November 8th...

Hello Cork gig-goers,

I've been lax recently with my giglist - there was so much going on around the jazz and I didn't want to get accused of plugging my own interests (no need as it turned out, Clear Sky sold out again!)... There's some really good stuff going on this week so I said I'd let you know....

Thursday 8th
3 to choose from, a bit of a killer really to be honest....

8pm Aula Maxima UCC - The Vanbrugh Quartet will be playing the unforgettably brilliant Different Trains by Steve Reich if you haven't heard this seminal piece of 20th-century music then this is a fantastic opportunity - briefly, the piece uses lots of prerecorded stuff on trains, juxtaposing the trains that transported jews in the holocaust with the US train journeys the composer made as a child - there's a layer of prerecorded quartet on top of that (they'll be using the Kronos Quartet version) and then on top of that you have the quartet playing - the music comes out of speech recordings and train sounds, it's hard to explain but fantastic to hear - check out this for a taster . They're also playing 2 gorgeous string quartets by Schubert. This concert will be brought to you by uz in the Cork Orchestral Society. €18 (members €12)

8pm Liquid Lounge - Charles Hayward, who I gather is a kick-ass drummer of the highest order will be headlining a triple bill with Safe and someone listed as KFDS. Dunno how much this is, it's not listed on the Liquid Lounge website.

8.45 Roundy - For the adventurous among you we in the Cork Music Collective are holding a Triple Bill, I think I can get away with quoting my own publicity here..."The triple headline is representative of the collective's work, featuring two very different performances from local projects and a third from out of town—Birmingham's Bruce Coates and 3xe. Opening the concert will be the launch of Stet Lab, a project arising from a new and innovative partnership with UCC's Music Department and the brainchild of improvisation tutor Han-earl Park. Stet Lab provides a unique space for improvising musicians from all backgrounds to meet and work together. A curated jam-session, it aims to provide a public platform where music can "mutate, diversify and hybridise", offering the unique excitement of hearing music at the moment it's created. Spank, an established local act, brings an uncompromising hard edge to his original electro-acoustic blues in highly-charged stage performances. His influences, from Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf and Captain Beefheart to PJ Harvey and Patti Smith give a clue to his world but this man's material is very much his own. From Birmingham, saxophonist Bruce Coates has been heavily involved with free jazz, free improvisation and experimental music for more than 15 years. Co-founder of the Birmingham Improvisers' Orchestra and a veteran recording artist he will work with a specially-formed band, 3xe, responding to the unique situation." Just €10 folks, or €5 if you're a CMC member.

Phew.

Ok, so that's Thursday...

Friday 9th -

8pm - Cork School of Music God's gift to classical music in Cork this year, the Irish Chamber Orchestra are back for the next in their residency series. Happily word has finally caught on, there was a queue the length of the School of Music for tickets last time they played - this one's a real crowd pleaser with easy-on-the-eye soprano Ailish Tynan joining them for Purcell, Prokofiev, Britten, Fauré and Tchikovsky.

Saturday 10th -

1pm - Cork School of Music Hear James Taylor (er, not not that one, the other one) play the school of music organ - a mixture of old and new organ music I'd say this'll blow any Friday night hangover to kingdom come... €10/5 i think.

8pm - Cork Opera House - Jack L's playing, can't ever say he's not damn good, tickets are probably fairly steep though...

10pm - Liquid Lounge Club Ping Pong have White Mice (Cheezuz Saves) for your ... I was going to say delectation but I just followed the link to their myspace... (shudders) not for the faint at heart




Please allow me a few moments to plug something in the future again -

Wed 21 Nov 2007

100% Music Table Quiz For Darfur

Spailpin Fanach, South Main Street

8:30 pm - Admission €20 per table of four

Cork Music Collective presents the 100% Table Music Quiz in support of CHF International's work in Darfur. 10 rounds of music questions covering all genres and including a live guess-that-tune round with a difference from our house band. Live music, loads of craic, plenty of prizes and all in support of a really worthwhile cause.... To book a table, please contact Mary on 086-8277296.

www.corkmusiccollective.com & http://www.chfinternational.org/section/darfurstov

086 8277 296

That's it for now, hope to catch ye out and about.... let me know if you love/hate anything in particular...