The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide (October 25th – 31st)
Highlights: Lots happening this week: The Beatyard runs from Thursday to Sunday in Twisted Pepper and The Bernard Shaw with gigs from Kode9, Jape, Toddla T, Surgeon, Lemonada, Moths, Brainfeeder’s Kutmah, a State.ie Photo exhibition a talk about Arthur Russell and The Eatyard. There’s also Halloween gigs with Shit Robot, Le Galaxie, Block-T, South William Street venues as well as Mondkopf, Patrick Kelleher And Squarehead Split 7″ Launch, Brassroots, Oxjam, The Cast Of Cheers and Digitalism. There’s also giveaways for Michael Kinawuku and Hot 8 Brass Band with Kings Go Forth.
A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments as this post gets a lot of eyes every week.
Ticket giveaways:
- Thurs 27th Oct: The Hot 8 Brass Band, Kings Go Forth @ The Village
- Sunday 30th Oct: Michael Kiwanuka @ The Grand Social
- Email [email protected] with the gig of your choice as the subject along with your full name, and phone number before 6pm on Wednesday to be in with a chance to win.
Tuesday October 25th
- Ruby Sessions; Justin Ground and more @ Doyle’s (9pm)
- Cut Copy, Le Galaxie @ Button Factory (€22.50)
- Rua Unplugged @ Anseo (9pm)
- Michael Franti And Spearhead @The Academy (€29.60)
Wednesday October 26th
- The Dead Flags @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Laura Sheeran Murderous Love EP Launch with guest Sí @ Doyle’s (€6, 8.30pm)
- little xs for eyes album launch @ The Sugar Club (€10)
Thursday October 27th
- Wolves In The Throne Room @ Whelan’s (€13)
- The Beatyard: Forward\Slash presents Moths, Lemonada, Daithi, CF Meister & more @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 5pm)
- Rónán Ó’ Snodaigh, Bernie Mcdonagh And Mick Molloy @ The Cobblestone (€10)
- The Hot 8 Brass Band, Kings Go Forth @ The Village (Win tickets above)
- Sonic pop up: Office of Non Compliance Donal Dineen, Katie Kim and guests live at The Office of Non- Compliance @ Dublin Contemporary (9pm, €10)
- The Beatyard: Lyricist Lounge @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- The Beatyard: Junior Spesh presents Toddla T, Seroccee & more @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
- The Curtain Thieves @ Whelan’s Upstairs (11.30pm, Free in before 10.3pm, €10 otherwise)
Friday October 28th
- The Beatyard: Kutmah (Brainfeeder), All City, Chewy’s Chilli & More @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 5pm)
- Lisa O’ Neill, Barry McCormack, Bunnoscoinn @ Whelan’s (€10)
- The Ambience Affair, Katie Kim & Jennifer Evans @ The Workman’s (€12)
- Phantom 105.2 Halloween Ball: Shit Robot, Dublin Gospel Choir, The Riptide Movement, Torann drummers @ The Academy (€10)
- Communion: Windings, Admiral Fallow, Rhob Cunningham @ Academy 2 (€15)
- Popical Island Presents: Patrick Kelleher And Squarehead Split 7″ Launch @ The Grand Social (€6 or €10 with a 7″)
- Brassroots @ The Mercantile (€12)
- Billy Bragg @ The Button Factory (€23)
- The Beatyard: Loudmouth Collective Attention Bebe, The Candidates, Orquestra @ The Twisted Pepper (€5-€7, 8pm)
- The Beatyard: MUD presents Kode9, T-Woc, Don Rosco, Loud Mouth & more @ The Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
- Hidden Agenda: Simon Bird, Lorem Ipsum @ Crawdaddy (€5, 11pm)
Saturday October 29th
- Raiders of the Lost ARP – Battlestar EP Launch Party @ All City Records (Free, 2pm)
- Le Galaxie Halloween Ball with We Are Losers, Daithi @ Whelan’s (€5)
- The Cast Of Cheers @ Button Factory (€8)
- Mondkopf, Moths, Sherlock, Haido, Bobofunk @ Crawdaddy (Free before Midnight – €10 after, 10.30pm)
- LaFaro, AxisOf, Broken Lamps, Ciaran Linehan @ The Mercantile (Free)
- Halloween Hellraiser: Melodica Deathship, Diamond Dagger, Magic Pockets, Rory Grubb @ Block-T (€10, BYOB)
- The Beatyard: Pogo presents Surgeon, Psychotic Reaction, State Social DJs Nialler9 & Loreana vinyl set & more @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Bank Holiday Sunday October 30th
- The Beatyard: I Can Has Cook presents The Eatyard @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 2pm)
- The Beatyard: A Celebration Of Arthur Russell with Tim Lawrence, Jim Carroll plus David Kitt, Patrick Kelleher, Angkorwat, TR-One @ The Bernard Shaw (invite list, 2pm)
- The Beatyard: State.ie live photo exhibition @ The Twisted Pepper Stage (Free, 6pm)
- Fatty Fatty & Radiomade: Annual Cosmic Halloween Party featuring: Billy Scurry, Protect U (Future Times, Washington DC – Live) , Laser Tom and The Blast Crew (Live) , I Am The Cosmos (Live) & DJs @ The Sugar Club (€10/€12, 9pm)
- Oxfam: 30 bands including EleventyFour, Katie and the Carnival, The Dying Seconds @ Dame Street venues (7pm, €5 donation)
- Cassette Halloween Party @ Chocolate Bar, POD (€8, 11pm)
Come down to the ultimate Halloween Party! Resident Djs Vinny and Loreana will be playing lots of scary tunes, including plenty of music from the 1980s and 1990s
- The Halloween Bank Holiday All Dayer: Admiral Black, Fallen Rule, Tandem Felix & more @ The Workman’s Club (6pm, Free)
- Digitalism, D/R/U/G/s @ The Academy (€29)
- Lunar Disko Halloween Fancy Dress Party: @ The Underground, Kennedy’s, Westland Row (€10)
- The Beatyard: Jape, Kev Sheridan @ The Twisted Pepper Stage (€12, 8pm)
- Michael Kiwanuka @ The Grand Social (€14.50)
- Creatures of the Night: Pendulum DJ set, Killa Kela, Republic of Loose and more @ South William Street venues Dakota, The Lost Society, Pygmalion, South William (€)
- The Beatyard: Bantum EP launch @ The Twisted Pepper Loft (€TBC)
- The Beatyard: Studio 4 Fancy Dress Party: David Rodigan, Todd Terje, Worries Outernational @ The Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Monday October 31st
- – Stay in. It’ll probably be lashing anyway.
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