Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
FLYING LOTUS w/ SHABAZZ PALACES & KUTMAH
Wednesday 29 April | Vicar Street | 7.30pm, €30.40
Choice Cuts have regularly brought over folks from the Brainfeeder crew – a particularly wonderful Thundercats show in Sugar Club springs to mind – but landing Flying Lotus is really the big kahuna. FlyLo’s 2014 record You’re Dead! was the apogee of his work so far, mild-meltingly mixing hip-hop, jazz and experimental art-pop to huge acclaim. Before even getting to the fact that his live show will be a mixture of ridiculous chops and spectacular visuals, there’s also support from avant garde hip-hop buzzers Shabazz Palaces and Kutmah to contend with. A sweet package.
BEFORE MONSTERS WERE MADE
Wednesday 29 April – Saturday 16 May | Project Arts Centre | €18/16, 8pm (matinees Sat 2.30pm)
Hot-shot Irish playwright Ross Dungan (known for his successes with The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle and post-apocalyptic Cavan universe of Reckoners) and director Ben Kidd (who has won awards for his work on Bush Moukarzel’s Lippy) present Before Monsters Were Made to Project Arts Centre, the new production from 15th Oak. Featuring an anxiety-riddled lead and a mysterious death, we can expect this to be dark, humorous and high-quality.
ICEAGE
Thursday 30 April | Workman’s Club | 11.30pm, €12
Danish noiseniks Iceage play a midnight show in Workman’s a year and a bot after the release of their third record Plowing Into the Field of Love, but better late than never. It should be a ferocious, throttling night of blitzing hardcore tunes for all involved, on a schoolnight as well.
THE FIELD
Until 16 May | The Gaiety Theatre | 7.30pm (matinees 3pm), €22.50
The Field continues today to strike a chord with audiences throughout the world. The story burrows deep into the heart of rural Ireland in the late 1950s; at its core is the enduring link between the Irish people and ‘the land’. The play is based on the true story of the 1959 murder of Moss Moore, a bachelor farmer in Co. Kerry. Moore’s neighbour, Dan Foley, with whom he had a long standing dispute over a right of way, was believed to have committed the murder. Foley’s family denied the charge and no one was ever brought to justice.
‘THE VAN’
Saturday 2 May | Dalymount Park | 7pm, €5
As part of their partnership with Phizzfest, Happenings are showing the big screen adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s The Van, one of the Barrytown Trilogy which was celebrated this April for the One City One Book campaign. The Van sees Colm Meaney reprise his inimitable role as Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. during the summer of 1990, when the whole country became engulfed in World Cup fever. There’s a belting Bobby Charlton combover gag in it as well. The screening begins as the sun goes down with food stalls selling grub to attendees, so remember to wrap up warm and bring a blanket.
JEFF MILLS
Sunday 3 May | Button Factory | 11pm, €20
One of the heroes of electronic music and DJing, Jeff ‘The Wizard’ Mills is bringing a three-hour set to the Button Factory on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend. A pioneering techno DJ and producer, Mills’ work spans back to the early 1980s, through his time as part of Underground Resistance where his hard-edged, minimal sound inspired countless electronic acts both in the States and Europe. A true turntable legend, Mills Sunday set is sure to be a banging farewell to the long weekend.
