Looking ahead - Cork musicians talk about their hopes for 2021 With a year of challenges, opportunities, and rebuilding ahead for music in Cork city, Cork's musicians, promoters, venue heads and journalists talk with Mike McGrath-Bryan about their hopes for the near future. Elaine Malone: I can't wait to be in a room again hearing my friends play. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan. STEVIE G (DJ, radio host, promoter, columnist, producer) I hope we get physical gigs back, and I can't wait to DJ to actual people again. I hope more of our artists manage to get recorded too, as i think Cork is a little behind the rest of the country, especially in zones that I specialise in, such as hip-hop and soul. Limitations and restrictions and struggles are always bad, but good music often manifests itself from bad times, and I'm always optimistic for tomorrow.