Daily Archives: September 22, 2009

Your Filthy Mind Has Left You Trying Things That Can Only End In Tears

  By Lottie | September 22, 2009 - 11:59 pm | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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Album Review: Tony Was An Ex-Con Release Date: 25th September 2009, 3U records Despite being unable to name two major GAA stars or down a pint of Guinness I have an enormous sense of pride in the produce of the contemporary Irish music industry. From Duke Special and Juliet Turner (26 counties be-damned) to The Script, Bell XI and Delorentos. No less noteworthy are The Coronas, four lads from Terenure, Co. Dublin who cite The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, The Stone Roses and Radiohead as their musical influences. The Coronas released their first album Heroes or Ghosts in 2007. From this debut the single San Diego Song stayed in the Irish charts for 24 weeks an became an anthem for the summer of 2008. The band were also nominated for a Meteor Award in 2008, beaten to the prize by Westlife and the less said about that the better. Tonight some … There’s more →

One for The Road

  By Niall | September 22, 2009 - 11:04 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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The long delayed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning, best-selling novel The Road has finally been given a release date. The film will make it’s way to Irish cinemas January 8, 2010. Dimension films have rescheduled and delayed this movie for more that a year now. The movie will be released Stateside November 25, which places it firmly in line for award season. The story sees a father and son take to the titular road after the death of the mother. This journey is set in a post-apocalyptic world and sees the pair encounter cannibals, armed militia, as well as other refugees along the path south. The entire endeavour is a struggle to survive in a world no longer capable of sustaining life.

Open House Festival in Belfast

  By Keleher | September 22, 2009 - 11:00 pm | Events, Music, The Culch
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The 11th Annual Coors Light Open House Festival starts up this Wednesday, September 23rd and runs through Sunday, September 27th in Belfast‘s Cathedral Quarter featuring Americana, New Folk and Traditional Irish Music. The festival also includes a ‘ChilliFest’ and a tribute to Johnny Cash. For all of the information about the Open House Festival have a look at their website. http://www.openhousefestival.com/2009/home.html Tickets for the events can be purchased on-line via the website. Here is list of traditional Irish music performances at the festival by date.

For the Articles - Part 2

  By Maxi Cane | September 22, 2009 - 10:33 pm | Featured Post, The Culch
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I started this a couple of weeks back. I buy magazines, always have done. Anything that grabs my interest. Film mags, DVD mags, the occasional video game mag, science mags (well just Focus really), but most of all I buy men’s mags. FHM, Maxim, Front, Loaded, ICE, Nuts, Zoo, Arena anything I haven’t already read and that appears new on the stand. The last post was just kind of an intro to the series that I’ll be doing. What I have planned is to take a copy of whatever magazine I buy and review it’s contents. I won’t be doing every magazine every month, because I wouldn’t have the interest in reviewing that many, and you wouldn’t have the interest in reading about them all. Why am I doing this? Because I have no problem walking into a newsagents, looking straight up to the top shelf and picking out my … There’s more →

CSI: The Experience

  By travors | September 22, 2009 - 8:07 pm | Events, Featured Post, The Culch, TV
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Last Sunday the weather in Dublin was a little gloomy, so my wife and I decided to visit CSI: The Experience, in the Ambassador Theatre on O’Connell Street. We were both big fans of the original CSI TV series when it aired a few years ago (up until the constant repeats & spin offs got a little overbearing), so we’d planned to drop in to this exhibit for a while. So with some excited trepidation we arrived at The Ambassador around 5pm, and purchased our tickets in the lobby. When buying our tickets we had two options: €18 per person to “investigate” one crime scene or €50 to visit all three. We chose to visit crime scene 1, paid our €36 and headed off to the debriefing room armed with our CSI clipboard (this had a preprinted, multiple choice crime scene sheet on it) and pen, given to us by … There’s more →

Sweary’s Jaw

  By Lisa McInerney | September 22, 2009 - 10:00 am | Celebs, Featured Post, Gossip, In The News, Sweary's Jaw, The Culch
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Surreptitiously going through Eminem’s summonses, so you don’t have to. I have learned that there’s no point in being high-minded about a gossip column. Originally, I had planned to focus on the goings-on of our more worthy high-profile heroes, rather than on preposterous knobs like Jordan or Kerry Katona. But the problem with such a well-meaning mission statement is that … well, worthy stars don’t make absolute prats of themselves, do they? They don’t court Controversy, or indeed try to talk Scandal in for “a coffee” on the way home from the local disco. You won’t catch George Clooney dogging in the Tesco car park, or all four members of Interpol coked out of their oaks on the set of America’s Next Top Model. Basically, I’m warning you that while I shall endeavour to provide an environment free from Jordan and her ilk, I cannot always be sure that the … There’s more →

Rock Flock Of Five - 22/09/09

  By Rick | September 22, 2009 - 9:06 am | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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Muse - The Resistance Ah lads, would you not give up trying to be Queen and make a decent album, please. This veers all over the place from alright first single to direct Queen parody to wanky synthpop to forgettable anthem banging dirgery. Then, at one point in track 4 it just becomes Chopin’s nocturne No 2. For 2 minutes. I have no words. Then, the last 3 tracks appear to be some short type of synth rock symphony. See, Freddie Mercury could get away with that kind of self-indulgent nonsense because he was a godlike performer and stage presence. Lads, just no. David Gray - Draw The Line I have a problem with David Gray. Not most people’s problem, that they don’t like him, in fact just the opposite. He made some incredible albums early on, then, in White Ladder, made an album I’m still happy to listen to … There’s more →

Colonel Popcorn’s False Fillum Factoids

  By Colonel Popcorn | September 22, 2009 - 12:46 am | Movies & TV, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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You may not use Google, Twitter, Facebook, the IMDB, Wikipedia, texting, emailing, phone calling, writing, and/or Jedi mind tricks or any other form of cheating. This is a new series where I’ll give you five random facts about either a single fillum or five seperate ones, actors, whatever. All you have to do is guess the odd one out - which one is false. Find the false fillum factoid - In the 1980 fillum “Stir Crazy”, Richard Pryor refused to wear the woodpecker costume for the bank robbery scene. A double had to be used for the entire scene. He did wear it for the poster and other promotional material though. Alec Baldwin, Jeff Bridges, Emilio Estevez, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Michael J. Fox, Harrison Ford, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Spacey, Patrick Swayze, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Rob Lowe, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray, Pierce Brosnan, Tom … There’s more →