ACOUSTIC
Wyvern Lingo
Ruby Room, Castlebar, Co Mayo 8pm €10
You might not yet be familiar with the names of Saoirse Duane, Caoimhe Barry and Karen Cowley, but if you look closer you’ll realise you’ve seen them before as Hozier’s backing singers. As Wyvern Lingo, the women break out on their lonesome with an eerily beguiling folk sound bound to find favour with a wide audience this year.
TRAD
Ensemble Ériú
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co Clare 8pm €10
065-7071630
Traditional music cross-cut with minimalist influences, not to mention free-flowing jazz-tinged tones. Concertina player Jack Talty and bass player Neil O’Loghlen, founders of this lateral-thinking ensemble, have steered it in under two years to a TG4 Gradam Ceoil Collaborators’ Award, which reveals much about their modus vivendi. This is the first of two concerts in Clare this week. Live, the Ensemble crackle and pop with a vitality that other bands would kill for.
ALBUM PREVIEW
Villagers
Spirit Store, Dundalk Co Louth 8pm €20 (sold out)
spiritstore.ie
The new album is, by all accounts, done, dusted, wrapped up in a big red bow and ready to be delivered. This low-key, intimate road-testing of forthcoming material, then, is something of a treat for fans of this most inventive of Irish bands.
ELECTRONIC
Ben UFO
Crystal, Waterford 10.30pm €15/€12
facebook.com/BenUFO.DJ
You can tell the influence of Ben Thomson by the quality of releases on Hessle Audio, the label he set up with Pearson Sound and Pangaea. Acts like James Blake, Untold, Objekt, Peverelist and many more have found a berth at Hessle to demonstrate Thomson’s smarts when it comes to A&R. As a DJ – and especially a DJ who is not a producer – he has made his bones as a selector who switches genres and sounds with ease to keep a club on its toes. Support from Paul Mc and Cailín Power.
CLUB
Not Pop Up
Odessa, Dublin 11.30pm €5
odessa.ie
Opening bow for a new night which takes over the venue's roof terrace with appearances from Neil Flynn and Emmet Condon. Flynn is the Berlin-based Waterford native whose debut EP, Louise, picked up good notices on its release last year on the Lossless label, while Condon is the Limerick-born DJ, promoter and Homebeat co-founder. Expect deep, emotional, powerful house and electronica from the pair.
SUPERSTAR DJ
John Digweed
Button Factory, Dublin 11pm €20
johndigweed.com
John Digweed was one of the original of the superstar DJ species, a dude capable of filling big rooms with ease and then treating all comers to deep, dark electronic screamers. From initial collaborations and club residencies with Sasha to a rake of finely pitched mixes and releases, Digweed has always been one to grab your attention with one deep, hypnotic masterstroke after another.
