The biennial Diatribe Stage returned to New Music Dublin in 2026, inviting 26 performers for eight concerts in The Cube at Project Arts Centre, including 2 album launches and 7 world premieres, as well as sculpture by visual artists Rory Tangney and Terry McInerney, and an installation by architects Donal Lally and David Capener exploring the limits of the QR code as a modal intersection between physical objects and musical ephemera.
April 2024 saw us return to the National Concert Hall for the third edition of our biannual Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin, Ireland’s largest contemporary music festival.
This time around The Diatribe Stage left its legendary birthplace in Room 103 and presented six concerts across multiple spaces, incorporating a mobile set design installed by artist Rory Tangney with additional sculpture by Serhiy Savchenko.
The Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin is our chance to play a part in Ireland’s largest contemporary music festival, held in the National Concert Hall each spring.
Following the sold-out success of our first outing in ’20 we returned to the foray in ’22 with a fresh batch of eight new records and a live recording.
“Over the last few festivals the Diatribe label has carved out a niche for itself as the late night purveyor of cutting edge jazz and experimental music. This year was no different.“
Adrian Smith
The Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin is our chance to play a part in Ireland’s largest contemporary music festival, held in the National Concert Hall each spring.
Of our 2020 foray, the Journal of Music made us blush with:
“While director John Harris’ resistance to imposing overarching themes in favour of a freewheeling variety was responsible for a great deal of last year’s success, this year’s event did weave a thread through the festival by handing over a space to the Diatribe label led by Nick Roth and Matthew Jacobson who curated five concerts of music by artists who demonstrated the astounding range and cutting-edge nature of the label’s output. This positive move pushed up the edginess of the festival by a couple of notches although there still remained plenty for those with more mainstream tastes.“
Adrian Smith
Éiríocht is an international series presenting New Music from Ireland as a radical alternative to perceived notions of ‘Irishness‘.
Seeking out landmark global venues for experimental music, Éiríocht affords audiences a wide-angle overview of Ireland’s vibrant new music scene, foregrounding collaboration between Irish artists and their contemporaries in each locale.
Éiríocht launched as part of the Culture Ireland GB:18 Programme at The Vortex, London.
