HAUNTED DANCEHALL 2026

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Foggy Notions and National Concert Hall are proud to announce the return of Haunted Dancehall to Dublin on Saturday 24 October and Sunday 25 October — a convergence of world-builders, sonic visionaries, and boundary-breakers. Tickets on sale now.

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ear will be joining the bill for Sunday 25th October.

Based in LA, the two met at Bard College where they are currently studying. Their debut single, “Nerves” has reached over 800K streams on Spotify alone within its first year of release. Their debut LP, The Most Dear and The Futurewas released in 2025 and followed up in 2026 by the underground smash Rumspringa released on A24 Music.

IDM-indebted duo ear operates as a fifty-fifty collaborative art project. Their collage-like approach to production pairs experimental textures with the sentimentality and specificity of their songwriting.

Kelela brings her visionary new era to Dublin this October as headliner of Haunted Dancehall. Following the announcement of her third album new avatar via Warp Records, the boundary-pushing artist arrives with a sound that fuses R&B, distorted guitar and experimental club music into something entirely her own. Kelela continues to redefine contemporary electronic music through emotionally charged, futuristic songwriting and immersive visuals. Her Haunted Dancehall appearance promises an intense and intimate live experience from one of the most innovative voices in modern music.
 
Voice Actor is the enigmatic music project of-Sheffield-based artist Noa Kurzweil. Voice Actor’s discography includes the sprawling digital debut Sent From My Telephone (2022, STROOM) featuring 100+ tracks followed by the more curated Fake Sleep (2023, STROOM) and Lust (1) (2024, STROOM) with Squu. Voice Actor has established herself as one of contemporary electronic music’s most distinctive voices, blending her haunting, deadpan vocals with dream-pop, IDM, trip-hop, and lo-fi aesthetics with hypnagogic soundscapes. She has played in venues like the Barbican and ICA London, and festivals such as OUT.FEST in Portugal and MUTEK Mexico.
 
Proc Fiskal is a Scottish electronic musician and DJ based in Edinburgh. His focus is fwd-thinking, futuristic club and experimental music - revelling in extreme genre diffusion and the pushing of new phenomena across worldwide dance music. 2025 has seen Proc Fiskal launch his own label Shleekit Doss - spawned from the long running Edinburgh clubnight of the same name -  and release the EP, Canticle Hardposte, alongside an acclaimed video made in collaboration with Finn Rabbitt Dove for the track uHazsh.
 
Drawing influence from an eclectic array of sources, from surreal film, to the experimental edge of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Sonic Mook compilations, TURNSPIT have carved out a sound both cinematic and unpredictable.
 

Copenhagen-based duo  A Good Year is formed by Albert Hildebrand and Tobias Laust, reshaping together the edges of Denmark’s alternative scene with their blend of cinematic textures and understated pop. Their sound drifts somewhere between ambient pop, cinematic electronica, and textures songwriting – music that feels as visual as it does melodic with resonating wooden guitars dwell alongside a soft queen voice, paced by rimshots and hi-hats. Their breakout collaboration ‘YSL’ with Horse Vision (more than 200,000 streams on Spotify) and their latest single ‘Dealerz’ with Quiet Light, released at the start of October, marks the beginning of a warmer, more immediate chapter that’s still rooted in their characteristic sense of atmosphere.

 
Felicity J Lord does performances with lots of surprises.
 
Experimentation is at the core of Robocobra Quartet, whether it be in the fluid line-up (musicians tagging in and out to make up the live touring quartet) or in their unique approach to recording and writing in their hometown of Belfast, N. Ireland. The result is a collective of musicians inspired by Stravinsky and Dead Kennedys in equal measures. On stage, the band are protons and electrons circling drummer-vocalist Chris W Ryan; meticulous arrangements and on-the-spot improvisations hang on every word spoken, sung and shouted by Ryan. These words and rhythms are what propel the music of Robocobra Quartet forward and concoct a sound that is powerful but cerebral too, invoking the likes of Fugazi, Black Midi and Tortoise.
 
Dublin artist Nashpaints brings his atmospheric and genre-blurring sound mixing a wide range of styles connected through a shared sense of intensity and emotional weight. Formerly a member of PRINC€SS, Nashpaints has continued to evolve as a solo artist, crafting immersive music that balances experimental textures with raw feeling. His 2026 album “Everyone Good Is Called Molly” is a nailed on future classic gathering large international acclaim.
 
Irish techno experimentalist, DJ and producer Shampain brings his cinematic approach to close out Saturday night. Known for immersive DJ sets, flawless mixing and emotionally charged productions, Shampain has become a vital figure in Ireland’s underground electronic scene through his boundary-pushing sound and multidisciplinary creative work. Founder of FREAK Magazine and G TOWN Records, he moves fluidly between dancefloors, film, visual art and live performance, collaborating with artists across Ireland’s alternative music landscape.

 
Circuit des Yeux feat. Alan Sparhawk presents Nosferatu (1922)
Horror cinema's foundational text, this iconic classic of silent-era expressionism will be taken to a new, otherworldly realm with a hypnotic and haunting original live score by acclaimed musician Circuit des Yeux, accompanied by Alan Sparhawk of Duluth indie legends Low. F.W. Murnau's infamously unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula stars an unforgettable Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a ghoulish vampire who lures his victims to his shadowy Transylvanian castle. Authorized or not, Murnau's spooky masterpiece remains the definitive Dracula over a hundred years (and at least as many versions) later. Circuit des Yeux's recent albums have landed on numerous best-of-year lists, including The Wire and NPR. Her latest, Halo on the Inside, was released last year on Matador Records and received effusive praise from Pitchfork and The New York Times. "An artist who feels increasingly, thrillingly peerless" (Bandcamp Daily).

keiyaA makes music that excavates, discovers, and excavates again, all in the service of exploring life’s most beautiful and daunting questions: What do we owe to ourselves and others? How do the things we desire hint at the shape of our souls? What does it take to achieve peace of mind, especially when the world is intent on denying you of it? Why won’t you love me when I’m so damn easy to love? Her debut album, Forever Ya Girl, was genre-defying work of simultaneous self-discovery and self-determination. The production, which pulled from R&B, jazz, electronic music, and soul, was as limitless as the lyrics. As keiyaA grappled with these questions, she wove together genres and crafted a sound all her own: Her gossamer vocals cascaded and floated across slippery funk bass lines, pools of synth and reverb, and samples of Black cultural touchstones like Nina Simone interviews and snippets from Beyoncé tracks.

As one half of the pioneering band Low, Alan Sparhawk and his wife and lifelong creative partner Mimi Parker explored the force of powerful, gentle places by weaving together layering sounds, production, and emotion. Following Parker’s passing in 2022, fellow Duluth, Minnesota musicians Trampled by Turtles invited Sparhawk to join them on tour, and thus gave him a space to be surrounded by friends. Occasionally, he would join them onstage. In 2024, he released his first solo album, a haunting batch of mostly electronic anthems and éloges called “White Roses, My God.” Pitchfork wondered out loud how something so “blown out, staticky, inhuman” could simultaneously elicit “freedom” and “spiritual necessity” a combination that the last Low releases had been developing already. With his follow-up album, titled “With Trampled by Turtles” Sparhawk’s guitar work is once again at the forefront, the songs still beamed from a unique inner sanctum of one, then reshaped in full collaboration with the band.

thredd bring their emotionally charged “cold pop” sound to Sunday evening, blending atmospheric electronics, sharp songwriting and textured production into something both immediate and deeply immersive. Formed by Will Lister, Max Winter, and Imogen and The Knife during a now-legendary Laylow residency in West London, the trio quickly built a reputation for instinct-driven live performances and boundary-pushing songwriting. Following the release of their debut album It’s Lovely, Come On In (Scenic Route), thredd continue to carve out a distinctive space between experimental pop, club music and moody electronic abstraction.

feeo brings an intimate and experimental live performance, blending ambient electronics, drone, minimalist dance music and poetic songwriting into deeply immersive soundscapes. Centered around themes of connection, isolation and contemporary city life, the London-based artist’s acclaimed debut album Goodness (AD93) moves fluidly between improvisation and song, illuminated by haunting vocals and emotionally rich storytelling.

Colm O Ciosoig , a founding member of my bloody valentine and also founder of the warm inventions with Hope Sandoval is showcasing his new solo project, Scrata, blending organs, synths and drums. A highlight of 2026’s Festival for many.

Madeline Johnston is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, where she spent the last decade+ developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as “Heaven Metal,” AKA emotional music about devastation: catharsis. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.

Nigerian-born, Dublin-based artist E The Artist brings his explosive fusion of club music, rap and noise experimentation to Haunted Dancehall Festival. Renowned for intense and uncompromising live performances, E has built a cult reputation through visceral sets that collide jungle, grime and AfroPunk energy with elements of power electronics and extreme metal. Emerging from a period of personal reflection that shaped his latest body of work Six, his music channels themes of identity, mortality and diaspora through raw, high-impact sound. With support from underground innovators including Machine Girl and Kode9, E stands at the forefront of Ireland’s evolving experimental music scene.

Caitlin Orla Eve is an independent 24-year-old artist & producer from West Cork, Ireland. Composing, writing, producing, and mixing her own work, Caitlin brings her creative vision to life from concept to completion, fusing rich sonic textures and contrasting elements, making Caitlin's works feel like their own self-contained, atmospheric worlds.
 

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