The Nialler9 Dublin Christmas Gig Guide
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Ticket giveaways:
- Friday: The Magician @ Button Factory (€15, 11pm)
- Sunday: Pyg Sundays presents Aeroplane @ Pygmalion (9pm, €10)
How to enter ticket comp – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number 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.
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Tuesday December 16
- Gruff Rhys, Martin Carr @ Peppercanister Church (€23)
[Folk/Rock] SFA frontman plays his American Interior album live. Expect stoner pauses. - Sinead O’Connor @ Vicar Street (€39)
[Pop] Shinners has had a musically good year.
- Madness @ 3Arena (€50)
[Ska] Suggs and band keep on chugging - Gogol Bordello @ The Academy (€30)
[Rock] Balkan/American mad lads. - Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6)
[Singer-songwriter/folk night] The Young Folk, August Wells and special guests
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Wednesday December 17
- Gruff Rhys, Martin Carr @ Peppercanister Church (€23)
[Folk/Rock] SFA frontman plays his American Interior album live. Expect stoner pauses. - Saint Pepsi, The Bedroom @ Whelan’s (€12)
[Electro-pop] American blog-friendly electronic pop - Glen Hansard @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Folk/rock] With full band in aid of Simon Community.
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Thursday December 18
- Jesus @ The Fumbally (€25 including dinner, 7pm)
[Party] Café staffers play live with Margie Lewis, Old Moon, Signa, Buffalo Woman. - Alasdair Roberts @ The Workman’s Club Vintage Room (€10)
[Folk] Scottish folkie sounds like Kermit The Frog, signed to Drag City. - We Raise Bears, Edisons, John Cummins @ The Workman’s Club (€Free)
[Rock] Folk pop band lead the way. - Knockanstockan Xmas Show @ The Sugar Club (Free)
[Party] Electronic duo Contour, songwriter Rebecca Collins, four-piece Mama Kasbah and psychedelic-rock act Vernon Jane. - Subject: Kerri Chandler @ Twisted Pepper (€20)
[Dance] Deep house original. - No Spill Blood @ Whelan’s (midnight, guestlist)
[Rock] hefty synth rock.
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Friday December 19
- Damien Dempsey , Lethal Dialect @ Vicar Street (€30)
[Folk] The big Dubliner hometown show. Also, Saturday. - Seven Quarters Club: Not Squares & Percolator @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Indie/rock] 7″ vinyl featuring the bands for the first 150 in the door. - Interskalactic @ Whelan’s Front Bar (Free, 10pm)
[Ska] Ska style covers band. - John Blek @ The Workman’s Club Vintage Room (€7.50)
[folk] Hailing from Cork but inspired by dust-bowl Americana and outlaw country, - The 12 Bands of Xmas @ Sweeney’s (Free)
[Party] Cocaine Ponytail, Fox Jaw, The Vincent(s), Bagel - Workman’s Xmas party: Daithi, Little xs for eyes @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
[indie/dance] Free Xmas gig. woo hoo! - Lisa O’Neill @ Unitarian Church (€15)
[FOLK] Cavan singer with the endearing songs and banter. - Exploding Eyes, I Heart The Monster Hero @ Whelan’s Upstair’s (Free/guestlist, Midnight)
[Rock] Space jam rock. - The Zombie Circus Christmas Cracker @ Pacino’s (Midnight til late)
[party] TR-One, Giles & Conky B2B, String Theory Soundsystem. - The Magician @ Button Factory (€15, 11pm WIN TICKETS)
[Dance] Popular dance DJ and former Aeroplane member. - MUD: The Building Society present Tensnake @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Disco/house German DJ. - Abstract presents: The Collective Party @ Opium Rooms (€/8€10, 11pm)
[Dance] Subject, All City, Southpaw, Room 19, Jonnie Foley, Abstract DJs, This Greedy Pig - Burnin Up With Get Down Edits @ The Grand Social (Free, 11pm)
[Disco] Kelly Anne Byrne’s disco night Xmas party. - Autechre, DJ Rob Hall @ District 8 (€23, 11pm)
[Electronic] Warp Records’ experimental weirdness.
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Saturday December 20
- Spies, Tandem Felix, Paddy Hanna @ The Grand Social (€8)
[indie-rock] annual Xmas show. - Mmoths @ Hangar (€15, BYOB)
[Electronic] Show moved from Block B.
- Imelda May @ 3arena (€40)
[Rockabilly/pop] Howryeh Imelda? - Fight Like Apes, Dear Desert @ Whelan’s (€15)
[Indie/rock] Look at the freakin’ poster. - Emigrant Disco – Dimman, White Collar Boy, Shock World Service, Telephones @ The Sugar Club (€10)
[Party] Emigrant musicians and friends convene. - Youth Mass @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Free)
[Indie] Melodic Irish indie rock. - The Thumped Christmas Caper: Groom, The Dudley Corporation / Gary Showbiz & the Agents of Disaster / Hands Up Who Wants To Die @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Rock/indie] in aid of A Little Lifetime Foundation. - Simi Crowns @ Opium Rooms (€10)
[Rap] Upcoming MC. Pressure. - Discotekken On Ice @ Point Village (€5-€16)
[Party] ’70s & ’80s disco - Bondax @ The Academy (€20)
[Dance] UK dance/pop/R&B duo.
- Division presents 9 Years of Ceoltronic Radio with Will Kinsella @Pygmalion (€5 after 11pm)
[DJ] A nine-hour set. - Hidden Agenda: Daniel Avery, Legowelt @ Opium Rooms (€12, 11pm)
[Electronic] Avery’s Drone Logic album, one of last years best makes this a reat prospect. - Night Howl: Dogs & Voxx @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Midnight, guestlist)
[Irish] Dublin indie and rock bands. - Bedlam presents: Patrick Topping @ District 8 (€15, 11pm)
[Dance] Tech-House Newcastle DJ. - Subject at Pogo – Ben Sims & Fish Go Deep @ Twisted Pepper (11pm, €15)
[Dance] 5 hour set. - The Building Society & Hangar present: Dimitri From Paris @ Hangar Dublin (€18/€20, 10:30pm)
[Dance] Rightly renowned disco/dance DJ.
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Sunday December 21
- New Gods – Gods Of Punk 7″ Release Gig @ Tenterhooks, Newmarket Square (€7, 2pm)
[Day party] Rock day party. - The Hot Sprockets @ Vicar Street (€20)
[Rock] End of their end of year Irish tour. - Run The Jewels, God Knows + MynameisJohn @ Opium Rooms (sold out)
[Rap] A Christmas fucking miracle. - Kila @ Whelan’s (€20)
[Trad/world] Launch of new album Suas Sios. - WIGWAM Association Year End Review @ The Bernard Shaw (4pm, Free)
[party] The Bodytonic annual Christmas shindig with beats by… Shane Mannion + Shane Linehan + more - Pyg Sundays presents Aeroplane @ Pygmalion (9pm, €10)
[Djs] The Magician and disco DJ Aeroplane in the one week. - Lil Dave & The Drifter @ South William Bar (9pm, Free)
[Djs] The newly re-opened bar hosts this party..
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Monday December 22
- Cloud Castle Lake @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Alt-rock] Atmospheric falsetto alt-rock. - Hvmmingbyrd, Sive, The Evertides @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Free)
[Folk] Harmonic folk, guitar pop.
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