PUNK/POP
Frnkiero andthe Cellabration
Bar Sub, Belfast 8pm £14.50 ticketmaster.ie Also Tues, Belfast; Wed, Dublin
My Chemical Romance is dead? Long live the very badly spelled Frnkiero and the Cellabration! What we have here is brilliantly ramshackle punk rock featuring former MCR members Frank Iero and Jarrod Alexander – good fun’n’games that we love to partake in now and again.
THEATRE
The Quiet Land
Mon Aug 31st/Tues Sept 1st
Bewley’s Café Theatre. Ends Sep 5 1pm €8-€12 (light lunch €4) bewleyscafetheatre.com
“Whatever happened to bacon and cabbage?” asks Eamon, a bachelor farmer recently discharged from hospital, who has met his neighbour by the side of the road. It’s one of a litany of losses in Malachy McKenna’s short elegiac play about the decline of rural Ireland, adapted from his award- winning radio play. With turf-bogs lying idle, sheep stocks sold off to neighbouring counties, and wind turbines edging into the countryside, Eamon and Nashee find themselves in an Ireland with little support or accommodation for them, and not much more than rueful humour to talk about it. As bandits conduct raids across these isolated farms, and old age eats away at their independence, at least they find solidarity in each other – don’t they?
