Highlights: Drake, Memoryhouse, Action Bronson, Spiritualized, Lethal Dialect & The Ambience Affair..
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 20th
- Rua Unplugged @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday March 21st
- Nanu Nanu @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Thursday March 22nd
- Forward/Slash @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Elevens @ The Odessa Club (€10)
- The Ambience Affair, Elaine Mai, Be Honest @ Whelan’s (€8)
- Lethal Dialect @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€8)
- Junior Spesh: Spaceship Club, B-Side, Irish Chancer Society @ Twisted Pepper (€7, 10.30pm)
Friday March 23rd
- Action Bronson, Lethal Dialect, Costello @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
- Niwel Tsumbu and Friends @ The Village (€5)
- Preston Reed @ The Grand Social (€15)
- Phantom: Live – Le Galaxie @ The Academy 2 / Green Room (€5)
- Trainwreck: Kink @ Button Factory (€10, 11pm)
Saturday March 24th
- Coca-Cola Dublin Beat Academy @ Tower Records (Noon)
- Drake with Labrinth @ The O2 (€44.50)
- Memoryhouse @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
- Spiritualized @ Vicar Street (€28)
- GOODTIME, Si Schroeder @ The Unitarian Church (€12)
- Midnight Phil Eoin Callers, Big Stu, Orlando, Gianni @ Twisted Pepper (Free, 9pm)
- Nanu Nanu @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10, Midnight)
- GOODTIME aftershow party with Ships DJ set @ The Parlour, Whelan’s
- POGO: The Barley Mob, Mob Fandango, Wyvern Lingo, Fox E & The Good Hands , King Modo, Surge @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Sunday March 25th
- 12 Sundays: Amen Brother Block Party @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
Monday March 26th
- Black Veil Brides, D/R/U/G/S @ The Academy (€22.50, Sold Out)
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Are ASAP Rocky and Kendrick actually supporting? I heard they were only playing the American dates on the tour…
They’re neither confirmed or not at the moment. MCD don’t have an answer for sure yet!
Labrinth not ASAP Rocky or Kendrick Lamar is supporting Drake on Saturday in Dublin as per MCD.
I would really recommend everyone goes to see Nanu Nanu in Whelans tomorrow, their small gig in the Workman’s Club on Wednesday was so impressive. I say catch em while they are still free!
*Also I am tied between this gig and Radiomade in the Sugar Club tomorrow night (Hysterio back playing for the first time in ages and the great producer Seamus O Reilly home from London). This is always a good night and costs a mere fiver!