The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide – Easter Edition
Artwork from District’s good Friday manor party.
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- Sunday: Daedelus @ The Sugar Club
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Tuesday April 11
- Wabi-Sabi Soul: 3D Listening Event @ Savoy Cinema (€8)
Musictown show from Dylan Tighe. - Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s (€5, 9pm)
Holly MacVe, Bitch Falcon + more
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Wednesday April 12
- Bruce Willis: 21 Seconds @ Wah Wah Club (€10, 11pm)
UK Garage and techno.
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Thursday April 13
- Liam O Maonlai And Ronan O Snodaigh @ The Bowery (€22.50, WIN PASSES)
trad, rock, folk, soul and world music - Yussef Kamaal – Future Jazz Series @ The Sugar Club (€17.50)
London jazz. - Cormac Begley @ The Cobblestone (€11)
Debut concertina album launch. - Word Up Collective #14 @ Bello Bar (€5)
Backshed inc, Outsider YP, Anti-One, Spoken Word Up: Felispeaks Lewis Kenny Dagogo - Mrs. Adam Schatz + Cal Folger Day @ The Workman’s Club upstairs (€7)
the chief songwriter of Landlady - Gigonometry Presents Bodies, Bob Skeleton, ETC @ The Workman’s Club (€5+)
new music night. - No Monster Club, Alien She, Switzerland, Nervvs@ Tivoli Backstage (€8+)
Retro Revival Indie Club presents The Easter Egg Hunt - Garageland gig @ Button Factory (€tba)
Volume 1 album launch - Arborist @ The Shaw (Free)
Good Name presents NI folk artist.
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Good Friday April 14
- BD Festival @ Glendalough House (€70, BYOB)
Huxley, Format B., Nightmares On Wax (DJ SET) DJ Deece, Rocstrong, RSAG, Æ MAK, Eve and more. - District Magazine’s 3rd Birthday @ Private Manor (€50+, BYOB)
Frank Ocean producer Vegyn, Kojaque, Steo Skitz (Live), Staxx Lyrical (Dublin Digital Radio), Tara Stewart (2FM/District) & more
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Easter Saturday April 15
- The Garage Gigs @ The Grand Social (€10)
with Skyfever, Animal Gangs, MacBeth - Weyes Blood @ The Workman’s Club (€16)
Musictown. Natalie Mering is an Ariel Pink collaborator and solo artist in her own right. - Chelsea Wolfe, Wife @ Whelan’s (€20)
Dark-leaning singer/songwriter - Rocstrong, Craic Appeal, Loud Motive @ Civic Theatre (€10)
Irish hip-hop, soul and pop. - BeepBeep’s Bop Shop @ MVP (Free)
rare and classic Rockabilly, R’n’B, Hillbilly, Exotica, Western Swing, Surf, Blues - EXS @ Button Factory (€13, 10:30pm)
new club night with Byron Yeates, Frank B & Breen, Sally Cinnamon & Greg Spring - Abstract: Simian Mobile Disco @ Opium Rooms (€15, 11PM)
UK electronic duo James Ford and Jas Shaw. - The Discotekken Jungle Book Party @ The Sugar Club (€8+)
Manden Express, Papa Lou, Nevan Jio - Melodic Presents Matthias Meyer @ Tengu (€10, 11pm)
Watergate Berlin DJ - Tiz McNamara @ Whelan’s Upstairs (€10)
Steady as you Go.
- Debut at Mutate presents Abdulla Rashim @ The Sound House (€15)
Northern Electronics producer + Barry Greaves. - Papaya launch night @ The Grand Social (€10, 10pm)
the most unabashed, unapologetic and unbeatable groovy tunes. - Under the Skin @ Hang Dai (Free, 10:30pm)
DJs Simon Conway, Barry Redsettaz. - Mother @ Copper Alley (€10, 10pm)
DJS Chewy & Kelly-Anne Byrne
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Easter Sunday April 16
- Ryley Walker @ Whelan’s (€16)
American throwback folkie. - Daedelus @ The Sugar Club (€15, WIN PASSES)
Brainfeeder electronic artist with support Damola, Erica-Cody, Cause N Effect - The Urges, Sun Mahshene, The Dead Sets @ The Workman’s Club (Free)
For Jaysis Sake. - Krystal Klear @ District 8 (€10, 10pm)
5 hour set from the boogie funk NY-obsessed Dubliner. My interview with him. - Todd Terry @ Number Twenty Two (€15, 11pm)
New series of bank holiday events feat. DJ legends - Ben Pearce @ Opium Rooms (€12.50, 10pm)
“he’s not one to rest on his laurels” except when it comes to his bio from 2015. - Tiga, Theo Kottis @ Button Factory (€21)
Electro dance producer gives his 3 Rules. - Mister Saturday Night @ The Pyg (€10, 9pm)
NY party starters Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, Colin Perkins & Robbie Kitt. - Jheri Tracks VOL.II Launch: Herron, Machine Woman @ Tengu (€12, 10pm)
Daire Carolan, Dream Cycles, lastminuteman, & more - Dennis Cruz @ Index (€10, 10pm)
With Eve DJs and Book Club. - Techno + Cans & Four Four: CJ Bolland @ Hangar (€15)
Classic techno set.
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Easter Monday April 17
- Soulé, Loah, The Academic, Jack O’Rourke & Booka Brass Band @ Smithfield Square (Free ,afternoon)
Cruinniú na Cásca event - Landless, Ye Vagabonds, Inni-K, Crash Ensemble, Rue, Dylan Tighe and Slow Moving Clouds @ Dublin Castle (Free, afternoon)
Cruinniú na Cásca event - SAOIRSE: Trailblaze @ Kilmainham Jail (€20+)
Speakers talking about Freedom on Easter Monday. - Joey Dosik @ The Sugar Club (€15)
LA Jazz singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / producer
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