The Nialler9 weekly Dublin gig guide
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin and beyond. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments.
Oxegen is the big thing happening this weekend while there are also shows from Snoop Dogg, Tortoise, Kode9 (new DJ Kicks album is the biz), !Kaboogie (with Prince Kong’s last gig in Ireland for a while), Escape Act and the Glen E. Friedman exhibition, screening and Q& A on Thursday.
Tuesday 6th July
– Snoop Dogg @ Olympia Theatre (€42)
Wednesday 7th July
– Nothing of interest.
Thursday 8th July
– Pandamonium with @ Pravda (Free)
– Glen E. Friedman exhibition, screening, Q&A @ Lighthouse Cinema (€5, 8pm)
– Good Manners Cost Nothing + MurMur Presents: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp , The Jimmy Cake, Fringilla Montifringilla @ The Lower Deck
– Funeral Suits @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Midnight, club entry price)
– The K! Club: Prince Kong, Rory St John / Drokkr / Richie !K @ The Sweeney Mongrel, Dame St. (10pm, FREE)
Friday 9th July
– Oxegen @ Punchestown
– Kode 9 @ Twisted Pepper (11pm, €10)
Saturday 10th July
– Oxegen @ Punchestown
– Young Hearts Run Free: We Love Dancing at the Crossroads with Natural History Museum,Deaf Joe, You Kiss By the Book, Rory Grubb @ Seomra Spraoi (€16)
– Summer Lightning: The Jimmy Cake, Patrick Kelleher and Boys of Summer, Skinny Wolves (DJ), Sarsparilla and Crayonsmith @ Temple Bar Studios (€15)
– Tortoise, Jeff Martin @ Whelan’s (€29)
– Escape Act, You Kiss By the Book @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€4)
– Tropical Highlife with Voodoo Frank & Friends @ Anseo (Free, 9pm)
Sunday 11th July
– Oxegen @ Punchestown
Soundcloud & MP3 playlist
Tinie Tempah Ft Snoop Dogg-Pass Out (Remix)
Rory St. John – Wasted
Kode9- You Don’t Wash (Dub)
Deaf Joe – ‘Belly Noises’
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