Whelan's

u:Mack presents ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT plus support _ Main Venue _ Rocket from the Crypt. 1988. The story is a common one: the son of a Portuguese fisherman rediscovers punk rock and rock & roll and moves to Tijuana in order to find musicians who’s instincts haven’t been replaced by the sedate notion of what it […]

CANALAPHONIC SEPT 23rd & 24th Main Venue & Upstairs Music Arts and Culture come to Portobello, Rathmines & the Camden Quarter for Dublin’s biggest showcase of independent Irish music.

Born Optimistic presents RÓNÁN Ó SNODAIGH plus support SIMON O’REILLY _ Main Venue _  Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Whelan’s, Friday Oct 6th, 7.30-10.30 On the occasion of the release of his seventh album, ‘Ór & Airgead”, Rónán ó Snodaigh invites you and your favourite people to join him for a musical celebration in Whelan’s on October […]

MCD.ie presents HamsandwicH plus support Dec 7th (Sold out), 8th & 9th _ Main Venue _ The HamsandiwcH Christmas Trilogy is complete with a third date added on Dec 9th. Tickets are on sale now!

SHIFTING + SHITHÄTT Split 7″ launch ^ Upstairs ^ Dublin Release Party for Shifting’s split 7″ with Gummidge. EUR10 Entry with Vinyl included — — — — — SHIFTING https://www.facebook.com/shiftingdublin/ Shifting is the unbearably mouth-watering combination of Paul ‘the softcat’ Clynes and the brothers Hedigan. Effortless and sensual, the music conjured by these kings among […]

ON SALE FRI 15th SEPT, 9AM MCD.ie presents ROB BURCH plus support ^ Upstairs ^ Following on from his success as songwriter, vocalist & guitarist with The Original Rudeboys, Rob Burch has announced his brand new single “All I Need” plus a live date upstairs at Whelan’s on Thursday 9th November.

SOMA #012 featuring VERY SPECIAL GUESTS plus SOMA Resident DJs DOORS 11PM ^ Upstairs ^ 🎈IT’S OUR 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY🎈 We’ll be celebrating 12 months of destroying Whelans at SOMA #012. Massive love to everyone who has come to an event so far, and to all the bands for absolutely smashing it.

THE RETURN OF COMEDY ROAST BATTLE w/ RYAN CULLEN & JIM ELLIOT ^ Upstairs ^ Ryan Cullen and Jim Elliott present: the return of Roast Battle Dublin! Ireland’s finest comedians square off one-on-one and they won’t be pulling their punches!

ELLIOTT SMITH feat. VERY SPECIAL GUESTS _ Main Venue _ It’s the 20th Anniversary of the incredible Either/Or. Friends of Whelan’s and some of Ireland’s finest songwriters and musicians are gonna perform the 1997 album in it’s entirety alongside tunes from Elliott’s other albums. Tickets €12 + €1.50 booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie TICKETS €13.50 available online from WAV Tickets or […]

DAN REED from the Dan Reed Network (solo acoustic) plus support ^ Upstairs ^ Dan Reed from the ‘Dan Reed Network’, has just released DRN’s new album entitled ‘Fight Another Day’ on ’Frontier’s Records’. This is the groundbreaking funk rock band’s first album in over 25 years and DRN is once again delivering their signature rock […]