The Quiet Club Danny, McCarthy and Mick O'Shea will launch their clear vinyl limited edition (30) LP this Sunday April 26 from 2pm in My Goodness Café in the Quay CoOp. A Farpoint Recording release. With guests Anthony Kelly and James Fortune. Hope to see you there.
UCC Library and Tombstome Promotions Present
The Quiet Club: 20th Anniversary Performance with dance artist @hutchsophie and percussionist Solamh Kelly.
Thursday 25 June
Doors 7.00 PM
The Creative Zone, UCC Library
16+ (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)
Tickets €13.50 via Eventbrite
Access-friendly venue
Link to tickets in bio ☝️
The Quiet Club, founded in 2006 by Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy, is one of Ireland’s leading sound-art improvisation groups. Known for their exploratory approach to sound using stones, homemade instruments, electronics, theremins and field recordings, they have performed extensively both nationally and internationally.
Mick O’Shea is a Cork-based visual and sound artist whose work spans drawing, sculpture, sound and culinary performance. He is a director of the Cork Artists Collective and co-founder of The Domestic Godless, Gaitkrash, and The Quiet Club, with an extensive record of exhibitions and performances at home and abroad.
Danny McCarthy, a pioneering figure in Irish sound and performance art, has exhibited, performed and broadcast widely. His releases include Beyond The Point and The air is full. He co-edited Ireland’s first sound-art publication, For Those Who Have Ears, and co-curated the major outdoor exhibition SOUND OUT for Cork 2005. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and the National Sculpture Factory.
Sophie Hutchinson is an East Clare-based dance artist and facilitator with training from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and specialised practice in somatic, inclusive and trauma-informed movement.
Solamh Kelly is a Cork drummer and percussionist known for his eclectic work across rock, indie-folk and experimental sound art. He collaborates widely, including with Myles Manley, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, The Tan Jackets and Mick O’Shea, and is recognised for incorporating unconventional objects such as coal buckets into his percussion setups.
We’ve been working behind the scenes to build a new home for Farpoint's music - reimagined, rebuilt, and better than ever.
And to celebrate the launch, we’re dropping an ultra-limited release from The Quiet Club. You won’t want to miss the first spin.
Oliver Nash month’s mind
To remember and celebrate the life of Ollie Nash, who left us 21st December 2025, please join us at The Rising Sons Brewery, Cornmarket Street, Cork from 2pm on Saturday 24th January.
Delighted to be part of the wonderful CineSalon – Worse Things Happen at Sea
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh; Friday, 5th December, 7-10pm
CineSalon launches its 2025 edition at the ocean’s edge in the beautiful and historic Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, with an evening of film and performance. This event is free and un-ticketed.
Prelude to Amusements (Shells Kamiel Le Cain & Mick O’Shea) (live performance)
Amusements (Shells Kamiel Le Cain)
Morphosis (Lichun Tseng & Mick O’Shea)
Where the Forest Dreams (Darja-Kazimira Zimina)
Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch the Movie (Rouzbeh Rashidi & Maximilian Le Cain)
The centrepiece of the programme is an unsung part of the venue’s history: Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch the Movie, a haunting experimental feature by Rouzbeh Rashidi & Maximilian Le Cain made in response to the ghostly atmosphere of the building and shot entirely within its walls. Completed in 2013, this is the first ever screening in Sirius Arts Centre.
Amusements is the premiere of a new film by Shells Kamiel Le Cain, whose films unfold like shamanic trances conjuring visions that dissolve memory, dream and reality into a lyrical, often psychedelic phantasmagoria. An alien race from our future's past on a mission to explore dark energy sent a technologically advanced camera into what they thought was a typical black hole to record pictures and sound for their 'Black Hole Archives'. The film is preceded by Prelude to Amusements, a live performance by Kamiel Le Cain in collaboration with artist Mick O’Shea.
Morphosis is a hypnotically haptic collaboration between filmmaker Lichun Tseng and artist Mick O’Shea, in which the repetition of a single intimate gesture results in a journey in flux, where sound and image move sometimes in parallel, sometimes in cohesion, independent yet interlaced, in a shift between memory and reality, past and present.
Where the Forest Dreams is the latest film by one of CineSalon’s heroes: ritual improviser, musician and artist Darja-Kazimira Zimina, whose bracingly visceral and ritualistic works scorch through contemporary moving image like a refreshingly cleansing flame.
A CineSalon event supported by @siriusartscentre
Some images from our Domestic Godless event in Prim's bookshop Kinsale. Big thanks to Simon, Catherine, Annie and Shelly for some of the photos. It was a great night.
Café Abyss at Prim’s Bookshop Sunday, November 16th
Two performances
6pm - 7.30pm / 8.30pm - 10pm
Very limited tickets for each performance now on sale
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THE DOMESTIC GODLESS
In the Autumn of 2018, the Cork-based renegade food /art collective, The Domestic Godless, opened their first pop-up eatery in a mothballed hotel in the heart of Athens. A year later, Café Abyss popped up again in an old Spitfire factory in Walthamstow, London. Now, for the first time in Ireland, it’s coming to Prim’s Bookshop in Kinsale.
For over twenty years, The Domestic Godless have been exploring the darker corridors of international food culture with irreverent abandon. Considering the contentious perspective that we are all teetering at the edge of the abyss, The Domestic Godless ponder… What might happen when the supermarket shelves are bereft of luxuries? Or your only larder is the neighbourhood swamp? And perhaps worse… what do you do when your know-it-all dinner-party guests are fatigued by your cooking?
The Domestic Godless might have some answers…
Disclaimer: The event will not be a sit-down meal, but a presentation of tasters and tinctures, so do enjoy your Sunday lunches. Just make a little room for later.
Sonic Vigil 12 press release
SONIC VIGIL 12 TO TAKE PLACE AT FOTA HOUSE, 1st NOVEMBER, 12pm -4pm .
Ireland’s unique and extraordinary free improvisation event, Sonic Vigil, will take place in
beautiful Fota House on 1st November.
Sonic Vigil, unique to Cork City and now in its 12th iteration, has brought together Ireland’s most
exciting free improvisers for more than 20 years. On 1st November, 20 outstanding musicians,
sound artists, visual artists and dancers from all over the country will contribute to a four hour,
surround-sound celebration of sonic and visual art woven in and around the stunning environs
of Fota House. Throughout the sumptuous spaces of the House, audiences will be treated to a
rich cornucopia of fascinating and beguiling sounds and sights - an extraordinary, surprising and
beautiful festival of art that’s unique to Cork and quite unlike anything else.
Sonic Vigil 12; Fota House; 12 noon to 4pm; admission €10. Open to all! Come and go as you please.
SONIC VIGIL 12 FOTA HOUSE
1st Nov 12 - 4pm €10
Open to all!
Come and go as you please.
Ireland’s unique and extraordinary free-improvisation event, Sonic Vigil, will take place in
beautiful Fota House on 1st November.
Sonic Vigil, unique to Cork City and now in its 12th iteration, has brought together Ireland’s most exciting free improvisers for more than 20 years. On 1st November, 20 outstanding musicians, sound artists, visual artists and dancers from all over the country will contribute to a four hour, surround-sound celebration of sonic and visual art woven in and around the stunning environs of Fota House. Throughout the sumptuous spaces of the House, audiences will be treated to a rich cornucopia of fascinating and beguiling sounds and sights - an extraordinary, surprising and beautiful festival of art that’s unique to Cork and quite unlike anything else.
