The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide // May 15th – 21st
Highlights: Sharon Van Etten, Floating Points & Eglo records showcase, Eleanor Friedburger (left), Popicalia #15 (right), Laura Sheeran, Tim Hecker,The Jezebels, Michael Kiwanuka, Johann Johannsson, Hauscha, Dustin O’Halloran…
This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published every Tuesday. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend events not present in the comments below. If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter.
Ticket giveaways:
- Friday May 18th: Hssh & This Greedy Pig Present: Floating Points, Fatima, Funkineven, Alexander Nut @ Twisted Pepper (€12)
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before noon on Friday to enter.
Tuesday May 15th
- Odd Socks Revival, Overseas & The Makings @ Whelan’s (€5)
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday May 16th
- Polly Barrett @ Whelan’s (€8)
- Come for a Cause, Stay for the Music @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
Thursday May 17th
- Terror Pop @ Tower Records (1pm, Free)
Estelle @ Button Factory (Cancelled)- Wow Fundraiser: The Glimmermen, The Ragmen & more @ Rothar Cafe (Donation, 7pm)
- Guns ‘n’ Roses, Thin Lizzy, Vengeance & The Panther Queen @ The O2 (€64.50)
- Forward/Slash: Elaine Mai @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Eleanor Friedberger @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Time Is A Thief @ Sweeney Mongrel’s ()
- Terror Pop, St. Yorda @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€5)
- White Collar Boy present: AdultRock, Mick Le Galaxie DJ @ The Pygmalion (Free, 9pm)
- Junior Spesh Live: Sleep Thieves, Tongue Bundle, She’s A Beauty & We Is Cloud @ Twisted Pepper (€7/€5)
Friday May 18th
- JD Roots: The Minutes, We Cut Corners, Delorentos @ Button Factory (Free but ticketed)
- Tim Hecker @ Unitarian Church (€15)
- Shabazz Palaces @ Twisted Pepper (€16)
- Scala & Kolacny Brothers @ Olympia (€33)
- Sharon Van Etten, Exitmusic @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
- Biforking @ The Joinery (€8)
- Sidetracked @ The Dark Horse (Free, 9:30pm)
- Popicalia #15 – Dott, The #1s, Tieranniesaur @ Tavern On The Green (€5, 9pm)
- Hssh & This Greedy Pig Present: Floating Points, Fatima, Funkineven, Alexander Nut @ Twisted Pepper (Win tickets)
Saturday May 19th
- Michael Kiwanuka @ The Academy (€16)
- The Jezebels @ The Button Factory (Sold out)
- Laura Sheeran, Margie Lewis @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Strange Attractor, Fag Enablerz, The #1s @ The Mercantile (€10)
- She’s a Beauty @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€5)
- !kaboogie presents Legion Of Two, NHKyx @ U bar (€10, 11pm)
- Pogo: Reeko, Bingo & more @ Twisted Pepper (€12)
Sunday May 20th
- 12 Sundays @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
- Fat Cat: Johann Johannsson, Hauscha, Dustin O’Halloran @ The Sugar Club (2:30pm matinée, €20, €12 for a young adult)
- Saucy Sundays: 7 live bands @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- The Stag’s Head Raw: Carol Keogh & The City Fathers @ Stag’s Head (€10)
- Fat Cat: Johann Johannsson, Hauscha, Dustin O’Halloran @ The Sugar Club (€20)
Monday May 21st
- The Dublin Blues Club feat. Republic of Loose’s Mick Pyro @ Leeson Lounge
