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.
Highlights: Hard Working Class Heroes, Actress & Lunice, Jeffrey Lewis & Civil Civic.
Tuesday October 4th
- Ruby Sessions: The Brilliant Things, Saccade, Coby Grant, Seven Days @ Doyle’s (9pm)
- Jeffrey Lewis And The Junkyard @ The Button Factory (€16)
- Boiler Room Ustream Screening: #68 Hessle Audio/ Ben Ufo, Pearson Sound, Peverelist & Bake @ Twisted Pepper (Free)
Wednesday October 5th
- Soundcloud Dublin meetup @ Sing Sing, The Mercantile (Free, 7pm)
Thursday October 6th
- Hard Working Class Heroes & The City (popup gigs) @ Various venues (12.30pm-3pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes Bandtips Media Sessions @ Filmbase (5pm, Free)
- Forward/Slash / Residents & RIP A Remix Manifesto Screening @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Civil Civic @ Sin E (Free, 11:30pm)
- Pour la Suite du Monde with live soundtrack @ The Joinery (€5)
- Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler @ The O2 (€60-€91)
Friday October 7th
- Hard Working Class Heroes Speed Sessions @ Button Factory (10.30pm-1pm)
- Hard Working Class Heroes & The City (popup gigs) @ Various venues (12.00pm-4.15pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes Panels @ Button Factory (2pm-5pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes Bandtips Venue Bookers Sessions @ Filmbase (5pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes @ The Workmans Club, Button Factory, The Grand Social, Twisted Pepper, Sheeben Chic, Mercantile (€20 a night, €45 for 3 nights)
- Richter v DMS: Enemies, Squarehead, Toby Kaar, Bats, Tenaka and Owensie (Free Limited Edition Triple Vinyl 7″ Boxsets on the night) @ Button Factory (€10 on door or HWCH ticket)
- Phantom’s First Friday: Cloud Control, Pete & The Pirates @ The Academy (€13)
- The Joinery Chamber Concert Series 3 -The Spatial Music Collective @ The Joinery (€8, 8.30pm)
- Not Saying Boo: Lunice, Actress @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 11pm )
Saturday October 8th
- Hard Working Class Heroes Speed Sessions @ Button Factory (10.30pm-1pm)
- Hard Working Class Heroes & The City (popup gigs) @ Various venues (12.00pm-4.15pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes Panels @ Button Factory (2pm-5pm,Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes Bandtips Festival Bookers Sessions @ Filmbase (5pm, Free)
- Hard Working Class Heroes @ The Workmans Club, Button Factory, The Grand Social, Twisted Pepper, Sheeben Chic, Mercantile (€20 a night, €45 for 3 nights)
- HWCH: On The Record vs Nialler9: The Depravations, The Danger Is, Cloud Castle Lake, Moths, Last Days of 1984, Tieranniesaur @ The Workman’s Club (HWCH ticket required)
- The Rubberbandits @ Olympia Theatre (€19.45)
- Crazy P @ The Sugar Club (€15)
- Automatic Tasty, Eomac & more @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 11pm)
Sunday October 9th
- 12 Sundays @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 2pm)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (9pm, FREE)
Monday October 10th
- – Nothing of interest. Take a night off you deserve it

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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Civil Civic has been moved to Sin E and now its free.