Gig Guide Highlights: Beyond The Pale, Nine Inch Nails, Musictown, Kim Deal, Pulp, Jacob Alon, Feeble Little Horse, Katie Phelan, Plámásing , Laura Duff, Jar Jar Jr, Skinner, Negro Impacto, Red Stamp, Public Image Ltd, VaticanJail, Darude?
What gigs are on in Dublin this week?
Tuesday June 10th
Pulp @ 3Arena
After releasing their first album in 24 years, the Britpop stalwarts are back playing live. Lisa O’Neill supports.
Jimmy Eat World @ 3Olympia Theatre
90s US college rocker/emo men.
Emma Rawicz @ The Sugar Club
Music Network’s 2025 spring season comes to a close with the British jazz saxophonist and band.
DeathtoRicky, Bugz, Subtle and more @ Pawn Shop (11pm)
NCAD Music night featuring the viral cloud rapper.
Red Stamp @ The Workman’s Club
Red Stamp are a new band featuring Aoife Nessa Frances, Núria Graham and Brendan Doherty.
Wednesday June 11th
Feeble Little Horse @ Whelan’s
Pittsburgh band Feeble Little Horse’s 2023 album Girl With Fish on Saddle Creek is a fine understated lo-fi rock album. Slide
Jacob Alon @ The Workman’s Club
Scottish singer-songwriter with the notable voice. Support Chubby Cat.
Nelly, Eve @ 3Arena
Face tape at the ready.
Thursday June 12th
Laura Duff @ Anseo
Limerick artist plays show with her band supporting the release of the excellent album Sea Legs, an album chiefly about grief and loss.
Jar Jar Jr @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Cork producer and rapper Rob O’Halloran comes out of the production dungeon with a full-fledged album of live jazzy funk rap music. ‘Sense The Beer Bought’.
Negro Impacto @ The Complex / The Cooler
Dundalk R&B indie neo-soul band.
Mik Pyro & Band @ Bottler’s Bank, Terenure
Republic of Loose man Mik Pyro will be joined on the night by Silver Branch, Eoin Glackin and James Lonergan
Plámásing @ Button Factory
Plámásing is a talk show–style live event featuring on-stage interviews with a diverse panel of guests, including a techno producer, a painter, and a musical guest, who will also perform. Chaz Moloney (techno), Geraldine Carton (painter), Basht (band).
Sygh, Ria Rua @ The Workman’s Club
Launch of Reverence album from Dublin alternative rock band.
Skinner, DigDeep, Joe Maxi @ Sin È
Who Art Thou? Is an Irish based podcast hosted by Barra Carlin.
Public Image Ltd @ The Academy
John Lydon’s post-punk play Dublin, Limerick, Cork and Belfast this week.
The Academic @ Live at Leopardstown Series
Horse racing and the Mullingar indie pop band.
Sell Everything, Vaticanjail, Public Warning @ Whelan’s
Foundation night. ‘Something New’
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Friday June 13th
Beyond The Pale @ Glendalough, Wicklow
After a weekend of on-and-off again rumours, the festival is happening. Friday features Jon Hopkins, Berlioz, Ezra Collective, Soda Blonde, Krystal Klear, Horse Meat Disco, King Kong Company and more.
Katie Phelan + Friends @ The Winding Stair
Irish folk indie singer-songwriter launches debut EP Blues and Greens in the bookshop on the quays. Feel free to bring/buy a book to swap.
Some Remain, Binmen, All Thumbs @ Anseo
Sligo indie punk band headline.
Cloudbusting – The Music of Kate Bush @ Button Factory
Katie Bush tribute/ performance night.
BALTHVS @ The Workman’s Club
Colombian psych-funk trio.
Vatican Jail, Romeo Keane, Mia O’Regan @ Street 66
LOWAVE Production pre-pride gig platforms queer artists.
Darude @ The Sound House
Yes, that Darude! What a meme.
Joseph Chester @ NCH Studio
Album Launch. Au Revoir Tristesse is inspired by French novelist Françoise Sagan’s debut novel, Bonjour Tristesse.
Pierre Bastien @ Bello Bar
Enthusiastic Eunuch show. Bastien builds his own machineries, at the cross between music and visual art that blends live trumpet sounds with screen projections of on-site, mechanical sound sculptures in a very poetic way.
Live Forever: Over 30s Indie Party @ The Workman’s Club (11pm)
Indie & Britpop night.
Paradisco @ The Pyg (10pm)
The people behind the pyjama party at Market bar bring an evening of Disco/House, Afro House, Tech House/Minimal.
Echo Exchange Locals All Night Long @ Tengu (11pm)
The Pawn Shop weekly night puts on their first Yamamori Tengu party. Charlie Murnane B2B Galactic Beat Club, Collie xB2B Surka, Kiva
No Scrubs @ The Workman’s Cellar (11:30pm)
90s & 00s R&B Party.
Saturday June 14th
Beyond The Pale @ Glendalough, Wicklow
After a weekend of on-and-off again rumours, the festival is happening. Saturday features Róisín Murphy, Boney M, Kiasmos, Todd Terje, Jeff Mills, The Sugarhill Gang, Osees and many more.
Holy Show, Echogate, Selenite @ The Grand Social (1pm)
All Ages 14s+. Afternoon show with post-hardcore, shoegaze and alternative rock bands.
Strictly Summer Bizness #1 @ Pallas Studios (3pm – 9pm)
Governess & Jr Spesh present a new day party with Fidelity Afterparty.
Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy @ NCH, Kevin Barry (3pm)
Musictown. Performing She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door & other works for piano & cello.
Swimsuit Issue All Ages Gig @ NCH Studio (4pm)
Musictown. Makeshift Art Bar, Hotgirl, Softdrink Millionaire.
Shifty Discs All Dayer @ Hen’s Teeth (4pm – close)
A full day of house and disco with Shift Discs. That Good Good and Darragh Maguire.
Just Wondering @ The Sound House (5pm – 10pm)
Day party for the band who recently collaborated with Annie-Dog. Free hat with every ticket apparently.
Wobblin Jude, Tomococko @ The Workman’s Club
The internet’s Instagram spoken word rocker and support from a David Gray-interpolating Dublin artist (formerly TCXL)
Bren Berry x Crash Ensemble @ NCH Main Room
Musictown. Bren Berry has worked as a concert promoter at Aiken Promotions and Vicar St since 1998 and hung up his musical boots when his band Revelino broke up in 2001. He picked up his guitars again and started writing songs following a creative writing course in 2021 and released his majestic debut solo album in January.
Jamie Noone @ Whelan’s
Dublin jazz-inflected indie singer-songwriter.
bôa @ National Stadium
British alt-rock band 1998’s single ‘Duvet’ has recently gone viral on TikTok so the band got back together and are playing a fairly big Dublin venue. Mad stuff. Francis Of Delirium support.
Scott Matthews @ The Sugar Club
English songwriter drawing on folk, rock, blues and Eastern-inspired song-writing.
Mendel & Frawl All Night Long @ Hang Dai Chinese (11pm)
Expect disco, house, and funk-infused edits.
LOST: with Raredub @ tengu (11pm)
Bugarian techno DJ.
DYSTOPIA Club Night @ The Grand Social (11pm)
DJs Bacana, K-MAC and guest will be playing a range of Electronic Body Music (EBM), Synthpop, Futurepop, Cold Wave, Post Punk & more.
Sunday June 15th
Beyond The Pale @ Glendalough, Wicklow
After a weekend of on-and-off again rumours, the festival is happening. Sunday features TV on The Radio, BadBadNotGood, Broken Social Scene, Marc Rebillet, Samantha Mumba, Houseplants, Death In Vegas. Gurriers and more.
Daddy Issues Day Party @ Wigwam (3pm)
InsideOut presents a celebration of all our father figures. Free party.
Goldbug x Crash Ensemble @ NCH (6pm)
Musictown. Irish/French artist Danilo Ward. ‘Goldbug’ is the artist’s second single. This show features the collaborators performing songs from a debut album Swings & Roundabouts, co-produced with Chris W Ryan coming in Autumn this year.
Nine Inch Nails @ 3Arena
Trent Reznor’s industrial noise band kick off world tour in Dublin. Support from Boys Noize.
Tristan René, Circa & Uisce Jones @ The Grand Social
Singer-songwriter and support.
Anna-Mieke x Crash Ensemble @ NCH
Musictown. Wicklow vocalist and singer-songwriter of folk persuasion will play reinterpretations and new versions of her solo work.
Have A Nice Life @ Button Factory
Sold Out. Sludgy American post-punk duo.
Gem Beag @ Anseo
Little Gem’s experimental music night.
Monday June 16th
Catfish And The Bottlemen @ Fairview Park
Britrockers kick off the series of gigs in the park.
Glasshouse performs Scott Walker @ NCH
Musictown. Glasshouse are a music ensemble from Dublin. Their aim is to bring popular contemporary music and instrumentation to an audience who are otherwise unfamiliar or hesitant to engage with it.
Kim Deal @ Vicar Street
The Breeders/Pixies singer/guitarist plays songs from her first full-length album under her own name, released on 4AD.
The Gig Guide is published weekly every Tuesday and features the best gigs in Dublin city, curated by Nialler9. All door times are 7:30pm/8pm unless stated. Follow links for ticket prices.
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.
