THE MIDNIGHT HOUR w/ THE TRAMPZ
featuring –
THE TRAMPZ
plus guest
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
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Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
featuring –
plus guest
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Sign up for guest list HERE
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
plus guest
With a featured slot at Electric Picnic & The Cambridge Folk Festival The Young Folk ended 2013 Opening for Midlake,their music featuring in a national advertisement campaign for the Irish National Transport Authority and signing an International Publishing deal with ARC Music UK.
This year will see this Multi faceted Alt-Folk 4 piece perform at Midem Cannes 2014 , SXSW Texas and The Stampede City Sessions Calgary performing material from their second album due for release late 2014.
This coming performance in Whelans will be their last major Irish date before embarking on a UK and European promo tour for the release of their album in the UK. .The Little Battle. €10 tickets. Special Guests : Coco Lovers (UK)
€10 available from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings)
Strictly over 18’s, I.D. may be required.
Whelan’s Indie Club /// ZEBRA /// [Live Bands and guest DJs] w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm (Free entry before 10:30pm).
Whelanslive.com presents
DJ SET
– Door 11:30pm –
Mike Skinner, is set to DJ on an exclusive Irish Tour happening from Mar 6-8th.
Late night action at below:
Mar 6th: Dublin, Whelans
Mar 7th: Cork, The Pavilion
Mar 8th: Limerick, Dolans
Tickets available from usual outlets.
Whelanslive.com presents
– MAIN VENUE –
9pm – FREE ENTRY
Square Pegs pay homage to Chicago blues, the sound of 1950′s R&B and New Orleans big band – Featuring: Graham Hopkins, Colm Quearney, Justin Carroll & Keith Duffy.
Skinny Wolves Presents
plus guest
Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synthesizer music and began writing and recording songs together in the spring of 2009.
Whelanslive.com presents
plus guests
The Irrepressibles are the Art-Pop orchestra created by artist / composer / vocalist / multi-instrumentalist Jamie Irrepressible. Their debut album Mirror Mirror (2010) featuring the seminal In This Shirt received much critical acclaim internationally and is now considered a must have album in the baroque pop genre.
Harmonic Presents
plus guest
Tickets on sale Monday February 3rd @ 9am from www.whelanslive.com , www.tickets.ie, www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
Intoxicating. His world-weary meditations – on God, demons and, yeah, debt – sound ancient, pulled out of the dirt, yet as immediate as a foreclosure. It’s lean music for lean times.
MOVED FROM VICAR STREET, ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL VALID
Aiken Promotions presents
Wakey! Wakey!
plus guest
Alexz Johnson
Brooklyn, NY based artist, Ron Pope is much more than the labels and stereotypes he’s acquired during his budding career. Pope is a musical Renaissance Man, writing, composing, recording, producing, managing, and igniting his own career.
featuring –
plus guest
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
Aiken Promotions presents
plus guests
Lake Street Dive find themselves on the cusp of stardom, though they insist they will always be the same people whose stage outfits once consisted of matching sweater vests. “We realize this could all go away tomorrow,” says Rachael Price. “But that won’t change what we do.
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5
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WhelansLive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music.
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5
Confirm on facebook HERE
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WhelansLive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music.
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5
Confirm on facebook HERE
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WhelansLive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music.
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5
Confirm on facebook HERE
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WhelansLive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music. Every Tuesday will see the upstairs venue play host to a series of the best of new music this country has to offer.
Lisa Richards & Whelanslive presents
plus guest
PJ Gallagher is one of Ireland’s best-loved comedians following the huge success of his role as Jake Stevens and many others in the hilarious and sometimes outrageous hit TV show Naked Camera.
Whelanslive.com presents
– PLAY THE FRONT BAR –
7pm – FREE ENTRY
Aiken Promotions present
plus special guest
Tickets priced €20 (including booking fee) go on sale Wednesday 29th January through www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.
For the last 20 plus years, singer/guitarist Andy Cairns has helped redefine the global rock scene thanks to his work in Therapy?
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS – REFUNDS FROM POINT OF SALE
plus special guest
Ruth Keggin is a Manx Gaelic singer who is passionate about bringing Manx music and language to a wider audience. Her debut solo album ‘Sheear’ (Westward) – release date: 15.02.2014 – features an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary Manx Gaelic songs
MCD.ie presents
plus guest
Announce new Single “For Want Of A Better Word” – Released 14th of February
Leaders of Men are gearing up to release their first official single “For Want Of A Better Word” out on Friday 14th February. Taken from their EP “Alexander House”, recorded in Voltaire Road Studios
– PLAY THE FRONT BAR –
7pm – FREE ENTRY
French Vocal Swing Band with an emphasis on harmony singing, scaffolded by double bass and guitar.
FREE ENTRY
Whelan’s Indie Club /// ZEBRA /// [Live Bands and guest DJs] w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm (Free entry before 10:30pm).
[‘MOTHER’ EP LAUNCH]
plus guest
The City Apples are a four-piece alternative/modern rock band from Dublin. The band formed early in 2012 and since then they have accumulated great acclaim of both their high octane live performances, and of their recordings.
Whelanslive.com presents
in the Village on Saturday 1st March,8pm. Tickets €12.50 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings)
After a stunning gig at Sea Sessions 2013 The Renegade Brass Band from Sheffield return for a mini Irish Tour.
Live from the Window at Whelan’s
– PLAY THE FRONT BAR –
7pm – FREE ENTRY
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
Whelanslive.com presents
[OVERDRIVE TOUR]
plus guests
All female Japanese legends ‘Shonen knife’ return in May 2014 with their 20th album.”Overdrive”, released April 14 on Damnably.
Formed in Osaka 33 years ago the trio rose from humble DIY beginnings to joining Nirvana on their ‘Nevermind’ tour and trailblazing a path for women in music and inspiring legions of bands.
Whelanslive.com presents
plus special guests
Following the release of their debut EP in December 22nd, Kammerpop are returning to Whelan’s on Valentine’s Day to display their unique combination of pop, jazz and classical music, known as ‘chamber pop’.
“A lovely example of chamber pop, which throws in everything from jazz and classical music into the pot” – HotPress
“For a unique sound that sits neatly between theatre and pop, listen to Kammerpop!” – Niall O’Brien, Newpark Music Centre
“An engaging sound, featuring an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal artists, which makes for a listening experience which is full of surprises” — Deborah Kelleher, the Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music
€8 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings from WaV).
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
plus guest
“The four piece hailing from Louth and Dublin have a new sound, which is influenced by the Jazz style of new guitarist Paul O Loughlin and the enigmatic song writing of frontman Damien Mc Kenna, along with bass player Feargal Donaghy and drummer Stephen Walsh.
MCD.ie presents
plus guests
Ontario’s Tokyo Police Club are back with a brand new album Forcefield, set for release on 24 March through Memphis Industries. The album is available for preorder on iTunes, each order including an instant download of two tracks
Musiclee.ie Presents
plus guest
Tumbling Bones play a mix of old-time country and old-fashioned blues that belies their relative youth. But their folk music is no museum piece.
featuring –
plus
COLOR//SOUND
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
Whelanslive presents a new, exciting & exceedingly busy night…
Every Thursday At Midnight
this week featuring
plus guest
Sign up for guest list HERE
+ CLUB ZEBRA DJs [main room]
+ LIVE VISUALS [everywhere]
+ DRINKS PROMOTIONS [everywhere]
FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)
***email zebra@whelanslive.com for free entry***
Whelanslive presents a new, exciting & exceedingly busy night…
Every Thursday At Midnight
this week featuring
plus guests
+ CLUB ZEBRA DJs
+ LIVE VISUALS
+ DRINKS PROMOTIONS
FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)
***email zebra@whelanslive.com for free entry***
Whelanslive presents a new, exciting & exceedingly busy night…
Every Thursday At Midnight
this week featuring
+ CLUB ZEBRA DJs [main room]
+ LIVE VISUALS [everywhere]
+ DRINKS PROMOTIONS [everywhere]
FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)
***email zebra@whelanslive.com for free entry***
Whelanslive presents a new, exciting & exceedingly busy night…
Every Thursday At Midnight
this week featuring
plus guest
Guest List available HERE
Dirty Epics burst onto the Irish music scene with debut album, Straight In No Kissing, that was brimming with energy, emotion and punk rock attitude. They quickly grew a reputation for bold and brazen live performances of tracks written about loves, lust and the rollercoaster of everyday life.
Their brand new album, One-Way Mirror, produced by Declan Gaffney (U2) and Matt Paul (Amy Winehouse, Noistettes, Hotchip), is an offering of songs about the light and dark of the human condition, from blind faith and the first flourishes of love to the depths of depravity.
“Our aim is to create music that pulses and thumps and buzzes in your brain and your heart, which gives you strength and belief”.
The songs form a story of two young lovers who meet by a stolen kiss, who run away to seek adventure together in the big city. Their wide eyed experience is tainted as they encounter forces that wish to corrupt mind and body. Will they survive unscathed?
With a combination of infectious songs and electric performances Dirty Epics are on a mission to get your blood pumping…
Twice voted Irish Times “Gig of the Week”, they’ve supported One Republic, Brandon Flowers, LadyHawke, The Hoosiers… they’ve toured all around Ireland, the UK, Germany, NY and LA, twice appearing at the world famous SXSW festival, Austin Texas, at the Oxegen Festival, Indie Pendence, Castlepooloza, Hennessy Artistry, Music Ireland in the RDS.
Dirty Epics have appeared on RTE shows Podge and Rodge, The Café, The Once a Week Show, The Raw Sessions, UTV’s Live at the Limelight. Their high energy music has featured on tv and film including a full track on E4s top teen TV drama series Skins and just confirmed, two tracks will feature in the brand new series of BBC’s vampire drama Being Human.
Reviews ///
“They’ve honed their sound too into a formidable, controlled sonic assault, while the songwriting carries the mark of a band who’ve got what it takes to scale the heights… the superb current single ‘Midnight Missing’ and the terrific adrenalin rush that is ‘Beautiful Mistake’…One Way Mirror is a scorcher.” Hotpress 7/10
“This superb Irish album produced by Declan Gaffney (U2) and Matt Paul (Amy Winehouse, Hotchip), shows Sarah Jane Wai and Co haven’t been resting on their laurels…” The Irish Daily Star ****
“One-Way Mirror incorporates synth-pop into the punk thrust of old and does so with considerable panache… this is a fine comeback” Irish Independent ***
“Dublin quartet Dirty Epics have moved a distance from the hard-nosed punk inclinations that marked their 2008 debut Straight In No Kissing… they keep it uncomplicated and punchy.” The Irish Daily Mail on Sunday ***
“Dirty Epics have been slinking around the scene for a while, getting progressively tighter and sexier…When they emerge from the lab with ‘One-Way Mirror’ it’s going to surprise a lot of people. It’s a delicately formed Frankenstein’s monster, and a perfect example of the Retro-Futuristic style. Some will find the riff heavy guitar parts hard to reconcile with the peripheral electronica, but the guitars make perfect sense on this record, they balance the sultry detached tones of SJ’s voice.” TNT24.ie
“Let’s Be Alone and Those Pretty Things are the albums stand out tracks. A boisterous bravado of sounds completed with cleaver catchy choruses makes them the albums sing along songs, but with a rambunctious vengeance. …Dirty Epics have honed their skill, and so erupts a tighter more formidable record in ‘One Way Mirror’. Given the attention they have garnered as a live proposition, a particular justice should be done to an album of such pizzazz and intensity. ‘One Way Mirror’ is a stellar sophomore album.” Goldenplec.com
“Should you enjoy stabbing synths, Siouxsie-style vocalising and fresh re-imaginings of pre-Thatcher new wave, as we tend to, you will love them…” Broadsheet.ie
+ CLUB ZEBRA DJs
+ LIVE VISUALS
+ DRINKS PROMOTIONS
FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)
***email zebra@whelanslive.com for free entry***
Whelanslive.com presents
SONG CYCLE w/
– UPSTAIRS AT WHELAN’S –
8pm – FREE ENTRY
Whelan’s DJ w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm (Free Entry)
Whelanslive.com & Liffey Bank presents
Conor Byrne (flute); Rick Epping (vocals, harmonica & concertina); Leonard Barry (Uilleann Pipes); Andy Morrow (fiddle); Seamie O’Dowd (guitar & vocals)
plus very special guest
The success of Leonard Barry’s 2013 album, New Road (five stars in the Sunday Business Post, most recently)
featuring –
plus guests
THE STATICS
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Sign up for guest list HERE
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
featuring –
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Guest list HERE
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
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FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)
***EXTRA DATE ADDED 08/04***
Harmonic presents
[SOLO]
plus guest
PALL JENKINS (Black Heart Procession)
After five increasingly well-received albums – the most recent one, ‘Wakin On A Pretty Daze’, just having been featured in an obscene amount of Best Of 2013 lists – Kurt Vile needs little introduction.
Whelanslive.com presents
SONG CYCLE w/
and more tba
– UPSTAIRS AT WHELAN’S –
8pm – FREE ENTRY
Whelan’s DJ w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm (Free Entry)
plus special guest
THE SAVAGE JIM BREEN
Do you long for a chance to shake your bootie to the kings of soul and funk? Does your music collection include James Brown, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, Ray Charles? If so then you CANNOT miss PROUDFOOT who play the mainstage of Whelans, Wexford Street
Harmonic presents
[Merge Records]
plus very special guests
[Bella Union Records]
Brilliant double-header featuring Brooklyn’s HOSPITALITY who have an excellent second album Trouble out now on Merge and new Bella Union signing MY SAD CAPTAINS.
From the opening phrase of “Eighth Avenue,” guitar hooks are balanced with a cultivated melody. Papini’s singing has a wisp of an English accent via Kansas City (she learned to sing by imitating Richard Butler on The Psychedelic Furs’ Talk Talk Talk) and her lyrics create a moonstruck, even cinematic vision of New York City, where the band formed in 2007. The production by Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells) and band member Nathan Michel (guitar, drums, keyboards), who released his share of experimental “bedroom” pop, culminating in 2005’s The Beast (Skipp/Sonig), imbues the entire record with an intimate yet prodigious sound, layering period keyboards with horns, synthesizers, and treated guitars.
Hospitality the album has an overarching vision and should be listened to as a whole, though every song registers as a single. (Will Merge take a cue from Epic’s Thriller campaign and release seven singles? They should!) “Friends of Friends” could break the Hot 100 with its heavy intro, swingin’ breakdown, and horn riffs; “Betty Wang,” the lynchpin of their live set a few years back, is impossibly catchy, the story of one of Papini’s real-life colleagues at a financial day job; and “The Right Profession” is a power-pop burst of an anthem with Papini chanting the immortal line, “It’s hard to change!” (Isn’t it?) And “The Birthday,” with a sinuous, dissonant lead guitar, the lockstep rhythm of the drums, and Brian Betancourt’s nimble bass, wouldn’t be out of place on The Police’s debut record, but its epic coda makes it decidedly CinemaScope. Hospitality, while hearkening back to ’70s/’80s pop–both Elvis Costello and Kate Bush are influences–has an ambitious vision: its big promise is nowhere more evident than on the gorgeous anthem “Julie,” the album’s centerpiece which already sounds like a classic. The song’s lush, glorious build is coupled with lyrics inspired by Papini’s great-grandfather, a Pennsylvania coalminer.
Reprising some songs from a self-released 2008 EP recorded by Karl Blau (K Records) allows Hospitality to nod to its beginnings as a more lo-fi outfit; that early intimacy can be found in the arrangement of the cheeky and distinctly NC-17 “Liberal Arts.” And after patiently honing its craft, playing concerts (and gaining converts), Hospitality has reached what will be its first apex with many more heights to come; from their modest debut in a Red Hook row house, the band has evolved from four-track low-fidelity to a luxury five-star future.
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My Sad Captains are the latest addition to the Bella Union family, bringing with them a third album that further defines their exquisitely tailored, subtly expressive and melodically radiant songcraft. Like the brilliant 1961 poem by the late Thom Gunn from which the London-based quartet takes its name, a sparingly deployed assemblage of words and emotions shows that less can be so much more.
The nine songs that comprise Best Of Times have an almost underplayed guitar-pop sensibility reminiscent of many classic indie bands of the 80s. But neither are they any kind of throwback, with suitably restrained and delicate shades of keyboards and a beautiful clarity of sound that’s distinctly 21st century.
The band was formed by Ed Wallis (vocals, guitar), Nick Goss (guitar, sonics), Jim Wallis (drums, keyboards, vocals) and Dan Davis (bass) and released early singles on Fortuna Pop! and White Heat before recording two albums for Stolen Recordings, 2009’s Here & Elsewhere and 2011’s Fight Less, Win More. But with Bella Union MD Simon Raymonde including the latter one in his Best of 2011 albums, it wasn’t long before they had signed to his label and were self-producing a third album at Bella Union’s studios in Hackney, East London before it was mixed in Portland, Oregon by Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus).
Best Of Times also mirrors the band’s visual aesthetic. Both practising artists, Goss (alongside his brother Phil) has done all MSC’s artwork while Davis has directed two of the band’s videos and a film they use on stage. “Self-sufficiency is important, from the artwork to producing the records,” says Wallis. “Perhaps we are an indie band in the old and true sense, kind of an English art-school band. For Best Of Times, we commissioned nine artists to respond to individual songs, which came back as a wonderful and eclectic range including screen prints, oil on paper and photo collage.” The set of nine works is an art book that houses the vinyl, in a limited edition of one thousand copies.
€12 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or creditcard bookings)
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
THIS GIG HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE VILLAGE, ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL APPLY
The Rwandan Children’s Project Benefit Gig
[SINGLE LAUNCH]
plus guest
Paul Nolan is a Kildare-based singer-songwriter, who records and performs under the name of ‘ilsantino’. Having released a number of critically acclaimed singles, Paul is teaming up with the Rwandan Children’s Project (RCP) in 2014 to release a new single; ‘We’ve Come a Long Way’ promoting the work of the RCP – video available at http://youtu.be/v2fedbunHtk.
The line-up will feature ilsantino and a number of guest acts. All proceeds will go to supporting the Rwandan Children’s Project’s work providing quality education to disadvantaged children in eastern Rwanda. Doors are 8pm and all are welcome. Tickets are €15 and are limited so be sure to get there early to avoid disappointment!
€15 on the door
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
THIS GIG HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE VILLAGE, ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL APPLY
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
plus guests
KICKING BIRD
CONOR LINNIE
& THE STONEY BROKES (acoustic)
After the success of sold-out debut EP Launch in The Grand Social, Rocher has enjoyed every minute of rising accomplishments of 2013.
To Thank you for all the success of last year & to celebrate another year on this earth I’ve put together a big night of Birthday Bash celebrations! Come one, come all! 🙂
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Thanks for the support and cannot wait for this and to see you all there! ♥
“Extremely unique singer-songwriter Rocher who is looking towards a very bright future. Rocher may just be the guy to spark a new take on the almost too frequent singer-songwriter genre.” – Fortitude Magazine, May 25th, 2013
The Pop/ Folk singer/songwriter has been compared to the likes of Thom Yorke, Rufus Wainwright and Paul Simon, with an eclectic mix of sounds spanning from Pop/ Folk to Spanish influences.
€6 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or creditcard bookings)
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).
[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]
Upstairs @ Whelan’s
Introducing Sonntags!
A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. Geared towards the like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early whether you want to simply chill and talk nonsense in the heated smoking area or get your boogie on inside…
Curated each week by 2 DJ’s breevil and Basic Tone to create that Sunday vibe and party atmosphere that is expected to top off the best of weekends.
Expect to hear the likes of…
Raglane presents
plus guest
Tony Joe White reigns supreme as one of the true masters of get-down funky bluesy swamp rock music. The singer/songwriter/guitarist was born on July 23, 1943. He was the youngest of seven children who grew up on a cotton farm near Oak Grove, Louisiana.