What’s on Wednesday: The Lone Bellow and All That Fall

AMERICANA

The Lone Bellow
Whelan's, 8pm, €16.50, whelanslive.com

With lead singer Zach Williams and guitarist Brian Elmquist hailing from Georgia, and mandolin player Kanene Pipkin from Virginia, Americana/roots music is seeping from Lone Bellow's collective skin. The threesome return to Ireland with a successful album (this year's Then Came the Morning) that is pretty darned good at setting up the listener for an emotional fall.

THEATRE

All That Fall
St Michael's School, 7pm, (mat 4pm/3pm) £16/£12, ends Aug 2, happy-days-enniskillen.com

Beginning with a chorus of animal impersonations, Samuel Beckett’s first radio play – intended to “come out of the dark” – typically mingles sardonic wit with appropriately lacerating notes of despair. In 2012, Pan Pan brilliantly conceived of a listening experience, in a disarmingly designed room, for a new recording of the play. Here, Out of Joint’s Max Stafford Clark takes the more traditional approach of a live reading with an accomplished cast that includes Rosaleen Linehan, Garrett Keogh and Gina Moxley. Originally broadcast in 1957, the play follows the aged, childless Maddy Rooney as she walks to Boghill station (in a village that is a thinly-disguised Foxrock of Beckett’s childhood) to collect her blind, cantankerous husband, as, along the way, polite and assisting villagers let their good nature crumple under duress. As one character wonders aloud, with a troublesome car engine and Mrs Rooney as his passenger, “Perhaps if I were to choke her?”