This lot are a New Zealand noise rock trio, with guitars, vocals and drums and then some looping electronic guff. They’ve been going since 1986, so another lot of old lads. They […]
ATP Preview – Throbbing Gristle
Only two weeks before I head off to ATP – Godspeed style, so I’m doing a bit of homework first! I must admit I don’t know too many of the bands on […]
Animal Collective curate ATP
Animal Collective have been given the nod to curate ATP in Minehead, from May 13th to 15th. Not my favorite choice in recent years, while I do like their music, they are […]
CMJ Music
College Music Journal is a music events and publishing company based in New York. They have an on line magazine here, which has a variety of music news and downloads. They also have an […]
A Game of you – Dublin Theatre Festival
Dublin Theatre festival finished yesterday, and had lots of interesting work in it as ever. ‘Playing the Dane’ by Pan Pan (where the audience gets to decide who will play Hamlet!), Phaedra by […]
Science week loves Eno
It must be the hardest job of marketing experts the world over to make Science seem cool, but I guess that’s the aim of Science Week, which has a series of lectures […]
Hard Heroes
What would be the worst name for a festival, if you really put your mind to it, what could you come up with? The Hard Working Class Heroes is billed as a […]
Free junk at the Gate
As it says on the tin, details here. They are part of the theatre festival which starts on Wednesday. You have to book them, and there seems to be a booking fee. […]
Ranelagh Arts Festival
The Ranelagh arts festival is something worth keeping an eye on. Over the last few years I’ve seen Martin Parr give a talk on his work and Neil Hannon play in a […]
Culture Night 2010
Culture night is next friday, and it has the usual bunch of odd things on throughout the city. Most places seem to just stay open late, which isn’t really that exciting when […]
Fringe
The Fringe festival kicks off today, with its usual line up of things I’ve never heard of and a pretty shocking web site that’s impossible to use. I’ll try to figure out […]
Mountains to the Sea Festival
The Mountains to the Sea festival returns to Dun Laoghaire on the 7th to the 12th of Sept. While it lacks the star attractions of last year where Paul Auster and his […]
How I found God.
I was at a party in a flat above Hogans a few years ago, discussing with one of my friends what he was reading in the last few months. He recommended the […]
Pavement ATP
Stage times for the now annual trip to ATP have been listed here! First and most obvious tough choices, night one… Calexico and the Walkmen (only one winner really, seen Calexico a 100 […]
No More Workhorse 