Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 14th-20th October

Slushy Guts

Guts, film and album launches. Another week on Cork’s live music scene…

The recently refurbished Roundy hosts the Cork leg of Crayonsmith‘s album launch tour for Milk Teeth which hits all good record store shelves this Friday. With Rory Francis O’Brien and The Great Balloon Race (who coincidentally enough have both featured as part of past G-Man Presents… sessions) announced as support, this is a chance for folks to attend a showcase of some seriously gifted homegrown talent.

Earlier in the week, lo-fi London lad Stephen Keane aka Slushy Guts will be in Gulpd for an intimate show well worth shifting one’s midweek-slumped bottom from the couch for with this year’s DIY release A Host Of Freakish Others Revolving In The Future prompting kind words recently from The Quietus.

Dominating the weekend will be the various Murphy’s Little Big Weekend events which culminates with a set from psych-pop peddlers MGMT who, along with big apple power-poppers Guards, make their Leeside bow on Sunday evening. Unfortunately unless your name was pulled out of the random hat, this being a non-ticket raffle affair, entry to The Savoy could prove to be a tad troublesome.

Note to film buffs that the very first Indie Cork film festival opens Wednesday with the five days of big screen brilliance accompanied by quite a lot of music including The Hard Ground (Thursday), Dublin Laptop Orchestra (Saturday) and Mike Gangloff‘s The Black Twig Pickers (Sunday) with The Crane Lane on Phoenix Street the venue for all music events. For further information visit indiecork.com.

Also going down around town this week:

• This month’s KC Sessions in The Crane Lane (Monday)
• UK riff-lords Astralnaut team up with Terriers and Negativ Result for frenzied fun in Fred Zeppelin’s (Tuesday)
• Grammy-nominated Nashville singer Gretchen Peters in The Pavilion (Wednesday)
• Americana/folkies Jophn Blek & The Rats in Ballincollig’s The White Horse (Thursday)
• “Hydra-headed” house producer Trevino in The Pavilion (Friday)

Monday, 14th October 
– The KC Sessions: Sumdaze, Young Savage, G’wan, Gene & the Pools and more in The Crane Lane Theatre (8.30pm)
– The Boat Band in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Monday showcase in The Oliver Plunkett

Tuesday, 15th October
– Alan & The Accident and Roxanne De Bastion in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Jazz Improv in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Astralnaut, Terriers and Negativ Result in Fred Zeppelin’s

Wednesday, 16th October 
– Fireside Sessions: in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: Noir Noir in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Gretchen Peters in The Pavilion
– Sundown Sessions in The Raven
– Sitting Room Session: Ian O’Doherty in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Thursday, 17th October 
– Jimmy MacCarthy in Cork Opera House
– Ultan Conlon in Coughlan’s
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: The Hard Ground in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: B & The Honeyboy in The Crane Lane Theatre (10.30pm)
– Toy Soldier in Cyprus Avenue
– CTRL-ALT-DELETE: local producer showcase in Fred Zeppelin’s
– Slushy Guts in Gulpd Café (Triskel Arts Centre)
– Brian Deady in The Pavilion Bar
– Nothing New Under The Sun and Míde Houlihan in The Roundy
– John Blek & The Rats and Joe O’Leary (Fred) in The White Horse (Ballincollig)
– Ger Wolfe and Pamela Morgan in On the Pig’s Back (Douglas)

Friday, 18th October 
– Black Umfolosi (1.10pm) in Glucksman Gallery, UCC
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: Preacher’s Son in The Crane Lane Theatre (10.30pm)
– Duke Special in Cyprus Avenue
– People of the Sun in Fred Zeppelin’s
– Trevino in The Pavilion
– Murphy’s Little Big Nights Out: The Stunning, The Would Bes and Elastic Sleep in The Savoy
– The Altered Hours in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
– Ger Wolfe and Pamela Morgan in The Mills Inn, Ballyvourney (Macroom)

Saturday, 19th October
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: Dublin Laptop Orchestra in The Crane Lane Theatre (8pm)
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: K/Ron in The Crane Lane Theatre (9.30pm)
– Red Queen Contest in Cyprus Avenue
– Dissolutes in Fred Zeppelin’s
– Crayonsmith, The Great Balloon Race and Rory Francis O’Brien in The Roundy
– Murphy’s Litte Big Nights Out: The Jerry Fish Electric Show, The Frank & Walters, Joe O’Leary (Fred) and John Spillane in The Savoy
– John Blek & The Rats in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)

Sunday, 20th October 
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: Willard Grant Conspiracy (3pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: David Nelligan (10pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Indie Cork Film & Festival: The Black Twig Pickers (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Cian Finn in The Pavilion Bar
– Murphy’s Litte Big Nights Out: MGMT, Guards and O Emperor in The Savoy

– For more gigs and dates see the overall gig guide here