Six For Your Radar: Cape Fear, David Byrne live, Stewart Lee...
Javier Bardem in Cape Fear (left) and Stewart Lee.
You might know Cape Fear from its earlier incarnations - including the spot-on Simpsons take with Sideshow Bob. Now it gets a 2026 overhaul. Created by Nick Antosca and backed by executive producers Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, the series stars Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson. Bardem plays Max Cady, newly released from prison, who sets out to exact revenge on married lawyers Tom and Anna Bowden, who represented him 17 years earlier.
Bringing his latest show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf to Cork, the "world’s greatest living stand-up comedian" shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of North America who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up?
Once in a lifetime? Try twice in one year. David Byrne returns to Dublin just months after a joyous sold-out show at the 3Arena. He will be joined at St Anne’s Park, Clontarf, by special guest Arlo Parks, who released her third album Ambiguous Desire in April. Following his own latest release, Who Is the Sky?, Byrne’s all-singing, all-dancing show promises a dynamic set blending new material with classics from his back catalogue.
Ornithologist and ‘Nature Boy’ Seán Ronayne returns to Connollys of Leap with Untold Sounds, a live presentation exploring the hidden world of wildlife audio. Drawing from a vast archive of more than 28,000 recordings, he shares rarely heard sounds from across the country and beyond through immersive field recordings and storytelling, offering audiences a fresh perspective on the natural world.
Kicking off a busy summer of big gigs in Cork, Live at the Marquee returns with dozens of shows over the next month-plus. It begins with K-Pop Forever! Tribute, an all-live performance of K-pop smash hits by the likes of Blackpink, BTS, Twice, Soda Pop, and Golden. Meanwhile across town, Kingfishr will be belting out their heartfelt tunes in Musgrave Park (Virgin Media Park) as they bring Killeagh back home to Cork.
Winner of the Best Independent Film at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Choice Award at the IFI Documentary Festival, follows director Nick Kelly as he bids to travel by bicycle from Ireland to perform at Glastonbury Festival in 2022, accompanied by his friend and fellow musician Seán Millar. The latter tracks his progress on public transport and performs onstage with him in venues along the route. Thursday’s screening includes a Q&A with Kelly.
