Carrigaline rapper, The Assassin’s latest video has received several thousands hits on YouTube. The performer, who’s real name is Maurice Coveney Jnr, recently released his new EP Champion, with the title track receiving over 7,000 views in the first five days. The video, depicting a boxing match, was directed by Cork based Zenith Media Productions. "I was delighted that local...
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One of the world’s oldest surviving romantic ballets La Sylphide is to come to the Opera House next week. On Sunday, April 14th The Monica Loughman Ballet Company is bringing two of Russia’s finest principals Denis Veginiy and Katherina Markowskaja from Perm and Mariinsky Theatres to perform the lead roles of James and Sylph.
First performed in Paris Opera in 1832, the...
Independent alternative folk rock group The David Nelligan Thing will release a new album later this month. The Cork group- led by prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Nelligan- is to launch the 14-track Dark Matters on Wednesday, April 24th on BandCamp, with the album reflecting personal and professional catastrophes that “plagued its recording”.
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A feature length film on The Frames will be screened at the Triskel next week. Running from Sunday, April 7th to Wednesday, April 10th, In The Deep Shade by filmmaker Conor Masterson is a look at the band over 18 months, beginning on their 20th anniversary tour in 2010.
“The Frames have always been very positive collaborators,” says Masterson. “I felt this was an...
New York’s Bessie Award-winning star Michelle Boulé and Irish male dancer Philip Connaughton will perform a moving and funny show at the Firkin Crane next week. Body Duet by one of Ireland’s most accomplished choreographers, John Scott celebrates the ecstatic feeling of losing fear and inhibition, and gaining trust. The performance takes place at 8pm on Monday, April 8th and...
The legendary 'Bicycle Act' with 12 artistes manoeuvring onto a single bicycle, will be performed in Cork later this month. On Thursday, April 18th at 5pm and 8.30pm, The Chinese State Circus will bring their exhilarant performance of Yin Yang to the Everyman Palace complete with gravity defying acrobats, traditional Chinese acts, evocative sets, soaring musical score and extravagant costumes...
One of the great troubadours of Irish folk and country music, Brendan Shine, will perform in Ballymaloe Grainstore on Sunday, April 14th. The singer has released more than 50 albums and 45 hit singles, including Where Did You Meet Her in 2012. He has also presented several television shows, such as Nice and Easy and Shine On.
Shine will perform all his greatest hits, including Where The...
The Crane Lane Theatre is preparing an evening of live music from around the world along with a display of bellydancing. The Art Crimes Band and Suadela Bellydance will perform on Thursday, April 25th for a two-hour show where world fusion music meets tribal bellydance. Doors are at 8pm and tickets are €8 or a special group offer of four tickets for the price of three.
Cork author Jean Grainger is to launch her debut novel next week. The Macroom secondary school teacher will be promoting her book, The Tour on Friday, April 12th at Blarney Woollen Mills from 8pm.
As a former tour guide, Grainger's book tells the tale of Conor O'Shea, who every week collects a new group of American visitors from Shannon Airport, from where they embark on a trip...
A new original music initiative will open in the city next week as Playground of Dreamss kicks off. The aim of the project is to set up a local community for musicians whilst also allowing people to listen to songs they wouldn't normally hear. Those performing the mix of original music on the night include Rathwake along with Audible Joes, The Legionnaires, Southbound and Momma Robertson. The...
A one-day electronic music and arts festival opens in East Cork later this month. Collective Beats will take place at The Thatch in Lisgoold on Saturday, April 20th, running all day from 2pm.
Ten acts, which will include live producers and DJs such as Jet Li, The Electric Foxx, The Hobo Convention, ENFP Visuals, Jonezy, Tinoras, Shiv, EIIIII, Coherx, Púca, Bassline MC and...
After fifty years of singing and forty albums, Blues singer Maria Muldaur tells Play’s Maria Tracey about why she's open to all genres and reveals why her 1974 hit Midnight at the Oasis will raise a secretive smile for many at The Pavilion this weekend.
"People tell me what they were doing or what they were inspired to do by some of my earlier songs. I just wish I started...
Brooklyn's beloved guitar-anthem optimists Fang Island will play a downstairs show at the Pavilion with guests No Spill Blood next month. Fang Island began in 2005 as an art project with original members, Philip Curcuru, Chris Georges, and Pete Watts who were attending the Rhode Island School of Design. They were later joined by Jason Bartell, Marc St Sauveur, Michael Jacober, and guitarist...
Raime are Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, an enigmatic London-based duo seeking to re-establish electronic composition as a physical and emotionally inquisitive force. Their debut album, Quarter Turns Over A Living Line was released last year and now the duo are to play the TDC Space and Gulpd at the Triskel tomorrow, Saturday.
Their music offers a creeping, unavoidable sonic truth,...
The Triskel is gearing up for a double bill of film this weekend, screening both Stoker and Broken. The former is the tale of a lonely girl, played by Mia Wasikowska, who becomes infatuated by her mysterious uncle, who she suspects has ulterior motives for visiting her family home. The movie also stars Nicole Kidman and will be screened at 8.45pm every night from Sunday, March 31st to...
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