WHAT’S ON
Tastemakers, hipsters and the musically curious will be making their way to Whelan’s of Dublin for the final night of The Ones To Watch Festival. David Keenan, Katie Laffan and Fields have achieved much bigger audiences since impressing last year. Check out Akora tonight if you can. Frances Black & Kieran Goss proved to be a winning combination when they performed together in the Nineties, they are now delighting fans on their reunion tour. They continue in the Firgrove Hotel in Mitchelstown, Cork tonight. Look up frances-black.net for other dates. Tickets are scarce for American rapper Witt Lowry’s appearance in the Dublin Academy tomorrow night but the Like I Do wordsmith is well worth catching if you can. Charlie Landsborough is always a welcome visitor to these islands and the genial Birkenhead balladeer continues his extensive tour on Tuesday night in the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Public Service Broadcasting are an unsettling but compelling prospect in a live setting. They’re in Dublin Academy on Wednesday. On the same evening, the cool and classy Judy Collins will sing Send In The Clowns and other hits in Triskel in Cork. She also plays St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin on Friday. Wallis Bird is a powerful live performer. She is in Whelan’s on Wednesday and the intimate surroundings of The White Horse in Ballincollig, Cork on Thursday. You might call Moon Duo um… protopost rock if you want to appear clever and you can stroke your chin to them in The Button Factory
Dublin on Friday. If you want to see the work of some of the country’s best live music photographers then go to the What We Did In
The Shadows exhibition in the Bernard Shaw venue Dublin. It runs from this Friday until February 21st. Snappers such as Katrin Baumbach, Colm Kelly and Kieran Frost have been framing artists such as U2, Depeche Mode and St Vincent beautifully for years now. Finally, if it’s visceral punk you want and you know you do, make for the Tivoli Dublin on Saturday night for former Gallows frontman Frank
Carter – not to be missed.