The Nialler9 club night is back on Saturday September 26th, with four hours of indie rock anthems, blog house, nu-rave and disco punk.
The Indie Sleaze Disco Club has been running since 2023, and in that time it has taken over The Workman’s Cellar, The Grand Social, Galway and All Together Now, plus a Christmas party and a New Year’s Eve edition along the way.
There was a stretch in the late 2000s when the guitar bands and the dance producers cross pollinated from their own lanes. You could hear The Rapture and Justice in the same set and nobody blinked. Blogs were the distribution system, the flash was on, and everything sounded a bit sweaty.
That era has had a full second life over the past few years, partly through nostalgia and partly because a new generation of artists never stopped mining it. Either way, it still works on a dancefloor, and is a welcome contrast to the doof doof house and techno that dominates the city’s dwindling dancefloors. So come party with us like it’s 2009.
Indie Sleaze Disco Club returns to The Grand Social on Saturday September 26th, running from 11pm until 3am.
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Joining Nialler9 on the night is Dublin DJ legend Sally Cinnamon.
The remit is broad: indie rock, nu-rave, alternative, electro-pop, electronic, disco punk and indie classics, run through as anthems and deep cuts rather than a straight greatest hits set though sometimes these tracks feel like it to me.
10 tracks you’re likely to hear on the dancefloor at Indie Sleaze Disco Club
- M83 – Midnight City
- Soulwax – NY Lipps
- La Roux – Bulletproof
- The Strokes – Hard To Explain
- Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
- Mr Oizo – Flat Beat
- CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
- Jape – Floating (D.I.M. Remix)
- Justice vs. Simian – We Are Your Friends
Expect a night built around records like these.
Indie and rock
- The Strokes
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Franz Ferdinand
- Bloc Party
- Interpol
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Libertines
- Foals
- Two Door Cinema Club
- The Rapture
- TV On The Radio
- The Hives
- Phoenix
Electro, blog house and dance
- LCD Soundsystem
- Justice
- Soulwax
- MGMT
- Hot Chip
- Daft Punk
- CSS
- Crystal Castles
- Simian Mobile Disco
- The Chemical Brothers
- Boys Noize
- Bag Raiders
- Friendly Fires
- Hercules & Love Affair
- Chromeo
- Cut Copy
- Mr Oizo
- MSTRKRFT
- Tiga
- Charli XCX
- Uffie
- DJ Mehdi
- Busy P
- Tiga
- Fake Blood
- Kavinsky
Nu-rave, indie dance
- Klaxons
- New Young Pony Club
- Yelle
- Feist
- Santigold
- M.I.A.
- Gossip
- Digitalism
- Metronomy
- Grimes
- Ratatat
- Breakbot
From the blogosphere bangers you obsessed over in your bedroom to the tracks still carrying the sleaze torch now.
There is a YouTube playlist if you want a sense of the shape of it.
If you want the longer argument about why this era keeps coming back around, we got into it on a Nialler9 Podcast episode with Louise McSharry.
Indie Sleaze Disco Club with Sally Cinnamon
The Grand Social, 35 Liffey Street Lower, Dublin 1
Saturday September 26th, 11pm to 3am
Tickets are on sale now plus fees
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.
