FUNK IT!
Chic ft Nile Rodgers
Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 5pm €51.15
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Where to start? He is co-founder of Chic and collaborator with the likes of David Bowie, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, Disclosure, and many, many more. So, you want songs to dance all night long to? You got ’em. You want the Hit Man? You got ’im, too.
LEGEND
Nicky Siano
Pygmalion, Dublin 9pm €10
Nicky Siano is the New Yorker whose backstory reads like the story of house music itself. Siano was reared at David Mancuso’s Loft parties, and his work at The Gallery in the mid-1970s put his name up in lights as a DJ with real style, flamboyance and musical intensity. He later DJed at such Big Apple favourites as Studio 54, Le Jardin and Body & Soul, but The Gallery is what defined him, as the “Nicky Siano’s Gallery Classics” compilation from a few years ago shows.
SOUL
Van Morrison
The Marquee, Cork 7.30pm
65.45-75
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Showing no signs of powering down as he approaches his 70th birthday, Ireland’s most influential living artist is still its most inscrutable. If you don’t get the fuss, then you probably haven’t seen him live. Rarely does a performer slip into the sublime so easily. Never change, Mr M.
