Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 20th-26th May 2014
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This week in Cork: Cloud Nothings, Katie Kim, Joan Shelley, Group Rhoda, and more..
It’s a Macroom with a view this weekend as a new MDR-hosted songwriter session welcomes two terrific talents to County Cork courtesy of Katie Kim and Joan Shelley on Saturday evening. For a full breakdown on the Briery Gap gigs click here.
For those sticking about the city, then local record store heroes Plugd Records host an electro-charged double bill of techno titan Lumigraph and San Francisco psych-queen Group Rhoda in Gulpd (Friday) and Triskel TDC (Saturday) respectively. Patrick “Chilly Hands” Kelleher guests on the Saturday.
Elsewhere, Cleveland indie critters Cloud Nothings are in Cyprus Avenue on Friday night with the Dylan Baldi-led threesome currently in Europe touring their fourth long-player Here and Nowhere Else
Also going down around town this week:
- Long-lasting – and I mean long – legends Blind Boys of Alabama in Cork Opera House (Tuesday)
- New York-based Leesider Niall Connolly in Coughlan’s (Wednesday)
- Local baroque-pop fivesome The Hard Ground launch EP1 of 3 in in Coughlan’s (Thursday)
- Tenacious Toronto jazz trio Badbadnotgood in The Pavilion (Friday)
- Nimble fingered guitar picker Jon Gomm in The Pavilion (Saturday)
- Kentucky songwriter Joan Shelley also heads to De Barra’s (Clonakilty) (Sunday)
For a day-by-day breakdown of gigs taking place in both Cork city and county over the next seven days see below.
Tuesday, 20th May
– Menic & The Buncrana Firecrackers and Teknopeasant in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Blind Boys of Alabama in Cork Opera House
– Jazz Improv (9pm), The Stoney Brokes (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Cornelia Keating and Jon Hicks in El Fenix
Wednesday, 21st May
– Lowdown Sessions in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Niall Connolly in Coughlan’s
– Radioactive Grandma in The Crane Lane Theatre
– John Cooper Clarke and Wasps Vs Humans in The Pavilion
– Sitting Room Sessions: Christine Deady in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
Thursday, 22nd May
– The Hard Ground (EP launch) in Coughlan’s
– Pockets Full of Water live screening & music: Rory & Conor Corbett, The Nash Brothers and Fast.Like.Fun (6pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Album Launch: The Calvinists, Stuart Wilde & The Birdmen and Christine Deady in The Frisky Whiskey/The Oliver Plunkett
– Mark Buckeridge & Band in The Pavilion Bar
– Playground of Dreamss: Underground Party Cartel, Pixie and the King, Suantrai, Railroad Man and Stewart Dixon in The Roundy
– Cathy Davey Trio in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
Friday, 23rd May
– This Place Is Death and Catacombs in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Zom and Malthusian in Cork Community Print Shop
– Rebelmusic Night: Emerson, Noel Maguire, Thomas McCarthy & Stephen Manning Jr. (9pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Lumigraph in Gulpd
– Badbadnotgood in The Pavilion
– Fenton & The Phantoms in The Roundy
– Lumigraph in Gulpd Café
– Cookie & The Vaudevilles in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
Saturday, 24th May
– Jinx Lennon, Wasps Vs Humans and News For The Deaf in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Karen Underwood & John O’Brien in Coughlan’s
– Wilki (6.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Jon Gomm in The Pavilion
– Group Rhoda and Patrick Kelleher in Triskel TDC
– Sullane Sessions: Katie Kim and Joan Shelley in Briery Gap Theatre (MacRoom)
Sunday, 25th May
– Tumbleweed Sessions (6.30pm) in L’Attitude 51
– Cloud Nothings in Cyprus Avenue
– Sunday Session in The Roundy (6pm)
– Joan Shelley in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
Monday, 26th May
– Monday Night Music Club in Coughlan’s
Upcoming G-Man Presents shows:
7th June – Angel Olsen in Triskel Christchurch Buy tickets here
– For more gigs and dates see the overall gig guide here
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