The Nialler9 Cork Gig Guide
MONDAY FEBRUARY 27TH:
- No original music in town tonight (as usual – an admittedly small gap in the market that no-one with a small space sees fit to exploit), but keep an eye on Coughlan’s Live’s social media for details of a very special announcement today…
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28TH:
- Dinosaur @ Triskel Arts Centre (8pm, €18)
UK outfit channel electric jazz, Celtic folk and north African syncopation via Miles Davis. Sebswing.
- CSN Live ‘n’ Gigging @ Cyprus Avenue (9pm, €5)
Showcase gig from the music school that shaped Mick Flannery, O Emperor, and Walking on Cars among others.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 1ST:
- UCC Battle of the Bands Final @ Cyprus Avenue (9pm, €2/€4)
UCC’s music soc presents its centrepiece annual show, with four bands from campus duking it out for recording time in Blackwater Studios.
THURSDAY MARCH 2ND:
- Pleasure Beach @ Cyprus Avenue (8pm, €10)
Belfast shoegaze/indie five-piece stop at Cyprus Avenue as part of their debut headline tour. Go
- August Wells @ Coughlan’s Live (9pm, €12)
Ex-Rollerskate Skinny man Ken Griffin and New York pianist John Rauchenberger take to Ireland again to tour new album ‘The Madness is the Mercy’.
- Traumer @ Cyprus Avenue (11pm, €16)
French house/techno figurehead and Gettraum label man heads to Cyprus Avenue as part of his debut Irish excursion.
- New Valley Wolves @ Crane Lane Theatre (11.30pm, free)
Rock ‘n’ roll duo lash out their pared-down, no-nonsense riffage. Support from Beautiful Corruption.
FRIDAY MARCH 3RD:
- Marlene Enright @ Levis’ Corner House (8pm, pass-the-hat)
Singer-songwriter and The Hard Ground member continues to tour new album ‘Placemats and Second Cuts’.
- August Wells @ Coughlan’s Live (9pm, €12)
Second night of two-night residency at the Douglas St. venue for Dublin/NY outfit.
- Brame & Hamo @ Cyprus Avenue (11pm, €12.50)
Sligo house duo/Splendour and Squalor label lads take in Cyprus Avenue on a trip home from their current Berlin excursion.
SATURDAY MARCH 4TH:
- Cillian McSweeney @ Crane Lane Theatre (7.30pm, free)
Composer and songwriter fulfills a dream with the launch of E.P. ‘Circles’, composed with eye-movement software EyeGaze and E-scape. Performance in collaboration with Togher Music Project.
- MKAI & Heroes in Hiding @ Cyprus Avenue (8pm, €10)
A double-bill of indie-pop featuring Cork outfit MKAI and Dublin radio-troublers Heroes in Hiding. Support from Mitchelstown upstarts Subject to Change.
- August Wells @ Levis’ of Ballydehob (8pm, pass-the-hat)
Veteran duo continue their run through Cork county this week with an Over the Shop Counter gig in Levis’.
- Citrus feat. Gavin Elsted @ Bar Pigalle (8pm, free)
Lumo Club musketeer and Adultrock/Super Extra Bonus Party man headlines this month’s Citrus night at the Barrack St. bar, alongside the resident duo.
- Benoit Pioulard @ Gulpd Cafe (9pm, €12.50)
U.S. ambient composer/songwriter tours new album ‘Listening Matter’ (Narcologue). Support from ambient improv duo Wry Myrrh (Irene Buckley/ELLL).
SUNDAY MARCH 5TH:
- Benjamin Francis Leftwich @ Cyprus Avenue (8pm, €15)
York singer-songwriter returns to Cork for a long-awaited Cyprus Avenue date.
- Liam Frost @ Levis’ of Ballydehob (8pm, pass-the-hat)
UK journeyman returns to Ballydehob for the first time since the venue’s Secret Song festival in 2015.
- Cry Monster Cry @ Coughlan’s (9pm, €10)
Donegal folk brother-duo return to Coughlan’s, fresh off the broadcast of their Other Voices appearance last week.
