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gig screening Sister Nancy & Brigadier Jerry Sist
er Nancy is a Jamaican dancehall DJ and singer. And whether you know her or not, you’ve heard, sang or bopped to Bam Bam at some stage of your life to date. Her 1982 track has been sampled over 80 times across genres. For example Kanye sampled it on Famous off Life of Pablo and Jay-Z used it on Bam in a collaboration with Damian Marley off 4:44. Of course, it’s sadly no surprise that she’s only started collecting royalties of late. Her brother Robert is Brigadier Jerry and further support comes from Legal Shot Soundsystem. A classic bank holiday non-artificial sweetener from the Club. The Sugar Club, Sunday October 28, €22.50 Night of The Living Dead Night of the Living Dead was first screened at the Fulton Theatre in Pittsburgh on October 1st, 1968. Written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero (who went to the night of the dead dead last year) it was made on a budget of $114,000 and has went on to gross over $40m. Originally conceived as an alien comedy, Night of the Living Dead is the epitome of a cult classic and the standard-bearer of zombie flicks. Tonight, musicians and composers Matthew Nolan and Stephen Shannon have reimagined the score in a modern context, joined by Kevin Murphy (cello) and Catherine Sekora Mingus (saxophone, clarinet). National Concert Hall, Thursday October 4, €15-€25 club Jeff Mills Where will Jeff Mills go when he wishes to return here next? And he’s not the only one we need to ask this question of. The looming closure of District 8 sounds the death knell of clubbing in the city for sets of any decent scale (1000 in this instance). As of now, it’s safe until the end of the year at least, but the future will be a lot bleaker in its absence. As the founding father of Detroit collective Underground Resistance, veteran producer Mills is an artist whose minimalist approach has shaped the course of techno. Catch him while he has a space and reason to be here. District 8, Friday October 12, €25 Festival Bram Stoker Bram Stoker has established itself as an inventive and entertaining festival regular. It even went so far as to win an award at the Theatre Awards for one of its commissions, which illustrates the boundaries it is pushing and scale of its ambitions. A notable highlight is Loosysmokes world premiere of The Night of the Shifting Bog, an outdoor, night-time circus performance in St. Anne’s Park. And what’s not to love, or be scared by, with Creature Features, a series of after-hours screenings at the Botanic Gardens including Arachnophobia (1990), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Little Shop of Horrors (pictured,1986). Of course, the weekend is capped by the marvel that is the Macnas Parade on Bank Holiday Monday. Get your vantage point. bramstokerfestival.com Various venues, Friday October 26 to Monday October 29 88