last gigs of 2007

Tuesday 18th
9.30 - Charlie's - Tonight is Charlie's Christmas Party, with music from regulars Hank and Ray - if you felt your hangover wasn't up to your colleagues' this morning I recommend hotfooting it down there tonight and you're bound to have the most impressive tomorrow. I might have to get down for a copule to get in training for our office party tomorrow...


Wednesday 19th

8.30 The Crane Lane - The Roaring Forties are in residence bringing a whole lot of seasonal jive, hard to beat for conjuring up good cheer.


Thursday 20th

12.30pm-1.30 The Glucksman Gallery - Free gig this one - The Quiet Club will be bringing christmas presence to gallery visitors. The Quiet Club core members Danny Mcarthy and Mick O'Shea will be joined by regular collaborators Harry Moore,and John Godfrey and Christian Carley to explore the quiet side of christmas using stones, home made instruments, electronics, amplified textures, oscilloscopes, thermins (what the hell is a thermin?), and field recordings. Less than a year in existence, the lads have been turning up at festivals across Ireland and abroad, their first recording will be available there.

8pm Cork School of Music - One of Ireland's best choirs, Cork-based Madrigal '75 present a Christmas concert to rival the gorgeous one we heard from the NCC on Sunday, accented by some fine musicians and poetry readings the core music will be a selection early carols.


8.30 The Crane Lane - The Roaring Forties

9.45 The Corner House - Ray Barron and Two-Time Polka will be raisin' the roof at a free gig in the corner house with plenty of Cajun spirit.



Friday 21st

6-8pm The Clarion Hotel atrium - The Cork Chamber Choir will be singing our little hearts out for you, come and join us for a drink and a few carols after work?

10pm The Liquid Lounge - On a whole nother tip you'll find the coolest haircuts and best looking girls at Electric Underground's Xmas bash with one of the most taked-about bands in the country the year, Super Extra Bonus Party.


Saturday 22nd

8pm Everyman Palace - John Spillane

8pm Cyprus Avenue - The Redneck Manifesto come to Cork to share that special sound of theirs

10pm Liquid Lounge -Club Ping Pong celebrate Christmas with Rest


Sunday 23rd

8.30 Cyprus Avenue Corksongs Christmas Party with local musos with Random Friend Selecter (what's got our mate Ruth in), Honest Spud Leonard, Eoin Jordan & Kevin Murphy

10.45 The Slate I don't as a rule include DJs here, but seeing as how there'll be alot of people looking to party as late as possible on the 23rd I said I'd let you know that Ian Richards will be playing a nice mix of soul and world music...


Monday 24th

9.30 Charlie's Hank n' Ray will be back good on em to see you through til Midnight Mass...


Tuesday 25th

All day Your Gaff - Slurred carols, raised voices, clinking glasses and slamming doors.


Wednesday 26th

9pm The Whisky (formerly the Phoenix) - Led Zeppelin tribute band Black Dog (there are several of these around the planet but I can't find anything about this one except that it consists of Terence O' Connor, Paul Hannon, Hugh Dillon, Mike Geaney and Gary Pearson.


Saturday 29th

10pm Charlie's I still haven't heard 'em live yet but I know a couple of the members of bluegrassfolksters The Critters and they've got to be a helluvalot of fun live, they are also bound to bring some serious party spirit with them - if I'm still alive after this hen party you can count me in...



Monday 31st

9pm Cyprus Avenue - 2007 not quite everything you'd hoped? Need a little lift in spirits after a trying Christmas? Ain't nobody never didn't come out of a Fred gig down in the dumps this one'l surely be a cracker


Thurs 3rd Jan

8pm Meade's Wine Bar (55 Oliver Plunket St I think) - Exclusive Info! John O'Brien, Hugh McCarthy and Clare-Ann Lynch have been tackling the fiery romance of Astor Piazzolla's tangos and are giving their first performance in this lovely rough-round-the-edges bar under the name of Trio Nuevo. This should be a right little cracker - come in for a great big glass of the delicious house Malbec which I think is also Argentinian if memory serves me right (ha! unlikely coming out of that joint...) and let your mind wander to the lusty dirt of downtown Buenos Aires.



Enjoy the season!

x Nicki