FRIDAY
Eats Everything
District 8, Dublin 11pm €20/€18 facebook.com/MrEatsEverything
Daniel Pearce is Eats Everything, the Bristol DJ and producer who has been making waves since he appeared on the scene in 2011 with Entrance Song. Since then, Pearce’s releases for labels such as Claude Von Stroke’s Dirtybird, remixes for such blue-chip acts as Rudimental, Four Tet and Disclosure and a busy run of gigs in the usual clubbing haunts worldwide have pushed the DJ’s profile onwards and upwards. Check his Fries With That release for Hypercolour last year for a flavour of what’s on the Eats Everything menu.
Sam Paganini
Button Factory, Dublin 11pm €18/€15 facebook.com/SamPaganiniOfficial
The Italian for techno? That would be Sam Paganini. Since 1997, the producer and DJ from Treviso in northern Italy has been slowly building a buzz for himself. In recent years, Paganini’s releases for such well-regarded techno stables as Richie Hawtin’s Plus 8, Adam Bayer’s Drumcode and Sven Vath’s Cocoon Recordings have cemented his reputation and made him a regular at such clubs as Berghain in Berlin. His Satellite album for Drumcode is a good place to check out his searing, hyonotic, dark, intense sound.
Traces of Memory
Coach House, Dublin Castle
This exhibition features photographs by the late British photojournalist Chris Schwarz and research and texts by Prof Jonathan Webber (Unesco chair of Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham) collected over 12 years. It examines the Jewish culture (below) that was destroyed during the second World War in Polish Galicia (an area that straddles the border of Poland and Ukraine).
SATURDAY
Is This Art or Can I Throw it Out?
Youth Arts Festival talk/workshop for 12-14 year olds by Alan Nolan. Courthouse Arts Centre, Main St, Tinahely, Co Wicklow Noon-1pm €5
Author and illustrator Alan Nolan presents a useful talk/workshop that aims to answer a common question. He considers how art is made today, what it can be made from, and how we might choose to regard it. The target audience is aged from 12 to 14 years, and there is a charge: €5.
Twitch
The Bunatee, Belfast 10pm £8 twitchbelfast.com
Belfast underground house leaders Twitch start 2016 with a visit from Bristol artist Shanti Celeste (right). After cutting her teeth at the city’s Idle Hands record shop, Chilean- born Celeste has gone on to show her skills as a producer (for Julio Bashmore’s Broadwalk label, amongst others), DJ, vocalist, label-owner (the BRSTL imprint) and promoter with a fine touch when it comes to house, and electro. Support from the Twitch residents.
Truss
District 8, Dublin 11pm €18/€15 district8dublin.com
Tom Russell’s tough, bracing techno has won many fans over the last few years, especially on his visits to the capital where he was a regular favourite at the old Twisted Pepper. Beyond the four walls and roofs of various clubs, Russell’s releases as Truss and MPIA3 for the Miniscule, Perc Trax, Synewave and R&S labels have also spread the word about his talents. Support from Paula Temple and Jon Hussey.
Donatello
Passion Club, Dublin 10pm €15 riverbar.ie
Lithuania is in the house in the shape of progressive house spinner Donatello. From Kaunas, Donatello has made waves and thrown shapes in various clubs there and in Vilnius before moving further afield with dates throughout Europe. Support on his latest visit to Ireland comes from Mind_J, Kamil and Ernestas Sivakovas.
Bank of Secrets
Gallery X, 65 South William Street, Dublin 2 galleryx.ie 10am-5pm
For one day only, Gallery X transforms into a vault for your deepest, darkest secrets. Scribble down your unmentionables on a deposit slip and bank manager/artist Will St Leger will be on hand to process them. This bank though is more Swiss than Ansbacher, so none will be revealed to the public. Instead they will be burned in a big pyre, and turned into an ephemeral mural for the streets of Dublin that will then be washed away by the rain, leaving your mind purified, and your deeds in a place that no banking enquiry can get at them. This is possibly the only art work my legal advisers have ever taken an interest in.
SUNDAY
The Foggy Dew, Mick O’Dea
Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin Until Feb 21 rhagallery.ie
Following his War of Independence exhibitions, Mick O’Dea looks back to consider the event that lit the fuse: the Easter Rising in 1916. He does so in the space of four monumental canvases depicting sites in the centre of Dublin: ‘The GPO, Upper O’Connell Street, within the GPO, the RHA on Middle Abbey Street and College Green.’ He has drawn on myriad documentary sources in constructing detailed panoramic images.
Henry Rollins
Vicar St Dublin 7.30pm €28 vicarstreet.ie
He is many things to many people, but there’s little doubt that Henry Rollins is very much is own man. His ‘Charmingly Obstinate’ tour makes its Irish debut, and while some might deem the performer/spoken word antagonist to be more obstinate than charming, there’s no doubt whatsoever that this is a must-see gig. My tribe. Your tribe. Diatribe.
