Highlights: Knockanstockan, Big Bang Festival’s Owiny Sigoma Band, She Keeps Bees, Adebisi Shank, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Vodafone Comedy Festival’s Reggie Watts & Summer Lightning III. 

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:

• Saturday July 28th: Delorentos acoustic show @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
• Friday July 27th –  Sunday July 29th: Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes
• How to enter - Email  your full name, your preference of gig in the Subject line and phone number to freebies@nialler9.com before 6pm the day before the gig to enter.

Tuesday July 24th

• She Keeps Bees, Drunken Boat, Slow Skies @ The Workman’s (€8)
• Madonna @ Aviva Stadium (€55 up)
• Dr John & The Lower 911 @ Vicar Street (€40)
• Ruby Sessions: Little Green Cars, Gypsies On The Autobahn, Orla Gartland & Lauren Aquilina @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)

Wednesday July 25th

• Choking Victim, Chewing On Tinfoil @ Whelan’s (€10)

Thursday July 26th

• Sam Amidon, Lisa O’ Neill @ The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (€17.60)
• Katie Kim, Margie Lewis @ Odessa Club (€10)
• Ginnels, Forming @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
•  Low Profile,Jambo and Willa Lee @ The Pint Bar  (€7.50)
• The Thomas House is 1: Jogging, Screaming Demons Of Trashville @ Thomas House (€TBC)
• The Minutes, Dead School @ Leopardstown Racecourse (€15, 8.30pm)
• Vodafone Comedy Festival: Reggie Watts, Alex Horne, MC David O’Doherty @ Iveagh Gardens (€28)
• RM Hubbert, The Driftwood Manor, At Last An Atlas @ The Grand Social (€11)
• Forward/Slash: Come On Live Long, Bantum @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
• Musicmaker: EatenByBears, Hill Valley @ Hard Rock Café (Free)
• White Collar Boy presents Polydroid, The Wazp @ Pygmalion (9pm, Free)
• Junior Spesh: !Kaboogie Soundsystem, Ickis Morolo & more @ Twisted Pepper (€7, 10.30pm)

Friday July 27th

• Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day, (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day  WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
• Adebisi Shank, Enemies @ Button Factory (€10)
• David Kitt: Small Moments @ The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (€18.70)
• Skinny Wolves presents: Ships, Last Days Of 1984 with David Kitt and Elastic Witch DJ sets @ Project Arts Centre (€10, Free into DJ sets)
• Sensoria: Rainfear, Margie Lewis @ The Joinery (€8, BYOB)
• Jon Hopkins & King Creosote @ Vicar Street (€23)
• The Spook Of the Thirteenth Lock, Melodica Deathship, The Glimmermen @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
• The Bonny Men, Mossy Nolan @ Whelan’s (€8)

Saturday July 28th

• Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day, WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
• Summer Lightning III: Thread Pulls, Dark Room Notes, Ana Gog, Skinny Wolves, Lamont/Bailey/Wall & more @ Temple Bar Galleries (€10, BYOB)
• Delorentos acoustic show @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (WIN TICKETS)
• Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Melodica Deathship, Turning Down Sex, Roland Volapuk, Fag Enablerz  @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€7 before 10.30pm, €11 after)
• Nick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra,  Stephen James Smith @ Unitarian Church (€8)
• Blockbusters: From Avatar to X-Men @ National Concert Hall (€various)
• Big Bang Festival: Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor & Róisín Elsafty @ Button Factory (€15)
• Subject: Ben Sims, 2562, Redahan, Ickis Morolo, Lorem Ipsum @ Twisted Pepper (€13/15, 10.30pm)

Sunday July 29th

• Big Bang Festival: 100 Drummers @ Stephen’s Green Band Stand (Free, 3.30pm)
• Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day  WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
• 12 Sundays: Boat Party @ The Grand Canal (3pm, Free)
• Listen At Lilliput: Natasha Lohan, Alexis Nealon, Rachel Ni Chuinn and Gavin Prior @ The Lilliput Press (€7/5 concession)
• The Thomas House is 1: The Minutes DJ Set @ Thomas House (€TBC)
• Bodytonic & Big Bang Festival Present: Owiny Sigoma Band @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
• Stag’s Head Raw Sessions: Slow Skies @ The Stag’s Head (€8)
• PiL @ Button Factory (from €29.30)

Monday July 30th

• Nothing yet.