THE WORKMAN’S CLUB HAULS BACK IT’S WELL WORN DOORS

Wednesday, August 25^th saw Dublin’s newest live performance venue, The Workmans’s Club, haul back its well worn doors at 10 Wellington Quay, a stones throw from The Clarence Hotel. While The Venue Bar and The First Floor Bar have been thronged with new patrons for a number of weeks now, hundreds of well known faces from the music community turned out to inspect The Venue, hear the line up of confirmed shows and enjoy a few bevies on the house.

Broody Aussie electro-heads PVT will be the first to tread The Venue boards, with Choice and Mercury Music Prize nominee Fionn Regan, electro drum merchant RSAG and Derry rockers Fighting With Wire among the many acts due to take to The Workman’s Club stage in the coming months. A special one off intimate performance with Damien Dempsey scheduled for September 15^th sold out within hours of going on sale. The Workman’s Club will also host a plethora of club nights, from indie to rockabilly, retro to soul. Those in search of foam parties will be unpleasantly surprised. Many unusual and unique gatherings will be announced in the coming weeks, from two floor multi media takeovers to cult film screenings, vintage shopping delights and way beyond.

The Venue sports rows of ripped brown leather seating around the walls and no doubt closer inspection will reveal the sweaty palm prints of many a young Dubliner from over the decades. The Venue Bar – which will be reserved for gig goers during shows, but open to punters at all other times – glows with shabby comfort and an air of familiarity, like going for pints in the local with your Da when you head home for Christmas. The ground floor of The Workman’s Club is a genuine throwback to an era when gigs were heaving, passionate affairs and pints were simply pints.

Climbing the stairs to The First Floor Bar and you step into a quirky purple and silver haze. A wall of floor-to-ceiling windows boast glorious views over the Liffey, the partitions decorated with works by emerging Irish and international artists, which will change on a month by month basis. The First Floor Bar opens to all and sundry throughout the week, with rotating DJs performing nightly and a raft of barkeeps, as adept at making ferocious cocktails as they are at pulling the perfect pint.

There is nothing remotely trendy or suave about The Workman’s Club. There’s a genuine feeling of being in a mates living room, a laid back, don’t mind using a beer-mat kind of place, where no-one is horrified by your logo-less threads or glaring at you for sporting your favourite five year old Dunnes runners. There isn’t a VIP area to be found, though that’s a slight fib as The Third Floor will be developed in the coming months and made available for gatherings of all sorts, but you’re allowed to assume VIP status when it’s your birthday or Bar Mitzvah or you’re simply hosting your first S&M party…

Please enjoy The Workman’s Club responsibly. Open from 6pm daily.

www.theworkmansclub.com / www.facebook.com/TheWorkmansClub

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LIVE@THE WORKMAN’S CLUB

September 9 – On The Record presents PVT
September 10 – Fionn Regan
September 15 – Damien Dempsey (SOLD OUT)
September 17 – Zealots
September 18 – The Jimmy Cake
September 19 – Peggy Sue
September 24 – Thread Pulls
September 30 – Fighting With Wire
October 1 – RSAG
October 2 – Humanzi
October 7-9 – Hard Working Class Heroes Festival
October 14 – Windings
October 15 – Bipolar Empire
October 20 – Future Islands
October 21 – Peter Broderick
October 28 – Jaded Sun
October 31 – Strange Brew Halloween Party 2010
November 5 – Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip
November 6 – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
November 22 – Blitzen Trapper

CLUBS@THE WORKMAN’S CLUB, FIRST FLOOR BAR

Wednesdays The Venue Bar – The Workman Residents Indie/Alternative
The First Floor Bar – Somewhere Electro

Thursdays The Venue Bar – Phantom 105.2 DJs Indie
The First Floor Bar – Garage Bar Residents 60’s Groovy

Fridays Various club nights across two floors
Including Cassette (80’s indie), Fast Shape Sound (Northern Soul),
H-Bomb Boogie (rockabilly), Wipeout (beach pop) and more to be announced

Saturdays The Venue Bar – The Workman Residents Indie/Alternative
The First Floor Bar – Special monthly club nights
Including Ska-turdays (rudeboy heaven), Step-On (Madchester),
Skinny Wolves (art rock), Psychotic Reaction (debauched rock‘n’roll) and more!

REGULARS @THE WORKMAN’S CLUB, FIRST FLOOR BAR

Mondays The Venue Bar – Control
Weekly live showcase of the very best emerging Irish bands
Commencing September 13

Tuesdays The First Floor Bar – Acoustic Nightmares presents Gentle Tuesdays
The Mighty Stef and Friends sing their favourite songs on out of tune guitars..
Commencing October 21

ART@THE WORKMAN’S CLUB

August - The First Floor Bar Exhibition of works by Irish artists Shane O’Donoghue, Barry Keogh, Lydia Brow, Caroline Murray and Jamie Saunders, curated by Shane O’Donoghue.
The Venue Bar Selection of photographs by Bob Nixon

September 14 – STATE.IE Music Photography Exhibition

October - Hard Working Class Heroes Photography Exhibition