First off, Kilkenny arts festival is only around the corner. It has a very strong visual arts section in it, with names such as Willie Doherty, Willian McKeown, Ethne Jordan among many […]
Kilkenny Arts Festival
Hamburger
Neil Hamburger has just confirmed a gig at Dublin’s Sugar club. 2nd of September, for 22 euro. Here are some of his insights into the sad loss of Heath Ledger, taken from […]
Jova Joy
As can be found here, Liverpool’s new signing Milan Jovanovic was ‘delighted’ that the club changed his number after less than a month at the club! When Joe Cole arrived at the […]
Belle and Seb among others
Around the same time as their ATP Belle and Sebastian have just announced a date at the Grand Canal Theatre, on the 3rd of Dec, Tickets are on sale already and are […]
Imperial Bedrooms
Verisimilitude, with the meaning ˝of being true or real˝ is a likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a fact’s probability. It comes from Latin verum meaning truth and similismeaning similar Bret Easton […]
Festival of world festivals
You wait six months for a festival and then two come at once! The DLR Festival of World Cultures is on this weekend (23rd to 25th) in Dunlaoghaire. Its possibly the best […]
Calvin
Can you remember when Beck was cool? I know its a struggle to remember that far back. Well, i guess the mellow gold was pretty good, but the only album of his […]
The Free Economy
Another story about someone giving something away. Author Marta Ascota wrote a vampire book for teenagers, but sadly, she wasn’t alone, as that’s what half the world seem to be doing, after […]
Sleigh Bells
Spent a bit of time going through the ‘top 25 albums of the year to date’ on state magazine, and a lot of the names are the ones everyone is going on […]
Where everybody knows your name…
Why buy a cow when you can have the milk for free? Always good to promote Irish bands, and especially ones with as good a name as these guys do! The cast […]
Fables of the reconstruction
Fables is a Vertigo comic that started just as i stopped reading comics regularly, which according to wikipedia was 2002! It’s based in a world in which the characters from children’s stories […]
Gigs in odd venues!
Two gigs of interest, in odd venues (as mentioned above). The first one being Ann Scott playing the International bar on Sunday the 18th and 25th of July. I saw Ann play with […]
Owen Pallet brings cheer to the world!
Owen Pallet (as known as Final Fantasy) from his twitter account earlier today: Don’t be sad, the Lewis/Shirt remix EP is free for download this week: http://bit.ly/LewisEP If you want to make an […]
This human form, where i was born, i now repent!
Some good news for a sticky, friday morning. Caribou play Crawdaddy on the 09 Dec 19:30. Ok, it seems a stupid length of time away, but its something to look forward to, for […]
‘Va te faire foutre sale fils de pute’
For ten marks, translate the above. Its supposedly what Anelka said to Raymond Domenech, which does seem very cruel. Not a world away from what our Roy said either! As the world cup […]
PhotoIreland
Like most festivals in Ireland, this one is poorly advertised. So much so, that you’d hardly know it was on in the city, unless you happened upon it. PhotoIreland claims to have 35 […]
How much coke can you buy for 1.5 million?
According to the BBC (via the guardian), the Libertines are being paid 1.5 million for their reunion gig at Reading and Leeds this year. I presume that’s for both gigs, but even so, […]
Tiny people
This is the work of artist Slinkachu, who is described as a minaturist. He places and photographs his tiny figures in real world situations, with them observing us from afar, so to […]
Lost Genius V – Radial Spangle
Radial Spangle is an awful name for a band, why anyone would choose it I really don’t know. Closely linked to Mercury Rev (before Fridmann left ad they went rubbish), Radial Spangle […]
The World Cup of Empty
This is to some degree a football moan, so if you’re not interested in football, read no further I would suggest. More specifically, this is a moan about FIFA (though really about […]
State Intervention #5
From State twitter account: And State Intervention #5….Mountain Man, live at the waterfall in Iveagh Gardens, 5pm They’re playing later in Crawdaddy and are a lovely three pieces from the states, with […]
The curious tale of a Rocky
Just read a fascinating story in the irish times, about Rockefeller productions, the man who was bringing Grace Jones to the Wright venue, as mentioned here several weeks ago! Not sure what […]
Kings of Concrete!
No wait, come on, come back, I’m not going to go on about how beautiful concrete is, for once, honest to god, I’m not! Kings of concrete is now in its fifth […]
Gig guide
Another month, another gig guide, a few good additions on the horizon. Will probably go Mountain Man on Friday. Neil Hannon has a few gigs in various guises. Be warned though, don’t […]
State interventions
This is quite a fun idea which has been going on for a couple of months, with free impromptu gigs at strange locations around Dublin, organised by State online magazine. They are […]
Lost Genius IV – Spain
It genuinely saddens me that Spain never achieved any sort of lasting success, because although the second and third albums didn’t live up to the wonderful debut ‘The Blue Moods of Spain’, […]
They’re all at it now!
Neill Hannon is following shortly behind Mark Eitzel, and writing his own Musical. It is called ‘Swallows and Amazons’, and is an adaptation of the Arthur Ransome book of the same name! […]
King Creosote goes analog in the digital age.
King Creosote is taking a step back from the fast moving digital age, and going all old school on us. He is no longer going to release anything in digital format and […]
The Middle East conflict
Ok, i’m not going to discuss politics, but I am going to discuss another band who’s name is not suited for googling. Why do people do this to themselves? I remember when […]
No More Workhorse 