The Crackdown Cat
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The Crackdown Cat
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Hello. I am a cat who maintains an idiosyncratic and occasionally updated Dublin listings spreadsheet called The Crackdown. Whenever I update it I post a link to it here.
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And this is how I finally realise there are tabs...!
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Other events include exhibition openings, interesting talks, Simon Price discussing The Cure, a table quiz, etc.
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
New theatre additions include Smock Alley's Scene + Heard series, an online performance of M.R. James' A Neighbour's Landmark, The Sailor's Dream (Franklin voyage related), Wilde's An Ideal Husband, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lear's Shadow (a one man adaptation of King Lear), etc.
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Newly added gigs include:

Gavin Friday
Lisa O'Neill
Natalia Beylis & Aine O'Dwyer
Music Current Festival
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke
Adrian Crowley
The Cosmic Dead
pôt-pot
NCH Student Gamelan groups
NCH Gamelan Orchestra
The Beta Band
Andy Irvine
February 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Cheers!
January 31, 2026 at 9:53 PM
apparently both GOAT gigs are now sold out, so if you've only just heard of them you are too late.
January 31, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I forgot to include the Melania Trump film.
January 31, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Also some newly announced talks and performances at the Dublin Bowie Festival. And director Q&A screenings of It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley.
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Remember to tell your friends about the Crackdown.
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Newly added films include final chances to see Bugonia in the cinema, Sinners in the IFI following a talk on vampire liberation [/spoiler], Gus Van Sant classics To Die For and My Own Private Idaho, intense rabbit film Watership Down and William Friedkin's exploding truck fest Sorcerer.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Newly added gigs include two from the always interesting Enthusiastic Eunuch (Mike Cooper & Eugene Chadbourne), a second 2026 appearance from Super Furry Animals, a return to Dublin from Betty Boo (playing in Howth of all places), a Janacek opera, a goth club, etc.
January 24, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Might need to organise a group trip to London
January 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
There are other things. But I am very tired now.
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Also Gemma Dunleavy, Hugh Lane Gallery sunday afternoon concerts (not in the Hugh Lane Gallery), Playback doing their amazing Stop Making Sense show, February's Kaleidoscope night, etc. etc.
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
that should be the 2026-2027 season of The Dead. Doh.
January 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
And new theatre events include the London Lovecraft Festival (in London), the 2025-2026 season of Anú's staging of James Joyce's The Dead, and an online performance of an adaptation of M.R. James's The Haunted Doll's House.
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM