The annual Reeperbahn Festival is Europe’s largest club festival and international platform for pop culture, transforming Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn into a hub for the global music scene | 16–19th September 2026.

This year emerging Irish artists will be performing at the festival, supported by Music From Ireland. More details about the times and locations of these performances coming very soon.

Irish Artists

Bleech 9:3

BAs if hurled out of a time machine, Bleech 9:3 burst onto the Irish underground music scene last year. No one knew the four Dubliners – yet their sound evokes memories in everyone that are hard to pin down at first. Listen closer though, and you’ll soon realise: flashes of Nirvana shine through here, there’s that raw, gritty energy from the early nineties, and in the background the alternative rock of the noughties gets revived with a heavy dose of world-weariness.

Wednesday 10.20PM-11.00PM

Dermot Henry

Dundalk’s Just Mustard blend gothic post-punk, dreamy pop, and shoegaze into a sound that defies expectation. From their debut Wednesday to Heart Under (2022), they’ve earned critical acclaim, and it’s time for their 2nd Reeperbahn performance.

Friday 10.20PM - 11.05PM

Madra Salach

Straddling the line between tradition and experimentation, Madra Salach have forged their own unique artistic path. Against a backdrop of campfires and starry skies, this Dublin-based sextet crafts magnificently rugged songs that couldn’t care less about conventional structures of verses and hooks. Even after their first brilliant singles “I Was Just A Boy” and “Blue & Gold” (2025) last year, it wasn’t just in Ireland that everyone agreed: here we are witnessing something truly great unfolding and developing before our very eyes.

Thursday 10.30PM - 11.30PM