Highlights: Ireland Music Week, King Krule, Overmono, Sprints, Brigid Mae Power, Aby Coulibaly, Prospa + Shee, Club Loosen, Haru Nemuri, Ye Vagabonds, Cormac Begley, Backstory, Danilo Plessow aka MCDE, Shamir, The Unthanks.
All door times are 7:30pm/8pm unless stated. Check links for full prices.
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Tuesday October 3rd
Tridence, Pants On Fire & MT. Heads @ The Sound House
Sound House Rising series.
Hamish Hawk @ The Workman’s Club
Edinburgh singer-songwriter.
Deacon Blue @ 3Olympia Theatre
You’re a Real Gone, Kid.
Lulu’s Jazz Club @ Little Whelan’s
Casa Forte explores the Brazilian popular music songbook with new arrangements and some unusual selections
Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (8:30pm)
Weekly Tuesday acoustic night in aid of Simon Community. See link for acts playing every week.
Loveless @ Academy Green Room
Alternative rock duo from Los Angeles.
Young The Giant @ The Academy
American Indie rock band. + Special guests, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly and Hannah Connolly
Wednesday October 4th
Ireland Music Week @ Lost Lane (11am – 5pm)
Conference part of the annual Irish showcase festival.
NIGHTHAWKS @ The Workman’s Club
Vyvienne Long, Akrobat, Ciara Dalton. A mixture of different types of music, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, spoken word, and short theatre.
Shy, Nancy Kate And Hannah McGinn @ Workman’s Cellar
Ex Oh Promotions night.
King Krule @ 3Olympia Theatre
The Space Heavy Tour. Sold Out.
Jazz @ Juno
Irvin Karkauskas Trio. Biweekly jazz night.
Somewhere Else @ Bow Lane Social
Somewhere Else is the new midweek club happening every Monday + Wednesday night.
Thursday October 5th
Ireland Music Week @ Lost Lane (11am – 5pm)
Conference part of the annual Irish showcase festival.
Ireland Music Week @ The Grand Social / Tengu / The Workman’s Club / Crowbar Terrace
Music conference and music showcase. 50 acts will play 6 stages.
Brigid Mae Power @ Whelan’s
Dreamy folk singer-songwriter focus on Dream From The Deep Well. ‘Counting Down’
Aby Coulibaly @ The Academy Green Room
The R&B and Camomile Records artist. ‘DYWS?’
Total House Clinic @ Dashi (11pm)
THC DJs: eskay, Bobski, Dpaw.
Reger @ Wigwam (11pm)
Night Tube Dublin presents Belfast producer. Boiler Room @ AVA.
Geist b2b Dylan Fogarty @ Pawn Shop (11pm)
Hidden Love presents. Free in.
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Friday October 6th
Ireland Music Week @ Lost Lane (11am – 5pm)
Conference part of the annual Irish showcase festival.
Ireland Music Week @ The Grand Social / Tengu / The Workman’s Club / Crowbar Terrace
Music conference and music showcase. 50 acts will play 6 stages
Overmono @ Vicar Street
Sold out show from returning electronic brothers & support Efa O’Neill
Paddy Casey @ Whelan’s
Second album Living 20th Anniversary Full band tour.
Sprints @ Button Factory
Sold out show from Irish indie-rock band. ‘Up and Comer’
Luz @ The Academy Green Room
Irish indie pop songwriter. ‘sustain’
Prospa + Shee @ Centre Point (11pm)
English house duo with rising Irish house DJ support.
Estella Boersma @ The Racket Space (11pm)
Salvaged X Instinct Society presents Dutch DJ and Producer Estella Boersma for a night of bass driven electro, techno and breakbeat.
Solace Space presents Síofra @ Tengu (11pm)
3-Hour Set from Berlin-based Irish progressive house and trance DJ.
The Midnight Disco: Taurean @ The Grand Social
€1 party. Irish producer with an affinity for all things from breaks to trance to jungle
Meduza @ Index (11pm)
Crossover house music.
Miss Bashful x DBBD @ Here & Now (10pm)
Berlin based duo played electro and hard trance with vocals. ‘Boyfrienz’
East End Dubs @ Here & Now (11pm)
Real Talks & Resound to welcome one of the leading names in the minimal house.
Intrinsic Rhythm @ Pawn Shop (11pm)
Intrinsic Rhythm takes over the Pawnshop basement with label head Tr One and D1 Recordings legend Eamonn Doyle.
SPINSTER @ The Grand Social (11pm)
Queer Up Saturday
Saturday October 7th
Music Machines Masters @ The Sound House (3pm)
12 hours of tunes ranging from house, to electro, to techno and back again.
Club Loosen – Sober Rave/Party @ The Complex (8pm – Midnight)
Sober club night with Brian Ring and Roo Honeychild
Secret Sonic Cinematheque: Take to Space @ Phase Arts Rathgar (7pm)
Bandleaders Andy Mooney and Diarmuid MacDiarmada, joined by special guests Rian Trench and Paul Deegan,will play experimental semi-improvised scores for specially chosen excerpts from the vaults of silent cinema and beyond, with filmic reels of yesteryear reimagined and soundtracked live before your ears and eyes.
Tradition Now: Ye Vagabonds, Strange Boy & more @ NCH
Ye Vagabonds lead a takeover of NCH by Ireland’s most exciting new folk and traditional artists.
Haru Nemuri @ The Workman’s Club
Japanese singer-songwriter and poetry rapper. Support Search Results.
Amy Ellen @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Irish indie artist Amy Ellen is a fan of Green Day, Broken Social Scene, Soccer Mommy and Kurt Vile
Smythy @ The Workman’s Cellar
Irish indie pop songwriter.
Backstory @ Commercial Rowing Club (10pm)
Donal Dineen’s monthly club night with guests Queen Beatz & J Bosteels
Danilo Plessow @ Centre Point (11pm)
Danilo Plessow aka Motor City Drum Ensemble, Lee Kelly, Jwoy.
Sunil Sharpe’s Residency with Kerrie @ Yamamori Tengu (11pm)
Irish-born, Manchester-based techno DJ.
Mother @ Lost Lane (11pm)
Weekly old-school club night for disco-loving LGBTQ+ family & their friends.
Soul Mass Transit System @ Wigwam (11pm)
Leeds electronic producer. ‘Break Ur Heart’
Obskur @ Index (11pm)
Sold out show from Dublin house duo.
Berlin Acid Party 002 – Techno Party @ Pawn Shop (11pm)
Basement. 2M / Syl Black
Influence Invites @ Workman’s Cellar (11pm)
Influence X Techno & Cans presents weekly techno night.
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Sunday October 8th
Slumberjet @ The Wild Duck (4pm)
Dublin-based Power Pop band plays the Alternative Sunday Social Club.
Shamir @ The Workman’s Club
American indie rock. Homo Anxietatum tour.
Tradition Now: Cormac Begley, Brìghde Chaimbeul @ NCH
A night of new folk and traditional artists.
Heavy Lungs @ The Grand Social
Bristol punk/noise rock band.
Busted @ 3Arena
Power pop lads.
Monday October 9th
ARN, Microplastics, Speakers @ The Sound House
Sound House Rising series.
Ash, The Subways @ The Academy
NI 90s rooted classic rock band.
The Unthanks @ Liberty Hall
UK folk sisters.
Somewhere Else @ Farrier & Draper (10pm)
New Monday student night.
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