Highlights: Alt-J, I Am The Cosmos / Ships split launch, White Collar Boy’s launch, Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead, Walls, Paul Kalkbrenner, Africa Day and Life Festival.
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:
- Wednesday May 23rd: Sleep, A Storm Of Light, Wizards Of Firetop Mountain @ Button Factory
- Thursday May 24th: Alt-J @ The Academy 2
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before noon on the day of the gig to enter.
Tuesday May 22nd
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday May 23rd
- Sleep, A Storm Of Light, Wizards Of Firetop Mountain @ Button Factory (win tickets above)
- LoudQuietLoud: Pixies documentary screening @ The Odessa (Free)
Thursday May 24th
- The Velourias, Trans Auto Radio @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€5)
- Forward/Slash @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Alt-J @ The Academy 2 (win tickets above)
- Walls, Bingo (live) @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Brendan Benson, Young Hines @ Button Factory (€22)
- Dionne Warwick @ Vicar Street (€59)
- Paul Kalkbrenner @ Olympia Theatre (€23)
- Drunken Boat, You Kiss By The Book @ The Workman’s (€5)
- Junior Spesh Live: Sleep Thieves, Tongue Bundle, She’s A Beauty & We Is Cloud @ Twisted Pepper (€7/€5)
Friday May 25th
- Life Festival @ Belvedere House, Westmeath (€150)
- BarryGruff Presents’ #6 w/ Sive, Padraig McCauley & The P Affection and Sea Area Forecast @ Flanagan’s, Newbridge
- Raglans, The Strypes @ Whelan’s (€8)
- Heritage Centre, Bouts, Take The Money & Run @ The Grand Social (€8)
- Phantom Live: DZ Deathrays @ The Academy 2 (€5)
- LINK Culturefest: Phisqa @ St. Michan’s Church, Smithfield (9pm, Free)
- LINK Culturefest: European Sensoria Band (ESB) / Mersk Collective @ The Joinery (€5)
- Cry Monster Cry, Mossy Nolan @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
- Stop Making Sense @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 10,50pm)
- White Collar Boy EP launch, SubAltern, Black Dot DJ @ Button Factory (11pm, Free)
- I Am The Cosmos, Ships, David Kitt @ The Sugar Club (€10, 11pm)
Saturday May 26th
- Africa Day: The Amazing Few, Q – Colm Quearney, The Bambir, The Wilde, The Radioactive Grandma, DJ iZem, DJs, African Irish rap, dancing, drumming & more @ CHQ Building & George’s Dock, Custom House Quay (Free, Noon – 7pm)
- Life Festival @ Belvedere House, Westmeath (€150)
- Lethal Dialect @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
- Chewing On Tinfoil @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6)
- LINK Culturefest Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead, OKO @ St. Michan’s Church, Smithfield (8pm €8)
- little xs for eyes @ The Cobalt, Nth Great George’s Street (€TBC)
- Gary Numan @ Button Factory (€25)
- Beastie Boys: Awesome! I Shot That @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 10.50pm)
- Pogo: Tr-One, David Kitt,Subject DJs and more @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
Sunday May 27th
- 12 Sundays :Sun Ra party @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
- Africa Day: Niwel Tsumbu; Katie and the Carnival, Fox.E and the Good Hands,The Urges, Madu, The Cold 100, dancing , drummer, DJs @ CHQ Building & George’s Dock, Custom House Quay (Free, Noon – 7pm)
- Life Festival @ Belvedere House, Westmeath (€150)
- Saucy Sundays: 7 live bands @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- Papa M (David Pajo, Slint) @ The Workman’s Club (€16)
- Deserted Village Present: Darugaries, Sabre Series, Owensie @ Twisted Pepper (€8)
- John Sinclair & Howard Marks: An evening in conversation @ Button Factory (€18)
Monday May 28th
- The Dublin Blues Club feat. Republic of Loose’s Mick Pyro @ Leeson Lounge
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.
