Ticket giveaways:
- Friday/Saturday: Reverberation Psychedelic Festival @ The Grand Social
How to enter ticket comps – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number (for late contact) in the body of the message. Full info on each show below. Draw closes at 6pm the day before the gig or Friday 1pm latest for weekend gigs.
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Tuesday Aug 11
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Acoustic club] Dave Clark, Jem Mitchell and The Annulments .
Wednesday Aug 12
- Touch Amoré @ The Academy 2 (€15)
[Post-hardcore] Californian band. Over 14s show so no alcohol.
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Thursday Aug 13
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- Window Sessions: Kicking Bird & Juhn Echo @ MishMash, Capel Street (7pm-9pm, €TBC)
[Acoustic] “tiny acoustic cafe vibe.”
- The Big Grill BBQ & Craft Beer Festival 2015 @ Herbert Park (€10-€16)
[Food festival] With live music, DJs and more. Mostly a food fest. DJ BBQ.
- Good Name: Craftwerk @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Rock] Kraftwerk and Krautrock.
- Radiomade Live Curated by The Co-Present @ Berlin (Free)
[new Irish music] – featuring Paddy Hanna, Naoise Roo and Graham Sweeney - Gigonometry presents Cat Dowling, Grace Wilde and Silent Interlude @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
[new Irish music] Trio of new music acts. - eat a peach: Soil Creep, School Tour, Zayfontaine @ The Grand Social (€5)
[new Irish music] “an intimate evening showcasing three of our island’s finest electronic acts” - Welcome Closing Party @ Twisted Pepper (€5/€10, 10:30pm)
[Club] Shriekin, Glacial Sound, Suss DJs, Pick n Mix, Home DJs.
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Friday Aug 14
- Reverberation Psychedelic Festival @ The Grand Social (€12, WIN TICKETS)
[Garage, rock, psych] The Watchmakers, Tau, The Urges, This Other Kingdom, Elastic Sleep and more. - Dolittle Presents Rm Hubbert, VerseChorusVerse @ The Workman’s Club (€8)
[Folk/acoustic] Glasgow guitarist - The Big Grill BBQ & Craft Beer Festival 2015 @ Herbert Park (€10-€16)
[Food festival] With live music, DJs and more. Mostly a food fest. DJ BBQ.
- Kicking Bird @ Sweeney’s (Free)
[Food festival] With live music, DJs and more. Mostly a food fest. DJ BBQ.
- Marc O’Reilly & Ciaran Lavery @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Acoustic/folk] Two rising singer-songwriter talents. - Time To Shine: Ájo Arkestra, Cian Finn, T-Woc @ The Sugar Club (€10, 9pm)
[Global] Irish-based global music acts – Afrobeat, Afrofunk, Funk, Reggae, Dub, Latin, Brazilian - Official Closing Party @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 9pm)
[Club] The Pepper is closing. Clu, Ben Bix and Feather, Juice, Junior Spesh, Sim Simma, Subrewind… - Summer Reggae Bashment @ Seomra Spraoi (€10, 10pm)
[Ragga/dancehall] T-woc, Ras Tinny, Saoirse Sounds feat. Aminah, Junior Spesh and more. - Head Front Panel, Sunil Sharpe & Defekt @ Button Factory (€5/€8, 11pm)
[Techno] Check out a BR mix. - Blacklip Residential Party 005 @ Turk’s Head Downstairs (10:30pm, Free)
[DJs] bass, dub, grime and anything on the peripheral. - Johhny D @ Pygmalion (€5/€10, 10pm)
[DJs] German house music - Church: Gluttony @ The Meeting House (11pm, Free)
[Club] Free club night with Dave Byrne and Cian Murphy.
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Saturday August 15
- Majestic Creatures – Day & Night Gathering @ District 8 (3pm, €15)
[Hunt & Gather party] Ed Davenport, Lando, Phil Galvin Jnr, Big Daddy Can, Twin Headed Wolf & Friends, No Shame [Guilty pleasures party] and more. - The Big Grill BBQ & Craft Beer Festival 2015 @ Herbert Park (€10-€16)
[Food festival] With live music, DJs and more. Mostly a food fest. DJ BBQ.
- Reverberation Psychedelic Festival @ The Grand Social (€12, WIN TICKETS)
[Garage, rock, psych] Dead Rabbits + Cian Nugent & The Cosmos + Documenta + TWINKRANES + Autumns + Magic Pockets & Guest DJs - This Must Be the Place: Keaton Henson @ National Concert Hall (€35)
[Folk] with 16-piece sinfonietta. - Oldskool – The Evolution of Hip Hop @ The Sugar Club (€15)
[Hip-hop covers] live 7-piece classic hip-hop group - Official Closing Party @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 9pm)
[Dance] The Pepper is closing down. I Am The Cosmos, Discotekken, Barry Redsetta, Hidden Agenda, Not Saying Boo, Mr Jones, TR-One and lots more.
- Jacques Renault & Decent Perks @ Pygmalion (€5/€10, 9pm)
[Dance] Not only responsible for that Midnight Magic remix. See also Marilyn’s Gold. - Eagles & Butterflies @ Opium Rooms (€10, 11pm)
[DJ] Ibiza-London DJ playing down tempo to techno to house. - Sense: Eli & Fur @ Button Factory (Freelist, 11pm)
[Electronic] Turn The Lights Down.
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Sunday August 16
- Disco Brunch @ Drury Buildings (€25, 2pm)
[Party] cocktails, food and tunes from Rocky T Delgado, Ghostboy, Gianni and Chewy. - The Big Grill BBQ & Craft Beer Festival 2015 @ Herbert Park (€10-€16)
[Food festival] With live music, DJs and more. Mostly a food fest. DJ Yoda, Levi Roots and more.
- Nova Collective presents Samba De Amor @ The Sugar Club (€8)
[Samba] Brazilian music and culture.
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Monday August 17
- Take it handy.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
