The best gigs & clubs nights in Dublin this Halloween week
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Tuesday October 26th
- Hibernia: Audible Chocolate, Cheesmore, Rodney Paz, Sam Healy @ The Sound House (โฌ16)
New live music night. - Billy No Mates @ The Workman’s Club (โฌ15)
English post punk artist Tor Maries is back on for this week after last week’s confusion. - Why-Axis @ The Workman’s Cellar (โฌ10)
Dublin MC continues the reopening party. - MรฅsExรถdus feat. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ The Sugar Club
Fresh from the Cork Jazz, a new project by Choice Cuts feat. Max Zaska and more. 2 nights.
Wednesday October 27th
- Strange Brew presents: Paddy Hanna, Anna Mullarkey, Slow Place Like Home @ The Workman’s Club โฌ15)
The Galway label puts on a fine spread. - Sleepover Club: Banrรญon, Beauty Pageant, Robbie Stickland @ The Workman’s Cellar (โฌ10)
Three indie/alt-rock/post-punk DIY acts on one bill. - Tebi Rex, Silent Ghost, Daire Patel @ The Bernard Shaw basement (Free)
Listening party show for new album It’s Gonna Be Okay. - Fiach O’Brian Group, Niwel Tsumbu @ Sin ร (โฌ10)
Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series. - MรฅsExรถdus feat. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ The Sugar Club
Fresh from the Cork Jazz, a new project by Choice Cuts feat. Max Zaska and more. 2 nights. - Pa Sheehy @ Whelan’s (โฌ17.35)
Former Walking On Cars singer. - Carrie Baxter @ Whelan’s Upstairs (โฌ11.80)
London-based Irish neo-jazz soul singer.
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Thursday October 28th
- Fรฉile Classical @ 3Arena (โฌ33, 6:30pm)
An Emotional Fish, Something Happens, Hot House Flowers, The Frank & Walters, The Four of Us, Irish Women in Harmony, special guests - Moving Still, Jimbo Jones, Sorca McGrath @ Lucky’s
Nialler9 and Lucky’s present three live electronic acts in the back bar on Meath Street. - Pillow Queens @ The Workman’s Cellar (Sold Out)
This gig sold out before it was even conceived. ๐ - Dani Larkin, Oscar Blue @ Sin ร (โฌ10)
Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series. - Just Mustard @ The Grand Social (Sold Out)
Great Dundalk noise-rock shoegaze band. - Franki @ Whelan’s Upstairs (โฌ12.50)
We’ve featured Franki’s lovely chill electropop vibes here. - Glen Hansard @ NCH (โฌ35)
Support Kรญla frontman Rรณnรกn ร Snodaigh and filmmaker/musician Myles OโReilly - The Stunning @ Olympia Theatre (โฌ30)
First show back.
Friday October 29th
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- ZEHR GUT: Lambert, Sara Miller & Navรก @ Goethe-Institut Irland (Sold Out)
Homebeat curated night @ 37 Merrion Square - Lord Apex @ The Workmans Club (โฌ15)
UK MC’s debut Irish show with Ahmed, With Love and Curtisy on support. - Houseplants @ Lost Lane (9pm, โฌ20)
Paul Noonan and Daithi’s collaborative project. With a Nialler9 DJ set til late. - The X Collective : Hallowed Eve @ The Sugar Club (โฌ15)
Can highly recommend this big band of soul jazz R&B pop sounders. - Elaine Mai @ The Workman’s Cellar (Sold Out)
Album launch party with guest vocalists. - Aonair, Jackie Beverly @ Sin ร (โฌ10)
Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series. - Stomptown Brass @ Opium Rooms (โฌ15)
8-piece Urban Street Funk band - Nealo @ Button Factory (โฌ20)
Dublin rapper and band finally gets to play a proper show to celebrate All The Leaves Are Falling debut album one year anniversary. - Really Good Time, Homebeat DJs @ The Shaw Basement (Free)
Dublinโs “post-crunk aprรฉ-garde super group” as featured here. - Gruff Rhys @ Liberty Hall (Sold Out)
Super Furry Animals frontman has a fine set of solo albums under his belt. - Pyg’s Movember Launch Party: Cici, Arveene & Andy Bell @ The Pygmalion (10pm, โฌ15)
with Kelly-Anne Byrne B2B Ruth Kavanagh, Ben Bix and more - Pear009 Launch with Fio Fa & Jio @ Tengu (11pm, โฌ11)
Fio Fa b2b Nev Jio launch their latest record. - Bodytonic & DeeperGroove: Fishgodeep, Glenn Davis more @ The Shaw (10pm, โฌ13)
House music on the northside. - Church Halloween @ The Well (11pm, โฌ11)
“Hocus Pocus โI Put a Spell On Youโ played 68 times“ - 50/50 – RnB @ Bow Lane Social (10pm, โฌ20)
90s, 00s RnB, HipHop and Afrobeat with DJ Wax. - Centre Point: George Fitzgerald @ Button Factory (โฌ22.50,11pm)
Launch of a new club night from the people behind Sense, Hidden Agenda, No Sleep Club. Lot of guests lined up you can see here. ๐ - Kettama, Shampain, Efa O’Neill, Adult Store, Sohotsospicy and more @ Index (10pm, Sold Out)
A rescheduled date from last week. - Mad Professor @ The Sugar Club (11pm, โฌ16)
Performing his dub reinterpretation of Massive Attackโs classic Mezzanine album - The return of the History of House @ The Sound House (11:30pm, โฌ20)
2 rooms of house through the ages. - Hdnluv 003 – Hard House of Horrors @ 21-22 Wellington Quay (โฌ10, 10pm)
Pierce Rooney, Sonia, LE4H
Saturday October 30th
Lumo is back Saturday!
- Dublin Modular Halloween Courtyard Gathering @ Pallas Projects Studios (3pm-9pm, Sold Out)
Spooky live electronics and vinyl yard party! BYOB day event - Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill @ Vicar Street (Sold Out)
Cork singer-songwriters play rescheduled date. - Burner Records Presents It’s Been A Minute @ The Workman’s Club (โฌ15)
Wallfella, Shollah, RUDY, Absentee, Muttonhead and the Burner DJs - Overhead, The Albatross @ The Workman’s Cellar (Sold Out)
The return of Dublin post-rock instrumentalists. - God Is An Astronaut @ The Academy (โฌ28)
Irish instrumental band return. - Holly Humberstone @ Whelan’s (โฌ13)
Rising English indie pop artist. - Yenkee, Five To Two @ Sin ร (Sold out)
Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series. - Ctrl Alt Delete: Dreamcycles, Natalia Beylis:,Bootang, Celaviedemai @ The Complex (Sold Out)
Part of DDR’s Alternating Currents festival. - Jeff Mills @ Index (11pm, Sold Out)
With Hybrasil, Cailรญn, Snakebite 616, Shannen Blessing, Niall Cleary - Lumo Club @ Tengu (11pm, Sold Out)
Our house party in a club night is back. Finally. - Pure Shores @ Wigwam (11pm, Free)
Lou Bru and Michael Pope with the pop vibes. - Mother @ Lost Lane (11pm, Sold Out)
Rocky T Delgado on the decks. - Baba Robijn, Quinton Campbell, Syl Black @ The Pyg (11pm, โฌ15)
Headlined by Dutch deephouse/nu-disko/ deeptech & minimal DJ - Bakey B2B Breaka, Prozak @ Bow Lane Social Club (10pm, โฌ15)
UK Garage, Bass and Breakbeat - Human Error Presents: Kessler @ Wigwam (11pm, โฌ15)
Check out his recent AVA Festival set. - CONTIUNUUM: Belacqua @ Secret Location (10pm, Sold Out)
Part of DDR’s Alternating Currents festival.
Sunday October 31st
- Undertow: Fixity, Jenn Kirby, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh @ The Complex (2pm, Sold Out)
Part of DDR’s Alternating Currents festival. - Samhain: Lighght, Dreamgirls @ The Complex (5pm – 7:30pm, Sold Out)
Part of DDR’s Alternating Currents festival. - Gurriers, Cabl @ The Workman’s Club (โฌ10)
Halloween Night live indie. - Aaron Unknown @ Whelan’s Upstairs (โฌ10)
English rapper who has collaborated with JyellowL. - Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside, Old Sea Legs @ Sin ร (โฌ10)
Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series. - Yenkee @ the Top Deck, Dun Laoghaire (โฌ10)
Cork’s Graham Cooney makes breezy indie pop. - Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen @ 3Olympia (โฌ32)
Pauline Scanlon and The Whileaways. - LEWWAB @ The Sound House (โฌ12)
Female electronic duo hailing from the city of Cork - Sing Along Social @ MVP (โฌ10)
The big pop singing party is back. - The Goblin Kingโs Masquerade Ball @ Whelan’s (โฌ17.50)
Music from the movie Labyrinth. - Old School Night @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
With Aoife Nic Canna and 909 Originals. Kicks off with a dance music. quiz. - Mother Disco Bloodbath @ Lost Lane (11pm, โฌ13)
ft. Kelly-Anne Byrne & Billy Scurry - Circles: Sunil Sharpe, Cailรญn, DeFeKT, Yasmin Gardezi & more @ Index (โฌ25, 9pm)
The dance event that returns for its fifth edition in the new Index on the quays. - The Midnight Disco Halloween Party w/ LSDXOXO @ Wigwam (11pm, Sold Out)
A Halloween bash. - Sanctuary @ Tengu (11pm, Sold Out)
Dublin based members club night for liberated & likeminded people
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Monday November 1st
- The Blindboy Podcast @ Vicar Street (โฌ30)
First of a run of live podcast shows from the Rubberbandits lad.
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