recommended gigs
Gig Guide highlights: Choice Music Prize, The Smile, Pixies, CasisDead, Seamus Fogarty, The Sultans of Ping, Cáit, Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Dublin Modular: Spectrum, Anamoe Drive, Chequerboard, Partiboi69, Benjamin Damage, Morgana / Sorcha Richardson.
Gig Guide highlights: NewDad, OXN, Imagining Ireland with Sorcha Richardson, Ye Vagabonds & more, The Pharcyde, Laurie Anderson Listening Party, Sherelle, FJAAK, Or:la, Digitalism, Maribou State, MIKE, Folk Awards, Prospa, Lime Garden, Thee U.F.O, All Tvvins, Caoillian Sherlock.
Gig Guide highlights: PinkPantheress, The Line, New Jackson, Hot Chip DJ set, DBridge, Craig Finn, Joy Oladokun, DDR Spring Party, Robocobra Quartet, Oh Boland, Bella Festa with Bordello Soundsystem, Making Shapes, BackStory, DJ Heartstring, Rhiannon Giddens.
Gig Guide highlights: Borderline Festival, L’Rain, A Night For Gaza, Gruff Rhys, Nouvelle Vague, The Shift Shack Soundsystem, Phil Kieran A/V show, Fizz, O., Dan Shake, George Fitzgerald, Robert John Ardiff, Driven Snow.
Gig Guide highlights: Mandy, Indiana; Lumo Club, Dublin Bowie Festival, Pip Blom, Def Nettle, A.Savage, Slayyyter, Jah Wobble, Honeypot, Ross From Friends, Jaguar, George FitzGerald, Sign Crushes Motorist, Laufey, Spike Cello Fest, Nerves, A Lethal Black Ooze, Search Results, Mother Daytime Disco, Rebūke.
Gig Guide highlights: Depeche Mode, Joy Orbison, The Bug & Flowdan, Madvillain Party, Digital Mystikz, Mary Ocher, George FitzGerald + Lil Silva,Rachael Lavelle, Soda Blonde, Or:La, Mella D, Róisín Murphy, Jeff Rosenstock, Bombay Bicycle Club. Maceo Plex.
Gig guide highlights: Tradfest, Margo Price, Pangaea, Fleetmac Wood, Kiefer, The Next Big Thing ’24, Gash Collective, Bella Festa with Jennifer Cardini, Alexis Taylor (DJ Set), Brigid Mae Power, Strange Boy, Farah Elle, Dreamer, Sive, Ispíní Na hEireann, Deadlians, Wearegriot, Niwel Tsumbu, Laura Sheeran, Dublin Songwriting Circle, James J. Clarke.
Gig guide highlights: Mad Professor, Palestine night with Naoise Roo, Sive and more; Ethereal Skies Aerga compilation night with Rory Sweeney & more, Daniel Avery, Why-Axis, The Word is Terry Christian, Stimming, Adrian Crowley & Matthew Nolan, Daniel Johnson night.
Highlights: Max Cooper, R.F. Chaney, Sprints, FRAULËIN, First Fortnight, In the Club For That Social Centre, Daire Heffernan, Mango, Emmy Shigeta, Rory Sweeney, Rhyzine, Alan Fitzpatrick.
Highlights: Whelan’s Ones To Watch, Nasty Sessions with Maverick Sabre, Aby Coulibaly, Kojaque and Bricknasty; Nirvana Night for Women’s Aid, First Fortnight.
Highlights: The Mary Wallopers, Gilla Band, Dylan Flynn and the Dead Poets, The Vault, T.A. Narrative, Unscene Xmas, Wank Bank and more.
Highlights: Annie Mac, Sally C, NYF Dublin with The Scratch, Gemma Dunleavy, Love Tempo bar opening, Leon Vynehall, Trad Rave, Haçienda night @ Silo, Hozier, Sleepover Club End of Year Ball, R.Kitt, Damien Dempsey, Overhead, the Albatross; A Very Dublin Modular PANTO, Silverbacks, Damo Dempsey, Sloucho, Ispíni na hEireann, Thumper.
Highlights: Kneecap, Damien Dempsey, Ye Vagabonds, Brighde Chaimbeul, Denise Chaila, Lumo Club, Attention Bébé Christmas Party, New Jackson, Groove Armada, DJ Seinfeld, Daithí, Django Django, Woozy Fundraiser for Palestine, NEXTUS, The Altered Hours, STRFKR.
Highlights: CMAT, Gig for Gaza with Lankum and more, John Francis Flynn, Selló, Sorcha Richardson, BC Camplight, The Darkness, Lee Gamble, Sunil Sharpe, Electric Six, Melina Malone, Toshín, Irish Artists For Palestine.
Highlights: Queens Of The Stone Age, Daniel Avery, Optimo, David Holmes, Bricknasty, Le Boom, Yves Tumor, Morgana, Tandem Felix, William Basinski, Cigarettes After Sex, The Line, Jennifer Cardini, Bell X1, Sleaford Mods, Celaviedmai, Julie Byrne, Nextus, BDRMM, Yung Singh.
Highlights: Kojaque, The Murder Capital, Johnny Jewel, Youth Lagoon, The Love Ball, Nealo, Uly, Soul Juice, Alfa Mist, Joshua Burnside, Mano Le Tough, Still Blue, Backstory, Elena Colombi & Amelia Holt, Irreversible Entanglements, This Is The Kit, Will Butler + Sister Squares.
Highlights: Barry Can’t Swim, Jayda G, A Love From Outer Space, Wednesday, Dublin Folk Festival, The Scratch, Ben Klock, Secretsundaze, Eliza Rose, Inhaler, Four Tet listening party, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Skyrager, I Have A Tribe, Nicole Moudaber.
Highlights: Haunted Dancehall, Chemical Brothers, ØXN, Sofia Kourtesis, Explosions In The Sky, Bush Tetras, Dublin Beatles Festival, Cruel Sister, Tailors Hall Beta Festival gigs, Deadletter, Iglooghost, Sammy Copley, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Shee, DJ EZ, Call Super & Objekt, Medium Build.
Highlights: Peach, Alternating Current, Squid, Hania Rani, Autechre, Sweeping Promises, Luke Una & Billy Scurry, Autre Monde, Romare, Peach, Circles: Robert Hood, CiCi, Krystal Klear, Mall Grab, Citrus Fresh, Boiler Room, Defected, Slaughterhouse, No Spill Blood, The Streets.
Highlights: Arctic Monkeys, Lumo’s 8th Birthday, Jape, Gurriers, Rebel Phoenix, The Streets, Gurriers, Sing Along Social, Kayleigh Noble, Jeremy Deller, Andy Shauf, HamsandwicH, Bradley Zero, Rachel Mae Hannon.