Arthur’s Day kicks off this evening at 5.59pm, starting a huge night of live music across Dublin. The venues Tripod, Vicar Street, Whelans and The Academy will be hosting the larger gigs but 28 pubs in the city will also feature performances. Each pub venue will also feature one or two surprise special guests which will not be announced in advance of each performance. Eighteen of these shows are sold out but there are ten pub venues with limited tickets still available via Ticketmaster.

The announced acts are as follows:

Bruxelles – Jay Jay Pistolet, Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
The Odeon – Dirty Epics, General Fiasco
Hogans – Born Blonde, Oppenheimer
Oliver St John Gogarty – Born Blonde, David Kitt
Sin É – Concerto For Constantine, Dirty Epics
The Temple Bar – Johnny Flynn, Lumiere
South William – David Kitt, The Infomatics
Flannery’s – Cherbourg, Concerto For Constantine
Brogans – Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Cherbourg
Dakota – The Chakras, The Chapters
Caf̩ en Seine РLeopold, White Belt Yellow Tag
O’Donoghue’s – Sharon Shannon, The High Kings
Pygmalion, Powerscourt Town Centre – Hoarsebox, The Chapters
Market Bar – Golden Silvers, Mick Flannery
Spy – Oppenheimer, The Infomatics
The Foggy Dew – Noise Control
Dicey Reilly’s – The Chakras
Eamonn Doran’s – White Belt Yellow Tag, Noise Control
The Baggot Inn – Leopold,Nat Jenkins
The Stags Head – Johnny Flynn, General Fiasco
The Auld Dubliner – Jay Jay Pistolet, Lumiere
Mulligan’s – Fiona Melady, Mick Flannery
The Palace Bar - Fiona Melady, Sharon Shannon
Doheny & Nesbitt – Eoghan Colgan, Nat Jenkins
The Church – Spring Break
The Bank on College Green – Hoarsebox, The Coronas
The Village – Golden Silvers, The Coronas
The Brazen Head – Eoghan Colgan, The High Kings