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 (€16)
  New live music night.
• Billy No Mates @ The Workman’s Club (€15)
  English post punk artist Tor Maries is back on for this week after last week’s confusion.
• Why-Axis @ The Workman’s Cellar (€10)
  Dublin MC continues the reopening party.
• MåsExödus 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 €15)
  The Galway label puts on a fine spread.
• Sleepover Club: Banríon, Beauty Pageant, Robbie Stickland @ The Workman’s Cellar (€10)
  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 É (€10)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• MåsExödus 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 (€17.35)
  Former Walking On Cars singer.
• Carrie Baxter @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€11.80)
  London-based Irish neo-jazz soul singer.

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Thursday October 28th

• Féile Classical @ 3Arena (€33, 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. 🙂
• Dani Larkin, Oscar Blue @ Sin É (€10)
  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 (€12.50)
  We’ve featured Franki’s lovely chill electropop vibes here.
• Glen Hansard @ NCH (€35)
  Support Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh and filmmaker/musician Myles O’Reilly
• The Stunning @ Olympia Theatre (€30)
  First show back.

Friday October 29th

• ZEHR GUT: Lambert, Sara Miller & Navá @ Goethe-Institut Irland (Sold Out)
  Homebeat curated night @  37 Merrion Square
• Lord Apex @ The Workmans Club (€15)
  UK MC’s debut Irish show with Ahmed, With Love and Curtisy on support.
• Houseplants @ Lost Lane (9pm, €20)
  Paul Noonan and Daithi’s collaborative project. With a Nialler9 DJ set til late.
• The X Collective : Hallowed Eve @ The Sugar Club (€15)
  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 É (€10)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Stomptown Brass @ Opium Rooms (€15)
  8-piece Urban Street Funk band
• Nealo @ Button Factory (€20)
  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)
  Dublin’s “post-crunk apré-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, €15)
  with Kelly-Anne Byrne B2B Ruth Kavanagh, Ben Bix and more
• Pear009 Launch with Fio Fa & Jio @ Tengu (11pm, €11)
  Fio Fa b2b Nev Jio launch their latest record.
• Bodytonic & DeeperGroove: Fishgodeep, Glenn Davis more @ The Shaw (10pm, €13)
  House music on the northside.
• Church Halloween @ The Well (11pm, €11)
  “Hocus Pocus ‘I Put a Spell On You’ played 68 times“
• 50/50 – RnB @ Bow Lane Social (10pm, €20)
  90s, 00s RnB, HipHop and Afrobeat with DJ Wax.
• Centre Point: George Fitzgerald @ Button Factory (€22.50,11pm)
  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. 👀
• 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, €16)
  Performing his dub reinterpretation of Massive Attack’s classic Mezzanine album
• The return of the History of House @ The Sound House (11:30pm, €20)
  2 rooms of house through the ages.
• Hdnluv 003 – Hard House of Horrors @ 21-22 Wellington Quay (€10, 10pm)
  Pierce Rooney, Sonia, LE4H

Saturday October 30th

• 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 (€15)
  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 (€28)
  Irish instrumental band return.
• Holly Humberstone @ Whelan’s (€13)
  Rising English indie pop artist.
• Yenkee, Five To Two @ Sin É (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, Cailín, 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, €15)
  Headlined by Dutch deephouse/nu-disko/ deeptech & minimal DJ
• Bakey B2B Breaka, Prozak @ Bow Lane Social Club (10pm, €15)
  UK Garage, Bass and Breakbeat
• Human Error Presents: Kessler @ Wigwam (11pm, €15)
  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 (€10)
  Halloween Night live indie.
• Aaron Unknown @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
  English rapper who has collaborated with JyellowL.
• Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside, Old Sea Legs @ Sin É (€10)
  Part of the In Through The Outdoor Series.
• Yenkee @ the Top Deck, Dun Laoghaire (€10)
  Cork’s Graham Cooney makes breezy indie pop.
• Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen @ 3Olympia (€32)
  Pauline Scanlon and The Whileaways.
• LEWWAB @ The Sound House (€12)
  Female electronic duo hailing from the city of Cork
• Sing Along Social @ MVP (€10)
  The big pop singing party is back.
• The Goblin King’s Masquerade Ball @ Whelan’s (€17.50)
  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, €13)
  ft. Kelly-Anne Byrne & Billy Scurry
• Circles: Sunil Sharpe, Cailín, DeFeKT, Yasmin Gardezi & more @ Index (€25, 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 (€30)
  First of a run of live podcast shows from the Rubberbandits lad.

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