Glasshouse Perform Sigur Ros - Cyprus Avenue

What to Expect

Glasshouse performs the music of Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros at Cyprus Avenue in Cork city centre on Friday 16 October 2026. Rather than a standard tribute act, this kind of show reinterprets the source band’s atmospheric, orchestral-leaning material with a live ensemble, leaning into the layered, slow-building soundscapes that define Sigur Ros’s recorded work. It is a listening show more than a party gig, built around dynamics, texture and volume swells rather than singalong choruses, and Cyprus Avenue’s room with its close stage and decent sound system suits that kind of immersive performance well. Expect a set that moves through quiet, ambient passages into much louder, wall-of-sound peaks, in keeping with the source material’s reputation for emotional intensity. A Friday night booking suggests a strong turnout from fans of post-rock and ambient music specifically, drawn to Cork for a genre of live show that does not come around often.

Repertory shows built around a single influential act’s catalogue have become more common on the Irish live circuit as a way of bringing large-scale, atmospheric material into smaller rooms than the source band would typically play. For an act known for building entire albums around slow dynamic shifts, a close, standing-room venue can make those swells land with unusual force compared with a bigger, more distant arena setting.

Good to Know

• Date: Friday 16 October 2026, doors from around 8pm
• Venue: Cyprus Avenue, Caroline Street, Cork city centre
• Ticket price: €25, booking through Eventbrite
• Ensemble show, standing room
• Central location, easy walk from St Patrick’s Street

Getting There

Cyprus Avenue is on Caroline Street, just off Patrick’s Street in Cork city centre, within walking distance of the main shopping district and city-centre car parks.