Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 6th-12th January 2014

This week in Cork: We Arrive Alive, The Great Balloon Race and more…

As expected, the first proper post-Christmas week is quite quiet on the gig front but there is still a great double-header taking place Saturday in The Pavilion. Psych-folk jazzers The Great Balloon Race and instrumental shoegaze stalwarts We Arrive Alive – both past participants in The G-Man Presents… showcases – team up to play a free Saturday evening show on Carey’s Lane. Even if Patrick’s Street goes all biblical and floods Noah-style between now and Saturday, this one is worth building an ark for.

Also going down around town this week:

• Monthly new music gathering Playground of Dreamss in Bradley’s of Barrack Street (Saturday)

Monday, 6th January
– Monday Night Music Club in Coughlan’s

Tuesday, 7th January
– The Paul Dunlea Group in The Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm)

Wednesday, 8th January 
– Jazz Fusion Night in The Roundy

Thursday, 9th January 
– Neil Young Tribute Night in Coughlan’s
– The Live Room in The Roundy

Friday, 10th January 
– Declan O’Rourke in The Spaniard (Kinsale)

Saturday, 11th January
– Playground of Dreamss: TAPP’D, Johnny Horne, The Black Stalks, Audible Joe’s, Martin Mc Inerney and JEP in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– The Great Balloon Race and We Arrive Alive in The Pavilion

Sunday, 12th January 
– Sam Clague in The Pavilion Bar (9pm)
– Sunday Sessions in The Roundy (6pm)

Coming up in January/February
15th January – 65daysofstatic in Cyprus Avenue
16th January – Une Pipe in The Pavilion
18th January – The Henry Girls in Half Moon Theatre
18th January – The September Girls in The Pavilion
30th January – Spies in The Pavilion Bar
31st January – James Vincent McMorrow in Cork Opera House
31st January – Elastic Sleep in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
8th February- Cymbals in Cyprus Avenue
21st February- Suzanne Vega in Cork Opera House
22nd February- Lisa O’Neill in Cyprus Avenue

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