The best gigs & clubs nights in Dublin this week

Due to very confusing and contradictory government guidelines announced this week, many of the live gigs below may not be taking place, while late night nightclub events ( post 11pm) look to be able to go ahead. Please check the linked event page for the latest on each event.

You could not make this up.

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Wednesday October 20th

• Make Me An Island with Rónän O’Snodaigh, Louise Mulcahy and Natalya O Flaherty @ The Sugar Club (€12.50)
  Make Me An Island is an illustrated guide to the musical universe devised and presented by Dónal Dineen.
• Up Close and Personal with Damien Dempsey @ The Grand Social (Sold Out)
  Hot Press-hosted interview series.
• Vulpynes, Evelyn Finnerty @ Sin É (€6)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Utopia: Everyone United @ NCH (€15)
  A live podcast event with Conner Habib, Andrea Horan and Una Mullally

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Thursday October 21st

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• Music Is The Answer Quiz @ The Circular (€7)
  Claire Beck’s music quiz live!
• Glasshouse perform Aphex Twin @ Opium Rooms (€15)
  Not their only show in the venue. See Monday.
• Lisa O’Neill, Lemoncello @ Vicar Street (Sold Out)
  Part of the venue’s Vision series.
• The Dead Fox Sisters, Caoi De Barra @ Sin É (€6)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Choki Biki Records – Restrictions Lifted Midnight Party @ Bow Lane (Sold Out)
  Acid, Rave, Techno and Breakbeat label based in Dublin founded by DJ and Producer Sharpson.
• Decent Perks @ The Pyg (Midnight, Sold Out)
  DJ Deece and Colin Perks B2B.

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Friday October 22nd

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• BIAS: BUILT THIS WAY: 4X In Stereo (FKA Marcus Woods) @ Science Gallery (6pm – 9pm, Free)
  An interactive exploration of preferences, prejudices and digital equity. Dublin’s own 4X In Stereo (formerly Marcus Woods uses artificial intelligence to create unique tracks that blend ethereal and lush ambient sounds with hypnotic, minimal techno and ambient drums.
• Silverbacks @ The Grand Social (Sold Out)
  Irish alt-rock band with new album Archive Material on the way.
• Megan O’Neill @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€12.80)
  Kildare folk singer-songwriter
• Mango X MathMan @ The Workman’s Cellar (sold out)
  Heartbreaks & Promises single launch.
• Offica @ The Academy (Sold Out)
  A92 Collective drill artist.
• Myk Pyro, Gaolbyrds @ Sin É (€6)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Wild Youth @ Button Factory (€15)
  Dublin pop band.
• Bella Festa @ Lucky’s (Free)
  Italo disco vibes for reopening.
• Love Tempo: Steve Manning & Graham Dolan @ The Big Romance (8pm)
  DJ vibes in the lovely back bar.
• Bon Voyage, Andy Bell, Cici, Ben Bix & more @ The Sugar Club (10pm, €15+)
  An Arveene and Shamon Cassette-lead party.
• Attention Bebe @ The Grand Social (Late night show, Sold Out)
  Fun big band nostalgia.
• Cáit All Night Long @ Tengu (11pm, Sold Out)
  Cáit Fahy all night in Tengu for reopening.
• Strawberries @ The Sound House (11pm, Sold Out)
  Strawberries electronic queer party is for LGBTQ+ people and their friends.
• Mother opening night @ Lost Lane (11pm, Sold Out)
  Limited tickets on the door.
• Hidden Love presents Our Opening Party @ 21-22 Wellington Quay (10pm, €15)
  Darkmavis, Madting Wuu2, Erik Burka, Flores, 4Foot5 and more. See also Saturday.
• Bill Mango + Bodytonic DJs @ The Shaw (10pm, €11)
  Disco house Irish DJ.
• Quinton Campbell B2B Syl Black @ The Pyg (11pm, €10)
  Reopening party.
• Church @ The Well (11pm, Sold Out)
  The club night returns.
• Hijinks @ Opium (9pm, Sold Out)
  Marcus O’ Laoire, Chantel Kavanagh and more
• A One Night Love Affair @ The Grand Social (Sold Out)
  Disco DJ Kelly-Anne Byrne’s return.
• Kettama, Shampain, Efa O’Neill, Adult Store, Sohotsospicy and more @ Index (10pm, Sold Out)
  A big 2-room return to the dance.
• Bodytonic & Pals – Reopening Weekend @ Wigwam (Sold Out)
  Queen Beatz, SoHotSoSpicy, JohnnyBobo B2B Prozak, Sputnik B2B Glimmerman, Viva Deane, Bambi.

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Saturday October 23rd

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• Utopia: The Chill Out Room as a Radical Space (Loving You) @ NCH (10am – 6pm, Free / ticketed)
  Presented by Kate Butler, Don Rosco, and No Place Like Drone, featuring new sonic work by commissioned artists.
• Signs of Life: Telephones Daytime Party @ Pallas Studios (3pm – 9pm, Sold Out)
  Moving Still, Rosita Moulin, Pablo Santos + more TBA
• Le Boom @ Whelan’s (Sold Out)
  First gig in two years with a new lineup from Christy Leech’s electro-power pop.
• Utopia: Cypher @ NCH (€15)
  MCs convene to create a freestyle cypher on stage. Strange Boy, Rebel Phoenix, ​​​​​Celaviedmai, DJ Replay, Dyramid, Alicia Raye
• UNQ & Rob de Boer @ MVP (€10)
  Part of the Beatyard festival.
• Lex Woo @ The Big Romance (8pm)
  A vinyl set on the Toby Hatchett soundsystem.
• The Wedding Present @ Button Factory (€22.50)
  Seamonsters 30th anniversary.
• Myk Pyro, Gaolbyrds @ Sin É (€6)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Biggest ’90s Disco @ 3Arena (€65.50+)
  Robin S, 2 Unlimited, N-Trance, Atomic Kitten, Whigfield, Vengaboys and more ’90s acts are heading to the 3Arena. Now seated.
• Dubzeno @ Lost Lane (€17.35)
  Finglas rapper on the rise.
• Rescheduled: Adrian Crowley @ The Workman’s Club (€22.50)
  Performing The Watchful Eye Of The Stars album.
• DISTRICT MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Shiv, Efé, Negro Impacto, Bricknasty @ The Workman’s Cellar (€10)
  A night of new Irish music curated by District.
• Selky & Little O @ Top Deck, Dun Laoghaire (10pm, €11)
  Club Comfort DJ leads this lineup. ‘Night Czar’.
• Mother @ Lost Lane (€11, 11pm)
  With Kelly-Anne Byrne DJing.
• Riz La Teef & Baliboc @ Tengu (11pm, Sold Out)
  UK Garage, Grime and Dubstep from the South London DJ.
• REBŪKE, Nancy Live, Moduse & more @ Button Factory (11pm, €22+)
  A 2-room lineup of techno-leaning acts.
• Manifest: Bunkerterror, Mav666 & more @ The Sound House (11pm,€15)
  A night of heavy music.
• Miss Kate LIVE with special guests LuxAlma @ The Bernard Shaw (10pm, €13)
  Support from Donna Bisset, Bobofunk, Handsome Paddy
• Eve, Aaron Nolan @ The Pyg (11pm, €10)
  Reopening party weekend with Eve Djs.
• Bodytonic & Pals – Reopening Weekend @ Wigwam (Sold Out)
  Nala Brown, Ngoni, Slither, DJ Chargesheet, Breen, Chloe Farquhar and more.

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Sunday October 24th

• Signs Of Life: R3D’S House presents The Bloc Party@ Pallas Studios (3pm – 9pm, €25)
  Aby Coulibaly, Monjola, Plantain Papi, Alicia Raye + special guests
• Nialler9 presents Strange Boy, The X Collective @ Workman’s Cellar (Free in)
  A free show with Limerick spoken word and rap artist and the massive soul, jazz and R&B collective. The X Collective features Toshín, Jess Kav (BARQ, Hozier), Zapho (Co Founder TXC), UNQ, Chloe Agnew (Celtic Woman), Mutant Vinyl (UK) Decarteret, Shy Mascot, TADGH.
• Utopia: Murmuration @ NCH (€15)
  A live musical performance emerging in the moment with Led by Ben Castle the gathering will include David Kitt, Saint Sister’s Gemma Doherty, David Le’aupepe, folk artist Daoiri Farrell, classical pianist Izumi Kimura, Rory Friers of So I Watch You From Afar and more.
• Shy Mascot, DJackulate @ Sin É (€6)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Nevan Jio @ The Big Romance (8pm)
  A vinyl set on the Toby Hatchett soundsystem.
• Aoife Nic Canna @ MVP (book tables)
  Bank Holiday vinyl DJ pub feels.
• Boots & Kats DJ Set @ The Lighthouse, Dun Laoghaire (10pm, €15)
  Intergalactic Party Wardens
• Lou Bru @ The Other Hand Bar, The Circular (Free, 8:30pm)
  Pure Shores DJ and all round legend playing tunes.
• Lime & Fancy @ The Bernard Shaw
  Jenn and Cian bring the fun pop vibes
• Moved to 31st October: Circles: Sunil Sharpe, Cailín, DeFeKT, Yasmin Gardezi & more @ Index (€25)
  The dance event that returns for its fifth edition in the new Index on the quays.
• Paranoid London [Live]@ The Pyg (6pm, €10)
  Reopening weekend with dirty electro music on the cards.
• Mother DJs Bank Holiday Sunday Special @ Lost Lane (11pm, €13)
  Mother DJs Ruth Kavanagh & Rocky T Delgado banging out disco til the wee small hours.
• Bodytonic Presents: Sunday @ Wigwam (11pm, €15)
  Job Jobse to be rescheduled due to ear issues. Mercorn (Skin & Blister), Bella Festa, Bill Mango and more on instead.
• Nabihah Iqbal & Sim Simma @ Tengu (11pm, €15)
  NTS Radio and BBC Asian Network resident Nabihah Iqbal is a fine booking.
• Boiler Room Open Dancefloors @ Button Factory (11pm, €15)
  ABSOLUTE, Long Island Sound, Jordan Hearns, Síofra

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Monday October 25th

• New Jackson @ The Big Romance (8pm)
  8 Hour Live + DJ Set on the Toby Hatchett soundsystem.
• Glasshouse & R.Kitt perform Léiriú @ Opium Rooms (€15)
  A new composition by R.Kitt & Aran O’Grady. Léiriú is inspired by the fading nightlife of Dublin City. It is at once a celebration of club culture, and a lament for the homogenisation of Dublin’s nighttime scene. 
• Prymary Colours @ The Workman’s Club Cellar (€10)
  Electronic disco duo.
• Patricia Lalor @ Smock Alley (€15)
  The young teen artist performs live. Watch her live Chromatic video.
• Mik Pyro & Guests @ The Sugar Club (€15)
  with support from Bricknasty