Highlights: Body & Soul Festival, Love:live music day, Whelan’s Sounds of Summer Festival, No Spill Blood, Horse Meat Disco & Gomez.
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.
Tuesday June 19th
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Seamus Begley and Oisin MacDiarmada @ Unitarian Church (€12/€15)
Wednesday June 20th
- The Odessa Club Rockumentary Presents It Might Get Loud @ The Odessa (Free)
Thursday June 21st (Love:Live Music day)
- Trainspotting w/White Collar Boy @ Dublin Heuston to Waterford (Free, 11.10am sharp)
- Workin Class Records showcase: Gi, Costello, Mixtapes From The Underground @ Filmbase (6pm, Free)
- Lá Ceol: RTE Concert Orchestra, Tarab, We Banjo 3 @ Meeting House Square (6pm, Free)
- Sounds Of Summer: Cashier No.9 @ Whelan’s (Free)
- The Shortest Night Album Launch: Pugwash, Bipolar Empire & more @ Button Factory (Free)
- Open Mic Session for classical musicians @ Twisted Pepper (Free)
- White Collar Boy present Last Days Of 1984 @ The Pygmalion (9pm, Free)
- Forward/Slash: Ghosts @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Junior Spesh: Lemonada, Niall D’Arcy @ Twisted Pepper (€5, 10.30pm)
Friday June 22nd
- Sounds Of Summer: The Riptide Movement, Pugwash, The Shoos @ Whelan’s (€11)
- Spook Of Summer: Spook Of the Thirteenth Lock, Wyvern Lingo @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Free)
- U Live #03: Black Hole, Zoe Wolfe (Live) @ U Bar (Free)
- Phantom Live @ The Academy 2 (€5)
- Haul4Nepal: Arveene & Misk, Johnny Moy, Billy Scurry, L’il Dave @ The Sugar Club (€10)
- MUD: Caspa, Worries Outernational, Decoy @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Saturday June 23rd
- S.C.U.M., Sweet Jane @ The Workman’s (€12)
- Sounds Of Summer: Cathy Davey @ Whelan’s (€16)
- Elastic Witch presents No Spill Blood, Celibacy Club @ Twisted Pepper (€8)
- Subject: Redshape & more @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10:30pm)
Sunday June 24th
- 12 Sundays : Horse Meat Disco @ Bernard Shaw (All day, Free)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (4.30pm, Free)
- Sounds Of Summer: Little Green Cars @ Whelan’s (€8)
Monday June 25th
- Gomez @ The Academy (€22.50)
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.
[Trainspotting w/White Collar Boy @ Dublin Heuston to Waterford (Free, 11.10am sharp) ] – is that on a train? ! …
Yes. Can’t find the specific details anymore but that’s the idea. http://www.lovelivemusic.ie/whats_on/event/trainspotting_wwhite_collar_boy/
I’m looking forward to Hot8 Brass band next Thursday 28th June.. Thanks to Choice Cuts got myself a free ticket and all.. Big up New Orleans!