The Bjorn Identity: ABBA Tribute at The Landmark Hotel

What to Expect

The Bjorn Identity is an ABBA tribute show built around the fiftieth anniversary of Dancing Queen, and the Carrick-on-Shannon date brings it to The Landmark Hotel on the Sunday of the October bank holiday weekend. The production leans on the detail: real-life couples in the line-up to recreate the onstage chemistry of the original Swedish four-piece, full costume changes, choreography, and a replica of Benny Andersson’s spinning white piano.

The music runs to about two hours and covers the group’s best-known songs, with the whole event listed at three and a half hours including doors, interval and the wind-down afterwards. BBC Radio Ulster’s assessment was that it looks like ABBA and sounds like ABBA, and audience feedback quoted by the promoter picks out the costumes, choreography and voices. This is a stand-up and dance kind of night rather than a seated recital, and the hotel’s function room fills quickly at the front once the first few numbers land.

Good to Know

• Date: Sunday 25 October 2026, the Sunday of the October bank holiday weekend
• Time: 8pm to 11.30pm
• Venue: The Landmark Hotel, Shannon Lodge, Carrick-on-Shannon
• Promoted by MCC Events Ireland, with tickets sold through Eventbrite
• Refunds are available up to seven days before the event
• Around two hours of music within a three and a half hour event
• The hotel has accommodation on site, worth considering for a bank holiday night

Getting There

The Landmark Hotel is at Shannon Lodge on the eastern approach to Carrick-on-Shannon, beside the bridge over the River Shannon and a couple of minutes’ walk from Main Street. The town is on the N4 Dublin to Sligo road, roughly two hours from Dublin and forty minutes from Sligo, and the hotel is among the first buildings you pass coming in from the Dublin side. There is a car park at the hotel. Carrick-on-Shannon railway station sits on the Dublin Connolly to Sligo line within walking distance, and Bus Eireann’s Dublin to Sligo coaches call in the town, though Sunday evening services are thinner than weekdays.