EXHIBITION
Women to Blame
Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin 9.30am-9pm Mon-Fri Until Nov 16 facebook.com/womentoblameireland
This multimedia exhibition marks 40 years of struggle for contraception and reproductive rights in Ireland and features riches from the attics of women and men involved in the campaigns. Expect to see the Irish Women's Liberation Movement in all its glory. Expect to look today's women's liberation movement in the face. Women's bodies are there in all their rebellious glory – in newsprint, in video, in colour, in black and white. New to the struggle or old hand, go. It could be you.
FESTIVAL
Dublin Beatles Festival 2014
Various venues/times/ticket prices
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The organisers swore blind that last year’s inaugural Dublin Beatles Festival would be the first and final, but here we are again with a full weekend of Fab Four-related events. There’s too much to list here, so check out the website. A highlight, however, is a gig and public interview (via Tom Dunne) with Beatles inner circle guy Neil Innes.
TRADITIONAL
Jon Sanders and Greg Sheehan
DC Club, Camden Row 9pm €15/€13 musiclee.ie Also Sat, Donegal
Back on a flying visit from his adopted home in New Zealand, multi-instrumentalist Sanders births his newly minted album Zoukelele with tunes on bouzouki, ukelele and stringed instruments of other shapes and sizes too. Australian percussionist Sheehan adds further zest to the mix.
TECHNO
Kölsch
Button Factory 11pm €15 soundcloud.com/kolsch
A producer wiith Irish, Danish and German roots, Rune Reilly has found a lot of takers for his innovative techno in recent times. Be it releases for Michael Meyer's Kompakt or the well- regarded Tattoorecs imprint set up with his brother, Reilly has gained quite a rep. Support for the man behind such epic tunes as Calabria and Burning Boombox and work with such pop acts as Nicki Minaj and Shakira from Mulljoy and the Republic DJs.
HOUSE
Oxia
Grand Social 11.30pm €15 thegrandsocial.ie
French DJ and producer Olivier Raymond has been around the houses for some time. Since the mid-1990s, he has been putting his name to sturdy, robust releases for a variety of labels including Kompakt, Tsuba, 8bit and Goodlife, the latter a collaboration with fellow Grenoble natives Michel "The Hacker" Amato and Alexandre Reynaud. If you want a re-up on his work, check out the much-admired debut solo album 24 Heures or the more recent Tides of Mind. Support from Spok.
SINGER-SONGWRITER
SOAK
Christchurch, Derry City 7.30pm £10 Also Sat Dublin
Having grown up before our very eyes, 18-year-old Derry singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson continues her climb to crossover success with a hometown gig.
