The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide
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Tuesday November 29
- Slick Rick the Ruler @ The Sugar Club (€32.50)
with live band. A member of Doug E. Fresh’s Get Fresh Crew/ old school hip-hop. - Hinds @ The Academy (€17.50)
Charmingly sloppy indie-rock band from Madrid. - Kate Tempest @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
UK rapper and spoken word artist. - Glen Hansard and Friends @ Vicar Street (€35)
Glen and friends as it says. Second show this week. - Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (€6, 9pm)
Acoustic club: secret guests this week.
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Wednesday November 30
- Primal Scream @ Olympia Theatre (€35)
Long-standing UK rock band with an experimental edge. - Margaret Glaspy @ The Grand Social (€15)
Playing Other Voices this weekend. Emotion and Math. - ÓDÚ, Rosa Nutty, Montauk Hotel @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6)
New Irish music. - Quarter Deck Vinyl Wednesdays @ The Bowery (Free)
Vinyl DJ night with Baz Hickey & guests. - Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny @ Magistorium (€25+)
Folk legends in old-fashioned new sit down venue.
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Thursday December 1
- Super Furry Animals @ Olympia Theatre (SOLD OUT)
Performing Fuzzy Logic/Radiator. Afterparty with Nialler9, Trev and Cian SFA. - Talib Kweli, Soulé @ The Sugar Club (€20)
Sporadically brilliant US rapper. - StreetSmart 2016 ‘Dine Out Help Out’ Launch @ Tengu (Free)
launch of this year’s ‘Dine Out Help Out’ campaign - Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny @ Magistorium (€25+)
Folk legends in old-fashioned new sit down venue. - Agnes Obel @ Vicar Street (€28)
Danish neo-classical singer-songwriter - Harbouring Oceans, Ailbhe Reddy, Little One @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6 )
new Irish Music. Enso. - Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock @ Whelan’s (€10)
Trad folk rock band from Dublin. 12″ launch.
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Friday December 2
- Mistake #01: Field Trip, New Pope, Handsome Eric @ The Hut, Phibsborough (€5)
New night of Irish music on the northside. - Magic Pockets, Fixity, Gareth Anton Averill @ Tivoli Backstage (€)
Album launch: An authentic recall to ’80s cinematic horror soundtracks. - RTE NSO Video Games Classic @ National Concert Hall (€25+)
Eimear Noone conducts video game and classical music favourites with the National Symphony Orchestra. - Teenage Fanclub @ The Academy (€27.50)
Vintage UK indie. - Discotekken: Mixtapes from the Underground 10th Birthday @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
Plus This Side Up, MTFU DJs - Bring The Toys @ The Back Page (6pm, Bring a toy to donate like it says)
Annual Bodytonic fundraiser for Temple Street. - Collider – featuring Peter Brötzmann @ Unitarian Church (€10/€15)
Six composers, three musicians, one evening of experimental music… - Cult Called Man @ Button Factory (€)
Irish pop-rock band. - Daniel Avery, Avalon Emerson @ District 8 (€20)
the UK producer’s DJ Kicks is just out. - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ The Sugar Club (11pm, €20)
Great new Irish electronic pop duo. What We Do. - White Collar Boy @ Wah Wah Club (€8, 11pm)
This Greedy Pig present Launch of Priory Hall EP. Preview. - Fjaak / Technotic 11th Birthday @ Hangar (€10, 10:30pm)
Techno trio. 2014 BBC Radio 1 mix. - Shiba San & Will Clarke @ Opium Rooms (€15)
Mysterious French DJ and producer
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Saturday December 3
- 2Fm Xmas Ball @ 3Arena (€39.50)
All Tvvins, The Academic, Kodaline, Picture This. - Wyvern Lingo, BARQ @ Button Factory (€17.50)
Rising Irish trio of harmony, pop and indie. - Young Hearts Run Free’s Yule @ The Co-Op, Newmarket Square (Dublin 8, BYOB, €22)
Alaisdair Roberts, Tandem Felix, This Side Up, David O’Doherty, Le Boom Paddy Hanna, Booka Brass and more - Jesse John Heffernan, Danny G @ Bello Bar (€6+)
Dublin based Singer and songwriter of soul - Val Normal, Megacone, Punch face Champions @ The Workman’s Club (€7)
Angular, punk, Irish rock. - Galants, Junk Drawer @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Midnight, guestlist)
Galants launch their self-titled debut EP - Barnt & Ghost Culture (Live) @ Button Factory (€10, 11pm)
Sense & HA present techno and electronic double bill. - Fish Go Deep @ Tengu (€10, 11pm)
Long-standing Cork house duo. - Derrick Carter Does Disco @ The Pyg (€10, 11pm)
3 hours of disco + Get Down Edits. - Pear Christmas Party @ Wigwam (€5, 10:30pm)
with Sage & Na Gamail Grúbh - Kenton Slash Demon (Live) @ Wah Wah Club (€8, 10pm)
Danish duo debut show.
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Sunday December 4
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- CUAR & Danny Diamond @ Royal Society of Antiquities, 63 Merrion Square (€15, 4:30pm)
Cuar is an ensemble led by Neil Ó Loclainn that explores composition and improvisation within the framework of irish traditional music. - Beardyman presents: MC Leen & Rob Lewis (Cello) @ The Sugar Club (€20)
UK beatboxer and live band make up audience songs.
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Monday December 5
- Chewing on Tinfoil @ Whelan’s (€7)
Dublin-punk.
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