Good evening Dublin and that’s an order!
The 7-day gig guide to Dublin music and events. Highlights: Chic, Network #1, Samhain, Local Natives, John Peel’s Shed, Ghostpoet, Waxahatchee, Karenn, Efterklang, Mano Le Tough, Chelsea Wolfe, Washed Out.
If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter.
Ticket freebies this week:
- Culprit & Twins 1st Birthday: Will Saul, WITCH & Myler @ Twisted Pepper (Wednesday)
- Mark Mulcahy @ The Grand Social (Friday)
- The #1s @ Secret venue (Friday)
- God Is An Astronaut @ The Academy (Saturday)
- Network #1: Omar S, Neil Landstrumm, anD, Lerosa, DeFekt, Mother, Lee Kelly, Mother DJs, Nialler9… @ The Grand Social (Sunday)
- Primal Scream, Le Galaxie @ Olympia Theatre (Sunday)
How to enter – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number in the body of the message. Draw closes at 6pm the day before the gig.
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Tuesday October 22nd
- Chic @ Vicar Street (€38.50 up, Sold out)
[Disco] Nile Rodgers and band return for 3 Dublin dates
Wednesday October 23rd
- Agnes Obel @ Vicar Street (€22)
[Folk] Danish piano orchestrals. - Body&Soul presents: When Saints Go Machine, Olugbenga, Come On Live Long @ Button Factory (€14)
[Eclectic] Danish alt-electronic four piece, Metronomy DJ and Irish alt-indie band - Culprit & Twins 1st Birthday: Will Saul, WITCH & Myler @ Twisted Pepper (€12/€10, 10:30pm, WIN TICKETS)
[Electronic] Label boss of Aus Music and Simple Records / Leicester based production duo - Nina Nesbitt @ The Academy 2 (€16, over 14s show)
[Folk] Scottish singer-songwriter
Thursday October 24th
- Tindersticks @ Whelan’s (€33.50)
[Rock] 21st Anniversary concert - Booka Brass, Attention Bebe @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
Brass band and chancer pop covers band - DimeStore Recordings: Cat Dowling, The Young Folk and more @ Sweeneys (Free)
[Live] Plus Conor Linne, Kenna and Cox and more - Local Natives @ Olympia Theatre (€24.90)
[Indie] Plus support Cloud Control - Biggles Flys Again, Anderson, Carriages @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€8)
[Indie-pop] Listen to the debut album Remember Saturday - Junior Spesh: Redhino @ Twisted Pepper (€8/€5, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Bass club electro funk - Not Your Girlfriend and The Beatyard: Boxcutter, KaraKara @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 9pm)
[Electronic] NYG DJs plus visuals on the night courtesy of C & SJ
Friday October 25th
- Sam Amidon @ Whelan’s (€16)
[Folk] Gripping American folk - Young Hearts Run Free: John Peel’s Shed: ANDERSON, Jetsetter, Kevin & Aki, Idiot Songs… @ Pearse House (€20 ,€15 for music from 9pm)
[Experimental] Plus screening of The Irish Pub. DJ sets from Daragh O’Halloran, Peter Toomey, Nialler9, Gavin Duffy, Niall McCormack and thatboytim (Bop Gun) - Beatyard: Choicecuts Present Fela Day feat Dublin Afro Beat Ensemble @ The Sugar Club (€TBC
[Afrobeat] A Tribute to Fela Kuti. Ajo Arkestra Album Launch - Lissie @ The Academy (€18)
[Country] Playing tracks from her second album Back To Forever
- Note & Beatyard Presents Masaki Batoh @ The Workman’s Club (€16)
[Experimental] Music made by brain pulse. Member of Japanese band Ghost - Charles Hayward, Patrick Kelleher @ The Joinery (€11)
[This Heat Drummer] “One man, a drum kit, vocals & tape loops merge to create a snarling, poly-rhythmic, all-consuming experience” - Ghostpoet @ Button Factory (€15)
[Electronic pop] UK vocalist returns with songs from Some Say I So I Say Light. - Mark Mulcahy @ The Grand Social (WIN TICKETS)
[Alt] Former lead singer of the Connecticut band Miracle Legion playing songs from solo album Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You - The #1s @ Whelan’s / Secret venue (Free / WIN TICKETS)
[Rock] 7″ single launch in Whelan’s (Free for FB list) and a secret venue – win tickets to the latter. Support: Exploding Eyes. - Bastille @ Olympia Theatre (SOLD OUT)
[UK] Indie-pop - The Beatyard: Fabio & Grooverider @ Twisted Pepper (€15/€12, 11pm)
[D&B] Drum and bass OGs - Screambox Together Disco, Bitches Be Crazy, Ghostboy, Conor Behan @ a spooky warehouse (11pm, €10)
[Party] A BYO Halloween party in a spooky warehouse with some of Dublin’s best DJs. ALL proceeds go to TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland)
Saturday October 26th
- Beatyard: EgLo Records Live Band feat. Fatima & Alexander Nut @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 4pm)
[Hip-hop] Label run by Alexander Nut present live band with Fatima on vocals. On stage at 7pm. - Bouts, Women’s Christmas, I Heart The Monster Hero @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Rock] Launch of Nothing Good Gets Away - God Is An Astronaut @ The Academy (€22.50 , WIN TICKETS)
[Alternative] Longstanding instrumental Irish rockers - Drenge @ The Academy 2 (€12)
[Rock] Sheffield rock duo - Poets of Rhythm Anthology Release Party @ The Sugar Club (€5, 11pm)
[Funk/Soul] Modern revivialist funk. With JJ Whitefield & DJ Scope - Waxahatchee, Swearin’ @ The Workman’s Club (€10.50)
[Rock] US songwriter Katie Crutchfield - The Beatyard: Bodytonic & Surge present Karenn Live feat. Blawan and Pariah @ Twisted Pepper (€15/€12, 11pm)
[Dance] Plus Sunil Sharpe, Surge DJs, POGO DJs & more. ‘Chaste Down‘ - Efterklang @ Button Factory (€20)
[Alternative] Post-rock experimentalists from Copenhagen - Mano Le Tough All Night Long @ Button Factory (€10/€15, 11pm)
[Dance] Nightflight & Hidden Agenda present a 4 hour set from Mano
Sunday October 27th
- David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan,Songs Of Freedom (Bob Marley Tribute), Dirty Dubsters @ Twisted Pepper (3pm)
[Dub/Reggae] Worries Outernational Soundsystem • Trenchtown • Irie Ireland • Joyful Noiz • Junior Speshal DJs • Rams Record Shop • Jamaican Cinema • Firehouse Skank • The Jerk Shack • & More TBA
- The Hot 8 Brass Band (covers set) @ The Bernard Shaw (€17.50, €30 for 2)
[Brass] New Orleans Brass band play party covers - Network #1: Omar S, Neil Landstrumm, anD, Lerosa, DeFekt, Mother, Lee Kelly, Mother DJs, Nialler9… @ The Grand Social (5pm -late, €10-€15, €20 on the door, WIN TICKETS)
[Live/DJs] Plus Fran Hartnett / Jon Hussey / Sonel / Con Allen / David O’Sullivan / Olan All City / Galactic Beat Club / Daire Carolan / Al Murphy & Ian Macq / Eavan / 4WRD GRAD / Brian O’Neill & Lloyd Grogan - Dublin Tropical – Halloween Special w/ iZem & T-Woc @ Seomra Spraoi (€5)
[DJs] Global Urban beats and tropical grooves - Primal Scream @ Olympia Theatre (€34, WIN TICKETS)
[Rock] With support Le Galaxie - u:mack presents Chelsea Wolfe, Russian Circles @ Button Factory (€17)
[Alt-rock] Sargent House double headliner - Samhain Festival: Nina Kraviz, Todd Terje, Frank B, Kormac, Marcel Dettman, Solar Bears @ Glendalough House (Sold out)
[Festival] BYO fancy dress plus Cilo, Adultrock, New Jackson DJ, Hot Sprockets and more - Forza Italowe’en @ The Odessa Club (6pm , €12/€15)
[Italo] I-F [Viewlexx, InterGalactic FM, Den Haag] DJ Luigi Sculatto, DJ Stefano Crosserini , Wave Forza Mick Wills [Gigolo/Minimal Rome, Stuttgart], Simon Le Con [Wave Forza] Skinny Wolves DJs - Workman’s Bank Holiday: Leaders Of Men, Other Creatures, My Mind Races @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
[Live] Free live band sets. Also Waco, Shadowboxer, Hellfire Club - Washed Out @ Button Factory (€20)
[Indie] Dream pop/ chill wave/ ambient / electronic from Ernest Greene - Anthony Naples (Mister Saturday Night, NY) Eoin Callanan & Conor L Mulljoy @ Button Factory (€8/€6, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Closing party for The Beatyard.
Monday October 28th
- Suede @ Olympia Theatre (€44)
[Indie] Oh so ’90s - U:mack: Clipping @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
[Hip-hop] LA Hip Hop experimentalists
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.
