It’s a bank holiday weekend, so let’s get musical. For this Weekender, the buzzword is eclecticism: we’ve got a mini-festival up in Kilmainham, some smooth soul at the Sugar Club and an Italo-Disco party at Odesso. Ciao bella. And to top it off, the latest offering from cinematic tour-de-force Ken Loach.
Forbidden Fruit
Saturday 31 May 31 – Sunday 1 June | Royal Hospital Kilmainham | €59.50 / €110
The sound of the doors of summer festivals officially being creaked open for another year of designer wellies, day-glo accessories and sunburnt shoulders, Forbidden Fruit takes place over the June Bank Holiday. It has grown steadily from a city festival into a mini-Picnic, encompassing as it does comedy, food and a line-up of centre-left international big hitters, like Flaming Lips and 2 Many DJs (coincidentally both headliners at EP2005) as well the probably more interesting stuff on the smaller stages: Flying Lotus (pictured), Fuck Buttons, Nils Frahm, Little Dragon and Public Enemy.
Orbital DJ Set @ Twisted Pepper
Saturday 31 May | Twisted Pepper | 10.30pm, €15.00
Announcing a very special Orbital/Phil Hartnoll ‘Classics DJ Set,’ featuring selected Orbital classics and rare mixes/remixes from the revered electronic duo in the confines of The Twisted Pepper.
Jimmy’s Hall
Opens Saturday 31 May | Irish Film Institute
Ken Loach returns to Ireland with Jimmy’s Hall; in many ways a sequel feature and inheritance to his Civil War drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Political firebrand Jimmy Gralton returns home in 1930 to find the pillars of his rural Leitrim community, the Free State and the Church, less than hospitable to his radical schemes…
Forza Italo
Sunday 1 June | Odessa | €12 / €15, 7pm
Another bank holiday weekend, another bellissima crop of European DJs landing at Odessa to make going back to work on Tuesday that bit more painful.
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
Sunday 1 June | The Sugar Club | Doors 9pm, €17.50
In the mood for soul? Sashay on down to The Sugar Club for some sweet sweet soul and blues from Nicole Willis and the gang. Apparently Obama’s a fan, the title track from album Keep Reachin’ Up featured on his official Re-Election Campaign Spotify playlist…
