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Tuesday Sept 1
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Acoustic club] TBC
Wednesday Sept 2
- Fuzz feat. Ty Segall, Exploding Eyes @ Whelan’s (€18)
[Rock] Ty Segall’s collaborative rock band. - Kaleidoscope Night Season Gala Launch @ Unitarian Church (€13.47)
[Contemporary] featuring choir New Dublin Voices, Francesco Turrisi and others.
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Thursday Sept 3
- CC Smugglers, Cry Monster Cry, Alex Jordan @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€13)
[Folk] UK folk.
- Come Here To Me Dublin Songs & Stories @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Rape Crisis centre funduraiser] Feat BP Fallon / Steve Averill / Mick Pyro / ADW Art and more to be announced
- Good Name: Moot @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Free show] Hosted by Replete, expect the best in contemporary electronica.
- Gigonometry: MKAI, Hawklion, KEVYN,.. @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
[New Irish] Barry Jay Hughes & Anti-One - Toast – Batch Once Again @ Opium Rooms (11pm, €6/€8)
[DJs] Long Island Sound, Alan Byrne, Boots & Kats
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Friday Sept 4
Festival
- Electric Picnic @ Stradbally (SOLD OUT)
Grace Jones, Underworld, LA Priest, FKA Twigs and many more,
- No Tent Required @ The Grand Social (€5)
[Charity] Rachael McCormack Johnny Rayge The Sacreblues Band The Mariannes Mongrel State Fox E & The Good Hands - Techno and Cans presents Bjarki @ Hangar (€8/€10, 10:30pm)
[Techno] Bjarki, Sam Greenwood and Eoin Donovan.
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Saturday Sept 5
Festival
- Electric Picnic @ Stradbally (SOLD OUT)
Blur, Future Islands, Shamir, Yasiin Bey, Battles & more
- Lee Fields and The Expressions @ The Sugar Club (€22.50)
[Soul] Classic authentic American soul. - RODS @ Opium Rooms (€TBC, 11pm)
[Dance] Mono Club resident - The Midnight Hour: Squatter’s Coup, The #1s, Oh Boland @ Whelan’s (Guestlist, 11:30pm)
[Rock] Free in before 10:30pm.
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Sunday Sept 6
Festival
- Electric Picnic @ Stradbally (SOLD OUT)
Tame Impala, Florence and the Machine, Hundred Waters, Le Galaxie, Interpol, Manic.
- Amazing Apples @ Whelan’s (€8/€10)
[Indie / folk] 5 piece multi instrumentalist Indie/Folk band from Galway - Soda: Betty @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 2pm)
[DJ] Expect Disco, Electro, Italo and Boogie. - It’s not my Picnic & I’ll cry if I want to @ Ukiyo (Free)
[DJs] Jabbawookie & The Death Star Dj’s
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Monday Sept 7
- Day off
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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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.