7 Irish Artists at End of the Road 2025
Lisa O’Neill, Ellie O’Neill, Search Results & more are some of the Irish artists set to play End of the Road 2025 at the end of August.
End of the Road 2025
The time is nigh, the end is near but the summer season culminates in a high for End of the Roaders who head to Larmer Tree Gardens this weekend to spend four days celebrating alternative music, from Thursday 28th August until Sunday 31st. Last year featured an excellent array of Irish guests including Lankum, Sprints, Gurriers and the now uber, world famous CMAT. But what Irish artists are playing End of the Road 2025?
Lisa O’Neill @ The Garden Stage (Friday)
Cavan’s finest and one of Ireland’s truest voices is now a regular returnee to Larmer Tree Gardens, with O’Neill’s songs and stories tailor-made for the festival’s spiritual main stage, The Garden Stage.
Ellie O’Neill @ The Folly (Friday)
O’Neill #2 on the list, Ellie O’Neill has been touring continuously, from her own solo Spring sessions to taking her tunes to the fans of Adrianne Lenker and John Francis Flynn on high profile support slots as the Meath musician readies her debut album for all to hear. Brand new single Bohemia has just dropped. Listen below.
Carving dancers. high and mighty
look how the old is new
shifting forms, the greenest deity
Cailleach and Clothrú.
Bohemia by Ellie O’Neill
Search Results at The Big Top (Saturday)
Search Results get the chance to set The Big Top alight on Saturday afternoon, opening the rockier, more raucous stage at the Dorset festival. Having made waves at The Line of Best Fit’s Five Day Forecast when opening for Cardinals, expect an expectant crowd and lots of post-punk tunes from the band’s second record, Go Mutant. Then it’s back across the water for a full Irish tour.
Search Results September Irish Tour:
- Thu 11th Sept – Galway, Róisín Dubh
- Fri 12th Sept – Dublin, Whelan’s
- Thu 18th Sept – Limerick, Dolan’s
- Fri 19th Sept – Cork, Coughlan’s
- Sat 20th Sept – Waterford, Phil Grimes’
Muireann Bradley @ The Garden Stage (Saturday)
New kid on the block/old time guitar virtuoso. The Donegal teenager’s playing is timeless and her rendition of Elizabeth Cotten’s Freight Train alone makes The Garden Stage the most perfect setting to witness Bradley’s fret-work in action. New to Bradley but feel she may be a little familiar to you? The musician was on Jools’ legendary Hootenanny not so long ago.
Theatre @ The Folly (Sunday)
Ethereal shoegaze from Limerick. And there’s five of them (Sean Storan, Dara Gooney, Maeve O’Shea, Sonny Foy and Oscar Halpin). That’s about as much as many know about Theatre, whose mystique continues to grow as they say little online but a lot onstage as the fivesome continue to tour and write songs. While we await a first official release with bated breath, take this opportunity to tell people you saw Theatre before they were too big for (ahem) theatres.
Note: Keeping the End of the Road connection, Theatre open up for fellow EOTRers DIIV in Vicar Street, Dublin on 1st Septembers.
For Those I Love @ The Big Top (Sunday)
Described as “brutally beautiful”, electrified punk poetry from David Balfe (Burnt Out) will take The Big Top crowd on an emotional rollercoaster as the Dubliner returns with second record Carving the Stone just in time for the end of festival season. Those in attendance at Glastonbury earlier this year (or BBC watchers), may have caught the intense team-up with Overmono.
Mohammad Syfkhan @ The Big Top (Friday)
Coming to End of the Road from Syria-via-Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, Mohammad Syfkhan brings the bouzouki to End of the Road in 2025. Having first popped up on my radar when opening for (2024 Garden Stage headliners) Lankum in Cork Opera House in 2023, Syfkhan is sure to set The Big Top alight with joy on Friday evening.
End of the Road takes place in Larmer Tree Gardens, England from 28th August-31st August 2025.
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