Monday
Turn
New works by Marc Reilly. Presented by Paul Kane at the Piano Nobile gallery rooms, Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Sq. Ends 8th April
As a visual artist, Marc Reilly goes against the contemporary grain in one central way. Contemporary art is all about exegesis. Where would we be without a curator or a theorist telling us about the layers and intricacies of what we're looking at? We'd probably be looking at a work by Reilly and thinking: Yes, I get this, and I like it.
Inside the GPO
Post Office Hall, GPO 7.30pm & 9pm
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The promotional image for Fishamble's new production shows a Volunteer, holding a Tricolour, before the GPO. It is not the battle-scarred, bullet-pocked shell you recognise from period photographs, but the fresh façade of today, and the centre columns part back like opening curtains. It's a neat summation, perhaps, of Colin Murphy's new play, which both treats the GPO as a stage - a theatre for an act of rebellion and a place to revive the voices of the Rising. Performed in the main hall of the post office, Murphy's play, a scrupulously researched dramatisation, follows the rebel leadership across five days of tumultuous occupation: from seizure to street looting, shelling to surrender. Jim Culleton directs a large cast, featuring Karen Ardiff, Liz Fitzgibbon, Aidan Kelly, Ronan Leahy and Don Wycherley.
Tuesday
Muse
3Arena Dublin, 8pm, €64.50 (Also Wed, Belfast)
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There ain't no show like a Muse show. The UK band bring their Drones World Tour to Dublin which sees them perform "in the round" for the first time.
Trad: Michael O'Connell, Ben Lennon, Brian Lennon, Seamus Quinn and Íde Nic Mhathúna
The Cobblestone, 9pm, €12/€8
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Curated by Na Píobairí Uilleann, tonight's event is an attractive coalition of pipes, fiddle, flute, piano and vocals.
Wars, Woes and Weddings
Medieval Museum, The Mall, Waterford, 7.30pm, €5
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Julian Walton delivers a talk on the the turbulent life of Richard Power of Curraghmore, 1630-1690.
Wednesday
Moderat
Vicar St Dublin, 7pm, €28
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Supergroup of the week, Moderat are the Berlin group combining the talents of Modeselektor and Apparat. The brace of albums to date from Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary and Sascha Ring (right) have shown that the pairing is capable of new steers, with both albums full of electropop, bass and rave energy and jams. Live, as they've shown at previous Irish shows, they're a throbbing, thumping force to be reckoned with.
Sons of Kemet
Sugar Club, Leeson St; 8pm, €17.50/€15, thesugarclub.com (Wednesday)
Black Box, Hill St, 9pm, £15/10, movingonmusic.com (Thursday)
There's something raw and primal about the Sons of Kemet sound – no guitars, no keyboards, no bass, no chords at all – just two horn players and two drummers getting in the groove. Winners of MOBO award in 2013, the group drill down into the musical connections between Africa and the Caribbean and come up with solid gold.
Young II
SO Fine Art Editions, 10 South Anne St until May 5th
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Nicely counterpointing the RHA Annual Exhibition, SO's follow-on from 2014's "Young" features another, extensive line-up of emerging talents across a wide range of disciplines including printmaking, photography, sculpture, bookmaking and applied arts.
Thursday
So Through the Singing Land He Passed
The Lab, Foley St, Dublin until June 12th
Sabina Mac Mahon stumbled on the little known modernist painter Maimie Campbell (1905-1997) when researching the South Down Society of Modern Art. More recently she tracked down a 1929 painting,The Death of Cúchulainn.
For this show, she invited five emerging artists to respond to the work. Michael-John Cervi re-enacted the hero's demise as depicted in Oliver Sheppard's iconic sculpture. Emma O'Brien pictures him in happier times. Conor Dowling, Sophie Prendergast and Caoimhseach Ní Lamhna also offer their takes on the subject. Bear in mind that Mac Mahon's enduring concerns are the construction of myths and historical narratives.
Word Up Collective
Bello Bar, Portabello, Dublin, 7pm #5
Say hello to a new overseeing group that aims to promote the work of a growing section of soul/R&B/hip-hop oriented artists. This launch gig features sets from Sam Ojo, Damola, Stay Gold, Dyramid, Craft
Work, Young Phantom, and Katie Laffan. Special guest is UK rapper/producer, Roll Blunt.
Claptone
Carbon, Galway, 11pm, €10
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Claptone's remix of Gregory Porter's "Liquid Spirit" was one of the big tunes of last year. Putting together tunes which rock the house is something which the masked Berlin DJ and producer has made an art form during his career. As part of the Exploited crew, Claptone releases such asCream, Wrong and Ghost have demonstrated that there's a big audience out there for his deep, organic take on classic house.
