After a brief quiet spell, we’ve hit festival season in Dublin, so prepare to to be busy! Well, you could just choose to ignore it all, but you’d be crazy, quite frankly. […]
Things to do in Dublin – 3rd – 9th Sept
Fringe Festival Preview – Highlights
Dublin’s very own Fringe Festival opens this week (Thursday 6th Sept) and as ever, the programme is somewhat daunting. It’s a mass names and none of them household! Here’s a few tips […]
New Music: Four Tet – Pink
I’ve been listening to this a lot over the last couple of days and I really like it. Pink is a collection of singles that Kieran Hebden has been putting out over the […]
Movies – 31-08-92
Two movies of note this week, Samsara which I’ve already talked about lots, so I won’t mention again! The other one is the bizarre sounding ‘Berberian Sound System’ which is the story […]
Villagers – The Waves
Conor J is back in town, with the first song from his new album called ‘The Waves’. It’s as epic as you can get from five minutes (surprised it’s not longer, but […]
Gig Guide – 29-08-2012
Fair to say it’s not a vintage collection of gigs in the next few months, but a couple of new additions to the list, Beth Orton and Sam Amidon are playing mister […]
New Music: Wild Nothing – Nocturne
With the new Wild Nothing album (Nocturne) coming out here’s a taster from it called Paradise. We’ve mentioned Wild Nothing a few times on the blog and the 2010 album Gemini was a […]
Videodrome: Mike Sheridan – Brokvarteret
Director Martin Garde was kind enough to tip us off on his new video created for Danish artist Mike Sheridan. Like dogs? Like slow-motion? Well this will make your day. Lovely dark […]
Dan Deacon – America: exclusive album stream (The Guardian)
Listen to the new album from Dan Deacon, ‘America’, streaming at The Guardian here.
Things to do in Dublin – 27th August – 2nd Sept
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die” Well, it was a wild ride while it lasted! I hope everyone made the most of the various Sailors, […]
Dan Deacon – True Thrush
With new album ‘America’ set to drop today (I think!) here’s the most recent single from it, ‘True Thrush’, to get people in the mood. The idea behind the video is good […]
Movies – 24-08-12
So, what’s new at the movies this week…a few good ones actually… Shadow Dancer seems to be the big release of the week, it’s the tale of troubles up north, and stars […]
Darklight Festival 2012 – Preview
The Darklight festival is one I’ve largely ignored, and i can’t really put a finger on why! It should be right up my alley, but I’ve only gone to a handful of […]
Mark Eitzel – I love you but you’re dead
Oh happy day! One that almost didn’t happen, but good to have him back, with the first track off his new album ‘Don’t be a stranger’. ‘Lets go toast the twilight at […]
Tall Ships – Bulmers Live Music – George’s Dock
I mentioned this in passing in the ‘Things to do…’ section, but I think it’s more than worthy of a blog in it’s own right (high praise indeed!). It features some of […]
James Yorkston – I was a cat from a book
A new album by James Yorkston is always something to get excited about, so looking forward to this one. And as for the album title, well that is explained here. Where did […]
Samsara
Baraka is one of those movies that really captured my imagination. The right movie at the right time, I guess. Dazzling cinematography with a great sound track of music by Dead can […]
What to do in Dublin – 20th to 26th August
“Music borrowed from the savages of Africa by the anti-God society, with the object of destroying morals and religion” (Father Peter Conefrey, 1934) At what moment does a ship become tall? At […]
Mark Kozelek – UK Blues
One of the stand out tracks on Mark Kozelek’s excellent new album is ‘UK Blues’ in which he details why he doesn’t like the UK, city by city! It features such gems […]
Movies – 17-08-12 – Stranger than Fiction – Documentary Season
This worked out nicely, as there’s next to nothing of any quality released this week so I can focus on the Documentaries! Sly and his crew of older action heroes are back […]
Much Ado about Nothing – Project Arts Centre – Cube – Review
This is a bright, fast paced production of one of Shakespeare’s finest comedy. The large ensemble cast of 16 actors on the tiny stage, vary in age from the very young to […]
New Music: Mac DeMarco – My Kind Of Woman
Lovely new release from Brooklyn label, Captured Tracks who are also home to the band Wild Nothing. This is a gorgeously languid track from Mac DeMarco with a full album on the way […]
Dublin Theatre Festival – Top Picks
Booking in the Dublin Theatre Festival opens tomorrow! You can see the full line up here, and as ever, there’s quite a few to get through.There’s no way anyone could go to […]
What to do in Dublin – 13th to 19th August
I hope everyone got out to see Cracked Lights production of ‘The Tempest’ in Iveagh Gardens. It was our top tip from last week, and thankfully the weather was generally to Prospero […]
Movies – 10-08-12 – Grabbers
Two movies of note this week, and about very different subjects. One is about the life and work of Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist responsible for a piece recently shown in the turbine […]
Kilkenny Arts Fever
Yes, that’s right, it all kicks off tomorrow, and it should be banging! Definitely worth a road trip from the big smoke (and all other quarters). Here’s some of our top picks… […]
Beautiful and poignant: Homemade Super 8 movie for Broken Social Scene track
Sometimes it’s the simple things that get me. Someone posted a homemade Super 8 movie as a backdrop to the incredibly beautiful Broken Social Scene track, Guilty Cubicles. We all have memories […]
Things to do in Dublin – 7th to 13th August
A day late but worth the wait… We’ll not really. It’s a quiet week in Dublin after some fun weeks over the last while. 1.Free Shakespeare in the Park – The Tempest […]
Movies – 03-08-12
Ok, first off, the unexpected has happened, Ted has got good reviews from almost every critic I’ve seen! Have they been kidnapped and replaced with a bunch of teenage boys? Maybe it’s […]
No More Workhorse 