Nov 29th - Dec 4th

Hey everyone,

Hopefully everybody got to hear some of the last week's great array of music in Cork - we had a great night with the National Symphony Orchestra in City Hall on Thursday and reports from the Crash Ensemble / Iarla O Lionaird were great I was very sorry to miss it (I gather they brought the house down at Ionad Cultúrtha in Ballyvourney on Friday night for their last concert of the project). I'm sure everyone who enjoyed Hadasha either in the last week or during the summer will wish them the very best in future projects.

Congratulations to those lucky lads that last week won tickets from the blog version of this mail for the Boban Markovich Orckestar on Saturday the 8th - it is going to be a massive blast of a gig and will not come our way again so put it in your diaries lads, it'll be a ripper... And now for this week!


Thursday 29th


8pm Aula Maxima, UCC - We're delighted to celebrate the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet's 21st anniversary of their residency in Cork tonight when they will be joined by Internationally-renowned cellist Ralph Kirschbaum for Schubert's C major quintet - it's taken me a while but in recent years I have finally got over my schoolyard dislike of Schubert, based solely on the version of the Trout Quintet that we had to listen to endlessly in school. I now realise Schubert rocks. This quintet was, I think, his last instrumental work, written when he was just about my age and dying a horrible death from syphillis - this is important because it permeates his music (the Radiohead of the early 19th-century maybe?), he's grappling with the ultimate emotions and themes - horror and fear, beauty and madness... The concert will also include 3 brand-new miniatures commissioned for the occasion from Irish composers Deirdre Gribbin, Seóirse Bodley and Ronan Guilfoyle.




Friday 30th -

8pm Charlie's Bar -Eileen Healy, Eoin O'Regan & Harmonica Neil should be a good Friday night folk session.

10pm Liquid Lounge - Electronica heads will be getting off on Bonobo(ninjatune-uk)+Kevin Blake(electric Underground) check out http//www.myspace.com/elecunderground for more.

10pm Spailpin Fanac - Doubletime's on - grab your dancin' shoes and get on down to Gary Baus's choice of all the best in swing music - good things happen here...


Saturday 1st -

8pm Triskel - New York-based Indian saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa joins Indo-Dutch drummer and Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle to form the MSG trio, bringing together Eastern and jazz musics together in what promises to be a seriously other-worldly experience. Rhythm-fiends and melody hawks will all be well-catered for - if you can't quite swing a foreign holiday this weekend this should make an excellent alternative.


8.30pm - Cyprus Avenue - The always exciting Kíla are on and will likely cause a happy musical riot with their unique blend of traditional Irish, World and rock musics- they're playing tomorrow too...




Sunday 2nd -

8.30pm - Cyprus Avenue - The always exciting Kíla are on and will likely cause a happy musical riot with their unique blend of traditional Irish, World and rock musics- they're playing Saturday too...



Tuesday 4th -

9pm - The Tikki Lounge- Talk about bang for your buck! A free triple bill featuring Roy The Beef, Charlie Dont Surf And Lamp