Ok, so here’s what’s on around the city. Some of the best include Jerry Fish & the Frank and Walters in the Stag’s Head, Mighty Stef in McGrattan’s and Ryan Sheridan in […]
Arthur’s Day Dublin Gig Line up 2013
Killruddery Film Festival – Kilruddery House – Sept 27th – 29th
What’s the nicest cinema you’ve ever been in? The Lighthouse? The IFI? Well, we’re moving up a gear this weekend, as the Killruddery Film Festival is being staged in the beautiful confines […]
Dublin Theatre Festival Highlights – Preview and Tips
What is starts today? Honest? Yes, after many months of expectation, the Theatre Festival is finally upon us! So, if you’re in a state of panic and completely disorganised, here’s what we […]
This is how we fly – Button Factory – Friday 27th September
The Bottlenote Festival is a very small festival, but perfectly formed! If you saw Mice Will Play last week as part of the Fringe, or if you’ve heard us rattle on about […]
Beautiful Irish Music – Clare Reel by Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill
From the staggering album Welcome Here Again from a few years back. Peerless fiddle from Hayes with a beautifully understated accompaniment on guitar from Cahill. Happy Monday!
Things to do in Dublin this week (23-09-13 to 29-09-13)
It’s another week of change, with the Fringe festival sadly departing for another year, but the Theatre Festival starts, so you’ve no chance of being bored. It’s also Arthurs day on Thursday […]
Fringe Festival Awards – Winners Announced
Yes, it’s the end of another Fringe Festival, and they’ve announced the winners below, according to a panel of expert fringe goers. It was a very impressive festival, and remarkably consistent. I […]
Irish music – A Plastic Rose – This Side Of Winter
The guys from A Plastic Rose have recently relocated to Nottingham to be in the thick of the music scene in the UK so the very best of luck to them with […]
Melbourne music – Milk Teddy
Some music, when you hear it for the first time, can hit the spot or scratch and itch you didn’t really realise you had. When I heard a few tracks from Melbourne […]
Thirteen – Anu Production – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Anu’s most ambitious event to date, Thirteen is a series of plays, dance and performance art pieces, debates and films around the city. The piece as a whole revolves around the similarities […]
New Movie Releases – 20th September 2013
When you’re given lemons, make lemonade! It’s a less than vintage week at the cinema this week, sadly, but it is not the workhorses’ way to complain, so we’ll make do with […]
Amanda Coogan – 13 Women – Hugh Lane
Amanda Coogan is possibly Ireland’s best known performance artist, and her work is always interesting. When you combine her with the wonderful Anu productions, what do you get? Find out tomorrow. The […]
The Herbalist – Niamh Boyce – Book Review
This is the first novel by Niamh Boyce, which encapsulates the social history and rigid society of Ireland in the thirties . The main characters are all female and the story is […]
Maeve Higgins – Moving City – Smock Alley – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
What is the truth about why Maeve left Dublin, Is it because Ryan Tubridy blanked her in the IFI? Or is it simply that she had slept with all the men of […]
Animus – Lir – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Two sisters, Anna and Rose Bettle, live together and share a shocking past that is clouded in mystery. They are tainted by their history and border on unhinged, with the doll of […]
Mice Will Play – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Did you know that one breed of mice, known as Black Six was the second animal ever to have its genome published after humans and accounts for 99% of all laboratory rodents? […]
New Music – Róisín O – Hold On
Róisín O’s new single ‘Hold On’ is a faint and lilting piano song, with her haunting vocals layered over. The single builds throughout, with strings adding to the sound, before they are […]
John Grant – Olympia Theatre – March 3rd, 2014
I recently had to hide my John Grant CD, to stop myself listening to it. It had been in my CD player for weeks, and I just couldn’t stop myself. It’s just […]
The Late David Turpin – Smock Alley Theatre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
I saw David Turpin‘s show in last year’s Fringe Festival so I had high expectations for this year’s performance. I was even happier at that the fact it was taking place in […]
Dublin Burlesque Festival – November 7th-9th
The Dublin Burlesque Festival returns this November, and promises to shock and surprise the curious and those on familiar ground. It runs from the 7th to the 9th of November, and full […]
David O’Doherty – Dublin Fringe Festival – Project Arts Centre – Review
In the early part of the show, David said he played his first ever comedy gig in the Norseman, only a hundred metres or so from the Project Arts Centre. He said […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (16-09-13 to 22-09-13)
So we’re a week and a bit into the Fringe Festival and already most of us are suffering from nervous exhaustion! There’s almost a complete change of events, so plenty of new […]
Beowulf: The Blockbuster! – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
This is the story of three generations of a family, one still inside the womb! The majority of the play is seen through the eyes of a young boy, growing up in […]
TV Preview – Black Orphan
TV Preview- Orphan Black- BBC 3 Friday 9pm This new Science Fiction drama comes from Canada/America and is debuting in a double bill on Friday night. Orphan and street hustler, Sarah, witnesses […]
The Last Post – Dublin Fringe Festival – The Mart – Review
The Last Post is a free flowing show that lets you wander through the inner workings of an imaginary Post Office. We get to see the sorting offices and meet the well […]
Album Review | Monochromie | ‘Enlighten Yourself While You Sleep’
Album Review: Monochromie – ‘Enlighten Yourself While You Sleep’ If you could, just for a moment, please empty your mind of all thought. Having done so, now try and imagine what melancholic […]
Dolls – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
From the red lighting to the provocative costumes to the suggestive Chubba Chubb sequence, everything in Sorcha Kenny’s Dolls asks to be noticed. As the audience takes their seats, the production is […]
The Far Side – Lighthouse Cinema – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
The Far Side is based on a series of interviews that were carried out with seven people. Four men and three women of diverse ages and interest, the only thing they have […]
New Movie Releases – 13-09-13
You know it’s not a vintage week when the big release is Insidious Chapter 2! So, where to start this week, how about… Insidious Chapter 2. I thought about the first hour […]
No More Workhorse 