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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