Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 2nd-8th June 2015

This week in Cork: Alistair McKay & Rupert Edwards, Cian Nugent, Toy Soldier and more.

Alistair McKay & Rupert Edwards, half of laid-back indie pop foursome Dick Diver, are in Gulpd Café this weekend, a long way from their sunny Melbourne homes. Keeping them company will be Dublin guitarist Cian Nugent of Cian Nugent & The Cosmos not to mention multiple different projects.

Also going down around town this week:

• Tom Baxter in The Pav (Tuesday)
• Don McLean in Cork Opera House (Thursday)
• Cork Rocks for Rory in Cyprus Avenue (Friday & Saturday)
• Pat Coldrick and Cormac O’Caoimh in Triskel Christchurch (Saturday)
• Toy Soldier in The Crane Lane Theatre (Sunday)

For a day-by-day breakdown of gigs taking place in both Cork city and county over the next three weeks see below.

Tuesday, 2nd June 
– Jazz Improv (9pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Tom Baxter in The Pav

Wednesday, 3rd June 
– Paula Drozd in Bru
– Psychedelic Pill (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre

Thursday, 4th June 
– Don McLean in Cork Opera House
– Featuring X (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– The Midnight Ramble (12am) in The Oliver Plunkett
– Special Olympics Gig in The Roundy

Friday, 5th June 
– Cork Rocks for Rory in Cyprus Avenue
– Declan Sinnott in The Pav
– Míde Houlihan in The Roundy
– Niall McCabe (solo) in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)

Saturday, 6th June
– Orchestral Society: Vanbrugh Quartet in Aula Maxima (UCC)
– Cork Rocks for Rory in Cyprus Avenue
– Alistair Mckay & Rupert Edwards and Cian Nugent in Gulpd Café
– Pat Coldrick and Cormac O’Caoimh in Triskel Christchurch

Sunday, 7th June
– Toy Soldier (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Colin McLean Trio in Bakestone (Carrigtwohill)
– My Fellow Sponges in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Monday, 8th June
– Monday Session in Coughlan’s
– Colin Deady (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre

Coming in 2015:
16th June – Beck Live at the Marquee
17th June – Mogwai in Cork Opera House
13th July – St. Vincent in Cork Opera House
17th-20th Sept – Sounds From A Safe Harbour

– For more gigs and dates see the overall gig guide here
– For those more interested in independent cinema visit the Triskel cinema listings here