{"id":678762,"date":"2026-11-08T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678762\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:08:21","slug":"watch-kingfishr-play-surprise-pop-up-gig-in-cork-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678762\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kingfishr play surprise pop-up gig in Cork City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish band Kingfishr took to the streets of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/cork-news\/\">Cork<\/a> for an impromptu gig ahead of their European tour, which kicks off this month.<\/p>\n<p>The band played four songs on Oliver Plunkett St, having already played short sets in Galway and Limerick on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The band will also play a gig in Dublin on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kingfishr have toured extensively since their formation in 2022, and released their first album last year. They most recently played in Cork last summer when they <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41861247.html\">kicked off the Musgrave Park (Virgin Media Park) 2026 summer series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The band, consisting of Eddie Keogh (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica), Eoghan &#8216;McGoo&#8217; McGrath (banjo, guitar, backing vocals) and Eoin &#8216;Fitz&#8217; Fitzgibbon (guitar, backing vocals), <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41690811.html\">spoke to the Irish Examiner last year<\/a> about their rise to top of the Irish indie folk scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI just knew that if we didn\u2019t do this now, we never would,\u201d Keogh said. \u201cI wanted to be able to go to bed every night and know that we\u2019d tried. And like\u2026 More people win the lottery than achieve what\u2019s happened to us. This doesn\u2019t just happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish band Kingfishr took to the streets of Cork for an impromptu gig ahead of their European tour,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113418,79,93,61,60,278,52345],"class_list":["post-678762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-video-life","tag-cork-news","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}