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World Record Store Day

March 30, 2011 by Donal

The first Record Store Day was marked in the States in 2007, as a celebration of independent music shops and the vinyl format.

Here at home of course, the last few months has seen the demise of many great Dublin independent music shops. It’s unsurprising in the economic climate granted, but still a great loss to the city. In an MP3 world, it’s easy to forget the beautiful format of vinyl.

Last year the day was marked with instore concerts in some of the independent music shops in Dublin, if you are aware of any events this year let us know and they will be added to the site.

Kicking things off, it’s nice to see that Discotekken, All City and more will be marking the day here this year with not alone a gig in the Twisted Pepper but also a vinyl swapshop. The gig takes place on Saturday, April 16 at 10:00pm

After last months epic 12 hour, 3 floor bumper Discotekken we’re delighted to be back in the more intimate, easy to handle surrounds of the Twisted Pepper Mezz to celebrate WORLD RECORD STORE DAY. Admission is only €6 if you sign – (http://bit.ly/discotekkenapril16)

DJ wise we have an all-star local lineup of..

Pablo (Downtownsounds)
Nick Keane (Fatty Fatty)
Olan (All City)
and eh.. Louis Scully (Discotekken)

along with a vinyl swapshop stall for you to come and swap / purchase some wax. Bring some DECENT records to swap if this sounds up your street.

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4. ICN; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)

March 30, 2011 by Sam

Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.

The fourth feature is on the graff crew ICN (InCogNito) of which GRIFT, DROP and others were members.

(c) Jay Carax (Old Esso Building, Stillorgan Road)

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax (Baggot St. Bridge)

(c) Jay Carax (Upper Stephens St.)

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The UCD Ball fallout continues.

March 30, 2011 by Donal

from YouTuber davokiersey, excellent.

Our post yesterday on the UCD Ball.

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More green seats than jerseys.

March 30, 2011 by Donal

Have you seen this picture yet?

What an embarrasing sight ‘The Aviva’ was on telly last night, with more green seats than green jerseys on the television, in fact I could still make out ‘AVIVA’ written in the seats of one stand.

I have made one visit to the new Lansdowne Road, and that was for an encounter between the two S.R.F.C’s, a great clash between Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers. With low-cost tickets, the F.A.I managed to bring a respectable crowd there but more importantly they managed to bring an atmosphere, as low prices make games more appealing to younger fans, often the most passionate.

There was no passion in that stadium last night at all. Why would there be? My job brings me into contact with tourists who are visiting this city, and this match was not the first time sports-mad people from abroad, who would normally take in a game on any trip, told me they just couldn’t stomach the F.A.I’s ticket charges.

The F.A.I needs money of course. Would they rather charge fewer people more than fill a stadium via cheap tickets? Perhaps, but there are long-term advantages to making these friendlies more accessible, not least introducing many to live football.

There is no need for the national team to play even a friendly out in a half (and that’s being optimistic) empty stadium. Last week I attended a clash between Saint Patrick’s Athletic and Dundalk. With ticket sales evidently slow, why did the F.A.I miss the opportunity presented in Inchicore, Dalymount and stadiums like them last week? League of Ireland fans are the diehards who take in football every week and truly love the game- lowpriced tickets to national clashes should be on offer at League of Ireland clashes before friendlies like this one. It would bring more people not only to the Aviva, but also the local game.

Many League of Ireland fans do not attend the national games owing to the unaffordable nature of it. It costs a family (an adult and two children/students) about €40 to take in a match in Dublin any given Friday. The F.A.I can rely on many of these people to come out rain, hail or snow. Yet evidently, the F.A.I aren’t particulary good at getting people into either the Aviva or the local game. What a pity that is.

In my household, we’ve handed over money to attend football matches in Turners Cross, Dalymount, Tallaght, Dundalk and a host of other Irish grounds. Why do the FAI not reward families who feel a passion for the game and generate some revenue by opening the new stadium to domestic football fans on nights like this one?

Image from thescore.ie, taken at 8:57pm


thescore.ie ‘as it happened’ match report.

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UCD Ball: The Kids Don’t Like It.

March 29, 2011 by Donal

The UCD Ball out in Belfield actually looks half decent to me. Firstly, the Saw Doctors aren’t playing it. Secondly, a lot of good bands are.

A friend in UCD (Hi Rory) pointed me towards the Facebook event page for the Ball, where the hate can hardly be contained. In fact, it appears to be loike, a total disaster.

“I’ve seen Charlie Sheen put a better line up his nose.”

“I’d prefer to see a lineup of the ‘ents crew’ in front of a firing squad”

(my personal favourite comment is this one below)

“FUCK THE UCD BALL! BACBAR HAS IT ALL!!!!!!!
SINCE THE UCD BALL IS SO SHIT, COME TO THURSBRAY BACBAR ON THURSDAY APRIL 21ST!!! WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOPPER RAVE AND HUNDREDS OF FREE BEER BONGS AND GLOWSTICKS FOR ALL!!!”

“It would be class if your deaf I suppose…”

“Is there an office where the ents crew hang out? If so we should go and kick the shit outta em!”

There are literally dozens of comments from students giving out about the line-up. It goes on and on and on and on like this. What kind of bands do students want to see at these things? You can please some of the people some of the time…..

Have a look over here.

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The Icon Factory- Using the backlanes of Temple Bar as art space.

March 29, 2011 by Donal

Actors like F.J McCormick and Peter O'Toole are among those in Bedford Lane.

George Bernard Shaw

-More images like these from The Icon Factory.

Back in September, I took a stroll down Bedford Lane and found The Dubliners and the Ringsend Cowboy among others hiding there. Since then, I’ve often strolled down the lane and found gems. It’s the work of The Icon Factory, an artists collective based as Aston Place.

Writers, poets, musicians and more besides feature in the backlanes of Temple Bar. I swung down to the writers wall with a tour last week and tourists loved it, but I think many Dubliners will too. It’s great to see the backlanes of the city centre availed of for this purpose.

The Celtic Tiger turned out to be an impotent pussy so now its time for Gaelic Lions to roar, to roam the midland boglands and puke splattered sidewalks of Temple Bar. We will honor you if we love you and mock those whom we disrespect

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Prototype Extravaganza from Designing Dublin (Tomorrow, 30/3/11)

March 29, 2011 by Donal

Designing Dublin are putting on a day of events tomorrow to give people a better idea what their project looking at the Markets area is all about. Details are above, and there is a handy map over here.

I sat down with Designing Dublin in their workspace (idea aplenty!) back in February (week 4 podcast) to discuss the city, working on its streets and caring for its history.

They’ve been carrying out interviews with people who live and work in the Markets area too:

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Politics and the Parish Pump.

March 29, 2011 by Donal

There was a great discussion on The Frontline last night around TD’s and whether their role is a local or national one, looking at the role of ‘parish pump politics’ in Irish society.

I love the term ‘parish pump politics’. I firmly believe the roots of it are to be found in the early days of firefighting when church parishes were obligied to provide fire protection.

In 1676 an Order in Council would force every Dublin church to hold thirty-six buckets, two ladders and three hooks for the purpose of fire prevention. By 1711, the Lord Mayor of Dublin ordered that each Parish within Dublin hold two water fire engines, for the purpose of combating fires which broke out in the city.

Remarkably, at Saint Werburgh’s Church on Werburgh Street, one can see two early examples of parish water fire engines.

(c) Las Fallon

Historian of the Cork city fire service Pat Poland noted that heavy penalties were imposed upon churchwardens who did not hold two engines, and also that it was specified that different sums of money should be paid to the first, second and third engines to arrive at fires.

In Dublin, the figures stood at thirty shillings for the first arrival, twenty shillings for the second, and ten shillings for the third. These payment levels did not reflect the level of work put in by particular engine in combating a fire, but rather their speed in reaching one! As Poland notes “These shenanigans and conniving may originally have given rise to the expression ‘parish pump politics’

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Irish History Podcast walking tour of Viking Dublin.

March 29, 2011 by Donal

Fin over at Irish History Podcast will be providing a walking tour of Viking Dublin on April 10th. I’ve done a brief walk through some of the sites of the Viking town with Fin and it was a remarkable insight into aspects of the capitals history I knew very little of.

Places on the tour are limited: If you are interested you’re asked to email history@irishhistorypodcast.ie. It will be a two hour tour, kicking off at 2pm in the city centre and it is free, though donations are welcomed.

On Sunday, April 10th I am organising a walking tour of Viking Dublin where you can retrace the steps of Dublin’s earliest inhabitants in the modern city today. This tour will journey through early medieval Dublin looking at the first few centuries of the city’s history during its days as a Viking stronghold.

The tour will bring you through the remains of the Viking Town that lie within modern Dublin’s buildings, streets, lanes and alleys.

We will see what the Dublin area was like when the Vikings arrived, why they came, where they first established their base and how the city grew from a fortified camp to a medieval town with a thriving slave market.

The tour will take you through the heart of the old city, looking at where the inhabitants lived and what life in early Dublin was like. This tour will finish in 1171 when Ascall Mac Torcaill, the last king of Dublin, was ousted by the Normans.

This tour is free (although donations are greatly appreciated!) and will start at 2 o clock on Sunday, April 10th in the city centre. It will take about 2 hours.

Places are limited so booking is essential. If you are interested in coming please contact me at history @ irishhistorypodcast.ie

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Where were you?

March 29, 2011 by Sam

Dust off, scan up and send on your photos to Garry if you haven't already!

WHERE WERE YOU? is a visual social document of young Dublin. The book is a photographic journey through five decades of the city’s youth cultures, street styles and teenage life, from the early 1950s to the end of the 1990s.

After four years of hard work, Garry O’Neill, a close friend of CHTM! has announced that he will finally publish his long awaited book Where Were You? in September 2011. It will then be independently released through Niall McCormack’s Hi Tone in a limited edition hard-back of two thousand copies.

All the material was sourced over four years or more of constant advertising to the general public through posters and flyers, and also from photographers, newspapers and books.

Garry has divided the book up into four chapters
1. 1950s and 1960s
2. 1970s
3. 1980s
4. 1990

Each chapter will also include a collection of memorabilia, made up from newspaper and magazine articles, ticket studs, club flyers, ads, membership cards etc.

The material sourced for the project covered roughly the 14 to 23 year old age groups. The photographs range from individual or crowd shots, taken at or outside gigs, clubs, discos, pubs etc, to scenes shot in streets, houses and parks.

In more exciting news, it has been announced that Sinead Ni Bhroin and Maya Derrington (Still Films productions; Pyjama Girls, His and Hers and The Pipe) are going to be teaming up with Garry to produce an accompanying feature length documentary. They’ve an innovative distribution campaign for the release of the book and film, and even have discussed the possibilities of releasing a soundtrack of Dublin bands to accompany this book.

To help fund the research and development of the project and the completion of a short documentary, which will be used to secure funding for a feature length documentary, the team have asked people to contribute to the project via Fund It. The Punky Reggae Party donated €50 today.

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3. RCS; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)

March 29, 2011 by Sam

Between 2005 and 2007 I took nearly 450 pictures of street art and graffiti around the Dublin area, primarily in the city centre and the South-Eastern suburbs. At first using a number of throwaway cameras and then an Olympia digital camera. I was hoping to capture a little bit of Dublin graffiti social history with the fanciful idea of putting a book together of all my snaps. I soon lost interest but thought it would be worthwhile to upload the best snaps here so they don’t go to complete waste. Enjoy.

The third feature is on the graff crew RCS (RadiCalS) of which GRIFT, DROP and others were members.

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax

(c) Jay Carax (Old Esso Building, Stillorgan Road)

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7. Classic Dublin music videos: Xing – Study Abroad (Late 2000s)

March 29, 2011 by Sam

XING (acronym for Crossing in New Genre) is a 5-member male group from South Korea. The members include Kim Dong Geun, Kim Jin Wan, Hwang Doo Hwan, Jin Hyeon Jin and Kim Wan Chul. Xing made it in to the list of the Top 5 Most Anticipated Artists In 2007.

“Classic'” may be a bit of an exaggeration. It’s essentially a cheesy Korean pop music video filmed in Dublin. “Unusual” may be a better word.

Temple Bar, Stephens Green, the Luas, the Liffey, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Smithfield all feature. The internet won’t tell me the year the video was filmed but it has to be sometime between 2006 and 2008 judging by the info on their Wikipedia page.

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+ Classic Dublin music videos:

1. Phil Lynott – Old Town (1982)

2. The Blades – The Bride Wore White (1982)

3. Bagatelle – Summer in Dublin (1980)

4. Rod Stewart – Sailing (1975)

5. The Spice Girls – Stop (1998)

6. Dina Carrol – The Perfect Year (1993)

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