Cork Midsummer Festival roundup:  Lisa McInerney, grow-house art and cutting-edge percussion  

Crosstown Drift, Day-Crossing Farm, and Bangers & Crash provided live experiences in the first week of the festival 

Lisa McInerney in the gardens of the Butter Exchange for Crosstown Drift, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan.

Crosstown Drift – Lisa McInerney 

 These days, there's one major criterion to judge whether an event is well-run or not: what's the situation with the toilets? It's the first item on the agenda for the organisers' pep-talk outside the Butter Exchange before we set off on a stroll through the city in the company of Lisa McInerney. Practicalities sorted, off we go down Shandon Street and along the North Mall to St Vincent's steel bridge, around by the Marsh, onto the Coal Quay, before crossing the river to the north side again.