FOOTBALL
An Evening with The Blizzard
Sugar Club, Dublin 5.45pm €16.65 theblizzard.co.uk
Those who want more from football coverage than transfer speculation and Twitter banter will know all about The Blizzard by now. The Sunderland- based quarterly publication provides a wealth of informed coverage from leading football writers. Editor Jonathan Wilson (author Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football and Inverting the Pyramid), Uli Hesse (Tor! The Story of German Football) and Philippe Auclair (France Football and author of Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona biographies) will talk and answer audience questions. Entry includes free copy of The Blizzard.
AMBIENT
Tim Hecker
Button Factory, Dublin 8pm €15
Montreal man Tim Hecker's beautiful microsoundscapes have won him many admirers since his 2001 debut, Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again. Those who caught his last visit to Dublin will have no hesitation about this show. Hecker's work continues to hit new heights, and last year's Virgins tapped a wide spectrum of sounds, from drone and contemporary to solo piano and glitchy beats. Support from Cork's Ellll.
ELECTRONICA
Chet Faker
Academy, Dublin, 8pm, €16.50 theacademydublin.com
Melbourne's Nicholas Murphy (oh, so he's one of ours, too, then?) used to spend his days buying/ selling on eBay and busking, so he knows what it's like to hustle. See him do his electronica thing with his music, which – just like the title of his 2012 debut EP has it – is an experience in thinking in textures.
CLASSICAL
Rising Stars
RDS, Dublin 7.30pm Free rds.ie
Get a glimpse at the next generation of talent in the classical world at this showcase concert, part of a wider rectial series.
Percussionist Alex Petcu-Colan will be taking on works by Bach and Tom Lane. Christóir Ó Loingsigh will be playing piano pieces by Rachmaninoff and Barber. Violinist Phoebe White will play Fritz Kreisler, among other work.
Tenor Peter O'Reilly will be accompanied by Trudi Carberry on piano on works by Handel and Poulenc. Máire Carroll will be playing Bach and Gershwin, and pianist Dearbhla Brosnan will also perform.
JAZZ
Charles Lloyd Quartet
NCH, Dublin, 8pm, €45/€30, nch.ie
Back in the 1960s, Memphis-born American jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd was the darling of the flower power generation, the first jazz musician to play the legendary Filmore in San Francisco and one of the first to sell a million records. Lloyd is still challenging himself and sounds as fresh and unique as ever. His latest quartet includes pianist Gerald Clayton and drummer Eric Harland. With support from emerging Berlin singer and pianist Olivia Trummer.
