Record Store Day: Cork Gig Guide (April 16th-22nd)
Plugd Records celebrates its first anniversary with Record Store Day celebrations drawing to a close in Triskel Arts Centre with performances from The Jimmy Cake, Melodica Deathship and Nanu Nanu. Should be one heck of a day AND night.
Saturday again in Cork is pretty manic with Cork Rocks The House (with Slow Motion Heroes, The Dave Nelligan Thing and more) taking over Cork Opera House; Choice-nominated We Cut Corners in Cyprus Avenue (8pm); and Le Galaxie getting folk dancing into the late hours (with support from Carried By Waves) in The Pavilion.
Further afield Declan O’Rourke and Clive Barnes, with Maeve Higgins on MC duties, entertaining on a hopefully sunny day in Kinsale’s in St. Mulrose Church and Terror Pop (formerly Agitate The Gravel) take to the stage in the Pine Lodge (Myrtleville).
Saturday may supply this week’s peak but there are plenty of tasty gigs to chomp into with Belfast-bred Cashier No. 9‘s rescheduled Cyprus Avenue taking place on Thursday and Kormac’s Big Band (with a little help from friends The West Cork Ukelele Orchestra) in Cork Opera House the following night.
Sore hands on Sunday should still be braved with Catskill Mountains native Simone Felice mixing new solo material with Felice Brothers classics in Cyprus Avenue. Mick Flannery brings his number one, Madonna-masterplan-meddling record Red To Blue to the Opera House that same night.
Monday, 16th April
– RTÉ Concert Orchestra with Sharon Shannon in Cork Opera House
– Hank & Edel in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
Tuesday, 17th April
– Jazz Improv in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– The Papa Zitas in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Default Daves, Emerson and more in Cyprus Avenue
– Hank Wedel & Edel Curtin in The Pavilion
– Freddie White in McDaid’s (Midleton)
Wednesday, 18th April
– Jamie Neish in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– GIMP in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Johnny Grace & The Chicks, The Savv and more in Cyprus Avenue
– Runaway Go! in The Oliver Plunkett
– Freddie White in The Pavilion
Thursday, 19th April
– Professor Green in Cork Opera House
– The Art Crimes Band in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Death By Chocolate in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Elly O’Keefe in The Oliver Plunkett
– Bressie in The Pavilion
– Cross Pollination with Liz Clark in The Roundy
– Cashier No. 9 in Cyprus Avenue
Friday, 20th April
– Kormac’s Big Band and The West Cork Ukelele Orchestra in Cork Opera House
– The Empire Lights in Cyprus Avenue
– Jerome Hill in The Pavilion
– Later with The Grunts in The Roundy
– The Frank & Walters in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
Saturday, 21st April
– Cork Rocks The House feat. Slow Motion Heroes, The Dave Nelligan Thing and more in Cork Opera House
– The Hip-neck Blues Collective (EP launch) in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Alan & The Accident in Crowley’s Music Centre (5pm)
– We Cut Corners in Cyprus Avenue (8pm)
– Remarq in Cyprus Avenue (11pm)
– Le Galaxie and Carried By Waves in The Pavilion
– Declan O’Rourke, Maeve Higgins and Clive Barnes in St. Mulrose Church (Kinsale)
– Terror Pop (formerly Agitate The Gravel) in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)
– Record Store Day feat. The Jimmy Cake, Nanu Nanu and Melodica Deathship in Triskel Arts Centre
Sunday, 22nd
– Mick Flannery & Band in Cork Opera House
– Runaway GO! in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Freddie White in The White Horse (Ballincollig)
– Simone Felice Group in Cyprus Avenue
Remember Record Store Day 2012 takes place on Saturday, 21st April
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