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music · Saturday 26 September 2026 · 19:30 
Karma Police - A Tribute To Radiohead
At The Spirit Store · Georges Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 NR79
At The Spirit Store · Georges Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 NR79
Radiohead’s catalogue is not easy music to reproduce. The guitar textures, the electronics, the strange time signatures - most tribute acts settle for a rough approximation. Karma Police do not. The six-piece Irish band draws on some of the most experienced session musicians in the country, people who have worked alongside Glen Hansard, Damien Dempsey, Sinéad O’Connor and James Vincent McMorrow. If you grew up with OK Computer or The Bends and never got to see Radiohead live, this is the closest you will get.
Karma Police cover the full span of Radiohead’s career, from Pablo Honey in 1993 through to A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016. Expect Creep and High and Dry early on, then the set darkens into Paranoid Android, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Pyramid Song and No Surprises. The show has been described as “spellbinding and true to the Radiohead sound,” which matches audience feedback from previous dates at venues like the Button Factory in Dublin and the Limelight in Belfast.
The Spirit Store holds around 200 people on Georges Quay, right on Dundalk’s inner harbour. The low ceiling and close stage create the kind of intimate pressure that suits Radiohead’s dynamic range - quiet to crushing and back again. The sound is reliably good and the crowd tends to know every word.
Dundalk is on the main Dublin to Belfast rail corridor. Dundalk Clarke station is about a 10-minute walk from Georges Quay. Bus Éireann services also stop centrally in Dundalk. By car, take the M1 motorway at junction 17 or 18; street parking is available around the quays in the evening, with multi-storey car parks a few minutes’ walk away on Clanbrassil Street.
The town has a decent food scene along Park Street - worth arriving early for a meal before doors open at 19:30. There is more to see in Dundalk and across Co. Louth.
Heading to The Spirit Store in Dundalk? Louth has plenty more to see. Read the Dundalk area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.