Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 29th October-3rd November

Post-jazz listings ensure there’s no time for a breather as Grave Lanterns, Colleen, Spies and more lap it up on Leeside…

Jazz-hand friendly gloves are binned as terror masks and ghoul costumes are donned for Halloween and the following weekend down Cork way. Illustrators, bloggers and all round good guys Fractured Air host Colleen, Seti The First and Áine O’Dwyer in Christchurch on Saturday evening. For more info on that one simply click here. A race across town may be on the cards following Colleen and co. with local psych-pop guerrillas The Altered Hours set for The Pavilion. A nasty clash it may be but an early start in the Triskel may allow eager beavers to catch both so fingers crossed.

The mid-week highlight is most certainly Grave Lanterns‘s single launch in The Pavilion, with the foursome joined on the night by Galwegian punkabilly trio Rural Savage. This one’s just five bob in with a free download of ‘Creepin’ Up on You’ available here.

HEADS UP!
Limited handmade (by the wonderful Lisa Lemur) tickets for the latest G-Man Presents… show featuring Dott and French For Rabbits are now available from Plugd Records.

As if that wasn’t enough to keep y’all busy electro wunderkind Mmoths returns to Cork complete with a live brass section for a headline slot in The Pavilion on Friday evening (for a chance to win tickets see here) and Spies (The Guardian‘s pick for band of the day on Monday no less) and Neon Atlas team up for a very special Alliance Promotion show on Halloween night in The Crane Lane Theatre.

Also going down around town this week:

• Reformed and reinvigorated 90’s indie-rockers The Would Bes in The Crane Lane Theatre (Tuesday)
• Northern noise-makers Alright The Captain and Pigshackle in The Gateway (Wednesday)
• Five-string trad bandits We Banjo 3 in Half Moon Theatre (Friday)
• The eight edition of the STRANGER series in Triskel TDC (9pm) (Friday)

Tuesday, 29th October
– Fintan Lucy in L’Attitude 51
– Jazz Improv in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– The Would Bes in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– FILM: Jameson film club Poltergeist, Cabin In The Woods and Creepshow in Cyprus Avenue

Wednesday, 30th October 
– Fireside Sessions: in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Day of the Dead burlesque circus in The Crane Lane Theatre (8.30pm)
– Alright The Captain and Pigshackle in The Gateway
– Sundown Sessions in The Raven
– Kate Twohig in The Roundy
– Sitting Room Session: Maeve O’Boyle and Ryan McDowell in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Thursday, 31st October 
– Alliance Halloween: Spies and Neon Atlas in The Crane Lane Theatre (8.30pm)
– ALL AGES: Dawn Wyatt, ShySon, SEXWORKER and Koop & Jip in The Kino (7pm)
– Grave Lanterns and Rural Savage in The Pavilion
– Floating Joints VI with: Handsome Paddy in The Pavilion Bar (from 6pm)
– Idiot Songs in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Friday, 1st November 
– Emer Mayock, Mick O’Brien and Aoife Ni Bhriain in UCC (1.10pm)
– Bisect and Found On The Floor in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Emerson in Cyprus Avenue
– Five Will Die, Electric Taurus, Nautilus and Sebek in Fred Zeppelin’s
– Junctions: We Banjo 3 in Half Moon Theatre
– Mmoths in The Pavilion
– Tapp’d, Johnny Horne and Jeb in The Roundy
– STRANGER _08: Ashkelon, Vindicatrix & Patrick Kelleher followed by Art Bastard, Drievs and Toby Kaar (DJ sets) in Triskel TDC (9pm)
– Ian Whitty & The Exchange in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Saturday, 2nd November
– The Altered Hours in The Pavilion
– Fractured Air presents: Colleen, Seti The First and Áine O’Dwyer in Triskel Christchurch
– The Choons in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Sunday, 3rd November 
– Tumbleweed Sessions in L’Attitude 51
– Royal Wood & Peter Katz in Cyprus Avenue
– Cian Finn in The Pavilion
– Sunday Sounds with: Art Crimes Band & DJ Ian Richards in The Slate

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