Weekender |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Brian Mooney / Margie Lewis
Thursday 9 October | The Joinery | €10/8, 8pm BYOB
Brian Mooney has been one of the Island’s best kept secrets for the last 20 year, having played with both marquee acts and underground darlings the likes of The Idiots, David Kitt, Jape, Si Schroeder and Beautiful Unit. Mooney’s current guise as a live performer takes on an experimental bent as his sparse arrangements for voice and guitar truly test the limits of what is capable without effects or loops. Ultimately Mooney’s work is better understood when experienced live as opposed to vicariously via superlative music journo platitudes, not one to be missed. Playing along with Mooney on the night is another visionary Dublin-based experimentalist, Margie Lewis, coming from a classical and jazz background Lewis is a ceaselessly evolving proposition live, regularly shifting tones from beatless, ethereal melodies to cacophonous electronics. On the evening Lewis will be performing a continuous and heavily improvised live set experimenting with vocals, instruments, delay, pitch, loops and beat. It’s nights like this that we’ll really miss when Arbour Hill’s beloved Joinery closes it’s doors at the end of the year so make sure to get the most out of it while you still can. Details here.
Sea Pinks Album Launch
Friday 10 October | Bello Bar | €10, 8pm
Nordie janglers, Sea Pinks are readying their latest long-player for despatches to record depositories world-wide and what better way to celebrate than to treat us soft southerners to a special live airing of their newies. The Pinkies will be taking to stage of Portobello’s Bello bar under the watchful eye of the ever-reliable Skinny Wolves who have filled out the bill with the addition of two stellar support acts. Featuring members of Jogging, Villagers and No Monster Club, Women’s Christmas specialise in ramshackle, beer-stained, replacement-rock and with their debut full length on the horizon the gang will surely be eager to show off their latest offerings. Opening proceedings and fresh off the back of a slew of performances around the city that have had everyone talking will be Bus Éireann championing indie dotes, Me and My Dog. Nice one. You can win two pairs of tickets to the album launch in our competition right here – it’s dead easy.
Nas: Time is Illmatic
Friday 10 October | The Sugar Club | €10, 9pm
Following the phenomenal response to their premier screening as part of Bodytonic’s bi-annual beatyard festivities Choice Cuts have put together another very special preview showing of new full length documentary Nas: Time is Illatic. In the 20 years since it’s release Nas’ Illmatic has comfortably established it’s position in the echelons of hip-hop’s most significant records. Time is Illmatic charts the process of creating the masterpiece that is illmatic as well examining the contemporary social conditions and sentimental influences that make Illmatic such a vital encapsulation of hip-hop’s second golden age. The movie kicks off at 9.30pm and following it will be a series of golden era hip-hop Sets from connoisseurs of the medium the like of Handsome Paddy, Arveene,This Greedy Pig DJs, Fionn O’Brien & Coty Smith.
Collapsing Horse presents: The Aeneid
Saturday 11 October | Project Arts Centre | €10
One of the most exciting collectives on the Irish theatre scene, Collapsing Horse, are back and changing focus from staging works hewn from their own joyously crackpot imaginations in favour of a very special performance of one of the ancient world’s greatest epics, Virgil’s Aeneid. Collapsing horse are of course filtering the work through their own kaleidoscopic lens of fun and philosophy as the production not only spins the famous yarn in a vivid and engaging way for newcomers but considers the broader implications of the Roman foundation fable in relation to myth-making as social practice and the effect it can have on our notion the truth as an absolute. With a stable of exceptional actors and pupeteers at their disposable and a consistently refreshing approach to theatrical storytelling Collapsing Horse are yet to disappoint and the Aeneid is shaping up to be another Tour d’horse.
Archetype presents: Jeroen Search (live) + San Soda
Saturday 11 October | Twisted Pepper | €15, 11pm
It’s been a little while since the floor-filling masterminds behind Archetype have taken over the Twisted Pepper in it’s entirety with one of their famed double-headers. So, for their return they’ve gone and put together a particularly tantalising pair of headliners, Jeroen Search and San Soda. Search is simultaneously one of techno’s most cherished and lauded figures over the last 20 years while still retaining a certain best-kept-secret like quality, though a creator who is open to influence from other realms Search’s tracks are always honest and classic techno at their core and the Joern Search set he first debuted in the Berghain in 2009 is not just a great showcase of the man’s talents but an eye-opening voyage through the techno landscape. Upstairs on the evening, San Soda’s set in the main room area will undoubtedly take on a more housey bent as the Belgian producer has gone on record saying he draws inspiration from artists such as, Theo Parrish, Jus Ed and Omar S while playing a grab-bag of Chicago house, New York deep house, soul, hip hop and funk. This is one’s shaping up to be a right auld hooley. Info here.
