WHAT’S ON
If you are living next door to Carrick, or indeed in the general vicinity, you can catch
Smokie tonight in Treacy’s Hotel Carrickmacross. The excellent series of gigs in Toner’s of Dublin continues today with combative punk types
The Lee Harveys and The Vulypynes. The ever-popular Don McLean plays the first of four consecutive nights in Vicar Street tonight and is out around the country for the next few weeks. See don-mcclean. com for details. Some tickets are still available for Bryan Adams’s gigs tomorrow and Tuesday in the 3Arena. Texan indie rockers, Wild Child are in the Dublin Grand Social tomorrow. At the same time, last year’s Electric Picnic headliners The xx play the Ulster Hall Belfast. They are also in The Tivoli Dublin on Wednesday and Thursday. The gig of the week, however, is surely a doubleheader featuring
Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the 3Arena on Wednesday. Ruth-Anne
Cunningham plays a rare concert on home soil in the Sugar Club on Wednesday. Róisín O and John Broe have come together under the banner of Thanks
Brother and perform at the Grand Social Dublin on Thursday. Finbar Furey is in the Gleneagle Killarney on the same evening, and then up the road in Limerick UCH on Friday. National treasure Sharon
Shannon is in the Táin Arts Centre Dundalk on Friday. Leftfield are in performance mode with a live show in Vicar Street on the same evening. The BBC Biggest Weekend in the Titanic Quarter Belfast on Friday and Saturday features Manic Street Preachers, Orbital, TOUTS, Ash and Franz Ferdinand while the ever-wonderful HamsandwicH are in the Olympia on Saturday.