15 gigs for December: Cork nights for Gaza, Kneecap, Ice Cube, and more:
Kneecap and the Scratch are among the Irish artists on stages this month
With other gigs for Gaza sold out across the country, in support of Irish Artists for Palestine and their partners, Cyprus Avenue takes its turn to host an event - young rockers like The Drive, The Cliffords, Mirrors and the Love Buzz open up at 7pm, and dancefloor-friendly material begins at 11pm, including Fish Go Deep's Shane Johnson, Jamie Behan, and Cicada Selects. Live at St Luke's also hosts a gig for Gaza on December 2 (sold out).
Having been a breakout star of the modern Eurovision phenomenon, Icelandic musician Da∂I Freyr has made an album, entitled I Made An Album, and is hitting Dublin for a sold-out night on his I'm Doing a Tour tour.
The Irish music comeback of the year continues, as the Galway folk-rockers play their fourth sold-out Olympia gig of the year - the only artists not named 'CMAT' to do so.
Leeside math-metallers come home for Christmas after a busy year abroad, following high praise from UK metal mags Kerrang! and Metal Hammer. Fellow Corkonians I Dreamed I Dream and Limerick punx We Come in Pieces are in tow.
The Dalkey singer-songwriter brings her sweet sounds to the former church.
Bridging the gap between the wider world of pop and Ireland's showband circuit in the 1970s and 1980s, Gina and the Champions are a piece of living Irish pop history.
West Coast hip-hop legend and former N.W.A. member brings his High Rollers tour to the Point, with Cypress Hill and The Game in tow.
Co Clare singer and songwriter explores the lines between the Irish tradition, jazz and soul - including collaborations with Vulfpeck's Tyler Duncan, who produced debut LP Infinite Space, and Irish-American trad fusionists The Olllam.
Downpatrick power-pop trio take their now-customary Irish Christmas tour while they're all in the country - not merely content with banging out some of the best pop-rock tunes of the 90s and 2000s, they're touring eighth LP Race the Night.
There are certain constants in a Cork Christmas - the Holly Bough, stickers from the bucket-rattlers, and John Spillane's Christmas gig at the Everyman.
With their first night in celebration of the 30th anniversary of breakout album Trains, Boats and Planes completely sold out, Cork's jangle-pop laureates are back for a second evening.
Not content with rending asunder the lines between prog and Irish/English folk, the idiosyncratically-spoken Kerryman and co-conspirators have turned their focus to matters of the Earth, with new single The Men Who Eat Ringforts lambasting rural property developers' avarice.
A Leeside appearance for the burgeoning hip-hop trio from the Belfast Gaeltacht - thankfully, a deal with UK indie institution Heavenly Recordings won't see them tone down their necessary message.
Eighties hitmakers continue to gig throughout the year, reprising once-inescapable hits like 'Parachute', when singer Tom Dunne isn't holding court on matters musical in the pages of this paper.
Beloved among trad heads and rockers alike, the Dublin four-piece present a Cork gig with reduced ticket prices following the premature conclusion of their jazz weekend concert at Cork Opera House.
