CLUB
The Building Society
Hangar, Dublin 11pm €18/€15 facebook.com/TheBuildingSocietyDublin
Ejeca is another name to add to the growing number of talented Irish electronic music-makers at large at present. From Glengormley, outside Belfast, Garry McCartney has come a long way since messing around as a whippersnapper with a Yamaha keyboard acquired as a Christmas present. He's one of the reliable names around the current 1990s' house revival buzz with releases like Horizon, Keep the Love and Rick Flair keeping him in the headlines. Support from Berlin-based producer Chambray.
ELECTRO THRILLER
Epoch
Electric, Galway 10pm €10/€8 electricgalway.com
Epoch’s big night out for this year’s Galway Arts Festival features a visit from Ferenc E van der Sluijs, the Dutch electro thriller better known as Interr-Ference and I-F (or Beverly Hills 808303 on those occasions which call for some primal, sleazy acid in the mix). From The Hague, van der Sluijs rates highly thanks to tough, uncompromising and ferocious “industrial blues for the red-sun techno-wave generation” sounds for Viewlexx, Murder Capital, Disko B and many more. Support in the shape of a live set from Wicklow’s Automatic Tasty as well as Epoch residents Colin Finnegan and Enda.
WORLD
Sona Jobarteh
Sugar Club, Leeson St, Dublin 8pm €15 sugarclub.com
London-born but steeped in the “griot” culture of her West African roots, Sona Jobarteh is the first woman to make it in the male-dominated world of kora playing. This demanding stringed instrument is the piano of West African music, hugely revered and laden with tradition. But though she respects the tradition – her cousin is kora master Toumani Diabaté – Jobarteh isn’t afraid to innovate, or to use her platform to sing about contemporary issues.
