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Britpop icons Sleeper – have announce ‘Inbetweener’ greatest hits tour and are to play Dublin

Britpop icons, Sleeper announce a headline Academy, Dublin show as part of the Inbetweener’ greatest hits tour – Tuesday 16th September 2025. The tour celebrates 30 years of their classic single and top 5 Debut Album, ‘Smart’.

Sleeper enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in the mid 90s with their debut album ‘Smart’ reaching number 5 in the UK album charts. The band went on to achieve 8 Top 40 singles across 3 Top 10 albums with well over 1,000,000 sales. They garnered front covers across the music press and appeared numerous times on key music shows of the time; including Top Of The Pops; an episode of which Louise Wener presented.

Sleeper

Plus Special Guests

‘INBETWEENER’ greatest hits tour

Saturday 29th November 2025

The Academy, Dublin

Doors 7pm

18+

MCD Pre-sale Tuesday 25th March 2025 @ 10am

General on sale Wednesday 26th March 2025 @ 10am

Ian Mc Donnell

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