The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide
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- Elaine Mai, Liza Flume @ The Workman’s Club
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Tuesday May 2
- Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (€5, 9pm)
Ailbhe Reddy, Laoise and more. - Booker T Jones @ Vicar Street (€45)
Memphis soul man. - In Concert; Remembering Punk In Dublin @ Liberty Hall
with Smiley Bolger and Fran Quigley remembering booking Moran’s and McGonagles.
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Wednesday May 3
- Kling Klang @ MVP (Free)
Krautrock, post-punk, psych with John Dermody (The Jimmy Cake/Molossus) & Eoin “Wheels” Whelehan
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Thursday May 4
- Joan Shelley @ Whelan’s (€13)
U.S. folk singer-songwriter. - Marc O’Reilly @ The Sugar Club (€16)
Irish musician on the up. Compromise. - Sive @ Bello Bar (€10)
The Roaring Girl – Album Launch - Trad Thursdays @ MVP (Free)
Return of the Piper, Joe Mc Kenna leading the tunes - Chocolate Milk Launch Party @ Tengu (Free)
Funk, disco and soul.
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Friday May 5
- Paddy Hanna @ Whelan’s (€13)
Indie with increasingly classic songwriter tendencies. - The Selecter & The Beat @ The Academy (Sold out)
UK ska.
- Mistake #04: Oh Boland, Cat Palace, Regret Will Come @ The Hut, Phibsborough (€6)
A night of scuzzy pop - Elaine Mai, Liza Flume @ The Workman’s Club (€10)
EP launch. ‘The Colour Of The Night’. - Úna Keane @ Unitarian Church (€15)
Album Launch A/V show with guests - Sim Simma Presents: Nadia Rose @ The Sugar Club (€15)
23-year-old Croydon rapper. Support from Sequence & Sim Simma DJs - The Parrots @ The Grand Social (€15)
Feel-good garage rock. - Jellybean Benitez @ Index (€10+, 10pm)
Paradise Garage, Funhouse & Studio 54 DJ. classic New York disco. - Always Read The Label: Strictly Rhythm @ Tengu (€5+, 11pm)
Playing tunes from the NYC house label - Sense with Butch @ Button Factory (€10, 11pm)
+ Ross MacMahon. Jack Thompson - Demuja @ Wigwam (€8, 10:30pm)
Austrian house and disco. Freedom. - Hot Waxx presents Massimiliano Pagliara @ The Pyg (€10, 10pm)
known for sets of italo, disco, house, techno and electro
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Saturday May 6
- Telephones & Disco É Cultura Day & Night Party @ Schoolyard / Tengu (3pm, €5+)
Day & night party - C Duncan @ Whelan’s (€16)
Hazy Scottish folk on Fat Cat - Cabbage @ The Academy (€13)
That band NME are always talking about salaciously - Vespertine Quintet @ Annesley House,70 North Strand Road (€11+)
Justin Grounds-produced album with Adrian Crowley guesting. - The Urges @ The Grand Social (€6)
Throwback rock single launch. - Orange Tree Edits All Day Label Party @ The Shaw (Free)
Jimmy Rouge, r.kitt & more TBA. Track.
Sestra Album Launch. Shoegazey post-punk - Iron Maiden @ 3Arena (€73, yes €73 quid)
The Book of Souls tour - FM 104’s The Gig @ Olympia Theatre (€35)
Hudson Taylor, Picture This, The Academic, Barq, Little Hours.
- A Gig 4 Beth @ The Workman’s Club (€15)
Stephen Young and the Union, The Klares, The McGetigans - Boddika @ Hangar (€15, 11pm)
Surface Launch Party - Fiedel @ Index (11pm, €10)
Berghain/Ostgut Ton, Fiedelone - Bodytonic presents: Byron The Aquarius@ Wigwam (€5, 11pm)
“well established audiophile, synth fiend and house favourite” Give Me Your Love.
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Sunday May 7
- The Night Before Larry Got Stretched – Zoe Loup @ The Cobblestone
Monthly trad/folk night.
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Monday May 8
- Tom Chaplin @ The Academy
Your man from Keane.
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