Five for your Radar: Fontaines DC, Jarlath Regan, Black Doves on Netflix...
Jarlath Regan is at De Barra's on December 6-7; Black Doves is out now on Netflix.
The Grammy Award-nominated Irish band, currently earning plaudits and picking up gongs for album of the year with fourth record Romance, play their biggest shows in Ireland on Friday and Saturday.
We expect the five-piece to blow the roof off the 3Arena for their final gigs of the year following a UK tour last week. Grian Chatten and co can do no wrong at the moment.
Promising a different show every night, the Improv Panto returns to Cork Opera House throughout the month of December.
The audience get to choose the story and who plays what character, with a cast including including Dominic MacHale (The Young Offenders), the people’s princess Laura O’Mahony, Declan Wolfe (Summer Revels!), Laura Harte, John McCarthy, and Dylan Howe on Keys.
This is essentially a homecoming show for Jarlath Regan - he used to host monthly comedy nights in the homely De Barras 20 years ago. Considering he has five dates lined up at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre in January, ‘yer man from Instagram’ says the De Barra’s gigs are “the beginnings of a standup comedy show” - indeed, the shows are called Life is a work in progress.
Created and written by Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project), this six-episode spy thriller stars Keira Knightley in a role we’ve never seen her in before, opposite Ben Whishaw as an unlikely spy/assassin duo. “It’s been great fun to do all of the fighting,” she says. Black Doves promises high-stakes global intrigue, British wit, knife fights, and holiday (or anti-holiday) cheer.
Winner of the best Irish feature documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh this year, Ciarán Cassidy’s documentary about the Housewife of the Year contest is a 77-minute snapshot of a previous Ireland (even though it lasted until 1995).
The former contestants share their experiences of marriage bars, lack of contraception, Magdalene laundries, financial vulnerability, boredom, and shame. It’s the story of a resilient generation of women and how they changed a country.
