The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // March 4rd - 10th

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Ticket freebies this week:

• Wednesday: Shlohmo @ Twisted Pepper
  
• Wednesday: Bang! Chvrches DJ set @ The Pygmalion
• Saturday: Rob Heron and The Tea Pad Orchestra @ The Grand Social

How to enter – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number in the body of the message. Full info on each show below. Draw closes at 6pm the day before the gig.

Tuesday March 4th

• The Head and The Heart @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
  [Folk] Seattle Band. Support Paul Thomas Sanders.
• Picturehouse @ The Sugar Club (€12.50)
  [Pop] Elder ‘Sunburst’ Irish band back releasing records.
• Rufus Wainwright @ Vicar Street (€44.05)
  [Songwriter] Best of show.

Wednesday March 5th

• Kaleidoscope @ The Odessa Club  (€12)
  [New classical]  Bells and Whistles: Ensemble Eriu.
• Chvrches, SOAK @ Olympia Theatre  (SOLD OUT)
  [Electro pop] Glasgow band and Derry songwriter support.
• Damien Jurado @ Whelan’s (€20)
  [Folk] ‘Brothers And Sisters of The Eternal Son’
• Shlohmo @ Twisted Pepper (€12, #WINTICKETS)
  [Electronic] Bodytonic, Jr Spesh & Building Society present the excellent Shlohmo. His collab with Jeremih is the best.
• Bang! Chvrches DJ set @ The Pygmalion (€10/€8, 10pm, #WINTICKETS)
  [DJ] Full band DJ afterparty set plus Nialler9 DJ set.

Thursday March 6th

• Rescheduled: Mojo Gogo @ The Academy 2  (€11)
  [Rock] Donegal melodic rock. ‘4.20’ 
• WOB WOB WOB!  @ The Mercantile  (Free)
  [electronic] Featuring electro-pop Shima’s Dream, live drum and bass improv and Escape the Deadlights.
• Homeboy Sandman @ The Sugar Club  (€11)
  [Rap] Queens New York Stones Throw rapper. ‘Bad Meaning Good’
• Nina Persson  @ Button Factory (€22)
  [Pop] The Cardigans singer plays new solo music.
• Dylan Tighe and Sean Millar @ Bewley’s Cafe Theatre (€10)
  [Folk] Irish singer-songwriters.
• Leaders of Men @ Whelan’s (€7.50)
  [Rock] New single  ‘For Want of a Better Word’
• Mike Skinner DJ set  @ Whelan’s  (€12, 11:30pm)
  [Rap] The Streets man is also taking it to Limerick and Cork.
• Junior Spesh: Eliphino @ Twisted Pepper  (€10, 10pm)
  [House/garage] Listen to a live set.

Friday March 7th

• Homebeat: Cat Dowling, Monsenior, HAWK  @  Oxfam Home, Francis Street  (8:30pm, donation)
  [Bands] Celebrating 10 years of Oxfam Home.
• New Music Dublin Talks Programme @ National Concert Hall  (Free, various times)
  [Talks]  Discussions and talks every day featuring Roger Doyle, Hans Abrahamsen, Laurence Mackin and more til Sunday. See link for details.
• Young Hearts Run Free records night @ Project Arts Centre (10pm, Free)
  [DJ]  Cosy DJ set with Peter Toomey  and Siobhan Kane.
• Somadrone, Ellll @ The Joinery  (€10, BYOB)
  [Electronic] Neil O’Connor’s The First Wave / minimal electronica.
• Katie Kim, Owensie @ The Mart, Rathmines (€10/€7 student, BYOB)
  [Fundraiser] New studio/gallery space. 
• Afrobeat Ensemble @ The Grand Social (€10/€7, 9pm)
  [Funk] Dublin Tropical presents the afro-funk musical 14-piece band. Listen to their EP
• Gary’s Gang: Platinum Ray @ The Sweeney Mongrel (Free, 10:30pm)
  [DJ]  “Tough guy tracks for jackin’ dirtbags” apparently
• Movements & Dice: Finnebassen @ Button Factory (€15)
  [Dance]  Dirty melancholic house music from Norway
• Loefah, The R&B club’s R Kelly tribute @ Twisted Pepper (€12/€10, 10:30pm)
  [Dance] Headlined by Dubstep DMZ/Digital Mystikz man. Plus Frankie Grimes, Bobofunk, Suss DJs. 
• BP Fallon, Sinead Ni Mhorda @ Pacino’s (Free, 11pm)
  [DJs] Plus Colm Lynch / Watson ACE acoustic set.  

Saturday March 8th

• New Music Dublin: Icebreaker perform Kraftwerk Uncovered: A Future Past @ National Concert Hall (€20)
  [Tribute]  A live reworking of Kraftwerk music by J Peter Schwalm, with film by Sophie Clements and Toby Cornish.
• Saturday Soul/Disco Sessions  @ The Sugar Club (€5)
  [Soul] Featuring Richard Farrell, Onassis, Miss Kate & The Higher State, James Dennis & The Groove Garden
• windings/Land Lovers LP launch @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
  [Indie-rock] Launch of split LP which you can hear here
• Rob Heron and The Tea Pad Orchestra @ The Grand Social (€10, #WINTICKETS)
  [Americana]  “The UK’s finest purveyors of Western Swing, Ragtime & Hokum Blues”.
• State’s Faces of 2014: Carriages, Rocstrong, The Clameens @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
  [New] State Magazine’s monthly new bands night.
• Beyoncé @ The O2 (€82-€100 with fees)
  [Pop] The Mrs. Carter World Tour. She might be Queen Bee but those tickets are expensive. Plays 8th, 9th, 11th.
  
• Retro Revival: Gangs, Death In The Sickroom, Thieves & The Choir Invisible @ Sweeneys (€5, 9pm)[Rock]  New young rock bands.
• Hidden Agenda: DJ Koze @ Button Factory (€20, 11pm)
  [Dance] German producer whose Amygdala album last year was very good. Plays a 4 Hour Set.
  
• Enigma presents: Genius Of Time (Live) @ Tengu Bar, Yamamori Sushi (€12, 11pm)
  [DJ] The Berlin based Stockholm duo, Alexander Berg and Nils Krogh. Boiler Room
  
• All City/Movements: Jacques Greene (A/V show), John Heckle @ Twisted Pepper (10:30pm, €12/€10)
  [Dance] A/V show from Greene / 3 hour set from JH. Plus Conor L & Lunar Disko.
  

Sunday March 9th

• MURO Mini-Fest  @ The Generator, Smithfield (Free, Noon – Midnight)
  [DJs]Market, swap shop, workshops, live music (Jetsetter, Twin Headed Wolf), short films.
• 12 Sundays: Space Dimension Controller @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 8pm)
  [DJ] The interplanetary Belfast superfreak. 
• Beyoncé @ The O2 (€82 – €100 with fees)
  [Pop] The Mrs. Carter World Tour. She might be Queen Bee but those tickets are expensive. Plays 8th, 9th, 11th.
  

Monday March 10th

• Foxes @ The Academy (€11.75)
  [Pop] Popular on daytime radio. ‘Let’s Go For Tonight’
• HAIM @ Olympia (SOLD OUT)
  [Pop/rock] The LA sisters return for a victory lap.

Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent,  Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter,  and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.

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