ELECTRONICA
Out to Lunch
Bar Tengu Dublin 10pm €12
One of the best live shows in Dublin's old Twisted Pepper occurred when Laurel Halo visited the main room in 2012 around the time of the release of her Quarantine album.
The Ann Arbour native's approach to bass rhythms and abstract pop has always produced captivating sounds. She's joined tonight by Andras Fox, the Melbourne producer behind a string of alluring wonky house releases, a collaboration with Oscar Key Sung on the Embassy Café album and Overworld work for dance theatre as A.r.t. Wilson.
ART
Strange Attractor
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co Cork 1pm-4pm
Strange Attractor is a durational, improvised live performance by Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea and David Stalling. They will be joined by special guest Jed Speare (Sirius artist-in-residence). Strange Attractor is a multi- dimensional, collaborative venture that experiments with sound, movement, technology, combined media, text and found objects. All are welcome.
TRAD
The Ace and Deuce of Piping
Liberty Hall 8pm €25/€20 ctb.ie
Na Píobairí Uilleann’s annual concert raises the bar this year with a humdinger of a guest list that stretches from former TG4 Young Traditional Musician of the Year, piper, Pádraic Keane to American-born fiddler, Jesse Smith with Robbie Hannan, Catherine McEvoy, Bakerswell with Jimmy Kelly and so many others. Promises to be a marathon session.
SINGER-SONGWRITER
Róisín O
INEC Acoustic Club, Killarney, Co Kerry 8pm €12 inec.ie Also Thurs, Cork
Over the past few years, Irish singer and songwriter Róisín O has made it very clear that she won't be pressurised into following up her 2012 debut album, The Secret Life of Blue. She has taken her time, then, and reaped the rewards because of that. An extra bonus with recent gigs, however, is the singer previewing songs from her forthcoming, as-yet untitled second album.
DEEP TECH
Club Sessions
Revolution Waterford 10pm €10
Club Sessions mark their second birthday with a visit from Ordinary Subject. The alter-ego of Berlin duo Alexander Siegel and Christian Scheel, Ordinary Subject’s deep tech and house has gained them quite a following since they first joined forces in 2010. Check out some recent releases by them for the Potsdam-based Reduced label for more. Support from Will Power and Karsten Borre.
URSINE HOUSE
The 2 Bears
District 8, Dublin 11pm €20/€18/€15
When he's not part of the Hot Chip groove machine, Joe Goddard keeps busy as one of The 2 Bears. Both Goddard and his fellow Bear Raf Rundell are well capable of creating deeply soulful house and euphoric disco turns. Their albums to date, last year's The Night Is Young and 2012's Be Strong, showed that their Bear game was strong and that this is certainly more a mere side project at this stage.
