Highlights: Jeff Mangum, Choice Music Prize, Lianne La Havas, Yann Tiersen, Mark Lanegan, Tieranniesaur, Slow Magic, & Selebrities, Future Islands.
Photo portraits for the Choice Music Prize by Alessio Michelini.
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.
Ticket giveaways:
- Friday March 9th: MUD: Jackmaster B2B with Oneman and more @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10.30pm)
- Friday March 9th: Tieranniesaur, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Last Days Of 1984 @ Whelan’s (€10, make an instrument and get in for a €5 – video)
- How to enter – Email [email protected] along with your full name, your preference of gig and phone number before 4pm on Thursday to enter.
Tuesday March 6th
- Rua Unplugged @ Anseo (9pm, Free)
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Wednesday March 7th
- Jeff Mangum, Cian Nugent @ Vicar Street (€20, Sold out)
- Mark Lanegan @ The Academy (Sold out)
Thursday March 8th
- Yann Tiersen @ Vicar Street (€27)
- Choice Music Prize @ Olympia Theatre (€25)
- International Women’s Day: Sive, Wyvern Lingo and Veroa @ Sweeney’s
- Cars Love Girls (album launch) @ The Workman’s (€10)
- The Candidates, House Of Dolls, Sweet Jane @ Whelan’s (€12 for Amnesty Intl.)
- Forward Slash: Reid, Ocho @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Junior Spesh @ The Twisted Pepper @ Twisted Pepper (€10, 10.30pm)
Friday March 9th
- Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, Wayne Soper, Twin Headed Wolf, Gstar @ Supafast, Capel Street (€5, 7pm)
- Scroobius Pip, B. Dolan @ The Button Factory (€15.50)
- The Musicmaker Social @ The Mercantile (Free)
- DJ Izem’s Tropical Party @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
- Wallis Bird @ The Academy (€19)
- Rachel Sermanni @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€12)
- Tieranniesaur, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Last Days Of 1984 @ Whelan’s (€10, make an instrument and get in for a €5 –video)
- Slow Magic, Selebrities, White Collar Boy, Clu & more @ The Grand Social (€5)
- MUD: Jackmaster B2B with Oneman @ Twisted Pepper (€12, 10.30pm)
Saturday March 10th
- Future Islands, Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands @ Whelan’s (€16.50)
- Lianne La Havas @ The Sugar Club (Sold Out)
- Wiltz , Facing (split EP launch), We Arrive Alive, @ Twisted Pepper (€5)
- Unlock Nama Fundraiser: Ghost Trap (Melodic Punk), Welfare (Jungle Boogie), Executive Steve (Tribe / Ancient Ways), gkb (Bass Drum / RAID), PCP (!kaboogie), Twisted Mass, E5 Disconnect @ King 7, 122 Capel St. (€5 before 11pm, €8 after)
- The Bridges of Madison County, Wild Rocket @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Midnight, €10, Free before 10.30pm)
Sunday March 11th
- 12 Sundays: Ships (live) & Joma @ Bernard Shaw (Free, noon)
- Saucy Sundays @ The Grand Social (Free, 5pm)
- The Dead Flags @ Stag’s Head (€8)
- Yawning Chasm ~ Brigid Power Ryce @ Designist. Dame Street (6.30pm, €5)
- Sunday Roast @ The Mercantile (Free, 9pm)
- Natural Snow Buildings, Be Honest @ Whelan’s (€12)
Monday March 12th
- The MusiK FaKtorY @ The Button Factory (Free)
