OE26 FINAL LINE UP ⚡️
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OE26 is supported by Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Failte Ireland, Creative Places West Cork Island and Resident Advisor 👏
OE26 NEW ADDITIONS! 💥 💥
We’re massively hyped to announce our final performances for 2026, all of which are Irish debuts!
EX LIBRIS Dave Huismans presents ex_libris. The man behind A Made Up Sound and 2562 returned last year as ex_libris, ushering in some of his finest productions to date, immersive strands of leftfield house and off-the-grid grooves that blew us away recently at Rewire festival in Den Haag.
EOMAC AND SAINT ABDULLAH 🌀 Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh unite with Irish producer Ian McDonnell in a transcontinental collaboration bridging cultural and geographical divides. “We exist to test the revolutionary possibilities within sound and sonic storytelling, as a means to finding a vision of the future and for building cultural dialogue today.”
ONE LEG ONE EYE & SMOTE 👀 - Ian Lynch & George Brennan come together with UK’s Smote for a very rare collaborative performance blending psychedelia, drone, trad and motorik rhythms. Gonna get heavy!
RABIH BEAINI 🦾 - aka Morphosis, Ra.H - this will be the first time Irish audiences are to be treated to a Dj set from the lauded Lebanese techno experimentalist
OE26 is supported by Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Failte Ireland, Creative Places West Cork Island and Resident Advisor ⚡️
OE26 FINAL LINE UP 🪸
One month to go!
graphics by @w______ren
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OE26 is supported by Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Failte Ireland, Creative Places West Cork Island and Resident Advisor 👏
Tickets are sold out but keep an eye on resales.
BUSES 🚎
FRIDAY ONLY
BUS TIMES:
Departing Custom House Quay Dublin 11am
Departing Patrick’s Quay Cork 2.30pm
Returning from Baltimore 1pm Monday ↩️
LINK ON RA TO BOOK €55 RETURN ✨🎟️
Likely to sell out and we may book a second but for now please head to link on RA to book.
ELIZA 🌹 @elizaroo___
Over the last decade Eliza has become one of the most revered DJs in Ireland with her signature intense blend of electro, EBM, techno, wave and acid taking hold of dance floors across the country and beyond.
In recent years Eliza has joined forces with Lolz and Maeve O’Neill for the Time in Body nights that have seen the likes of Radioactive Man, Anthony Rother, L.F.T. and Rob Hall play to enraptured crowds in both Galway & Dublin. Eliza is no stranger to Open Ear and we figured our 10th anniversary is as good a time as ever to have her let rip again on Banger Cliff.
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Banker moments 💕🫂 This time next month..
OE26 is supported by Arts Council of Ireland, Cork County Council, Failte Ireland, Creative Places West Cork Island and Resident Advisor 👏
LEGION OF ONE 1️⃣👆️1️⃣
Alan O’Boyle has, through a variety of projects including Decal, Legion of Two, Decoy and Of One, been one of the most prominent and influential electronic artists to emerge from Ireland, stretching back all the way to the mid ‘90s.
Decal were one of the first Irish electronic acts to be signed to an international record label, with Andrew Weatherall being one of their early supporters via the labels Sabrettes and Rotters Golf Club. Over the course of the last 30 years Alan’s music has traversed electro, techno, dub, noise, drum n’bass and abstract electronics.
For OE26 Alan will be presenting his Legion of One project, where bone-crushing dub meets soaring drones without ever dispersing of his keen, enveloping ear for melody, putting the pressure on the infamous Riseup! Soundsystem down the secret beach.
Whew.. not for the faint hearted 😉
T-WOC 🔸🔹
T-woc is an Irish producer know for working with wildly different sample sources, building psychedelic beats with records plucked from extended digging trips, mixed with analogue synths using classic dub studio techniques. His varied releases include Sentinelas an imagined soundtrack to a Brazilian children's storybook found in the same warehouse as the records sampled for the release. Not only that but Pantangle - 80's Caribbean drum machine workouts blended with Anatolian melodies played on steel pan.
Looking forward to a dance on the Island for this one!
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🌞 Days like today you can almost taste the salty sea air of Sherkin.. Hope everyone is out enjoying the sunshine. Not too long now..
Open Ear is supported by @artscouncilireland and @corkcountycouncil
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TWELFTH HOUSE 🏘️
Twelfth house is a project that came together in Bristol during the summer of 2025, comprising of Fohn (Tom Connolly, Quade); violin, guitar and electronics, Georgia Cusack (ATC, T.T.Vale); vocals & synths and Norman Church (Kinlaw & Franco, Pheasantry Society Bristol); Appalachian dulcimer & electronics.
The three musicians' paths converge at the crossroads of noise, improvisation and folk. The project's introspective intensity delves into lineage, land and lore. Displacement and the shifting sands of connection ebb and flow through the music, a fluctuating pulse of raw acoustic elements that swell into expanses of sweeping vastness. Folk elements reimagined through modern modulation and resonances that ache with the distortion of subdued mysticism.
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O.UTLIER 🎼 @outlier_rory
O.utlier is an Irish-born, UK-based electronic musician working at the intersection of patience, texture and rhythm. With an early background in classical music, his productions balance cerebral depth with physical weight- weaving electronics with acoustic elements and a precise, personal approach to sound design.Releases on Appian Sounds, Animalia and Shurale trace a spectrum from dub-inflected IDM to spacious, abstract techno, while his darker Pagan Red alias explores more experimental terrain. As co-founder of Titrate Records,he also develops long-form live electronic work and spatial listening projects.His DJ and live performances have taken him to festivals and listening spaces across Europe, where his sets move fluidly across tempo and texture, bridging the cerebral and the ritualistic.
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OE26 🌀🌞🌀
Little ol' us mentioned in Top 10 Festivals on RA Guide this week? 👏
Anyway, what a great t-shirt. 📸 @aimeestonescamera
Open Ear is supported by @artscouncilireland and @corkcountycouncil
#Openear26 #sherkinisland #alternativemusic #experimentalmusic #boutiquefestival #irishfestival #irishmusic #electronicdancemusic #IDM #OE26 #openear #openearfest #experimentalsounds #islandfestival #experimentalireland #failteireland
