A lot of venues in the city use promoters to fill their nights - so it worth checking on flyers etc to see who runs them. Also lots of bars have DJs in them too.

Jim Carroll's club listing in The Ticket Magazine in Friday's Irish Times is the best for listings, also pick up The Event Guide for listings - it has loads - Although some of them are wrong!

Most clubs open at 11.30 and close at 2.30 [on the dot - thanks to new laws – fucking cunts] and have a cover charge too, if you look under 22 bring some ID. On Sundays there are very few places open past 1am. Blame the nanny state!

The Choice Cuts Crew, Remedy Guys and BodyTonic Guys run quality clubs.

The better-run venues are SPY, The Village, The Pod, The Sugar Club and Whelans. There are also plenty of old school NITE-CLUBS, enter at your peril! Also worth avoiding is the wine bar strip on Leeson St - it's poxy. And places like Boomerangs, Citi Club etc are all bollix.


So a typical week would be like this....

1. Mondays - Strictly Handbag, SPY, a sneaker friendly dance floor in one of the most amazing spaces in the city.
2. Tuesday - Stay in - or go to a local boozer - town is dead. If you must go to Wexford/Camden Street and look around.
3. Wednesday - Antics, Crawdaddy or Chemistry in SPY - Good Indie Nights with booze promos or if you want a bit of New York cool head to the Dice Bar on Queen Street for 1957 for the best in blues & ska
4. Thursday - A good night for heading to the Pub. Start off with pints in the Stag’s Head or Long Hall and then head to Shebeen Chic and have some craic.
5. Friday - Shebeen Chic or point at the dickheads in The South William followed by Strictly Handbag in The Sugar Club, of course.
6. Saturday - Stay in and order a take away - we like Bombay Pantry. We’ll be launching something very special for Saturday nights in mid October so keep in touch for that! Sunday - 12
7. Sundays at the Bernard Shaw 12pm to 12am. Starting in funk disco territory the tempo goes up as the day gets longer with houseyness at the end always free in and then Songs of Praise, The Village from 10pm.

Obviously we're plugging our own nights here - but the gist is that different venues offer different things on different nights for different folks... Try saying that when you're drunk.

Local DJ's we like include Arveene, Barry Redsetta, Mark Murphy, Mek, Johnny Moy, Eamonn Barrett, Pete PAMF, Nic James.


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