WHAT’S ON
If you have a grá for the sublime countrytinged pop of The Carpenters then the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin is the place to be tonight. Toni Lee sounds uncannily like Karen Carpenter and she and an eight-piece big band promise to play every hit by the duo in the show entitled We’ve Only Just Begun. You can also catch it on Friday in the Cork Opera House. If you prefer your female-fronted countryish music a little more spiky then go to the Workman’s Club tomorrow night and catch The
Worry Dolls. The Liverpool-Irish duo are also in Dundalk Spirit Store on Thursday; The Brewery Corner, Kilkenny on Friday and The Greyhound, Kilkee on Saturday. The Australian Pink Floyd are recognised as the finest tribute act to the ‘Floyd on the planet. They play the 3Arena in Dublin on Wednesday night. LCD Soundsystem play the Olympia Theatre Dublin on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Lucky are those who are blessed with tickets. The Hard Working Class Heroes Festival, which has aided the rise to prominence of acts such as Villagers, The Strypes, Coronas, begins in the capital on Friday. It runs for three nights. See www.hwch.net. The Triskel Christchurch Arts Centre in Cork hosts Andy Irvine with Maighread & Tríona
Ní Dhomhnaill on Thursday. Sublime Irish traditional and world music will be the order of the evening. Steve Albini who produced Nirvana and the Pixies, among almost countless others, brings his band
Shellac to the Róisín Dubh in Galway on Friday. They are also in the Tivoli Dublin on Saturday. The Kilfenora Céilí Band have entertained trad lovers for nigh on 100 years. The current incarnation is in the Theatre Royal Waterford on Saturday.
In Tua Nua have shared stages with everyone from U2 to Bob Dylan. The Dublin band celebrate 30 years with a gig in Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday.