TRAD
Goitse
St Louis Convent Hall, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan 8pm €10
carrickmacross.ie/feilepatrickbyrne
This year’s local Féile Patrick Byrne ramps up its engines with this five-piece who emerged from the Irish World Academy of Music in the University of Limerick. Plaudits have been coming thick and fast for their live performances, so this festival headliner should see them setting all of their cylinders on fire.
HOUSE
Hidden Agenda
Opium Rooms, Dublin 11pm €15
hiddenagenda.ie
Two stellar acts for the price of one at Hidden Agenda tonight. Main room headliners are Snakehips, London producers James David and Ollie Dickinson, who've been gaining attention for slick contemporary house tunes with plenty of frills like On & On and current banger Forever (Part II). The other draw at the Opium Rooms is Prins Thomas, the Norwegian cosmic disco space cadet who has been sending dancefloors loopy for some time with primetime boogie music, either on his own stead or in cahoots with Hans-Peter Lindstrom.
PSYCH
Meltybrains?
Set Theatre, Kilkenny 10.30pm Adm free
We’re not sure what labels you can possibly apply to Meltybrains? in the hope that they might stick, but when the y take to the stage, they are one of the best in the current live business in Ireland. If you haven’t seen the cut of their psych rock prog jib in action yet, now is the time to get on the Brains bandwagon. And it’s for nothing. Sure look it.
