Highlights: Rhythm Weekender: First Serve, Onra, Hot 8 Brass Band & Hypnotic Brass, Cold Specks, Fennesz, Star Slinger, Stoneybatter BYOB nights, Bats, Maria & The Mirrors and Obey City.

This is the weekly list of recommended Dublin gigs taking place over the next seven days published every Tuesday. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend events not present in the comments below. If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter.

Ticket giveaways:

• Rhythm Weekender – full weekend pass  @ various venues
• Friday: Thread Pulls, Yximalloo, Withering Zithering @The Joinery (€8,  BYOB)
• Saturday: Cheap Freaks, The #1s, Sweet Jane, September Girls, Niburi, White Collar Boy DJs @ 27 Prussia Street
• Monday: Bedlam: Obey City @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
• How to enter - Email freebies@nialler9.com with your full name, the gig in the Subject line you’re entering for and phone number before 4pm THURSDAY to enter.

Day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon

Tuesday October 16th

• Leanne Harte, Morax, The Howyas, Siren Alley @ Whelan’s (€5)
  New Irish music night.
• Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
  Long running revered acoustic night.

Wednesday October 17th

• Cold Specks @ The Sugar Club (€14)
  Moving gothic choral folk lady.
• Cat Dowling @ Whelan’s (€8)
  Former Alphastates singer, new single ‘Cruel’.
• Strangeways: Goth Trad, Kieran Craddock, Ancient Alien  @ Lost Society (€12, 11pm)
  Japanese dubstep? Sure whatever you’re having yourself.
• Jacques Lu Cont, Star Slinger  @ The Academy (Free, Facebook registration)
  DJ sets for the launch of Absolut Unique.
• Marina and the Diamonds  @ Olympia (€27.50 – €30)
  Interesting artist now makes unimaginative pop music, plays bigger venues.

Thursday October 18th

• Rhythm Weekender: First Serve, Onra, Mixtapes From The Underground @ Meeting House Square (€25)
  De La Soul side project and the mighty Onra kick off the mini-festival.
• Forward/Slash Re-Launch: Simon Bird, Lemonada, Bantum, Adultrock DJ set @ Twisted Pepper (Free)
  Former Bernard Shaw night moves to the momma venue. R Kelly’s Trapped In The Closet will be shown too.
• E! Live: CFit, Heritage Centre, Modesto, Juliet’s Rescue @ The Mercantile (Free)
  Entertainment.ie hosts Irish bands for free.
• Laura Sheeran @ Odessa Club (€10)
  Experimental gothic classical artist.
• Junior Spesh: Peaks EP launch, We Arrive Alive, We Is Cloud @ Twisted Pepper (€7, 10.30pm)
  Live electronic duo launch free EP with support from two post rock bands.

Friday October 19th

• Thread Pulls, Yximalloo, Withering Zithering @The Joinery (€8,  BYOB, WIN TICKETS)
  12″ launch for ‘You Melt Words’ / ’5/8 Rhythm Here’.
• OneTwo OneTwo Music Documentary Festival @ The Lighthouse (from 7pm)
  Dig!  / Hits So Hard.
• Daithí and Elaine Mai with Rachael Boyd @ The Workman’s (€8)
  Promising young Galway musicians team up.
• Monster Hero presents: Catscars, Woven Skull, I Heart The Monster Hero, Skinny Wolves DJs @ 27 Prussia Street (€10, 9pm, BYOB)
  Alternative BYOB bizness in Stoneybatter. Also amazing artwork. 
• Rhythm Weekender: Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators, Hot 8 Brass Band @ Meeting House Square (€20)
  Live soul and brass. Support from North Strand Kontra Band.
• Maria & The Mirrors @ Whelan’s (Free, 11pm)
  Batshit crazy tribal noise UK trio. Promises to be “fucking wild”. 
• Swamp81: Loefah, Mickey Pearce, Subrewind DJs @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
  Once-off night feat. Loefah and the label that brought us records from Boddika, Joy O, and Addison Groove. 
• Rhythm Weekender: Onra (DJ set) Nu Bromantics @ The Grand Social (€5, 11pm)
  Afterparty DJ sets.

Saturday October 20th

• Fennesz, Cian Nugent, Withering Zithering, visuals by Donal Dineen @ Unitarian Church (€12)
  Considered experimental, ambient and acoustic music performed on an altar.
• OneTwo OneTwo Music Documentary Festival @ The Lighthouse (from 2pm)
  A Joyful Slog, In Bed With Madonna, Sound It Out, Stop Making Sense.
• Bats, Turning Down Sex, No Spill Blood @ Whelan’s (€10/ €15 with LP)
  Science-obsessed rockers launch album 2: The Sleep Of Reason.
• Communion: Traz, TJs, Sons Of Caliber, Boat To Row @ Academy 2 (€8)
  Folk night with bands from UK, Ireland and Australia.
• Autumn Owls @ The Grand Social (€10/€15 with CD)
  Post CMJ album launch for the indie-rock trio.
• Cheap Freaks, The #1s, Sweet Jane, September Girls, Niburi, White Collar Boy DJs @ 27 Prussia Street (€10, 9pm, BYOB, WIN TICKETS)
  Two Stoneybatter BYOB alt gigs in two nights? This is the rockier of the two.
• Rhythm Weekender: Derrick May @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 11pm)
  4 hour set from the Detroit leg-end.
• Rhythm Weekender: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Dublin Afrobeat Ensemble @ Meeting House Square (€22.50)
  Do these guys live here now?

Sunday October 21st

• Rhythm Weekender: Taylor McFerrin @ The Bernard Shaw (6pm)
   Brainfeeder man’s show
• OneTwo OneTwo Music Documentary Festival @ The Lighthouse (from 2pm)
  Not Dead Yet, No Distance Left To Run, The Devil & Daniel Johnson, Searching For Sugarman.
• 12 Sundays: Shane Mannion @ The Bernard Shaw (5pm)
  Sunday shenanigans.
• You Kiss By The Book, Derrick Devine @ The Stag’s Head (€6/€10 with album)
  Family Tree launch party.

Monday October 22nd

• Bedlam: Obey City @ The Workman’s Club (€8, WIN TICKETS)
  Brooklyn trap producer.