Devin Townsend - Metamorphosis tour - Dublin/Belfast 29/30th August 2026

[Barnacle Billy]

I came away from this feeling a little disappointed and underwhelmed. The whole thing seemed hastily thrown together and unprepared. There was a lot of mistakes and trying to remember riffs which was funny at times but it stings to have paid £50 for what felt like a rehearsal, and that's without the £7 pints in Limelight. Playing the first 30 seconds of a song and then stopping and moving onto another song was annoying. I'd have preferred if one half was spoken word and the second half was a normal set instead of a mash of both.

Mein Gott 

[tonictitan]

Unfortunately £7 isn't far off the average price you'll pay in Belfast these days.

[Barnacle Billy]

Unfortunately £7 isn't far off the average price you'll pay in Belfast these days.

The biggest rock bar in Stockholm, my favourite haunt, is 55kr (€5) for a pint bottle of Tuborg Gold, and it's only 37kr (€3.60)if you're in before 6pm, weekends included.

[tonictitan]

The only real rock bar here, Voodoo, charges around £6.50 a pint. There's still a few places you can find a sub-5 pint but they're increasingly rare. There's always Wetherspoons where you can get a £2.40 pint of ale if you don't mind the sticky carpets/tables/seats/glasses etc

[Barnacle Billy]

The only real rock bar here, Voodoo, charges around £6.50 a pint. There's still a few places you can find a sub-5 pint but they're increasingly rare. There's always Wetherspoons where you can get a £2.40 pint of ale if you don't mind the sticky carpets/tables/seats/glasses etc

Yeah, I noticed the price of pints being steep in Belfast for a good few years now, when I was up for gigs...
God bless the days of the €3.50 pints of Guinness or Smithwicks in The Snug on Stephen's Street Upper in Dublin...
I wonder how much they are in there now? It was '18 or '19 since I was last in there

[Carnage]

Is that place behind/under Tara St. DART station still there? I can't remember the name of it, it was cheap in my day but a bit grim though.

[Pagan Saviour]

Isaac Butts? Think it's long gone?

[Carnage]

It wasn't that anyway, Mulligan's or Fitzpatrick's, something more obviously Oirish.

Ah it doesn't matter, I don't want to derail the thread.

Edit: O'Reilly's it was.

[G-Force]

I came away from this feeling a little disappointed and underwhelmed. The whole thing seemed hastily thrown together and unprepared. There was a lot of mistakes and trying to remember riffs which was funny at times but it stings to have paid £50 for what felt like a rehearsal, and that's without the £7 pints in Limelight. Playing the first 30 seconds of a song and then stopping and moving onto another song was annoying. I'd have preferred if one half was spoken word and the second half was a normal set instead of a mash of both.

Totally agree. There's no way I'd buy a ticket for a show like this again. Playing snippets of songs (and playing them badly to make matters worse), is a complete waste of time in my eyes.

[Brodent]

I came away from this feeling a little disappointed and underwhelmed. The whole thing seemed hastily thrown together and unprepared. There was a lot of mistakes and trying to remember riffs which was funny at times but it stings to have paid £50 for what felt like a rehearsal, and that's without the £7 pints in Limelight. Playing the first 30 seconds of a song and then stopping and moving onto another song was annoying. I'd have preferred if one half was spoken word and the second half was a normal set instead of a mash of both.

Went to the Ambassador show and these are my sentiments exactly.  This was an intimate, buddy experience for superfans - not a gig in the traditional sense.  To have enjoyed it fully, you would pretty much need to have followed his entire career from the beginning and been aware of his journey and personal battles in life. Being late to the Dev party, I had neither.  Charging €67+ for that type of show is disgraceful in my view.  But at least the €8.40 bubbly Guinness in a plastic cup cushioned the blow.

Finally getting to hear DT's voice live was great though.  When he did occasionally get into a song it felt extremely powerful and I left content at the end of it having witnessed Lightworker, (some of) Deep Peace and me oul' Home At Night in full - absolutely class!

On a side note, walking around the vicinity of The Ambassador (O'Connell Upper and Parnell St.) for the first time in over 20 years was shocking.  I'd heard the stories but its even worse than I could have imagined.