WHAT’S ON
Get your Sunday off to a rocking start with a rare solo show from former Stiff Little Fingers guitarist, Henry Cluney in Toner’s of Dublin at 4 with Hooligan in support. The evergreen Daniel
O’Donnell is in concert in the City Hotel Armagh tonight. In a similar vein, sort of, stars of the Nashville TV show are in the 3 Arena Dublin tomorrow night. The Vamps are in the SSE Arena Belfast tomorrow and take a break before descending on the 3 Arena on Wednesday. Ireland’s foremost exponent of electronica, Eden aka Jonathan Ng plays his biggest Irish show in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, on Tuesday. Local country artists Simon Donegan, John Hogan and a host of others celebrate the music of Charley Pride in the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran on Tuesday. US indie rockers AWOLNATION jet in for a show in the Dublin Academy on Wednesday. The Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney keeps it country with its everpopular all-Irish show on Wednesday. Lankum, who recently stormed the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, are in the Spirit Store in Dundalk on Thursday, while road-hardened rockers
Fangclub pitch up in Whelans of Dublin on Thursday and Kavanagh’s of Portlaoise on Friday. Friday also finds Welsh rockers The Alarm in the Green Room in Dublin’s Academy, and a very welcome show by the wonderful Gomez in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, at around the same time. Check out the very-promising State
Lights in Monroe’s in Galway on Friday and don’t miss the excellent Yo
La Tengo in the Olympia Theatre on Saturday.