WHAT’S ON
Robert Plant will shake that considerable mane and unleash the voice of a god in the soldout Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, tonight. It’s a welcome return for Rocket From The
Crypt who will blast off in Whelans in Dublin this evening as well. Veteran Irish vocal group The Voice Squad are in the White Horse, Ballincollig, Cork tonight. The Divine
Comedy tour this week. They are in the Cork Opera House on Monday; Limerick Concert Hall on Tuesday; Derry on Wednesday; Belfast Thursday; and the Dublin Olympia on Friday and Saturday. Dr Hook will keep fans happy playing everything from Sylvia’s Mother to Sexy Eyes in Dublin’s soldout Olympia on Monday night. They will do it all again in the in the Cork Opera House on Tuesday. The Coronas begin a three-night stand in the Olympia Theatre Dublin on Tuesday returning there on Thursday and Sunday. Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross plays two solo shows in The Dublin Sugar Club on Tuesday with a date in the Kilkenny Set Theatre the following evening. Maria Doyle
Kennedy’s concert scheduled for The Dublin Sound House on Wednesday has been postponed until the New Year on a date to be confirmed. Gavin James drops by the Bord Gáis Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. Excellent Pierce Turner plays Coughlan’s in Cork city on Thursday. Luka Bloom plays a fundraiser for the KARE organisation in the Riverbank Arts Centre, in Newbridge, Co. Kildare on Friday. The prospect of Nirvana’s songs re-imagined by an Elvis impersonator may persuade you to venture to see
Elvana at Dublin’s Academy on Friday and Galway’s Róisín Dubh on Saturday.