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music · Saturday 18 July 2026 · 7:30pm 
Pixies at 3Olympia Theatre
At 3Olympia Theatre · 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2
At 3Olympia Theatre · 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2
Forty years on from their formation in Boston, the Pixies remain one of the few bands from their era that genuinely sounds like nothing else. Their 2026 P40 anniversary tour brings them back to Dublin for a night at the 3Olympia Theatre - a room that suits them perfectly. This is not a greatest-hits cash-in on a stadium stage; it is a proper gig in a proper theatre, with a band that still plays with the same jagged intensity that made them extraordinary in the first place.
The P40 tour setlist runs deep. On previous nights of this run the band has opened with rarities and covers before hitting the catalogue hard - Debaser, Wave of Mutilation, Here Comes Your Man, Motorway to Roswell, Gouge Away, Bone Machine, Vamos, and of course Where Is My Mind? closing things out. Black Francis’s voice is as primal as ever; Joey Santiago’s guitar still sounds like it is being played at the wrong speed in the best possible way. Kim Shattuck’s absence is felt, but Paz Lenchantin has been holding the bass chair with authority for over a decade now.
The 3Olympia holds around 1,300 people and was built in 1879 - it has the Victorian bones of a music hall, with balconies, cast-iron columns, and sightlines that mean there is not a bad spot in the house. At this scale you hear the band clearly and feel the room respond. Expect a set of roughly 25 to 30 songs, running around 90 minutes.
The 3Olympia is at 72 Dame Street in Dublin 2, right in the city centre. It is a five-minute walk from Trinity College and about ten minutes on foot from Heuston Station if you come in by Luas Red Line. The DART to Pearse Station puts you eight minutes away on foot. Buses on the Liffey quays and along Dame Street itself serve the area well. If you are driving in from outside Dublin, parking is available at several city-centre car parks near Christchurch and along the quays, but city-centre parking on a weekend evening fills early - arriving by public transport is the easier option.
Dame Street sits at the edge of the cultural quarter - the Olympia’s immediate neighbourhood takes in Temple Bar, the Chester Beatty Library, and Dublin Castle, all within ten minutes on foot. There is more to see in Dublin and across Co. Dublin.
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