The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide
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Ticket giveaways:
- Saturday: Musique Afrique – Manden Express & Ajo Arkestra @ The Sugar Club (9pm)
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 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.
Tuesday June 2
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Acoustic club] Siomha Brock Music / State Lights / Paul Sheridan / Sophie Coyle
Wednesday June 3
- Morning Gloryville Dublin @ Hangar (6:30am, €10)
[early raving] Homebeat DJs. - Kaleidoscope Night presents “Of Shadows & Sagas” @ Odessa Club (€12)
[Neoclassical] live music travelling from Argentina with Golijov & Piazolla, 1970s America with Eugene Kurtz, 18th century Austria, to Irish fusion trio Bully’s Acre.
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Thursday June 4
- Dublin Songs and Stories @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Fundraiser for Pieta House] Featuring Maser // Jim Fitzpatrick // Una Mullally // Pete Holidai // Aidan Kelly // Garry O Neill // Costello // Lewis Kenny - Good Name: GMG @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Live] indie band of boys. - Dick Diver, Cian Nugent & The Cosmos, Myles Manley @ Bello Bar (€7)
[Rock] Two members of Melbourne band head this bill. - Homebeat: Mark Geary, Old Hannah @ Mart (€10)
[Folk] Folk double bill in Rathmines venue.
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Friday June 5
- Wyvern Lingo, Sinead White @ Whelan’s (€15)
[harmonic pop] Irish trio recently signed to Rubyworks - The House presents Summer Bash @ Annesley House, North Strand (€10)
[new Irish] I Am Niamh, Larry Beau and Auction for Amnesty Intl. - Heroes in Hiding EP Launch @ Twisted Pepper (€12)
[Rock] Anthemic-centred indie pop. - State Faces of June @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
[New music] BMickSee, Basciville, Not Monsters. - Alt 80s night: Twinkranes @ The Grand Social (€10)
[80s] Wave/Goth/Punk/Post Punk & Selected 80s Pop Classics… - The Nightflys @ Anseo (TBC)
[DJ night] “An informal night of recorded entertainment.” - The Cujo Family & Mick Pyro @ The Sugar Club (€10-€12.50)
[Blues/rock] With screening of O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Weathertop’s 2nd Birthday @ The Pint (€6/€10, 10:30pm)
[Club] with Special Guest Kris Wadsworth playing techno.
- FrontLeft Presents: Anstam @ Dive Bar, Turk’s Head (11pm, TBC)
[Dance/electronic] 50Weapons – Monkeytown, Berlin] - Sense: Slow Magic @ Button Factory (€10)
[Electronic] Drum-pounding mask-wearing recommended show. - Gary’s Gang presents: Lunar Disko vs Apartment Records @ Sweeney’s Bar (Free, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Barry Donovan, Kenny Hanlon - Torque present Slowburn, Mix & Fairbanks @ Pacinos (€10, Midnight)
[Club] 1st Birthday Party
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Saturday June 6
- Bodytonic & Jr Spesh Present: Your Old Droog @ twisted Pepper (€12/€14)
[rap] Brooklyn rapper debut. - Ross Breen @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Singer-songwriter] Idyllic Valley. - Lord Huron @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
[Rock] Galavanting country indie music. - Girls Names @ Hangar (€12)
[Rock] Guitar rock foursome from Belfast. new song Reticence. - The Lonely Schizophrenic, Sinead White, Radioactive Grandma @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Fundraiser] Ceol Collectives charity event in aid of the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation. - Retro Revival Indie Club @ Sweeney’s (€5, 9pm)
[Garage/rock] Barry Sutton & Cammy (The La’s) & Beatnik Hurricane. Support from The Statics, David Keenan Chris Parkes & The Dead Beat. - Musique Afrique – Manden Express & Ajo Arkestra @ The Sugar Club (€10-€12.50, 9pm, WIN TICKETS)
[Afrobeat] Double header. - Seventies Disco Saturday Night @ Bello Bar (€8)
[Disco] 10-piece disco live band - SUMMER RISING: The Summer Party @ IMMA (€15)
[food, art & music] Music curated by Peter Maybury (Thread Pulls) & Dennis McNulty includes Rainfear, Das DJ, Press Charges (Sunken Foal), Simon Conway, Ellll and Andrew Fogarty. - Nightflight @ The Grand Social (Free, 11pm)
[Club] Andrew Kearney and Louche. - Pogo: Bodytonic & Hidden Agenda present Late Nite Tuff Guy & Young Marco @ The Twisted Pepper (€15, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Disco edits and oddball house. - Mother 5th Birthday @ Copper Alley (€10/€5, 11pm)
[Club] Ghostboy, Rocky, Ruth Kavanagh & Chewy.
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Sunday June 7
- SODA: Betty @ The Bernard Shaw (6pm, Free)
[Djs] Expect Disco, Electro, Italo and Boogie. - Ash @ Whelan’s (€20)
[Rock] NI rock trio still kicking.
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Monday June 8
- Watch I Heart Huckabees.
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