Daily Archives: May 26, 2009

Seven Of Five…

  By Rick | May 26, 2009 - 11:34 pm | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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The five sparkly little jewel(case)s that have taken my fancy this week are as diverse as they are….. different. Got to work on those metaphors if I’m going to be writing this every week or so… We start with: Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers Disclaimer first - I like a huge amount of what the Manics have done over the years, I thought the last album was brilliant and they’re one of the best interviews I ever did, back in April 2007. This is their new one though and slightly different. This is the legendary album. The one with all of the late Richie Edwards unused lyrics… It easily stands up with their stuff from the past. Alternately raw, with loads of big guitars and the occasional string section and soulful stripped down stuff. Can see myself listening to it a lot more. Facing Page: Top Left is … There’s more →

Fun Times at the Cat Laughs 2008

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 10:03 pm | Cat Laughs, Comedy, Events, The Culch
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We’re heading down to Kilkenny again this year. Who else is coming down? Let us know. If it was anything like last year, it’ll be mega (especially as I actually like the taste of Carlsberg). Don’t forget we still have FREE TICKETS to giveaway. Click here for more info. The Journey Down After a wedding in Wexford on the Friday of last years’ June Bank Holiday Weekend, we went back to my uncle’s house for the night and by the time we finally got up on Saturday, everyone else had already left. So, we pulled ourselves together, packed the car, switched on the GPS and got on the road……to Dunnes Stores just around the corner. After a surprisingly delicious breakfast (I’ve had some very bad experiences in some Dunnes Stores cafés) we finally embarked upon the Cill Chainnigh trail. We first stopped off in home village of one Mr Darragh … There’s more →

Darren’s Movie News 26/05/09

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 5:21 pm | In The News, Movies & TV, The Culch
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I‘m still reeling from the possibility that there could be a Buffy movie without Joss Whedon. Argh!!! Did you know…it was 32 years ago yesterday that Star Wars was released? May 25th 1977 saw the release of the George Lucas’s massive movie franchise in just 32 cinemas. It went on to be huge of course, but it’s initial release was without much fanfare. Were you around to catch it in the cinema, or (like me) did you watch it on VHS in the late eighties? And do you remember Flight of the Navigator? That was another slow burner in the cinemas that did big business on video. Well, they’re remaking it - yup, the bastards are fiddling with my inner child. Check out the trailer for the original about a 12-year-old kid snatched by an alien spaceship in 1978, only to crop up eight years later with zero memory of … There’s more →

Culch Gigs…

  By Rick | May 26, 2009 - 3:09 pm | Gigs, The Culch
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More prosaic today… In terms of bandage, I have a biggie to start: Placebo have confirmed a concert at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 15th December, 2009. Tickets priced from 44.20 including booking fee will go on sale this Friday 29th May at 9.00am from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. Then there’s: THE CRIBS have confirmed two Irish dates in addition to their upcoming UK tour this September. The Jarman brothers along with Johnny Marr will hit Dublin’s Academy on Monday 21st and Mandela Hall in Belfast the following day on Tuesday 22 September. Tickets for Dublin’s Academy show are priced €22 and go on sale from this Friday 29th May. Also TÚCAN – ALBUM LAUNCH - Saturday June 20th, CrawDaddy, Harcourt St, Dublin 2. Doors – 8pm. Tickets €12/15. And This summer Fred will be hitting the festival circuit starting on June 15th with Midsummer Festival, Spiegeltent Cork. Catch FRED live … There’s more →

Ex Tenebris Lux

  By Green Of Eye | May 26, 2009 - 2:25 pm | Photography, The Arts, The Culch
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© Aideen Barry 2009 Aideen Barry is a Visual Artist, working in the media of performance, film, musical composition, drawings and animation. She was awarded funding from the Arts Council of Ireland’s Projects: New Work Award towards the creation of a new work filmed in Zero Gravity whilst on a residency at Kennedy Space Centre, NASA. In September 2008 Barry was invited to partake in the collaboration project ‘Sound design for future films’ initiated by the artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S.Davidsson with four other participating artists Pierre Huyghe, Christine Rebet, Kate Gilmore & Klaus Schafler. In 2008 this showed at Moderna Museet, Sweden, and later traveled to The Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. Sean Kissane, Head of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art selected Barry to represent Ireland at FRA GIL in Barcelona, Spain in May 2008. Barry was the Irish Artist in Residence at … There’s more →

Buffy Minus Joss

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 9:50 am | In The News, Movies & TV, The Culch, TV
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What the flip?? Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the greatest TV shows of all time, made timeless by Joss Whedon’s incredible, quirky, fully realised characters is to be rebooted as a movie WITHOUT Joss Whedon’s involvement. Seemingly, Fran Rubel Kuzui, director of the original movie which had Kristy Swanson in the title role, is going full steam ahead with a reboot, abandoning all of Whedon’s TV series characters in favour of a new spin on the story. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore It’s fair to say the original concept of this franchise, the blond vmpire fighting teen, wasn’t much to go on - it was Whedon who turned it into the epic 7 series thrill ride of our youths. This CANNOT go ahead without him, without the TV series’ cast, without the well written, Buffy-speak laden, tongue in cheak scripts Whedon and … There’s more →

I Once Was a Bonnie Young Trainspotter

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 8:00 am | Featured Post, The Culch, Theatre
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Come here for a minute ’til I tell you about a bunch of deviants from Kilkenny, a talented bunch of misshapen misfits - The Devious Theatre Group. Last year, I was lucky enough to catch their brilliant production of Trainspotting in the Watergate Theatre. Yesterday, they announced details of this year’s production, a Kilkenny take on Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens set in the gents and women’s toilets of the disco where both the bride, Linda, and the groom, Dave, have decided to hold their respective hen and stag nights, not knowing that their other half is at the same place. When Linda’s ex-boyfriend arrives and offers her an escape she is forced with a difficult decision. Den den dennn… Being that Russell’s play is so ingrained with Liverpool’s 80′s culture (his other works Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers, etc. chronicle a similar working class culture), it will be interesting … There’s more →