TRAD
Scoil Cheoil An Earraigh
Halla na Feothnaí, Feothanach, Dingle, Co Kerry 8pm €15/€10 scoilcheoil.com
This concert is a humdinger, with Seamus Begley and Steve Cooney, Brendan Power, Síle Denvir, Thomas McCarthy and Javier Ramos: a multicultural delight. Skin and hair may well fly, as will sparks from the floor. Sessions will inevitably follow in various venues in Ballyferriter.
JAZZ
Abigail Smith
Bello Bar, Portobello, Dublin 8pm €10 eventbrite.ie/abigailsmith.ie
Composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Smith drew extravagant praise for her 2009 debut album, Night Time Walking, with its quirky blend of jazz, classical and indy pop. She launches the follow-up, Fall Into Silence, with an ensemble of strings, drums and her own Kate Bush-meets-Björk-meets- Cocteau Twins vocals.
PSYCH ROCK
Exploding Eyes
Bello Bar, Dublin 8pm €15
Formed nearly two years ago by members of a few bands you may have heard of (The Things, Humanzi, Cheap Freaks), Dublin's Exploding Eyes deliver the kind of urgent psych-rock you've wanted to hear since you last listened to Spooky Tooth and early song-era Brian Eno. Guests tonight include Wild Rocket and Twinkranes.
CLUB
Pogo
Twisted Pepper, Dublin 10.30pm €12/€10 bodytonicmusic.com
A night of many sides on Middle Abbey Street. Topping the bill are The Horrors in DJ mode. Some of these Horrors have been behind some excellent trippy psych-rock albums in recent years and will be on spinmaster duties at Pogo. The other headliner is Dan Shake (left), the Leeds producer whose soulful Afro-dipped house has found a home on Moodymann's Mahogani Music label. Support from Gib Cassidy of Girls Names and Al Murphy of Loose Ends, respectively.
HOUSE
Hidden Agenda
Opium Rooms, Dublin 11pm €15/€12 hiddenagenda.ie
Another quality double bill in the capital with Black Coffee and Bill Brewster. Black Coffee is South Africa's Nkosinathi Maphumulo, the producer behind a string of stirring house cuts, albums (such as 2009's Home Brewed) and projects such as the Africa Rising show. Brewster is the co-author of seminal DJ culture history book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, a former chef and the former co-editor of football fanzine When Saturday Comes. For his DJ set in the Garden, expect charming, dashing sounds to come your way.
UNDERGROUND
Small Talk
The Pint, Dublin 10pm €15 facebook.com/SmallTalkDublin
For Small Talk's first soiree of 2015, they have extended an invitation to Utrecht house and techno collective SlapFunk, who will put on their first Irish night. The Dutch contingent will feature Anil Aras, Julian Alexander and Larry de Kat, with Small Talk luminaries including Jasmine Azarian, Sam McGrath, Finbar Robbins, Paddy Fitzpatrick and Colm Brophy also on the bill.
HOMEGROWN
RePublik
Crystal, Waterford 10.30pm €12/€10 republikmusic.net
It's a good night for Berlin- based Irishmen in the southeast, as RePublik bring The Drifter and Chymera to John Street. The Drifter is Mark Flynn, a producer with releases to his credit for John Talabot's Permanent Vacation label. The Maeve imprint, which he helms with Mano Le Tough and Baikal, has shown its wares at Ibiza's Space, at Trouw Amsterdam and Berghain in Berlin. Chymera is Corkman Brendan Gregory, a musician with a long pedigree going back to his 2005 debut album Everybody Dies… Even Horses. Since then, he's upped the ante with releases for labels such as Delsin, Ovum, Coccon and many more.
