A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments. This post gets a lot of hits every week.
Highlights this week include Tune-Yards, Machinedrum, State vs. Dan Hegarty with Planet Parade and Bearbones, Le Galaxie, Grinderman, Krystal Klear and Retarded Cop.
Tuesday 14th June
- Ruby Sessions: The Young Folk, Tiger Cooke, Jane Willow, Dec @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Rua Unplugged: Mail Order Messiahs, Leanne Harte, Empty Trees @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- The Cult, The Minutes @ The Academy (€42.50)
- Declan O’Rourke @ Whelan’s (€23.50)
Wednesday 15th June
- The Cult, The Minutes @ The Academy (€42.50)
Thursday 16th June
- Bulmers Live at Leopardstown 2011: The Undertones @ Leopardstown Racecourse (6pm, €15)
- Hard Working Class Heroes launch: Toby Kaar, No Monster Club, Morning Claws @ The Grand Social (Invite required)
- Declan O’Rourke @ Whelan’s (€23.50)
- Seeping Into Cinemas, Sacred Animals @ Odessa Club (€10, 8.30pm)
- Let’s French Festival: Stranded Horse @ The Mercantile (€10)
- White Collar Boy EP launch, Bingo, Harbourmaster @ The Grand Social (9pm, €6)
- Chewn: Krystal Klear & more @ Pod (€5)
- The Jagermeister Freezer Sessions: General Fiasco, The Danger Is, The Shoos, The Kanyu Tree @ The Sugar Club (Free tickets)
Friday 17th June
- Mariem Hassan, Niwel Tsumbu 4tet Feat. Francesco Turrisi @ Twisted Pepper (€10/15)
- Dinosaur Pile-up @ The Academy 2 (€12.55)
- Le Galaxie album launch with guests @ The Workman’s Club (€6/€10 with album)
- State vs. Dan Hegarty: Planet Parade, Bear Bones, In Valour / Songs of Praise after @ The Mercantile (9pm, Free)
- Tune-Yards @ Whelan’s (Sold Out)
- !Kaboogie: Baobinga, Machinedrum @ The Grand Social (win tickets)
Saturday 18th June
- Body And Soul @ Ballinlough Castle, Co. Meath (Win tickets)
- Seeping into Cinemas @ Tower Records (6pm)
- Dublin Econo Blowout: Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Adebisi Shank, Tera Melos, Estel @ Button Factory (€12)
- Chewing On Tinfoil @ The Mercantile (€5)
- 6th Borough Project @ the Grand Social (10.30pm €TBC)
- Grinderman @ Vicar Street (€49.20)
- Retarded Cop, Hassle Merchants, Kill Kill Death Death @ Sweeney’s (€6)
Sunday 19th June
- Body And Soul @ Ballinlough Castle, Co. Meath (Win tickets)
- Wall Of Death: Gretta Gunn, Disk Jockeys, Micí Durnin, T-Woc (Alphabet Set) @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
- Grinderman @ Vicar Street (€49.20)
- Gomez, Little Comets @ Olympia Theatre (€26)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (FREE, 9pm)
Monday 20th June
- Paul Simon @ Vicar Street (€81.25)
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.
Come check out Cuckoo Savante frontman Jaime Nanci and his pet project “Jaime Nanci And The Blue Boys” every Sunday at 9pm in Welans. Free show, Old style swing blues taking on contemporary classics by The Cure, Blondie, The Smiths, Bananaram etc… Seriously good way to spend your Sunday evening.
“Jaime Nanci And The Blue Boys” also begin a new Thursday night residency in The mercantile bar tomorrow at 10pm. Free
show, Old style swing blues taking on contemporary classics by The Cure,
Blondie, The Smiths, Bananaram etc… Drop in and take a load off..
Free centre city concert at the Civic Offices Amphitheatre in Wood Quay on Sunday June 19 at 4.30 pm featuring The Saw Doctors