The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide
Email to be in the draw for free entry:
- Friday/Saturday: Reverberation Weekend @ The Grand Social
- Saturday: Musictown: Bottlenote & the Irish Film Institute presents Sound of Silents (2pm)
- Cancelled due to health reasons:
Saturday: Solar Bears, Sunken Foal, MMoths DJ @ Whelan’s (€14) - Saturday: Sinead White aka White_Mice, Katie Laffan @ Unitarian Church (€11)
How to enter free entry 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.
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon
Tuesday April 5
- Exmagician @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Sold Out)
[Indie/Rock] Recently featured in my Irish Times’ New Irish music - Lucius @ The Academy (€18)
[Indie/pop] Born Again Teen is their current jam - The Big Moon, Virgin Kids @ The Workman’s Club (€12)
[Indie/pop] London guitar indie pop. - Muse @ 3Arena (€64+)
[Rock] Increasingly pompous rock - Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (€6, 9pm)
[Acoustic showcase] Read my interview with Conor Ruby Sessions.
Wednesday April 6
- Moderat @ Vicar Street (Sold out)
[Electronic] Modeselektor and Apparat have a third collaborative album - Sons of Kemet @ The Sugar Club (€15+)
[Jazz] double-drumming quartet - Kaleidoscope’s “An Atypical April” @ Bello Bar (€10)
[Salon music] Contemporary composition.
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
Thursday April 7
- Word Up Collective #1 @ Bello Bar (€5)
[Rap,soul, hip-hop] AikJ, Ange MC, Anti-One, Craft Work, Damola, Katie Laffan, Stay Gold and more
- Musictown: Dublin Sound Lab presents Music Current @ Smock Alley (€20, 2 performances)
[Contemporary] Mira Benjamin / Lucy Railton Adrian Corker – Oscillator Jennifer Walshe – The Total Mountain - Good Name: Kate’s Party @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[New Irish] Free weekly set from an Irish band. - The Sound Feed Presents @ Abner Browns Barber Shop (Free, BYOB)
[New Irish] Fiach Moriarty, Enda Reilly & Stephen James Smith - Participant, Kobina @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Indie/electronic] Newest EP from Participant.
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
Friday April 8
- Musictown: Cry Monster Cry @ Button Factory (€16.50)
[Pop/rock] Melodic acoustic folk - Otherkin, Fangclub, Wolff @ Whelan’s (€12)
[Rock] A trio of new Irish rock bands. I Was Born. / Bullethead - This is the Kit, Ruth @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
[Folk] Bristol alt-folk from Kate Stables - Toby Kaar @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Electronic] Gumbrielle EP launch. + Rod the Rocker / Shane O’Donovan / DJ Jeremy Murphy - Inni-K @ Arthur’s (€13+)
[Folk pop] Celebrating a year since album release. - Scribble: PH∆SES: Boom Bap & Dah Jevu @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[Hip-hop] Expect Dilla, Tribe and Preemo, with live alt- hip-hop Dah Jevu - Reverberation Weekend @ The Grand Social (€12)
[Garage/rock/psych weekender] The Cosmic Dead (UK), Twinkranes, Woven Skull, Wild Rocket, I Heart The Monster Hero. - Steffi @ Opium Rooms (€15, 11pm)
[Electronic] Panorama Bar resident. - Format: B @ District 8 (€19, 11pm)
[Dance] German tech-house group - Francois K, Donal Dineen @ The Sugar Club (€5, 11:30pm)
[DJ] Disco, house and techno stalwart’s first Dublin set in 4 years. - Fat 90s Rave, SCAR [Metalheadz /Dispatch] @ Hangar (€8/€12 , 10:30pm)
[Club] Rave, techno and Drum and Bass throwback
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
Saturday April 9
- Musictown Breaking Tunes Music Trail @ various venues (Free, Noon – 5pm)
[Music trail] Aik J, The Bad Sea. Pine The Pilcrow, Third Smoke, Nocturnes and more.
- Musictown: Banter, Radio and Rusangano Family @ Teeling Whiskey (€5.50, 1pm – 4pm)
[Talks] Jim Carroll’s Banter in conversation with radio DJs Kelly-Ann Byrne, Philip King & Donal Dineen / Limerick rap trio
- Offset Offsite x Homebeat @ Wood Quay (Free, 2pm – 6pm)
[Live sets] Mossy Nolan, Orchid Collective, Ben Bix & FEATHER and Arjo Arkestra. As well as pop-up performances in Scout and Tamp & Stitch from Erin Fornoff, John Cummins, Sive and OutStraight.
- Manma Saor presents Stomptown Brass & Joints & Jams Phife Tribute @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 4pm)
[Djs/Brass band] New Orleans brass band and DJs. - Musictown: Bottlenote and the Irish Film Institute presents Sound of Silents (2pm, 8pm, €10, WIN TICKETS for 2pm perf.)
[Live score] a new programme of archival silent film with improvised scores performed by six musicians incl. Seán Mac Erlaine. - Dublin Sound Lab presents Music Current “Who’s Afraid of Electronic Music?” @ Contemporary Music Centre (Free)
[Talk] A public panel discussion on the role of the composer in contemporary concert programming, - Delorentos @ Whelan’s Upstairs (4pm, €12)
[All Ages show] Mexico tour warmup
- Reverberation Weekend @ The Grand Social (€12)
[Garage/rock/psych weekender] The Cult of Dom Keller (UK), The Black Tambourines (UK), Beach, Sun Mahshene, Fabrik (NI) - Rusangano Family, Feather, Ben Bix @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Irish songs] Album Launch of Let The Dead Bury The Dead.
- Overhead, The Albatross @ The Workman’s Club (€pay what you like)
[Post-rock] New LP fundraiser – Indie Rose.
- Cancelled due to health reasons:
Solar Bears, Sunken Foal, MMoths DJ @ Whelan’s (€14, WIN TICKETS)
[Electronic] launch of new album Advancement. - Sinead White aka White_Mice, Katie Laffan @ Unitarian Church (€11, WIN TICKETS)
[Folk/Pop] White is changing her artist name and has a new EP on the way. - Plutonic Dust @ The Sugar Club (€10, 11:30pm)
[Electronic / nu disco] Launch of new album Grand Delusions. - Nick Hoppner @ Bar Tengu (€10+, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Ostgut Tn label / Berghain/Panorama Bar regular. - Sense: Artwork @ Button Factory (€7, 11pm, Free entry)
[Electronic] Former Magnetic Man DJ
- Claude Vonstroke, Abstract DJs, Hidden Agenda DJs @ Opium Rooms (€20, 11pm)
[Dance] Yer man responsible for The Whistler
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
Sunday April 10
- Musictown Breaking Tunes Music Trail @ various venues (Free, Noon – 5pm)
[Music trail] Inni-K, Participant, Atlas Moon, Exploding Eyes, Stay Gold and more - Seamus Fogarty, Mossy Nolan @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Folk] Ducks and Drakes / Exile EP
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon
Monday April 11
- Tudor Cinema Club @ Whelan’s (€9)
[Indie] Yes, it’s who you think it is.
Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon
