10 Gigs For August: Two Big Music Festivals And A Former New Order...

10 Gigs For August: Two Big Music Festivals And A Former New Order...
10 concerts for the month of August: two major music festivals and the former New Order... The Coronas: appearing at Indie23
Coronas: Screened on Indie23

The first Mitchelstown post-exam event returns, with regular headliners The Coronas with Anne-Marie, Two Doors Cinema Club and producers; Cian Ducrot, Hamsandwich, Erica-Cody and King Kong Company are the highlights of the weekend series.

A weekend of new music, theatre, storytelling and talks from Cork's generation of local talent and emerging immigrants. Cork's no-wavers are the tearful underdogs driving Ann Spallpin fans wild on Thursday; On Sunday at PLUGD Records, female live band Sunwell Tapes put on an intimate show.

Dublin-based alternative rockers Lift have found success across the country, finding the heavier tunes they want to sound unheard of.

Peter Hook: legendary bassist reprises his 70s and 80s songbook
Peter Hook: The legendary bassist revisits his collection of songs from the 70s and 80s

Joy Division, New Order and The Monaco Man took to bass to cover classics from his early Cork career. Unlock new order material and a main collection of Joy Division albums and occasional tracks.

Sharon Shannon: set for a Trilogy at Whelan's.
Sharon Shannon: Set for the Whelan Trilogy.

The Dublin Trad & Folk Festival Concert Hall presents Soron Shannon's trio concerts: Thursday with Alan Connor, Friday with trio and Saturday with band.

Old crows from Lifeside fans, flip flop watchers, former MBV bosses or current toon scouts. Belfast team Wynona Bleach and the Virgins title.

Cork punk/metal concert collective Recovery are hosting their second annual BYOB rifffest in an old city center church: this year Limerick death metallers Zealot Worship open the bill, along with Gravepath, Chrononaut and Everdead Wood.

The American slow pioneers will reissue their lost 1992 album 'Dessau', along with the rest of their Archive Numero discography, with a stop in Dublin as part of their first non-US tour in eleven years.

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