Highlights: Sea Sessions, We Are Losers / RunAround Kids, Hot 8 Brass Band, Paul White & Mo Kolours, Forza Italo and Ships at Forward/Slash.
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:
- Thursday June 28th: Choice Cuts: Hot 8 Brass Band @ The Sugar Club
- Friday June 29th: All City & !Kaboogie: Paul White, Mo Kolours & Djs @ King 7, Capel Street
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before noon on the day of the gig to enter.
Tuesday June 26th
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Croke Park (€49.50 -€89.50, 6pm)
- HWCH launch: Sleep Thieves, Lisa O’ Neill @ The Workman’s (invite ,6.30pm)
- Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (€22)
- Jagermeister Freezer Sessions: The Kanyu Tree, Bouts, Bitches With Wolves, Shadowplay @ The Grand Social (Free tickets)
- Ruby Sessions: Nanu Nanu, Toy Solider, I’m Your Vinyl @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday June 27th
- Axis Of, Ginola, Gascan Ruckus @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
- Elastic Witch presents We Are Losers, Run Around Kids @ Twisted Pepper (€6)
Thursday June 28th
- Pearse Mcgloughlin @ The Grand Social (€15)
- Luka Bloom, Lisa O’Neill, Steve Cooney @ Button Factory (€20)
- Choice Cuts: Hot 8 Brass Band @ The Sugar Club (WIN TICKETS)
- Forward/Slash: Ships (live) @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
Friday June 29th
- Sea Sessions Festival @ Bundoran (€50-€88.50)
- Twin Terrace, Seeping Into Cinemas @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€8)
- U Live #04: Edit;Erase , Loud Mouth and more @ U Bar (Free)
- The Gruesome Twosome LP launch (Loud Mouth) @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Phantom Live: General Fiasco @ The Academy 2 (€5)
- Mark Geary @ The Workman’s Club (€18)
- All City & !Kaboogie: Paul White, Mo Kolours & Djs @ King 7, Capel Street (WIN TICKETS, 9pm)
- Radiomade & Fatty Fatty present Boo Williams @ The Sugar Club (11pm)
- Zombie Circus: David Kitt, DJ Wiseacre @ Sweeney Mongrel’s (TBC)
Saturday June 30th
- Sea Sessions Festival @ Bundoran (€50-€88.50)
- Pride: Mother’s Block Party @ Copper Alley (3pm)
- Emmett Tinley @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€15)
- This Club @ The Workman’s (€12)
- Glimmermen, Dinah Brand, The Winters, Bill Blood @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- BarryGruff Presents #7 w/ Trap Door, Nathan Conway & Ciaran Lenehan, DJ sets from DJ Robbie Coffey, Co Brady (SEBP) & BarryGruff @ Flanagan’s Newbridge (Free in/9pm till 2am)
- Dublin Pride Kaleidoscope party @ Button Factory (€13, 9pm)
- Subject presents Nd_Baumecker & more @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10:30pm)
Sunday July 1st
- Sea Sessions Festival @ Bundoran (€50-€88.50)
- 12 Sundays @ Bernard Shaw (All day, Free)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (4.30pm, Free)
- Forza Italo Euro 2012 Finale Special @ Odessa Roof Bar & Terrazza
Monday June 2nd
- Christy Moore @ Button Factory (€30)

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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.