Highlights: THEEsatisfaction (pictured) , Ryan Adams, Record Store Day gigs, Ships, Fujiya & Miyagi, Trinity Ball, Katie Kim, Seamus Fogarty, Werk & more.
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.
Tuesday April 17th
- Ruby Sessions: The Riptide Movement, The Late Fragments, Derek Ellard, Michael MacLennan @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- The Lemonheads @ The Academy (€23)
Wednesday April 18th
- The Dandy Warhols, Ham Sandwich @ Vicar Street (€29.50)
- Odessa Club Rockumentary: The Ramones End Of The Century @ Odessa Club (€10)
- David Noone Sings The Songs of Nick Cave @ The Grand Social (€5)
Thursday April 19th
- Ryan Adams @ Olympia Theatre (€44)
- 3Epkano @ Button Factory (€5)
- Forward / Slash: Carried By Waves @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Sive @ The Grand Social (€5)
- Gentleboy EP launch @ The Mercantile (€5)
- Just No, CFit, The Gambler @ Whelan’s (€5)
- THEEsatisfaction & Temper-Mental MissElayneous @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
- Ships (live), Nialler9 // White Collar Boy presents @ Pygmalion (9pm, Free)
- Junior Spesh: Grizzly Tour feat. Sinden & Mele with Simon Bird, Ickis Mirolo @ The Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Friday April 20th
- Record Store Day: Tieranniesaur (3pm), The Riptide Movement (4pm), Pale (5pm), The Urges (6pm) @ Tower Records (Free)
- Scribble: Loud Mouth Collective @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Fujiya & Miyagi, Tieranniesaur @ The Village (€15)
- Tucan, Sleep Thieves @ The Workman’s (€12)
- Hal @ Button Factory (€11)
- Rainy Boy Sleep @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
- 2012 Trinity Ball: Marina and the Diamonds, Friendly Fires, Labrinth, Erol Alkan, Fake Blood, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Cashier No.9 & more @ Trinity (€80, sold out)
- Cashier No.9, The Milk @ The Academy 2 (€5)
- Decoy & Trainwreck Present: Doc Daneeka & Benjamin Damage [50 Weapons] @ The Academy Green Room (€10, 11pm)
- I Heart The Monster Hero, You Kiss By The Book @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10, Midnight, Free before 10.30pm)
- MUD: King Cannibal, Fran Hartnett, Eomac, Pet Duo & more @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 11pm)
Saturday April 21st
- Record Store Day: Elastic Witch presents Optimo, Girls Names, Last Days Of 1984, Simon Bird, Adultrock, Skinny Wolves@ Twisted Pepper (Free)
- Record Store Day: Simone Felice (1pm), HAL (2pm), Sweet Jane (3pm), Dark Room Notes (4pm), Elevens (5pm), Special Guests (6pm) @ Tower Records (Free)
- Record Store Gay: Gaz LeRock, Hello Moon, I ♥ The Monster Hero, Drunken Boat, Lamont Bailey Wall, School Tour, Lovesea & T, Seeping into Cinemas, Soil creep, You Kiss by the Book, Record Store Popup @ The Outhouse, Capel Street (2pm – 9:30pm)
- RGBeats Exhibition with Barry Krishna, Flashlight DJs @ U Bar (6pm)
- Roger Doyle @ Bewley’s Cafe Theatre (€5, 8:30pm)
- Fundraising Ruckus 4: The Return of Munchi, Redmonk @ King 7 (€5 before 11pm, €8 after)
- The Mighty Stef & guests @ Thomas House (€5)
- Resound (Laura Sheeran, Chequerboard & more), You Can Call Me Frances, Buzz Aldrin Allstars @ Button Factory (€12)
- Bats, Magic Pockets, Turning Down Sex @ Twisted Pepper (€8 before 9pm, €10 after)
- Katie Kim, Donal Dineen @ Unitarian Church (€12)
- West Cork Ukelele Orchestra @ Button Factory (€12)
- WERK @ The Abbey Theatre (Sold out, 10.30pm)
- POGO: Bodytonic & HSSH presents Morgan Geist (Metro Area), Pogo DJs, Sunil Sharpe, Lunar Disko, Earwiggle, All City, Elastic Witch DJs @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10.30pm)
- Mother and Space Camp present Optimo (Espacio) @ Mother, Copper Alley (€10, 11pm)
Sunday April 22nd
- Independents Day: Melodica Deathship, Deepinthewoods66, Fern Floor @ Dublin Food Co-op (Noon til 5pm)
- 12 Sundays @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
Monday April 23rd
- Seamus Fogarty @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€7)
- I Capture the Castle: Ian Maleney aka Be Honest, Margie Lewis, Groom, Aidan Wall, Caoimhin o Raghallaigh for World Book Night @ Whelan’s Parlour (9pm)
- 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, 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.
