Email to be in the draw for free entry:
- Friday: Slow Place Like Home, Carriages, Bantum @ The Workman’s Club
How to enter free entry comps – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number (for late contact) in the body of the message. Full info on each show below. Draw closes at 6pm the day before the gig or Friday 1pm latest for weekend gigs.
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Tuesday July 5
- Films Of Note: Mavis! @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Music film festival] A part of the venue’s month-long music film festival. - Ruby Sessions: Leo Stannard / Flecks / SELK / Matt Lunson @ Doyle’s (€6, 9pm)
[Acoustic showcase] Read my interview with Conor Ruby Sessions.
Wednesday July 6
- Portugal vs Wales tonight in the Euros it is then
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Thursday July 7
- Summer Sessions @ Wood Quay Amphitheatre (Free, 1pm)
[Outdoor lunchtime] Roamer and Tommy Halferty Trio. - Ivy Nations, Arbours, Motions @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6)
[Irish indie] Check out IN’s Mile Road.
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Friday July 8
- John Blek and The Rats @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
[Pop/rock] Wandering Child. - Slow Place Like Home, Carriages, Bantum @ The Workman’s Club (WIN FREEBIES, €10)
[Irish electronic/alt] Dolittle presents a triple header of Irish music.
- Bell X1, The Academic @ Iveagh Gardens (€38.50)
[Indie/pop] New single The Upswing /Mullingar indie support. - So Cow, Shrug Life, Handsome Eric, The Run Ons @ Bello Bar (€5)
[Indie/rock] First 3 bands are on a min-tour of the country: Dublin, Galway, Belfast. - Cult Called Man @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Pop/rock] Make It Easy. - Glacial Industries with V1984, Shriekin, Glacial @ Tivoli Backstage (€3, 9pm)
[Electronic] Grime productions. - DJ Deece, Mix & Fairbanks @ Tengu (Free, 10pm)
[DJs] Newbridge represent. - Zehr Gut presents: Sevensol (Kann), Sleep Thieves & Liza Flume @ Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (€12/€15, 9pm)
[Electronic] HomeBeat & The Goethe-Institut Irland’s German-focused night. - Subject is 9 @ Opium Rooms (€15+, 11pm)
- [House/techno] Paula Temple, Fragile & Slowburn
- State’s Faces Of July: Slow Riot, Sam Ojo @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Free/guestlist, Midnight)
[New music] State’s monthly new acts night.
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Saturday July 9
- Stomptown Brass @ Merrion Square (4.15pm, Free)
As part of Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular - Beyoncé @ Croke Park (€49+)
[Pop] Her BET performance with Kendrick Lamar was great. - Films Of Note: B Movie : Sounds & Lust in West Berlin ( 1979 – 1989 ) @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Music film festival] A part of the venue’s month-long music film festival. - The Stone Roses, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, SOAK @ Marlay Park (€74.50)
[Rock] The Fourth Coming gave us two new tunes no-one really needed. - Low Rez @ A4 Sounds (€5, 4pm)
[Workshop/live acts] Chiptune music workshops and live acts. - John Grant, Ane Brun, Somerville @ Iveagh Gardens (€40)
[American singer-songwriter] regular Irish visitor returns. Always a good show. - Word Up Collective #6 @ Bello Bar (€7)
[Hip-hop/R&B] Jafaris, Soulé, Ange MC and Mythil Grim. - February & Mars @ The Sugar Club (€10, 10:30pm)
[Electronic] Galway duo playing live with four-piece band. Recent IT album of the week. - Then#17: This is the One with Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam @ The Workman’s Club (11pm, Free)
[Stone Roses Afterparty] and Rowetta doing a live PA/Dj set. - Out To Lunch with Jayda G, Dip @ Tengu (€10, 10pm)
[Electronic] Canadian DJ returns to Tengu. - A Guy Called Gerald & Graeme Park @ Opium Rooms (€12, 11pm)
[Stone Roses Afterparty] + Mark Kavanagh, Liam Dollard, Aaron Costello & Austin Molloy - Mike Pickering [The Haçienda] @ Hangar (€12/€15, 11pm)
[Stone Roses Afterparty] yes two Hacienda DJs in town tonight. - Sense: Laolu @ Button Factory (Free, 11pm)
[Electronic] Innervisions DJ/producer
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Sunday July 10
- Ajo Arkestra @ Merrion Square (4.15pm, Free)
As part of Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular - Wilco, Lucinda Williams @ Iveagh Gardens (€50)
[Rock] revered American guitar band.
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Monday July 11
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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.
