10 live events for October: Cork jazz, Patti Smith, Macbeth...

Here are 10 events to check out this October
Appearances from counter-culture legend Gilbert Shelton and UK underground illustrator Hunt Emerson headline this year's comics weekend in the Tribal city.
Dublin spoken-word artist and techno producer marks return album Carving the Stone, after a four-year absence, with an Olympia headliner.
Punk iconoclast and multimedia artist stops by Dublin's docklands on world tour for the 50th anniversary of seminal debut album Horses.
Red ‘n Blue Theatre company presents daytime performances of a modernised Macbeth, aimed specifically at Leaving Cert students.

With a compilation of early material now on wax via Rough Trade, Dublin noise-rock headwreckers are back on the road.
An evening with Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Colin Barrett and
Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon in conversation with Belinda McKeon.
Limerick slowcore outfit headline a hometown show, with support from Cork noise-rockers Therapy Horse.
Electronic innovators bring their full stage show to the Northside temple of noise.
Much-loved Tallaght rapper brings his idiosyncratic charisma and DIY production ethic to a Whelan's headliner.

The grande dame of Leeside music festivals continues moving in a genre-specific direction, with appearances from Cymande, The Pharcyde, Vieux Farka Touré, and Lee Fields and the Expressions; plus homegrown action from Rejjie Snow, GodKnows, Jape and many more.