Things To Do: Listen to medieval hyperpop, visit a waiting room, share poems with the winter deity, read her papers
Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings.
Podcast
Music at Marrowbone Books: the Oxo Boys
Listen to the Oxo Boys talk about the bands they’ve been in, the legacy of old-time music in the Liberties, and more – and play a few tunes.
Listen to the Oxo Boys talk with Martin Cook about the bands they’ve been in, the legacy of old-time music in the Liberties, and more – and play a few tunes.
If you missed their performance at Marrowbone Books last week, you can always catch the next evening of music at the shop: they happen the third Thursday of just about every month.
Read next
Dean: Gurriers are punk
And in their recent album, Nobody’s Coming to Save You, “The corruption of human morality is a constant theme.”
In Crumlin, a hip-hop collective makes grievance and gratitude rhyme
Gone is the hardman shtick, the macho bravado once associated with hip hop, rapper and producer Michael Ward, who goes by Mickzart. “We’re after something true.”
Irish National Opera buys old church on Abbey Street, to turn it into a performing arts space
The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”, says Diego Fasciati, the executive director.
Dean: The low hiss of Sorcha Richardson’s rustic sound
The musician says her new album, Draw the Outline, brought her “great solace and peace in writing it. I hope it can do the same for whoever needs it.”