A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments. This post gets a lot of hits every week.
Highlights this week include Laura Marling (new album A Creature I Don’t Know just announced ), Popical Island’s All-Dayer, Kelis and Emalkay and if you’re heading outside Dublin – The final ever performance of The Knife’s Tomorrow In A Year and Fleet Foxes, Owen Pallett and Agnes Obel live At The Marquee happens in Cork and Sea Sessions is in Bundoran.
Tuesday 21st June
- Ruby Sessions: I Draw Slow, Cocophone, Max Greenwood + More @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Rua Unplugged: Robin James Hurt, Lou McMahon, Eric McGrath @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- Andy Irvine @ National Concert Hall (€22.50)
Wednesday 22nd June
- – Nada
Thursday 23rd June
- Ladydoll, Toy Soldier @ Whelan’s (Free)
- Anti Nowhere League, Paranoid Visions, Hooligan (tribute to Colm “Psycho” Callanan) @ Crawdaddy (€15)
- Cian Nugent Doubles Album launch @ Button Factory (€10)
- Ron Sexsmith @ The Academy (€25)
- Laura Marling, Louise And The Pins @ Vicar Street (€25)
- Thanks, From Trócaire: CODES, The Hot Sprockets, Storyfold @ The Grand Social (€5)
- Kelis @ The George (11pm, €15)
Friday 24th June
- Sea Sessions: Villagers, Herbaliser, @ Bundoran , Donegal (€79.95 weekend / Friday day ticket – €40)
- Tucán, LaserTom & The Blast Crew @ The Grand Social (€10)
- Fur Immer / Conseil d’Ecosse @ The Joinery (€8, BYOB)
- Mud presents Emalkay, Loud Mouth Compilation #2 launch @ Twisted Pepper (10.30pm, €12)
- GLIDER with special guests AU Magazine @ The Workman’s Club (10pm, Free)
Saturday 25th June
- Sea Sessions: Go! Team, Erol Alkan, Grandmaster Flash @ Bundoran , Donegal (€79.95 weekend / Saturday day ticket – €60.00)
- Popical Island All-Dayer @ Whelan’s (2.30pm, Free)
- Thread Pulls, TwinKranes @ Whelan’s (€12)
- 1st/2nd presents BoboFunk Sherlock, Haido, Sonel Ali All City @ CrawDaddy (11pm, Free before 12, €8 after)
- Salt present George Fitzgerald @ The Underground Kennedy’s (11pm, €7/€10)
- Hu$$le Clubnight Launch Party @ Button Factory (10.30pm, €8)
- Kyle Hall, Olan All City, Bingo @ Twisted Pepper (10.30pm, €12)
Sunday 26th June
- Sea Sessions: Charles Bradley, Scratch Perverts @ Bundoran, Donegal (€79.95 weekend / Sunday day ticket – €40)
- Midsummer Festival Fundraiser @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (FREE, 9pm)
Monday 27th June
- Owen Pallett @ Whelan’s (€5)
- Ziggy Marley @ Vicar Street (€30)
Heavens In The Backseat by Lasertom & The Blast Crew
We Bilateral by George FitzGerald
Kyle Hall – Ghosten by needledrop
Kelis – Trick me by aló! krissly
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.
