A list of personally 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.
Highlights: Little Green Cars, Cut Chemist, Vaselines, Patrick Kelleher album launch, Trinity Orchestra Plays Daft Punk Lorem Ipsum album launch and The Casanova Wave.
Ticket giveaway:
- I’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway to Cut Chemist on Friday night.
Email [email protected] with “Cut Chemist” as the subject, your full name and choice before Thursday 3pm to win.
Tuesday 12th July
- Ruby Sessions: Oddsocks Revival, The Crayon Set, Sincop’hat, Trevor & Hannah @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Rua Unplugged: @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- 10 Days In Dublin: Little Green Cars @ The Workman’s Club ( €5)
- The Vaselines, Retarded Cop @ Whelan’s (€18.50)
- Trans Am @ Button Factory (€15)
Wednesday 13th July
- – Anti-Parent Culture: Sweet Jane @ Crawdaddy (€5).
Thursday 14th July
- 10 Days In Dublin: Excuse My French: Robotnik & more @ The Workman’s Club (€10/8)
- Squarehead, Cheap Freaks @ Button Factory (Free in)
- The Man Whom & guests @ Whelan’s (€10)
- LCD Soundsystem MSG Last ever show screening @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
Friday 15th July
- Cashier No. 9 @ Tower Records (1pm, Free)
- Patrick Kelleher & his Cold Dead Hands album launch, Declan Q Kelly, Magic Pockets @ The Grand Social (€10)
- Sonance Hotel, The Mighty Stef, Ciaran Dwyer @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- Storymap.ie’s ‘Bang Bang Forty Coats @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
- Liam Finn @ The Sugar Club (€16)
- Cut Chemist @ Button Factory (€20, win tickets above)
- Untz, Total Winners @ Rutas, Capel Street (€3.50)
- Ana Gog @ Crawdaddy (€8)
- Deadschool @ Whelan’s Upstairs (11.30pm, Free before 10.30pm )
- MUD & Spectrum: Total Science, iZem, T-Woc & more @ Twisted Pepper (10.30pm, €10)
Saturday 16th July
- Ham Sandwich @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Derek Nally tribute: Jape, Pugwash, Goodtime, Blink, Valerie Francis, Barry McCormack, Ann Scott, Paul Finn (The Flaws), Dublin Gospel Choir @ Whelan’s (€15, 7pm)
- Nightflight: Laser Tom & The Blast Craw and Mano Le Tough @ Crawdaddy (10.30pm, Free before midnight)
- Trinity Orchestra Plays Daft Punk, Cloud Castle Lake @ The O’Reilly Theatre , Great Denmark Street, (€10)
- Veroa, Owensie, Sarah Red @ Crawdaddy (€10 with free CD)
- Retarded Cop @ Button Factory (Free)
- Whirligig III: One by One: Solo Cissokho, Francesco Turrisi, Gerry O’Beirne, Shane Latimer @ The Cobalt Café, 16 North Great George’s Street (€15/€12)
- Lorem Ipsum album launch, Angkorwat, Lamont Bailey @ Twisted Pepper (11.30pm, €7 or €10 with tape, flyer)
- Where the Sun Beats: Sillicon Scally (Live) Dexorcist, Radioactive Man, Defekt (Live) & more @ Turk’s Head basement +after-party (€15)
Sunday 17th July
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (FREE, 9pm)
- The Casanova Wave @ Whelan’s (Free)
- Popical Redux: Ginnels, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Land Lovers @ Whelan’s (€5)
Monday 18th July
- What The Folk? @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Songs from artists playing this week
05 Charlie Sheen by RETARDED COP
The Vaselines – Exit The Vaselines by The Drift Record Shop
Cashier No. 9 – Goldstar by snipelondon
Ode To Nowhere by sonancehotel
A Study Of Her Painted Face by anagogmusic
02 Frailties (Single) by Dead School
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.
