The new album from Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle is not a timeless classic, but it does contain this gem. Another story song from Mark, with his unique perspective on the world […]
New Music: Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle – Gustavo
Baths – Button Factory – Nov 27th
24 year old Will Wiesenfeld has been recording under the name of Baths/ Geotic since 2010. He has three albums to date as Baths, on the Anticon label, including Obsidian, released in […]
Beckett Summer School – Trinity College – 11th – 16th August – Public Events and Talks
“The Samuel Beckett Summer School offers a full week of learning and is complemented by social and cultural events each evening.” or so says the web site, it’s an excuse for academics […]
Electric Picnic – Body and Soul – Line up announced
It’s getting close, with the Picnic in three weeks time! Quite exciting really, and the wonderful Body and Soul Area is returning also, with it’s blend of weird and wonderful events as […]
New Release Movies – 09-08-13
One of the many joys of bank holiday weekends is that you spend the next week never quite being sure what day of the week it is! The workhorse can confirm that […]
Landfall – Project Arts Centre – Review
This is a new show from Ether productions, who previously produced ‘Mirror, Mirror‘, the sell out show in last years Fringe festival. As you enter the Space Upstairs in the Project you […]
Embers – Pan Pan Theatre – Samuel Beckett Theatre
Tonight is the opening night of Pan Pan’s production of Embers by Samuel Beckett in the Beckett theatre in Trinity College. Tickets are available here. Embers is a radio play written in […]
A Nice Bed To Die In – New Theatre – Review
The tagline on the programme says it all: ‘Two women. Similar in age. About to die. That’s where the similarity ends.’ But if you missed this, not to worry, because almost every […]
Major Barbara – Abbey Theatre – Review
Major Barbara was written by Shaw in 1905 and tells the story of an unusual family, the Undershafts. Andrew Undershaft has been estranged from the family since his children were infants and […]
Clowns without Borders – Exhibition – Irish Aid Building
Clowns Without Borders’ (CWB) is one of the best ideas in a long time. Take some performers, send them into troubled conflict zones or very poor parts of the World and let […]
New Music | Little xs for Eyes – Summer Stay
Earlier today, the Dublin-based six-piece Little xs for Eyes released their new single & video for Summer Stay. The song is a delightful and confident folk-pop/indie-electro explosion that will bring a smile to even […]
Movie Review – From up on Poppy Hill
This is the new work from Studio Ghibli, who previously brought us Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. This is the story of a young woman growing up in Japan in 1962, […]
Movies in Marlay Park – August 10th and 11th
For information on Movies in Marlay 2014, please click here. The outdoor cinema thing is continuing to gather pace, and this time has hit the ‘burbs. In the glorious confines of Marlay […]
Dramsoc UCD – New Theatre
There’s a new state of the art theatre in South Dublin. Stiff competition for the Mill Theatre in Dundrum, you are likely to see the best of cutting edge contemporary writing, with […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (05-08-13 to 11-08-13)
This is another week of recovery, from Oxygen and Castle Palooza among others! There’s one day remaining for those wanting to visit the Big House, and there’s also the start of the […]
New Music – P J Harvey – Shaker Aamer
P J Harvey has released a single called ‘Shaker Aamer’. Shaker is the last remaining British resident detained in Guantanamo Bay and was on a 4 month hunger strike, which the song […]
Plankton Wat – Drifter’s Temple (Thrill Jockey) – Album Review
Last May some of us “old workhorsers” were soothed and impressed in equal measure by the subtle shades of tone in Dewey Mahood’s “Fabric of Life”. As “Plankton Wat” Mr. Mahood returns […]
Movies – 02-08-13
A busy week at the cinema, so let’s get straight down to it. Ryan Gosling is just so dreamy, like, the way he takes his shirt off in every single movie. Ahem. […]
Blur – Kilmainham, Dublin – Concert Review – 01-08-13
The music Gods have been shining on the concert goers in IMMA of late with the fair weather and tonight was no exception. Both Natasha Kahn and Damon Albarn commented on the […]
Old Baby – Love Hangover – Album Review
Arguably the first ever recorded blues guitar record was “Guitar Blues”, (New York City – 1923)[1]. The performer and composer was a certain Sylvester Weaver[2]. Mr Weaver was born and bred in […]
Briefs – Second Coming – Dublin Fringe Festival
One of the hits of last year’s Fringe Festival, Briefs are back with their second coming. It’s a mix of comedy, acrobatics and more than a dash of camp fun! It’s not […]
New Music: Villagers – Earthy Pleasures
Another gem from Conor and the boys. One of those old style videos (directed by Smith & Werber) you could watch again and again… The song Earthly Pleasures is taken from {Awayland}, […]
Blur Stage Times – Kilmainham, Dublin -1-08-13
For those organising baby sitters this is invaluable information, and for the rest of us, it’s just nice to know so that we don’t miss the band! Doors open at 16:00 with […]
Neon Neon – Button Factory – 12-09-13
Super Furry Animal’s Gruff Rhys and hip-hop producer Boom Bip are back in town, as Neon Neon. They’ve left behind Delorean (sadly) and are now focusing on the world of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, […]
Movie Review – Red 2
A better than average Action movie, with Helen Mirren and John Malkovich battling it out as scene stealers! If you are Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins or any other serious actor, what […]
The Friends of Jack Kairo – The New Theatre – Review
The Friends of Jack Kairo & Jack Kairo and the long hard Kiss Goodbye – The New Theatre – Review Welcome to the world of Jack Kairo, a private detective who struggles […]
Brando Season at the Lighthouse
The people who pick the movies at the Lighthouse cinema are honest enough to say that there’s basically no reason at all for this season, no anniversary, no new releases, no nothing! […]
Movie Review – Frances Ha
Frances and Sophie have a very intense relationship, which Frances describes as like a lesbian couple that don’t have sex. They’re ‘the same person with different hair’ according to Frances, but when […]
Wanna Fight? – Season at the IFI – Movies that Inspired Nicholas Winding Refn
Nicholas Winding Refn is best known for Drive, which starred Ryan Gosling and told the tale of a Hollywood Stunt driver who worked as a get away driver by night. His latest […]
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