DownTownSounds is a Dublin based clubbing organisation that likes to hear anything and everything on a dancing night out – from funk, soul, disco, punkfunk and afro-cosmic sounds to proper house, techno and electro…
We have been running parties since 2001, with regular nights in renowned Dublin venues as The POD, Crawdaddy, and Ri-Ra, as well as our signature 52FUNK party in the basements of The Belvedere and Kennedy’s.
We were the first promoters to bring house and disco legends like The Unabombers (Electric Chair, Manchester), Nicky Siano (Studio 54), Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, Metro Area, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, Daniel Wang and Maurice Fulton to the nation’s capital for the first time. Other guests at the parties included heavyweights like Larry Heard, Theo Parrish and The Idjut Boys.
We went on to run all sorts of parties with the Nightflight crew for several years, and the Downtown spirit continues today in the form of our resident Pablo’s Fatty Fatty Phonographics label, which has released several volumes of ‘DownTownSounds Classics’ on beautiful black vinyl, as well as his regular ‘Dublin Disco All-Dayer‘ parties in Orlagh House, Rathfarnham. Grab yer tickets for the next one here…
And keep the eyes peeled for one-off parties in 2026 and beyond to celebrate our 25th anniversary…
