WHAT’S ON
If you want to be rocked like a wagon wheel then grab a ticket for Nathan Carter in the Cork Opera House tonight. He’s also Leeside in the same venue tomorrow. American Indie rock legends The Breeders will play Cannonball and other classics in Dublin’s Vicar Street on Monday. While Swedish dancepop songstress Zara Larsson is in the Olympia
Theatre on the same evening. Goth-rock greats The Jesus And
Mary Chain come back to Ireland for a show in Vicar Street on Tuesday. While the very fine Fangclub begin an Irish tour in the Spiegeltent in Wexford that night. See fangclubofficial.com for the rest of their dates.
Jake Clemons, son of the great Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band is in the Spirit Store, Dundalk, on Wednesday. Shane
Filan has proved he can cut it away from his Westlife bandmates. He hit both the Irish and UK top five with his third album Love Always in August. Catch him in the Olympia Theatre on Thursday. Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott are formerly of the Beautiful South but are carving out a very decent career as a duo. They begin an Irish tour in the Cork Opera House on Friday night. St Vincent’s gigs in the Olympia Theatre could be the gigs of the week. The woman known to mom and pop as Annie Clarke is there on Friday and Saturday. In the INEC Killarney on Saturday you can either see Gavin James in the main auditorium or enjoy craic and a cupla focal from
John Spillane in the Acoustic Room.