A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments. Tracks can be heard in the full post.
Highlights this week include Plaid, Adebisi Shank, Lorn, Megafaun and Girls.
Tuesday 17th August
– The Ruby Sessions: Maud in Cahoots, Ana Gog, Matt the Electrician, Jess Klein @ Doyle’s (9pm)
Thursday 19th August
– Pick of the Picnic: GoatBoy, Sounds of System Breakdown, Cloud Castle Lake, Friend? @ Crawdaddy (8.30pm, Free)
– The !K Club: Lorn (Brainfeeder), Lakker @ Sweeney Mongrel (Free, 10.30pm – 2:30am)
Friday 20th August
– Adebisi Shank album launch with BATS @ Whelan’s (€12)
– Mud: Havana World Service – Drop The Lime, Madu, Q-Project, Groovalization @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
– James Lavelle, LRB, Donal Mooney @ POD (€15 advance)
Saturday 21st August
– John Grant, Goodtime John @ Whelan’s (€15)
– U:mack presents Estel (Featuring Steve Mackay of The Stooges) @ Crawdaddy (€10)
– The Holy Roman Army, Kaplin @ Twisted Pepper Upstairs (Free)
– Farriers, Awake Young Soldiers, Anthony Furey @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
– U:mack present Plaid, Vertical Rhythm Joint @ Twisted Pepper (11pm, €15)
– Funeral Suits @ Whelan’s Upstairs (11.30pm, Club entry)
Monday 23rd August
– Adebisi Shank in-store @ Tower Records (1pm, Free)
– Yours Truly presents Megafaun, Caitlin Rose, Katie Kim @ Crawdaddy (€13)
– Girls @ The Academy (€16.50)
Lorn – Tomorrow
Girls – Lust for Life
Plaid feat Björk – Lilith
Lakker – Live @ Rathlin 2010
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.
Sounds of System Breakdown and Adebisi Shank, nice. Will have to catch one of them…me thinks it’ll be A.S.
Hi Niall, the Holy Roman Army gig is a freebie upstairs in Twisted Pepper, so it is, with support from Kaplin
Updated that there.
On tues 24th Beirut + Adrian Crowley playin in tripod.
Next week dude. I always do Tuesday to Monday for some reason it makes sense to me.
Thanks a lot for weekly gig list 🙂
Be a good and fair judge tomorrow night
Of course – fair I will be. I haven’t seen any of the bands live yet.
I hesitated between band 2 ”Friends?” and band 3 ”Sound Sisters Breakdown”, number 3 was not my style and they are the winner, I cannot remember their full name ”…cloud”. Anyway…I had a good night
Cloud Castle Lake were the winners in the end
http://www.myspace.com/cloudcastlelakeband
who was the 1st supporting act before adrian crowley? girl lead singer.