Posted in Events, Music on August 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Our friends at No Bother, the skinhead and ska clothes shop, are having a launch party this Friday at Ruta Live (the venue formely known as O’Byrnes) at 199 Capel Street. Expect tunes, finger food and 15% off everything.
See you there.
(c) Jay Carax
(c) Jay Carax
Posted in Events, Music on August 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
No Bother, Dublin's skinhead/mod shop and gig promoters.
Sleepless Nights Soul Club have been putting on monthly Northern Soul nights in the city since April 2002. Their next one will be Friday August 19 in The Good Bits on Store Street.
If you can’t wait till then to get your fix, you’ll be happy to hear that our friends over at No Bother are kicking off a new weekly Northern Soul and ska night tonight with DJ Shane Walsh at Anseo on Lower Camden Street. So, if you ever need somewhere to go on a Tuesday night for good tunes from here on in, head down to Anseo.
Posted in Events on August 2, 2011| 1 Comment »
If your in town tomorrow (Wednesday 3 August) about 1pm keep an eye out for a flashmob type dining feast on one of the bridges over the River Liffey. The exact location will be revealed via text, twitter (@streetfeast) & facebook an hour before the feast.
The ‘flash fest’ is to mark the launch of the second annual Street Feast day, a new nationwide event to celebrate community on Sunday 28th August.
Street Feast isn’t any old shindig. It’s a not-for-profit, all-for-fun, do-it-yourself celebration.
Street Feast is a neighbourhood street party that is hosted by us and our neighbours, and happens in communities all over Ireland at the same time.
More info about tomorrow’s Flash Feast on the Facebook event page here and the actual Street Feast on 28th August on their website.
Picture from last year's 'flash feast'. Photocredit (c) Paula Geraghty
Posted in Events on July 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
My hearing these days is pretty appalling. This sadly is the end-product of spending your teens listening to music at a level that enabled everyone else on the bus to hear it too. Frequently, it was punk pioneers Dead Kennedys.
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Dead Kennedys of course called it a day in 1986, and the reformed band does not include frontman Jello Biafra. He’s found himself involved in a mix of spoken word gigs on one hand and sometimes brilliant/sometimes not-so-brilliant musical collaborations.
His latest project, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine is fresh, exciting and latest offering Enhanced Methods of Questioning packs a punch. While we’ll likely never see Biafra on a stage in Dublin with the Dead Kennedys, a chance to see the man should be taken.
Thurs August 11//Button Factory//€20.50
Posted in Events on July 18, 2011| 1 Comment »
Solus is among my favourite of the vandals who bring a bit of colour to Dublin’s streets and backalleys. His work can be spotted not only on the streets of the capital, but much further afield, and like the best street artists it’s always easy to spot one of his works as his.
Mis-spent Youth at The Culture Box on Essex Street in Temple Bar is Solus’ first solo show, on the fourth of August. I look forward to dropping in.
Posted in Events on July 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This looks promising, Saturday night sorted.
CRAWDADDY
SATURDAY JULY 9TH
DOORS 10.30pm
FREE ADMISSION BEFORE MIDNIGHT (€8 After)…
The Midnight Phil Eoin Callers perform live on stage in Crawdaddy,
Saturday July 9th. Doors open at 10.30pm, the show has free admission
before midnight and €8 after. Entertainment on the night will include
performances from The Midnight Phil Eoin Callers, former TD Paul Gogarty
(Gogsyi), Nostril Shorts (youtube superstars) and DJ for the evening will be
…Gianni, from CHEWN! fame. Please be prepared for an evening of chaos,
raw energy and unimaginable fun when The Midnight Phil Eoin Callers MC
the evening with a hand picked selection their favourite Irish acts.Please read on to hear about the exciting acts we have instore!
Posted in Events on July 3, 2011| 4 Comments »
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the civil war in Spain. I’ve long been fascinated by the conflict, as most ‘lefties’ are I suppose, not least the international elements of the conflict. For many in Ireland, the war would be seen not a foreign war to observe from a distance, but a struggle between ideologies in which to partake.
Jack White, a founding member of the Irish Citizen Army at home, would remark in the bulletin of the CNT union:
Comrades of Cataluña! In your hour of trial when you hold the barricades not only for yourselves but for us all, I greet you with the voice of revolutionary Ireland, smothered awhile but destined to regain its strength.
The 75th anniversary of the war will be marked here in Dublin in a number of ways.
As part of the Photo Ireland 2011 festival, a documentary entitled ‘Heroes Without Arms: Photographers of the Spanish Civil War’ will be shown on the 14th, 21st & 28th of this month at the Instituto Cervantes Dublin in Lincoln House.
The documentary depicts the early days of photojournalism in Spain through the lives of four friends – Alfonso, Luis Marín, Pepe Campúa and José María Díaz Casariego-, who worked together at the legendary magazine Mundo Gráfico and witnessed great changes that Spanish Civil War brought about in their lives and careers.
Eirigi have organised an interesting event to mark the anniversary, inviting established authorities on the period like Emmet O’Connor (Author and Lecturer) and Harry Owens (Historian) to participate in a public meeting at the Teachers Club on July 15th at 7pm. I’m a big fan of Emmet O’Connor’s work in particular, not least his wonderful ‘Reds and the Greens’ study of the relationship between Irish republicans and Moscow.
Posted in Events on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Friday night in. No football. With St. Patrick’s in Iceland this week, the normal routine is out the window. Nothing to fear there, as I’ll be up in Ruta (O’Byrnes at the top of Capel Street, it used to be the Four Seasons if that rings any bells) playing the tunes.
Feel free to pop in. It’s free in, they’ve got some excellent Eastern European beers on tap and I promise nothing but the best noise.
Posted in Events, Music on June 16, 2011| 3 Comments »
TV Smith
This Saturday sees the return to these shores of TV Smith, co-founder of 70’s British punk legends The Adverts. The Adverts, who in their time shared stages with The Damned, The Jam and Generation X, were pioneers of a burgeoning late seventies British punk scene, and led the way with anthems like “Bored Teenagers,” a classic whose lyrics, “We’re just bored teenagers. Looking for love, or should I say emotional rages” still hits me like a thump in the chest. Love it.
Also on the bill are Dublin punk stalwarts Paranoid Visions, still going strong after close to twenty nine years, and and relative newcomers Liz Is Evil. While both TV Smith and Paranoid Visions will be playing their own sets, there are plans afoot for collaboration wherein the two acts collide and a concoction of The Adverts with a very definite Dublin twist will take the stage. Look forward to that one!
The gig takes place in O’Byrnes / Ruta (formerly the Four Seasons) on the junction of Capel Street and North King Streeton Saturday at 8. CC is €10. Might see yizzers there!
Posted in Events on June 2, 2011| 4 Comments »
I’m excited for the Forbidden Fruit festival at the weekend. It felt like it would never roll around, and likewise it was hard to get excited about a music festival in the Royal Hospital grounds when May was wet, cold and miserable. June is a different kettle of fish.
Running Order
I’ll make all of Saturday and the later-half of Sunday, with the last college nonsense and work before hand. The conclusion is the real highlight.
Not being fifteen, and not even really having a local field to drink in, I’ve never been too mad on Bulmers who sponser the event. Thankfully, Becks is on offer too over the weekend. Now the important business is out of the way, the music.
For me, the second day is much stronger than the first one. Saying that, perhaps the highlight of the festival is Yo La Tengo late on Saturday.
The second day sees something I really feared but was quite inevitable, in the form of a much feared clash. Between Battles and Jamie XX, I have to say I lean to the later owing to having seen Battles before and also being very much addicted to Jamie XX’s latest effort. It’ll be dancing central of course.
Aphex Twin really is a great way to bring it all to an end. A younger me will nevere forgive them for this music video though.
I’ve been to the Royal Hospital for a concert before, in the form of the master Leonard Cohen. I expect a very different crowd. Less likely to spot Bertie Ahern too. If you’re going, enjoy it and give us a wave.
Posted in Events, Music on May 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Great news for Dublin’s hot steppers, bass fiends and rude bois.
!K club is back in town after a short hiatus.
Stall down to O’Byrnes, the best thing to happen to this city in a long time, on Friday to hear the aural delights of A-Force, Richie, Redmonk and the rest of the !K family.
More info on Facebook here.
!K Club.
Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, tagged idgtf, O'Byrne, theatre, theatre festival on May 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
For those who aren’t sure what “We’re At…” actually is, I’ll yoink the following sentence from their Facebook as it succinctly sums them up; “We’re At…” is an exciting new community media initiative about to take part in the heart of Temple Bar. Using a fully digital, state of the art pop up TV studio in a shop front at 5 Scarlett Row, Dublin Community TV is going to throw itself into covering the roaring arts and culture festival circuit that takes over the city during the summer months.”
Come celebrate the launch of We're At....
To celebrate the launch of the show, the crew of “We’re At…” are teaming up with the IDGTF to bring you an early evening of performances from some of the star performers at this years festival.
Its a once off event, and a chance to have a gander at what’s going on at the IDGTF. Looks like a great evening, I’ve taken quite a liking to O’Byrnes, great pints of Guinness for €4 on the button, can’t go wrong. Might see yiz there.
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