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: Washed Out, HSSH with MOTHS, Mark E and loads more, CREEP, Katie Kim & Laura Sheeran, Jello Biafra & The Dying Seconds.
Tuesday August 9th
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday August 10th
- Daithí @ The Mercantile (Free)
Thursday August 11th
- Pugwash @ The Workman’s (€10)
- Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine, Retarded Cop @ Button Factory (€20.50)
- Universal Funk Orchestra perform Lou Reed’s Transformer @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
Friday August 12th
- The Manhattan Syndrome, Nanobot @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
- Loudmouth Collective DJs: CF Meister, Redanhan, KIKI @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- The Dying Seconds @ Crawdaddy (€10)
- Yeh Deadlies @ Whelan’s Upstairs (11.30pm, Free before 10.30pm)
- Parish Nights with Donal Dineen @ The Odessa (11.30pm, €5)
Saturday August 13th
- Fionn Regan instore @ Tower Records (Free)
- Creep, White Collar Boy @ Crawdaddy (11pm, €8)
- Sounds of System Breakdown, Ghosties @ The Joinery (€7, BYOB)
- Washed Out, Solar Bears, DJ Sweet Oblivion @ The Grand Social ( 8pm til 2.30pm, €15)
- HSSH: Mark E, MOTHS, I Am The Cosmos, Laser Tom & The Blast Crew, David Kitt, Jon Dots, Bingo, Nialler9 & more @ Twisted Pepper ( 10.30pm, €12)
Sunday August 14th
- Katie Kim, Laura Sheeran @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (9pm, FREE)
Monday August 15th
- What The Folk? @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Washed Out – Echoes by ListenBeforeYouBuy
Washed Out – Echoes (Little Star Dweller Remix) by Little Star Dweller
Two Sides – EP by Lasertom & The Blast Crew
Here We Go Again! by White Collar Boy
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.
