16 gigs & clubs to see in Cork this weekend

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Thursday February 14th

• Mockie Ah! @ Crane Lane Theatre (8pm, €11)
  featuring guests Kiki St. Clair, W1tchn, and more.

Friday February 15th

• Katie Kim, Elaine Malone @ Dali (7.30pm, €8)
  Waterford songstress kicks off Dali’s ‘Live’ slot.
• The Silken Same @ Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh (7.30pm, €20)
  Galwegian duo The Silken Same, as part of the Sirius Suppers series.
• Gum Takes Tooth, BB84 @ The Roundy/PLUGD Records (8.30pm, €10)
  Psych-rock duo with new album Arrow’ Opening are BB84, a new collab between Moose (Wild Rocket), George Brennan (Cholera House), and Rian Trench (Solar Bears).
• Electric Eel Shock @ DeBarra’s of Clonakilty (9.30pm, €8)
  Japanese garage-rock trio
• Ansome @ Dali (10pm, €15)
  Cornwall man Kieran Whitfield brings his full-hardware heavy techno’ til close.
• Ben Nicky @ Cyprus Avenue (10pm, €22)
  Techno, psytrance and related endeavours.

Saturday February 16th

• The Dagenham Yanks @ Coughlan’s (6pm, free)
  Cork rockers, featuring a video premiere from oddly-monikered new single ‘Shamone’ .
• Last Call @ The Sextant (8pm, free)
  Faced with closure after the property’s owners have seen fit to sell off the long-running quayside pub and beer garden, The Sextant’s landlord and staff have brought in some long-term residents to help send the place off. Mister Fork, Ciara Brady and Eddie Kay are on the decks.
• Electric Eel Shock @ Fred Zeppelin’s (8pm, free)
  Jammin’ out with the Japanese garage-rockers on their second of two Cork gigs.
• County Vinyl @ The Roundy/PLUGD Records (8pm, free)
  The County Vinyl residents return with Dim the Lights’ Gilbert Steele guesting.
• I Have a Tribe + Sun Collective @ Levis’ Bar, Ballydehob (8.30pm, donations)
  Part one of a double-headlining excursion to Cork for folk outfits in an Over the Shop Counter gig at Levis’.
  House All Night @ Dali (10pm, €tbc)
  Eamon and Jinty head upstairs

Sunday February 17th

• Endless Swarm, Wardomized, Bisect @ Fred Zeppelin’s (8pm, €5)
  Grindcore time at Fredz tonight, with Scots Endless Swarm sharing a stage with Belfast’s Wardomized and Corkonian crossover thrashers Bisect.
• I Have a Tribe, Sun Collective, Annie Bloch @ The Roundy/PLUGD Records (8pm, €8)
  Night two of the Homebeat-run folk tour, with local support from German singer-songwriter.
• Gráinne Cotter @ Coughlan’s (8pm, €10)
  Pop/jazz soloist

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