The video has just been released for the wonderfully controlled noise-fest that is Girl Band’s new single Lawman. It’s a joyously scuzzy videotape-esque promo (made by Second/Frame) and it works beautifully. The […]
New Irish Music – Girl Band – Lawman (Video)
JDIFF Events, Workshops and Talks
Tickets went on sale for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival this morning, and already a few of the bigger events have sold out! Still, there’s lots of work shops, free events, […]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything – Album Review
‘We live on an island called Montreal, and we make a lot of noise, because we love each other!’ says the voice of a small child to introduce the new album by […]
New Music: Damon Albarn – Everday Robots (Longitude Appearance?)
This is the first release of Damon’s new album, and the title track no less. The album will be released on April 28th. He has just been announced as a headliner in […]
JDIFF 2014 Preview – Movies to see
The programme for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014 has just been released and there’s more than a few gems in there. The festival runs from February 13th to 23rd in […]
Four Tet Release Early Albums
Four new Four Tet albums dropped this morning, as a new Band Camp site came into existence. The albums vary in length and cost, but if you’re a purist, and want to […]
New Music – Fox Jaw – Kerosene
It’s one of those ‘will he, won’t he’ videos that makes you watch right through to the very end! This song is taken from their second album, Ghost Parade which will be […]
Warpaint – Warpaint – Album Review
This album quietly took me by surprise. I’d heard the single that was bouncing around the airwaves, but was expecting the album to be patchy at best, but there’s consistency and quality […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (20-1-14 – 26-1-14)
Well, here wer are, back at this weeks ‘Things to do’ post, it’s like nothing ever happen, nothing happens at all, the needle returns to the start of the song and we […]
Doomed – Chuck Palahniuk – Book Review
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk Doomed is the second novel in a trilogy that started with Damned. In Damned Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer finds herself damned to Hell after […]
TV This Week
I forgot to write about it last week, but its not too late to catch the first episode of The Spoils of Babylon tonight at 9pm on Fox. An illustrious cast including […]
Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son – Album Review
Amazingly, this is Damien’s 11th studio album, with the first being released in 1997. Another performer that has endured where many others have fallen in his wake. He must be doing something […]
Everything must go now – Hugh Lane Gallery – 18-01-14
This is the closing event of the Bubblewrap game in the Sleepwalker series, that promises to deliver free food, music and of course art (well, it is in an art gallery). It’s […]
New Movie Releases – 17-01-13
This is another week with one big hitter and then very, very little else. Are they scared? I guess so, but you’d think there would be more movies from another genre, art […]
Macbeth – Smock Alley – Review
The story of Macbeth and his act of treachery on his King is one of Shakespeare’s finest, which is saying something! There will be few going to see this production that will […]
Bite Size Movie Review – The Wolf of Wall Street
If you don’t already know, and I serious doubt you don’t, The Wolf Of Wall Street is the new Martin Scorsese film – based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name […]
Moonface – Young Hearts Run Free – St. Werburgh’s Church – 29-01-14
Details just came through of the latest Young Hearts gig, and this time it’s in St. Werburgh’s Church (that’s the one beside Burdocks and Jury’s Inn) on Jan 29th! They’re bringing back […]
Mogwai – Rave Tapes – Review
Mogwai return with their first album proper since the 2011 album ‘Hardcore will never die, but you will’, although there has been some remix and soundtrack work in between (let’s just say, […]
New Music – Dylan Tighe – Record
Dylan Tighe is someone we’ve been banging on about on this site for some time. Over the years, he’s worked with Pan Pan Theatre company and even had his own solo show […]
Efterklang are not breaking up!
You can understand why people were confused! When Efterklang announced a gig they were playing was “saying goodbye to Efterklang in its current form and to the idea of what Efterklang is”, […]
Temple Bar TradFest 2014 – Preview
It’s a quiet time of year when footsteps echo on many an empty street but not so on the cobbles of Temple Bar next week. That’s because Temple Bar TradFest 2014 kicks […]
Not Lost – A Story about Leaving Home – Sarah Maria Griffin – Book Review
Not lost is an unusual body of work from poet, journalist and sometimes novelist Sarah Maria Griffin. It takes us from the weeks before she left Dublin to the new world she […]
Gig News – Tera Melos, Hall & Oates etc
Tera Melos are one of those bands that have been mentioned in all the right places. The Californian trio play the Workman’s Club on Saturday Feb 1st, with tickets at €10. Support […]
Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll at the IFI
What better way to start the year with some of my favourite things in the one place! This is a festival that will run for the next few months at the IFI, […]
Richard Dreyfuss & Terry Gilliam for JDIFF 2014
JDIFF have just announced the star names coming this year, and it’s another very impressive couple of Hollywood A-listers, with Richard Dreyfuss and Terry Gilliam arriving on our shores. Dreyfuss starred in […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (13-1-14 – 19-1-14)
We bid fond farewell to the first festival of the year, First Fortnight Festival will be back next year, with some luck. So what of this week? What’s in store for us […]
Cass McCombs – Workman’s Club – Gig Review – 11-01-14
You can tell a lot about a band by what drinks they bring on stage wit h them. Some bands bring a bottle of whiskey, and you know they’re not to be […]
TV this Week
So we’re finally over the Christmas TV schedule and back to business. Winter TV is infinitely better than any other time of the year, with many returning favorites coming onto our screens […]
The Year of Magical Wanking – First Fortnight – Project Arts Centre – Review
The Year of Magical Wanking tells the story of a year in a troubled man’s life. As you would expect, it is not a year without incident. He discovers he is HIV […]
No More Workhorse 