CHRISTIAN WETHERED
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ELAINE O’DEA
Little Whelan’s • Fri 13th February 2026
Christian Wethered [pron. wether-red’] is a poet and songwriter based in Dublin. His debut album, ‘Mon Petit Jardin’, featured in Hotpress’ top folk albums of 2021. His songs have been broadcast on RTE1, RTE Culture and TodayFM. He most recently played at Hot Press’ Y&E, The Ruby Sessions, Electric Picnic, Ireland Music Week and First Fortnight. Recent exposure saw him play the MainStage at Beyond the Pale Festival, as well as a series of gigs through Selective Memory, where he supported Hayden Thorpe of Wild Beasts, amongst others. This year the music video for his single ‘La Madeleine’ won ‘Best Music Video’ at the Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival, and is also an ‘Official Selection’ for the Prague Short-film Festival 2023.
His poetry and spoken word has featured in RTE Culture, Southword, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, The Moth and The London Magazine. A selectee for Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, he has earned funding from Arts and Disability Connect and Poetry Ireland. In 2020 his poem ‘M1’ accompanied David Fox’s An Altered Land at the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin. He has been anthologised in Writing Home, Local Wonders and The Book of Life (all by Dedalus Press). In 2022 he was selected to read for UCD Library Special Collections. In 2024 he came in second place in the Southword Subscribers Poetry Competition.
As a music and poetry critic he writes the folk column for The Goo and regularly contributes reviews and features to The Line of Best Fit, Totally Dublin, KLOF Magazine, Poetry Wales, and PN Review.
“A poet turned musician – or, perhaps, the opposite, Christian Wethered is a delicate, slow-burning artist who explores life through his lens, with subtle songwriting and poetic lyrics.” – NME / Dublin Gazette
— James Hendicott (NME / Dublin Gazette)
“Mon Petit Jardin operates in a much more intimate, contained world. There are also touches of Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, as Wethered explores a world that straddles both stark vulnerability and grandeur’” – Lucy O’Toole
— Hotpress
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TICKETS
€12 available online from Whelan’s – 50c per ticket service charge applies.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required
AFTER THE GIG
Whelan’s Silent Disco from 10:30pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best (€5 cover charge), plus Late Bar