Daily Archives: September 28, 2009

The RTÉ and Rhythm Lab Percussion Spectactular with Noel Eccles and George Hook

  By darraghdoyle | September 28, 2009 - 11:52 pm | Events, Gigs, Kids, Music, Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch
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On Sunday 4 October at the National Concert Hall at 1:05pm, RTÉ and Rhythm Labs present a PERCUSSION SPECTACULAR where there’ll be 20 top percussionists on stage, led by Noel Eccles in a show that’s about rhythm, beat and getting the full audience to participate! I was at a workshop at the Concert Hall this morning thanks to the RTÉ Performing Groups where I watched as Noel taught George Hook and seven volunteer who won a competition on his radio show for a workshop with Noel and to appear on stage with him on Sunday. Here’s how we got on: Noel, a master percussionist who played principal with the National Symphony Orchestra, is a member of Moving Hearts, toured with Riverdance and has performed worldwide with U2, Van Morrison, Sting, The Chieftains, Hothouse Flowers, Elvis Costello and Sinead O’Connor. He’s also behind the amazing percussion piece at the 2003 Summer … There’s more →

Conor McPherson’s “The Birds” at the Gate Theatre

  By darraghdoyle | September 28, 2009 - 7:37 pm | Featured Post, Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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When asked during his Culture Night Q&A if he was afraid of the reaction of people who had come along to see the play expecting to see a version of the movie made for the stage, playwright Conor McPherson laughed and admitted “Not until now.“ From the celebrated author of such masterworks as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel, comes Daphne Du Maurier’s enthralling gothic tale of mystery and suspense. Immortalised by Alfred Hitchcock in his legendary film and now re-imagined in a chilling new adaptation by acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson (The Weir, Dublin Carol, Come On Over, Port Authority and Shining City), The Birds is an unrelenting and spellbinding portrait of terror and alienation. His new play, a production of Daphne DuMaurier’s short story The Birds is currently showing at the Gate Theatre as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and it’s as far away … There’s more →

The Manganiyar Seduction at the Dublin Theatre Festival

  By darraghdoyle | September 28, 2009 - 6:31 pm | The Culch
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Direct from the deserts of Rajasthan, the Festival is delighted to welcome the most colourful, joyous and inspiring show likely to be seen this year. To be honest, if you’d told me what The Manganiyar Seduction at the Gaiety Theatre was going to be - or had tried to describe it to me - I’d have said “Ah, no, thanks very much though.” So I’ll describe it for you. It’s over 40 Indian males sitting in a big grid lit by light bulbs, some playing stringed instruments, some beating drums, none of them really dancing and a lot of them singing and chanting. For two hours. In Indian. What do you think? Sound like your sort of thing? I’ll tell you though - it’s fantastically brilliant. It started so so simply and basically and rises to this huge celebration of passion, of words, of music and of rhythm. Just magical.

Help get an Irish comic signed to DC!

  By Rob Cumiskey | September 28, 2009 - 6:17 pm | Comics, Infected
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I’ve just been made aware of the following impressive news: Comic book publisher DC Comics, home to such icons as Batman and Superman have shortlisted an Irish-made comic as part of its worldwide talent search competition to find the next big thing. Irish duo Will Sliney and Dave Hendrick have beaten off competition from literally tens of thousands of entries and made it through to the final of the competition with their comic strip entitled The Symptoms. The Symptoms charts the exploits of a zombie killing rock band in a doomed future no less!

The Apprentice Ireland – Week 2

  By Darren Byrne | September 28, 2009 - 12:14 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, The Culch, TV
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Following on from last week’s roaring success, we’re back for Week 2 of The Apprentice Live Blog. While I’ll unfortunately be off elsewhere (don’t worry, I’ve Sky-plussed The Apprentice) you’ll be looked after by Niamh and The Elf this evening. They’ll guide you through this week’s task, all the way to seeing who gets sent home. The Apprentice Ireland - Week 2 To catch up on last week’s carry-on, check out The Apprentice Week One - What Happened? and if you want to find out more about each contestant check out The Contestants. Niamh has also reviewed the new addition to this year’s programming, You’re Fired! with Brendan O’Connor. Sure, Brandan’s a lovely fellow…isn’t he? Join Culch.ie for The Apprentice Liveblog tonight at 8.45 to watch TV3′s main show at 9pm and You’re Fired! straight afterwards. Click here to launch in a standalone window for the liveblog.

Singing gigs October

  By Keleher | September 28, 2009 - 11:00 am | The Culch
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The following is a list of gigs by Irish singers for the month of October. Christy Moore Friday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 3rd at the University of Limerick Concert Hall. October 8th at the Hyde Centre in Roscommon town. October 9th at the Hillgrove Hotel in Monaghan town. http://www.christymoore.com/gigs.php Luka Bloom Thursday, October 1st at Ryston Hall in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Thursday, October 8th, 8pm, at the Sirius Arts in Cobh, Co. Cork (€20). Saturday, October 10th, 7:3opm, at Town Hall Theatre in Galway city (€20). Sunday, October 11th, 7:30pm, at Kavanaugh’s in Portlaoise, co. Laois (€20). Wednesday, October 14th, 8pm, at Matt Molloy’s in Westport, Co. Mayo (€20). Thursday, October 15th, 7:3opm, at Hawk’s Well in Sligo town (€20). http://www.lukabloom.com/

Fr Jack is back!

  By Niamh | September 28, 2009 - 9:55 am | Comedy, Comics, Events, Featured Post, The Culch
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For two nights in October, Fr Jack Hackett will be back in all his menacing, alcoholic, furious glory. The sounds of ‘Drink! Feck! Girls!’ will no doubt be ringing around the Town Hall Theatre in Galway when some of the stars of Fr Ted do a show during the upcoming Galway Comedy Festival. The festival is running in Galway from Wednesday 21 October to Sunday 25 October and has a great line up which you can view here. The line up includes international star of Whose Line Is It Anyway Greg Proops, Stewart Lee, Jason Byrne, Des Bishop, David Letterman’s Eddie Brill, PJ Gallagher, Neil Delamere, Colin Murphy, Andrew Maxwell, Maeve Higgins, Reginald D Hunter, Jim Jeffries, Phil Nichol, John Cooper Clarke, Nina Conti, Kevin Bridges, Al Pitcher, Carey Marx, Sarah Kendal, Karl Spain, Dead Cat Bounce, Holly Walsh, Andrew Stanley & Damian Clark, Eric Lalor (woo!) and Paddy Courtney. … There’s more →

Colonel Popcorn’s Minute Movie Mystery

  By Colonel Popcorn | September 28, 2009 - 12:42 am | Movies & TV
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If you cheat on this I’ll post the infamous internet Betty White hidden camera incident. 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. I’m watching and I know where you live. No matter what you think it’s like, nothing prepares you.  Seriously. OOO000OOO Guess the movie - Released in 1998 Edward Norton was offered the title role, but turned it down Body count of 208 40 barrels of fake blood were used in the opening scene Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were both considered for the lead role, but neither got it Scott Frank and Frank Darabont both worked on the script