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The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide – the best gigs and clubs this week

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide – the best gigs and clubs this week

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All door times are 7:30pm/8pm unless stated. Check links for full prices.


Tuesday September 13th

Accents

Cancelled. Yasmin Williams @ The Workman’s Club
Virginian folk guitarist.

Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (8:30pm)
Acoustic night of new music. Seated. In aid of Simon Community.

Accents @ Project Arts Centre
Emmet Kirwan’s new Fringe Festival show features music from Eoin French (Talos). Running til September 17th.


Wednesday September 14th

WAKE

Wake @ National Stadium
Fringe Festival. This Is Pop Baby’s newest multi-performer glittering Irish Pop wake of dance, music and performance. Runs til September 17th

Emily 7, Clay Pigeon Shooting, KLDD, Bucket @ The Button Factory
Is This It? monthly Irish music showcase.

Lajee Cultural Tour Concert @ Liberty Hall
Kicking off a nationwide tour of Ireland – The Will of Life – a group of young Palestinian dancers and musicians from Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp (near Bethlehem) are bringing their culture and voices to Dublin.

SomeWhere Else Club @ Bow Lane (10pm)
New midweek club over two rooms. Featuring Derv,D*mp b2b Eoin Boyle,Becky, Gareth Breslin & more


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Thursday September 15th

Hive City Legacy

Paddy Casey, Stephanie Rainey @ The Button Factory
A rare Dublin headline show for one of the city’s long-standing songwriters.

YAWA @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Irish duo Tim D’Arcy and singer Harry Keyes have released a fine line of electronic pop singles to date. ‘Show Me Cool’.

Hive City Legacy: Dublin Chapter @ Project Arts Centre
Fringe Festival. Explore what it means to be a Woman of Colour in Ireland through episodes of dance, song, poetry, performance and more. Runs til September 17th

No Requests @ The Grand Social (10:30pm)
DJs – Lychee, Oran Farrell, Murchadh & Edboy B2B Hellokt.

Tengu Thursdays: INVT, Cachai, Little O @ Tengu (11pm)
New TT series launches with percussive, bassline kings INVT with local support from Cachai & Alba.

DUDJ presents: Finn @ Wigwam (11pm)
Manchester DJ who runs the 2 B Real imprint and as NTS regular.


Friday September 16th

Job Jobse

Irish Festivals this week:

Fall Right Into Place @ ClareGalway Castle
Strange Brew’s festival features Robocobra Quartet, Pretty Happy, Nixer, Highschool & more

Vantastival @ Beaulieu House, Drogheda
Campervan/Caravan friendly festival features RSAG, Hermitage Green, Niamh Regan, Susan O’Neill, Kyoto Love Hotel and more.


Spiral At The Castle: Light Moves Festival @ Dublin Castle (1pm – 4pm)
A performance concept of improvised electronic music in public spaces. Featuring dancers Angie Smalis and Isabella Oberländer, musicians Gareth Anton Averill, Neil O’Connor, Aoife de Mille, Jürgen Simpson, Lara Gallagher, Dunk Murphy, Tadhg Kinsella and Pauric Freeman.

Asian Dub Foundation: Battle of Algiers: Live Cine-Concert @ The Sugar Club
Live score from the UK alt-D&B band to controversial sixties film about urban guerrilla warfare The Battle of Algiers that inspired anti-imperialists across the world. Two screenings Friday / Saturday

Trophy Wife, Sunburn, Sarah Crean @ The Sound House
Fluttertone Presents three rising Irish acts. 2:00AM by SC.

Uly, Adam Garrett @ more @ The Grand Social
A night of live music influenced by funk, soul, disco, and jazz.

Sophie Doyle Ryder @ The Workman’s Cellar
Irish pop artist.Hunni Hunni’

Garth Brooks @ Croke Park
It’s finally happening. FYI… 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 September

Citrus Fresh, Krome @ The Racket / The Bernard Shaw
Limerick hip-hop representing in new Northside venue.

Fingerman @ The Well (10pm)
Bookclub presents Disco edits DJ Fingerman with Rob Le-Nan and Frankie Moorhouse

Job Jobse, Efa O’Neill @ Wigwam (11pm)
Rescheduled date from a fine selector of Amsterdam. Boiler Room.

R3D’S House Presents: No Guestlist @ Tengu (11pm)
R&B/ Rap / Amapiano / Afrohouse. In Aid Of Children’s Health Foundation

Human Error presents: Bklava @ Centre Point / Button Factory (11pm)
Listen to Irish-Lebanese and Brighton-based DJ’s recent Essential Mix. Support Tara Kumar, Jordan Hearns

DJ Deece & Syl Black @ The Pyg (11pm)
Double header in the Pyg.


Saturday September 17th

Robocobra Quartet

Irish Festivals this week:

Fall Right Into Place @ ClareGalway Castle
Strange Brew’s festival features The Scratch, Houseplants, Overhead The Albatross, Kynsy, Anna Mullarkey & more

Fuinneamh @ Bellurgan Park, Co. Louth
Electronic BYOB music festival featuring Midland, Tommy Holohan, Anetha, DJ Mell G, Peach, Aeron XTC, DJ Assault, Shampain and many more.

Vantastival @ Beaulieu House, Drogheda
Campervan/Caravan friendly festival features RSAG, Hermitage Green, Niamh Regan, Susan O’Neill, Kyoto Love Hotel and more.


Soundmate 31 Festival @ Location TBA (2pm – Midnight)
Regular dance festival at undisclosed location.

Asian Dub Foundation: Battle of Algiers: Live Cine-Concert @ The Sugar Club
Live score from the UK alt-D&B band to controversial sixties film about urban guerrilla warfare The Battle of Algiers that inspired anti-imperialists across the world. Two screenings Friday / Saturday

the next new low, Ken Griffin, Any Odds, Teatro Sin Fin @ Fumbally Stables
Four live bands featuring former members of Sunbear, Rollerskate Skinny and electro-acoustic duo Teatro Sin Fin featuring Thomas Haugh on Tsymbaly and Hurdy Gurdy alongside Matthew Nolan

Garth Brooks @ Croke Park
Aul Chris Gaines himself…. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 September

Robocobra Quartet @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Belfast-post-punk jazzers released a fine album in Living Isn’t Easy. ‘Wellness’

Highschool, Nixer, No Photos @ Workman’s Cellar
Irish rock bands.

FILMORE! @ Workman’s Club
Dublin Fringe Festival. Fillmore! is a project created by musician and one half of Tebi Rex Max Zanga. ‘Where’s Your Hall Pass?’

Sammy Copley, Last Apollo, Annika Kilkenny @ The Academy 2
21 year-old Dublin artist, who last year released a debut album called Growing Pains in January 2021 and has grown a following on Youtube with nearly 250k subs. ‘To The Bone’.

Aslan @ 3Arena
The Dublin legends doing a big show.

Amine @ The Helix
Portland-born rapper comes to DCU. ‘Charmander’.

Lumo Club x Pop Dungeon @ Tengu (11pm)


Pop Dungeon is a fun and silly space for all pop lovers to get together. Led by pop doms Aisling O’Riordan and Louise Bruton. Lumo Club is a house party in one of the best club spaces in Dublin that brings the nicest crowd around with DJs Nialler9, Gav Elsted, Simon Roche.

Boots & Kats @ Here & Now / Index (10pm)
Irish electronic music party starters. ‘Park Talk’.

Backstory @ Commercial Rowing Club (10pm)
An autumn series of Backstory dances at the Commercial Rowing Club kicks off with a trio of regulars Dónal Dineen, Hewan Mulugeta and t-woc.

C.FRIM @ Wigwam (11pm)
Melbourne bass DJ Charlotte Frimpong with Little O & Queen Beatz.

EVE & Colin Perkins @ The Pyg (11pm)
DJ collective Eve with Pyg boss Colin Perkins. Boiler Room.

Techno HotBoxxx @ The Sound House (11pm)
DJs set up on the floor of the venue with Shauna Dee, Technaut, Just After Midnight & more.


Sunday September 18th

Irish Festivals this week:

Fall Right Into Place @ ClareGalway Castle
Strange Brew’s festival features The Mary Wallopers, Daithí, Junior Brother, Paddy Hanna, Skinner and more.

Fuinneamh @ Bellurgan Park, Co. Louth
Electronic BYOB music festival featuring Midland, Tommy Holohan, Anetha, DJ Mell G, Peach, Aeron XTC, DJ Assault, Shampain and many more.


Kris Drever (Lau) @ Whelan’s
A highly skilled guitarist who adroitly blends traditional folk and flat picking with more contemporary influences.


Monday September 19th

SAINT JHN @ The Academy
Guyanese-American rapper on his In Case We Both Die Young Tour

Clairo @ 3Olympia Theatre
American pop and indie songwriter. Support Jonah Yano. ‘Ameoba’


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