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Ticket giveaways:
- Friday: Sean Nicholas Savage, Dear Desert @ Whelan’s
- Friday: Time is Illmatic – Special Preview Screening @ The Sugar Club (€10)
- Saturday: Grand Social 4th Birthday: Hot Sprockets, Fox Jaw @ The Grand Social (€10)
- Sunday: Sage Francis @ The Sugar Club (€20)
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 1pm latest for weekend gigs.
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Tuesday October 7
- Sylvan Esso @ The Workman’s Club (€13)
[Electronic pop] Beguiling duo. ‘Play It Right’
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Wednesday October 8
- Slow Skies @ The Sugar Club (€13)
[Folk / ambient ] Listen to the band’s new Keepsake EP. - The Hard Ground, Marc O’Reilly @ The Grand Social (€10)
[Irish/folk] Double headliner. ‘Deep In Green’ - Corner Boy, Paul Creane & The Changing Band @ Whelan’s (€10)
[Folk/pop] Double headline show. - The High Dials, Exploding Eyes, Sissy @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
[Psych/rock] The psych-pop band from Montreal play their first ever Ireland gig
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Thursday October 9
- Guinness Amplify: I Heart The Monster Hero, Riot Tapes @ Hogan’s (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: In The Willows, Chris Haze, Edisons @ Flannery’s Bar (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: Overhead The Albatross, Heroes In Hiding, Animal Beats @ The Mercantile (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: Cornerboy @ Busker’s (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: The Crossfire, Gangs, Otherkin @ The Grand Social (Free)
[New irish music] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: Phazam Haze, Garr Cleary, Ain’t Saint John, Canaries, Ailbhe Reddy @ Sweeney’s (Free)
[New Irish music] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: Death In The Sickroom @ Brogan’s (Free)
[New Irish music] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Electricitat 100 @ The Parlour Bar, Whelan’s (7pm)
[Party] Tiny Magnetic Pets debut their new EP for the Radio Na Life 100th show celebration. - Brian Mooney, Margie Lewis @ The Joinery (€10, BYOB)
[Calypso Rock] ” this current crop of songs seeks to keep the hope machine running with words and chords” / “improvised live set experimenting with vocals, instruments, delay, pitch, loops and beats”
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Friday October 10
- Guinness Amplify: Rocstrong, Brass Phantoms, Drisco @ 4 Dame Lane (Free but listed, 6:30pm)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: White Chalk, Bagels, Million Little Gods, The Quakers, Leading Armies @ Sweeney’s (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Sean Nicholas Savage, Dear Desert @ Whelan’s (€12 , WIN TICKETS)
[Folk/rock] Canadian singer-songwriter and ballad composer - Skinny Wolves: Sea Pinks, Women’S Christmas, Mr & My Dog @ Bello Bar (€10)
[Rock] Launch of new Sea Pinks LP
- Kevin Herm Connolly @Anseo (6:30pm, €5)
[Residency] Launch of ‘Shotgun’ - No Idle Day: Sound & Vision @ Kevin Barry Room, NCH (€15)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] Pat Collins discusses his work. Jim Carroll, Donal Dineen, Bill Drummond & more discuss their favourite records. - WIFE, Reid @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
[Electronic] Two Cork electronic producers doing well internationally. - Time is Illmatic – Special Preview Screening @ The Sugar Club (WIN TICKETS , €10)
[Screening/DJs] Nas doc screening + Golden Era Hip Hop Sets from Handsome Paddy, This Greedy Pig (Greg) &
Fionn O’Brien & Coty Smith. - Abstract presents: Darius @ Opium Rooms (€5, 11pm)
[Dance] A mix of french house, hip-hop and balearic dance music - Melodic: Watergate: Sebo K, Matthias Mayer @ Button Factory (€15, 11pm )
[Dance] Berlin club residents do a Dublin gig. - MUD: The Building Society present George Fitzgerald @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10:30pm)
[Dance] High class house music. FACT Mix. - Bedlam presents: Klingande @ District 8 (€15, 11pm)
[Dance] Crap sax house music. This is a warning.
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Saturday October 11
- No Idle Day: Walk Away Renee @ Surprise location (€10, 11:30am)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] Musical walking tour with guests. - No Idle Day: Old Town @ Marsh’s Library (€10, 2pm)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] Bill Drummond lecture, Niamh McCormack sings, Colin Barrett reads. - No Idle Day: Hidden Gems @ Molloy & Dowlings (€10, 4:30pm)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] The beauty of odd records with Peter Twoomey and Jonny Trunk. - Guinness Amplify: State’s Faces of: Leanne Harte, Ghosts, Dah Jevu, Annie Graham @ The Mercantile (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: Mannequin Sex Drive @ Arthur’s, Thomas Street (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Guinness Amplify: White Chalk, Bagels, Million Little Gods, The Quakers, Leading Armies @ Sweeney’s (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees @ Whelan’s Upstairs (SOLD OUT)
[Indie] Fiddle-wielding virtuosic player. - No Idle Day: When you Love Music So Much @ City Assembly House, South William Street (€20, 7:30pm)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] Readings and music from Katie Kim, The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock and Adrian Crowley. - Analogue Wave, Grim, Makings @ Bello Bar (€10)
[Indie/electronic] Album Launch of a Dublin duo mixing dub with breakbeats, samples And synths. - #rabbleRuckus7: Post Workers Beer Blow Out @ The Pint (Free , 10pm)
[DJs] With Toirse of D1 and Front End Synthetics. - Kormac’s Big Band @ Button Factory (11pm, €18)
[Hip-hop/electronic] launch of new Doorst2eps album.
- Declan O’Rourke @ Vicar Street (€25)
[Singer-songwriter] 10th anniversary of his debut album Since Kyabram. - Grand Social 4th Birthday: Hot Sprockets, Fox Jaw @ The Grand Social (€10, WIN TICKETS)
[Rock] A celebratory headline show. - Pogo: Archetype present San Soda & Jereon Search @ Twisted Pepper (€15, 10:30pm)
[Dance] The Belgian dude responsible for this bit of acappella ubiquity. - WCB social: Hystereo @ The Grand Social (Free, 11:30pm)
[DJs] White Collar Boy’s DJ night returns. - Mother: Donal Dineen @ Copper Alley (€10, 11pm / €5 before 12)
[Club] The legendary broadcaster and Rocky T Delgado. - Hidden Agenda: Fort Romeau, Get Down Edits @ Opium Rooms (€12, 11pm)
[DJs] Solid nuanced house/disco music with great Wateeford disco edits support. - Dark Sky, Clu, Contour, Daire Carolan @ District 8 (€12/€15, 11pm)
[Dance] Monkeytown Records. artist with good Irish support.
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Sunday October 12
- No Idle Day: Heaven In The Afternoon @ Bello Bar (€20, Noon-6pm)
[Young Hearts mini-festival] John Osborne performing John Peel’s Shed, Foil, Arms & Hog, Barry McCormack, Nialler9, James Byrne (Any Other City) and brunch by Aoife McElwain of Forkful.tv. - Guinness Amplify: Sunday Roast: InterSkalactic, I Heart The Monster Hero, Abel Archer, The Crossfire @ The Mercantile (Free)
[Pub gigs] Free gigs all over city pubs this week. - Sage Francis @ The Sugar Club (€20, WIN TICKETS)
[Indie-Rap] Canadian alt-rap performer. - Perspectives 2014: Clint Mansell @ NCH (Sold out)
[Composerl The Aronofsk-related composer plays music from his soundtracks.
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Monday October 13
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! @ Button Factory (€20)
[indie-rock] The original blog band - George Ezra @ The Academy (SOLD OUT)
[Folk/pop] The boy wears lovely shirts.
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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.
