The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide
Ticket giveaways:
- Friday: Native Tongues party: The Jungle Brothers @ The Sugar Club
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 18
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Acoustic club] Overcoats, Bukspan-Tierney-Boyle , Valentina Duracinsky and Ray Heffernan. - Skinny Wolves presents: Ryley Walker, Cryboys, Brigid Power Ryce @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€12.50)
[Psych/jazz/rock] The “True American Guitar Player.” Also doing a Tower Instore at 1pm.
Wednesday Aug 19
- Skinny Wolves presents: Deerhoof, So Cow @ Whelan’s (€15.50)
[Alt] San Fran alt-noise rock band. Tiny Bubbles.
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Thursday Aug 20
- Bean Spasms: Soil Creep, School Tour, Zayfontaine @ The Grand Social (€5)
[Electronic] Eat Like A Peach night.
- Good Name: Overcoats @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Folk] Fine new New York duo.
- Radiomade Live @ Berlin (Free)
[new Irish music] – featuring Sixth String Out present Griffo, The Soper Brothers & Leni Darling Sins
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Friday Aug 21
- Another Love Story @ Killyon Manor, Meath (€130)
[Festival by Happenings/Homebeat] New Jackson, Loah, Come On Live Long, I Have A Tribe, Attention Bebe, Sally Cinnamon, Buffalo Woman and more. - Native Tongues party: The Jungle Brothers @ The Sugar Club (€15, WIN TICKETS)
[Rap] Rap legends with Stevie G on the afterparty. - Mandrogny @ Sweeney’s (9pm, €7 before 10pm, €10 after)
[Live/DJs] Alternative 80’s/Post-Punk/New Wave/Industrial/Goth. The Cure cover band. - Kila @ Whelan’s (€20)
[Trad/folk] Recent Emmy nominees / Song Of The Sea music providers. - Cian Byrne Little & MOE @ Sweeney’s Bar (Free, 1opm)
- [Techno] Free techno night.
- Little L Records presents: Gubers (EP launch), Shriekin, Auxiliary Phoenix and Rub A Dub @ Pacino’s (€5, Midnight)
[Techno] and Electronic and beat support. - Strictly Deep: Detlef @ Hangar (€8/€12, 10:30pm)
[DJ] House and techno Ibiza resident - Buffalo Sunn @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Midnight, guestlist)
[Midnight hour] Dublin rock band.
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Saturday August 22
- Another Love Story @ Killyon Manor, Meath (€130)
[Festival by Happenings/Homebeat] New Jackson, Loah, Come On Live Long, I Have A Tribe, Attention Bebe, Sally Cinnamon, Buffalo Woman and more. - Spirit of Folk Launch Party @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Folk] Inni-K, Blood Red Mountain Band, ELm and more. - A Bash For Philo @ The Academy (€31)
[Party] The annual celebration of Thin Lizzy’s frontman.
- Light Over There @ Bello Bar (€10)
[Rock] “Rex Haberman is a veteran rocker from Minneapolis” - Get Down Edits @ The Meeting House (Free, 10pm)
[DJs] Waterford-disco DJs. Family EP - Hidden Agenda Vs. The Malibu Club: The Summer Jam @ The Sugar Club (€5, 9pm)
[Dance]DJs – DJ Deece , Colin Devine, Timmy Crowley, Sean Reynolds, Ian Blake
- Scavenger €5 Party @ The Wiley Fox (9pm, €5)
[Screening/electronic] Feat. ‘Looking for the Perfect Beat’ Screening - Lakuti @ Opium Rooms (€10, 11pm)
[DJ] London-based South African DJ with support from Galactic Beat Club. - Sense: Guy Gerber @ Button Factory (€15, 11pm )
[Dance] Techno/progressive/house artist from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Sunday August 23
- Another Love Story @ Killyon Manor, Meath (€45 family day ticket)
[Festival by Happenings/Homebeat] New Jackson, Loah, Come On Live Long, I Have A Tribe, Attention Bebe, Sally Cinnamon, Buffalo Woman and more. - Lock 6 Jam @ Lock 6 Coffee, Rathmines on the Canal (Free, 2pm – 1opm)
[Party] Three rooms of music, food and drinks. Guest D.J’s Niall Comiskey, Aoife Bauer, & Matthew Faherty.
Plus Groovement Residents. - Sim Simma Summer Blowout @ The Sugar Club (2pm, €5/€10)
[Reggae] West African Percussion and Dance, Ireland / Dammy’s Dancehall Dancing / Ovo / Fruitman / Jeremy Murphy
- An Evening with Monster Monster @ MART (€5, BYOB)
[Pop] Video of the week last week. - Pyg Sundays presents Eric Dunan AKA Dr. Dunks @ Pygmalion (€5, 9pm)
[Dance] one half of the dj & production duo Rub n Tug & also half of New York’s ‘Still Going’.
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Monday August 24
- Mini Mansions @ The Workman’s Club (€15)
[Alt/indie] Alex Turner won’t be there.
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