Kerbdog – have just announced their headline show in the iconic 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin

Hailing from Kilkenny, the legendary band which include – Cormac Battle (guitar/vocals), Colin Fennelly (bass), Billy Dalton (guitar) and Darragh Butler (drums) are excited to bring news to their loyal fans. Kerbdog have just announced their headline show in the iconic 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Saturday 31st October 2026.

“For reasons that allude me, 2025 has been a very busy year for Kerbdog on the live front (Forest Fest, touring with Kaiser Chiefs and Reef to name a few), so it’s time to take a break from it all…… However, with our album “On The Turn” heading towards 30 years in existence (We’re in mega denial about this fact) we’ve decided to do a live rendition of the entire record, but just a once only in Ireland, on Saturday 31st Oct 2026 at Dublin’s beautiful 3Olympia Theatre.

We’ll be playing tracks that were rarely if ever played live, so there’s proper homework to be done!!!!. Naturally, we’ll be doing the other “hits” too and other surprises you’ll hear about in due course. We hope that you can come and join us for this occasion from wherever you may dwell, it’ll be a very special night in very special place. Cormac x”

About Kerbdog

Kerbdog rapidly rose to fame in the mid-90s with and were set to rock the world with their eardrum battering melodies which were a clash of indie and metal. Battle’s songwriting nous married with simple, dropped D riffs with a pop sensibility had A&R managers from around the world seeking to sign the band. They relocated to London and signed with Mercury Records and the four decamped in the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their debut album with Jack Endino, the producer responsible for Nirvana’s debut Bleach. 

“We were fans of that album, but we enlisted him after we’d heard what he’d done on Push, an album by a little-known Seattle band called Gruntruck,” says Battle. “We went to the studio where Queen did Bohemian Rhapsody and worked very hard on the album and put in the hours. Brazilian metal titans Sepultura were recording there at the same time and we could hear their album Chaos AD coming together. I think some of what they were doing seeped into what we were doing. It made the record heavier and chunkier than we intended, but we were happy with the results.”

Their 1993 eponymous debut was impressive enough and spawned four singles, hitting a sweet spot in a Venn diagram marked metal and grunge. Their follow-up, On The Turn, saw the band truly find their feet, and they spent the full summer of 1995 in Los Angeles in the legendary Sound City Studios and A&M Studios working hard to craft their next set of hit singles with producer Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine).

Unfortunately, Kerbdog were unlucky with timing and after an unbelievable summer in LA and a potential hit record waiting to be released, their return to Ireland saw fate conspire against them. Their album was delayed and when it was released in 1997, mainstream music press’ attention had moved on from alternative rock to Britpop. Their momentum was lost and effectively changed the trajectory of the band which struggled to fill venues and resulted in the then trio parting ways. “To cut a very long story short, On The Turn was the right album at the wrong time,” says Battle. 

Kerbdog’s loyal fans however have kept the faith over the decades and fans of alternative rock who had bought their albums, raved about their music with an evangelistic vigour. The band became a cult concern years after the fact, thanks largely to On The Turn. Although the band split in 1998, they reunited in the mid-2000s for several live shows which resulted in the 2014 live album Congregation…and their story continues…….

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3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
Saturday 31st October 2026
Doors 7pm
U14s must be with adult 18+
Tickets on sale Friday 21st November at 10am

TICKETS €32.50-€38.15 (INC BOOKING FEE & VENUE RESTORATION LEVY) • TICKETMASTER.IE