Highlights: Knockanstockan, Big Bang Festival’s Owiny Sigoma Band, She Keeps Bees, Adebisi Shank, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Vodafone Comedy Festival’s Reggie Watts & Summer Lightning III.
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.
Ticket giveaways:
- Saturday July 28th: Delorentos acoustic show @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
- Friday July 27th – Sunday July 29th: Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes
- How to enter – Email your full name, your preference of gig in the Subject line and phone number to [email protected] before 6pm the day before the gig to enter.
Tuesday July 24th
- She Keeps Bees, Drunken Boat, Slow Skies @ The Workman’s (€8)
- Madonna @ Aviva Stadium (€55 up)
- Dr John & The Lower 911 @ Vicar Street (€40)
- Ruby Sessions: Little Green Cars, Gypsies On The Autobahn, Orla Gartland & Lauren Aquilina @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday July 25th
- Choking Victim, Chewing On Tinfoil @ Whelan’s (€10)
Thursday July 26th
- Sam Amidon, Lisa O’ Neill @ The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (€17.60)
- Katie Kim, Margie Lewis @ Odessa Club (€10)
- Ginnels, Forming @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
- Low Profile,Jambo and Willa Lee @ The Pint Bar (€7.50)
- The Thomas House is 1: Jogging, Screaming Demons Of Trashville @ Thomas House (€TBC)
- The Minutes, Dead School @ Leopardstown Racecourse (€15, 8.30pm)
- Vodafone Comedy Festival: Reggie Watts, Alex Horne, MC David O’Doherty @ Iveagh Gardens (€28)
- RM Hubbert, The Driftwood Manor, At Last An Atlas @ The Grand Social (€11)
- Forward/Slash: Come On Live Long, Bantum @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Musicmaker: EatenByBears, Hill Valley @ Hard Rock Café (Free)
- White Collar Boy presents Polydroid, The Wazp @ Pygmalion (9pm, Free)
- Junior Spesh: !Kaboogie Soundsystem, Ickis Morolo & more @ Twisted Pepper (€7, 10.30pm)
Friday July 27th
- Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day, (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
- Adebisi Shank, Enemies @ Button Factory (€10)
- David Kitt: Small Moments @ The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (€18.70)
- Skinny Wolves presents: Ships, Last Days Of 1984 with David Kitt and Elastic Witch DJ sets @ Project Arts Centre (€10, Free into DJ sets)
- Sensoria: Rainfear, Margie Lewis @ The Joinery (€8, BYOB)
- Jon Hopkins & King Creosote @ Vicar Street (€23)
- The Spook Of the Thirteenth Lock, Melodica Deathship, The Glimmermen @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
- The Bonny Men, Mossy Nolan @ Whelan’s (€8)
Saturday July 28th
- Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day, WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
- Summer Lightning III: Thread Pulls, Dark Room Notes, Ana Gog, Skinny Wolves, Lamont/Bailey/Wall & more @ Temple Bar Galleries (€10, BYOB)
- Delorentos acoustic show @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (WIN TICKETS)
- Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Melodica Deathship, Turning Down Sex, Roland Volapuk, Fag Enablerz @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€7 before 10.30pm, €11 after)
- Nick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra, Stephen James Smith @ Unitarian Church (€8)
- Blockbusters: From Avatar to X-Men @ National Concert Hall (€various)
- Big Bang Festival: Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor & Róisín Elsafty @ Button Factory (€15)
- Subject: Ben Sims, 2562, Redahan, Ickis Morolo, Lorem Ipsum @ Twisted Pepper (€13/15, 10.30pm)
Sunday July 29th
- Big Bang Festival: 100 Drummers @ Stephen’s Green Band Stand (Free, 3.30pm)
- Knockanstockan Festival @ Blessington Lakes (€75 for 3 days, €32 per day WIN WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS)
- 12 Sundays: Boat Party @ The Grand Canal (3pm, Free)
- Listen At Lilliput: Natasha Lohan, Alexis Nealon, Rachel Ni Chuinn and Gavin Prior @ The Lilliput Press (€7/5 concession)
- The Thomas House is 1: The Minutes DJ Set @ Thomas House (€TBC)
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Bodytonic & Big Bang Festival Present: Owiny Sigoma Band @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
- Stag’s Head Raw Sessions: Slow Skies @ The Stag’s Head (€8)
- PiL @ Button Factory (from €29.30)
Monday July 30th
- Nothing yet.
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.
