FOUR FILMS TO SEE THIS WEEKEND

• Published date: 18 March 2023
• Publication title: Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)

Fight Like Apes

Friday, March 24th, 3Olympia, Dublin; 7pm; €26.90 (sold out); ticketmaster.ie

They were here (2006) and then they weren't (2016), but Fight Like Apes left us with three EPs and three albums (call me sentimental, but we can't read album number two's title, The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner, without wiping away a happy tear). The gig is in celebration of the vinyl release of their 2009 debut, Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion, which features songs such as Jake Summers, Tie Me Up with Jackets and (on the bonus CD), the unforgettable This Is Like the Time Jody Didn't Know What Cunnilingus Was. And the band had the songs to match the titles. For every ticket sold, FLA will donate €1 to the Irish Youth Foundation (iyf.ie).

Robert Forster

Friday, March 24th, Button Factory, Dublin; 7pm; €28.50; ticketmaster.ie

There are few enough songwriter's songwriters left, but Robert Forster could very well be included in the number. Australia's Forster may be best known as the co-founder of The Go-Betweens, but his more recent solo albums and this year's The Candle and the Flame, copperfasten his status as a songwriter committed to dealing unambiguously yet gracefully with the full range of human emotions. His visits to Ireland are rare, so don't hesitate.

Pauline Scanlon and Barry Kerr

Friday, March 24th, Moynihan's Bar, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, 8.30pm; €15; clonmelworldmusic.com; Sunday, March 26th, Campbell's Tavern, Headford, Co Galway; 8.30pm; €15; eventbrite.ie

Pauline Scanlon and Barry Kerr, established performers in their own right, have also previously collaborated on various creative undertakings but perhaps none more so than on their traditional singing project, The Longing. The key themes of yearning for home, love, independence, and harmony are explored within merged elements of contemporary musical arrangements and traditional roots.

EXHIBITION

Cocoon: Catch a Breath

Until Saturday, April 22nd, Lord Mayor's Pavilion and Cork Public Museum, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork city; adm free

A collaborative, socially engaged art project aimed at recognising the effects of Covid-19 on the mental health sector, the seeds of this interactive, reflective solo exhibition by Portuguese Cork-based Catarina Araújo were sown in April-June 2021. Mentored by UCC mental health nursing lecturer John Goodwin, and artist, activist and educator Dr Eve Olney, the work focuses (as its title references) on the outcomes of "cocooning" as well as...