Highlights: Jay-Z and Kanye, Honningbarna, album launches from Funeral Suits & Ghost Estates, Jam City, Popicalia.
This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin 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:
- Thursday June 7th: Funeral Suits album launch, Gypsies On The Autobahn, Moscow Metro @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Friday June 8th: Honningbarna @ Whelan’s (€11)
- Friday June 8th: Phantom Live: HAL @ The Academy 2 (€5)
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before noon on the day of the gig to enter.
Tuesday June 5th
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Terry Reid, Cian Nugent @ Button Factory (€15)
Wednesday June 6th
- Deadmau5 @ RDS (€39)
Thursday June 7th
- Musicmaker Rocks Dublin: Dott, Red Queen Contest @ Hard Rock Café (7pm, Free)
- Social Rising: Dark Room Notes, Lemonada, Swords @ The Grand Social (€5)
- Thursdaze: Take The Money And Run, The Amazing Few, Zealots & more @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6)
- Forward/Slash: Adultrock @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Anais Mitchell @ The Sugar Club (€20)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers @ The O2 (€65.50)
- Funeral Suits album launch, Gypsies On The Autobahn, Moscow Metro @ Whelan’s (WIN TICKETS)
- Girl Band, Women’s Murder Club, Princess @ The Mercantile (€4)
- Jam City at Juice, Junior Spesh @ Twisted Pepper (€6/€8, 10.30pm)
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Housewerk: Underground Paris @ The Grand Social (€8/€10, 10.30pm)
Friday June 8th
- Inni-K @ Tower Records (1pm, Free)
- Watch The Throne: Kanye West & Jay-Z @ The O2 (€69.50)
- Declan O’ Rourke & The Concert Orchestra @ NCH (€11-€38)
- Simon Bird, Lorem Ipsum, Cait Fahey (disco/punk DJ set), Mel Keane @ U Bar (Free)
- Honningbarna @ Whelan’s (WIN TICKETS)
- Peter Hook & The Light performing Joy Division @ The Academy (€22.50)
- BarryGruff Presents: Trap Door, Knoxville Morning & Ginola @ The Workman’s (Free)
- Phantom Live: HAL @ The Academy 2 ((WIN TICKETS)
- Popicalia #16: The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Jinx Lennon, Big Monster Love @ Doran’s On The Green (€5, 9pm)
- U2: Rattle & Hum @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 10.30pm)
- Mud: Huxley,Durrty Irish hip-hop showcase feat. Tempermental Misselayneous, Siyo & more @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Saturday June 9th
- Watch The Throne: Kanye West & Jay-Z @ The O2 (€69.50)
- The Alphabet Set Decade: Volitune, Prince Kong,Teishi-1 & DJs @ U Bar (Free)
- Ocho, Bill Coleman @ Twisted Pepper (€7)
- Retro Revival: Cheap Freaks, The Strypes, September Girls, Girl Band & New Town Disaster @ Sweeneys (€5, 9pm)
- The Bridges of Madison County, The #1s, Celibacy Club , Disguise @ Little Green St. Gallery (€6, BYOB)
- U2: Rattle & Hum @ Lighthouse Cinema (€9, 10.30pm)
- Ghost Estates album launch, The Mighty Stef, White Collar Boy @ Button Factory (€5, 11pm)
- Mother’s 2nd Birthday @ Copper Alley (€5, 11pm)
- Mano Le Tough, Barry Redsettaz, Patrick Kelleher, School Tour, Frankie Bingo @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Sunday June 10th
- 12 Sundays : Mano Le Tough @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
Monday June 11th
- Nothing.
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.
