Oh dear I hope I'm not too late for feedburner to drop this into your inboxes and tell ye about Dog Tail Soup tonight (Friday 12th) in de Crane Lane. Our Cork-by-association cellist friend Bertrand will be in the line-up, probably Marja too, so there'll be every reason to get there early and enjoy the kind of atmosphere that only happens with rare and treasured gigs. Fergus O'Farrell's (whose band Interference's CD Gold is one I sorely regret leaving in the lobby of the Town Hall theatre in Galway) project will also feature a new bass player from up North who they're excited about by the name of Gareth Hughes.
Ger Wolfe (who might be kind enough to put some more tracks on his myspace? I know, I know, buy the album...) is on in the Pavillion on Sunday 14th round 9 with the Skylarks in a Christmas special that really will be.
The Skatalites are on in the Pavillion on Wednesday 17th the tickets are in Plug'd records.
WHICH REMINDS ME! I think it's time I gave our exciting new project at work a well-deserved plug. It's Culture Vouchers man. (You, ahem, might have seen them mentioned in the Irish Times or the Evening Echo?). A gift voucher good for all the shows and gigs and everything else we do at Civic Trust House and with each voucher comes a beautiful calendar-diary jobbie designed by the rather brilliant Robin Foley of Sponge Design. They're available from me or Plugd records or the Crawford Gallery Cafe or the 12 Days of Christmas fair in the Bodega which opens on Saturday for guess-how-long, looks to be chocka and very good fun. I'll be in there selling from time to time...
and I have 2 tickets to give away for I concert I'm looking forward to on Sunday 21st, my last day in Cork before I head off to family christmas zone! The National Chamber Choir, I think our only true professional choir in the country, (though I may be wrong, I hope I am) they're singing Britten's Ceremony of carols, his music is often really beautiful but interesting too and folk-carol settings too. It'll be a nice seasonal treat I can assure. Mail me at nickiffrench@gmail.com if you want to go in a draw - it's not until Sunday 21st at 1pm in the Schol of Music so there's plenty of time, but I'll make the draw probably Monay afternoon so you have time to make arrangements.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Upcoming gigs in Cork
Finding it hard to get back into this - truth is I'm extra-busy these days since joining the double bass section of the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra on top of everything else. It's a touch depressing being both the oldest and the worst but sure you have to start somewhere, I can only improve!I had my first concert with them on Saturday - good buzz. Tonight we're recording a film soundtrack (featuring John Martyn - rockin huh!).
Thanks to everyone who came to see the Stockhausen gig (jayz is that really the last time I posted? oops) I hope you enjoyed it - it was a great crowd and such a turnout definitely helps pave the way for expanding future Cork Orchestral Society programmes so double thanks. Myself I have to say I enjoyed it maybe even more than I expected to and I know that Pascal and Xenia were well impressed with the size of their Cork crowd.
Ok upcoming gigs:
Wednesday 3rd
9pm The Pavillion The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - an awful lot of funky fun, get down http://www.myspace.com/hypnoticbusiness
Thursday 4th
1.35pm Honan Chapel,UCC Cantus Choralis, the UCC Music Dept's Chamber Choir with students of the Department’s Early Music Ensemble & Renaissance Vocal Ensemble will give a performance, programme to be anounced. It's free but please don't come late as it is part-exam so latecomers could not only disturb everyone in there including the musicians (what's new) but also affect their results.
Saturday 6th
3-5pm Cork Vision Centre The Cork Chamber Choir will give a free carols recital (and make a collection for Shine, the autism support org). We have a really nice sound now, some great new voices joined in the last little while, nice big sound - come and hear us! www.myspace.com/corkchamberchoir (recordings now a little out-of-date ;-) )
Sunday 7th
7pm An Crúibín nb. if you haven't been yet this is the new life of the old Lobby bar and serves almost certainly the best tapas in Cork Sunfish (that'd be Harry Moore and Tony Langlois) will be performing with guest Nora Salmon - experimental electronica and general good fun. www.myspace.com/sunfishsounds
Monday 8th
9pm The Roundy the last STeT Lab of the year, the monthly free improv event. Special guest Bruce Coates on sax (who played the first ever Stet in 2007). www.busterandfriends.com/stet/
Tuesday 9th
8.30pm The Pavillion Those who missed the Super Stan Goes Country gig at the Spiegeltent in June (and those many who had a fine time meself included) get to hear something similar in aid of the rather fantastic Mayfield Community Arts Centre. A bargain at €10!
Wednesday 10th
7pm Bodega Where's me Rights? - Massive event organised by the Ethical Development Association to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (surely one of the most significant achievements of our civilisation?). Free music (from Niwel Tsumbu, Aaron Dillon, Sudense Drum Talk, Brian Deady & Band), free food, loads of other stuff, will be great.
sorry no time for more, have to eat before rehearsal... oh look I had this one done already
Sunday 14th
8pm City Hall The Locrian Ensemble, an ensemble of top Irish classical musicians based in London give a period-costumed Christmas performance of carol arrangements 'The spirit of Christmas by candlelight'. Tickets €25/20 from Pro-Musica
now I definitely have to leggit
Thanks to everyone who came to see the Stockhausen gig (jayz is that really the last time I posted? oops) I hope you enjoyed it - it was a great crowd and such a turnout definitely helps pave the way for expanding future Cork Orchestral Society programmes so double thanks. Myself I have to say I enjoyed it maybe even more than I expected to and I know that Pascal and Xenia were well impressed with the size of their Cork crowd.
Ok upcoming gigs:
Wednesday 3rd
9pm The Pavillion The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - an awful lot of funky fun, get down http://www.myspace.com/hypnoticbusiness
Thursday 4th
1.35pm Honan Chapel,UCC Cantus Choralis, the UCC Music Dept's Chamber Choir with students of the Department’s Early Music Ensemble & Renaissance Vocal Ensemble will give a performance, programme to be anounced. It's free but please don't come late as it is part-exam so latecomers could not only disturb everyone in there including the musicians (what's new) but also affect their results.
8pm Aula Max, UCC The Vanbrugh Quartet's concert will be broadcast live on Lyric FM tonight so do make an extra special effort to come early as latecomers won't get in at all. In return you will get a really great concert (nothing difficlut here and special guest New York-based clarinettist Carol McGonnell) plus that extra special feeling that you're sharing it with thousands of radio listeners all over the country and beyond. Programme is - Mozart: String Quartet 'Dissonant'; Beethoven: String Quartet 'Serioso' and they will be joined by Carol McGonnell (clarinet) for Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Friday 5th
6pm Honan Chapel, UCC The premiere of John O'Brien's new string quartet towards a new enlightenment and the launch of the recording (which will be available for free download from www.enlightenmentquartet.com ). That'd be John that I was living with last year for those of you who are housecallers - will probably be quite lush I'd say. He'll love me saying that.
8.30 The Pavillion - 'Blues Aid' Sugar Ray Norcia, sh*t-hot harmonica player, is in town and guest of Alex Orelli and the Bluesmakers. Word has it that if you like the blues this is one not to miss I'll be there anyway, along with half the town by the looks of things, and it's all in aid of the Chernobyl Children's Project so €22.50 extremely well spent. http://www.myspace.com/sugarrayandthebluetones
11pm The Quad The langers Los Langeros are playing - old favourites and stuff from their new album in-the-making . Loud and fun. http://www.myspace.com/loslangeros
Friday 5th
6pm Honan Chapel, UCC The premiere of John O'Brien's new string quartet towards a new enlightenment and the launch of the recording (which will be available for free download from www.enlightenmentquartet.com ). That'd be John that I was living with last year for those of you who are housecallers - will probably be quite lush I'd say. He'll love me saying that.
8.30 The Pavillion - 'Blues Aid' Sugar Ray Norcia, sh*t-hot harmonica player, is in town and guest of Alex Orelli and the Bluesmakers. Word has it that if you like the blues this is one not to miss I'll be there anyway, along with half the town by the looks of things, and it's all in aid of the Chernobyl Children's Project so €22.50 extremely well spent. http://www.myspace.com/sugarrayandthebluetones
11pm The Quad The langers Los Langeros are playing - old favourites and stuff from their new album in-the-making . Loud and fun. http://www.myspace.com/loslangeros
Saturday 6th
3-5pm Cork Vision Centre The Cork Chamber Choir will give a free carols recital (and make a collection for Shine, the autism support org). We have a really nice sound now, some great new voices joined in the last little while, nice big sound - come and hear us! www.myspace.com/corkchamberchoir (recordings now a little out-of-date ;-) )
Sunday 7th
7pm An Crúibín nb. if you haven't been yet this is the new life of the old Lobby bar and serves almost certainly the best tapas in Cork Sunfish (that'd be Harry Moore and Tony Langlois) will be performing with guest Nora Salmon - experimental electronica and general good fun. www.myspace.com/sunfishsounds
Monday 8th
9pm The Roundy the last STeT Lab of the year, the monthly free improv event. Special guest Bruce Coates on sax (who played the first ever Stet in 2007). www.busterandfriends.com/stet/
Tuesday 9th
8.30pm The Pavillion Those who missed the Super Stan Goes Country gig at the Spiegeltent in June (and those many who had a fine time meself included) get to hear something similar in aid of the rather fantastic Mayfield Community Arts Centre. A bargain at €10!
Wednesday 10th
7pm Bodega Where's me Rights? - Massive event organised by the Ethical Development Association to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (surely one of the most significant achievements of our civilisation?). Free music (from Niwel Tsumbu, Aaron Dillon, Sudense Drum Talk, Brian Deady & Band), free food, loads of other stuff, will be great.
sorry no time for more, have to eat before rehearsal... oh look I had this one done already
Sunday 14th
8pm City Hall The Locrian Ensemble, an ensemble of top Irish classical musicians based in London give a period-costumed Christmas performance of carol arrangements 'The spirit of Christmas by candlelight'. Tickets €25/20 from Pro-Musica
now I definitely have to leggit
Monday, November 10, 2008
Cork on the cutting edge
Ok, so I'm sure pedants will snigger at my claim this week that Stockhausen and Herbie Hancock are cutting edge but come on lads - this is a pretty major week for music in the city with a bewildering array of good sheet. I won't burble at all for a change but will get right into the listings.
Monday 10th November
9pm The Roundy - STeT Lab's first birthday - damn it's probably a bit late to be telling you this cause there seems to be a time delay between my posting and emails coming into the boxes but this will be a particularly good night for this regular improv event, featuring Belfast-based saxophonist-improviser-theorist Franziska Schroeder. Anyway I'll be sticking an ear in meself.
Tuesday 11th November
8pm The Savoy - Herbie Hancock with a sextet that includes an extraordinarily good harmonica player Gregoire Maret. It was a relatively late booking and at the time of writing there were still a good few tickets left so if you don't have plans or they aren't essential I say part with €44 squid or so (at Plug'd or Ticketmaster.ie) and get down this is likely to be one of the gigs of the year. Several first-hand reports from people who have seen other shows on this tour have been raving about it. And it's a 2 1/2 hour show so serious value for money (I'll have to miss the first hour but sure feck it, it'll still be worth it for an hour and a half 'm sure!)
8pm Triskel - Jonathan Sage showcasing new works for clarinet and electronics... this young British clarinettist will be playing a huge variety of contemporary clarinet (and basset clarinet) music from composers across the world including Ireland. €16/18
8.30pm The Crane Lane - Edel O'Sullivan has put together a really impressive line-up of some of the best folk/tradsters around so if you like a little less blip and bash on your Tuesday than either of the other gigs I've listed this will be well worth a trip, sweet as a nut. €10/8 http://www.edelsullivan.com
Thursday 13th November
8pm School of Music - Stockhausen's MANTRA This is the last big gig of the year that I'm involved with and it's a pretty major deal, the first performance in Ireland of this extraordinary piece that calls for 2 grand pianos, electronics and percussion and 2 exceptional pianists to pull in off. Enter Xenia Pestova RU/NZ) and Pascal Meyer (Lux) - Pascal played brilliantly here a couple of years ago and we stayed in contact since. When he went off to Banff in Canada to work on this epic piece (there is a fantasically wacky desciption of it here probably par for the course it must be said) I swore we'd get it for Cork and now the big day is nearly here. While it's definitely not our usual Cork Orchestral Society fare I'm quietly confident there'll be a good turnout because there seems to be some people travelling to Cork for it and enquiries from people who don't know the venue. Anyway, not one for your Granny most likely but will be a fairly unforgettable sonic experience. €25/20 (€15-8 with membership).
9.30 Charlie's Bar - Don for Chickens - Everyone says he's hilarious, I've never seen him but worth a look if you want some free fun.
Friday 14th
1pm Aula Max, UCC - Geoff Deibel Another reed and electronics gig, this 'rising star of contemporary music' from Michigan will offer a variety of music for Saxophone and electronics from the past few decades including Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint and it's free, well worth a jaunt out to the college if you can fit it in. http://www.myspace.com/gdeibel
8pm Cyprus Avenue - Kíla One of Ireland's big International acts and also damn good but sure you know that already. Course if you haven't seen em, well here's another chance.
Incidentally, if you catch Jools Holland this week (Tuesday at 10pm or Friday at 11.40pm) check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops fronted by the gorgeous Rhiannon Giddens. Rhi just happens to be married to an old friend and she is very keen to play Cork. They're a pretty big act so it would be quite a major deal to get them here but when the spirit is willing ...and boy does that lady have some spirit. Anyway if you like em be sure and let me know so I can get canvassing the festivals and venues and see can we get them on their next tour).
That's it, see ya soon I hope...
Monday 10th November
9pm The Roundy - STeT Lab's first birthday - damn it's probably a bit late to be telling you this cause there seems to be a time delay between my posting and emails coming into the boxes but this will be a particularly good night for this regular improv event, featuring Belfast-based saxophonist-improviser-theorist Franziska Schroeder. Anyway I'll be sticking an ear in meself.
Tuesday 11th November
8pm The Savoy - Herbie Hancock with a sextet that includes an extraordinarily good harmonica player Gregoire Maret. It was a relatively late booking and at the time of writing there were still a good few tickets left so if you don't have plans or they aren't essential I say part with €44 squid or so (at Plug'd or Ticketmaster.ie) and get down this is likely to be one of the gigs of the year. Several first-hand reports from people who have seen other shows on this tour have been raving about it. And it's a 2 1/2 hour show so serious value for money (I'll have to miss the first hour but sure feck it, it'll still be worth it for an hour and a half 'm sure!)
8pm Triskel - Jonathan Sage showcasing new works for clarinet and electronics... this young British clarinettist will be playing a huge variety of contemporary clarinet (and basset clarinet) music from composers across the world including Ireland. €16/18
8.30pm The Crane Lane - Edel O'Sullivan has put together a really impressive line-up of some of the best folk/tradsters around so if you like a little less blip and bash on your Tuesday than either of the other gigs I've listed this will be well worth a trip, sweet as a nut. €10/8 http://www.edelsullivan.com
Thursday 13th November
8pm School of Music - Stockhausen's MANTRA This is the last big gig of the year that I'm involved with and it's a pretty major deal, the first performance in Ireland of this extraordinary piece that calls for 2 grand pianos, electronics and percussion and 2 exceptional pianists to pull in off. Enter Xenia Pestova RU/NZ) and Pascal Meyer (Lux) - Pascal played brilliantly here a couple of years ago and we stayed in contact since. When he went off to Banff in Canada to work on this epic piece (there is a fantasically wacky desciption of it here probably par for the course it must be said) I swore we'd get it for Cork and now the big day is nearly here. While it's definitely not our usual Cork Orchestral Society fare I'm quietly confident there'll be a good turnout because there seems to be some people travelling to Cork for it and enquiries from people who don't know the venue. Anyway, not one for your Granny most likely but will be a fairly unforgettable sonic experience. €25/20 (€15-8 with membership).
9.30 Charlie's Bar - Don for Chickens - Everyone says he's hilarious, I've never seen him but worth a look if you want some free fun.
Friday 14th
1pm Aula Max, UCC - Geoff Deibel Another reed and electronics gig, this 'rising star of contemporary music' from Michigan will offer a variety of music for Saxophone and electronics from the past few decades including Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint and it's free, well worth a jaunt out to the college if you can fit it in. http://www.myspace.com/gdeibel
8pm Cyprus Avenue - Kíla One of Ireland's big International acts and also damn good but sure you know that already. Course if you haven't seen em, well here's another chance.
Incidentally, if you catch Jools Holland this week (Tuesday at 10pm or Friday at 11.40pm) check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops fronted by the gorgeous Rhiannon Giddens. Rhi just happens to be married to an old friend and she is very keen to play Cork. They're a pretty big act so it would be quite a major deal to get them here but when the spirit is willing ...and boy does that lady have some spirit. Anyway if you like em be sure and let me know so I can get canvassing the festivals and venues and see can we get them on their next tour).
That's it, see ya soon I hope...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
getting back into things
Oops...
After an almost 3 month break I am pretty much ready to blog/mail again.
To those who have been emailing about my silence, texting for tips and plain old-fashioned asking me if I'm going to take it back up - well, hello again I did it.
By way of brief explanation and excuse - for the first month I was just enjoying spending a little more time reading and I saved myself for a blowout at the electric picnic where I heard a good bit though George Clinton & P-Funkadelic was all that really took my socks off. Then I had a briefish stint doing backing vocals with Brian Deady & his evolving band which was alot of fun and is getting on great, though I wasn't the lady for the job I'm afraid - a knock to the ego, but hey. I cheered myself up ith a season ticket to the Film Festival and the last few weeks have been about getting ready for the jazz festival, getting back into learning bass after a lazy summer and just surfing the music scene I guess...
My main reason for not taking things back up though was a feeling that I'm not managing what I set out to do. I really hoped that by passing on the info about all this great music happening under our noses a lot of readers/gig-goers would start trying out more types of music and support all the artists and producers and that I'd meet ye all at unexpected gigs - which yeah, happened a bit, but not as much as I'd hoped I guess. It's nice that people say "I really enjoyed your mail this week even though I didn't get to any of it" but well, it kind of got me down too.
Those mails can take ages! Surfing to make sure I know what's to choose from, then look up and listen to the people I haven't heard of, try and work out how to express the good stuff so you will want to go as much as I do and finally working out the formatting and stupid stuff... I don't like being whingey, but it was good to take a break. So now I'm going to try and come full circle. I am planning to take a break from gig-going so I can keep reading and getting to grips with the world outside music (I had no idea how fast things had deteriorated while I was growing up and we are living in times of such change my first love music is kind of put into perspective) - but my plan is to spend some of the extra time I have to list the gigs that I would go to in the hopes that you'll take my place at them and tell me how they were.
Sounds a bit pointless/crazy? Well if it doesn't work I'm sure I'll thing of something else.
...
The tips bit
There's not a whole lot of music in it but I really enjoyed the Irish premiere of Itsoseng (click for info) tonight. Not only is it a captivating performance, entertaining and really 'important' but it came along bang right when I'm reading the section on South Africa in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and it gives a real insight into life there in the last 15 years since the ANC wrested nominal power from the capitalist establishment (but had their hands so tied their commitments had no chance). And boy is it nice to see a great international show in town outside of a festival! Please support it! It's showing at the Everyman Palace every night until Sunday ie. Weds 29 - Sat 1st Nov, definitely worth stirring out after the jazz festival for.
Tomorrow (probably today when you read this) Wednesday October 29th I'm going to see Micah P Hinson who I didn't have the head for at the Electric Pincnic - I've become a big fan of his recordings though, kind of rough dark poetic folkish stuff... he's in Cyprus Avenue.
John O'Brien's production featuring Karen Underwood as Nina Simone I've heard is really great - back in the Half Moon Theatre on Saturday night at 9.30 ... I had a nice few minutes with the great Simone during the jazz festival thanks to a video screen, God what a pianist she was. The show's called The Nina in Me, a bit steep at €26 maybe but quality by all accounts.
And that's all you're getting from me this week but a few parish notices for musicians and artist-folk in general.
First, if you haven't checked out www.mutantspace.ie join the community and get collaborating...
Secondly, here's a thing - BOUTIQUE BULESQUE SEEKS PERFORMANCE & VISUAL ARTISTS
After three sell-out shows this year, Boutique Burlesque (www.myspace.com/boutiqueburlesque ) is taking place again on Wed. 26th of November in Cork's Crane Lane Theatre. Having developed the popular burlesque-themed club nights into a platform for new work, its organisers are now looking for artists interested in showcasing on the night. Previous gigs have featured as many as 25 performers/artists (musicians, dancers, comedians,
puppeteers, walkabout characters and visual artists) on a single night, and they are currently welcoming new applications to add to their programme.
After an almost 3 month break I am pretty much ready to blog/mail again.
To those who have been emailing about my silence, texting for tips and plain old-fashioned asking me if I'm going to take it back up - well, hello again I did it.
By way of brief explanation and excuse - for the first month I was just enjoying spending a little more time reading and I saved myself for a blowout at the electric picnic where I heard a good bit though George Clinton & P-Funkadelic was all that really took my socks off. Then I had a briefish stint doing backing vocals with Brian Deady & his evolving band which was alot of fun and is getting on great, though I wasn't the lady for the job I'm afraid - a knock to the ego, but hey. I cheered myself up ith a season ticket to the Film Festival and the last few weeks have been about getting ready for the jazz festival, getting back into learning bass after a lazy summer and just surfing the music scene I guess...
My main reason for not taking things back up though was a feeling that I'm not managing what I set out to do. I really hoped that by passing on the info about all this great music happening under our noses a lot of readers/gig-goers would start trying out more types of music and support all the artists and producers and that I'd meet ye all at unexpected gigs - which yeah, happened a bit, but not as much as I'd hoped I guess. It's nice that people say "I really enjoyed your mail this week even though I didn't get to any of it" but well, it kind of got me down too.
Those mails can take ages! Surfing to make sure I know what's to choose from, then look up and listen to the people I haven't heard of, try and work out how to express the good stuff so you will want to go as much as I do and finally working out the formatting and stupid stuff... I don't like being whingey, but it was good to take a break. So now I'm going to try and come full circle. I am planning to take a break from gig-going so I can keep reading and getting to grips with the world outside music (I had no idea how fast things had deteriorated while I was growing up and we are living in times of such change my first love music is kind of put into perspective) - but my plan is to spend some of the extra time I have to list the gigs that I would go to in the hopes that you'll take my place at them and tell me how they were.
Sounds a bit pointless/crazy? Well if it doesn't work I'm sure I'll thing of something else.
...
The tips bit
There's not a whole lot of music in it but I really enjoyed the Irish premiere of Itsoseng (click for info) tonight. Not only is it a captivating performance, entertaining and really 'important' but it came along bang right when I'm reading the section on South Africa in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and it gives a real insight into life there in the last 15 years since the ANC wrested nominal power from the capitalist establishment (but had their hands so tied their commitments had no chance). And boy is it nice to see a great international show in town outside of a festival! Please support it! It's showing at the Everyman Palace every night until Sunday ie. Weds 29 - Sat 1st Nov, definitely worth stirring out after the jazz festival for.
Tomorrow (probably today when you read this) Wednesday October 29th I'm going to see Micah P Hinson who I didn't have the head for at the Electric Pincnic - I've become a big fan of his recordings though, kind of rough dark poetic folkish stuff... he's in Cyprus Avenue.
John O'Brien's production featuring Karen Underwood as Nina Simone I've heard is really great - back in the Half Moon Theatre on Saturday night at 9.30 ... I had a nice few minutes with the great Simone during the jazz festival thanks to a video screen, God what a pianist she was. The show's called The Nina in Me, a bit steep at €26 maybe but quality by all accounts.
And that's all you're getting from me this week but a few parish notices for musicians and artist-folk in general.
First, if you haven't checked out www.mutantspace.ie join the community and get collaborating...
Secondly, here's a thing - BOUTIQUE BULESQUE SEEKS PERFORMANCE & VISUAL ARTISTS
After three sell-out shows this year, Boutique Burlesque (www.myspace.com/boutiqueburle
puppeteers, walkabout characters and visual artists) on a single night, and they are currently welcoming new applications to add to their programme.
Do you have something you are working on? Does the burlesque & cabaret theme inspire you? And would you like to test your show / performance / walkabout character / installation / work with a live audience?
Please contact Joya on:
E: boutiqueburlesque@gmail.com
Please contact Joya on:
E: boutiqueburlesque@gmail.com
T: 085 7770969
W: www.myspace.com/boutiqueburlesque
and finally
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE FOR MUSICIANS
Introductory Workshop
Firkin Crane Theatre, Shandon, Cork
Sunday 16. November @ 1pm – 5:30pm
Cost 50,-Euro
To book a place please ring 087-9584232 or email kathryn.doehner@gmail.com
W: www.myspace.com/
and finally
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE FOR MUSICIANS
Introductory Workshop
Firkin Crane Theatre, Shandon, Cork
Sunday 16. November @ 1pm – 5:30pm
Cost 50,-Euro
To book a place please ring 087-9584232 or email kathryn.doehner@gmail.com
The Alexander Technique forms a part of the professional practice of thousands of musicians worldwide and is an integral part of training at all leading music & drama teaching institutions around the globe. Practising the Alexander Technique, efficiency and freedom in movement are achieved minimising stress and strain often associated with music making.
Most musicians at some stage in their life experience some physical pain, tension in performance, stage fright or other anxiety, which can limit the playing of their instruments to the best of their ability.
In the long term professional musicians are just as likely to be permanently sidelined by an injury as professional football players. And amateur musicians are not immune from pain and injury either.During the workshop participants will become more aware of the structure and function of the body as it applies to playing music, learning how to make changes to become free of pain and injury.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
quick note
Hi lads,
I've been taking break from the music since a fantastic weekend at the Farmleigh Affair, surely the best free music event in the country thanks to the Improvised Music Company's imaginative and positive approach. There's been a few sessions and a project I'm involved with (backing vocals, as much fun as I'd imagined!) is beginning to take shape but nothing wildly out of the ordinary. Anyway, what I'm building up to is that I'll be taking a break from the listing blog as I'm not following things closely enough and am pretty busy. Sure there's hardly anyone going out at the moment anyway it seems - on holidays maybe, or saving for them or just enjoying the outdoors when the sun makes an appearance. Not to say there isn't lots of music to be had mind - but between whazon.com and peoplesrepublic you'll get most of the suss.
For now I'm going to do less manic music scheduling though I'm sure we'll bump into each other at gigs! On rainy nights (and there's been a few!) I am surfing wikipedia, and beating a small path through www.ted.com , and onebigtorrent.org and round about.
Back soon!
I've been taking break from the music since a fantastic weekend at the Farmleigh Affair, surely the best free music event in the country thanks to the Improvised Music Company's imaginative and positive approach. There's been a few sessions and a project I'm involved with (backing vocals, as much fun as I'd imagined!) is beginning to take shape but nothing wildly out of the ordinary. Anyway, what I'm building up to is that I'll be taking a break from the listing blog as I'm not following things closely enough and am pretty busy. Sure there's hardly anyone going out at the moment anyway it seems - on holidays maybe, or saving for them or just enjoying the outdoors when the sun makes an appearance. Not to say there isn't lots of music to be had mind - but between whazon.com and peoplesrepublic you'll get most of the suss.
For now I'm going to do less manic music scheduling though I'm sure we'll bump into each other at gigs! On rainy nights (and there's been a few!) I am surfing wikipedia, and beating a small path through www.ted.com , and onebigtorrent.org and round about.
Back soon!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Summer soundz
Summer isn't the time to be spending every evening racing from venue to venue as is my habit and I have devoted a little of my listening time to more outdoorsy pursuits - tonight sees my tag rugby team (the Multiple Scoregasms) compete in the final for the, er, much-coveted winners title in the beginners league out at Stiofain Naofa.
A whole heap of fresh air and fun was had at the Cork Cycling Festival last week too which turned out to be a great success altogether. We had the biggest turnout ever (I'd say) for the Critical Mass cycle (last Friday of every month from Daunt Square at 6pm) and the exhibition in the Unitarian Church had some cool stuff in it - good luck to sculptor Rob Ireson as he heads for 6 months to work in residence at Mantua. The cycling picnic was on of the nicest Sundays I've had this summer, messing around at the Atlantic Pond with a big gang and loadsa bikes, what more could you want? And the festival was not without its musical highlights. I heard not one but two (wildly different) versions of The Bells of Shandon - one from Hammy Hammond at the foot of the bells on his quirky Historical/musical tour on the Wednesday night, and one from Tony Desmond as we took time out to chill at Sli Cumann na mBan on Saturday evening. At the Pimp My Bike workshop on Saturday I jazzed up my steed with some homemade bells, thereby turning bumpy badly finished roads and potholes (the bain of my cycling life) into a source of jingly amusement - cycling arts how are ya. And the Red Singing Bikes was a gas highlight that I was delighted to be part of as we 12 performers raced round town with our great groaning pipes and pimped bikes just as shops were closing on Saturday night - looking forward to seeing the festival film in due course.
ok you want a few good musical tips for theis coming week? go on then, just a few....
Friday 1st
6.30pm, Sin É - I'm a regular at this great trad session but noticed that it wasn't as terrifyingly packed as usual last week (as in you can see the bar from the door) what with people making weekend trips, so now's a good time of year to head down. Messy as ever of course!
Monday 4th
11.30pm, Crane Lane - yes, it will be the night before back-to-work day but it has been impressed upon me in no uncertain terms that this free gig by cult hero Jeff Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com) is not one to miss so don't be saying you didn't know. This is the biggest band he's taken to Cork so far I understand... here's a video taster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSdZ_yZP8bk
Wednesday 6th
9pm, The Pavillion - Are they brilliant or what? Mick Flannery and John Spillane are playing a benefit gig for Free the Old Head of Kinsale. Definitely one to make a date for and I am happy to be a designated ticket outlet. Drop me a mail or call me and i'll be happy to sort you out with a ticket for the tidy sum of €15.
That's it for this week. See you next Wednesday!
A whole heap of fresh air and fun was had at the Cork Cycling Festival last week too which turned out to be a great success altogether. We had the biggest turnout ever (I'd say) for the Critical Mass cycle (last Friday of every month from Daunt Square at 6pm) and the exhibition in the Unitarian Church had some cool stuff in it - good luck to sculptor Rob Ireson as he heads for 6 months to work in residence at Mantua. The cycling picnic was on of the nicest Sundays I've had this summer, messing around at the Atlantic Pond with a big gang and loadsa bikes, what more could you want? And the festival was not without its musical highlights. I heard not one but two (wildly different) versions of The Bells of Shandon - one from Hammy Hammond at the foot of the bells on his quirky Historical/musical tour on the Wednesday night, and one from Tony Desmond as we took time out to chill at Sli Cumann na mBan on Saturday evening. At the Pimp My Bike workshop on Saturday I jazzed up my steed with some homemade bells, thereby turning bumpy badly finished roads and potholes (the bain of my cycling life) into a source of jingly amusement - cycling arts how are ya. And the Red Singing Bikes was a gas highlight that I was delighted to be part of as we 12 performers raced round town with our great groaning pipes and pimped bikes just as shops were closing on Saturday night - looking forward to seeing the festival film in due course.
ok you want a few good musical tips for theis coming week? go on then, just a few....
Friday 1st
6.30pm, Sin É - I'm a regular at this great trad session but noticed that it wasn't as terrifyingly packed as usual last week (as in you can see the bar from the door) what with people making weekend trips, so now's a good time of year to head down. Messy as ever of course!
Monday 4th
11.30pm, Crane Lane - yes, it will be the night before back-to-work day but it has been impressed upon me in no uncertain terms that this free gig by cult hero Jeff Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com) is not one to miss so don't be saying you didn't know. This is the biggest band he's taken to Cork so far I understand... here's a video taster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSdZ_yZP8bk
Wednesday 6th
9pm, The Pavillion - Are they brilliant or what? Mick Flannery and John Spillane are playing a benefit gig for Free the Old Head of Kinsale. Definitely one to make a date for and I am happy to be a designated ticket outlet. Drop me a mail or call me and i'll be happy to sort you out with a ticket for the tidy sum of €15.
That's it for this week. See you next Wednesday!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Global talent in Cork this week!
Hello friends,
Well thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday night to Cyprus Avenue for helping make it a lovely evening altogether. A real nice mix of music and people, hopefully we can do something similar again soon. Those who missed Samuel James will have a last chance to see him tonight as he's playing the late gig in the Crane Lane after Alabama 3 and PLEASE if you know anyone in Clonakilty please let them know he's playing in De Barra's tomorrow.
I didn't post any review on the West Cork Chamber Music Festival as I was a bit frazzled with Sam coming over. It was a lovely week as ever though I must confess I became increasingly downhearted about our audience profile - they are all lovely don't get me wrong, fantastically loyal and enthusiastic and friendly - but where is everyone under 50? Compared to audiences for classical music in Cork it has a whiff of the cruise ship and yet the team working on it is so cool and young and fun - and in terms of music the festival is WAY more groundbreaking and contemporary than most of what's available in the city.I dunno, I suppose it has to do with the location and timing more than anything.
Musically it was one of the best I've seen, though. The Irish premiére of Gorecki's second quartet was magical at a late night concert in the church in the hands of the stunning Royal String Quartet from Poland. The Royal quartet played many of my favourite performances in the festival - their job on Mozart's G major Quartet K.387 was a perfect pleasure for me , I don't think I'd heard it before but in their hands it seemed the funniest, sweetest most brilliantly conceived piece ever. I was delighted to hear some more good Greif (groan, it was better than good anyway) and to discover some great female composers - Poland's Grazyna Bacewicz, Lera Auerbach from Russia, Estonian/Ukraninian Galina Grigorjeva and visiting composer Vanessa Lann (who has a myspace with her more experimentl stuff on it). One piece that blew me away was Lua Descolorida by Osvaldo Goljov who was born in Argentina of Jewish Ukranian & Romanian parents - I'll be downloading that one today now I think of it. So in all alot of what was really special for me came from Eastern Europe which has given me some ideas for holidays next year I can tell you.
One of the biggest highlights of the festival for me was that a kind bike shop owner called Nigel had sposored 10 bikes for the festival's use which made things really pleasant - musicians, audience and festival workers were all making use of them and having great fun.
Which leads me nicely into a plug for the Cork Cycling Arts Festival which runs 21-27th July next week - there's an exhibition, Film Nights (Feature, Documentary and Shorts) as well as lots of different tours. Check out the website for the programme and be sure and be on your bike next Friday in Daunt Square for what will hopefully be the biggest Critical Mass cycle in Cork yet. The picnic on Sunday 27th will definitely be a fun one too...
Ok tips for the next week:
Wednesday 16th
Crane Lane, Alabama 3 is, I believe, sold out, but you can sample the atmosphere afterwards and take your last chance to hear my new friend Samuel James at 11.30.
Thursday 17th
Glucksmann Gallery, 6pm It's a while since I had the opportunity to plug a free gig and it's always a special pleasure. There is a serious lack of Indian music being performed live in Cork so I'm delighted to see a duo under the name of Komal giving a performance of Sufi Chant and Traditional Indian music. Rajpal Khosla from Punjab, India studied with Sufi singer Ustad Prem Raza of the Patiala Gharana for over 10 years. He will perform both traditional and modern compositions on vocals & the Indian Harmonium accompanied by honorary Corkman (originally from Punjab too) Raj Padam on the tabla. I'll have to miss it as I'm flying home for my sister's wedding but you would be crazy to!
Friday 18th
Dervish (that nice hippy shop next to the Bodega), Upstairs, 7pm There's another chance to enjoy that gorgeous Indian music if you can't make Thursday - go on, forego the after work Friday drinks - have a bite in the Eastern Tandoori on Emmet Place instead and head over to the gentle surroundings of Dervish and let yourself be transported across the globe. Indian music, for me, speaks directly with your inner being, you don't need to know anything about it, just be open and let it happen.
Monday 21st
Cork Opera House, 8pm There is a big move on to see Tinariwen at Cork Opera House where they'll be taking the seats out so we can truly let loose to this Touareg rock from Mali - the tickets are steep at €30 but what you get is a world-class act unlike any other that literally EVERYONE has been talking about. I won't bother banging on about them as there is quotes from all the top International press on their website www.tinariwen.com and music on their myspace www.myspace.com/tinariwen.
See you there!
xc
Well thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday night to Cyprus Avenue for helping make it a lovely evening altogether. A real nice mix of music and people, hopefully we can do something similar again soon. Those who missed Samuel James will have a last chance to see him tonight as he's playing the late gig in the Crane Lane after Alabama 3 and PLEASE if you know anyone in Clonakilty please let them know he's playing in De Barra's tomorrow.
I didn't post any review on the West Cork Chamber Music Festival as I was a bit frazzled with Sam coming over. It was a lovely week as ever though I must confess I became increasingly downhearted about our audience profile - they are all lovely don't get me wrong, fantastically loyal and enthusiastic and friendly - but where is everyone under 50? Compared to audiences for classical music in Cork it has a whiff of the cruise ship and yet the team working on it is so cool and young and fun - and in terms of music the festival is WAY more groundbreaking and contemporary than most of what's available in the city.I dunno, I suppose it has to do with the location and timing more than anything.
Musically it was one of the best I've seen, though. The Irish premiére of Gorecki's second quartet was magical at a late night concert in the church in the hands of the stunning Royal String Quartet from Poland. The Royal quartet played many of my favourite performances in the festival - their job on Mozart's G major Quartet K.387 was a perfect pleasure for me , I don't think I'd heard it before but in their hands it seemed the funniest, sweetest most brilliantly conceived piece ever. I was delighted to hear some more good Greif (groan, it was better than good anyway) and to discover some great female composers - Poland's Grazyna Bacewicz, Lera Auerbach from Russia, Estonian/Ukraninian Galina Grigorjeva and visiting composer Vanessa Lann (who has a myspace with her more experimentl stuff on it). One piece that blew me away was Lua Descolorida by Osvaldo Goljov who was born in Argentina of Jewish Ukranian & Romanian parents - I'll be downloading that one today now I think of it. So in all alot of what was really special for me came from Eastern Europe which has given me some ideas for holidays next year I can tell you.
One of the biggest highlights of the festival for me was that a kind bike shop owner called Nigel had sposored 10 bikes for the festival's use which made things really pleasant - musicians, audience and festival workers were all making use of them and having great fun.
Which leads me nicely into a plug for the Cork Cycling Arts Festival which runs 21-27th July next week - there's an exhibition, Film Nights (Feature, Documentary and Shorts) as well as lots of different tours. Check out the website for the programme and be sure and be on your bike next Friday in Daunt Square for what will hopefully be the biggest Critical Mass cycle in Cork yet. The picnic on Sunday 27th will definitely be a fun one too...
Ok tips for the next week:
Wednesday 16th
Crane Lane, Alabama 3 is, I believe, sold out, but you can sample the atmosphere afterwards and take your last chance to hear my new friend Samuel James at 11.30.
Thursday 17th
Glucksmann Gallery, 6pm It's a while since I had the opportunity to plug a free gig and it's always a special pleasure. There is a serious lack of Indian music being performed live in Cork so I'm delighted to see a duo under the name of Komal giving a performance of Sufi Chant and Traditional Indian music. Rajpal Khosla from Punjab, India studied with Sufi singer Ustad Prem Raza of the Patiala Gharana for over 10 years. He will perform both traditional and modern compositions on vocals & the Indian Harmonium accompanied by honorary Corkman (originally from Punjab too) Raj Padam on the tabla. I'll have to miss it as I'm flying home for my sister's wedding but you would be crazy to!
Friday 18th
Dervish (that nice hippy shop next to the Bodega), Upstairs, 7pm There's another chance to enjoy that gorgeous Indian music if you can't make Thursday - go on, forego the after work Friday drinks - have a bite in the Eastern Tandoori on Emmet Place instead and head over to the gentle surroundings of Dervish and let yourself be transported across the globe. Indian music, for me, speaks directly with your inner being, you don't need to know anything about it, just be open and let it happen.
Monday 21st
Cork Opera House, 8pm There is a big move on to see Tinariwen at Cork Opera House where they'll be taking the seats out so we can truly let loose to this Touareg rock from Mali - the tickets are steep at €30 but what you get is a world-class act unlike any other that literally EVERYONE has been talking about. I won't bother banging on about them as there is quotes from all the top International press on their website www.tinariwen.com and music on their myspace www.myspace.com/tinariwen.
See you there!
xc
Friday, July 11, 2008
1-2-3 sorry it's so short...
Hi all,
I haven't had a chance to post this week what with trying to catch up with myself after my 10 days at the Bantry festival. My lickle sister is getting married next weekend and I am rehearsing with a few friends as we're singin in da church so all busy busy. No time to post a full tips this week but the next one will go onto http://www.corklivemusic.blogspot.com/ as planned so do sign up if you want to get it.
3 things I wanted to say tho...
1. Two-time Polka are launching their new CD tonight 7-9 in the Crane Lane should be a barrel of fun.
2. I'm organising this gig tomorrow night, it'll be a lot of fun so if you are not going to Oxegen, Kinsale or Carrigaline come on down to Cyprus Avenue for an evening of great music and good craic. Samuel James is, as I type, in the baggage collection area of Cork Airport - he's come all the way from Portland, Maine to share his music - please come and support! And afterwards Harry J, Niwel and Rory will have some sweet reggae harmonies to bring the sunshine even if HAARP is determined to keep the rain falling on us til our spirits are so sodden we'll do anything... It's at 9pm tomorrow Saturday 12th and is €10 in.
3. Some of you may not be familiar with Cork Autonomous Zone on Barrack Street. It's a special place where various community, activist and creative groups meet as well as being home to Barracka Books bookshop. The space is rented and everyone who uses it makes a small contribution to its cost. The space could be used alot more though so if you need space for something or would like to meet people who are using it and help them decide on CAZ's direction come along next wednesday 16th at 8.30pm. As Niwel would say, it's an open sea, no sharks or jellyfish...
x Nicki
I haven't had a chance to post this week what with trying to catch up with myself after my 10 days at the Bantry festival. My lickle sister is getting married next weekend and I am rehearsing with a few friends as we're singin in da church so all busy busy. No time to post a full tips this week but the next one will go onto http://www.corklivemusic.
3 things I wanted to say tho...
1. Two-time Polka are launching their new CD tonight 7-9 in the Crane Lane should be a barrel of fun.
2. I'm organising this gig tomorrow night, it'll be a lot of fun so if you are not going to Oxegen, Kinsale or Carrigaline come on down to Cyprus Avenue for an evening of great music and good craic. Samuel James is, as I type, in the baggage collection area of Cork Airport - he's come all the way from Portland, Maine to share his music - please come and support! And afterwards Harry J, Niwel and Rory will have some sweet reggae harmonies to bring the sunshine even if HAARP is determined to keep the rain falling on us til our spirits are so sodden we'll do anything... It's at 9pm tomorrow Saturday 12th and is €10 in.
3. Some of you may not be familiar with Cork Autonomous Zone on Barrack Street. It's a special place where various community, activist and creative groups meet as well as being home to Barracka Books bookshop. The space is rented and everyone who uses it makes a small contribution to its cost. The space could be used alot more though so if you need space for something or would like to meet people who are using it and help them decide on CAZ's direction come along next wednesday 16th at 8.30pm. As Niwel would say, it's an open sea, no sharks or jellyfish...
x Nicki
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
detritus, anglegrinders and chamber music
It's taking a real effort to get comfortable for my first night in in ages. There's stuff everywhere to be relocated, machines full of the wet and dirty detritus of everyday living, dog hair and wrappings, half-finished food and jobs weighing on my mind. Need to have the place clear before I head west for the WCCM festival.
If you're interested in a little appetite-whetting, you'll find my own review of last year's right here .
How's your Midsummer Festival been going? Braakland and Super Stan were unlikely bedfellows for my Friday night but it somehow flew and could probably only have worked so well in the the company of a Desmond, whose fancy dress put my lack of to shame. Rockin stuff.
Faust were everything promised and more, damn near blew my head off and even when I awoke with my ears ringing the next day, I still knew it was worth it. Wondered on my only trip to Germany where Beethoven and Bach's legacy laid given the drivel served up in bars and beyond there, but I was looking in the wrong places (btw, chain saws and angle grinders music not just publicity stunt). Please bring em back!
Corcadorca's The Hairy Ape was superb last night in the preview, if it hasn't sold out yet (it has a a mercifully long run at least) do yourself a favour. And I really enjoyed You've got to Love Dancing Dancing to Stick with It but that's over, though you can catch it again in Kinsale or Bray next month.
Outside of Midsummer fest I fell for Joan as Policewoman Sunday, she somehow transcended the horrific hired keyboard, playing to a shamefully small but devoted and pin-drop quiet crowd.
No tips this week, I won't be here so I can't be bothered. Going to watch Flight of the Conchords instead.
You have received this week's mailing in a new fashion, direct from my blog. All the cutting and pasting was becoming a drag, I was forever letting the mailing list be copied to everyone and, most important of all, I wanted to give ye the chance to opt out. I'll try not to be offended, I know there's a few people reading it so it won't put me off I'm sure! There'll be some opt-in/opt-out clause thing when you get this.
Give me a shout if you plan to come to Bantry. A simple tip - One of the late night and one of the big Bach Brandenburg coffee concerts would be an interesting alternative to (and only a couple of quid more than) a single main concert. So you could go out after work in the evening, eat in Bantry, stay a night, hear a concert and be back by, well maybe 3 the next day if you had to. Oh jaysus the carbon though...
CRAP! Nearly forgot. Right when I get back I'm putting on a gig - it's Saturday 12th July in Cyprus Avenue and if you can come I'd love to see ya and catch up a bit. Nothing too demanding, nice entertaining music and people, good vibes, some people you haven't heard or met before... read about it here
If you're interested in a little appetite-whetting, you'll find my own review of last year's right here .
How's your Midsummer Festival been going? Braakland and Super Stan were unlikely bedfellows for my Friday night but it somehow flew and could probably only have worked so well in the the company of a Desmond, whose fancy dress put my lack of to shame. Rockin stuff.
Faust were everything promised and more, damn near blew my head off and even when I awoke with my ears ringing the next day, I still knew it was worth it. Wondered on my only trip to Germany where Beethoven and Bach's legacy laid given the drivel served up in bars and beyond there, but I was looking in the wrong places (btw, chain saws and angle grinders music not just publicity stunt). Please bring em back!
Corcadorca's The Hairy Ape was superb last night in the preview, if it hasn't sold out yet (it has a a mercifully long run at least) do yourself a favour. And I really enjoyed You've got to Love Dancing Dancing to Stick with It but that's over, though you can catch it again in Kinsale or Bray next month.
Outside of Midsummer fest I fell for Joan as Policewoman Sunday, she somehow transcended the horrific hired keyboard, playing to a shamefully small but devoted and pin-drop quiet crowd.
No tips this week, I won't be here so I can't be bothered. Going to watch Flight of the Conchords instead.
You have received this week's mailing in a new fashion, direct from my blog. All the cutting and pasting was becoming a drag, I was forever letting the mailing list be copied to everyone and, most important of all, I wanted to give ye the chance to opt out. I'll try not to be offended, I know there's a few people reading it so it won't put me off I'm sure! There'll be some opt-in/opt-out clause thing when you get this.
Give me a shout if you plan to come to Bantry. A simple tip - One of the late night and one of the big Bach Brandenburg coffee concerts would be an interesting alternative to (and only a couple of quid more than) a single main concert. So you could go out after work in the evening, eat in Bantry, stay a night, hear a concert and be back by, well maybe 3 the next day if you had to. Oh jaysus the carbon though...
CRAP! Nearly forgot. Right when I get back I'm putting on a gig - it's Saturday 12th July in Cyprus Avenue and if you can come I'd love to see ya and catch up a bit. Nothing too demanding, nice entertaining music and people, good vibes, some people you haven't heard or met before... read about it here
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
school Tunick
Ah lads I want to write even though I'm tired and dazed like perhaps only someone who with only 1 hour's sleep at 2am gets up, drives to Blarney picking up 3 hitchers on the way, sits in the cold dark in a field for several hours with 1,100 others til the sun rises enough when they all strip quite naked and follow megaphone directions for the guts of an hour, have some fine laughs, admire tatoos and whatnot and slowly freeze (beyond what a mild day's office work and 1 hour bass lesson can cure), to create something which media footage suggests might end up a little special... RTE did a nice item on the Telly news but it's impossible to link to, stupid javascript I haven't a clue how to deal with it.
I especially want to write since a few people said as how I hadn't sent out a mail last week and I felt a bit bold. I've been out plenty of course... that's why the no mail. Lots of trad, some jamming with a cool group of ladies and a Vivaldi Gloria we've started on in choir - not much in the way of concerts except the great Belcea Quartet opener of the IIB Music in Great Irish Houses thing who were exceptional but I was overtired for. To be honest I'm kind of pacing myself and cleaning my palette in advance of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival when I'll be spoilt rotten - coaxed, dragged, flattered and hollered through every emotion under the sun (if past programmes are anything to go by) thanks to the wealth of music left by composers of the last few centuries and the dedication and inspiration of great performers to take me there. And 10-hour work days with usually 4 full concerts each. The programme is a bit daunting online so if anyone wants personal recommendations mail me back.
To be honest as far as things coming up in the city are concerned, well this isn't really a time for music specifically. The Cork Midsummer Festival is officially swinging (I swear I still have periodic shivers as i write to remind me) and the theatre and spectacles they've lined up is bloody amazing. Be wild, try something you mightn't normally as the scope of entertainment and provocation is like nothing else year-round. My plans include:
Braakland and Super Stan Goes Country on Friday
Faust on Saturday,
Corcadorca's The Hairy Ape which opens tomorrow (Wednesday) but I won't get to see til next week, Wednesday I think
Sensazione and Hammergrin's K: The Iowa Project at some stage
Scullion if the gods allow
that's a tiny sample of what's on offer, it just is too, too much - chart your own course at www.corkmidsummer.com
In fairness though there's a few other things going on that more than bear mentioning, they demand attention:
Wednesday 18th
9pm Utopia Nation Noizepod
Friday 20th
1.15pm Cork School of Music - GUARANTEED to be one jazz-abiders will be boasting of in the future - KARL ROONEY perhaps our most accomplished jazz talent at the outset of a professional career making his his MA degree performance in his own quintet. They'll be playing the music of the legendary Wayne Shorter; come and enjoy what will no doubt be an electric performance and support Karl on the big day, it's free but don't go if you can't stay for the whole thing as he's being examined and nothing should disturb the performance.
Wednesday 25th
11pm The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at the new Pavillion Theatre which if you haven't checked out could make this a must-go, info at http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/~peoplesr/forums//showthread.php?t=132251 Boban Markovich Orkestar they ain't but it will be a blast of a night out I'd say.
That's it, I have to sleep,
Come to Bantry x
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot.com
PS The clock on my computer's 3 hours slow, anyone know how I can reset it?
I especially want to write since a few people said as how I hadn't sent out a mail last week and I felt a bit bold. I've been out plenty of course... that's why the no mail. Lots of trad, some jamming with a cool group of ladies and a Vivaldi Gloria we've started on in choir - not much in the way of concerts except the great Belcea Quartet opener of the IIB Music in Great Irish Houses thing who were exceptional but I was overtired for. To be honest I'm kind of pacing myself and cleaning my palette in advance of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival when I'll be spoilt rotten - coaxed, dragged, flattered and hollered through every emotion under the sun (if past programmes are anything to go by) thanks to the wealth of music left by composers of the last few centuries and the dedication and inspiration of great performers to take me there. And 10-hour work days with usually 4 full concerts each. The programme is a bit daunting online so if anyone wants personal recommendations mail me back.
To be honest as far as things coming up in the city are concerned, well this isn't really a time for music specifically. The Cork Midsummer Festival is officially swinging (I swear I still have periodic shivers as i write to remind me) and the theatre and spectacles they've lined up is bloody amazing. Be wild, try something you mightn't normally as the scope of entertainment and provocation is like nothing else year-round. My plans include:
Braakland and Super Stan Goes Country on Friday
Faust on Saturday,
Corcadorca's The Hairy Ape which opens tomorrow (Wednesday) but I won't get to see til next week, Wednesday I think
Sensazione and Hammergrin's K: The Iowa Project at some stage
Scullion if the gods allow
that's a tiny sample of what's on offer, it just is too, too much - chart your own course at www.corkmidsummer.com
In fairness though there's a few other things going on that more than bear mentioning, they demand attention:
Wednesday 18th
9pm Utopia Nation Noizepod
Friday 20th
1.15pm Cork School of Music - GUARANTEED to be one jazz-abiders will be boasting of in the future - KARL ROONEY perhaps our most accomplished jazz talent at the outset of a professional career making his his MA degree performance in his own quintet. They'll be playing the music of the legendary Wayne Shorter; come and enjoy what will no doubt be an electric performance and support Karl on the big day, it's free but don't go if you can't stay for the whole thing as he's being examined and nothing should disturb the performance.
Wednesday 25th
11pm The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at the new Pavillion Theatre which if you haven't checked out could make this a must-go, info at http://www.peoplesrepublicofcor
That's it, I have to sleep,
Come to Bantry x
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot
PS The clock on my computer's 3 hours slow, anyone know how I can reset it?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
pant pant pant
I thought I'd filled you up for tips for this week already but a few crackers have come in so I could resist.
Had a great week myself, enjoyed some of the blues session in Nancy's on Thursday night after tag rugby where there was a big gang joining the two core lads - before heading down to catch the end of another great set from the Critters at their weekly session in the Gables on Douglas Street. Saturday night brought a high octane trad session at Foley's near Inch beach in Kerry where the tunes carried on in various camper vans outside til the birds were singing. Headed home to Cork on Sunday with the head spinning to a couple of sets in the Sin E where another trad session was in full flight but had an early night. Up at seven Monday to spend the day racing round the marathon course where the music went down a treat. The African Gospel Choir blessed the runners with soul on the first leg of their gruelling trip as they passed Blackpool church, Dave Henessy's trio gave them another lift in the morning sun with some cracking tunes as they headed east along the North Quays. Patrick Naughton's drummers drove them out the Lee Tunnel and kept the hearts pounding as they weaved back across Mahon and Blackrock and across past the Lough right to the western city limits before returning home to Pana and the Barrack Street Brass Band ... we had a total of 20 groups of performers to keep them going through the blazing sun, with loads of support from people gathered all along the way to shout encouragement. Really positive atmoshere.
I'm just out this evening from the opening night of the new production of Disco Pigs in The Everyman Theatre - in fairness it does a fabulous script proud. I was lucky enough to somehow find my way to corcadorca's original production when I was in college and had my mind blown by it and I suspect someone coming to this one for the first time would be the same - great performance and a more elaborate and cleverly conceived set with the added bonus of a great soundtrack from Irene Buckley.
So what do I have to add to my tips from last week that I just couldn't keep to myself? See below (I have included the original tips in a lighter colour so you have the full story biy...)
Wednesday 4th
9pm Utopianation, Barrack Street Andrea Bonino's latest project is Noizepod a "jam-based night of experimental music, free improvisation, noize, & hullabaloo..
(featuring andrea bonino & francis heery + eoin callery & friends, and more)" it's free in and should be worth checking out for those inspired to partake or open to share the exploration...
Thursday 5th
is as usual a stupidly full trough at which to gorge, starting at the
Crawford Gallery 1.10 pm when composer/pianist John Gibson peforms a programme of his own work with some of Cork's very finest musicians: Amanda Neary, soprano; Ciara Glasheen,cor anglais; Ruxandra Petcu & Eithne Willis, violins, Tomas McCarthy, viola; Joan Scannell, cello - there's bad weather forecast so it'll be shelter a world away from whatever's falling from the sky outside
9pm An Spailpín Fanac A mighty session that I would have said was unmissable if it didn't have such competition at the Roundy - Seamus Creagh with Aidan Coffey and Mick Daly should be serious craic. There's another band on from Newfoundland on and all....
9pm The Roundy The Polskadots have old friend Lucia Comnes as guest, a very special occasion and definitely one for the diary lads and from 5-7 Lucia will be giving an open workshop in Eastern European singing at the Glucksman Gallery in UCC, all welcome. And I've since realised it's Lucia Comnes rather wonderful combo from San Fran that'll be playing the Roundy with the Polskadots ... www.myspace.com/luciacomnes
9pm Triskel Jazz harmonica player Ray Preston is clearly a master and well respected by the looks of one enthusiastic expert (http://www.jazzeddie.f2s.com/jazz_harmonica.htm)
this gig with his quaret should be meaty - hear him here http://harmonica.co.uk/music/Ray_Preston_Making_Whoopee.wma
Saturday 7th
8pm Cork Opera House I'm well ticked off I'll be away for Rufus Wainwright, though he might be sold out already... www.rufuswainwright.com
That's it... I can't take any more.......... xx
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A marathon of music this week
Hey there,
I gave myself a bit of a break from this last week, unplanned, sorry - life got in the way! Strangely enough not in the way of listening to music though, hmh funny that, though I'm a bit vague on some details. (Was I really at the Crane Lane on Sunday? Several witnesses insist...) The Irish Chamber Orchestra on Saturday night were pure pleasure (nice to finally meet you there Vinny!) in the last concert of this season - I can't understand why they don't always sell out - if we can't fill a 400-odd seat theatre every time those guys come to town, well, maybe we don't deserve em.
Sorry I think the sudden cloud and drizzle has me a little down this week. Hang on while I ratchet up the enthusiasm for the tips bit.
Wednesday 28th
Thursday 5th
9pm The Roundy The Polskadots have old friend Lucia Comnes as guest, a very special occasion and definitely one for the diary lads
9pm Triskel Jazz harmonica player Ray Preston is clearly a master and well respected by the looks of one enthusiastic expert (http://www.jazzeddie.f2s.com/jazz_harmonica.htm)
Have a great one...
x N
I gave myself a bit of a break from this last week, unplanned, sorry - life got in the way! Strangely enough not in the way of listening to music though, hmh funny that, though I'm a bit vague on some details. (Was I really at the Crane Lane on Sunday? Several witnesses insist...) The Irish Chamber Orchestra on Saturday night were pure pleasure (nice to finally meet you there Vinny!) in the last concert of this season - I can't understand why they don't always sell out - if we can't fill a 400-odd seat theatre every time those guys come to town, well, maybe we don't deserve em.
Sorry I think the sudden cloud and drizzle has me a little down this week. Hang on while I ratchet up the enthusiasm for the tips bit.
Wednesday 28th
7.30pm Cyprus Avenue Peter von Poehl's pretty electro pop will reward drifting into if you're around, just a fiver... http://www.myspace.com/petervonpoehl
9pm Counihans' (next to the Crane Lane) Arundo are a band combining Andean and Irish music who seem to have been playing here a while. Gas idea I'm not convinced but maybe because all I could track down on the net was a phone video with desperate sound - it's a free gig so see what you think yourself.
8pm St. Anne's church (the bells one) Shandon The Mount's Bay Singers might be rather good, they describe themselves as "An accomplished and enthusiastic choir" who do a range of stuff - when you consider they say they include 8-part a cappella pieces, well that would suggest they're pretty capable.
Incidentally if YOU or someone you know is interested in joining a choir the Cork Chamber Choir is looking for 1 soprano, 2 tenors and 1 bass. You can contact us through our myspace or drop me a mail and I'll put you in touch with Ann Marie http://www.myspace.com/corkchamberchoir
Saturday 31st
1.15pm, Cork School of Music A lovely opportunity to hear some great trad from fiddle-player Edel Sullivan and guitarist Eileen Healy AND support a Kenyan orphanage with your €10 entrance - talk about fair trade.
Sunday 1st
10pm Charlie's Eoin (Reggie) O'Regan's band is a very safe bet.
Monday 2nd
9am-3pm Cork City I've had a great time lhelping to line up musicians who will be busking along the length of the Cork City Marathon circuit courtesy of Cork City Council. Trad players, jazzers, rockers, gypsy musicians, old-time and world music groups will be out to try and lift the runners spirits and keep onlookers entertained please come and enjot the atmosphere. My map of the action is here if you want to try and catch something specific - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109036976011531848577.00044de7144fe1d8907c9&t=k&z=13 - how about the brilliant Lazik outside Hardwood Café? maybe the Critters at Bishop Lucey Park? Trad on Horgan's Quay or by the Lough? Or jazz at County Hall? We've 20 groups in all...
9pm Counihans' (next to the Crane Lane) Arundo are a band combining Andean and Irish music who seem to have been playing here a while. Gas idea I'm not convinced but maybe because all I could track down on the net was a phone video with desperate sound - it's a free gig so see what you think yourself.
Thursday 29th
6.15 Glucksman Gallery Singer and violinist Lucia Comnes will surely draw a huge crowd out to see her, especially fans of the wonderful Polskadots, a band she was a founding member of before she returned to her native US. She's now touring with bassist Sean Stillinger and percussionist Aharon Wheels Bolsta. Definitely free gig of the week!
8pm St. Anne's church (the bells one) Shandon The Mount's Bay Singers might be rather good, they describe themselves as "An accomplished and enthusiastic choir" who do a range of stuff - when you consider they say they include 8-part a cappella pieces, well that would suggest they're pretty capable.
Incidentally if YOU or someone you know is interested in joining a choir the Cork Chamber Choir is looking for 1 soprano, 2 tenors and 1 bass. You can contact us through our myspace or drop me a mail and I'll put you in touch with Ann Marie http://www.myspace.com/corkchamberchoir
9pm Roundy Room Brazilian trumpeter Tonynho dos Santos and his new band the Fireangels will have the place feeling very summery.
Friday 30th
10pm Nancy Spains Pianinst Emiliano Petronilli (of Swing Street) and drummer Davide Sotgiu are hosting a weekly blues jam session - people are welcome to join in, sounds nice.
Friday 30th
7pm Sirius Arts Centre
right through to Monday
Put a trip to Cobh into you plans this weekend and enjoy some of the Cobh Maritime Song Festival in surely the most perfect venue in the country for such a thing. Check out the whole programme at www.cobhmaritimesongfestival.com and look look amn't I good to you........This is the Cork-Cobh timetable http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/printed_timetable_pdfs/2008/Mallow%20Cobh%2008.pdf
1.15pm, Cork School of Music A lovely opportunity to hear some great trad from fiddle-player Edel Sullivan and guitarist Eileen Healy AND support a Kenyan orphanage with your €10 entrance - talk about fair trade.
Sunday 1st
10pm Charlie's Eoin (Reggie) O'Regan's band is a very safe bet.
Monday 2nd
9am-3pm Cork City I've had a great time lhelping to line up musicians who will be busking along the length of the Cork City Marathon circuit courtesy of Cork City Council. Trad players, jazzers, rockers, gypsy musicians, old-time and world music groups will be out to try and lift the runners spirits and keep onlookers entertained please come and enjot the atmosphere. My map of the action is here if you want to try and catch something specific - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109036976011531848577.00044de7144fe1d8907c9&t=k&z=13 - how about the brilliant Lazik outside Hardwood Café? maybe the Critters at Bishop Lucey Park? Trad on Horgan's Quay or by the Lough? Or jazz at County Hall? We've 20 groups in all...
9pm The Whisky Saxophonist/clarinettist Clinio Cocuzza is hosting a regular session on Mondays now. http://www.myspace.com/cliniococuzza
Thursday 5th
9pm The Roundy The Polskadots have old friend Lucia Comnes as guest, a very special occasion and definitely one for the diary lads
9pm Triskel Jazz harmonica player Ray Preston is clearly a master and well respected by the looks of one enthusiastic expert (http://www.jazzeddie.f2s.com/jazz_harmonica.htm)
this gig with his quaret should be meaty - hear him here http://harmonica.co.uk/music/Ray_Preston_Making_Whoopee.wma
8pm Cork Opera House I'm well ticked off I'll be away for Rufus Wainwright, though he might be sold out already... www.rufuswainwright.com
8pm Cork Opera House I'm well ticked off I'll be away for Rufus Wainwright, though he might be sold out already... www.rufuswainwright.com
Have a great one...
x N
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
me and the broken ukele
I haven't heard a whole lot of live music lately between a wedding and a lovely weekend spent housesitting, when I set about learning my first trad tune off Kirsten on the only instrument to hand which happened to be a slackplastic string ( ;-) ) ukelele, probably bought on my hosts' honeymoon, which I tuned in fourths (kind of) for easier transferral to my bass ... until the bridge snapped clean off the body. Oh God, Aideen - Eoin, I'm so sorry I haven't even mentioned that... next time I call out I'll bring some wood glue. Hope Belfast was great.
Edward Beckett was a pleasure last week in a flute concert with pianist Martin Jones but I had to skedaddle off for this months STeTLab which played host to the rather brilliant Eaten By Children video/music hope we get him back over the water again soon. Definitely Ping Pong material if you ask me...
Not much else to report - a good thing though I want clean ears for Friedlander tomorrow. And since I have a committee meeting directly before it and the wild and debauched Midsummer festival direct before that - well, this'll be brief again I need a good night's sleep.
Wednesday 14th
Sorry about the late warning but I just found out about...
1pm School of Music Michael Cleaver (who gave that fantastic minimalist clarinet concert a few weeks back) playing 19th century-composer Anton Eberl's recently re-discovered sonata and another treat of Brahms. I know A bit more though than last time - he's a founding member of Crash and a seasoned and excellent musician who has been studying at the School of Music so when he's finished there I don't suppose we'll have the same opportunities to hear him so grab this if you can. And it's free!
8pm The Bodega Cork Midsummer Festival are inviting the whole town over to the Bodega to celebrate the launch of the festival programme. No need to worry that you didn't wear fancy enough stuff - the code is casual and seasonal get down and enjoy a slice of the fun while taking your first peek at what is rumoured to be a BUMPER edition of fun this June... " It will feature new up and coming act ROUGE and then we will have a summer/salsa Club – which will suit the weather we are having!"
9pm The Whisky No doubt Jess Klein will be worth checking out too... on any other night...
Thursday 15th
1.10pm Crawford - it's all about lunchtime concerts in summer - I know sandwiches in the park is great, but when you want a real lift there's nothing like a 40 minute music fix if you ask me. This one Dr Dana Borsan from Bucharest playing Beethoven Chopin and Schumann in the sunny lecture theatre of the gallery. One of the nicest little venues for music it's so comfy and intimate and the sound's lovely.
7.30 Honan Chapel, UCC join me for the once-off chance to hear the internationally renowned Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet who will play a selection of russian and russian-themed music as part of a high-level official delegation to promote educational and cultural links between St Petersburg and Cork. Damn exciting stuff...
9pm Roundy Room Suzanne Joubert (from the Declan Sinnott hothouse)and fiddler Edel O'Sullivan should be a nice place to head to afterwards...
Friday 16th
8pm Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh. I will just off the plane and hopefully on time to see my mate sam and the rest of Employee of the Month live for the first time (I think? No, they rocked supporting Caribou in Club one didn't they? or was that his other project North Atlantic Oscillation? )and have a catch up in the lovely city. A trip to Forest Cafe is definitely on the cards.
9pm Cyprus Ave Those fancy, funky rascals the Neon Flea Circus have been playing loads recently by all accounts and headline their own gig just 7 quid for a heap of fun songs, put pour dancing slacks on and get on down...
Jaysus, it's half eleven, sorry lads ye'll have to find out the rest from elsewhere I want to sleep....
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot.com
Edward Beckett was a pleasure last week in a flute concert with pianist Martin Jones but I had to skedaddle off for this months STeTLab which played host to the rather brilliant Eaten By Children video/music hope we get him back over the water again soon. Definitely Ping Pong material if you ask me...
Not much else to report - a good thing though I want clean ears for Friedlander tomorrow. And since I have a committee meeting directly before it and the wild and debauched Midsummer festival direct before that - well, this'll be brief again I need a good night's sleep.
Wednesday 14th
Sorry about the late warning but I just found out about...
1pm School of Music Michael Cleaver (who gave that fantastic minimalist clarinet concert a few weeks back) playing 19th century-composer Anton Eberl's recently re-discovered sonata and another treat of Brahms. I know A bit more though than last time - he's a founding member of Crash and a seasoned and excellent musician who has been studying at the School of Music so when he's finished there I don't suppose we'll have the same opportunities to hear him so grab this if you can. And it's free!
8pm The Bodega Cork Midsummer Festival are inviting the whole town over to the Bodega to celebrate the launch of the festival programme. No need to worry that you didn't wear fancy enough stuff - the code is casual and seasonal get down and enjoy a slice of the fun while taking your first peek at what is rumoured to be a BUMPER edition of fun this June... " It will feature new up and coming act ROUGE and then we will have a summer/salsa Club – which will suit the weather we are having!"
9pm The Whisky No doubt Jess Klein will be worth checking out too... on any other night...
Thursday 15th
1.10pm Crawford - it's all about lunchtime concerts in summer - I know sandwiches in the park is great, but when you want a real lift there's nothing like a 40 minute music fix if you ask me. This one Dr Dana Borsan from Bucharest playing Beethoven Chopin and Schumann in the sunny lecture theatre of the gallery. One of the nicest little venues for music it's so comfy and intimate and the sound's lovely.
7.30 Honan Chapel, UCC join me for the once-off chance to hear the internationally renowned Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet who will play a selection of russian and russian-themed music as part of a high-level official delegation to promote educational and cultural links between St Petersburg and Cork. Damn exciting stuff...
9pm Roundy Room Suzanne Joubert (from the Declan Sinnott hothouse)and fiddler Edel O'Sullivan should be a nice place to head to afterwards...
Friday 16th
8pm Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh. I will just off the plane and hopefully on time to see my mate sam and the rest of Employee of the Month live for the first time (I think? No, they rocked supporting Caribou in Club one didn't they? or was that his other project North Atlantic Oscillation? )and have a catch up in the lovely city. A trip to Forest Cafe is definitely on the cards.
9pm Cyprus Ave Those fancy, funky rascals the Neon Flea Circus have been playing loads recently by all accounts and headline their own gig just 7 quid for a heap of fun songs, put pour dancing slacks on and get on down...
Jaysus, it's half eleven, sorry lads ye'll have to find out the rest from elsewhere I want to sleep....
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot
Friday, May 9, 2008
Very briefly
Hi there,
Sorry I'm very late this week getting music news out. This is a flying visit too so no idle chatter.
Erik Friedlander next week has now sold out as expected, hope everyone who planned to go was in time.
Briefly, these are the gigs that stood out over the next few days:
Friday 9th
Charlies 9pm - Rumbleshack Rockabilly Trio (what a fantastic name!) http://www.myspace.com/rumbleshackrnr
Saturday 10th
Vertigo Restaurant (Top floor of Cork's County Hall) 10am and through the day - It's not music but I thought many would be interested in the chance to meet and listen to readings by internationally acclaimed authors Pauline McLynn, Brian Keenan, Dermot Bolger and many more thanks to Bealtaine Festival, especially in this unusual setting with panoramic views over the city. Admission is free and all are welcome. To reserve a place contact Sinead Collins 086-2206306 (I'd say you'd be safe enough to turn up though...)
Cyprus Avenue 9pm A Hawk and a Hacksaw from Budapest I have read about before and they sound fantastic - I'm gutted I'll be away and missing it http://www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw
Tuesday 13th
School of Music 1pm The wonderful Polskadots http://www.myspace.com/thepolskadots
Cyprus Avenue 9pm Take-no-prisoners US hip-hop poet Saul Williams has a huge Irish following and with good reason. If you haven't and you think you might like to, do. His latest album, 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust' was produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Wednesday 14th
Triskel, 9pm Erik Friedlander
Enjoy!
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot.com
Sorry I'm very late this week getting music news out. This is a flying visit too so no idle chatter.
Erik Friedlander next week has now sold out as expected, hope everyone who planned to go was in time.
Briefly, these are the gigs that stood out over the next few days:
Friday 9th
Charlies 9pm - Rumbleshack Rockabilly Trio (what a fantastic name!) http://www.myspace.com/rumblesh
Saturday 10th
Vertigo Restaurant (Top floor of Cork's County Hall) 10am and through the day - It's not music but I thought many would be interested in the chance to meet and listen to readings by internationally acclaimed authors Pauline McLynn, Brian Keenan, Dermot Bolger and many more thanks to Bealtaine Festival, especially in this unusual setting with panoramic views over the city. Admission is free and all are welcome. To reserve a place contact Sinead Collins 086-2206306 (I'd say you'd be safe enough to turn up though...)
Cyprus Avenue 9pm A Hawk and a Hacksaw from Budapest I have read about before and they sound fantastic - I'm gutted I'll be away and missing it http://www.myspace.com/ahawkand
Tuesday 13th
School of Music 1pm The wonderful Polskadots http://www.myspace.com/thepolsk
Cyprus Avenue 9pm Take-no-prisoners US hip-hop poet Saul Williams has a huge Irish following and with good reason. If you haven't and you think you might like to, do. His latest album, 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust' was produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Wednesday 14th
Triskel, 9pm Erik Friedlander
Enjoy!
--
What's going on?
http://corklivemusic.blogspot
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Music music music
WIRELESS BROADBAND IS NOW CONNECTED
Signal strength: Excellent
So now I can type from the leaba which, I'm ashamed to admit, I have resorted to following a fairly hectic six nights of fabulous Cork music.
Matthew Shipp at the Triskel - stellar.
John Williams at the school - sublime.
Ladyfest opening night - rockin. (esp. Lazik)
Saturday Ladyfest - brilliant (esp. Bela Emerson and Ixi)
Mikel Rouse at dOpera House - go next time, I loved it.
Trad in Charlie's, the Pav and Sin E - mighty
Ladyfest all-girl trad session - smashing
Gary, Breandain, Tomas and bass at Crane Lane - irrestibly danceable
A night in - priceless!
So what's in store this week? Of course the big news is the Choral Festival with one of their best-ever programmes - far too many events to list fully so look at the EVENT GUIDE or click HERE to sign up for their newsletter.
Wednesday 30th
7.30pm City Hall The opening concert of the Choral Festival will introduce Touché, a highly entertaining a cappella jazz ensemble from Denmark.
9.30 The Quad, Tuckey Street. Holy crap if the Quad are going to be offering free gigs every week with my favourite progishrockish Kerrymen (and I'm certain if I knew em all, past present and future, these'd still be my favourite) Ten Past Seven and and Colm's excellent Charlie Don't Surf I'll soon get over my prejudice against the place.
9pm Cyprus Avenue a weirdly cheap €3 ticket for one of Cork's hippest current exports Hooray for Humans.
Thursday 1st
1.10pm Crawford Gallery I got given a flyer today by someone who knows their stuff for a pianist who is playing in the Crawford Gallery and he said I'd enjoy it (and he knows what I like. Though we discovered today that we disagreeon Avishai Cohen's pianists). The flyer has miraculously wriggled free of my back pocket (God it must have been uncomfortable in there) - I remember there'll be some Beethoven but the rest will have to be a surprise.
8pm City Hall I think my hottest tip for the Choral Festival has to be Musica Intima from Canada who often their make their own arrangements of some fantastic music - Arvo Part (Eoin will be pleased), Tallis, there's even an Inuit hunting song in there...
9pm The Roundy Having checked out their first gig together a fortnight ago I can wholeheartedly recommend Colin Mclean's new latino band with himself and Mick Cummins on guitars and my double bass teacher Dave Whitla providing the low frequencies.
Friday 2nd
7.30 St Fin Barre's The National Chamber Choir have a gorgeous programme on offer at the invitation of the Choral Fest under Danish conductor Bo Holden, who composed one of the pieces they'll sing. Particularly exciting to see they're singing the glorious (I use that word because it is the only one to come close the the work) Totus Tuum by Gorecki which we rather unforgiveably screwed up royally in college in the Honan chapel many moons ago.
9pm The Whisky, Union Quay I've a notion I saw ska band the Naildrivers sometime and they were rockin but I'm not definite.
10.30 North Cathedral Pretty magic to have a choir of the calibre of Amacord from Germany perform in Shandon's North Catherdral, their programme will transport us back centuries in a highly atmospheric concert.
Saturday 3rd
3pm and 8pm City Hall There's nothing amateur about the fifteen choirs from 9 countries that compete for the Fleishmann Trophy which is genuinely coveted internationally, and the competition buzz makes the whole thing doubly exciting.
Sunday 4th
Your local church may well be hosting one of the brilliant visiting choirs to the city - check HERE to find out.
10pm Charlie's The Lynch Mob haven't played Charlie's in a while have they? Should be great craic.
Monday 4th
9.30 Charlie's Hank 'n' Ray will be there to play ya few stories and chase bank holiday Monday evening blues out the door.
Wednesday 6th
9pm Cyprus Ave Guitar trainspotters will likely be checking out youtube star (13million views earns that title, no?) Andy McKee and his extraordinary technical approach, he's touring with Don Ross - you can find their myspace at http://www.myspace.com/andymckee2 (the description of them on it as 'progressive' is perhaps a touch misleading).
9pm Triskel The Carroll and Rigby Quartet features Justin Carroll (who I've been nursing a blushworthy crush on for some time) on Hammond and New York saxophonist Jason Rigby (http://www.myspace.com/jasonrigbyquartet) don't bother trying to get any sense out of me coming out of the gig I'd say!
That's it from me for this week...
Signal strength: Excellent
So now I can type from the leaba which, I'm ashamed to admit, I have resorted to following a fairly hectic six nights of fabulous Cork music.
Matthew Shipp at the Triskel - stellar.
John Williams at the school - sublime.
Ladyfest opening night - rockin. (esp. Lazik)
Saturday Ladyfest - brilliant (esp. Bela Emerson and Ixi)
Mikel Rouse at dOpera House - go next time, I loved it.
Trad in Charlie's, the Pav and Sin E - mighty
Ladyfest all-girl trad session - smashing
Gary, Breandain, Tomas and bass at Crane Lane - irrestibly danceable
A night in - priceless!
So what's in store this week? Of course the big news is the Choral Festival with one of their best-ever programmes - far too many events to list fully so look at the EVENT GUIDE or click HERE to sign up for their newsletter.
Wednesday 30th
7.30pm City Hall The opening concert of the Choral Festival will introduce Touché, a highly entertaining a cappella jazz ensemble from Denmark.
9.30 The Quad, Tuckey Street. Holy crap if the Quad are going to be offering free gigs every week with my favourite progishrockish Kerrymen (and I'm certain if I knew em all, past present and future, these'd still be my favourite) Ten Past Seven and and Colm's excellent Charlie Don't Surf I'll soon get over my prejudice against the place.
9pm Cyprus Avenue a weirdly cheap €3 ticket for one of Cork's hippest current exports Hooray for Humans.
Thursday 1st
1.10pm Crawford Gallery I got given a flyer today by someone who knows their stuff for a pianist who is playing in the Crawford Gallery and he said I'd enjoy it (and he knows what I like. Though we discovered today that we disagreeon Avishai Cohen's pianists). The flyer has miraculously wriggled free of my back pocket (God it must have been uncomfortable in there) - I remember there'll be some Beethoven but the rest will have to be a surprise.
8pm City Hall I think my hottest tip for the Choral Festival has to be Musica Intima from Canada who often their make their own arrangements of some fantastic music - Arvo Part (Eoin will be pleased), Tallis, there's even an Inuit hunting song in there...
9pm The Roundy Having checked out their first gig together a fortnight ago I can wholeheartedly recommend Colin Mclean's new latino band with himself and Mick Cummins on guitars and my double bass teacher Dave Whitla providing the low frequencies.
Friday 2nd
7.30 St Fin Barre's The National Chamber Choir have a gorgeous programme on offer at the invitation of the Choral Fest under Danish conductor Bo Holden, who composed one of the pieces they'll sing. Particularly exciting to see they're singing the glorious (I use that word because it is the only one to come close the the work) Totus Tuum by Gorecki which we rather unforgiveably screwed up royally in college in the Honan chapel many moons ago.
9pm The Whisky, Union Quay I've a notion I saw ska band the Naildrivers sometime and they were rockin but I'm not definite.
10.30 North Cathedral Pretty magic to have a choir of the calibre of Amacord from Germany perform in Shandon's North Catherdral, their programme will transport us back centuries in a highly atmospheric concert.
Saturday 3rd
3pm and 8pm City Hall There's nothing amateur about the fifteen choirs from 9 countries that compete for the Fleishmann Trophy which is genuinely coveted internationally, and the competition buzz makes the whole thing doubly exciting.
Sunday 4th
Your local church may well be hosting one of the brilliant visiting choirs to the city - check HERE to find out.
10pm Charlie's The Lynch Mob haven't played Charlie's in a while have they? Should be great craic.
Monday 4th
9.30 Charlie's Hank 'n' Ray will be there to play ya few stories and chase bank holiday Monday evening blues out the door.
Wednesday 6th
9pm Cyprus Ave Guitar trainspotters will likely be checking out youtube star (13million views earns that title, no?) Andy McKee and his extraordinary technical approach, he's touring with Don Ross - you can find their myspace at http://www.myspace.com/andymckee2 (the description of them on it as 'progressive' is perhaps a touch misleading).
9pm Triskel The Carroll and Rigby Quartet features Justin Carroll (who I've been nursing a blushworthy crush on for some time) on Hammond and New York saxophonist Jason Rigby (http://www.myspace.com/jasonrigbyquartet) don't bother trying to get any sense out of me coming out of the gig I'd say!
That's it from me for this week...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Loadsa new blood this week...
No guff this week just one tip and that is that cellist Erik Friedlander is about a third sold out already for Wednesday 14th of May in Triskel... this will be one of the gigs of the year in Cork so get your ticket soon if you want to go... I have a terrible confession to make... I should have told you ages ago that John Williams is playing this week as part of Cork Orchestral Society's programme (yes, THE world-famous guitarist John Williams) because he sold out about a month ago. I'm sorry. I was still in Peru in my head and my eye was off the ball. Please don't let it happen with Friedlander (a way more exciting gig....)
Pick of the week:
Wednesday 23rd
9pm Triskel I think the Matthew Shipp Trio is going to be another one of those intra-dimensional trips ... a free jazz pianist who is pretty big in New York. There's a pretty cheesily put-together interview with him here but it's a nice introduction ("the essence of the expression of a jazz musician ... retains some importance as far as the quest of the human spirit to say things that maybe certain people don't want you to say.... but I often wonder myself what importance jazz has today and sometimes I don't think it has any". You get a better idea of his philosophy on his homepage, somewhere in the direction I'm heading I think...
9pm Crúiscín Lán Whippersnapping prog-breakbeaters Heliopause are launching their (first?) ep, free copy with the €8 cover charge and they're definitely worth checking out, working hard and challenging themselves, ya maybe kind of like Redneck Manifesto and other stuff they have their own thing coming through .... more of it! http://www.heliopause.net/
9pm Fred Zeppelin's Sonus have recently come on my radar they are also working hard, kinda alt-rock stuff... presented by UCC's Capriccio Soc.
Thursday 24th
8pm Cork School of Music er, John Williams (reddens)
Ya well, everyone that's a member of the Cork Orchestral Society knew months ago.
Friday 25th
Oh mother, I just realised I'll be out every night for the next 5 days. God help me. And how do I spend my Tuesday evening? Writing this. Time for a beer, just a sec...
ok
8pm Cyprus Avenue Yippee Ladyfest is here at last (and it's a once-off event so make the effort if you have the chance)! A month's worth of music all in one weekend plus lots of other stuff there's way too much for me to list here so check out http://www.ladyfestcork.org for the full schedule. Highlights on Friday night will include the UK's Bela Emerson whose electric cello performances are passionate and exciting, Cork-based Lazik who bring together some of our top international folk musicians and Dutch-Croatian band DIT whose music, with English lyrics, is full of humour as well as good playing.
Saturday 26th
12-6pm Unitarian Church Ladyfest: Cork experimental improvisation group Eachtra will hold a fun music workshop for parents and kids.
8pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest: Michelle Brennan makes a welcome return to Cork from London; Michelle's original smoky blues and performances are hypnotising (she had a rowdy crowd spellbound at the Southern Fried CD launch a few years back in the Crane Lane) – she plays the Saturday night gig alongside hip-hop MC Ophelia, comedy act Adventures in Menstruating and loads more.
10pm Liquid Lounge Club Ping Pong are hosting Zombie Zombie whose album "A Land for Renegades" was recently named album of the month by Rough Trade - mad cool electro stuff.
Sunday 27th
3pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest Breakthrough band Zing from Portlaoise (yup!) could go a long way I reckon with great original alt-rock and the fresh and brazen Janey Mac are playing plus loads more. Bring your teenage cousins, it's an all-ages gig.
8pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest The Sunday night gig will open with super-cool Cork & Berlin-based Korridor, whose left-of-centre jazz beats sound great on their myspace, while grunge outfit the Happy Homemakers from France are probably not ladies you'd be calling round on Saturday morning to get busy with with rubber gloves and dusters. Unless....
8pm Cork Opera House It's relatively rare that we see the Opera House offering anything wildly unusual - so it's a shame that one of the most ground-breaking artists Mikel Rouse's multi-media show Music for Minorities (one of the biggest things in the Galway Arts Festival last year) doesn't seem to be selling too well - I got a two-for-one offer in my inbox today - if you want me to pass it on to you just say the word!
....In Rouse's own words Music For Minorities represents a quiet departure from the direction and performance of larger multimedia works. Another chance to be solo on the road again; a guitar, a harmonica, a video deck. The piece is a reflection of my time spent in the Delta as a composer in residence through the Meet The Composer New Residencies program. It's also a kind of video memoir of my film and theatrical works, life in New York, and friends old and new. A recorded soundscape of percussion and multiple guitars are the accompaniment to a live performance that incorporates stories, interviews and songs with synchronized video. Interviews from numerous personalities in both Louisiana and New York are combined as I underscore (musically, that is) their reflections. This assemblage is a modest integration of film, music and performance, offering another approach to story telling in the media age.
That's enough for now isn't it?
x N
Pick of the week:
Wednesday 23rd
9pm Triskel I think the Matthew Shipp Trio is going to be another one of those intra-dimensional trips ... a free jazz pianist who is pretty big in New York. There's a pretty cheesily put-together interview with him here but it's a nice introduction ("the essence of the expression of a jazz musician ... retains some importance as far as the quest of the human spirit to say things that maybe certain people don't want you to say.... but I often wonder myself what importance jazz has today and sometimes I don't think it has any". You get a better idea of his philosophy on his homepage, somewhere in the direction I'm heading I think...
9pm Crúiscín Lán Whippersnapping prog-breakbeaters Heliopause are launching their (first?) ep, free copy with the €8 cover charge and they're definitely worth checking out, working hard and challenging themselves, ya maybe kind of like Redneck Manifesto and other stuff they have their own thing coming through .... more of it! http://www.heliopause.net/
9pm Fred Zeppelin's Sonus have recently come on my radar they are also working hard, kinda alt-rock stuff... presented by UCC's Capriccio Soc.
Thursday 24th
8pm Cork School of Music er, John Williams (reddens)
Ya well, everyone that's a member of the Cork Orchestral Society knew months ago.
Friday 25th
Oh mother, I just realised I'll be out every night for the next 5 days. God help me. And how do I spend my Tuesday evening? Writing this. Time for a beer, just a sec...
ok
8pm Cyprus Avenue Yippee Ladyfest is here at last (and it's a once-off event so make the effort if you have the chance)! A month's worth of music all in one weekend plus lots of other stuff there's way too much for me to list here so check out http://www.ladyfestcork.org for the full schedule. Highlights on Friday night will include the UK's Bela Emerson whose electric cello performances are passionate and exciting, Cork-based Lazik who bring together some of our top international folk musicians and Dutch-Croatian band DIT whose music, with English lyrics, is full of humour as well as good playing.
Saturday 26th
12-6pm Unitarian Church Ladyfest: Cork experimental improvisation group Eachtra will hold a fun music workshop for parents and kids.
8pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest: Michelle Brennan makes a welcome return to Cork from London; Michelle's original smoky blues and performances are hypnotising (she had a rowdy crowd spellbound at the Southern Fried CD launch a few years back in the Crane Lane) – she plays the Saturday night gig alongside hip-hop MC Ophelia, comedy act Adventures in Menstruating and loads more.
10pm Liquid Lounge Club Ping Pong are hosting Zombie Zombie whose album "A Land for Renegades" was recently named album of the month by Rough Trade - mad cool electro stuff.
Sunday 27th
3pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest Breakthrough band Zing from Portlaoise (yup!) could go a long way I reckon with great original alt-rock and the fresh and brazen Janey Mac are playing plus loads more. Bring your teenage cousins, it's an all-ages gig.
8pm Cyprus Avenue Ladyfest The Sunday night gig will open with super-cool Cork & Berlin-based Korridor, whose left-of-centre jazz beats sound great on their myspace, while grunge outfit the Happy Homemakers from France are probably not ladies you'd be calling round on Saturday morning to get busy with with rubber gloves and dusters. Unless....
8pm Cork Opera House It's relatively rare that we see the Opera House offering anything wildly unusual - so it's a shame that one of the most ground-breaking artists Mikel Rouse's multi-media show Music for Minorities (one of the biggest things in the Galway Arts Festival last year) doesn't seem to be selling too well - I got a two-for-one offer in my inbox today - if you want me to pass it on to you just say the word!
....In Rouse's own words Music For Minorities represents a quiet departure from the direction and performance of larger multimedia works. Another chance to be solo on the road again; a guitar, a harmonica, a video deck. The piece is a reflection of my time spent in the Delta as a composer in residence through the Meet The Composer New Residencies program. It's also a kind of video memoir of my film and theatrical works, life in New York, and friends old and new. A recorded soundscape of percussion and multiple guitars are the accompaniment to a live performance that incorporates stories, interviews and songs with synchronized video. Interviews from numerous personalities in both Louisiana and New York are combined as I underscore (musically, that is) their reflections. This assemblage is a modest integration of film, music and performance, offering another approach to story telling in the media age.
That's enough for now isn't it?
x N
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
More of the same totally different stuff
To facilitate the skim-reader I have headlined the paragraphs this week as it may be a touch blathery
My week
Well I had a great week of it... Thursday started inauspiciously with helping out at the Smith Quartet (only stayed for the first half, never really took off though the sax-player's arrangements of Chick Corea were nice), followed by doing the door at Stetlab in a windswept Bodega followed up with a nice set from Alan O'Rouke who gave some tasty with polished performances solid enough for Colm and a drum-player to jam along and have fun with.
Triskel came up trumps twice, with a brilliant and daring gig by the two Polish sirens - fantastic music, colourful contemporary stuff - Niwel got well into it and I think Neal too but have to catch up with him still. Then last night I was back at Triskel to join Canadians the Brad Shepik trio in the stratosphere.
In between on Monday night I got a lovely dose of my college tastes in a concert of what is usually loosely referred to as minimalist music, the really well put together Dots and Loops gig - turned out to be Seaver's Masters recital, not a CD launch. And some nice reggae music out of a new combo in the Crane last night....
Fast approaching
A collaboration of Feile Africa and Mai World Music are bringing you a festival of African Music around Africa Day 19th-25th of May - programme starting off well keep an eye on http://www.feileafrica.com/listings.htm as more is added.
This doesn't count as early warning because booking closes at the end of the month for the Quiet Music Festival's annual Deep Listening Retreat as July opens. Get inspired by your own ideas and discoveries and those of a nice random bunch with the guidance of Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold. See www.quietmusicensemble.com for details. Lots of concerts happening over the week in Triskel to keep the juices flowing.
So what's in store for us this week?
Thursday 17th
9pm at The Roundy Sign me up for Ian Whitty's first gig here in a while after the hard work of putting his new album together. There's so few people that can continue to be original and their own voice while getting really on top of their peformance and putting a band together. The Lobby will live again tonight.... http://www.myspace.com/ianwhitty
10pm Ziggy's Italinano Alex O'Reilly's Inner City Blues Band with Eoin Regan and Tomas Gall plays this cosy boozer opposite the Oval.
Friday 18th
9pm Half Moon North Cregg plays their first gig in a while I think in their home city - all musicians who are brilliant whatever they turn their hands to... Great pretty trad tunes from the celtic diaspora... (but they use a piano... can never really appreciate one in trad meself...) http://www.myspace.com/northcregg
9pm Cyprus Avenue The often unforgivingly loud but occasionally hairraising Giveamanakick will be something very very different... http://www.myspace.com/giveamanakick
9.30pm Nancy Spains The debut of the new Krazy Katz is hotly tipped - Jerome Rimson on bass, Alex O'Re(i?)lly on guitar and Andrea Bonino on slide and/or harmonica probably... defo one to check out.... I haven't been up to Nancy's in donkey's years but keep hearing what a great little venue it is now in the bar, this will be the night to find out.
6pm-Late Triskel Bar Not strictly live music but looks like a nice place to hang out for the night, post-work drinks..... probably some of their great grub ...you'll be rolling out in a haze I'd say with everything from Joni Mitchell to Pharoah Sanders in breeze (giving the night the title "Mitchell to Sanders") to help us along.
Saturday 21st
9.30pm Nancy Spains Krazy Katz' second outing, see Friday above...
Sunday 20th
see ye round?....
My week
Well I had a great week of it... Thursday started inauspiciously with helping out at the Smith Quartet (only stayed for the first half, never really took off though the sax-player's arrangements of Chick Corea were nice), followed by doing the door at Stetlab in a windswept Bodega followed up with a nice set from Alan O'Rouke who gave some tasty with polished performances solid enough for Colm and a drum-player to jam along and have fun with.
Triskel came up trumps twice, with a brilliant and daring gig by the two Polish sirens - fantastic music, colourful contemporary stuff - Niwel got well into it and I think Neal too but have to catch up with him still. Then last night I was back at Triskel to join Canadians the Brad Shepik trio in the stratosphere.
In between on Monday night I got a lovely dose of my college tastes in a concert of what is usually loosely referred to as minimalist music, the really well put together Dots and Loops gig - turned out to be Seaver's Masters recital, not a CD launch. And some nice reggae music out of a new combo in the Crane last night....
Fast approaching
A collaboration of Feile Africa and Mai World Music are bringing you a festival of African Music around Africa Day 19th-25th of May - programme starting off well keep an eye on http://www.feileafrica.com
This doesn't count as early warning because booking closes at the end of the month for the Quiet Music Festival's annual Deep Listening Retreat as July opens. Get inspired by your own ideas and discoveries and those of a nice random bunch with the guidance of Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold. See www.quietmusicensemble.com for details. Lots of concerts happening over the week in Triskel to keep the juices flowing.
So what's in store for us this week?
Thursday 17th
9pm at The Roundy Sign me up for Ian Whitty's first gig here in a while after the hard work of putting his new album together. There's so few people that can continue to be original and their own voice while getting really on top of their peformance and putting a band together. The Lobby will live again tonight.... http://www.myspace.com/ianwhitty
10pm Ziggy's Italinano Alex O'Reilly's Inner City Blues Band with Eoin Regan and Tomas Gall plays this cosy boozer opposite the Oval.
Friday 18th
9pm Half Moon North Cregg plays their first gig in a while I think in their home city - all musicians who are brilliant whatever they turn their hands to... Great pretty trad tunes from the celtic diaspora... (but they use a piano... can never really appreciate one in trad meself...) http://www.myspace.com/northcregg
9pm Cyprus Avenue The often unforgivingly loud but occasionally hairraising Giveamanakick will be something very very different... http://www.myspace.com/giveamanakick
9.30pm Nancy Spains The debut of the new Krazy Katz is hotly tipped - Jerome Rimson on bass, Alex O'Re(i?)lly on guitar and Andrea Bonino on slide and/or harmonica probably... defo one to check out.... I haven't been up to Nancy's in donkey's years but keep hearing what a great little venue it is now in the bar, this will be the night to find out.
6pm-Late Triskel Bar Not strictly live music but looks like a nice place to hang out for the night, post-work drinks..... probably some of their great grub ...you'll be rolling out in a haze I'd say with everything from Joni Mitchell to Pharoah Sanders in breeze (giving the night the title "Mitchell to Sanders") to help us along.
Saturday 21st
9.30pm Nancy Spains Krazy Katz' second outing, see Friday above...
Sunday 20th
9pm The Whisky, Union Quay Currently touring Europe, guitar guru Peter Walker is something of a musical multilinguist, as well as a talker and a thinker - a real veteran, worth the trip I reckon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpN_HnVJ3hk&feature=related
Divil a bit of classical music (that's come on my radar anyway) for some reason though my appetite should at least be partly satisfied by the Matthew Shipp Trio at Triskel on Wednesday 23rd who are jazzers at heart but apparently the Shipp guy has a bit of contemporary classical in him or something... that's maybe twaddle on my part there's an audio sample on the Triskel website ( www.triskelart.com where you can see all their upcoming stuff - careful you get your Eric Friedlander tickets soon he's selling out....) whoah damn nice bass solo just came on....
see ye round?....
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Don't be bringin' music...
Hello friends,
Some great music for my ears during the week - I think my highlight was a fantastic trad session at Charlie's on Sunday - 15 musicians there at least givin it socks.
*(Sorry to those of you who clicked through from my mailing list, I waited 4 hours for the video to load but no joy :-( ...)
Joya and co - will you please try and put Boutique Burlesque later in the week next time?!... it was the ruination of me last week (though it sure was a lot of fun). Not helped by the launch of Ladyfest (http://www.ladyfestcork.org) the following night which I'm really looking forward to.
A word of warning - anyone looking for music in Castlemartyr and thinking of popping into Clifford's be warned - Liam Lyons took out the tin whistle there while out for a pint with Breeda recently and was told sternly Don't be bringing music into this pub . Huh, that's the spirit eh?
So anyway...
Here's my pick of the gigs this week
Wednesday 9th
6pm, Spailpin Fanac Stella Rodriquez is organising a Bulgarian music workshop with composer/musician/teacher Stoimen Dobrev ... open to anyone to listen or if you're into it bring along an instrument...
8pm Fred Zeppelin's A mixed bag brought to you by UCC's Capriccio Society (who I was PRO of in my day but looks to be alot more exciting now) - a metal band called Deferens (http://www.myspace.com/deferens) acoustic duo Tadhg Healy & Merivale (http://www.myspace.com/tadhghealy ) and 'post-mass'...[on a Sunday morning, like?]...'rock group' Melodica Fantasy and Other Stories. Sure it's only 3 quid might as well check it out...
Thursday 10th
8pm Cork School of Music Pretty exciting to have the Smith Quartet (the UK version of the Kronos, if you will) in town with sax player Gerard McChrystal for a night of new music that is easy on the ears and probably pretty damn exciting - Michael Nyman, Chick Corea and much more.
(for Irene Buckley who was asking, here's the full programme: Kevin Volans Hunting Gathering, Micheál Ó Suilleabháin Óiche Nollaig [in April?!], Michael McGlynn Suite from Invocation, Debussy Syrinx, Michael Nyman Shaping The Curve
Donnacha Dennehy New Commission by Music Network Ravel Piece en forme de Habanera Ciaran Farrell [he's the fella I was telling you about in the quay co-op, his myspace is http://www.myspace.com/ciaranfarrell The Pilgrim's Return, Chick Corea Children's Songs
9pm The Bodega, White Room Cork Music Collective hosts a double bill with two very different halves - first up STeT Lab's experimental night (http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet ) with a lovely line-up - Eoin Callery (dulcimer), Susan Geaney (flute), Neil O'Loghlen (double bass), Marian Murray (violin), Veronica Tadman (voice) and Eoin Winning (guitar). Next Alan O'Rourke who has some new material (stand by for the Nipple Song...)http://www.myspace.com/alanorourke
9pm The Roundy The lovely Ger O'Rourke really needs no introduction www.myspace.com/gerwolfe
9pm Cruiscin Lan, Douglas Street - A benefit gig for the Palestinian cause with Kev Murphy and Friends?
Friday 11th
1pm - School of Music Colin McLean's new ensemble including by fantastically brilliant bass teacher David Whitla make their debut - I think it's South American stuff, bit of Piazolla and whatnot but I'm not sure. the good news is it'll cost nothing to find out!
8.30 Cyprus Avenue Kíla are back in town...
Saturday 12th
1pm Cork School of Music Should be v. good this, all good musicians .... nice alternative to yet another Saturday spent shopping... 'Jazz meets Classical - The Music of Claude Bolling' Classical guitarist Jerry Creedon is joined by flautist John O'Connor, Pianist Nicole Panizza, Deirdre Frost on Bass and Catriona Frost on Percusssion.
Sunday 13th
3pm Triskel A major coup - please plan to make it we don't usually get opportunities like this on a Sunday afternoon! Two exceptional classical musicians Patrycja Piekutowska (Violin) Beata Biliñska (Piano) who were lynchpins of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in 2006 are back playing in Bantry and are making a stop here. They are stunning ladies, very glamourous, and something beyond what is generally available here. Programme is Bacewicz and Penderecki - it cost about €40 to see them in West Cork in 2006 - by some miracle they're on offer in Triskel on Sunday for €10 !
Monday 14th
8pm Cork School of Music Another case of 'to what do we owe this pleasure?'... Reedplayer Michael Seaver (co-founder of the Crash Ensemble) is doing a seriously cool concert of music for clarinets, saxes and electronics performing music never before performed in Ireland by the men who invented the minimalism - Philip Glass, Steve Reich (I think he's doing New York Counterpoint here's a link to that particular beauty) and Gavin Bryars (of Jesus' Blood fame). Again a steal at €10, think he's launching a CD or something. www.michaelseaver.net
x Nicki
--
"Women of the world take over, cos if you don't the world will come to and end.... and it won't take long" - Jim O'Rourke
Some great music for my ears during the week - I think my highlight was a fantastic trad session at Charlie's on Sunday - 15 musicians there at least givin it socks.
*(Sorry to those of you who clicked through from my mailing list, I waited 4 hours for the video to load but no joy :-( ...)
Joya and co - will you please try and put Boutique Burlesque later in the week next time?!... it was the ruination of me last week (though it sure was a lot of fun). Not helped by the launch of Ladyfest (http://www.ladyfestcork.org) the following night which I'm really looking forward to.
A word of warning - anyone looking for music in Castlemartyr and thinking of popping into Clifford's be warned - Liam Lyons took out the tin whistle there while out for a pint with Breeda recently and was told sternly Don't be bringing music into this pub . Huh, that's the spirit eh?
So anyway...
Here's my pick of the gigs this week
Wednesday 9th
6pm, Spailpin Fanac Stella Rodriquez is organising a Bulgarian music workshop with composer/musician/teacher Stoimen Dobrev ... open to anyone to listen or if you're into it bring along an instrument...
8pm Fred Zeppelin's A mixed bag brought to you by UCC's Capriccio Society (who I was PRO of in my day but looks to be alot more exciting now) - a metal band called Deferens (http://www.myspace.com/deferens) acoustic duo Tadhg Healy & Merivale (http://www.myspace.com/tadhghea
Thursday 10th
8pm Cork School of Music Pretty exciting to have the Smith Quartet (the UK version of the Kronos, if you will) in town with sax player Gerard McChrystal for a night of new music that is easy on the ears and probably pretty damn exciting - Michael Nyman, Chick Corea and much more.
(for Irene Buckley who was asking, here's the full programme: Kevin Volans Hunting Gathering, Micheál Ó Suilleabháin Óiche Nollaig [in April?!], Michael McGlynn Suite from Invocation, Debussy Syrinx, Michael Nyman Shaping The Curve
Donnacha Dennehy New Commission by Music Network Ravel Piece en forme de Habanera Ciaran Farrell [he's the fella I was telling you about in the quay co-op, his myspace is http://www.myspace.com/ciaranfa
9pm The Bodega, White Room Cork Music Collective hosts a double bill with two very different halves - first up STeT Lab's experimental night (http://www.busterandfriends
9pm The Roundy The lovely Ger O'Rourke really needs no introduction www.myspace.com/gerwolfe
9pm Cruiscin Lan, Douglas Street - A benefit gig for the Palestinian cause with Kev Murphy and Friends?
Friday 11th
1pm - School of Music Colin McLean's new ensemble including by fantastically brilliant bass teacher David Whitla make their debut - I think it's South American stuff, bit of Piazolla and whatnot but I'm not sure. the good news is it'll cost nothing to find out!
8.30 Cyprus Avenue Kíla are back in town...
Saturday 12th
1pm Cork School of Music Should be v. good this, all good musicians .... nice alternative to yet another Saturday spent shopping... 'Jazz meets Classical - The Music of Claude Bolling' Classical guitarist Jerry Creedon is joined by flautist John O'Connor, Pianist Nicole Panizza, Deirdre Frost on Bass and Catriona Frost on Percusssion.
Sunday 13th
3pm Triskel A major coup - please plan to make it we don't usually get opportunities like this on a Sunday afternoon! Two exceptional classical musicians Patrycja Piekutowska (Violin) Beata Biliñska (Piano) who were lynchpins of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in 2006 are back playing in Bantry and are making a stop here. They are stunning ladies, very glamourous, and something beyond what is generally available here. Programme is Bacewicz and Penderecki - it cost about €40 to see them in West Cork in 2006 - by some miracle they're on offer in Triskel on Sunday for €10 !
Monday 14th
8pm Cork School of Music Another case of 'to what do we owe this pleasure?'... Reedplayer Michael Seaver (co-founder of the Crash Ensemble) is doing a seriously cool concert of music for clarinets, saxes and electronics performing music never before performed in Ireland by the men who invented the minimalism - Philip Glass, Steve Reich (I think he's doing New York Counterpoint here's a link to that particular beauty) and Gavin Bryars (of Jesus' Blood fame). Again a steal at €10, think he's launching a CD or something. www.michaelseaver.net
x Nicki
--
"Women of the world take over, cos if you don't the world will come to and end.... and it won't take long" - Jim O'Rourke
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