Ok, I know the trailers for Blockbusters always look amazing, but are actually generally better than the movies themselves, but this one is going to be different, right? Right? Pacific Rim is […]
Pacific Rim – Trailer
Things to Do in Dublin – 29th April – 5th May 2013
This is a big week around the streets of Dublin, as it’s the May bank holiday weekend, with a variety of festivals and other junk to see and do. Meteor Dublin Camden […]
New Music: Daniel J. W!shington – Giving me my Hand
Daniel reminds me of Why? which is always a good thing. There’s a nice touch of madness about what he does, and you’re never sure what direction the song will take next. […]
End of an Era ATP – The Last Weekend ATP events ever???
Sad news, but not completely unexpected, as they have had some well publicised financial difficulties over the last few years. According to the ATP web site, these are to be the last […]
Movies – 26-04-13 – Iron Man 3, Bernie etc
The Critics were all in good form this week, and seemed to like most of the new releases, and there’s even a few surprises along the way! Iron Man 3 was meant […]
Gig Guide – What next for the Killers? 24-04-2013
Mr Reynolds has alleged the band The Killers was imposed against his wishes as a joint headline act for the 2012 event because the majority shareholders in the festival company, the FRD […]
Ghostpoet – Some say I so I say light (PIAS) – Album Review
Ghostpoet’s debut album ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’ over achieved in many senses. It was a low key release that received wide acclaim and even a Mercury Music prize nomination. So Ghostpoet […]
Richard II – Peacock Theatre – Review
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s historical themed plays, telling the tale of the King’s fall from grace and eventual demise (I doubt I’m ruining the story on too many people by […]
The Fry Chronicles on Audible – Review
I love Stephen Fry. I should get that out of the way now. I have read all his novels and the first of his autobiographies, Moab is my Washpot. I religiously watched […]
Digging for Fire – Project Arts Centre – Review
Digging for Fire is a play by Declan Hughes that was previously performed by Rough Magic in 1991. It is a play about contemporary Ireland of the period that is just shrugging […]
Justin Walter – Lullabies and Nightmares – Album Review (Kranky)
“I set out to record an album of completely improvised music that fused my experiments with the Electronic Valve Instrument and my love of held sounds on the trumpet. In recent years […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 22nd – 28th April 2013
In terms of odd ball festivals, the Dublin Bay Prawn festival must rank pretty highly! It runs in Bray from the 25th – 28th of April. To find the full series of […]
Rob Manuel – The Bottom Half of the Internet – South Studios – 23-04-13
What is the bottom half of the internet? This is the lower half of most pages, the comment sections and other parts where the general public have their ‘right to reply’. Most […]
Night Beds – Workman’s Club – 19-04-13 – Review
Night Beds are a five piece from Nashville, and the brain child of ‘Rocky mountain reared‘ Winston Yellen. Their music is guitar driven but not in a loud/ triumphant fashion and often […]
Movies – 19-04-13 – Evil Dead, Olympus Has Fallen, King of the Travellers etc.
A few new releases this week, and one that I’ve been worried about/ looking forward to for a while in ‘Evil Dead’. So let’s get on with it and see what might […]
Lionel Loueke (PROGRESSIONS Guitar Series) – Workman’s Club – 21-04-13
This is an unusual gig from those nice people at Improvised Music. Lionel Loueke is a jazz guitarist on Blue Note, and here’s what the press release has to say… West African […]
Barn Owl – V – Album Review (Thrill Jockey)
‘V’ is a 6 track instrumental work from San Francisco based ‘Barn Owl’. Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti met at college where a shared interest in music spurred them to write and […]
Free Christopher Owens Acoustic ‘Lysandre’ Album
I’ll get straight to the point, there’s a free acoustic 8 track album version of Lysandre available for a limited time on his web site here! Christopher was the front man and […]
Record Store day – Tower Records, Elastic Witch, Outhouse etc. – 20-04-13
There really is sooooooooooooo much free live music on Saturday. There really is soooooooooooo much! A full line up and times for Records Store day in Tower Records. And it looks great! […]
Live Collision Festival – Project Arts Centre (Kinda)
Collision Live is a mini theatre festival, running from the 18th (tomorrow!) to the 21st of April, which sounds a lot of fun! “Live Collision present a series of events titled We […]
Gig Guide – 17-04-13 – Spiritualized in NCH, Yo La Tengo, Bryan Ferry etc.
A stupid amount of new gigs announced over the last few days, so I thought a few of them were worth a mention! Remeber when Yo La Tengo had their ferry cancelled […]
Downtownsounds Classics Launch Party – Grand Social – 20-04-13
This is your chance to be in at the start of something pretty cool! DownTownSounds celebrate the release of their ‘Downtownsounds Classics’ series with a launch night at the Grand Social on […]
Have I No Mouth – Smock Alley – Review
This is a piece that deals with the death of the main protagonist Feidlim Cannon’s Father and younger brother, but is not as bleak as it sounds! I have to say I […]
New Music: Life Coach – Fireball
If you think these guys sound a little bit like Queens of the Stone Age, that’s because they are a little bit of Queens of the Stone Age. Phil Manley of Trans […]
The Pharcyde – Sugar Club – 7th July 2013
[Update: Uncle Imani and Bootie Brown will not be at this show!] Ok, so it’s not the full original line up, but it’s not bad none the less. Two of the original […]
Rachel Zeffira – Unitarian Church – 14-04-13 – Review
‘You can talk if you want’ said Rachel as she took her seat in front of the piano to a deadly silent crowd after the initial clapping and cheers had died down! […]
Competition – Matias Aguayo – Button Factory – 8th June Button Factory
For those of you who know Matias’s work, it is exciting news that he’s coming to Dublin! For those that don’t know his name, you may already know his voice, as he’s […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 15th – 21st April 2013
Dare I say it, but is there a touch of spring in the air? Who knows, it’ll probably snow next week. A couple of fun events this week, with Record Store day […]
The Poetry Project
To celebrate Ireland being the kings of Europe (well, the European presidency anyway), a lovely site has been put together called The Poetry Project. It’s aim is to make the world a […]
No More Workhorse 