Highlights: Lee Fields & The Expressions, Logikparty, Dark Room Notes & No Monster Club album launches, Surgeon, DJ Format, Michael Gira of Swans and The Jimmy Cake.
This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published every Tuesday. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend events not present in the comments below. If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter.
Tuesday April 3rd
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
- Nina Nastasia @ Whelan’s (€17)
Wednesday April 4th
- Michael Gira (Swans) And Cian Nugent @ Button Factory (€14)
- Silent Front (UK), Love Among The Mannequins (UK), Ginola, Girl Band @ The Thomas House (€8)
Thursday April 5th
- Forward/Slash: Holy Thursday, Clu, Loudmouth Collective @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Social Rising: The Jimmy Cake, Lamont Bailey, Bloody Ends, Wall @ The Grand Social (€5)
- Crash Ensemble Free State 7 @ National Concert Hall (€)
- Little Green Cars @ The Workman’s (€6)
- The Kanyu Tree @ Whelan’s (€12.50)
- The VVIPS @ South William Street (Free)
- White Collar Boy presents Gretta Gunn @ Pygmalion (Free, 9pm)
- Thursdaze: The Targets, DC Tempest, Walking On Cars, Niamh Sandwich DJ set @ Whelans Upstairs (€8, 8.30pm)
- Easter Thursday Tenth Planet Roof Party @ Sycamore Club (Free)
- Junior Spesh: Holy Thursday – Bantum, Ghosts, Jetsetter @ The Twisted Pepper (€6)
Good Friday April 6th
- Micro Music Festival: Si Schroeder Plus Special Guests @ The New Theatre (€12)
- Funzo, The Animators, Lethal Dialect @ The Workman’s (€6)
- Seomra Spraoi Fundraiser: Captain Moonlight, MO-T, Morgan Friend, Ainriail @ Seomra Spraoi (€6-8 Donation, 9pm, BYOB)
Easter Saturday April 7th
- Lee Fields & The Expressions @ The Sugar Club (€20)
- Dark Room Notes (album launch), Ghost Estates @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
- Logikparty (album launch), Bantum @ Whelan’s (€10 with CD, €15 with Vinyl)
- No Monster Club (album launch), The #1s, Big Minster Love @ Supafast Building (€10 with Vinyl, BYOB)
- Folk The Recession @ Button Factory (€18)
- Retro Revival: Suzies Ashes, Dead School, September Girls, #1s, Princess @ Sweeney’s (€5, 9pm)
- Alarmist , Crayonsmith, Overhead The Albatross @ The Village (€, in aid of Habitat for Humanity Ireland)
- We Are Electronic Present Nina Kraviz (Rekids, RU), Lee Kelly, Lakker, All City @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Easter Sunday April 8th
- 12 Sundays: Space Dimension Controller @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon til late)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- BarryGruff Presents #4: Ghost Estates w/ Neon Wolf @ Flanagan’s, Newbridge (Free, 8.30pm)
- DJ Format & The Simonsound Live @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
- Surgeon, DJ Tu-Ki, Sunil Sharpe @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Monday April 9th
- Patti Smith & Sam Shepard @ Abbey Theatre (€49.50)
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, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
