WHAT’S ON
The Charlatans, those survivors of the early Nineties wave of Britpop are in Dublin’s Academy tonight. The highly-rated Cork singersongwriter Brian Deady is in the Róisín Dubh Galway this evening while Josh Ritter brings his Royal City Band to Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick and heads down the N20 for a show in Cork Opera House tomorrow. If you fancy singing Shang-a-Lang with the original Roller then get out your tartan flares for Les McKeown’s Legendary Bay City Rollers in the Olympia Theatre tomorrow. Christy Moore is in Vicar Street tomorrow and Tuesday and check out christymoore.com for more dates over the festive period. Archy Marshall aka King Krule released one of the albums of the year. You can hear him play songs from The Ooz in Dublin’s Academy on Wednesday. The Blades are in the same venue on Thursday night. The mighty Damien Dempsey is in Monroe’s of Galway on Thursday and also in the City of the Tribes that evening The Eskies are in the Róisín Dubh. You can also catch them on Saturday in The Button Factory Dublin. HamsandwicH returned to recording action with the sublime single Bodies last month and they are in Triskel
Christchurch in Cork on Thursday and Friday. Ryan Sheridan is in the Róisín Dubh Galway on Friday and around that time Hermitage Green are in The Acoustic Room of the INEC Killarney. Jenny Greene and
the RTÉ Concert Orchestra are in the arena in the same venue on Friday and return on Saturday. On Saturday, the always powerful
Aslan are in The Big Top Limerick while former Choice Music Prize winner Adrian Crowley is in The Grand Social in Dublin. In the absence of the real thing, ABBA
Forever represent a pretty good facsimile. Get along to The Royal Theatre Castlebar on Saturday for bona fide pop classics.