RIOT GRRL
Sinéad O'Connor
Vicar St Dublin 7.30pm €39.50
vicarstreet.ie
What a creative resurgence this woman has experienced over the past few years. It helps that her recent material is as tough and tender and insightful as pop music gets, but it’s fairly obvious that O’Connor herself has just grown with it. Take me to church? We’re sitting on the pews already, ma’am.
JAZZ/CONTEMPORARY
13 Vices
The Mac, Exchange st, 8pm, £12, themaclive.com;
Great Hall, Magee Campus, 7.30pm, £10/6, milleniumforum.co.uk (Thurs)
Anarchic Belfast composer Brian Irvine is one of music's great mavericks. His latest assault on musical orthodoxy is a collaboration with fellow composer and singer Jennifer Walshe, inspired by a set of Moscow sculptures entitled Children are the victims of adult vices which stand in the shadow of the Kremlin. Drawing from jazz, contemporary classical, theatre, opera, poetry and free improvisation, Irvine conducts an ensemble featuring English saxophonist Paul Dunmall. Tour continues to Drogheda and Dublin next week.
JAZZ
Jo Lawry
JJ Smyths, Aungier St., 9pm, €14,
jjsmyths.com
Aussie singer Jo Lawry is here this week to provide backing vocals for a certain Gordon Sumner, appearing elsewhere in the city. But on her days off from that world-tour juggernaut, she and Will Vinson, have been sneaking off to do their own small-venue tour launching Lawry's latest album Taking Pictures. Mr Sumner has been known to return the favour, but you can't say you heard it here.
FILM
Irish-Latin American Film Festival
Tin Jug Studio, Saint Brendan Street, Birr, Co Offaly, 4pm-10pm Donation €4
lasc.ie, tinjugstudio.com
You can’t fault them for ambition. The 16th Irish Latin American Film Festival, which travels around the country, takes place in Birr on Wednesday 8th, with a selection of shorts and documentaries, with a particular focus on Chile. It’s a hard one to summarise (the press release alone is five pages long) but it’s an impressive program – and it’s all there on the website.
