WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
IADT Gradshow 2015
Kill Avenue campus, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, June 5th-10th 2015 iadt.ie
Get down to Dun Laoghaire to catch a glimpse of the creative heroes of tomorrow. Featuring some extraordinary work from the class of 2015, this year's exhibition - which was launched by the illustrious (and lustrous) IADT alumnus Panti Bliss - will showcase animation, photography (including some striking work by graduate Svetlana Zabelina), visual communication, visual arts, film & TV production, model-making, digital effects and design for stage & screen. The future may be just a Dart away.
MOVIE & MUSIC
O Brother, Where Art Thou?/ Cujo Family / Mick Pyro
Sugar Club, Dublin 8pm €12.50/€10 thesugarclub.com
A cute idea, this: a classic contemporary movie whose soundtrack is renditioned by live music. With arcane, classic US roots/bluegrass on the OST menu, who better than The Cujo Family and former Republic of Loose frontman Mick Pyro to add a touch of fizz to that proceedings? And what's this? Free popcorn? Ah, c'mon!
ELECTRONICA
Slow Magic
Button Factory, Dublin 11pm €10 facebook.com/slowwmagic
Who's the man behind the furry fox mask? Over the past few years, the enigmatic Slow Magic has gathered quite a tribe to his side on the back of slinky, dark, cosmic electronic sounds, full of unexpected twists and turns. Both Triangle and last year's How to Run Away albums, as well as tours with acts such as Gold Panda, have seen many more signing up to Slow Magic's fanclub.
BIRTHDAY
Torque
Pacino's, Dublin Midnight €10 facebook.com/pacinosevents
Torque celebrates its first birthday with a night on the tiles led by Slowburn. The work of Phillip Long and David Hargadon, Slowburn's rich, layered grooves have gained them fans over at the Grounded in Humanity, Apartment and Lunar Disco labels. In addition to Slowburn at large in the cellar for four hours, there's Newbridge duo Gary O'Reilly and Rob Smyth aka Mix & Fairbanks clocking in for work with twisted disco and jacking edits in the smoking area.
TRAD
John Carty, Shane McGowan and Maggie Carty
St John's Arts Centre, Listowel 8pm €12/€10 068-22566
UK-born Roscommon resident John Carty is a spellbinding fiddle and banjo player and former TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year. Tonight's intimate performance sees him collaborate with Shane McGowan on guitar and Maggie Carty on banjo. Expect many sublime tunes, played with a rare ear for minute detail.
THEATRE
No Smoke Without Fire
Bewley's Café Theatre at Powerscourt Townhouse. Ends Jun 13 1pm €8-€12 (lunch €4)
bewleyscafetheatre.com If ever there was an actor you wanted to see more of, it's Mary Murray (below). On stage she has always had a magnetic focus, a presence somewhere between no-nonsense control and a shiver of vulnerability. It's that quality that made her the calming centre of Love/Hate and why, in some ways, her character's murder was the death of the show. This solo piece, written by her father Paddy Murray, is an invitation to let loose: Murray plays six characters, clearly defined and different characters gossiping in the smoking area of a pub, ruminating on the spoils of a post-office robbery and who among their peers is implicated.
