Win free entry:
- Saturday: Hidden Agenda: Mount Kimbie & Kindness (DJ sets) @ District 8 (€18, 11pm)
- Sunday: Odessa Christmas Cracker Party @ The Odessa (€5)
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Tuesday December 15
- Ash @ Olympia Theatre (€23)
[Rock] NI boys - The Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Acoustic club] Special guests – if you like the Ruby Sessions you’ll love tonight.
Wednesday December 16
- Rae Sremmurd @ Vicar Street (€32.50)
[Rap] Hare Squead support. - The Riptide Movement @ Whelan’s (€23)
[Rock] Fourth and final date. - Perspectives 2015: Brad Mehldau @ NCH (€30-40)
[Solo Piano] Jazz pianist - Drillmas @ District 8 (€6/€10, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Glacial Sound Tjugo Lax [Welcome] Bobofunk B2B Ed Fay [Flush Dublin] Rosbeg B2B DJ TALENTS [Palisade] - Paul McLoone’s Christmas Party @ The Workman’ Club (SOLD OUT)
[Live Radio party] ASH, Jape and HamsandwicH - DJ Yella of NWA @ Hangar (€11-€16 , 10:30pm)
[DJ set ] NWA’s DJ. This is either a great idea or a crap one. Probably the former.
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Thursday December 17
- Together with Bjarki @ Button Factory (€8)
[Dance] Reykjavik DJ. - Buffalo Woman Xmas Show, Ye Vagabonds @ The Fumbally (€25, 7pm)
[Electro/folk] With a meal included - Little Gem Records 1st Birthday Party @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Party] Twinkranes, Patrick Kelleher, Cal Folger Day, Fierce Mild & Thin Air DJs & Little Gem DJs - 9th Annual Pogues Tribute Night @ O’Donohues (9pm, Free)
[Session] Stefan Murphy, Shane Walsh, Dan Fitzpatrick and Matt Roddy - Morrissey & Marshall @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Pop] Here they are on the Tee Vee - Colm Mac Con Iomaire @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Fiddle ] And Now The Weather (Agus Anois An Aimsir),
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Friday December 18
- Bitch Thieves – Sleep Thieves vs Bitch Falcon @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Rock/electro] An alternative Christmas party with a double headliner. - Damien Dempsey @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Singer-songwriter] Dublin folk singer. - Misha Freshin Present DJ Tuki @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
[DJs] Berlin-based Tu-Ki, Dave Splyce nd Savage Mantle.
- Attention Bébé Christmas Party @ Button Factory (€12.50)
[Covers] Fun covers band of mostly 90s music. - Homebeat + Ensemble present :: FIN 2015 @ The Co-Op, Newmarket Square (€10, BYOB, 9PM)
[Folk/alt] w/ Cloud Castle Lake + Bantum + Slow Moving Clouds - Psychotic Reaction Presents The Winter Passing, Galants, The Dijon Babes, The Shades @ The Mezz (€ , 9pm)
[Rock night] Daisy by TWP / Galants – Out of Sight. - Raglans @ Hangar (€15)
[Pop/rock] What I’ve Done - Discotekken & Sense Xmas Party: John Morales @ The Sugar Club (€10, 11pm)
[DJ] Disco re-edit dude and support from Conor L and Papa Lou. - Fouk & House of Disco @ Tengu (10pm, €10)
[DJs] Dutch producer DJ and David Magnier of HoD. - Booka Shade @ Button Factory (€23)
[Dance] A regular visit. - Detroit Swindle, Brame & Hamo @ District 8 (€15, 11pm)
[Electronic] The Great Escape is Detroit Swindle’s own club concept, a night where they focus on long sets with quality music - A Christmas Cracker! @ Pacino’s (€8, 11pm)
[DJs] 2 rooms of DJs - Sim Simma Christmas Bashment w/ Murlo & Platt (Swing Ting) @ Wigwam (€5 before 10pm, €10 after)
[Reggae & Dancehall] Reggae Yoga before - Techno & Cans with Tessela @ Hangar (€10, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Tessela, Sam Greenwood and Eoin Donovan - Free Techno with Fran Hartnett & Rory ST John @ Sweeney’s Bar (€5, 10pm)
[Dance] You heard em.
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Saturday December 19
- Popical Island All-Dayer @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10, 3pm – 11pm)
[Indie] Squarehead, Skelocrats, Lie Ins, Ginnels, No Monster Club, Owensie, Walpurgis Family, The Number 1s, Me and My Dog - The Sugar Club Xmas Hooley @ The Sugar Club (€12.50/€15)
[Party]Brian Deady with full live band, Shit Robot, Tu Ki, DJ Scope, Johnny Moy, Sally Cinnamon, Will Dempsey, This Greedy Pig - Merry SYNTHMAS! @ Bello Bar (€7)
[Synth-love] Cut Once, Florence Olivier, Everything Shook, DJ Michael Pope & Ghetto Manifesto - Kila @ Button Factory (€20)
[Trad] Long running trad/world band. - Spies @ The Workmans Club (€12)
[Indie/rock] 5th annual SPIES Seasonal Soiree. - State Midnight Mass @ Whelan’s (Free but donation suggested, 10:30pm)
[Party] September Girls, Bad Sea and My Tribe Your Tribe . funds for Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. - Motel @ Wigwam (11pm)
[Club] First of the new regular night. - The Emigrant Disco with Space Dimension Controller @ Bar Tengu (€6-€12, 10pm)
[Club] Space Dimension Controller, Jon Averill, Joma, Louis Scully, Dip - Warehouse presents Darren Emerson @ The Wiley Fox (€12, 11pm)
[Dance] Former Underworld dude. - Hidden Agenda: Mount Kimbie & Kindness (DJ sets) @ District 8 (€18, 11pm)
[DJ Sets] Plus DJ Deece – see his tracks of the year. - Daylight Disco Christmas Party: Hubie Davison @ Pacino’s (€8, 11:30pm)
[Dance] Recently released this fine tune. - Sense with Groove Armada @ Button Factory (€25, 11pm)
[DJ Set] Plus Adam Morrissey and Jack Dunne
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Sunday December 20
- Odessa Christmas Cracker Party @ The Odessa (€5)
[Party] DJs Nialler9, Kelly-Anne Byrne, Sally Cinnamon, Emmet C(Homebeat) & Simon Roche – Christmas party takeover - No Spill Blood, Night Trap, Shifting @ Bello Bar (€10)
[Rock] A night of rock and electronic and “shifting” ahead - Poguetry in Motion @ The Grand Social (€12)
[Rock] 7 Piece band perform a 2 hour set of all The Pogues Classics - Christmas Craic’er “In Aid Of Focus Ireland” @ Button Factory (€12)
[Charity night] Gavin Glass, Gary O’Neill, Geoff Warner-Clayton, Ailbhe Reddy Music… Callum Orr Arbours - Glen Hansard @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Singer/songwriter] Playing songs from his career (definition of a gig Niall) - Pyg Sundays presents Lindstrøm @ Pygmalion (€10)
[DJ] Cosmic disco Norwegian DJ. - Come Here To Me: Dublin Songs and Stories (Chapter 3) @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Talk/live] w/ Live music from Landless, Owensie and a special acoustic set from Lethal Dialect.
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Monday December 21
- Lynched w/ support Jack Delaney @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Folk] Dublin trad folk miscreants – as seen on Jools. - Glen Hansard @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Singer/songwriter] Playing songs from his career (definition of a gig Niall) - Gavin James @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
[Pop] Singer-songwriter
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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.
