A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments as this post gets a lot of eyes every week.
Dublin highlights: Harmless Noise Future Bright, Odd Future, Secousse Soundsystem, Egyptrixx, Kristen Hersh, The Redneck Manifesto, Kila, Young Hearts Run Free.
Ticket giveaways:
- Thursday 25th: Future Bright: Harmless Noise @ Crawdaddy
- Friday 26th: Secousse Soundsystem @ Twisted Pepper
- Saturday 27th: Kila @ Whelan’s
Email [email protected] with the gig of your choice as the subject, your full name, phone number and before Thursday at noon to win.
Tuesday August 23rd
- Ruby Sessions: Jenna Toro, The Difference Engine, The Radioactive Grandma @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Boiler Room Berlin uStream screening @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Goodly Thousands EP launch, Ginnels, Hello Moon @ Anseo (€5)
- Odd Future @ The Academy (Sold out)
Wednesday August 24th
- Flogging Molly, The Minutes @ Olympia Theatre (€26)
- Kristin Hersh, Pugwash @ The Workman’s Club (€20)
- Alright The Captain, The Continuous Battle of Order, Avalanche Ammo @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
Thursday August 25th
- Harmless Noise Future Bright: Toby Kaar, Low Sea, Last Days of 1984, VerseChorusVerse, Bantum, Logikparty DJs, Le Galaxie DJs @ Crawdaddy (€5)
- Come On Live Long, Oko, Lamont/Bailey/Wall @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
- The Redneck Manifesto, Dinah Brand @ The Button Factory (€11)
- Dublin Laptop Orchestra @ Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Orchestra (€10)
- Junior Spesh: The Heatwave (UK) & more @ Twisted Pepper (€8, 10.30pm)
Friday August 26th
- Kila @ Whelan’s (€15, win tickets for Saturday above)
- Lorem Ipsum, Overhead the Albatross, FriendQuestionMark, Lotus Eater, DJ Colin & Merro @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
- MUD: Secousse Soundsystem: DJ Etienne Tron & Mo Laudi (of The Very Best), Jackmaster, Egyptrixx, Space Dimension Controller, DJ Izem, @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm – Win Tickets)
- Murder Plan @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
- Glider with DJ Sweet Oblivion @ The Workman’s Club (Free, €10pm)
Saturday August 27th
- Record Fair @ Whelan’s (2pm, Free)
- Kila @ Whelan’s (€15, win tickets above)
- Hot Sprockets @ The Button Factory (Free)
- Katie Kim, Christof, Perc & more @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Sunday August 28th
- 12 Sundays @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 4pm)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (9pm, FREE)
- Henrietta Game @ Whelan’s (Free)
Monday August 29th
- Luka Bloom with the Sanas Featuring Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & more @ The Grand Social (€20)
- Young Hearts Run Free: When Only Words Can Describe: Football The Heart’s Yearning: Michael D. Higgins, Micheál Ó’Muircheartaigh, Eamon Sweeney, Margie Lewis, Barry McCormack, Cian Nugent @ Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green (€10, 8.15pm)
Honest (demo) by Goodly Thousands
Fela Kuti – Everything Scatter (Toby’s Indigo Edit) by TobyKaar
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.
Complan, The Hundred Flower Campaign, Slaughter Fish, SeanR – 27 August at 9:00 @ The Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin €5 http://on.fb.me/qYqOUM
“kristin”