ART
Nearshore: Cormac Boydell, Karen Hendry, John Kingerlee and Kathleen Standen
West Cork Arts Centre, Uillinn, Skibbereen, Co Cork Until June 11
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Uillinn features four artists who are influenced by the dramatically indented coastline of west Cork and south Kerry: Cormac Boydell’s extraordinary fired-clay wall works, Kathleen Standen’s ceramics inspired by coastal technology, textural paintings by John Kingerlee and Karen Hendry’s pastorals in the age of agricultural industry.
TRAD
The Birdsong Project
Cúil na Sméar Hall, Dungarvan, Co Waterford 8pm €5
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Bealtaine Festival celebrates creativity in older age, and this gathering of singers, drawn from across the country, have been celebrating the rich pickings of songs about birds over the month of May. Tonight’s performance will include Tim Dennehy, Ann Mulqueen, Máire Ní Chéileachair, Senan Lillis and Micheál Marrinan. All the songs will be recorded and shared online after the tour has finished.
CLUB
Jam City
Whelans Upstairs, Dublin 7.30pm €10
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Jack Latham's bouts of leftfield ducking and diving to date have made for some intriguing adventures. As both his Classical Curves and recent Dream A Garden albums have shown, Latham is a producer keen to explore what happens when wonky electronics, idiosyncratic r'n'b and disorientating bass come together. Support from the Palisade DJs.
BIRTHDAY
Epoch
Electric, Galway 11pm €8/€5
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Here’s a stupid question for you: how do you celebrate three years of throwing parties in the wild west? By throwing another one, of course. Epoch turns three with Crème Organization’s TLR at the top of the bill, a guy whose label has an enviable past when it comes to producing buzzy house, techno and electro over the last while, with many of those tracks featuring on past Epoch playlists. Support from Epoch regular gunslinger Colin Finnegan.
LAUNCH
Republik Music
Crystal, Waterford 10pm €12/€10
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Clubbers in the south-east will know Republik as the folks behind some fantastic underground nights out featuring homegrown and visiting DJs and acts. Tonight, they head to the next level with the launch of the Republik Music label. Berlin-based Deise native Wayne Duggan kicks things off with the Experiment EP, and he's back for tonight's launch party alongside headliner Patlac (Liebe*Detail) and Baikal (Maeve Records).
CLUB
Gerd Janson
Twisted Pepper, Dublin 10.30pm €15/€13
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There are probably thousands of folks who recognise Gerd Janson without knowing why. A long-running member of the team behind the Red Bull Music Academy, Janson appears on countless RBMA videos interviewing DJs and musicians. Away from the microphone, Janson is a sharp operator whose credits include the Running Back label, releases with Phillip Lauer as Tuff City Kids for Unterton, Delsin and Terre Des Pommes, and residencies at Frankfurt’s Robert Johnson and Berlin’s Panorama Bar. Support from Shane Linehan and Barry Redsetta.
