It really does seem very cold outside to be talking about the longest day of next year, but that’s where we are, as the Body & Soul weekend is taking place next […]
Body of Soul – Early Bird Tickets Available
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The Eloquence of the Dead – Conor Brady – Book Review
Detective fiction can come in waves. Murders in the 1880s are the current vogue, be it ‘Ripper Street’ or ‘Whitechapel’. Conor Brady’s excellent contribution to the genre, ‘The Eloquence of the Dead’, […]
St. Vincent – Olympia Theatre – February 22nd
St Vincent has been hanging around with David Byrne a lot of late. So much so, it’s quite a surprise that she’s arriving on these shores in February of next year without […]
Sean Millar – Project Arts Centre – 30th Nov
I can’t think of a better spot for Sean Millar to play than the Project Arts Centre. He straddles the gap between theatre and music nicely, so it’s really the perfect place. […]
Generation War – TV Review
RTE last night broadcast the first episode of the German epic Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter). Produced by the makers of Downfall, it draws comparisons to the excellent Band of Brothers. […]
Dublin Book Festival – Pauline McLynn, Paul Howard and Pat McCabe
The Making us Laugh session on Sunday at 2pm featured Paul Howard (of Ross O’Carroll Kelly fame) and Pauline McLynn. Damien Corless had the job of controlling these two live wires, but […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (18-11-13 to 24-11-13)
Congratulations to all those involved in the Dublin Book Festival. I wasn’t sure what to expect from it, but the few events I attended were top notch. So, to look ahead to […]
Ane Brun – Vicar Street – Review
When an artist starts that night by saying that tonight will be a retrospective through the last ten years of their career, you know you’re in for a treat, when that artist […]
Myth of the Perfect Woman – Dublin Book Festival – Review
Debunking the ideal of the perfect woman isn’t necessarily a subject that lends itself to a ninety-minute live audience discussion. For a start, there is the problem that talking about these issues […]
TV Preview – Borgen, Witches Of East End…
Borgen returns this week to BBC4 (Saturday 9pm) hopefully heralding the restoration of good Scandinavian/ subtitled tv on our screens in this darkest of seasons. This is the third and final season […]
RTE Arena Live at Dublin Book Festival – Review
If CS Lewis was right, and the future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, then last night’s live recording of RTE’s Arena at the Dublin […]
Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
Why Not? Adventure Film Festival takes place in the Sugar Club this Saturday before making its way to Castlebar and Galway. It’s an unusual topic for a Film Festival, but looks like […]
New Movie Releases – 15-11-13
Don Jon is the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was an actor I never thought would make it, but that’s mostly because he started life in a sit-com (yes, 3rd rock from […]
Crayonsmith – Milk Teeth – Album Review
With the release of Crayonsmith’s new album ‘Milk Teeth’, Limerick’s Out On A Limb records, have not for the first time, decided against relinquishing their crown, as one of Ireland’s leading independent […]
New Music: Hellfyre Club – Dorner vs. Tookie
This is one of the best mix tapes I’ve come across in recent times, and available at ‘name your price’ to download below, you really can’t complain! It’s a good taster of […]
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Civic Theatre – Review
Danny And The Deep Blue Sea contains just two characters and both are enthralling. Roberta is played by Clodagh Downing and the character of Danny is played by Edwin Mullane. The play […]
Brendan at the Chelsea – Project Arts Centre – Review
Brendan Behan lived in the Chelsea hotel in New York during the 1960’s after the premier of ‘The Hostage‘. It was here he slept, drank and occasionally worked, while the city pulsated […]
Interview with Claire Dix – Director of Broken Song
Broken Story – GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin. For these young men self-expression in the form of poetry, rap and song has […]
There’s a new exhibition of prints in the National Botanic Gardens opening tomorrow night, which sounds interesting. Here’s Elke from Natural Selection with the details… We’re a group of Irish-based printmakers who […]
Film Review – Free Birds
Free Birds is the new animated movie from Reel FX Creative Studios and is directed by Jimmy Hayward who made Horton Hears a Who! It tells the story of Reggie, who finds […]
Go Back For Murder – Gaiety Theatre – Review
By the time of her death in 1976, the estate of Agatha Christie claims that worldwide sales of the author’s books were exceeded only by Shakespeare and the Bible. An impressive statistic, […]
New music: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Lariat
Wig Out at Jagbags is out January 7 via Matador (January 6 in the UK via Domino). From Malkmus himself: “Wig Out at Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and […]
Long Range Gig Forecast – November Gig Guide
Yes, yes, yes, plenty of new things to delight you from now until the middle of November. Damien Jurado is back in town, who is always good to see and Deltron 3030 […]
The Family – Movie Review
The Manzoni family have just arrived in another small French town, and are trying hard to adjust, to blend in and go unnoticed, it’s just that it’s not in their nature! The […]
Mogwai for Other Voices – Dingle
These guys keep pulling out the surprises, with the first of the artists announced for Dingle, December 6th – 8th. The three artists announced are David Gray, Lisa O’Neill and… Mogwai! I […]
Being Alexander – Diarmuid Ó Conghaile – Book Review
Alexander Vespucci works as an economist and lives with his girlfriend in a basement apartment in Rathmines. He enjoys horse riding on weekends and meets up with his friends after work for […]
The Dodos – Carrier – Album Review
This is an album that slipped past me when it was released, I gave it a quick listen, decided it was too similar to their previous work, and that was it. Somewhere […]
New Music: The Greenhouse Effect Vol. 3 – Free Download
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Irish House scene but were afraid to ask! Bodytronic’s own Conor Lynch shares 19 of the most exciting artists, musicians and DJs working right […]
Broken Circle Breakdown – Movie Review
Just look at the trailer below and what do you see? A couple falling in love and struggling through adversity and all the while singing blue grass music. Well, that has nothing […]
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