Friday
Psychemagik
Opium Rooms Dublin, 11pm €15/€12/€10
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British duo Danny McLewis and Tom Coveney's prowess when it comes to balmy disco and cosmic house has served them well in spreading the word about Psychemagik. Since kicking off with a spacey reworking of Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere, McLewis and Coveney's remixes (for Haim, Azari & III, Metronomy and many more), re-edits and mixtapes (including a series for the Test Pressing podcast) have been full of deep and wide psych colour and pizzazz. Support from Stephen Manning, with Big Dish Go's Conor Feeney in the Garden.
Paradox
Button Factory Dublin, 11pm €12/€10
Back in March, Jacob B was in town for a show down on the quays at the Wiley Fox. Six months on, the promoters are sensibly betting that the word of mouth about that show will help to stuff the Temple Bar venue. From Wroclaw in western Poland, the DJ and producer, born Kuba Biedrzycki, has won much acclaim for thumping tracks like Sruba and 1993. Support from Cal Johnstone (Simma Black/Criminal Hype) and various heads from the Paradox, Pumpers and Illicit crews.
Rising
Peacock Theatre. Aug 17-20 8pm (Sat mat 2.30pm) €18/€16
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You may have thought that every possible angle on the Rising has been quite thoroughly explored already this year, from costumed recreations to costumed docudramas, to several hundred performances, dances and exhibitions focused on Man of the Year, Roger Casement. But what about the role of young people? Dublin Youth Theatre now get in on the Commemorative act by throwing their net slightly wider and taking a contemporary look at revolution and protest in the lives of young people in Ireland today. Developed with a cast of 20 in collaboration with writer Helena Enright and director Tom Creed, the new show uses archive materials and interviews with artists, activists, journalists, and politicians to explore how young people become radicalised or engage with social issues. In the digital tumult of today, what can be learned from the past?
Saturday
Killekill x Bastard Electrico
Cyprus Avenue, Cork, 11.30pm, €12/€10
killekill.com
Killekill is pretty big deal. Based in Berlin, you've an entity which started out as a club night in the Berghain venue before moving onto record releases (EOMAC, Neil Landstrumm, Affie Yusuf and tons more) and a festival (Krake). Representing Killekill on this visit to Cork as part of their eighth birthday tour are Alienata (the brilliant Spanish native who is currently working on her Kat Channel collab with Snuffo) and label overseer DJ Flush, with Ellen King, aka ELLLL, flying the Cork flag.
Telephones
Bar Tengu, Dublin, 10.30pm, €12/€5
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Mr Mendel learned the ropes the old-fashioned way. The Amsterdam native cut his teeth spinning hip-hop bangers at Duivel before heading off to Bitterzoet and a day-job sorting the soul, disco, Afro and Brazilian dusty grooves at Waxwell Records. Aside from various residencies at nights like Doka and I Love Vinyl in his home city, Mendel has also brought the funk around the world. He's in Dublin to play at Telephones' last soiree of the summer.
Pygmalion
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Ends Sep 3 2.30pm & 7.30pm (No show Mon) €18/€15
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Everyone knows the story. The supercilious phonetician Henry Higgins bets his colleague Colonel Pickering that he can transform a "pore flahr gel" into a Mayfair Lady, elevating her humble status into that of a duchess with scant regards for social and emotional consequences. George Bernard Shaw could never quite reconcile his didactic satire on class barriers, moral equivocation and the stifling of female independence with something quite as pleasing as a romance – which is why, after decades of subversive attempts, we finally got My Fair Lady. But Shaw's play is far more alive to the cruelty of the "experiment", and for all the mirth you find in Doolittle, Eliza's father and a contented member of the "undeserving poor", or in the entertainment of Higgins's irascibility, even a summer production in Dublin must recognise where all this sardonic logic flashes with violent intent. Liam Halligan directs Anna Sheils-McNamee, Paul Meade and Gerard Byrne in this complicated fable of transition.
Anders Bergcrantz w/ Phil Ware Trio
JJ Smyths, Aungier St, Dublin 9pm, €15
jjsmyths.com
Anders Bergcrantz is one of Europe's leading trumpeters, with a sound descended from hard-bop greats like Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. Which makes bop-fluent pianist Phil Ware and his trio, with bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, the perfect hosts for the Swede's flying visit to Dublin, and the hallowed upstairs room at JJ Smyths the perfect environment to experience music that was born in such spaces.
Sunday
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Vicar Street, Dublin, 7.30pm, €28
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Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor (right) are one of the defining bands of the past 20 years, especially in the area of post-rock instrumental music. Anyone with a liking for lengthy, all-embracing music enhanced by film loop projections will know what to do.
Bad (L)attitudes: Reassessing Finnish Femininity
Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway Until October 6th
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Five Finnish artists employ "irreverent, wry . . . humour" in addressing the perceptions and realities of women's experience in contemporary Finland – and contemporary society in a wider context. Suvi Aarnio, Johanna Havimäki, Marja Helander, Kirsti Kotilaine and Heta Kuchka are the artists. Anna McGowan, who completed her MA at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway, curated.
