GILLES PETERSON, Black Box, Belfast Sat 9pm £12.50 048-90244400

Connecting the dots between jazz, funk, soul, electronic sounds, hip-hop, reggae and anything else you care to label has been Gilles Peterson’s stock-in-trade for some 25 years.

Peterson’s DJing career got rolling when he was 15 and started up his own pirate radio station – an aerial suspended between a tree and a phone box. He eventually progressed to the BBC, where his current show is a must for anyone seeking out future sounds. Add in a series of legendary London club nights (such as Talkin’ Loud Saying Something and That’s How It Is), some mighty fine compilations (including Jazz Juice) and setting up the Acid Jazz, Talkin’ Loud and, most recently, the Brownswood labels, and you’re looking at one hell of a career. Peterson will be joined by Earl Zinger, aka Galliano’s Rob Gallagher, and the Hydroponic Hi-Fi crew.

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Going underground with techno phantom Redshape (Friday, Cork); three years of late-night raving at Yello (Saturday, Belfast); and arena-sized clubbing with Cascada and friends at Clubland Live 3 (Tuesday, Dublin and Wednesday, Belfast)