Highlights: Friendly Fires, Korallreven, David Kitt performs The Big Romance, Juan Atkins,Young Hearts Run Free presents Yule, Agnes Obel & Beardyman.
A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments as this post gets a lot of eyes every week.
Ticket giveaways:
- Saturday December 10th: Juan Atkins & more @ Twisted Pepper
- How to enter – Email [email protected] with your preference of gig (if more than one) along with your full name, and phone number before 6pm on Thursday to be in with a chance to win.
Tuesday December 6th
- Ruby Sessions : Little Green Cars, We Cut Corners, Gypsies On The Autobahn, Leaders of Men & Luke Slott @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
- Rua Unplugged : The Crayon Set, Aidan Murphy @ Anseo (9pm)
- Bombay Bicycle Club @ Vicar Street (€20)
- The Very Most, Sacred Animals, Hello Moon @ The Mercantile (€5)
Wednesday December 7th
- Friendly Fires @ Olympia Theatre (€24.90)
- Leaders Of Men @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Banter review of 2011 @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- Where The Mugic Happens @ Button Factory (Free)
Thursday December 8th
- Lisa Hannigan And James Vincent McMorrow @ The Button Factory (Meteor Choice Music Prize free gig – tickets required)
- Bitches With Wolves, Eat Me Drink Me @ The Sugar Club (€10)
- Roots Corner Meets Explosion Soundsystem @ The Grand Social (Free)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks, Bouts @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Fionn Regan @ Peppercanister Church (€20)
- Korallreven @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
Friday December 9th
- Emmy The Great And Tim Wheeler @ Tower Records (1pm)
- David Kitt performs The Big Romance, Sunken Foal @ Vicar Street (€20)
- Halves, Jennifer Evans @ Unitarian Church (€11.50)
- Lovers @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Ginnels, Rhino Magic, Desperadow @ Little Green Street Gallery (€10 / €8 without cassette)
- Mick Flannery, Marc O’ Reilly @ Whelan’s (€21.50)
- Fionn Regan @ Peppercanister Church (€20)
- Come On Live Long: Mender EP Release with Hello Moon @ Crawdaddy (€5)
- Cassette ’80s Night @Pod & Chocolate Bar (€8, 11pm)
- Daft As Punk @ Button Factory (€12, 11pm)
- Pariah @ Crawdaddy (€8, 11pm)
- Parish Nights with Donal Dineen @ The Odessa (€5)
- Dj iZem + T-Woc @ Bernard Shaw (9pm)
- HSSH & This Greedy Pig: Fatima, Alexander Nut @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 9pm)
Saturday December 10th
- Big Blue Bus relaunch: Nouveaunoise @ Bernard Shaw (2pm on, Free)
- Shaun Ryder @ The Village (€25)
- Brass For Barretstown @ Crawdaddy (€15)
- Young Hearts Run Free presents Yule (The Winking Glitter of a Frosty Dawn): Donal Lunny, Sunken Foal, Melodica Deathship, Tieranniesaur, You Kiss By The Book, Maeve Higgins, NiamhMcCormackSings, Katie Kim & more @ Co-Op Newmarket Square (€15)
- Mick Flannery, Marc O’ Reilly @ Whelan’s (€21.50)
- Beardyman @ Tripod (€10, 11pm)
- Agnes Obel @ Vicar Street (€20)
- Junior Boys, Diamond Rings @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 8pm)
- Juan Atkins & more @ Twisted Pepper (11pm, win tickets above)
Sunday December 11th
- 12 Sundays: Fresh & Noble @ The Bernard Shaw (2pm, Free)
- The Sunday Roast: Agitate The Gravel, Theo Bard, Superblondes And Saccade @ The Mercantile
- Tríocha Bliain Ag Fás: A Musical Celebration: Martin Hayes, Donal Lunny & more @ Vicar Street (€28)
- Kaleidoscope 2nd Birthday: David Fennessy, works by Brahm, Gershwin and Steve Reich @Button Factory (€22.50)
- T-woc, Zoiband, A-force @ Whelan’s (€6)
- Dublin Laptop Orchestra with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Nic Gareiss @ Smock Alley (€11.50)
Monday December 12th
- Musicmaker, ERIC: Meljoann, Monto, Bantum, Meltybrains?, and Adultrock @ Whelan’s (€5/€8)
