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Gig Say She She You looking for some discodelic s
oul action this month? Look no further than this Brooklyn based femaleled seven piece and their “dreamy harmonies, catchy hooks and up tempo grooves.” Their debut LP Prism was hailed as ‘feminist funk’ and they certainly hit a sweet spot with their sounds including latest singles Trouble and In My Head. Taking their name from Nile Rogers’ lyric “C’est chi chi”, these seem like could well become a Sugar Club staple. Sugar Club, Saturday March 25, €20 Exhibition Declan Clarke – The Museum of Broadcasting and Loneliness Exhibition Carl Hickey – Everything and Nothing There’s a vibrant bounce to Carl Hickey’s body of work. The young Clondalkinite pops a green on a gable end, puts pink and blue wigs into a scene which could be either neighbourhood pleasantries or Funny Games, there’s the brilliant Garda caught on his phone and transferred to canvas. It’s the well recognised, slightly pathetic, mid run of a pointless pursuit. Hickey’s observations live and breath the city, someone glaringly Dublin, some more intimate and isolated. Atelier Now, March 16-April 1. Comprising of two elements, Saturn and Beyond is a film tracing the history of transcontinental communication and broadcasting using slide film, video footage and analogue photography. Pondering the development of how telecommunications and air travel led to the exploration of the solar system, Clarke’s gaze stretches to the furthest reaches of Saturn as well as the exponential growth of Alzheimer’s disease and the rapid growth of dementia (10m each year). The second aspect are transmission and receiver objects from the Museum which was founded by his father in 1981, running for 15 years before going into storage until Clarke unearthed them in 2017. His father ended up developing dementia to which Clarke says, “For me there was a metaphorical and tragic irony to the fact the founder of a museum of broadcasting and communications would develop a disease which would mean he could no longer communicate.” RHA until March 26 61