Highlights: Minimum Maximum #1, Shut up & Play The Hits premiere, Two Door Cinema Club, Bonobo, Heftfest III, Porcelain Raft, No Spill Blood.
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:
- Friday September 7th: Bonobo DJ set @ The Academy
- How to enter – Email [email protected] with your full name, the gig in the Subject line and phone number before 6pm THURSDAY to enter.
Tuesday September 4th
- Shut Up & Play The Hits premiere @ Lighthouse Cinema & IFI (Sold Out)
- Yurodny & North Strand Kontra Band @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Phizzfest: Dublin Guitar Quartet @ All Saints Church, Phibsborough (€10)
Wednesday September 5th
- Justin Towns Earle @ Whelan’s (€23.50)
- Phizzfest: Cian Nugent @ All Saints Church, Phibsborough (€7)
Thursday September 6th
- Junior Spesh Black Dynamite Party & First Second Soundsystem @ Twisted Pepper (€8)
- Musicmaker Rocks: Punch Face Champions, KNOTS @ Hard Rock Café (Free)
- First Thursdays – Beautiful Unit @ The Joinery (Free)
- Kaleidoscope @ The Odessa (€10)
Friday September 7th
- Futureheads A capella show @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Two Door Cinema Club @ The Academy (Sold Out)
- Daniel Martin Moore, Katie Kim @ The Sugar Club (€16.50)
- Frank Fairfield @ The Button Factory (Free)
- Rory Grubb plays the Electric Ceramophone @ Monster Truck Gallery (€2/€4 with a drink)
- Norah Jones @ Bord Gais Energy Theatre (€49.50)
- Overhead The Albatross, Croupier, Bantum @ The Workman’s Club (€Pay what you like)
- Bonobo DJ set @ The Academy (€17.45, WIN TICKETS)
- MUD: Roska, Emmo, Subrewind @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10.30pm)
Saturday September 8th
- Nialler9 presents Minimum Maximum daytime #1: Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, Mossy Nolan, Tara Masterson Hally, Chequerboard, Rachael Boyd @ Monster Truck Gallery, Temple Bar (Free, donations welcome, 2pm-7pm) *
- Heftfest III: The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, The Dinah Brand, Shane Holly, Croupier, Seti the First, CFIT, Amidships, Barry McCormack, Roy Duffy, Back & To The Left and Hello Moon @ The Grand Social (3pm, €5)
- The Point Of Everything: Carried By Waves, Replete, Sad Soul Circus @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- Young Hearts Run Free presents Lit By a Slanting Sun: Porcelain Raft, Mossy Nolan @ The Pearse Centre (€18)
- No Spill Blood, Realistic Train, Jogging, Simon Bird @ Button Factory (Free)
- Tonehenge: Mark Geary, Colm Quearney, The Quicksand Band, Doctor Millar, Jimmy Coup Lizzy set… @ Toner’s (€12)
- Nialler9 presents Minimum Maximum #1: Clu (live), Lemonada (live), Subaltern (live), Temper MissElayneous (live), Frankie Grimes (DJ) @ Monster Truck Gallery, Temple Bar (€10, 9pm-2.30am, BYOB) *
Sunday September 9th
- 12 Sundays: Luke B @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, All day)
- I’m Your Vinyl @ Stag’s Head Raw Sessions (€8)
Monday September 10th
- A day of rest. Be with your loved ones.
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.
