The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

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Ticket giveaways:

• Friday: BLOG PARTY: Dear Desert, September Girls, Bitch Falcon, Carriages, Dip & Diskotekken @ The Sugar Club
• Friday: John Bramwell (I Am Kloot) @ Button Factory
• Friday: Julio Bashmore @ The Academy (€22.90, 11pm)
• Friday: Pyg presents Weval (Live) @ Pygmalion (€10, 9pm)

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.

Tuesday February 17

• Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (9pm, €6) [Acoustic/folk club] 

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Wednesday February 18

• Slow Club @ Pepper Canister Church (€18)
  [Indie/rock] Sheffield boy-girl duo.
• Culture Vultures @ Odessa Club (€10)
  [Salon] Richie Egan, Slow Skies & Paul Curran 
• Echo and the Bunnymen, Darling @ Olympia Theatre (€32)
  [Rock] McCulloch and co.

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Thursday February 19

• Jape, Talos @ The Academy (€15)
  [indie/electronic] Playing songs from This Chemical Sea and more
• New Natives: Voxx, The Journals, Red Queen Contest, The Riot Tapes @ The Grand Social (Free)
  [Rock ] New Irish music night.
• Good Name Thursdays: Sissy @ The Bernard Shaw (Free)
  [Indie/rock] Lo-fi garage rock
• POND @ Whelan’s (€19)
  [Indie] Australian psychedelic rock group
• Fractal music: Ian Peaston @ Odessa Club (€8/€6)
  [electric violin and electronics] Playing the music of Bach, Bjork, Klaverdal, Zimmer
• Two Gallants @ The Workman’s Club (€18.50)
  [Rock]  San Francisco based guitar-drum duo
• Ólafur Arnalds @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (SOLD OUT)
  [Composer] Icelandic composer/performr will be back with Kiasmos soon 
• Welcome: Murlo @ Twisted Pepper (€TBC,10:30pm)
  [Electronic] UK producer’s new EP features Gemma Dunleavey.

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Friday February 20

• BLOG PARTY: Dear Desert, September Girls, Bitch Falcon, Carriages, Dip & Diskotekken @ The Sugar Club (€12)
  [New music] Nialler9, The Last Mixed Tape, Goldenplec, Le Cool, Choice Cuts and Abner Browns team up.
• Meltybrains? @ Pepper Canister Church (€12.50)
  [Experimental rock] Donegal / IV single launch. With visuals by Slipdraft.
• Death From Above 1979 @ The Academy (Sold out)
  [Rock] Canadian Rockers return.
• Ólafur Arnalds @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire (SOLD OUT)
  [Composer] Icelandic composer/performr will be back with Kiasmos soon 
• Hvmmingbyrd, Funzo @ The Cellar, The Church (Free)
  [All female Dublin folk/pop band] Launch ofsingle ‘I’ll Follow You’ in aid of Aoibheann’s Pink Tie.
• Elastic Sleep, Other Creatures @ Whelan’s (€8)
  [Rock]Cork Five-piece shoegaze rock. Open Eye Signal.
• Makings, The Other Breed, Silent Noise Parade @ The Grand Social (€10/€12)
  [Electro-rock] Launch of band’s new LP. Man On Fire.
• John Bramwell @ Button Factory (€TBC)
  [Electronic] I am Kloot musician playing solo. Afterparty in Pacino’s with Kelly-Anne Byrne
• LCD Soundsystem film screening, Nialler9 DJ set @ The Grand Social (€10,11pm)
  [Screening] Fundraiser for Women’s Aid.
• Pyg presents Weval (Live) @ Pygmalion (€10, 9pm)
  [Dance] Producer with tunes like Detian.
• Abstract presents: Clarian & Chymera & The Drifter @ Opium Rooms (€8/€10, 10:30pm)
  [Dance] House and techno guests.
• Julio Bashmore @ The Academy (€22.90, 11pm)
  [Dance] Recent spate of singles leading to the album are winners
• Bedlam & Strictly Deep: Leftwing & Cody @ The Twisted Pepper (€10-€15, 11pm)
  [DJs] Deep house .

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Saturday February 21

• Suas & Nurture Africa Present: Ben Bix & Attention Bébé @ Twisted Pepper (€10)
  [Fundraiser] In aid of Suas and Nuture Africa.
• King Charles @ The Academy (€15)
  [Indie/pop] Love Lust
• Ben Folds @ Whelan’s (€15)
  [Pop] The American songwriter and band.
• New Wave @ Bello Bar (€5)
  [Female music night] Ailbhe Reddy Music, Aoife Underwater, Rachael mccormack and Alice Kiernan.
• Dirty Saint, Bagels, Brand New Dead Things, Spines @ Sweeneys (Free)
  [Rock/indie] New Irish music
• Turning Down Sex, Fierce Mild, Pigs As People, That Snaake @ Thomas House (€5)
  [Garage/rock] 4 Irish bands in the basement
• POGO: The Horrors (DJ Set) & Dan Shake @ Twisted Pepper (€12/€14, 11pm)
  [DJ] With Gib Cassidy (Girls Names) and Loose Ends Djs
• Encore!!! presents Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense @ The Sugar Club (€12, 10:30pm)
  [Screening] DJs Billy Scurry, Johnny Moy, Martin McCann, This Greedy Pig, Sally Cinnamon.
• Hidden Agenda: Black Coffee, Bill Brewster @ Opium Rooms (€15,10pm)
  [Dance] Afro-house DJ from South Africa and Last Night A DJ Saved My Life author in the Garden
• Small Talk presents Slap Funk Records Show Case @ The Pint (€15, 11pm)
  [Dance] Dutch house and techno
• The Building Society presents Benjamin Damage & Frank B @ Hangar (€10, 11pm)
  [Dance]  and e UK techno producer & Dublin boy Frank B
• Subject & Bodytonic: Kerri Chandler @ District 8 (€18-€20 11pm)
  [House] The legend playing live with live keys and vocals.
• T/A/S/T/E DJs @ The Grand Social (Free, 11pm)
  [House, techno./ cosmic DJs] Emmet and Thomas back for their monthly residency
• Sense: Chris Lorenzo @ Button Factory (€5-€12, 11pm)
  [DJ] Producer, remixer, DJ and Rinse FM host.

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Sunday February 22

• Boogie Brunch @ The Odessa Club (€Brunch, noon-4pm)
  [DJs] Brunch and Rob Smith plays The Smiths.
• Soda: Loose Ends @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, 4pm)
  [DJs] All day boogie from Loose Ends. Straight Up will be in the Shaw selling house, funk and disco records.
• Father John Misty @ Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)
  [Folk/rock] Album of the year so far?

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Monday February 23

• The Parlour TV @ Whelan’s (6.45pm, list)
  [TV recording] Sit in on a live recording of a new TV show with music from Katie Kim.
• Josef Salvat @ Whelan’s (€12)
  [Soul/pop] Open Season

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Niall Byrne

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.

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