The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide
Ticket giveaways:
- Monday:Life Has Surface Noise #3: Young Hearts Run Free @ The Peacock, Abbey Theatre
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 Sept 8
- Patty Griffin @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
[Acoustic ] American singer-songwriter
Wednesday Sept 9
- Sounds Alive: Stories Through the Night featuring Nina Perry, Crash Ensemble and Adrian Crowley @ Spiegeltent (€18)
[Dublin Fringe] Experience live radio like never before. Featuring Adrian Crowley’s debut collection of spoken word stories woven together by a spellbinding and mysterious soundscape. - The Walls Have Ears @ 13 North Great George’s Street (€12/€14)
[Dublin Fringe] Improv with Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger and Irish musicians including Seán Carpio (guitar, electronics), Shane Latimer (guitars, electronics), Seán Mac Erlaine (clarinets, processing), and Justin Carroll (keyboards). - Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine @ Button Factory (€20)
[Rock] former vocalist of Dead Kennedys - Jesse Malin @ The Academy (€16)
[Rock] NYC rock. With Special Guest VerseChorusVerse - Workman’s Club 5th Birthday – The Hot Sprockets @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
[party] With Bitch Falcon.
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Thursday Sept 10
- The Walls Have Ears @ 13 North Great George’s Street (€12/€14)
[Dublin Fringe] Improv with Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger and Irish musicians including Seán Carpio (guitar, electronics), Shane Latimer (guitars, electronics), Seán Mac Erlaine (clarinets, processing), and Justin Carroll (keyboards). - Mongoose & Miriam Donohue @ Window Sessions MishMash, Capel Street (7pm-9pm)
[Café buzz] Refugee crisis fundraiser
- Good Name: The Shaker Hymn @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Free show] Four-piece Cork alt-rock.
- Action Bronson @ The Academy (€26.50)
[Rap] Baby blue Queens Ghostface-soundalike food critic rapper. - Florence + The Machine @ 3Arena (€45)
[Pop] She’s back less than a week after her Picnic performance. The Staves on support. - Workman’s Club 5th Birthday – Little Green Cars, Other Creatures @ The Workman’s Club (SOLD OUT, WIN TICKETS)
[Party] Win tickets to thanks to Heineken Sound Atlas which will have its Tokyo inspired record store here. - The Bionic Rats, The Dodgy Few, McMahon @ Whelan’s (€10)
[new Irish ] Fundraiser for The Mater Foundation & ARC Cancer Support Centres.
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Friday Sept 11
Happenings & Nialler9: Minimum Maximum: Interskalactic, I Have A Tribe, Stomptown Brass, Saint Sister @ Civic Offices Amphitheatre (€10, 6:30pm-10pm)
[Outdoor gig] Special outdoor event afterwork. kicks off 6:30pm sharp.- Booka Brass Band @ Spiegeltent (€20, 9:30pm)
[Dublin Fringe] Brass band purveyors. - U:mack: The Ex @ Whelan’s (€18)
[Punk] Dutch punk rockers play Ireland for the first time in 7 years. - Lost Friday: Carriages, Dear Desert.. @ RHA Gallery (€15)
[Gallery gig] Plus DJ Hula Hoops. Entry includes free drinks. - cFit @ The Grand Social (€8)
[Indie/rock] launch of new album Throwaway Survival Machine - Oddisee & Good Company (Live) @ The Sugar Club (€15)
[Rap] Maryland rap. That’s Love. - Cat Palace @ Thomas House (€TBC)
[Alt-rock] Real Fresh - Workman’s Club 5th Birthday – Little Green Cars @ The Workman’s Club (SOLD OUT)
[party] With Bleeding Heart Pigeons. - Hidden Agenda: Wankelmut @ District 8 (€10-€15, 10:30pm)
[Dance] German electronic producer. - Melodic presents: Marcus Worgull [Innervisions] @ Hangar (€10, 10:30pm)
[Dance] German house music. - Pressure V: Djipe @ Dive Bar (€10, 11pm)
[Dance] old-school Breakcore and Drum and Bass blended with the strength of Hardcore kickdrums
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Saturday Sept 12
- The Doggie Do @ Merrion Square (1:30pm-10:30pm, €10 each, Dogs go free)
[Dog Festival] a mardi gras for mutt & man.Celebrating canines and crowning the first ever Dog of Dublin. With talks, screenings, demos and more. - Turning Pirate Mixtape @ Spiegeltent (€20, 9:15pm)
[Dublin Fringe] includes Richie Egan (Jape), Wallis Bird, Niamh Farrell (HamsandwicH), Mama Kin, Pete Pamf, Adam Matthews, The Young Folk, Gavin Glass and Anderson. - Domestics present SlowPlaceLikeHome and Electro Sensitive Behaviour Feat: Perry Blake!!! @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Alternative Irish Music] First Domestics night features Donegal electronic project of Keith Mannion. - We Raise Bears, Joey Gavin Ensemble @ Bello Bar (€10)
[New Irish] Indie / psych-folk songbook.. - Rocstrong @ Sin É (Free, 9pm)
[new Irish] Hold Ya / Limits - All Day High Jinx Summer’s End & Tropical Croissant Karaoke Yard Party @ A4 Sounds (2pm – 11pm, €15)
[Party] DJs, Karaoke, Power Ballads.. - Workman’s Club 5th Birthday – Eternal Summers @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
[party] With Pleasure Beach - Boogie Nights Screening + Special Disco 12inch AfterParty @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Film/DJs] w/ Johnny Moy // Al Keegan // Chris Holten // Pete Dancer - Dope Body, Fang Club @ Whelan’s (€11)
[Rock] Grimey scuzz-rock on Drag city. - Abstract presents Adam Freeland @ Opium Rooms (€10, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Support: Conor Feeney (Big Dish Go) / Garden: Colin Divine (Hidden Agenda) - Subject x The Building Society presents: Perc, Jon Hussey @ Hangar (10pm, €10-€15)
[Dance] + Sam Greenwood b2b Eoin Donovan - Burning Up @ The Grand Social (Free, 11pm)
[Disco] TXFM/Today FM’s Kelly-Anne Byrne’s disco night. - Sense with Alex.Do @ Button Factory (€10, 11pm)
[Dance] 4 hour set.
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Sunday Sept 13
- Blood and the Moon – A Provocation on Yeats @ NCH (€32.50+)
[Perspectives] Trailer Anna Calvi, Sam Amidon, Robert Forster, Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Adrian Crowley and more. Also Monday. - Workman’s Club 5th Birthday – August Wells @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Party] Ken Griffin of Rollerskate Skinny. - Mary Coughlan, Damien Dempsey, Kila, Liam O’Maonlai @ Whelan’s (€20)
[Fundraiser] MSF Benefit in support of the Refugee Crisis
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Monday Sept 14
- Life Has Surface Noise #3: Young Hearts Run Free @ The Peacock, Abbey Theatre (€15, WIN TICKETS)
[Dublin Fringe] exploring music and memory. The theme is space, and how certain records can shape and provide a soundtrack to our lives in a certain city, environment or place – and why.With Siobhán Kane, Karl Whitney, Stevie Grainger, Niall Byrne (Nialler9), Peter Toomey, designer Annie Atkins and some surprise guests. - Jarryd James @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€13)
[Pop] Brisbane singer/songwriter - Blood and the Moon – A Provocation on Yeats @ NCH (€32.50+)
[Perspectives] Trailer Anna Calvi, Sam Amidon, Robert Forster, Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Adrian Crowley and more. Also Sunday. - Sweet Pang! Lady Grew @ The Chocolate Factory (€14, 8:30pm)
[Dublin Fringe] Pole-dancing whilst rapping and singing, American actor/MC Lady Grew presents a cabarave of songs created by some of Ireland’s hottest electronic music producers.
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