Hi, Some of dublins best known music venues are Whelans (www.whelanslive.ie) In the past whelans has hosted many great bands including my own personal favourites, evan dando, radio 4, Nada Surf. Its a pretty intimate venue and on weekends has a late night indie club afterwards The Village ( http://www.thevillagevenue.com/ ) This is a new gig venue and has hosted Interpol, evan dando, Mark Lanegan, Tom McRae The Temple Bar Music Centre (http://www.tbmc.ie/) The TBMC has hosted such bands as the Strokes, Grandaddy and Frank Black. Eamonn Dorans is a pretty good venue for Irish Bands, there is usually something on most nights of the week. The bigger venues are the Olympia and the Point. These are the venues that the larger internation acts tend to use. I havent really time to go into any more detail, but check out the following websites for information on gigs in dublin www.irismagazine.net www.entertainment.ie http://www.eventguide.ie/ Hope this helps Kloot

For the indie and punk rock scene go and check out http://www.thumped.com (sorry Eoghan, but it's true)

The Oak bar ( also known as Thomas Reids ) on the corner of Dame Street / Parliament Street. On Friday / Saturday night check out the basement level bar - there's a DJ there who plays a great selection of rock / indie / vintage punk stuff. AND it's totally free.

Rachelann, Tried PM'ing you but apparently I need to be set up for AOL messaging. Which I'm not. Mail me at pabros@eircom.net for more information.

DORANS / GEORGIES GAF / THE MEZZ

The Mezz is great for late night drinks.. Some really good music as well. The place below Thomas Reeds does a really good indie nite club as well