Highlights: Santigold, Orquesta, Croupier, Benny Smiles, Down With Jazz, Trash Talk, The Black Keys, Tall Ships free music, Fight like Apes Rubyworks show, The Outer Church.
This is the weekly list of recommended Dublin gigs taking place over the next seven days 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 August 21st
- Uber Glitterati, Toy Soldiers, Ziggy The Rabbit, Corner Boy @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€5)
- Trash Talk, Loose Nut, Wounds @ Button Factory (€15)
- Social Distortion @ The Academy (€27.50)
Wednesday August 22nd
- The Black Keys, Band Of Skulls @ The O2 (€39)
Thursday August 23rd
- Tall Ships Music stage: Cathy Davey, Duke Special, Riptide Movement… @ George’s Dock (Free, all day)
- Darklight Festival Launch @ The Factory (6pm)
- Benny Smiles EP launch @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
- Cafe Irlandais: Bona Fide Federation, Laura Sheeran, Sí, Foxglove, In Valour @ The Grand Social (€8)
- Maverick Sabre @ The Academy (€10)
- Last Ever Forward/Slash @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Santigold @ Button Factory (Sold Out)
- Junior Spesh: Spies, Girl Band, We Arrive Alive, Peaks & Jet Setter @ Twisted Pepper (€8, Free before 10.30pm)
- White Collar Boy: Special Guests @ The Pygmalion (Free, 9pm)
Friday August 24th
- Tall Ships Music stage: Ash, The Animators, The Minutes, Lost Brothers @ George’s Dock (Free, all day)
- Sidetracked: Chris Hanna & more DJs @ The Dark Horse Inn (9pm, Free)
- Croupier album launch, Simon Bird, Before Machines & Eleven Eleven visuals @ Whelan’s (€8 or €12 with album)
- Orquesta, Clu, DJs @ The Grand Social (€5, 9pm)
- Down With Jazz @ Meeting House Square (Sold out)
- West Cork Ukelele Orchestra @ Button Factory (€11.50)
- World Service: Temper-Mental MissElayneous & Ophelia MC @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 8pm)
- Peverelist, Don Rosco, Joints ‘n’ Jams with DJ Flip @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10:30pm)
Saturday August 25th
- Whelan’s Record Fair @ Whelan’s (1pm-5pm, Free)
- Tall Ships Music stage: Undertones, The Mighty Stef, Delorentos, Spook of the Thirteenth Lock , Therapy?, This Club @ George’s Dock (Free, all day)
- Down With Jazz @ Meeting House Square (Sold out)
- BarryGruff Presents: Our Krypton Son, Conor Mason and The P Affection @ Twisted Pepper (€7)
- Jogging album launch, Elk & Guilty Optics @ Whelan’s (€10/€15 with LP)
- The Outer Church: Pye Corner Audio – A night of uncanny sound and vision @ Subground 43, Gardiner Lane (€10)
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Psychonavigation’s 12th Anniversary Party: Roger Doyle, Seamus O’Muineachain & more @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€8)
- Marcel Dettman (4 hour set), DJ Houseshoes @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10.30pm)
Sunday August 26th
- 12 Sundays vs. Mother @ The Bernard Shaw (From noon, Free)
- Down With Jazz @ Meeting House Square (Sold out)
- Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ryan Sheridan, Wallis Bird , Josephine @ The Olympia Theatre (€25.90)
- Raw Sessions: Gavin Glass @ The Stag’s Head (€10)
Monday August 27th
- Rubyworks: Deap Vally, Fight Like Apes, The Minutes, Funeral Suits @ Whelan’s (€17.50)
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.
