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HERE’S OUR TOP TEN THINGS TO DO IN CORK THIS WEEK
HUGH TINNEY IN CONCERT AT THE STACK THEATRE
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed Irish classical pianist Hugh Tinney will play a concert next Thursday evening (November 1) at the CIT School of Music’s Stack Theatre.
The concert, part of a 12-date Irish tour celebrating Tinney’s 60th birthday, will include a diverse musical programme including perennial favourites by Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin as well as modern compositions by Belfast-born Ian Wilson and British composer Tomas Adés.
During a career spanning more than three decades the multi-award winning pianist has performed solo concerts and worked with distinguished individuals and ensembles in more than 35 countries.
The former artistic director of the Music in Greta Irish Houses Festival, Tinney was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music by the National University of Ireland in 2007.
Tickets for the concert from www.corkorchestralsociety.ie priced at €20.
COMPLETE STONE ROSES TO PLAY AT THE VENUE
ONE of the UK’s most successful tribute bands, The Complete Stones Roses, will rekindle memories of the ‘Madchester’ movement of the 1980’s and 90’s when they The Venue in Cork on Saturday night.
The band remain true to the original sound of arguably one of the most influential groups ever to have graced the British ‘indie’ scene, with the Stone Roses bassist Mani saying they did their songs “real justice....at times playing better than we did”.
They have also been praised by other music insiders, with Mani, and other ‘Madchester’ legends including Peter Hook (New Order), Bez (Happy Mondays) and Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets) performing alongside the band.
Tickets for the concert, which will see the band perform seminal tracks including ‘Fools Gold’, ‘I Am the Resurrection’ and ‘Made of Stone’, from www.ticketmaster.ie priced at €20.
JENNY GREEN TO PLAY SECOND OPERA HSE GIG
AFTER her gig at the Cork Opera House next Sunday sold out, Jenny Greene has announced she is to play a second date at the venue the following night.
One of Ireland’s most popular DJ’s, Greene is well-known to music fans through her work with RTE 2FM, presenting the hugely popular ‘Electric Disco’ show on Saturday nights and co-hosting the weekday morning slot on with Nicky Byrne.
Her live sets that have enthralled audiences at festivals across the country and through her collaboration with the RTE Concert Orchestra, Greene has also breathed new life into some of the biggest dance classics of the past two decades.
She will be joined for the show by Cork mavericks Generic People, who will supply cutting edge visuals.
Tickets €21 from the venue on 021 427 0022 .
MERCURY NOMINATED TRIO TO ROLL INTO CORK
THE Mercury Prize nominated Roller Trio will play a gig in the intimate Triskel Christchurch Arts Centre on Sunday afternoon at 2.30pm.
Hailed DJ Gilles Patterson as “the new sound of UK jazz”, the trio deliver punchy grooves, deceptively catchy riffs and swirling electronica delivered with a trademark swagger and visceral energy that has excited critics and music fans alike.
Influenced by a melting pot of acts from Fly Trio and Tim Berne to Queens of the Stone Age and Flying Lotus, the Leeds-based trio waste no time in getting heads bobbing with their idiosyncratic blend of pin-tight beats, cool melodies and juddering stop-start motifs.
Career highlights include headlining the Arena stage at the Love Supreme festival, selling out London’ famous Ronnie Scott’s and releasing three studio and two live albums. Tickets from the venue on 021 427 2022 priced at €15.
ROCKSTEADY SOUNDS WITH THE SERVICE
CORK band The Service will bring their foot-stomping rocksteady sound to the stage of the Crane Lane Theatre when they play a free gig at the venue on Friday night.
Formed in 1994, the six-piece performed on and off for almost a decade before becoming a more permanent fixture on the vibrant Cork music scene in 2013.
Their high-octane two-hour sets pay homage to the great ska, reggae and Two-Tone acts, with set-lists covering tracks by acts including Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley, The Specials, The Beat and Madness to name just a few.
Favourites at festivals across the country, the band’s live performances are already the stuff of legend and are guaranteed to get feet dancing, heads bopping and pulses racing.
FEEL THE BEAT AGAIN WITH HUDSON TAYLOR
FOLLOWING the release of their ‘Feel It Again’ EP, Irish folk duo Hudson Taylor will take to the stage of Cork’s Cyprus Avenue this coming Saturday night.
Brothers Alfie and Harry Hudson-Taylor cut their teeth busking on the streets of the capital prior to releasing their top ten selling, critically acclaimed debut album ‘Singing for Strangers’ in 2015.
Their acoustic, folky sound and close vocal harmonies, often compared to Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan, has seen them become regular festival favourites.
The siblings also bring a love of contemporary pop to their music, giving it a more modern feel, with their clever, mature and sometimes dark lyrics.
The New EP will give fans a taste of what to expect from the duo’s forthcoming second album.
Tickets for the gigs, priced at €22.50 from www.tickets.ie.
CRAZY CHESTER LINED UP FOR COUGHLAN’S GIG
The hugely popular Cork band Crazy Chester will play a free late-night gig at Coughlan’s Live on Douglas Steet on Friday night under the umbrella of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.
Heavily influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Neil Young, the band play a style of music that effortlessly crosses between rock, country and pure americana with their original songs tipping more than a nod to Crosby, Still, Nash & Young and The Band.
Renowned for their lively and entertaining live shows, the strong and fluent musicianship of band members, combined with their strong catalogue of covers and self-penned songs separate them from the majority of ‘good time’ cover bands out there.
THE legendary Wolfe Tones will make a welcome return to the stage of the INEC in Killarney on Sunday evening.
Currently the longest running touring group in the world, The Wolfe Tones have been entertaining audiences for more than five decades, packing out venues across the globe.
Following their formation in 1963 The Wolfe Tones quickly gained a reputation for their rebel inspired songs, with their music becoming the soundtrack to the lives of a generation of Irish people both at home and abroad.
Fans can expect to hear a veritable ‘Greatest Hit’s’ concert interspersed with some of their newer material in a show that will once again shake the rafters at the INEC.
Tickets for the concert from the INEC box office on 064 667 1555 priced at €31.
EIMEAR REIDY TO PLAY ‘THE ISLAND’ IN COBH
CORK based cellist Eimear Reidy will perform ‘ The Island’, a stunning new composition for solo cello written by Australian music producer Robert Curgenven at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh on Sunday evening.
Based on recordings made on, and inspired by, Heir Island off the West Cork coast the piece plumbs the topological depths of the island and reflects on the idea of solitude creating a direct dialogue and bond between the music and the musician.
A founding member of the Irish Early Music Ensemble, Reidy has also toured Europe with the Irish baroque orchestra Capella Craoviensis and collaborated with artists including Curgenven, The Quiet Club and the GaitKrash theatre ensemble. Based in Ireland, Curgenven has released multiple recordings and performed in his own right at festivals across the globe. Tickets from the venue on 021 481 3790 priced at €12.
WYVERN LINGO SET FOR A RETURN TO ST LUKE’S’
COUNTY Wicklow trio Wyvern Lingo will return to the Live at St Luke’s stage in Cork with their acclaimed live show on Saturday night.
The gig follows on from the release of ‘Out Of My Hand’s, the latest single to be taken from their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album released earlier this year.
Their most candid and politically motivated song to date, ‘Out of My Hand’s’ challenges both apathy and scepticism and poses some difficult questions about out daily engagement, both politically and personally, with the world around all of us.
Arguably one of the most socially aware contemporary Irish bands, Wyvern Lingo combine razor sharp lyrics with stunning vocal interplay to produce truly unmissable live shows.
Tickets for the gig from www.uticket.ie priced at €22.50.