INDIE
Dutch Uncles
The Limelight, Belfast 7pm £12
limelightbelfast.com
All hail atypical time signatures within a pop framework. From Marple, near Manchester, indie pop band Dutch Uncles mix cerebral influences from the world of prog (King Crimson), avant garde (Steve Reich) and New Wave (Talking Heads, XTC) to brilliant if occasionally too jerky effect.
ELECTRO
Le Galaxie
Academy, Dublin 8pm €19
theacademydublin.com
Irish banger-merchants create a custom-made environment inspired by their new album, Le Club. Special guests over the two-night shenanigans include Lethal Dialect, Rarely Seen Above Ground, Hare Squead, and Buffalo Woman.
TECHNO
Neil Landstrumm
Cyprus Ave, Cork 11pm €12
soundcloud.com/neil-landstrumm
Neil Landstrumm’s name has been appearing in club listings since 1994. The Scottish producer’s tracks for labels Peacefrog, Tresor, Planet Mu and his own Scandanavia imprint are something to marvel at, especially as Landstrumm has maintained a remarkable workrate while beavering away in the motion graphics game with MTV and Rockstar Games. Always an experimentalist, Landstrumm has added stripes of dirty-bass, dubstep and ragga to his repetoire in recent years.
THEATRE
Charolais
Bewleys Cafe Theatre, at Powerscourt Townhouse. Apr 21-May 1, 1pm. €8/12
bewleyscafetheatre.ie
Not since Edward Albee's The Goat or Woody Allen's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Too Afraid to Ask), has there been a more complicated, interspecies love triangle. Noni Stapleton's solo performance, which premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival last year as part of Show in a Bag, is the tale of Siobhán, a woman in Ireland who sees a love rival – seductive and French – in the curvaceous shape of a Charolais heifer. It's a comic premise, certainly, but Stapleton is not in it entirely for laughs. Dealing with loneliness, scrutiny, motherhood and slaughter in Ireland, it is not a play to step gingerly around any sacred cows.
