The best gigs in Dublin this week by day:
The Gig Guide is published weekly every Tuesday and features the best gigs in Dublin city, curated by Nialler9.
What gigs are on in Dublin tonight?
Gig Guide Highlights: Culture Night, Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail, David Kitt, Rage Against Racism, F3miii, John Maus, Bill Callahan, Benny The Butcher, iNNUENDO, The Libertines, District X, Ian Pooley, Sessions From Oblivion free gig, Chappell Roan.
All door times are 7:30pm/8pm unless stated. Check links for full prices.
Tuesday September 17th
Chappell Roan @ 3Olympia Theatre
The hottest ticket in town.
Kevin Garrett @ The Grand Social
Pennsylvanian singer-songwriter. Support: Sean Joyce. ‘Can’t Come Back’
Róisín El Cherif @ Project Arts Centre
This Fringe Festival show brings together original music, poetry, and films from the Irish-Palestinian artist from Galway.
ULTRA MODERN GIRL @ The Grand Social (11pm)
Chappell Roan Club Night.
Wednesday September 18th
Daoir? Farrell @ The Sugar Club
Irish folk singer-storyteller.
Elle Coves @ The Workman’s Club
Really Taylor vibes from Spanish / Irish German pop artist. ‘Summer’
Melon & The Housemates, The Quays, Bl?k?r and Hill Wood @ The Sound House
Sound House Rising series.
Pizza Jazz @ Lucky’s
Jazz band live in the Meath Street pub.
Thursday September 19th
Say A Song @ The Depot @ The Complex (7pm)
A reimagining of the sean n?s singing tradition with Doireann N? Ghlac?in. This immersive exhibition, weaves together a captivating soundscape, dynamic short film projections, and evocative oil-on-canvas displays to create a multi-sensory experience, inviting audiences to ?step inside the song?.
iNNUENDO @ The Grand Social
on occasion? EP release. With support Martina and the Moons & Sarah Brooki
K3:LU A listening launch @ The Big Romance
A listening party for the Cork electronic producer’s new album Vol.II Cortis -.
SexyTadhg @ Lost Lane
The theatrical singer and artist has been campaigning to support Chappell Roan.
Peter Doran @ The Cobblestone
Irish Alternative Folk Songwriter.
Molly Vulpyne, Broncos, Forty Foot, Joe Maxi @ Sin ?
Irish rock, grunge, punk showcasing artists.
Graham Sweeney @ Hugh Lane Gallery
Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Katell Keineg @ Whelan’s
Welsh singer-songwriter with support Ann Scott and Adrian Crowley.
And He, The Fool, Callum Agnew, All Things Eve @ Whelan’s Upstairs
7-piece indie collective headline.
Meekz @ The Academy
British masked rapper. ‘Jummah’
Rage Against Racism @ The Sound House
Fortune Igiebor as The Vigilante Maestro: Proceeds will go directly to two vital charities, DORAS and NASC Ireland.
JustDyl @ Love Tempo
DJ bar vibe. SEASONS – (Sept mix)
The Midnight Disco’s Birthday Party with Amaliah @ Yamamori Tengu (11pm)
8th birthday with London London based DJ and producer Amaliah. Boiler Room.
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Friday September 20th
Mango and Friends @ Love Tempo (6pm)
& guests Sally Cinnamon, Surka, Big Cheeks, Corcra, Willo Healy and Sahana from 6pm to 1am. Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
Hertz @ Whelan’s
Electronic noise night with Nerves, Julia Louise Knifefist, Spooklet, Essiray, Asa Nisa Masa Stratford Rise
All Thumbs, Nessa McHugh, Trinkets @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Alternative indie pop, folk songwriter, and indie pop five-piece.
F3miii @ The Workman’s Cellar
Rising Dublin-based producer and vocalist. ‘Bad 4 My Health’
Benny The Butcher @ Button Factory
Griselda American rapper.
Yankari Afrobeat Collective @ The Sugar Club
Formed from the ashes of the Dublin Afrobeat Ensemble in 2015, Yankari set out early on to advance the Afrobeat genre pioneered by Fela Kuti and integrate a sort of Pan-Nigerian musical philosophy
QOW Trio @ Arthur’s
multi-generational jazz band featuring award-winning young firebrand saxophonist Riley Stone-Lonergan, storied British Jazz legend Spike Wells on drums, and multi-genre bassist and bandleader Eddie Myer.
Drag Show And DJs @ Wigwam (7pm ? 3am)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail. We?ll be kicking things off at 7pm with a two hour drag performance by our fabulous resident Queens, followed by DJ sets by some of our venue?s fave locals who are absolutely killing it at the moment until 3am
Rory Bowens Present: Nocturnal Beats featuring R?is?n Berkeley, Bog Band & Dreamcastmoe @ Hen?s Teeth (7pm ? 1am)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
Dublin Modular: Saturation @ The Pepper Canister Church
Fringe Festival. A different take on a Dublin Modular event that takes elements of club culture and theatre performance.
Culture Night @ Guinness Storehouse
Glasshouse Ensemble?s 30-piece orchestra will be joined by Gemma Dunleavy, Tosh?n, Qbanaa, and Faye O?Rourke (Soda Blonde) with live visual show by Kev Freeney.
Soundglasses @ The Big Romance
Soul, R&B, Funk, Ska, Reggae, Indie, and everything inbetween.
FoxGluv @ Lucky’s
Culture Night DJ vibe.
Krystal Klear @ Fidelity Studio (9pm)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
City Sounds: Rise Up Sound System with t-woc, Jwy and Jonezy @ Central Plaza (9pm – Midnight)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
City Sounds: Bang Bike Collective with Dimebag DJs and JBR Project ft. Pinsleep @ Essex Street (9pm – Midnight)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
City Sounds: Interruption with Lyndz B2B GVX, Scidley Rott and David Oblivion @ Capel Street (9pm – Midnight)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
Spraoi Mor Residents @ Hang Dai (10pm)
Holten b2b Dar Molloy
Long Island Sound (Live) + Seb Wildblood @ Centre Point (11pm)
The duo debut their live electronics show ahead of the release of new album. HYDRA. ‘Terra Nova’
Tengu Culture Night: Rub A Dub Hifi, Ambit, Governess, Jonezy, Kelsey, Ciara May, MC MAD X @ Tengu (11pm)
For Culture Night this year Tengu is focusing on Soundsystem Culture. Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
Rathaus: The Initiation
Queer party runs as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. “Get ready for a night of sexy techno, pop, performance and art.”
OMEN. x Culture Night @ Wigwam (11pm)
Vlad. ,MLR, Philip Galvin Jnr, Barry Greaves
Hammer [Feel My Bicep] @ Pygmalion (11pm)
Culture Night free in event.
Sunil Sharpe, Dylan Fogarty, Surka and January Winters @ Index (10pm)
Dublin City Culture Night Nocturnal Beats: Late Night Trail.
Limitless presents: Culture Night with Lottie & Slim @ The Cellar (11:30pm)
Lottie, originally from Slovenia and now based in Dublin, is a passionate digger and DJ, seamlessly blending stripped-back and impellent sounds across a wide range of electronic music subgenres.
Saturday September 21st
District X Festival @ Palmerstown House
Featuring blk., DJ Heartstring, EMA, Ewan McVicar, Girls Don’t Sync , Hannah Laing, Kerri Chandler, KETTAMA, Marlon Hoffstadt a.k.a. Daddy Trance, Partiboi69 (live), Sammy Virji, SHERELLE, Skepta, Vintage Culture, Saoirse, Yasmin Gardezi and more.
David Kitt (Full Band) @ Whelan’s
Not Fade Away re-release gig. With original band Graham Hopkins, Richie Egan + Matthew Bolger.
John Maus @ Button Factory
American synth pop cult hero.
Soaper, The Pretty Limited Live @ Sin ?
Soaper are a noisy Alt-Rock 2-piece from Sleaford, UK / Pretty LTD grungey pop-rock from Dublin.
Wombo, Punches Pilot, Dream Boy @ The Workman’s Cellar
Three piece indie rock band from Kentucky.
Fee Gray, Sygh, Miss Sister @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Irish alt-pop artist. Favourite Fucking Pill EP launch. ‘Celibate’
Swami and The Bed of Nails @ The Workman’s Club
Swami of Hot Snakes, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu leads this alt-rock outfit. KEXP performance.
Baby Bushka @ The Sugar Club
8-women Kate Bush ensemble from San Diego.
The RTE Orchestra Perform the Songs of Leonard Cohen @ 3Arena
Conducted by Gavin Maloney + feat. very special guest vocalists Mick Flannery, Suzanne Savage, Phelim Drew & Jess Kav.
Bye Bye Tsunami, Ten Past Seven, Gag Reflex @ Bello Bar
Copenhagen experi-metal, post-mental band, Kerry math-rockers, Irish-German Grunge band.
Pablo Santo @ Lucky’s (8:30pm)
Dublin Latino-Americano DJ.
Ricky Chong @ The Big Romance
Deep knowledge DJ resident with two guests.
January Winters @ Love Tempo
January loves house and disco mostly.
Club Obsidian @ The Grand Social (9pm)
Dark alternative music club – pounding industrial beats, EBM pulsations, haunting darkwave melodies, futuristic pop vibrations and gothic club anthems.
Vibez & Friends @ 4 DAme Lane (10pm)
Soulstice + Nocturnal Animals.
LOST: Prozak b2b Diffrent @ The Racket Space (11pm)
Irish garage.
District X Afterparty @ Tengu (11pm)
SWIM (AU), DJ Get Lucy.
Ian Pooley @ Opium (11pm)
Real Talks Art present the English house legend.
Mother @ Lost Lane (11pm)
Weekly old-school club night for disco-loving LGBTQ+ family & their friends.
Sunday September 22nd
Emmy Shigeta + Fhionn @ Fidelity (6pm)
Sunday DJ residency with Emmy and a guest.
Data Ryder @ Love Tempo
Ryan Sheridan // Smile Collective – Wigwam Basement set
Fhionn, Mango, David Diam @ Pawn Shop (9pm)
Free in DJs across two floors.
Fiadh Rua Gregg @ The Workman’s Club
The Dublin Jazz Co-op gig. Fiadh Rua Gregg is a vocalist, songwriter and voice teacher working across Ireland and Scotland. Fiadh creates and performs in the band Shy Mascot.
Roar @ Whelan’s
Inspired by 60s girl groups and early applications of the synthesizer, Roar songs sound like a place where old Hollywood celebrities, grief-stricken robots, and the occasional cheerful elf come together to tell stories about love, pain, and hope.
John Hegarty @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Irish singer-songwriter.
Wrest @ The Workman’s
Edinburgh-based indie band. ‘Second Wind’
A Grand Sunday Social Skank @ The Grand Social (8:30pm)
Free in. DJ Sets from Del Bionic & Chef Behan. Reggae, Rocksteady, SKA and 2tone.
Ortega @ Love Tempo
Brazilian disco dance.
Monday September 23rd
Song Cycle @ Whelan’s
Whelan?s weekly singer-songwriter night.
Bill Callahan @ Button Factory
twonights solo with the brilliant Smog songwriter.
Qbanaa, Shiv, Tosh?n, Negro Impacto @ The Sound House
RT? Sessions From Oblivion live performance series recording.
The Libertines @ 3Olympia
UK indie men are back.
Sl?tface @ The Workman’s Cellar
Norwegian rock-band-collective with vocalist and main songwriter Haley Shea.
Bird On the Wire: Songs of Leonard Cohen @ Vicar Street
A 90th Birthday Celebration
The Libertines official aftershow party @ The Grand Social (11pm)
with Carl Bar?t.
