James Blunt and the Dublin musicians I actually love

Aoife Byrne

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James Blunt's everywhere again — turns out the man who sang 'You're Beautiful' is busy being a quietly deadly strategist on Celebrity Traitors, and come March he's landing at the 3Arena on his Airplane Mode tour. Got me thinking about our own crowd here in Dublin, the musicians I'd cross the Liffey for on a work night — so here's the list, pharmacist's shift schedule be damned.

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James Blunt and the Dublin musicians I actually love — 3 items
Name	Genre	Venue	Address	City	Why I rate them
1James Blunt	Pop/soft rock	3Arena	North Wall Quay, Dublin 1	Dublin	Say what you want, 'You're Beautiful' still gets a whole arena singing — and fair play, the man's been grand craic on the telly too
2Hozier	Folk/soul rock	3Arena	North Wall Quay, Dublin 1	Dublin	Wicklow man, Dublin heart — that voice could sort out a bad day at the pharmacy in about four bars
3Lankum	Experimental folk	Vicar Street	58-59 Thomas Street, Dublin 8	Dublin	Properly haunting stuff — not background music for a gin and tonic, more a reason to put the glass down and just listen