POP
Lady Gaga
3Arena, Dublin 8pm €39.05 3Arena.ie
Lady Gaga brings her artRAVE, The ARTPOP Ball tour to Dublin. It's the biggest gig of the week but comes at a point where Gaga's output is now at its most scrutinised. It isn't that she's commercially weak (she's one of the bestselling music artists of recent times), it's more that her 2013 album, Artpop, failed to engage as brilliantly as previous records. Chancer or avant-garde pop star extraordinaire? We're making a strong case for the former.
ART
Aether
Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin Until Oct 30 oonaghyoung.com
German fantasy writer and illustrator Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was also involved in science and architecture, and at the end of the 19th century, tried to make a perpetual motion machine. Martin Healey's new film work refers to his published account of his attempts. A lone protagonist wandering through a tidal landscape muses on utopian attempts to harness the physical world, and the fraught relationship between scientific theory and aesthetics.
ELECTRONICA
Taylor McFerrin
Sugar Club Dublin 11pm €10 thesugarclub.com
It's apt that Taylor McFerrin found a home for himself on Brainfeeder, the label set up for Flying Lotus to house musical mavericks. McFerrin's album from earlier this year, Early Riser, was a lovely example of a musician making connections between soul, jazz, psych and electronica. Besides a live set from him, tonight also features DJ Supermarket (TooSlowToDisco), Dublin-based soul/improv ensemble Butter, DJ Scope and We 3 Kings.
JAZZ
Phisqa
The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim 8.30pm thedock.ie
Multinational, multicultural, multi-instrumental and multi- talented – Phisqa (it means "five" in Quencha) stir the grand melting pot of 21st-century music with a big creative spoon. This Dublin-based collective of ex-pats and natives (led by Peruvian percussionist Cote Calmet and including US saxophonist Tom Caraher, Venezuelan pianist Leopoldo Oslo, Irish bassist Cormac O'Brien and Italian guitarist Julien Colarossi) brew a heady broth of jazz flavoured with South American folk music and much more besides.
