Highlights: Festival weekend with All Together Now / D8 In The Garden / Indiependence / Blues, Roots and Brass Festival // The Hidden Cameras, Onion Boys, Yard, Róisín McKeown, Rudy, We Are Scientists.
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Tuesday August 1st
Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (8:30pm)
Weekly Tuesday acoustic night in aid of Simon Community. See link for acts playing every week.
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Lulu’s Jazz Club @ Whelan’s
River Daughter is an emerging jazz trio comprising three recent graduates of DCU’s Jazz & Contemporary Music course
Wednesday August 2nd
Sheep, YARD, Emily Beattie @ The Workman’s Cellar
Launch of Sheep’s single Terms of Surrender.
Róisín McKeown, Rudy, Jaq Reidy @ The Sound House
Sound House Rising Series.
Teenage Bottlerocket @ The Grand Social
US punk rock band.
Liquid Beat @ Dashi (7pm – 1am)
Queer electronic night. Free in.
Thursday August 3rd
Onion Boys, Mickey Chaos, Unstuck, Rising Damp @ Fibber Magees
Alternative rock and electronic.
The Flavours, Susi Pagel, Yer Ma, Don’t Tell Mum, Michelle Grimes @ The Sound House
Final of the Electric Picnic win-a-slot competition.
Flublah @ Whelan’s Upstairs
Irish post-rock band.
Emmet O’Brien @ The Workman’s Club
Spoken word with support from Anna D, Nomanticz, The Poet Geoff, and more
Speakers, Anie Valentine, Light Grey @ The Workman’s Cellar
Hella-Mini Tour. Irish pop-punk and alternative triple bill of catchy guitars, melodramatic vocals and shameless early 2000s nostalgia
Live Jazz @ Dashi
Weekly live jazz night in the basement with band leader Dylan Lynch of Soda Blonde/Moondiver and friends.
The Showcase @ The Grand Social
Open-mic night.
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Friday August 4th
Festivals
All Together Now @ Curraghmore, Waterford
Friday features Lankum, Jessie Ware, Todd Terje, Annie Mac, Lumo Club & more. See all our previews here.
Indiependence @ Mitchelstown, Cork
Featuring The Coronas, Belters Only, King Kong Company, Erica Cody, Paul Woolford and more.
Blues, Roots and Brass Festival @ Whelan’s
Mary Stokes, Mr Castle Blues, The Flying Monkeys. Free in.
WLIN Underground @ The Grand Social
Trap and hip-hop night with Braydee /DJ Spaqz.
The Hidden Cameras @ The Workman’s Club
Foggy Notions & GAZE International LQBTQIA Film Festival presents the Canadian songwriter. ‘Ban Marriage’.
We Are Scientists @ Opium
New York City rock band.
Crush The House @ The Sound House (11pm)
Techno, hard style.
Barista Boy & Fizzy Waters @ The Pyg (11pm)
Double DJ header.
Back to the 80s @ The Workman’s Club (11.30pm)
80s pop party.
Berlin Fridays @ Lost Lane (11pm)
Recently kicked off Berlin-inspired electronic club.
Saturday August 5th
Festivals
All Together Now @ Curraghmore, Waterford
Saturday features Jamie xx, Caribou, Sugababes, Fight Like Apes, Pillow Queens, Palms Trax and more. See all our previews here.
Indiependence @ Mitchelstown, Cork
Featuring Anne-Marie, Inhaler, Jax Jones, Raye, All Tvvins and more.
D8 In The Garden – Charlotte de Witte @ Palmerstown House (1pm – 10:30pm)
+ Len Faki, KAS:ST, Cailín, Moduse, seboro, & Deni_sova, Nocturnal Animals
We Are Still Young @ The Workman’s Rooftop (1pm – 5pm)
Pop punk and emo 2000s anthems.
3M – Music Machines Masters @ The Sound House & Afterparty (4pm – late)
12 producers and DJs playing house and techno.
Blues, Roots and Brass Festival @ Whelan’s
Grainne Duffy, Dublin Blues Cartel, Dirty Vultures. Free in.
Mayfair Saturdays @ The Ball Room, The Grand Social (11pm)
Afrobeats party with DJ Ahmed.
Oblivion x 712 Presents : CULT + Support @ Wigwam (11pm)
A night of techno.
Rave U.S. @ The Racket Space (11pm)
Techno, hardstyle, rave.
HOTBOXX: Techno Rave @ The Sound House (11pm)
DJs playing techno inside a cage.
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Sunday August 6th
Festivals
All Together Now @ Curraghmore, Waterford
Sunday features Iggy Pop, James Murphy, Beak>, Le Boom, Biig Piig, Saint Sister and more. See all our previews here.
Indiependence @ Mitchelstown, Cork
Featuring Two Door Cinema Club, Editors, Cian Ducrot, Jenny Greene, Adelphi Music Factory, Fya Fox and more.
D8 In The Garden – CamelPhat, Kerri Chandler @ Palmerstown House (1pm – 10:30pm)
Rebuke, Obskur, Jeremy Underground, GRL, Eve, Sarah Mooney
Reclaim the Mainframe @ 777 (3pm – 1am)
777 concrete garden party with Unai Trotti, Con & Cian, Bruno Grecchi, Prøwl
Blues, Roots and Brass Festival @ Whelan’s
Louisiana Six. Free in.
Little Gem @ Anseo
Little Gem Records experimental music night.
Outset @ Red Cow Warehouse Complex (9pm – 3am)
Trym, Franck, Azyr Pawlowski, Faster Horses, Aeron, Black Traffic, DJ Fingerblast, TainT
Hidden Love X Hybrid Events present: Lars Huismann @ Wigwam (11pm)
2000s techno / Detroit techno / “tribal grooves”
Monday August 7th
Song Cycle @ Whelan’s
Whelan’s weekly singer-songwriter night
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