such as 'Sunburst' and 'Heavenly Day', will perform in the Oriel Centre Dundalk Gaol on Saturday 7 December.  At the height of their fame, Picture House toured with the Saw Doctors and supported Bon Jovi in Dublin, duetted with Meat Loaf and shared a stage with Texas and The Corrs.
With a voice that that has been said could melt icebergs at 50 paces, Briana Corrigan of The Beautiful South will make a very welcome visit to the Oriel Centre Dundalk Gaol on Saturday 22 February 2025. Belfast born Corrigan is best known for delivering Beautiful South’s most successful single, the chart topping, No1, Brit award winning A Little Time where her unique vocal and Paul Heaton’s brilliantly acerbic lyrics and catchy melody combined to create an unforgettable anthem to broken love. 
With only three Irish dates on their tour in 2025, The Vaselines, a band that Kurt Cobain called his favourite songwriters in the whole world, to The Oriel Centre stage on Saturday 22 March 2025. The Vaselines were formed in Glasgow in 1987 by singers/guitarists Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee.
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain regularly cited the Vaseline’s influence in interviews with the music press and Nirvana would go on to cover the Vaselines' ‘Molly's Lips’ and ‘Son of a Gun’ as well as perform ‘Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam’ on their legendary MTV Unplugged appearance.
Tickets for each of the shows are available from www.orielcentre.ie or The Oriel Centre Reception.

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