Win Free passes:
- Saturday: Young Blood: Rusangano Family, Hare Squead, Kojey Radical, Stephen James Smith, Katie Laffan @ NCH (€18+, WIN PASSES)
To enter: Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name 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 March 14
- The Gloaming @ NCH (Ltd. tickets)
Seven night run. 7/7. Album #2. - Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (€5, 9pm)
Third Smoke, Neev Kennedy, Sion Hill, John Byrne - Cider Wasps, Silk Road @ Whelan’s (€5+)
Alt rock . Hummingbird. - Homebeat: Participant, Sails @ The Little Museum Of Dublin (€10+)
Sampler’ EP Launch
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Wednesday March 15
- Joan As Police Woman @ Button Factory (€24.50)
With Benjamin Lazar Davis
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Thursday March 16
- St. Patrick’s Festival presents: A Page of Madness @ Trinity College (€10+, 6pm)
Asian silent film scored by Matthew Nolan and Seán Mac Erlaine. - Cat Power @ Vicar Street (€26.50)
Solo performance. - Jameson Bow St Sessions @ The Academy (Win)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, All Tvvin, Brian Deady - The St. Patrick’s Two Nighter @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
Free Sunshine Acid, Beach, Vicious Fish and Djs - Awesome Tapes From Africa, Farah Elle & Fakoli at Woweembeem @ The Sugar Club (€13)
parties and podcasts promoting afrobeat, reggae, latin & rare grooves. - The Crayon Set @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€6)
7 piece alternative pop band from Dublin. - Good Name: Le Boom @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
Electro-pop duo - Lime & Fancy: A Good Heart @ Wigwam (Free, 10:30pm)
80s, 90s pop music and Italo without shame. - Hidden Agenda Presents: Joe Goddard @ Wah Wah Club (€13, 10pm)
Hot Chip producer on his solo tip. - The Deece Series #8: Baba Stiltz & Steven Julien @ The Grand Social (€10)
FunkinEven guests at DJ Deece’s series. - Souletiquette X Friends @ Tengu (€10+, 7pm)
Jafaris, Papa Lou, Erica Cody, Super Silly, NC Grey, Mango, Loud Motive and more - Pyg’s 8th Birthday with Derrick May and tINI @ The Pyg (€25)
+ Colin Perkins, Will Kinsella, Sexshop, Aaron Nolan, Eve Dj’s - Ejeca @ District 8 ·(10pm, Sold out)
NI House DJ and producer.
- Leftfield (DJ Set) @ Opium Rooms (€15, 10pm)
Neil Barnes in town for a DJ set. - Ben Sims @ Index (€12, 10pm)
New venue in Voodoo Lounge with Niall Cleary, Doug Cooney - Betty & Phases present: Hidden Spheres & Hmeflght (Live) @ Wigwam (€5+, 10pm)
Dutch DJ on Distant Hawaii / Rhythm Section.
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Friday March 17
- Telepaddy’s @ Pallas Studios yard day / Tengu night (€10+, 2pm – late, BYOB)
Papa Lou (Woweembeem) Disco É Cultura JOMA (Telephones) Fio’n’Jio (Pear) - Reeling In Your Ears @ Wigwam (Free)
1991 music party. - Sing Along Social @ MVP (€5, 4pm)
Paddy’s Day special of Irishness. Followed by free Melodic Guilty Pleasures party. - Repeater DJs, Fulton & Gold, Bodytonic DJs, Pear DJs @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, noon)
All day party - Higher Vision Festival @ Bellurgan Park (€75+, 2pm)
BYOB dance festival: Ejeca, Dimitri From Paris, Julio Bashmore, Dense & Pika, FJAAK. - Full Irish: 14 bands, 2 stages @ Whelan’s (3pm, guestlist)
Pillow Queens, Oh Joy, Pretty Beast,Wolves Of Youth and more. - This Ain’t No Disco New York @ The Sugar Club (6pm, Free, ticketed)
St. Patrick’s Festival present screening of Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly’s new online music show episode shot in New York. - The St. Patrick’s Two Nighter @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
The Notas, Kelly-Anne Byrne and more. - Gianni, Kelly-Anne Byrne, Pablo, This Greedy Pig @ Wah Wah Club (€5 before 12, €10 after, 9pm)
Upstairs and downstairs with DJs. - Daft Punk Appreciation Party @ Hangar (€10, 10pm)
10 years of Alive. - David Holmes presents God’s Waiting Room @ The Sugar Club (€15)
Belfast producer and composer DJ set - Kojaque, Phases, Distortion & Hidden Agenda @ The Grand Social (€ , 9pm)
+ Phare live and more - Buffalo Soul @ Tivoli Backstage (9pm)
Bob Marley Tribute - Soundstream @ The Pygmalion (€10, 1pm)
Berlin house. + Hubie Davison B2B Colin Perkins, James Rogers, Syl Black, Nitetales - Tale Of Us @ District 8 (2pm-10pm, €25)
+ Moduse, Mulljoy (Melodic), String & Bates, Phases DJ’s, Lui Rwego - Foals (DJ Set), Nialler9, Mix & Fairbanks, Ciara Brady @ Opium Rooms (6pm, €15+)
Edwin Congreave of the band + Marcus O’Laoire - Tinfoil @ District 8 (€10+, 1opm)
Techno. Sunil Sharpe & DeFeKT, John Heckle. - Jayda G & Dip DJs @ Wigwam (€12.50, 10:30pm)
Major Problems, Con Artist Production presentation. - Sense @ Button Factory (Free, 11pm)
residents b2b.
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Saturday March 18
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised @ Smock Alley Theatre (11am-5pm, €5+)
Discussions, performances curated by Siobhan Kane. Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Emmet Kirwan, Donal Dineen, Aoife McElwain. - Young Blood: Rusangano Family, Hare Squead, Kojey Radical, Stephen James Smith, Katie Laffan @ NCH (€18+, WIN PASSES)
St. Patrick’s Festival. A night of young Irish voices, rappers and poets. - Music for 18 Machines @ St. Patrick’s Cathedral (€18)
St. Patrick’s Festival. reimagines Steve Reich’s piece with 18 synths and visuals. Documentary.
- Third Smoke @ Whelan’s (€10)
Alt folk-rock. Ms. Summer Breeze. - Melodic presents: Patrice Baumel @ Tengu (€10, 10:30pm)
- Kompakt DJ and producer.
- Division presents Rich NxT @ The Pyg (10pm, €10+)
London DJ and keyboardist. NXT002
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Sunday March 19
- Lee Scratch Perry @ Whelan’s (€25)
He’s 80s years of age now is Lee.
- Ears Open: Meljoann & Everything Shook @ Tivoli Backstage (€7)
Wonky electronic funk R&B and harmony doom-laden alternative music - Bear’s Den @ The Academy (€)
British folk rock band - Electric Avenue Vol II @ Ukiyo (9pm)
Generic People, Eamon Barrett and more - Martyn @ The Pygmalion (€10+)
Dutch electronic producer + Frankie Grimes and Robbie Kitt
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Monday March 20
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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.
