Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 2nd-8th December

PINS (Wednesday)

This week in Cork: PINS, Josh Ritter, Ewa Gigon and more…

Best stick a pin in this one as Pins pop into The Pavilion for their first Cork visit. Signalling the beginning of a four-date Irish tour, the Mancunian foursome’s Leeside début is the highlight of the week following an impressive showing when I caught them at End of the Road back in September. Having released dark garage gem Girls Like Us on their own Haus of PINS label earlier in the year, the quartet have been forging Irish connections with September Girls also releasing a cassette on the Haus of PINS label. Cork foursome The Careers (check out their new, free-to-download EP Atomic Cosmosaurus over on bandcamp) support on Wednesday evening.

Also going down around town this week:

• Irish-adopted U.S. songwriter Josh Ritter in Triskel Christchurch (Wednesday)
• 80’s post-punks New Model Army return to The Crane Lane (Thursday)
• Plugd Records host a number of different artists including Sí (Thursday)
• Dutiful deliverers of dubstep Wiggle celebrate 15 years as a band in The Pavilion (Friday)
• Son of legendary former E-Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons Jake Clemons in Cyprus Avenue (Saturday)
• Psych-rock fivesome The Altered Hours go down to the beach with a show in Myrtleville’s Pine Lodge (Saturday)
• Cork’s go-to soul saviours Moustache Latte in The Crane Lane for a midnight show (Sunday)

Monday, 2nd December
– Monday Night Music Club in Coughlan’s
– The Midnight Union Band in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)

Tuesday, 3rd December
– Modemusic in Brú
– Jazz Improv in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– The View in Cyprus Avenue

Wednesday, 4th December 
– Fireside Sessions: in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Little Mammoth in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Colaiste Stiofain Naofa Live & Gigging in Cyprus Avenue
– Pins and The Careers in The Pavilion
– Josh Ritter in Triskel Christchurch

Thursday, 5th December 
– This Place Is Death, Screenreader and Temperance Parade in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Red FM Jingle Bell Ball: The Coronas, Young Wonder & more in Cork Opera House
– New Model Army in The Crane Lane Theatre (8pm)
– This Club, The Reverse and Cove in Cyprus Avenue
– Yearning Curve in The Oliver Plunkett
– Meltybrains? in The Pavilion Bar
– Ewa Gigon and Sí in Plugd Records (1st floor of Triskel Arts Centre)
– Nothing New Under The Sun, Kevin Glavin and The Russets in The Roundy

Friday, 6th December 
– Wiggle in The Pavilion

Saturday, 7th December
– The Hertz Complex and Nine North in The Crane Lane Theatre (9pm)
– Jake Clemons in Cyprus Avenue
– Roy Ayers in The Pavilion
– The Altered Hours in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)

Sunday, 8th December 
– Mark Buckeridge and Sarah Magier in Bru
– Moustache Latte in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)
– Sunday Sessions in The Roundy (6pm)
– Sunday Sounds with: Art Crimes Band & DJ Ian Richards in The Slate
– Jake Clemons in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

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