Highlights: Jape / REID & Ships, WU LYF, Moodymann, Lisa Hannigan, Free Lightbox gig, State vs Love Music Hate Racism free gig with Daithi, Elaine Mai, Lemonada and more, Simian Mobile Disco, Le Galaxie, Presidents of United States of America.
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 March 13th
- Rua Unplugged @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday March 14th
- The Civil Wars , Matthew And The Atlas @ The Academy (Sold out)
Thursday March 15th
- Forward/Slash: Dogs @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Craig Finn, Felice Brothers, Lost Brothers @ The Academy (€20)
- Junior Spesh: Working Class Records: Costello, Lethal Dialect & more @ Twisted Pepper (€7, 10.30pm)
Paddy’s Eve – Friday March 16th
- Jape, Ships, REID @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
- Lisa Hannigan @ Vicar Street (€25)
- Goulash Disko @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
- State vs Love Music Hate Racism: Daithi, Lemonada, Elaine Mai, Robb Murphy @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
- The Manhattan Syndrome, The Notas and Former Soviet Republic @ The Workman’s (€7)
- The Beat @ The Academy (€21.50)
- Matt Baldwin, Cian Nugent @ The Joinery (€8, BYOB)
- Lightbox: Bantum, Feel Good Lost, Lorem Ipsum, Monto, Simon Bird, Tenaka, The Karmin Line @ Electric Lounge (Free)
- Mr Scruff 6 hour Set @ Button Factory (€22.50)
- Cheap Freaks Album launch Party with Pulled Apart, September Girls, Death in the Sickroom @ Little Green Street Gallery (€10, BYOB)
- Tenth Planet Paddy’s Eve Party: Joey Beltram, Giles Armstrong @ The Underground Kennedy’s (€15, 11pm)
- Phantom Live: Last Days of 1984 @ The Academy 2 / Green Room (€5)
- Simian Mobile Disco DJ set @ The Academy (€29.90)
Paddy’s Day – Saturday March 17th
- Toejam: Paddy’s Day : Loudmouth, Joma, Conor L, Bingo & more @ The Bernard Shaw (noon to late, Free)
- Le Galaxie, Daithi, White Collar Boy & more @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
- Noah & The Whale @ Olympia (Sold out)
- The Presidents of The United States of America @ Vicar Street (€25)
- POGO, HSSH & Subject: Andy Weatherall, Brass Roots, Barry Redsettaz, Joma & more @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10.30pm)
Sunday March 18th
- 12 Sundays: Moodymann warmup with TR-One @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
- MoodyMann @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10pm)
Monday March 19th
- Wu Lyf @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
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.
Guide is informative and I hope all music lovers will attend this.