Highlights: It’s Electric Picnic week so that’s the big one this week.
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Tuesday August 28th
- Ruby Sessions: Rubyworks special @ Doyle’s (€5, 9pm)
Wednesday August 29th
- Night of the Machines: Quiet Earth Parts 1+2: Nightmaker, The Wazp, Gentleboy @ Bewley’s Cafe Theatre (€8)
- Square Pegs : Chicago blues, the sound of 1950′s R&B and New Orleans big band @ The Odessa Club (€10)
Thursday August 30th
- Night of the Machines: Quiet Earth Parts 1+2: Polydroid, Colin JM, Steve McEvoy, Bouvetoya @ Bewley’s Cafe Theatre (€8)
- Codes, Maud in Cahoots @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
- Junior Spesh vs. All City @ Twisted Pepper (€8)
Friday August 31st
- Electric Picnic: Sigur Ros, The xx, Grizzly Bear, Azealia Banks and more @ Stradbally (€230 for weekend)
- String Theory Soundsystem LP Launch, Lex Woo, The Violent Roadkills, Skuzzi Port @ The Sweeney Mongrel (Free)
- Time Is A Thief @ Academy 2 (€6, 11pm)
- Glider @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Saturday September 1st
- Electric Picnic: The Cure, SBTRKT, Grimes, Caribou vs. Four Tet, Kimbra, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie & more @ Stradbally (€230 for weekend)
- Phizzfest: 3epkano @ Broadstone Hall, Phibsborough (€12)
- Searching For Sugarman @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 6pm)
Sunday September 2nd
- Electric Picnic: Hot Chip, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Bat For Lashes & more @ Stradbally (€99 Sunday ticket)
- 12 Sundays: Platinum Ray @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, All day)
- Silence @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 6pm)
Monday September 3rd
- A day of rest. Be with your loved ones.
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.
Any idea when the stage times for EP will be announced?