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music · Sunday 6 September 2026 · 8:00pm 
Sigur Ros at Bord Gais Energy Theatre
At Bord Gais Energy Theatre · Grand Canal Square, Docklands, Dublin 2
At Bord Gais Energy Theatre · Grand Canal Square, Docklands, Dublin 2
Sigur Rós are one of the very few bands that make grown adults cry in seated theatres, and not from sadness. The Icelandic post-rock group have spent three decades building music that behaves more like weather than song - slow, immersive, overwhelming. Two nights at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in September 2026 mark the closing leg of their orchestral world tour, and for many people in Dublin these will be the last chances to see this particular show. If you have been on the fence, get off it.
This is not a standard rock concert. Sigur Rós are performing with the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ames, drawing heavily from ÁTTA (2023) - their first album in nearly a decade, built around orchestral arrangements with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The setlist also digs into their wider catalogue: songs like Hoppipolla, Svefn-g-englar, and Glósóli that many people have never heard outside headphones. Hearing them played live with a full orchestra in a 2,100-seat theatre is a different thing entirely.
The band reunited with keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson in 2022 and this tour has already played the Royal Albert Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Rome’s Sala Santa Cecilia. The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre - designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and opened in 2010 - is a fitting room for it: an all-seated venue with good acoustics and sightlines from every level. The show is seated throughout. Bring whoever is the most emotionally open person you know.
The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre sits on Grand Canal Square in the Docklands, a 15-minute walk from the city centre or a short hop on Dublin Bus route 151, which stops near the Convention Centre. Cross the Samuel Beckett Bridge and the theatre is right there on the waterfront. The Luas Red Line also serves the area - Spencer Dock is the nearest stop. If you are driving in from outside the city, there is parking at the Grand Canal Square multi-storey but it fills on event nights, so leaving the car at a park-and-ride and coming in by Luas is the easier call.
The Docklands has changed a great deal in the past twenty years and is worth a walk before the show - the Grand Canal waterfront has good restaurants and bars within a few minutes of the theatre. There is more to see in Dublin and across Co. Dublin.
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