PUNK ROCK
Parquet Courts
Róisín Dubh, Galway 8pm €16/€14 roisindubh.net Also Thurs, Limerick
There are far worse things than being yet another punk-rock band from Brooklyn. Parquet Courts (right) at least manage the not inconsiderable feat of making as much a decent racket as they can without mention of The Libertines and The Strokes. So hello to Ireland, then, and a band smart enough to squeeze in some gigs before they play Electric Picnic next weekend.
BEYOND GENRE
Kaleidoscope
Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8pm €15 kaleidoscope.com
This week’s still-standing-and- still-challenging preconceptions award goes to Kaleidoscope, now entering its seventh season as the capital’s premier salon for new and experimental music. This genre-blind mini-festival usually happens at the Odessa Club on the first Wednesday of the month, but this season launch, featuring New Dublin Voices, Mozart, John Adams, Francesco Turrisi and others, takes the Kaleidoscope vibe to the gloriously sonorous Unitarian Church.
CULTURE VULTURES
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Belinda McKeon, Saint Sister
Odessa, Dublin €10 eventbrite.ie The cultural mixtape returns with a cracking line-up. Author Belinda McKeon will be interviewed by Tony Clayton- Lea, about the collection she has just edited for Tramp Press, A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne will give a reading and there will be live music from Saint Sister, the new atmostfolk project from Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre.
