Awesome Live Music Next Week in Dublin

I almost went into a siesure a few weeks back when I found out that three of my current favourite bands are playing back-to-back gigs in Dublin’s Crawdaddy / Tripod venue next week. If there were three bands I had to conjure up for some desert island live set, these would be them, so to have all play one after the other at the beginning of a random week in August seemed like some kind of divine intervention. Anyways, I had to tell y’all about it, because it’s just not fair to keep music this good to oneself. Megafaun, Monday August 23rd, Crawdaddy I discovered Megafaun when watching a repeat of the RTE programme Other Voices one cold and stormy night and was completely enchanted by these beardy American folk singers. If you like Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, Band of Horses of any of that type of thing, you’ll love … There’s more

The Puffin Cat Cometh

**EDITED: CHANGE TO LINE-UP** Just a head up for a cheap & fun comedy gig. The Puffincat Club returns this Wednesday 19th August in Shebeen Chic on George’s Street, Dublin 2 at 8pm. “Its Diet of Worms in comedy club form. Following the simply fantastic comeback night last month, The Puffincat Club is starting to stretch its legs and break into a quick jog. Why not come along and cheer it into a sprint and across the finishing line.” The Diet of Worms crew will be joined by Maeve Higgins, Eric Lalor, Kevin Gildea, Bernard O’Shea and Alan Bennet.