Highlights: Camden Crawl Dublin takes over most venues (Nialler9 night on Friday in The Grand Social), Lunice, Keep Shelly In Athens, the Trap Door Rapp Tour with Edan, Mr. Lif and more; Amon Tobin, The Horrors.
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 9th: Loney Dear, Gabriel And The Hounds @ The Grand Social (Enter to win tickets above)
- Friday May 11th: Trap Door Rapp Tour: Edan, Mr. Lif, Paten Locke, Willie Evans Junior @ The Sugar Club
- Friday May 11th: Lunice, Sixfoot Apprentice & more @ Twisted Pepper
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before noon on on the day of the gig in question to enter.
Tuesday May 8th
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday May 9th
- Keep Shelly In Athens, Ginnels, White Collar Boy @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Loney Dear, Gabriel And The Hounds @ The Grand Social (Enter to win tickets above)
- Elvis Costello @ The O2 (€50 to €65)
- Lianne La Havas @ The Academy (€16.50)
Thursday May 10th
- Large Mound, The Spook Of the Thirteenth Lock @ Odessa Club (€10)
- Therapy? @ Vicar Street (€28)
Friday May 11th
- VerseChorusVerse @ Tower Records (1pm)
- Camden Crawl Dublin: ASIWYFA, We Are Scientists, Le Galaxie, Blacklisters, Dels, Jape & lots more @ various venues (€25 per day, €40 per weekend, 6pm sharp)
- Nialler9 @ Camden Crawl: Trophy Wife, Dam Mantle, Little xs for Eyes, Young Wonder @ The Grand Social (Camden Crawl ticket required, 7pm sharp)
- Trap Door Rapp Tour: Edan, Mr. Lif, Paten Locke, Willie Evans Junior @ The Sugar Club (Enter to win tickets above)
- Skinny Wolves: James Blackshaw & Alexander Tucker @ Unitarian Church (€15)
- DJ Izem’s Dublin Tropical @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- The Buzzcocks @ The Academy (€26.50)
- Amon Tobin DJ set @ Button Factory (€22.50, 11:30pm)
- Lunice, Sixfoot Apprentice & more @ Twisted Pepper (€12)
Saturday May 12th
- Camden Crawl Dublin: Gaz Coombes, Clock Opera, Mystery Jets, Dutch Uncles, Ghostpoet, Kwes, Rubberbandits & lots more @ various venues (€25 per day, €40 per weekend, 6pm sharp)
- State vs. Camden Crawl Fringe event: The Notas, No Monster Club, Yeh Deadlies @ The Globe (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- Camden Crawl Fringe @ Stag’s Head (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- Camden Crawl Fringe: @ JJ Smyths (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- Camden Crawl Fringe @ The Swan (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- Camden Crawl Fringe @ Cassidy’s (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- Alphabet Set: Decade III: Diamond Dagger, Maschine, Ed Devane, Safety Boy & other DJs @ U Bar (Free, 6pm-9pm)
- First Second Showcase: Lemonada & more @ The Twisted Pepper (10:30pm)
- The Horrors, Toy @ The Academy (Sold out)
- The Gloaming, Sam Amidon @ Vicar Street (€28)
- It Was All A Bit Black & White, Nanu Nanu @ Whelan’s Upstairs (10:30pm, Club entry)
- Space Camp: Rory Phillips @ Mother, Copper Alley (€10)
Sunday May 13th
- 12 Sundays @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
- Patrick Kelleher, Catscars @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€5)
Monday May 14th
- The Dublin Blues Club feat. Republic of Loose’s Mick Pyro @ Leeson Lounge
- Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets @ Olympia (€60)
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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
So the Camden Crawl folk are putting on free fringe shows in direct competition with their ticketed ones? In the middle of town? With the info about who’s playing available beforehand? OK
I just happen to have the info for those shows.