Mojakka (Folk, Finland) kick off their Irish tour at this early evening (5p.m. sharp!) show in the Cobblestones Pub, Smithfield. Support comes from Domhnach Dubh, local punks and stoner rockers (members of puget sound, mongolia, easpa measa) who play planxty-inspired irish trad. MOJAKKA (www.mojakka.cjb.net) started in 2002 as a Hiski Salomaa cover band. He was a Finn who emigrated to America. A leftist military objector and IWW member, he entertained at Finnish ex-pat venues in New York in the 1920’s and 30’s. Some of his politics can be heard between the lines, but mainly it was and is party music. Mojakka began with vocals, accordian, guitar, flute and drums. Since then the line-up has grown to a nine piece with mandolin, violin, double bass and a second guitarist. Their musical repertoire has grown also to include some jazz, tango, rock, a lot of old finnish punk classics, and all kinds of weird and wonderful music. Rest of Tour: Wed 27th Sept, community centre, new ross Thurs 28th Sept, yukon bar, mullingar Fri 29th Sept, skelly's pub, ballymahon Sat 30th Sept, mcgurl's, Ballinamore, co. leitrim Sun 1st Oct, front page, belfast.