Super Furry Animals and Guests Announced for The National Museum of Ireland
By Super Furry Animals
With Special Guests
Baxter Dury and Really Good Time
Live At the National Museum of Ireland
Collins Barracks, Dublin
Subject to venue licence
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Gates 6pm
Over 16s only, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
Tickets: €63.20
(subject to booking fee + service charges)
On Sale Friday, 30th January at 10amFrom ticketmaster.ie and singularartists.ie
Super Furry Animals with special guests Baxter Dury and Really Good Time for next year’s Wider Than Pictures concert series, taking place at The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin on Sunday, 30th August 2026.
Tickets are €63.20, subject to service charges. General on-sale begins from Friday, 30th January at 10am from ticketmaster.ie and singularartists.ie Artist pre-sale begins from Wednesday, 28th January at 10am from ticketmaster.ie
Super Furry Animals with special guests Baxter Dury and Really Good Time is the fifth show to be announced for 2026’s Wider Than Pictures concert series, which will be entering its fifth year next summer:
Returning in 2026 with their first tour in over a decade, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS re-open the door into their world of ageless, multicolour melody and offbeat phantasia after a decade of rest and recouperation.
An unchanged line-up since day one (save for the loss of original singer, Rhys Ifans, to a glittering Hollywood career), the Furries reunite as the instantly recognisable Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Daf Ieuan, Guto Pryce and Gruff Rhys for another journey into memories and magic.
First emerging in 1995 after their signing to Creation Records, the band grabbed headlines for their unusual promotional tactics, including the famous Super Furry Animals Tank, giant inflatable bears, Yeti costumes and the inevitable Yeticide that followed. Releasing their debut, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, the band alchemised an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences, cutting a resilient shape all their own amidst the headrush of nineties and noughties guitar music.
Their first UK Top Ten album, Radiator cemented the band into the echelons of bona fide indie dance floor classic band, while their following seven, adventurous long-players added many more indie-psych-pop jukebox standards to universal cultural consciousness. Unmissable on stage as well as off, Super Furry Animals finally return to celebrate over thirty years as a band in the bright days of spring 2026, following the reissue of their much-loved 2005 album, Love Kraft in October 2025.
How did the tale of Baxter Dury’s latest, greatest album to date, his masterpiece, begin? Serendipitously…
It was Sunday June 28, 2024, and Baxter had just stepped from a rapturously received set on The Park Stage at Glastonbury Festival. After towelling himself down, a familiar figure approached him backstage. It was Paul Epworth (Florence + The Machine, Glass Animals, Paul McCartney, U2, Adele) the lauded producer/songwriter whose creations have draped themselves across the airwaves of the 21st Century more successfully than any other Briton.
Together they dreamt up Allbarone’s nine-track tour-de-force, stripping everything away and building Baxter’s most melodically direct, futuristic collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and January.
Baxter Dury is not prone to self-congratulation or the prideful boast. He does not humble brag. He describes his accomplishments with the air of a man awaiting the other shoe to drop. Nevertheless, even he knows that Allbarone is the album of his career so far. Push him hard enough, he’ll almost say so himself.
“I don’t want to say it’s contemporary,” he summarises.“Because I sound like a cunt using that word. But it does sound really contemporary. It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really.” Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming: “I’m top of the world!”
The band Rolling Stone describes as “intent on living up to their name”, Really Good Time are a Dublin band that sound like the ‘Vertigo’ era of U2 covering Viagra Boys, or early Pixies and LCD Soundsystem records in a blender with some cheap speed.
Their music toes the line between noisy and melodic, weird and anthemic. In their four years of existence, their mission has always been about finding ecstatic release within a crowd of bodies, moving together amidst waves of amplification.
The band began as friends, meeting many years ago while sharing small stages and warm beer, playing with different acts within Dublin’s close-knit music scene. As they started playing together, a set of guiding principles emerged: if something isn’t immediately exciting, discard it or speed it up; if there’s ever a concern that something is too cheesy/poppy or too weird/noisy, eliminate that worry by leaning into it; if a song doesn’t feel like it would be unbelievably fun to gig, it isn’t for this band.
Since then, they have sold out headlines in Dublin, independently toured the UK, built a loyal following around a live show like bottled lightning and released a string of singles and videos that have firmly established their own world of art-rock bravado. In this world, it makes perfect sense for an emerging act to declare themselves the greatest band on earth and to give their second music video a red carpet premiere at a local pub.
Since then, they have sold out headlines in Dublin, independently toured the UK, built a loyal following around a live show like bottled lightning and released a string of singles and videos that have firmly established their own world of art-rock bravado. In this world, it makes perfect sense for an emerging act to declare themselves the greatest band on earth and to give their second music video a red carpet premiere at a local pub.
Releasing their debut EP Escape From the Mountain of Spit in 2023, the EP and lead single received high praise from Steve Lamacq (BBC), drawing favorable comparisons to early QOTSA and The Walkmen on his roundtable review. This coincided with the band taking to larger stages at home and abroad with prominent festival slots and support for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, The Murder Capital, and The Scratch.
Really Good Time are having one, and they emphatically wish for you to join them.
Super Furry Animals with special guests Baxter Dury and Really Good Time play the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin on Sunday, 30th of August 2026, as part of the Wider Than Pictures concert series (subject to venue licence).
About Wider Than Pictures
Wider Than Pictures is fast becoming a staple of summer in Dublin. Taking place in one of the most easily accessible and visually stunning locations in the city, The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, the venue’s historical courtyard provides unparalleled sound for the diverse roster of world-class live acts curated by promoters Singular Artists. In a review of 2023’s Wider Than Pictures closing concert by Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand, The Irish Times observed, “The sound is perfectly contained within the courtyard of Collins Barracks”. Now in its third year, Wider Than Pictures has played host to headliners such as First Aid Kit, YUNGBLUD, The Vamps, Mick Flannery, Future Islands, Franz Ferdinand, Alt J, Thin Lizzy Orchestrated, Simply Red and Fleet Foxes. Singular Artists prides itself in championing local talent, and this support is never more evident than in the incredible Wider Than Pictures support line-ups, with the likes of Pillow Queens, Susan O’Neill, Really Good Time, Sprints and more having played previous iterations of the series
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About The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History located at Collins Barracks is one of Dublin’s most impressive, historic sites. This former military barracks is home to two fascinating and completely diverse collections. Decorative arts encompasses silver, ceramics, glassware, furniture, clothing, jewellery, coins and the Eileen Gray collection, while the military history collection tells of Ireland’s military and revolutionary past. The museum offers a year-round programme of workshops, talks and tours for all ages and a changing programme of temporary exhibitions on historical and contemporary themes with free admission.
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