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Ticket giveaways this week:
- Wednesday: Electric Eel Shock @ The Workman’s Club
- Sunday: Com Truise @ The Grand Social
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 3pm latest for weekend gigs.
Tuesday May 27th
- Real Estate @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
[Rock] Breezy indie alt-rock. - Schoolboy Q, Isaiah Rashad @ Vicar Street (€26)
[Rap] Oxymoron Kangol-wearing LA rap. - Glasser @ Button Factory (€15)
[Alt-pop] Avant-garde electronic pop singer Cameron Mesirow.
Wednesday May 28th
- Electric Eel Shock @ The Workman’s Club (€12, WIN TICKETS)
[Rock] Saucy lost in translation Japanese metal/rock. - Tonetoaster Records: Knoxville Morning, Lucky Bones & More, Master & Dog @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€9)
[Folk rock] German label night – Kildare ensemble sing songs of American sojourns.
Thursday May 29th
- The War On Drugs @ Vicar Street, Dublin (€20)
[Rock] The third album from the Philadelphia indie-rock band lead by Adam Granduciel, has been compared to the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Chris Rea. - Maria Doyle Kennedy @ The Sugar Club (€25)
[Singer] The actress and singer plays a rare live show. - Duke Special’s Gramophone Club @ The Liquor Rooms (Free)
[DJ] The musician’s club night of 78 records returns. - Skinny Wolves Presents: Soft Metals, Diamond Dagger, Night Trap @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
[Electronic] Captured Tracks’ Portland duo headline. - There Is A Light: Dylan Tighe, Hidden Highways, Ambience Affair, Biggles Flys Again, Owensie @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Launch] Launch of charity compilation in aid of First Fortnight/ Green Ribbon campaign. - #GoldenBeck – May: Orla Gartland, Paddy Hanna, Sive & Jack Ryan @ The Workman’s Club (€5)
[Irish bands] Night of new music with TXFM’s Claire Beck and Golden Plec. - Watermelon presents: Fruit Punch Saint Pepsi, Well Known, Luke B, Born Cheating & more @ Button Factory (Free)
[Electronic] Saint Pepsi flies in for a debut Irish show. ‘Mr Wonderful’. - Junior Spesh is 3: Clu, Monto, Meltybrains? & More @ Twisted Pepper (€8/€5, 10:30pm)
[Electronic] Last weekly night for the club as it turns three.
Friday May 30th
- FMC Breakingstage: Fox Jaw @ HMV, Grafton Street (1pm)
[Instore] - Codes, Carriages, The Choir Invisible @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Indie] Returning show for Codes – ‘Astraea’ - No Monster Club, Skelocrats, Rhino Magic @ The Pop Inn (BYOB, €8)
- [Indie] First gig at the new Popical Island headquarters.
- Good Fridays: Osaka presents: Dave I.D. , The Last Sound, School Tour DJs @ Block T (€10, BYOB)
[Electronic] “A night of soulful post industrial sounds.”
- Croupier, Enemies, Birds @ Twisted Pepper (€7/€10 with free albums)
[Indie-Rock] Last ever gig for the Croupier lads. 🙁
- Love Universal: Dublin Afrobeat Ensemble, Cian Finn, IZem & more @ The Sugar Club (€8/€10, 9pm)
[Tropical] Afro and world dance music. - Bedlam presents Applebottom @ The Grand Social (€TBC, 11pm)
[Dance] Madtech/Eton Messy label star brings his house/disco set to The Loft. - MUD: SCNTST, OM Unit, Bedlam DJs @ Twisted Pepper (€15)
[Electronic]
Saturday May 31st
Festival
- Forbidden Fruit @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham (€59 per day / €110 weekend)
2 Many DJs, Wild Beasts, Warpaint, DOP (Live), Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Public Enemy, Little Dragon, Gold Panda & more.
- The Dudley Corporation, Skelocrats, The Run Ons @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Indie/rock] Rare gig from the band on their fourth album. - Down With Jazz @ Meeting House Square (€10 per night / €20 for weekend)
[Jazz/contemporary/post-rock] OKO, Tommy Halferty Trio, DFF, Booka Brass, Alarmist. - Forbidden Fruit afterparty: Flying Lotus DJ Set @ Button Factory (11pm, €12)
[DJs] Afterparty for FF ticketholders only. - Technoir: Sleep Thieves DJ set, Hauer, Adeyhawke @ Pacino’s (€10, Midnight)
[Electronic] A new synthwave night. - Subject is 7: Orbital’s Phil Hartnoll @ The Twisted Pepper (€15, 11pm)
[Dance] Classics DJ Set. + Conor Feeney & DJ Mogy. - Together Disco Weekender @ The Pint (€10 per night)
[DJs] Get Down Edits / NightFlight / Louis Scully.
Sunday June 1st
Festival
- Forbidden Fruit @ Royal Hospital Kilmainham (€59 per day / €110 weekend)
2 Many DJs, Wild Beasts, Warpaint, DOP (Live), Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Public Enemy, Little Dragon, Gold Panda & more.
- Down With Jazz @ Meeting House Square (€10 per night / €20 for weekend)
[Jazz/contemporary] Umbra, Ensemble Eriu, Toot Sweet, Manden Express - Com Truise @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Live electronica] Synth-80s electronic. Plus Nightflight DJs. - Subject is 7: Surgeon, Paul Woolford aka Special Request, Sunil Sharpe, Nialler9 @ The Twisted Pepper (€16, 11pm)
[Dance] Techno and jungle-leaning headliners. Plus me in the Café. - Abstract presents Guy Gerber @ The Pyg (€15-€25, 9pm)
[Dance] Techno/progressive/house artist from Tel Aviv. Plus support. - UTS: Arveene & Misk, Hystereo, Ghostboy @ The Hub (€10/ €5 with FF ticket, 11pm)
[DJs] “Inspired by the Berkshire Balearic scene of the mid 80’s U.T.S is about free spirited music in clubs and on dance floors. Music for Headz & Feet” - Forza Italo: Ken Laszlo, Fred Ventura, DJ Overdose @ Odessa Club (€15/€12)
[DJs] The Milan guy behind Hey Hey Guy plays live. Cool. - ChoiceCuts presents Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators @ The Sugar Club (€15)
[Soul] late 60s styled funk and soul. - Forbidden Fruit afterparty: TEED DJ set, Klangkarussell DJs @ Button Factory (11pm, €12)
[DJs] Afterparty for FF ticketholders only. - Together Disco Weekender @ The Pint (€10 per night)
[DJs] Michael McKenna Groovement Soul / Greedy Pig / Martin McCann.
Monday June 2nd
- Subject is 7 & Breakfast Club w/ Marcellus Pittman @ The Dark Horse Inn (7am, €TBC)
[Dance] Early morning rollover / raving. - Junior Spesh: Sim Simma @ Twisted Pepper (Free)
[Reggae] A sunday celebration of reggae, dancehall and afrobeat vibrations.
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.
