SINGER SONGWRITER
MAX JURY
Róisín Dubh 9pm €12/€10 roisindubh.net
Also Sun, Dublin
From rural Des Moines, USA, singer-songwriter Max Jury is as much inspired by Hank Williams as Tom Waits and James Blake. Being influenced by such songwriters could scupper future plans of the best of them, but Jury takes things in his stride. The music, too, is relaxed, and is informed as much by a sense of humour (Black Metal) as by wistful reverie (Change your Mind for Me). TCL
CLUB
HIDDEN AGENDA
Opium Rooms, Dublin. 11pm #12 hiddenagenda.ie
The club runners mark three years in business with DJ sets from Mount Kimbie and Darkstar. Between debut album “Crooks & Lovers” and last year’s “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth”, Mount Kimbie showed much progression so it will be interesting to see where Dominic Maker and Kai Campos head next. In the case of Darkstar, last year’s “News From Nowhere” was full to the brim with freewheeling rich, warm, evocative sounds. JC
CLUB
ANDREW WEATHERALL
Twisted Pepper, Dublin. 10.30pm, adm free, bodytonicmusic.com
We’ve lost count at this stage as to both how many times Weatherall has visited town and the number of different guises he’s had. His most recent collaboration was with Battant’s Timothy J Fairplay as The Asphodells who released the album “Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust” and also teamed up with Friendly Fires. Support tonight from Alle Farben (the German producer behind the “Synesthesia - I Think in Colours” album), Barry Redsetta and the Bodytonic DJs. JC
ART
A History of Play
Eamon O'Kane, with curator Linda Shevlin. Roscommon Arts Centre, Circular Road, Roscommon Until Nov 14 roscommonartscentre.ie
Eamon O’Kane has transformed Roscommon Arts Centre’s large gallery space into an interactive kindergarten installation. Inspired by his own experience of being a parent, he’s drawn on the instructive play objects devised early in the 19th century by educator and inventor of Kindergarten Friedrich Fröbel. Remarkably, his designs are still globally employed today as a means of linking play to creativity. AD
