PUB TALK
Banter
Sugar Club, Dublin 7pm €6/€12
thesugarclub.com
Whither now the Irish pub? Is it closing time for most people's favourite instiution or a bright, sparkling new morning? The latest edition of Banter will be trying to get to grips with this and other drink-linked conundrums, after a screening of the documentary, The Irish Pub, followed by a performance by Ensemble Ériu. Probably the only gig this week that you can't get kicked out of for drunk heckling, we assume.
ROCK
Spies
Cyprus Avenue Cork 9pm, €7, Also Wed , Dublin
cyprusavenue.ie
And so it comes to pass for this highly thought-of Dublin band, which has just released its new EP Sea Creature. Much admired by the music press, Spies fuse post-punk with 1980s rock. Echo & The National, anyone?
