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

It's a busy month for gigs and other live events 
10 live events for October: Cork jazz, Patti Smith, Macbeth...

Here are 10 events to check out this October

Galway Cartoon Festival

Friday October 3 - Wednesday 8; venues around Galway 

Appearances from counter-culture legend Gilbert Shelton and UK underground illustrator Hunt Emerson headline this year's comics weekend in the Tribal city.

For Those I Love

Monday October 6; Olympia Theatre, Dublin

Dublin spoken-word artist and techno producer marks return album Carving the Stone, after a four-year absence, with an Olympia headliner.

Patti Smith and Band

Monday October 6; 3Arena, Dublin

Punk iconoclast and multimedia artist stops by Dublin's docklands on world tour for the 50th anniversary of seminal debut album Horses.

Macbeth

Tuesday October 7 - Friday October 10; Cork Opera House

Red ‘n Blue Theatre company presents daytime performances of a modernised Macbeth, aimed specifically at Leaving Cert students.

Gilla Band

Friday October 10; Roisín Dubh, Galway

Gilla Band
Gilla Band

With a compilation of early material now on wax via Rough Trade, Dublin noise-rock headwreckers are back on the road.

A Century of the New Yorker's Irish Writers

Sunday October 12; Abbey Theatre, Dublin

An evening with Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Colin Barrett and The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon in conversation with Belinda McKeon.

The Low Field

Thursday October 16; Dolan's Kasbah, Limerick

Limerick slowcore outfit headline a hometown show, with support from Cork noise-rockers Therapy Horse.

The Orb

Friday October 17; Live at St Luke's, Cork

Electronic innovators bring their full stage show to the Northside temple of noise.

Curtisy

Saturday October 18; Whelan's, Dublin

Much-loved Tallaght rapper brings his idiosyncratic charisma and DIY production ethic to a Whelan's headliner.

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Thursday October 23 - Sunday 27; venues around Cork city

Cymande will play this year's Cork Jazz Festival.
Cymande will play this year's Cork Jazz Festival.

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.

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