Is this the best festival line up of the year? It’s damn tasty anyway, with Grace Jones and DJ Shadow really catching the eye. Hopefully there will be a few more good additions over the coming weeks, just to tip you over the edge, but really, what else are you going to be doing in early November!

Metropolis – Mother City – RDS – 3/4/5 November 2016

Music / Performance / Conversation / Installation

Grace Jones | DJ Shadow | Solomun | Moderat | SBTRKT (DJ Set) | Booka Shade – Movements 10| BADBADNOTGOOD | Crystal Castles | The Sugarhill Gang | Fatima Yamaha | Fakear | Girl Band

And now to the rest of our merry bunch of gigs, what’s out there people… Well, the Laurie Anderson Residency at the NCH is probably the most exciting thing around, but there’s lots otherwise… Jon Ronson on Psychopaths in March of next year and Dracula Live are two interesting looking ones.

August

White Denim – Whelans – Tue 16/08/16
Grandaddy – Vicar Street – Thur 18/08/16
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Vicar Street – Sun 21/08/16
Warpaint – NCH – Friday – 23-08/16
Lloyd Cole – Solo Songbook 1983-1996 – Vicar Street – Fri 26/08/16
Sam Beam (Of Iron & Wine) and Jesca Hoop – Olympia Theatre – Tue 30/08/16

September

Electric Picnic – Fri 2nd – Sun 4th Sept – LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, New Order, HAIM, Super Furry Animals, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Wolf Alice, Animal Collective, Wild Beasts, Broken Social Scene, Phosphorescent, Ezra Furman, Girls Names – Sold Out
Albert Hammond In Concert – NCH – 03-09-2016
Finley Quaye – The Grand Social  – Sat 03/09/16
Glen Hansard (Solo) – Vicar Street – Mon 5/09/16 and Tuesday 6/09/16
Jane Siberry – Whelans – Fri 09/09/16
Niamh Crowther – Upstairs At Whelans –  Fri 09/09/16
Plaid – Whelans – Sat 10/09/16
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – NCH – Sat 10-09-16
Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) – Workman’s Club – Thu 15/09/16
Jimmy Webb – Still on The Line – NCH – Sun 18/09/16
D.A.R.K – Featuring Dolores O’Riordan – Whelans – Mon 19/09/16
Mitski – Workman’s Club – Tue 20/09/16
Grace Jones The Musical Of My Life – Olympia – Wed 21/09/16
MR Scruff – The Sugar Club –  Fri 23/09/16
Watsky – The Academy – Sat 24/09/16
Jamie T – Olympia – Tue 27/09/16

October

The Mission – Academy – Sat 01/10/16
Jamie Lawson – Vicar Street – Tue 4/10/16 and Wed 5/10/16
James Vincent McMorrow – The National Stadium – Fri 07/10/16
The Janoskians – The Academy – Sat 08/10/16
Perspectives: Stars of the Lid – NCH – Sun 9/10/16
Death Grips – Academy – Thu 13/10/16
Booka Brass Band – Vicar Street – Fri 14/10/16
Michael Kiwanuka – The Academy – Sat 15/10/16
Richmond Fontaine – Whelans – Sat 15/10/16
Holy Fuck – Whelans – Sun 16/10/16
Bowling for Soup – Academy – Mon 17/10/16
Simone Felice – The Workmans Club – Tue 18/10/16
Le Butcherettes – The Workmans Club – Wed 19/10/16
We Are Scientists – The Opium Rooms – Thu 20/10/16
Porches – Whelans – Thu 20/10/16
Sleaford Mods – Vicar Street – Thur 20/10/16
Welcome To Night Vale – Olympia – Thur 20/10/16
Porches – Whelans – Thu 20/10/16
Details: Riptide Movement – Olympia Theatre – Fri 21/10/16
John Carpenter – Live Retrospective – Vicar Street – Tue 25/10/16
The Lumineers – 3Arena – Wed 26/10/16
Khruangbin – Workman’s Club – Thu 27/10/16
James Blake – Olympia Theatre – Thu 27/10/16
All Tvvins – Olympia – Fri 28/10/16
Augustines – The Button Factory – Sat 29/10/16
Glass Animals – Olympia Theatre – Sat 29/10/16

Dracula Live – NCH – Sat 29/10/16
Killing Joke – The Academy – Sun 30/10/16

November

Ben Watt Band Feat. Bernard Butler – Whelans – Tue 01/11/16
Nada Surf – Grand Social – Wed 02/11/16
David O’Doherty – Vicar Street – 4/11/16 and 5/11/16
Jake Bugg – Olympia – Sat 5/11/16
Teleman – Workman’s Club – Sat 05/11/16
Loudon Wainwright III – Vicar Street – Sun 6/11/16
Lordi – Button Factory – Wed 09/11/16
Ash – Olympia – Thu 10/11/16
Alabama 3 – The Academy – Sat 12/11/16
The Stylistics – Vicar Street – 12/11/16
St. Germain – Olympia – Mon 14/11/16
Dinosaur Jr. – Vicar Street –  Tue 15/11/16
Steve Gunn – Whelans – Wed 16/11/16
Michael Nyman – Olympia – Thu 17/11/16
Lake Street Dive – Vicar Street – Thu 17/11/16
Julia Holter – Vicar Street — Sat 19/11/16
The Front Bottoms – Academy – Sat 19/11/16
Mutual Benefit – Whelans – Sun 20/11/16
The Low Anthem – Whelans – Wed 23/11/16
Electric Six – The Academy –  Sat 26/11/16
The Wedding Present – Whelans – Sun 27/11/16

December

Super Furry Animals – Olympia – Thu 01/12/16
Agnes Obel – Vicar Street – Thu 1/12/16
Teenage Fanclub – Academy – Friday 2/12/16
Placebo – 3Arena – Sat 10/12/16
The Strypes – Olympia – Thu 08/12/16
Cast – Academy – Fri 9/12/16
Overhead, the Albatross – Vicar Street – Fri 9/12/16
The Sultans of Ping – Whelans – Sat 10/12/16
Hamsandwich – Academy – Sat 11-12/16
Black Grape – Vicar Street – Fri 23/12/16

January 2017

Wallis Bird – Vicar Street – 19/01/17
The Felice Brothers – The Button Factory – Fri 20/01/17

February

Band of Horses – Vicar Street – Wed 15/02/17

March

Kreator + Sepultura – Vicar Street – Wed 01/03/17
Rick Astley – Olympia Theatre – Tue 21/03/17
Jon Ronson — Psychopath Test – Vicar Street -Thurs 23/03/17

May

Richard Herring – the Best – Sugar Club – Sun 07/05/17

Laurie Anderson Residency: The Language of the Future 1 – 13-05-17 – 15/05/17