Our review of Ballyturk is here! Road trip anyone? Yes, this morning we are greeted by the exciting news that Landmark Productions and the Galway Arts Festival have managed to reunite their […]
Ballyturk – Galway Arts Festival – Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy Reunite!
In Dog Years I’m Dead – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
In Dog Years I’m Dead – Review By Joseph Kearney Two 29ish nearly 30 somethings meet against their will at a birthday party of a mutual friend that is about to arrive […]
Retreat – New Theatre – Review
Retreat- Review by Helen O’Leary Having spent all her adult life at home as a carer, Aunt Maura, now in her late fifties is left feeling alone and adrift following the death […]
Longitude 2014 – Line Up Announced
Yes, the official line up for this year’s Longitude has been announced. They’ve filled out the festival pretty well, although it does seem to be a different vibe from what we had […]
Faith – Civic Theatre – Review
Michael has had a run of bad luck. He was made redundant from his job and is trying to adjust to life as a ‘stay at home’ father. It has started to […]
Real Estate – Atlas – Album Review
Atlas is the third album from our favourite Ridgewood, New Jersey band Real Estate. If their 2011 album Days was one of the best of that year then Atlas is certainly going to be […]
Real Estate – The Workman’s Club – May 27th 2014
Our favourite band to move house to are coming to Dublin in May of this year, to play the Workman’s Club on May 27th! The New jersey band are just about to release […]
Tune-yards – Nikki Nak – Megamix
Tune-Yards will release her third album on May 6th and it’s called ‘Nikki Nack’. It’s the follow up to ‘Whokill’, which was one of the best releases of 2011. Yesterday, she took […]
John Grant – Olympia – 03-03-14 – Review
You know those gigs you’ve been looking forward to for so long, that you’re not worried they won’t live up to expectation? Well this was one of those. The tickets had been […]
Fabulous Females – National Leprechaun Museum – Review
Fabulous Females– Review by Joseph Kearney It’s Friday night, I have just finished a ten hour shift and my soul needs nourishment. The theatre sends a beckoning pulse through me and I […]
Celebrating Seamus Heaney – Tribute Night – National Concert Hall – 23-04-14
Seamus Heaney was Ireland’s greatest living poet and a Nobel prize winner, who sadly died in August of last year. Poetry Ireland and One City: One Book have organised a night to […]
September Girls – Cursing the Sea – Album Review
‘September Girls are a five piece garagepop band from Dublin, Ireland’ or so their Wikipedia page says. This came as quite a surprise to me, when I saw them at last years […]
Things to do in Dublin (03-02-14 – 09-03-14)
This week a legend of our times arrives in Dublin, with John Grant playing the Olympia on March 3rd. There are other great gigs such as Damien Jurado, Dylan Tighe, Sean Millar […]
Mark Kermode – The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex: What’s Wrong with Modern Movies – Book Review
Mark Kermode is a grumpy man. He is made more grumpy by the state of our cinemas- how they show movies, what they are showing, how they sell their tickets. Remember when […]
Angel – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Angel – Theatre Upstairs – Review by Helen O’Leary Angel is a short and powerful production directed by Anarosa de Eizaguire Butler. It is currently running at the Theatre Upstairs on Eden […]
Collaborations – Twit – Preview – Smock Alley
The Collaborations Festival is in full flow in Smock Alley. One show that is not to be missed is ‘Twit’ which is being run with Twelve Tales of Sea Road and The […]
Gig Guide – 28-02-2014 – Eels, Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté etc.
I guess The Eels are the big addition to the list below, but Doom live in the Sugar club could be interesting also. Otherwise, Christie Moore has been added to the Iveagh […]
New Movie Releases – 28-02-14
Yes, it’s another week, and in those various darkened rooms around the city, in art house cinemas and multiplexes, everything’s coming up sexy, with Lars Von Trier back in town! There is […]
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Gruff is back, with a new ablum, but also a film, book and an app! He’s back in a big way, as he says himself, it’s a “multisensory experience telling the incredible […]
Body & Soul 2014 – Line Up
Body and Soul are at it again! They seem to sneak into my room and pick out the bands I listen to the most, and then add them to the list. It’s […]
Dublin Writers Festival 2014 – Preview – Emma Donoghue, Ray Davies etc.
Dublin Writers Festival kicks off this May, running from the 17th to the 25th. They’ve just announced a few events, with Ray Davies of the Kinks possibly the most the exciting of […]
The Free – Willy Vlautin – Book Review
The Free by Willy Vlautin – Review by Helen O’Leary Willy Vlautin’s reputation as a novelist is slowly growing. His last book was short listed for the IMPAC Prize but he still […]
John Scofield & Vince Mendoza – National Concert Hall – March 12th
John Scofield is a jazz guitarist who has been recording music since the late 70’s. Vince Mendoza is a composer and musical arranger who has worked with Joni Mitchell and Björk. What […]
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness – Album Reviews
‘i quit my dreaming the moment that i found you. I started dancing, just to be around you’. Is the opening couplet on the new album from Angel Olsen ‘Burn your fire […]
New Music – Sisyphus – Calm it down
Who the hell are Sisyphus, I hear you scream? Well, it’s Sufjan and a couple of others. That’s enough for me anyway, check out the blurb and videos below. Update: I’m not […]
Liam Hallahan buries his Da live on Stage – Collaboration Festival – Smock Alley – Review
Liam is the son of Charles Hallahan, who was an actor you have probably seen a hundred times and never really noticed. He’s one of those guys that was in a variety […]
Fabulous Females – Ticket Competition
Fabulous Females is a one woman show that will run at the National Leprechaun museum from Feb 27th until the 8th of March. We have four tickets to give away, and will […]
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined – Royal Academy of Arts, London – Review
Photo © Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014. Photography: James Harris. / © Pezo von Ellrichshausen Review by Sean Sheehan Give them an inch and some architects will go the Zen mile, […]
Things to do in Dublin (24-02-14 – 02-03-14)
So, the Film Festival disappears for another year, and what are we left with on the streets of Dublin? Don’t worry, we’ve got lots to keep you happy. What about the Collaboration […]
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