WHAT’S ON

Tonight, Japanese band Electric Eel Shock bring their garage rock influenced songs to the Workman’s Club in Dublin. Ouzo Bazooka play the capital’s Grand Social while Smokie visit Vicar Street. Tomorrow, the aforementioned Mike & The Mechanics play in the National Stadium, that funky bunch Jungle are in the Olympia, Dublin, while Cork legends Microdisney may be convening for the last time in Vicar Street. Razorlight will play the hits and tracks from their 2018 comeback album in the Olympia on Tuesday while Geoff Tate, singer with Metalheads Queensryche, brings his solo venture to the Button Factory in Dublin. Jazz funkateer Cory Wong begins an Irish tour in Dolans of Limerick on Wednesday. See corywongmusic.com for the other dates. The golden-voiced Eddi Reader is in Vicar Street and you have the intriguing prospect of X-Files star David Duchovny in Dublin’s Academy singing songs he wrote. The swoonsome Chvrches play Dublin’s Olympia on Thursday while Johnny McEvoy is in the Carlton Hotel in Galway. The Paper Kites play The Sound House in Dublin. Fontaines D.C play Dolans in Limerick on Friday while Bill Ryder Jones of seminal Liverpool band The Coral takes the stage in Whelans and rapper Jay Rock lays it down in the Button Factory. Lisa O’Neill is in the Liberty Hall Theatre in Dublin on Saturday while fellow Choice Music Prize nominee Kojaque is at Whelans.