The best gigs, clubs & festivals in Dublin this week

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Monday January 20th

• The Eye Opener: Neo, Costello, ParoPablo, Old @ Whelan’s (€10+)
  New Dublin hip-hop night boats a lineup of old and new. Featuring seminal cerebral MC Costello.

Tuesday January 21st

• Caravan Palace @ Vicar Street (€36+)
  Parisian electronic indie band. ‘Lone Digger’.

Wednesday January 22nd

• Petrol Girls @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€14+)
  Post hardcore British punk band. ‘Slug’.
• John Craigie, Laura Elizabeth Hughes @ Lost Lane (€19+)
  As part of Trad Fest. Support from Irish folk artist whose Youtube Uploads have garnered over 2.5 million views.

Thursday January 23rd

• Costello, Lethal Dialect @ The Workmans Club (€10+)
  A double whammy of Dublin old school hip-hop. Here’s a freestyle from the pair back from 2011.
• Emma Langford, Katie Theasby, Clare Sands, Saoirse Casey @ Lost Lane (€19+)
  Four superb Irish traditional artists as part of Trad Fest.
• Post-Pop Pres: Hales Lake, The Heist, Jamie F. Nugent @ Whelan’s (Free)
  Headed up by Irish North-East post-pop act Hales Lake. ‘Pro Strife’.
• Off Target @ The Big Romance (Free)
  A DDR. staple does a vinyl only set on Parnell street.
• TightKnit: Larry & Pier @ Bloody Marys (Free)
  Dance club night in the new place on South William Street.
• The Felice Brothers @ Whelan’s (€23+)
  NY native folk-rock band. ‘Days Of The Years’.
• Veta Sessions: Moon Looks On, Participant, Lyndsey Lawlor @ The Workmans Club (Donation)
  Three Irish folk artists share the bill on this charity event.
• The Midnight Disco: Donna Leake @ Tengu (11pm, €5+)
  The Midnight Disco will take place at 11pm.

Friday January 24th

• Rejecktz: UPPBEAT @ Club 32 Basement (€8+)
  Prolific emerging Irish MC. ‘Much Luv’.
• Schoolboy Q @ Olympia Theatre (€39+)
  One of the most prominent West Costs MCs was actually born in Germany, go figure.
• I Heart A Land Down Under @ Whelan’s (€10+)
  Raising funds for Australian Wildlife & firefighters.
• Big Sleep @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€11+)
  French Kiss Records’ signees and alternative rock band.
• Watermelon: Sorry I’m Late Record Launch @ Lucky’s (Free)
  Headed up by superb arab disco DJ Moving Still.
• Waterparks @ The Academy (€24+)
  American pop rock. ‘Easy To Hate’.
• All City: Joe Hessle @ Tengu (10pm, €7+)
  Boiler Room.
• Handsome Paddy @ Hang Dai (10:30pm, Free)
  He really is a very handsome man.
• Backstory: David Kitt, Donal Dineen @ Lost Lane (11pm, €5+)
  Dineen host a very special edition of Backstory featuring a modular set from Kittser.
• Laurent Garnier @ District 8 (11pm, €20+)
  Boiler Room.
• Yin Yang: Asquith @ Wigwam (11pm, €5+)
  Boiler Room.
• AIROD @ 39/40 (11pm, €10+)
  Intercell Acid Rotterdam.

Saturday January 25th

• Disco Carbonara @ Opium (4pm, €8+)
  All day disco party.
• Thomas P Heckmann @ The Sound House (€8+)
  Boiler Room.
• Cult Called Man @ Whelan’s (€10+)
  Dublin-based pop four-piece with a real vintage vibe.
• Xylouris White @ Whelans (€18+)
  Experimental traditional composers.
• Melodic is 8: Guy J & Roy Rosenfeld @ Tengu (€15, 9pm)
  The Dublin house night turns 8 with the DJs from Lost & Found label.
• MadDog: Bodycam, tapedesk, Morbific Noxae @ The Workmans Club (€5+)
  An all Irish triple-header of experimental and noise groups.
• Secret Sounds at Night @ Secret Sound (€8+)
  It’s a hush hush event.
• Big Italo Disco Party @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 10pm)
  Those who arrive wearing all black will be charged €7 per Guinness all night.
• Colin Devine @ The Big Romance (Free)
  All vinyl set.
• The Teskey Brothers @ The Academy (€17+)
  Modern Motown vibes. ‘Pain And Misery’.
• Deno @ Academy 2 (€14+)
  12 year old London MC. ‘London’.
• Hard House Revival @ Turk’s Head (10pm, €16+)
  “Jungle music is it? Prefer Hard House man”
• Speed Demons: Digitial Indecency, Bunkerterror @ Wigwam (11pm, €5+)
  Faster than light techno.
• Mother @ Lost Lane (11pm, €10+)
  This LGBTQ+ club night is the home of Disco in Dublin.
• DJ Seinfield @ 39/40 (11pm, €18+)
  The set in which nothing happens. No really: Seinfield is one of dance music’s best DJs right now.
• Flukey Flukes @ Hang Dai (Free, 11pm)
  Dumplings and dance music?
• Textasy Vol.2 @ Button Factory (11pm, €13+)
  More techno than you could shake a stick at.

Sunday January 26th

• Tim Bakar @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€15+)
  Canadian singer-songwriter. ‘All Hands’.
• The Ballroom Bash: Australia Day: Witch Trials, Vanity Bloom. Amy Ellen & more @ The Grand Social (€5 suggested donation)
  In Aid of the Wildlife Victoria and Victoria CFA. 

Luke Sharkey