The best gigs & clubs in Dublin this week? It’s the Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide – running for over 15 years every week.
Dublin Gig Guide Highlights: English Teacher, Horse Meat Disco, Coco Maria, Junk Drawer, Soichi Terada, Westerman, Nation Of Language, Skinner, Billie Marten, Inni-K, Throwing Shapes, Delivery Service, These New Puritans, Bog Band, Shaun Ryder, BellX1, Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh and Seán Mac Erlaine.
Tuesday November 4th
Westerman album listening party @ Fidelity Studio (7pm)
Alt pop artist Westerman is in town for a playback with Partisan Records + Sheep’s Clothing HiFi. Nialler9 Q&A after the playback. ‘Adriatic’
Oh Wonder @ 3Olympia Theatre
UK alt-pop duo celebrate 10 years of their debut record. ‘Lose It’.
Julian Lage @ The Helix
Guitar virtuoso and composer. Foggy Notions show. Live in Bristol.
Big / Brave @ Whelan’s
“Massive Minimalist” alternative band on Thrill Jockey. I felt a funeral’. Support from GÉIS
(Elaine Malone/Ellie Myler/Méabh McKenna).
Carolina Durante @ Opium
Spanish indie rock band.
Wednesday November 5th
Billie Marten @ Vicar Street
British singer-songwriter and contemporary folk artist. ‘Planets’
Saya Gray @ Opium
Japanese-Canadian alternative pop artist. ‘LIE DOWN..’
Croíthe @ The Grand Social
Dublin-based indie post-punk band. ‘Feed My Head’.
Outline Festival @ Button Factory (7pm)
Amapiano and Afrobeat festival.
Stoat @ Little Whelan’s
Long-standing Irish alternative band.
Thursday November 6th
Music Capital Scheme In Person Info Session @ NCH (10am – 11am)
A €2 million fund is available for Irish musicians and arts venues to buy instruments through the Music Capital Scheme.
Skinner, Cable Boy @ Bello Bar
Dublin-based alternative rock and no wave artist brings his New Wave Vaudeville show to Portobello. ‘Geek Love’
Inni-K @ The Sugar Club
Irish singer-songwriter launches Still A Day album. ‘Beatha’
Flynn Johnson album listening party @ The Playground HQ, D12
The Green Box Theory album. Playback, Q&A, and a drinks reception on arrival. Free in. ‘Murder’.
Sam Willis @ The Grand Social
UK soul and R&B vocalist. ‘We Both Know’
Nation Of Language @ Opium Rooms
NYC new wave indie trio. Support Telekura. Two nights.
By A Sky, Katie Kim @ National Concert Hall Studio
Metronome: By A Sky is informed by the aesthetics of drone metal and ambient electronica from trio Nathan Sherman, Garrett Sholdice and Jonathan Nangle. ‘Sun To Sun’ Support from Katie Kim.
Oceanna, Emmy Shigeta (vinyl set) @ Tengu
Tengu Jazz night. Sold out.
Wobblin Jude @ Whelan’s Upstairs
The Instagram indie rocker. Support Listowel, Tomcocko
Reabhtacht 001 @ Lost Lane (11pm)
Irish language trance and techno club night with Mannio, Ruan, Peadar.
Friday November 7th
Delivery Service @ Whelan’s Upstairs
‘Ghost’ is the Dublin four-piece alternative band’s debut single. Support: Nessa McHugh.
Nation Of Language @ Opium Rooms
NYC new wave indie trio. Support Telekura. Two nights.
Zara Larsson @ 3Arena
Swedish pop singer and songwriter.
The Total Stone Roses, Oaysis @ Button Factory
Tribute bands
c @ Bello Bar
Homebeat Presents the album launch of the project from Irish musicians harpist Méabh McKenna, drummer Ross Chaney and violin/synth Gareth Quinn Redmond
Jinx Lennon, Girobabies @ Thomas House
Dundalk’s DIY punk merchant always puts on a cathartic show, Glasgow ned punks on support.
NSOI: Ravel, Dessner and Beethoven @ NCH
Bryce Dessner Trembling Earth – World Premiere – Co-commissioned by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin and Borletti-Buitoni Trust)
Nialler9 @ The Devlin (8pm – 11pm)
Playing tunes in the lobby of the hotel.
Melt @ The Workman’s Club
New York indie-soul band. ‘Plant The Garden’
Reception: Eva-Maria Houben @ Kirkos
Sharon Phelan (electronics), David Lacey (percussion), Aonghus McEvoy (guitar).
Trash Guzzler, NØMADS @ Anseo
Presented by amach anseo.
Late Clubs
Horse Meat Disco @ Fidelity Studio (9pm – 1am)
4-hour set from the London disco dons.
Soichi Terada (Live), The Trip & Saint Ludo @ Wigwam (11pm)
Stacked x Sense x Rinse present a trio of recommended electronic artists. I loved The Trip’s Ibiza Uncovered throwback rave EP from last year, and Terada is a revered Japanese electronic music house producer who has an eclectic output and Saint Ludo is concerned with bass.
Dylan Fogarty’s Residency with Ryan Elliott @ Tengu (11pm)
Second night of the residency invites the resident DJ at Berghain / Panorama Bar.
DUSK @ Fibber’s (9pm)
Goth, Darkwave, Coldwave, Postpunk, Synthpop, Futurepop, EBM.
The Daft Punk Experience @ The Grand Social (11pm)
‘ALIVE 25’ Tour
Saturday November 8th
English Teacher @ 3Olympia Theatre
Leeds indie rock Mercury Prize winners. Support Theatre.
Junk Drawer, Phil Christie @ Bello Bar
Belfast alt-rock band and The Bonk musician.
Bog Band @ Yamamori Tengu
London-based Irish duo of childhood friends Stephen Sorensen and Isaac Clarke aka Bog Band trade in sophisticated pop music drawn from the ’80s and recent past and their second album with soft rock soul and pop music a la The Style Council, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile.
Bell X1 with The Theodora Byrne Ensemble @ NCH
Bell X1 play two acoustic shows Saturday / Sunday, accompanied by Theodora Byrne and a 12-person choir. The shows will feature vocal arrangements for songs from across the band’s catalogue.
Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh and Seán Mac Erlaine @ NCH Studio
Metronome. Album Launch. With Sharon Phelan. ‘Reverse Burst’
Late Clubs
Coco Maria presents Club Coco @ Fidelity Studio (9pm – 1am)
Bossa Nova, Cumbia, Samba and Latin rarities from the NTS host.
Surgeon @ Wigwam (11pm)
Subject presents Shell Wave Album Tour from the well-established precision techno artist. Support: Americhord – Live, Giles Armstrong.
Bella Festa @ Tengu (11pm)
with Public Display Of Affection (P.D.A) – TamTam & Jonah Considine
Sunday November 9th
Curtis Harding @ Opium
Atlanta slop’n’soul artist. ‘The Power’
The Breath @ The Grand Social
Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly.
Christy Moore @ Vicar Street
Kidare’s finest.
Muireann Bradley @ The Sugar Club
Young Irish blues guitarist and singer.
Chief Keegan, The Leon Stax Equation @ O’Regan’s
Irish funk and soul bands.
Bell X1 with The Theodora Byrne Ensemble @ NCH
Bell X1 play two acoustic shows Saturday / Sunday, accompanied by Theodora Byrne and a 12-person choir. The shows will feature vocal arrangements for songs from across the band’s catalogue.
THE GAKK @ Bellobar
Dundalk punk band launch album.
Macdara Yeates @ Whelan’s
Dublin traditional singer.
Monday November 10th
These New Puritans @ The Workmans Club
UK experimental art pop band with new album Crooked Bell. Support Stella And The dreaming
Shaun Ryder @ Whelan’s
Happy Mondays man on a spoken word tour.
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.
