Guest-curated by Bernard Clarke, "Scribbledehobble" is an evening of music, spoken word and imagery from the Museum of Literature Ireland, presented by the Kaleidoscope series (curators Karen Dervan & Lioba Petrie) in association with MusicTown festival. Artist line up comprises Claire Duff (violin), Sue Rynhart (voice) with Michael Nielsen (gtr), Claire Fitch (cello/electronics), Danny McCarthy (imagery/electronics) and Cormac Breatnach (whistles) with Martin Tourish (accord) and Daire Bracken (fiddle), with dramatic spoken contributions from Bernard Clarke of RTE Lyric FM "Blue of the Night" fame.

"Scribbledehobble as a word can mean hurried, untidy writing, or it can be a reference to a workbook with ideas written down quickly –sketches, vignettes. One of James Joyce’s most important notebooks for his Finnegans Wake opens with the word Scribbledehobble. Further to that, one of the key books underlining Finnegans Wake is Sheridan LeFanu’s The House By The Churchyard. Set in the village of Chapelizod in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. Like Finnegans Wake, LeFanus' rich tale is full of vignettes, where characters come and go, mysteries are hinted at, mysteries unravel...The Scribbdehobble audience will "tour" from room to room in MOLI encountering musical characters as they go who are introduced by excerpts from The House By The Churchyard. At the heart of Finnegans Wake and The House By The Churchyard is a funeral, or a “funferal” (fun for all) in Joyce’s pun. This is our funferal"