The Pavilion, Cork Tonight 11pm €10 before midnight/ €12 021-4276230
There’s a nostalgic tinge to how promoters are plugging Gerald Simpson’s brace of Irish dates this week: he was in Dublin last night for a Stone Roses after- show party, while posters for tonight’s turn at Cork’s Electric Underground pimps his smiley- bedecked acid house past.
The Manchester native and 808 State co-founder has been a seminal figure in dance music since Voodoo Ray in 1988. Indeed, it’s a testament to the tune’s timeless allure that it remains in a class of its own today.
Unlike many of his peers from back in the day, Simpson hasn’t exclusively relied on the rave nostalgia circuit. If you’re after forward-thinking electronic music, check out his post-acid albums Black Secret Technology, To All the Things What They Need, Proto Acid and Tronic Jazz, in which blazing sounds are to the fore. JIM CARROLL
Can’t See That? Catch This
Jerry Dammers brings The Specials’ sauce (Fri, Belfast and Sat, Dublin); new-school kicks with George Fitzgerald at Mud (Fri, Dublin); and Make a Move continues to bust a move all weekend (Fri-Sun, Limerick)
