The Indie Sleaze Disco Club is back.
After ten nights of sweaty, euphoric chaos at over the last three years, the night returns to the main room this Bank Holiday Saturday, May 2nd for another run through the music that defined a generation of bedroom obsessives, blog addicts, and dancefloor devotees.
Indie sleaze is the term that’s stuck to the music and aesthetic of the mid-2000s indie boom – the collision of scrappy guitar bands, blog house, nu-rave and electro-pop that peaked somewhere between the NME’s imperial phase and the blogosphere’s golden era, when a Justice remix could sit comfortably next to an Arctic Monkeys track and nobody thought that was strange.
If you were there the first time around – refreshing Pitchfork at midnight, burning mix CDs, arguing about whether LCD Soundsystem were a band or a DJ – this one is for you. And if you weren’t, consider this a catch-up.
The night covers the full spectrum of the era: indie rock and post-punk from The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines, Foals, Two Door Cinema Club, The Rapture and TV On The Radio sitting alongside the electro, blog house and dance contingent – Justice, Soulwax, MGMT, Hot Chip, Daft Punk, CSS, Crystal Castles, The Chemical Brothers, Friendly Fires, Chromeo, Cut Copy and more. The nu-rave and indie dance side gets its due too, with Klaxons, Digitalism, Metronomy, M.I.A., Santigold and Grimes all in the mix.
It runs from 11:30pm until late. Tickets are available now via the link below.
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.
