Upcoming dublin indie/alt gigs worth checking out

Jim Comic

TRUMANs water, I’m being good, wormholes.
friday 6th June
whelan’s, wexford street, dublin 2.
Trumans Water: "...Lurchy, twitchy, squelchy guitar noise with only the merest nod to melody. Think Polvo's reptilian riffage melded with God Is My Co-Pilot's no-wave (in)sensibility. Even before alternative rock was a household term, the Trumans were already grinding it up and spitting it out in meaty chunks". (Pitchfork Magazine)
I'm Being Good: "Possibly the only band still trying to use music as a form of expression rather than as some kind of detatched ****ing genre-points scheme". (School of Hard Cocks Magazine)

guapo, rollers/sparkers, scientific bong. saturday 7th June
whelan’s, wexford street, dublin 2.
“Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them, driving them to some kind of world music hell...this succeeds where so many pretenders falter...on a par with Magma’s Kohntarkosz or Univers Zero’s Ceux du Dehors” (Sound Projector Magazine) (For fans of: Magma, The Soft Machine, Aphrodite's Child, The Boredoms, Amon Duul, This Heat, Glenn Branca and Merzbow).
american analog set
connectfour orchestra. jeff martin,
wednesday 11th June
the sugar club, dublin 2.
"The American Analog Set's slow, dreamy pop is as clean as the bite in an autumn chill, and yet warm, too, like Galaxie 500's womb-like atmospheres." (Alternative Press)

nina nastasia, bob log iii, the lonesome organist, neosupervital
thursday 26th June
The village, wexford street, dublin 2.
"Nina's first, astonishing LP, 'Dogs', is out of print. The second one, 'The Blackened Air' isn't. Don't miss the third." (John Peel)

oxbow, trophi, easpa measa.
sunday 27th July
whelan’s, wexford street, dublin 2.
"Oxbow's compelling, ugly vision of hardcore inhabits the slow burning afterglow of some unspecified catastrophie. The music scorches the earth clean of all uncertainties and leaves it's vocalist Eugene floundering in the ashes - whether after a hold on life or a merciful release is left unclear." (The Wire)

melt bannana, daemien frost, xknifedx. wednesday 5th november
the village, wexford st., Dublin 2.
"No wave without the self-conscious pretension, avant-garde composition compressed into one-minute-or-less bursts, urgency, intricate destruction, pure glorious abandon. MELT-BANANA play the same way that Repulsion, Naked City, The Ruins, or The Boredoms all make you want to scream and dance and kill your neighbors. This is not music that we are conditioned to accept. This is you delirious with joy scraping your five senses off the floor." (Ink 19)

circle, plus support
thursday 27th november
the village, wexford street, dublin 2
"Circle effortlessly devours and personalises skewed progressive-rock rhythms, distorted guitar firepower, cosmic sound paintings, gleaming minimalism, Kraut-influenced phrase repetition, and hymnal incantations written in a made-up language called Meronian. Circle’s instantly recognisable albums and frantic live sets have garnered ample international praise while masterfully exploring the outer limits of grinding tension and celestial calm."

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