Laundry is a site specific piece which was in the Magdalene laundry in Sean McDermott street, Dublin. I made it to the play on Saturday afternoon, so very near the end of […]
Laundry – Dublin Theatre Festival
Wild Bride – Gaiety Theatre
The Wild Bride is based on an old fairy tale about a deal with the devil, that goes horribly wrong. You’d have to question whether it’s ever worth your while doing deals […]
The animals and children took to the streets
What point is a review when a show is over? Not much use, I guess, other than to let you know how good my Sunday was! 1927‘s production of ‘The animals and […]
Dublin Theatre Festival – Final Call
Two days into the theatre festival, and I’m two plays in! Enjoying it so far, but there’s always something of value to see in it, especially from the foreign productions. Something that […]
Fringe Festival – Pope Bededict: Bond Villain
I Fringed for the first time last night! I went to Pope Benedict: Bond Villain, mostly on the strength of the title, and as I hadn’t been to anything in the festival […]
Electric Picnic – 2011
With the news that I may have secured a bed in the vicinity (no camp sites for me!), I’m suddenly quite interested in Electric Picnic. The line up this year is, as […]
Kilkenny Arts Festival
The Kilkenny Arts festival web site is the stuff of legends. There used to be an urban myth that the Ryan Air web site was made by a junior cert student on […]
Mark Kozelek – St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny
The last four or five times I’ve seen Mark play in Dublin he’s told the story of the Irish girl he picked up, that was so drunk she urinated in the wardrobe […]
Street Performers – Merrion Square
The Street Performance Championships starts today in Merrion Square. It’s free ish, although the performers try and guilt you into giving them money, the same as any street performer I guess. The […]
Last Summer ATP?
Ouch, this one has hit me where it hurts. I’m now looking for a new summer festival, as ATP have announced that Animal Collective’s ATP (May 13-15th) will be the last Summer […]
Mindfield
Mindfield is a ‘festival of ideas’ which runs from this weekend in Merrion Square, dealing with four main areas of Culture, Technology, Politics and Inspiration. The list of international names involved is […]
Dublin Writers Festival
Dublin Writers Festival runs from the 23rd to the 29th of May, and as usual brings together some well known Irish and International writers, for talks and signings. Some of the better […]
Favourite Sons
Ken Griffin of Favourite Sons posted a comment in our recent post on Rollerskate Skinny, saying that Jimi Shields only played with the first Rollerskate Skinny album, which is funny, as this […]
Bands announced for ATP
A few more bands have been announced for the ATP nightmare before Christmas with Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav (9th -11th Dec). All seem standard ATP choices, and No Age seem […]
ATP – A nightmare before Christmas
This one is a little exciting, as ATP have just announced their second Nightmare before Christmas. It is to be curated by Battles, Les Savy Fav & Caribou, which sounds just about […]
Movies – 18-02-11
This would be a dull week at the movies, other than for one thing, the Dublin Film Festival starts today! Good news for Dublin readers. Only one new release this week of […]
Sensorium
Sensorium is a week long music festival, in the project arts centre Dublin. You can find details of it here. It is being organised by the great Judith Ring, It runs from […]
ATP – Images of impossibly beauty taken with my crappy phone!
As I’m sure you’re well aware, my phone is set on impressionist, which means that you just get dappled colours without any definition. It is a unique setting to my phone, but […]
Oneida with White Magic
One of the cooler things at Godspeed ATP was the 10 hour jam session from Oneida. Yes, that’s not a mistake, the band came on stage at 2 pm and finished at […]
ATP Times
Just noticed the times have been posted on the ATP website here. The big surprise is that Godspeed play EVERY NIGHT! Weird. I guess they miss playing or something. I’ll list the […]
ATP Preview – Scout Niblett
Looking out at the flurry of snow and the variety of weather warnings, I’m quite worried that all this ATP Previewing might be for nothing. My flight is on Friday morning, if […]
ATP Preview – Mike Watt and the Missing Men
Mike Watt is another one of those legends I’ve never heard of! I guess there are a lot of old rock bands and therefore a lot of old rockers, who almost really […]
ATP Preview – Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond are a six piece American band with lots of heavy layered guitar sounds and softly lilting vocals, not a world away from someone like My Bloody Valentine, although without the […]
ATP Preview – Neurosis
These were always one of the names that scared me a little in the ATP line up! They’re a four piece experimental metal or Doom metal band from Oakland, California. I have […]
ATP – I’ll be your mirror – Portishead
A new venture for the ATP people, is a two day festival will take place in Alexandria Palace on the 23rd and 24th of July 2011. It will be curated by Portishead, […]
ATP Preview – Charlemagne Palestine
Another odd one for ATP, which is good news! He seems very interested in his collection of Teddy Bears from what I can see of the interviews of him on the net, […]
ATP Preview – Deerhoof
Deerhoof are a four piece from San Francisco who have been going in various formats since 94. For some reason I’ve never really checked them out before, but again I like what […]
ATP Preview – Black Dice
Noah Lennox “ I can’t speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way […]
ATP Preview – The Ex
The Ex are a four piece punk outfit formed in 1979 in the Netherlands. They are known for their musical experimentation and have released over 20 full length albums. Who knew? Godspeed […]
No More Workhorse 