Kíla

Some bands fill arenas.

Kíla fill the air itself.For over three decades, this seven-piece Dublin collective has been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets and greatest musical forces.

They are a band that defies genre, rewires tradition, and leaves audiences physically changed by their experience.Having played some of the world's most legendary stages, to audiences of thousands, tonight they play to fewer than two hundred.

This is that show.Rooted in the ancient pulse of Irish folk — uilleann pipes, fiddle, bodhrán, bones — yet propelled by djembe, brass, electric guitar and a restless, world-hungry imagination, Kíla's sound is unlike anything you will hear elsewhere.

It is furious and tender, primal and precise.

The jigs hit like percussion.

The melodies haunt for days.

Their IFTA award-winning film scores — for Cartoon Saloon's Oscar-nominated trilogy The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers — hint at their cinematic scale.

But nothing prepares you for the live experience.Eight years since their last gig in the city, Kíla return to Liverpool to one of the finest acoustic rooms in the country.

Every note will reach you.

Every rhythm will find you.

Kila's Gaeilge will transform you.This is rare.

This is intimate.

This is a band of genuine, extraordinary talent playing close up.Resonating with this year's festival theme, I Am Here, Kíla's deep Irish roots provide precisely the kind of night that grounds you in identity, purpose and place.

Don't miss it.

Truly, you won't get another chance like this.Ticket prices for this event include a venue restoration levy.