A Music and Arts web site, based in Dublin.
Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Performances: 16 & 17 September – 13:00, €15/€13 Other performance: 17 September – 15:15, €15/€13 Venue: The New Theatre James […]
Whitney – Spark – Album Review by Cathy Brown Chicago band Whitney – helmed by Julien Ehlrich and Max Kakacekhave – have returned with their third album Spark, which follows on from […]
The Perfect Immigrant – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Performances: 13 – 17 September – 20:30, €15/€13 Venue: The New Theatre As the lights go out in the New Theatre, we hear […]
Culture Night – Musical Highlights Culture Night takes place on Friday 23rd September, so just over a week away! We thought we’d have a look at some of the musical events that […]
Absent the Wrong – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Dylan Coburn Gray & Once Off Productions Performances: 13 – 17 September & 19 – 24 September – 19:00, €16/ €14 Other performances […]
South Pacific – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review by Frank L 13th – 17th of September, 2022 South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein A Chichester Festival Theatre Production South […]
The Matchmaker – Gaiety Theatre – Review by Gearoid O’Byrne Michael Scott’s iconic production of John B. Keane’s comedy The Matchmaker originally opened in Spirit in January 2001, with the original cast […]
Accents – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Performances: 11 – 17 September – 21:00, €20/ €18 Other performances: 17 September – 13:00, €20/ €18 Venue: Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs The […]
Preoccupations – Arrangements – Album Review by Killian Laher The much maligned post-punk genre has become something of a cliche in recent years, with a plethora of bands with brooding atmospheres, jerky […]
“Where Ye From?” – Growler – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Performances: 10 – 14 September @ 20:30, €15/ €13 Venue: Dublin Castle – Chapel Royal Find out more about Growler here. […]
Wake – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review PERFORMANCES: 10, 13 – 15 September @ 19:30, €15/€30/€45 OTHER PERFORMANCES: 16 & 17 September 19:00, 21:30, €15/€30/€45 VENUE: National Stadium Dublin The Dublin Fringe […]
Albums of the Week – 09/09/22 Some great new music this week I’m happy to report! You can choose between The Afghan Whigs (How Do You Burn?), Oliver Sim (of The xx […]
The Gap Year – Lyric Theatre – Review by Cathy Brown The Gap Year – A Lyric Theatre Production in association with Commedia of Errors Sat 3—Sun 25 Sep 2022 What happens […]
See How They Run – Film Review by Frank L. Director – Tom George Writer – Mark Chappell Stars – Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Harris Dickinson This is a beautifully crafted murder […]
Mespil In The Dark Live – Samuel Beckett Theatre 5 – 10 September 2022 – 7:30 PM – Samuel Beckett Theatre Photos by Ros Kavanagh After the excesses of their recent production […]
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies – Film Review by Brian Merriman Director: Halina Reijn Screenplay: Screenplay: Sarah DeLappe, Chloe Okuno, Kristen Roupenian, Joshua Sharp, Aaron Jackson Stars – Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Pete Davidson, Lee Pace, Myha’la […]
Crimes of the Future – Film Review by David Turpin Director – David Cronenberg Writer – David Cronenberg Stars – Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart At an unspecified point in the […]
Q&A with Alma Kelliher – Wake – Dublin Fringe Festival WAKE premieres at the National Stadium, as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival, Sep 8 – 17 We got the chance to […]
Bat Out Of Hell – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review 30 August – 10 September 2022 BAT OUT OF HELL – Produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl & Tony Smith The musical is set […]
Three Thousand Years of Longing – Film Review Director George Miller Writers George Miller, Augusta Gore, A.S. Byatt (based upon the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by) Stars – […]
Album of the Week – 02/09/22 It’s September, so the silly season has come to an end? You’d think, wouldn’t you? This week is as slow as they come but there are […]
The Territory – Film Review by Frank L. Director – Alex Pritz Stars – Neidinha Bandeira, Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau The Amazon rainforest was a vast expanse of land untouched by […]
Blackbird – Film Review by Frank L. Director – Michael Flatley Writer – Michael Flatley Stars – Michael Flatley, Eric Roberts, Patrick Bergin Orson Welles’ first feature film was Citizen Kane. It […]
Rapt – Wayward Faith – Album Review by Killian Laher Rapt is the musical project of Jacob Ware, a former member of the death metal band Enslavement. This is the latest in […]
Looking At The Sun – Smock Alley – Review by Fran Winston Smock Alley, Temple Bar until September 3rd. 7.30pm nightly with matiness Saturday and Sunday at 2.30pm The Civic, Tallaght from […]
A Lazarus Soul & Arrivalists – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire – Review By Killian Laher Sunday night provided the chance to see two of Ireland’s finest songwriters with A Lazarus Soul and […]
Fleet Foxes – National Museum of Ireland – Review Live at the National Museum of Ireland – 28/08/22 Part of the Wider than Pictures series. The setting for this series of gigs […]
Ryley Walker – The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire – Review by Killian Laher As part of the Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival 2022 One of the more interesting American artists of recent years, […]
NEXT PLEASE… – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L. Next Please… Written by Aisling O’Mara Directed by Iseult Golden Featuring Hazel Clifford and Aisling O’Mara August 22 – September 10, […]
No More Workhorse 