Daily Archives: August 19, 2010

Electric Picnic: Day-by-Day Breakdown of Acts

  By ElaineBucko | August 19, 2010 - 5:29 pm | Music, The Culch
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Although the full day and stage breakdown for Electric Picnic will not be released until the week preceding the event (which takes place in Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois on 3rd, 4th & 5th September), the official festival website - www.electricpicnic.ie - today posted a day-by-day list of acts. ROXY MUSIC will headline the festival’s Main Stage on Friday night, LEFTFIELD on Saturday night, and MASSIVE ATTACK on Sunday night - but there’s also a hell of a lot of other greatness to behold outside of the headline acts! So – highlighter pens at the ready – it’s time to start planning your festival weekend! Who are your must-sees acts for this year’s festival? Can you spot any potentially devastating clashes? Or is this all completely over your head as you’re planning on spending the entire weekend chilling out in the Body & Soul area?! The full day-by-day breakdown of acts … There’s more →

Gerrout yisser Glo-sticks for Utah Saints

  By Éilish Burke | August 19, 2010 - 12:30 pm | Music
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The absolute bang of the early 90s off this: You’ve got to love Kate Bush for letting a pair of maddouravits like Utah Saints sample her classic Cloudbusting, but they went and made it a classic of their own. It’s a well known fact that everyone was off their boxes on dance drugs at least 60% of the time between 1988-1994 (even your Ma) and it’s a safe bet that tracks from Utah Saints, a duo from the north of England, were being heavily rotated on most of those nightclub turntables. Their anarchic, sample-heavy house music was en vogue and resulted in hits such as the aforementioned Something Good, What Can you Do For Me? and Believe in Me. Well the pair haven’t retired, much to my surprise. I’d have thought they’d be in some kind of long-term convalescent home, chilling out in the multi-sensory room for 5 hours a day. … There’s more →

Timber Timbre to release debut album on September 17th

  By johnmfinn | August 19, 2010 - 10:30 am | Music
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Were we to believe all the press releases we get here in the Culch basement everyone making music today has a unique sound that defies classification and is unlike anything we’ve ever heard before. Sadly this is rarely true but With Timber Timbre these claims at least carry some weight. While they sit in the general folk/blues/country territory occupied by the likes of Bon Iver and the Low Anthem there is something about Timber Timbre that is a little more difficult to define. A haunted feeling runs through their debut album. Usually when haunting is used to describe music it just means high pitched but this is something different. It’s the sound of your older brother telling ghost stories or the voice inside your head telling you to check beneath your bed before you go to sleep. This sense of unease is what makes Timber Timbre stand out from the guitar … There’s more →

ABSOLUT-ly Fringelous: The Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival

  By Sinead Keogh | August 19, 2010 - 10:04 am | Featured Post, Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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Bitta ballet? Comedy in the form of Dead Cat Bounce and the Pajama Men? A real live game show with cash prizes? Club nights? And after all that, some good old regular and not-so-regular theatre. It’s got to be the Absolut Fringe Festival, happening from September 11th - 26th, the launch for which was held in The Ringside Club on South Circular Road on Monday night amid balloons, boxers (the gloves and fists kind) and pear vodka. The full programme of events is available on the festival website and here are some highlights from our perusing of the programme amid all the dancing and chatting. Check out… The Pajama Men, from Saturday September 11th - Saturday September 25th (excluding Tuesdays) at 7pm in The Grand Social (formerly Pravda), tickets €16-18. Heartily recommended if their turn at the G’nite Cats show at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs in June is anything to … There’s more →

Home-Grown Talent Worthy of Your Attention @ Electric Picnic 2010

  By ElaineBucko | August 19, 2010 - 9:35 am | Events, Gigs, Music, The Culch
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Widely considered to be the highlight of Ireland’s heavily-populated summer festival calendar, the 7th annual ELECTRIC PICNIC Music & Arts Festival kicks off in Stradbally on Friday 3rd September. One of the most exciting aspects of the 2010 festival line-up is the calibre of the Irish acts who will be holding their own amongst the international heavyweight headliners… There’s more →

Ad Nauseam: Is that a Yorkie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

  By Éilish Burke | August 19, 2010 - 9:00 am | Adverts, Featured Post, The Culch
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Hurrah, a new Cadburys Dairy Milk, Glass and a Half Full Productions ad is here! And it’s better than the last one Chocolate Charmer. This one is called Spots vs Stripes and it’s set in a magical (and notably biologically diverse) underwater habitat where the striped fishies and critters gear up against the spotted fishies and critters in what seems to be a bizzare Dodgeball / Red Rover hybrid game, only for both teams to be usurped in victory by a cheeky diving duck from above. I really like this ad, not least because of the slightly manic Russian gypsy folk music soundtrack but also because in a way it’s reminiscent of the best kind of old-school Disney animation; an enjoyable diversion for an enjoyable diversions sake. There’s method to its madness of course; the crazy game the underwater animals are playing ties in with Cadbury’s sponsorship of the 2012 London … There’s more →

Sweary’s Jaw

  By Lisa McInerney | August 19, 2010 - 8:30 am | Celebs, Featured Post, Gossip, Sweary's Jaw
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Surreptitiously collecting Megan Fox’s “Before” photos, so you don’t have to. First off, the news you’ve been waiting for and chewing your fingernails over all summer … Derek from Crystal Swing has received, and been made “happy” by, his Leaving Cert results! I know! I was totes fretting too, what with Derek’s busy gallivanting schedule; all that leppin’ about can’t be good for the noggin nor the joints. But all that is good and sensible has prevailed, just like in the end of that movie. Downfall, I think it was called. Fair play to Derek for sitting through what all the non-Swinging children had to sit through! Fair play to him for keeping his praying mantis feet firmly on the ground! If only all of the famous childers had the same work ethic and fetching geansaí as Derek, the world, and this here column, would be that bit sweeter. Instead … There’s more →