A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments as this post gets a lot of hits every week.
Dublin highlights: Dan Deacon, Grimes, Not Saying Boo’s double venue party, Phantom First Friday, Boxcutter.
Ticket giveaways:
- Grimes, Catscars @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€9)
Email [email protected] with Grimes as the subject, your full name, phone number and before Wednesday at noon to win.
Tuesday August 2nd
- Ruby Sessions: Cars Love Girls, Fiach, Tom Cooney & more @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Irish Red Cross Fundraising event for East Africa Food Crisis @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Nathaniel Rateliff, Goodtime @ The Academy (€13.50)
Wednesday August 3rd
- Grimes, Catscars @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€9)
- Grand Pocket Orchestra, Pantone 247, Rhino Magic @ Whelan’s (Free)
- Kaleidoscope @ Odessa Club (€10)
Thursday August 4th
- SoLo- An exhibition by Loreana Rushe @ R.A.G.E. (6pm-8pm)
- Feldberg, Last Days of 1984 @ Whelan’s (€8)
- Dublin Guitar Quartet @ St. Canice’s Cathedral, Finglas (€TBC)
- Junior Spesh: Clu Ep Launch @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
Friday August 5th
- Not Saying Boo: The Candidates, Bear Bones, Nialler9, James Kirwan & more @ Bernard Shaw (6pm, Free)
- Psychonavigation Presents : A Night Of Electro-Acoustic Music @ National Concert Hall (€8)
- Funeral Suits, Sacred Animals, Sunburnt Jets @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
- Rockfest X: Conan,Manatees,Slomatics,De Novissimis,Wild Rocket @ The Lower Deck (€8, Flyer)
- Dan Deacon, Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands, Angkorwat, Last Days of 1984 @ Button Factory (€20),
- Phantom First Friday: Givers, Cashier No. 9, Tieranniesaur @ Academy (€13)
- Rainfear, Tunedin52 @ The Joinery (€7, BYOB)
- Casablanca – Film Screening With Live Orchestra @ National Concert Hall (€25-€40)
- Crackity Jones Lost Weekend: Kid Karate, A Plastic Rose, Identity Parade @ Crawdaddy (€10 /€15 for two nights)
- Soul Purpose @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
- Not Saying Boo: Julio Bashmore, DJ Tu-Ki, Bingo, Marcus Playaz & more @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Saturday August 6th
- Dún Laoghaire SoundWave: Grand Pocket Orchestra, The Cujo Family, The Fallen Drakes, The iKonics and The OBCD & more @ People’s Park, Dun Laoghaire (Free, Noon-5pm)
- Mindfield CD launch: Zombie Computer, Maschine, Meljoann & more @ Whelan’s (€10)
- The Urges w/ Howlin’Dowlin, The Statics & The Razor Ball + more @ Sweeneys (€5)
- BellX1, Editors & more @ Marlay Park (€39.20)
- Casablanca – Film Screening With Live Orchestra @ National Concert Hall (€25-€40)
- Crackity Jones Lost Weekend: Reader’s Wives, Fallen Rule, The Dead Flags @ Crawdaddy (€10 /€15 for two nights)
- Rockfest X: Bacchus, Mongolia, Trenches, Fuck Mountain @ The Lower Deck (€8, Flyer)
- Pogo: Boxcutter, Mike Dehnert, State Social, !Kaboogie, Eomac & more @ Twisted Pepper ( €12, 10.30pm)
Sunday August 7th
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (FREE, 9pm)
Monday August 8th
- What The Folk? @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Julio Bashmore – craboon (original) by Serggio
▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲ – RIVER’S EDGE (Radio Edit) by ▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲
Dan Deacon Remix of Thank You by Dan Deacon
GIVERS Up Up Up by Glassnotemusic
