Tundra – Review by Sarah Gilmartin The Tundra explored by Emma Martin Dance is a dark and foreboding landscape, a world that blurs the lines between nightmare and reality, offering a disorienting […]
Tundra – Dublin Dance Festival – Review
New Irish Music – The Late David Turpin – Hotel
The latest release from the Late David Turpin’s album ‘We Belong Dead’. Check out the “supernatural/pastoral dream/nightmare” inspired video below. The Late David Turpin – New Video: “The Hotel” “The Hotel” is […]
Fading Gigolo – Movie Review
Fading Gigolo- Review by Frank L. Director: John Turturro Writer: John Turturro Stars: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone Woody Allen is in his element as Murray, a New Yorker through and […]
Free Events at DWF – Pat McCabe (23-05-14) & Adrian Crowley (24-05-14)
There are a huge amount of events in the Dublin Writers Festival, and many of them are free! Yep, that’s for nada, zilch, diddly squat. Check through the web site to find […]
New Movie Releases – 23-05-14
Lots of new releases, and lots of bases covered. We’ve got mutants and folk singers, Gigolos and Skate boarders and everything in-between. So, without further ado… here comes the noise! Fading Gigolo […]
The Punk Singer – Movie Review
The Punk Singer – Review by Frank L. Director: Sini Anderson Stars: Kathleen Hanna, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon… Kathleen Hanna was born in 1968, and is a feminist and a punk singer! […]
Competition – Down with Jazz – 31st May – Ticket Giveaway
More tickets I hear you scream? Yes indeedy. This time it’s for the first day of the Down with Jazz festival (Saturday 31-05-14). There are two tickets for one person to be […]
Variance – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Variance by Stewart Roche – Review by Frank L. Irish/American actor, Ranae von Meding, is the sole performer in this one woman show. The action starts in Jennifer’s home in the suburbs […]
Creepy Jimmy – Interview with Aaron and Sarah Lennon Ross
Creepy Jimmy – Interview with Aaron and Sarah Lennon Ross by Emily Elphinstone After a successful outing during the Collaborations Festival in early March; Creepy Jimmy, the first play by Tiny Little […]
Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London – New Theatre – Review
Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London – Review by Emily Elphinstone Though the title proudly declares ‘Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London’; the current production in the New Theatre provides much more than this […]
The Sports Gene – Talent, Practice and the Truth about Success – David Epstein – Book Review
‘The Sports Gene – Talent, Practice and the Truth about Success’ David Epstein – Review by Dan O’Neill Born to Run What makes an elite athlete ‘elite’? In the Nature versus Nurture […]
New Music – Catacombe – Quidam
Something nice and loud to wake you up this morning! It follows the long established rules of post rock, but is very good at what it does, so well worth checking out. […]
Weighing In – Civic Theatre – Review
Pam arrives in a new town and joins the local Easi Slim class. From the outside Pam seems to have everything, a successful husband and two ideal children along with the perfect […]
Ray Davies – Dublin Writers Festival – 19-05-14 – Review
As Joseph O’Connor said himself, it is best for an interviewer to stay impartial, but that was never an option here! Joseph admitted to having a poster of the Kinks on his […]
8Radio Returns to FM!
Choice is always a good thing, and the return of 8radio to our airwaves will certainly give us that! It is the brainchild of Simon Maher who was responsible for the original […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Movie Review
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Review by Frances Winston Directed by: Bryan Singer Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, Patrick […]
Peter Fallon & Declan O’Rourke – Dublin Writers Festival – Smock Alley Theatre – Review
This brought together the poet and the troubadour, Peter Fallon and Declan O’Rourke. They are quite different in age and in their chosen professions, but they have a similar perspective on life […]
John Kelly & Lia Mills – Dublin Writers Festival – Smock Alley – 17-05-14 – Review
John Kelly and Lia Mills. Smock Alley Theatre, Saturday 17th – Review by Helen O’Leary This reading brought together writers John Kelly and Lia Mills, whose new novels explore Dublin past and […]
Owen Pallet – In Conflict – Album Review
One name stood out from the others involved in Owen Pallet’s new album, that of Brian Eno. Eno is listed as playing synth, guitar and vocals on the album, which is something […]
Things to do in Dublin (19-05-14 – 25-05-14)
The Dublin Writers Festival is in full swing, with some great talks and gigs around the city. This week includes Ray Davies, Sebastian Barry, Johnny Vegas among many others. Two new festivals […]
Gruff Rhys – Whelans – Dublin Writers Festival Review
I’m sure the Writers Festival has had many historians over the years. Learned Professors who spent many years in dusty halls of records and libraries honing their skills to become known as […]
Grandville: Bete Noire – Bryan Talbot – Book Review
The Badger is back! This is the third instalment of the series concerning the badger detective. This tale begins with LeBrock and Ratzi being called to Paris to investigate a murder that […]
The Other Side of the Coin – Outhouse – Theatre Review
The Other Side of the Coin – Review by Frances Winston. Gay Beatings have been in the news a lot recently and here co-writers Derek Masterson and Brian Murray tackle the subject […]
Four Tet – Radio Mix 13-05-14 – NTS Radio
he mix, which is the second installment of his series for the station, features tracks from Lana Del Rey, Wu-Tang Clan, David Crosby, Madvillain and Simon & Garfunkel. You can listen to […]
Finding Nemo – Grand Canal – 16-05-14
Another day, another Happenings! Finding Nemo this time how. How do these guys do it, that’s two days in a row! HAPPENINGS H2O: FINDING NEMO @ GRAND CANAL DOCK Friday 16th May. […]
New Movie Releases – 16-05-13
Up from the depths, 30 stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky, Godzilla, Godzilla… God I loved that cartoon, with or without Godzuki. This week with have one of the […]
Competition: Jon Gomm – Button Factory – 23-05-14 – Ticket Giveaway
Dublin, a guitar God approaches! A man that can virtually do anything with a guitar is about to arrive on our doorstep, with three gigs around the country. We have another competition, […]
Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain – Album Review
‘There is no dignity in love, trade every scrap to get some absolution’ – Lonely at the Top Conor Oberst returns with an album under his own name and without the Mystic […]
Dublin Live Guide – Gigs in Dublin – 15-05-14
So what’s new on the gig scene? Well, there’s a few new additions. Leaders of men play three gigs in Whelans with a month between each of them! Slightly bizarre way to […]
No More Workhorse