Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 23rd December – 5th January

Cal Folger Day – Gulpd

Fred – The Pavilion

Fred, Cal Folger Day, And So I Watch You From Afar i.e. Christmas in Cork…

Ho ho ho and a bottle of rum as a more taken-to-the-seas-for-a-life-of-aquatic-crime-type Saint Nick might say. Enough pirate prattle and more Christmas chatter you say. The blog is taking a time-out for the festive season so the next two gig guides have been smushed into a single bumper edition. The stand-out shows taking place over the next fourteen days include the last two hurrahs for local legends Fred who bid their loyal fans adieu after fifteen years with double dates in The Pavilion on the 27th and 28th.

On the flipside of the year, New York chanteuse Cal Fol Folger returns to Cork with an intimate in Gulpd Café with a hell of a New Year’s Eve show sandwiched inbetween as And So I Watch You From Afar and The Altered Hours team up to welcome in the new year with an early show in The Crane Lane Theatre. Doors are at 8.30pm.

Also going down around town over the holidays:

• The seventh return of Floating Joints featuring a bumper line-up of Toby Kaar, Bantum and Girl Band in The Pavilion Bar (Stephen’s Day)
• Cat Dowling in Coughlan’s (Friday 27th)
• The David Nelligan Thing in The Crane Lane Theatre (Friday 27th)
• A festive Irish showcase starring The Vincent(s), Private Underground Residence, The Shaker Hymn and The Careers in The Pavilion (Sunday 29th)

23rd – Monday Night Music Club in Coughlan’s
23rd – Waking Up Sunday in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
23rd – Brian Deady Does Doo-wop and Moustache Latte in The Pavilion
26th – Floating Joints VII: Toby Kaar, Bantum and Girl Band in The Pavilion Bar
27th – Krawwl in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
27th – Cat Dowling in Coughlan’s
27th – The David Nelligan Thing in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
27th – Fight Like Apes in Cyprus Avenue
27th – Fred in The Pavilion
27th – The Shed in The Roundy
27th – The Frank & Walters (acoustic) in The White Horse (Ballincollig)
27th – Setmaker in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
28th – Spacecake in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
28th – Crow Black Chicken in Coughlan’s
28th – Walking On Cars in Cyprus Avenue
28th – Machismo (album launch) in Half Moon Theatre
28th – Fred in The Pavilion
28th – Declan Sinnott in Triskel Christchurch (8pm)
29th – Karma Parking in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
29th – The Vincent(s), Private Underground Residence, The Shaker Hymn and The Careers in The Pavilion
29th – Donal Dineen and Wife (DJ set) in The Pavilion Bar
30th – Hermitage Green in The Pavilion
31st – Brains in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
31st – The Pavilion presents: Mick Flannery in Cork Opera House
31st – Fast Like Fun and Screenreader in Cyprus Avenue
31st – And So I Watch You From Afar and The Altered Hours in The Crane Lane Theatre (8.30pm)
31st – New Year’s Eve Bash in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

January
1st – Warsaw Radio in The Crane Lane Theatre (8.30pm)
2nd – Christine Deady in Brú
2nd – Cal Folger Day in Gulpd Café
3rd – Yearning Curve in Brú

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