Scene and Heard

MUSIC NEWS: The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue and co have been busy touring, with Hot Press also reporting the band recently shot the video for their single ‘Superheroes’ in a township in Johannesburg.

New album No Sound Without Silence is due on September 15. The great Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth has a new self-titled band on the go, with bass player Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream) and his old Sonics drummer Steve Shelley also on board. Arcade Fire have been blasting out all sorts ofinteresting cover versions on their current tour, with recent performances in US including ‘Axel F’ the theme tune to Beverly Hills Cop by Harold Faltermeyer and, even more bizarrely, ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ by Guns N’Roses.

GIG WISE: Jimmy MacCarthy appears at Ballymaloe Grainstore, Co Cork, on August 24. Lloyd Cole will perform an eight-date tour of Ireland in August and September, with dates including Dolans, Limerick, Sept 4; Triskel, Cork, Sept 5; and Gleneagles Hotel, Killarney, Sept 6. Mundy is at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh on Sunday, while Cork Folk Festival has announced US singer Sturgill Simpson for October 3 and British artiste Thea Gilmore for October 4. Andrew Eldritch and his Sisters of Mercy drew a decidedly mixed response when they played in Dublin recently, but perhaps former guitarist Wayne Hussey can do better at the Button Factory on November 12. David Guetta will do his dance thing at the Tennent’s Vital festival on Sunday, August 24.