Recommended Gigs, Bands & Songs That Aren't Quite Mainstream
Texas’s Jesse Dayton comes to Whelan’s Upstairs on Oct 31st!!!! Jesse has worked with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell (Official) & more and this will be his one & only Dublin show. Tickets are only €16.50 including booking available through the link below.
80s band The Psychedelic Furs played Dublin last night to a jam packed Academy crowd. The lads were in great form & played all the hits, surprisingly they played “Pretty In Pink” (below) about 3-4 songs in! They played pretty much every song I could of hoped for & definitely worth going to see when they come back!
Jayhawks founder Mark Olson is returning to Whelans on Tuesday Oct 24th!!! Mark is releasing his new album “Spokeswoman Of The Bright Sun” on September 1st on Glitterhouse Records and its some of his best work. Check out the new video for the single “Dear Elisabeth” featuring Ingunn Ringvold!
Tickets for the Whelans show are only €16.50 including booking available from;
http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/mark-olson/
Have a listen to this song & see what you think. Wild Child are a band from Austin, Texas that are on the rise. So far they’ve released 2 albums and both are worth a listen. This is a song off the new album & the live video makes it sound even better.
If you like it I’d suggest trying other songs like Crazy Bird, Pillow Talk & Victim To Charm a lovely song about a break up which the fantastic line “Boy, I hear she’s the one crazy how fast you knew once we were done”.
If you like em you can support them here;
The Continental Club is like the Whelans of Austin, Texas. It runs a couple of gigs each night & is divided up into two sections. The Gallery, a small room upstairs that runs mostly acoustic concerts and the main room that usually has full bands play. Its had a who’s who of people play at it and generally the entrance fee to gigs is around $10. As the concerts are usually back to back you can just stay in the venue and watch each act play without paying any extra.
For instance when I was there I got to see William Harries Graham, Jon Dee Graham & James McMurtry all play the main room for $10. Add in that Lonestar beers are $3 (so the more you drink the more you save) and you have all the reasons you need to go to Austin. So if you’re in or around Texas, or want to plan your calendar around their line up as I have, then you could do worse then go to The Continental Club!
Busy week this week for Left Of The Dial Music!!! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who attended the Lol Tolhurst Q&A and DJ Set and also Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express show, both in Whelans! Two completely different shows with great audiences. We’ll keep you updated on our next set of gigs along with all the news for upcoming gigs, albums & competitions!
I wont bore you with a long post about the Future Islands gig but if you’re there I’m sure you’d agree it was a great gig (& that lead singer Sam Herring is an absolute lunatic in the best way possible).
If you don’t know them you really should give them a shot.
Check out this video from The David Letterman Show. It will really give you an idea of their total package; synths, mental dancing & Sam Herrings voice. Even David Letterman is blown away by them.
If you like em take any chance you get to see the, they give their all in their concerts & its a great night out.
They’ll be some videos from the gig on our Facebook Page or check out Future Islands Facebook Page
” Rising Appalachia is the aural divinity of two sisters seeped in the deep south flair of harmony, resistance, and poetry” – NPR.
Sat 15th July – Leap Castle Roscrea. (SOLD OUT)
Sun 16th July – The Soma Festival Castlewellan Co Down.
https://www.somafestival.com/…/rising-appalachia-16-july-…/…
Tues 18th July – Whelan’s Dublin.
http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/rising-appalachia/
Wed 19th July – Monroe’s Live Galway
http://www.monroes.ie/test-tickets/
20th July – The Harbour Bar Bray
http://www.theharbourbar.ie/whats-on/day/2017/07/20/
Chuck Prophet is returning to Dublin after his sold out gig in Whelans Upstairs a few years back but this time he’s bringing his band the Mission Express with him! Chuck has a new album out “Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins” which has some of catchiest tunes on it. Available now from all good record shops & online retailers.
Lol Tolhurst one of the founding members of The Cure is coming to Dublin. Lol started The Cure along with Robert Smith and was a consistent member up until “The Disintegration” album. Lol recently released an autobiography about his time in The Cure to great reviews. To celebrate the release Lol will be in Whelans July 25th for a special Q&A event followed by a DJ set with all of The Cure’s Greatest Hits. Below are a link to tickets along with a video of Lol in action in “The Lovecats” music video.
Left Of The Dial Music 