Make Yourself Comfortable is a performance piece featuring the very lovely, Miss Lily Lake. Having been captured by the Germans during the war, with a voice as sweet as honey she managed to sing her way to freedom. For one night only, let Miss Lily Lake entertain you! Make Yourself Comfortable is a newly devised piece of performance theatre created and directed by visual artist Sandra Minchin.

Legendary Cork entertainer Paddy Comerford will perform his hit one-man show for one night only this Sunday at the Everyman Palace Theatre. It was only in May that Paddy performed his first ever solo show. That performance also took place at the Everyman and was recorded to become Paddy Comerford's first DVD, simply named 'Just Paddy'.

Gig of the week:
Josh Ritter and the Love Cannon String Band, the Pavilion, Thurs 15 Oct and Fri 16 Oct, 8pm
The ever-popular Josh Ritter returns to Cork to play in the more intimate environs of the Pavilion this week. Due to demand, he is playing an extra gig on the Friday.

There will be a night of dark decadence this Halloween, Saturday 31 October at the Blackrock Castle Vampire's Ball! Starting with a buffet dinner at 7pm, enjoy some startling spectacles and then dance the night away! The DJs of Love and Wonder like to play anything that can inspire spontaneous chair dancing - be it punk, disco, soul, alternative, new wave, sixties girl groups, electronica or good old rock'n'roll.

David McSavage is one of Ireland's most controversial and boundary pushing comedians. He has been arrested several times over the years and has triggered complaints after several of his numerous Late Late Show appearances. Surprisingly enough, the Late Late Show has been one of his greatest patrons; he has appeared on the show "six or seven times", by his own reckoning.

It never rains but it pours. Just before we experience an onslaught of top-quality jazz with the Cork Jazz Festival, we have one of the best jazz trios in the world as a warm-up to the festival! They play Cork Opera House on Sunday, 18 October, a week before the jazz festival starts. Get your jazz hands ready!

A new Cork girl band called The Dreams play their debut gig next week. The band comprises of singer/actress Jean Elliot, singer/actress Emma Cotter and singer Emer O'Sullivan. All three girls come from strong performing arts backgrounds and began rehearsing last summer to form the new band.

Comedy gig of the week:
Dave McSavage, City Limits Comedy Club, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October at 9pm
McSavage's unique brand and blend of repartee, ribaldry and rhythm has seen him described as among the brightest talents to emerge on the comedy circuit in recent years.

THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER
What: Tony Christie
Where: Cork Opera House
Time: 8pm

Mercier Press has published 'Cork Rock-From Rory Gallagher to the Sultans of Ping', a book that tells the story of the growth of rock music in the City over the last five decades. Written by Mark McAvoy, Cork Rock explores the history of Cork rock from the early days of legendary guitarist Rory Gallagher in the 1960s, through the Finbarr Donnelly-led punk era of the 1980s, to local indie legends The Frank And Walters and the irrepressible Sultans of Ping.