The 20 best gigs & clubs in Dublin city this week
Tuesday June 27
- Badbadnotgood @ The Sugar Club (€23)
Canadian young jazz lads who have worked with Ghostface, MF Doom and Danny Brown. Second show.
Wednesday June 28
- SAD 13 @ Whelan’s (€15)
Speedy Ortiz front lady Sadie Dupuis - Floor Staff, We, the Oceanographers @ The Workmans Club (€10)
New Convictions EP is recommended.
Thursday June 30
- Soma 009: Young Earth @ Whelan’s (Free)
Indie club with SOMA Resident DJs. - Green Day, Rancid @ RHK (€58)
Punk pop rock lads.
- Perspectives: Kamasi Washington @ NCH (€27)
Jazz musician who has worked with Kendrick. - It’s A Movement: Backshed Inc, Blackfish Collective… @ The Academy (€10+)
new live hip-hop night.+ Flowstate Movement , Craic Appeal and MoFame - Tash Sultana, Craig Gallagher @ Vicar Street (€20)
Upcoming Aussie Artist. Murder To The Mind.
Friday June 30
- Subterranean Desire @ MVP (Free, 9pm)
Post Punk, Synth, Minimal Wave with DJ Gib Cassidy - TRILL 03 @ Tengu (€8, 11pm)
Rap and hip-hop club night.
Saturday July 1
- The Lumo Summer all-day party @ Garda Boat Club, Chapelizod (€15, 2pm late)
Outdoor/indoor party by the water with I Am The Cosmos live, DJ Deece, Sing Along Social, DJ Ollie Chau and Lumo Club DJs. - Mr. Mendel, Sunday Times & Disco É Cultura @ Dublin schoolyard (€12+, 2pm, BYOB)
Telephones all-day party. - MK presents Area 10 @ Navan Racecourse, Meath (moved from Morton Stadium)
+ Route 94, Sam Divine, Klangkarussel, KC Lights and Will Clarke - Locked #1: Patrick Kelleher, Catscars, Everything Shook @ Bello Bar (€10)
Alt and electronic live acts. - Fort Romeau, Gary Gritness + Q+A/Workshop with Timmy Stewart @ The Shaw
Red Bull Music Academy x Bodytonic Music. - Sean O’Hagan @ The Grand Social (€14)
Songwriter with the High Llamas, Stereolab & more - Walpurgis Family, Stoat @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€8)
Last ever gig. - Backstory @ Jigsaw (€10, 11pm, BYOB)
Donal Dineen’s DJ night.
Sunday July 2
- Kings of Leon, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats @ 3Arena (€90)
Also Saturday & next Tuesday. - The Italian Fusion Festival @ The Grand Social (4pm -late, €7)
Italian music, food and more including Mongrel State, Miss Phoenix and The Jaffa Cakes & more
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