Safe Harbour review: Gems galore as acts collaborate at 37d03d Mixtape concert 

Among the highlights of Sounds From A Safe Harbour  on Friday was a concert at Cork Opera House featuring the likes of Jon Hopkins, The Staves, and Amanda Bergman 

Efterklang performing at 37dO3d Mixtape X Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra for Sounds from a Safe Harbour. Picture: Bríd O’Donovan

Blink and you might miss something special at Sounds from a Safe Harbour, celebrating its 10th anniversary this weekend in venues around Cork. At the 37d03d Mixtape collaboration with the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra, it might be the way Bryce Dessner of The National and Ben Howard share a smile after the latter’s two-song cameo near the end of a sensational 90-minute plus show. 

It also might be the secret pop-up show by Rosie Carney and Eve Owens, and their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s I’m on Fire, which they had only practised for the first time together earlier in the day. Perhaps it’s Junior Brother, kickstarting the festival’s Friday night shows with his album launch at the Pav, and their drum and flute solos. Or maybe it’s rapper God Knows forming a midnight mini-moshpit at Nude’s.