Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 7th-13th October 2013

Trio set to drop PrivateCrowTractorBombHammer on the residents of Barrack Street…

There’s a devil of a double-header in Bradley’s of Barrack Street this weekend as first a fundraiser for Cork Community Printshop takes place on Friday with a night of experimental electronics courtesy of glitch girl E|||| and box(-emissions) boy Mvestle. Click here for further details. On Saturday evening Private Underground Residence, Crowhammer and Tractor Bomb are charged with dismantling the eardrums with a gig booked for the same venue on Barrack Street.

Also going down around town this week:

• Former Citadels frontman Cormac O’Caoimh in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm) (Tuesday)
• UCC’s Live Music Society returns to Cyprus Avenue (Wednesday)
• Leeside popsters Fred in The Pavilion as part of this year’s Folk Fest (Thursday)
• Beat-belters Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip return to Cyprus Avenue (Saturday)
• The folkie festivities continue with I Draw Slow in An Spailpin Fanach and 70’s trad trio Scullion in Triskel Christchurch, the latter featuring a very special support slot from gifted Cavan songwriter Lisa O’Neill (Saturday)

Monday, 7th October 
– Monday showcase in The Oliver Plunkett

Tuesday, 8th October
– Fintan Lucy in L’Attitude 51
– FILM: Don’t Look Back in Coughlan’s
– Jazz Improv in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Cormac O’Caoimh and Colum Petit in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)

Wednesday, 9th October 
– Fireside Sessions: in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– UCC Live Music Society: King Kong Company, Lowlek and Emerson in Cyprus Avenue
– Éamonn Cagney, Martin Tourish & Niwel Tsumbu Trio in The Pavilion
– Sundown Sessions in The Raven
– Sitting Room Session: in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Thursday, 10th October 
– Cork Folk Festival: Fred in The Pavilion
– Momma Robertson in The Pavilion Bar
– Lynda Cullen & Band and Like A Fire in The Roundy
– Cork Folk Festival: Lumiere in An Spailpin Fanach
– Amelia Curran in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Friday, 11th October 
– Cork Community Printshop fundraiser: E|||| and Mvestle in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Cork Folk Festival: Ranagri in Coughlan’s
– Kíla in Cyprus Avenue
– Corr Mhóna in Fred Zeppelin’s
– Cork Folk Festival: Altan in The Pavilion
– Paddy Casey in Triskel Christchurch

Saturday, 12th October
– Private Underground Residence, Crowhammer and Tractor Bomb in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip in Cyprus Avenue
– Cork Folk Festival: Heartstring (Arty McGlynn, Noillaig Casey, Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chris Newman) in The Pavilion (4pm)
– Jericho in The Pavilion
– Cork Folk Festival: I Draw Slow in An Spailpin Fanach
– Cork Folk Festival: Scullion and Lisa O’Neill in Triskel Christchurch
– Polly & The Billets Doux in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Sunday, 13th October 
– Gene & The Pools and Roxanne De Bastion in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Polly & The Billets Doux in Coughlan’s
– Kids In Glass Houses (2pm show – 14 years+) in Cyprus Avenue
– Caroline Moreau in Cyprus Avenue
– Cork Folk Festival: Rynne Dunny Barou in The Pavilion
– I Draw Slow in The White Horse (Ballincollig)
– Polly & The Billets Doux (early show) in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)

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