Garageland Ireland

16 years promoting and discovering new music

The Script, Ryan Sheridan, Kodaline, Delorentos, Villagers, Ham Sandwich, Niamh Crowther all started life on The Garage Gigs, and so can you.

We look after our artists, and our artists trust us.

We work with, educate and assist artists from the very early stages of development right through to the upper reaches of the musical journey, while also creating amazing opportunities for those same artists. We design, produce, manage and direct some of the most exciting music programmes ever seen in Ireland, and our roster is unparallelled in Irish Music History.

The Garage Gigs started in August 2000 – there were only meant to be 4 shows. We have helped over 5,000 unsigned acts – about 30,000 musicians, and that’s not including the thousands of young musicians on the Original Irish Youth Music Awards (The IYMAs), as designed and directed by Dermot Lambert during its heyday of 2007 to 2014, during which time the entire Irish music industry supported the programme.

We have run The Garage Gigs in almost every mid sized venue in Ireland and expanding into the UK in 2016. Some of these acts are really famous now, and we’re obviously delighted for them, but it’s the ones who are still trying, or just starting out, that we look after, so that maybe someday they can be acknowledged for their art too.