Daily Archives: September 29, 2010

Hubba Hubba

  By Dermot | September 29, 2010 - 10:54 pm | Games
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Last Saturday myself and this dude over here took a quick peek into the new Playstation® Hub in Dublin. By quick peek I do obviously mean stayed there for ages and acted the eejits. Even so, its pretty damn cool. What’s better than free gaming and a chance to check out new technology? ‘Druuuuuuugs’ would normally be the answer but this “did the job”. To be able to walk straight in (free admission) and just start playing I thought was very interesting. I’ve never heard or known of anywhere like this. Sure, you can play short demo’s in places like Gamestop and the like but The Hub gives you the opportunity to play some exciting new PS3 game releases (Grand Turismo 5 and Killzone 3 to name a couple) and to test out the new Playstation® Move technology (Playstation’s took-way-longer-to-make-but-is-still-basically-the-same version of Wii motion sensing, in case ya hadn’t heard..) … There’s more →

Arthur’s Day 2010 recap and photos

  By Anto | September 29, 2010 - 6:30 pm | Events, Music
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I’m aware that we’ve covered Arthur’s Day quite a bit on Culch (check out Sean’s interview with The Script) but we wanted to show you some of the photos we captured on the night from The Hop Store in St. Jame’s Gate. We joined the red carpet around 4pm to shoot the stars arriving for both the Hop Store gig and the pubs and venues across Dublin. As the 17:59 moment approached, Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, led the toast before the rest of the band joined him on stage for their acoustic set. Playing hits like ‘Take Back the City’ and ‘Chocolate’ the lads were great and even dueted with Maud in Cahoots for ‘Set the Fire to the Third Bar’. The aforementioned winners of the Our Thursdays competition, Maud in Cahoots, followed Snow Patrol with a great set which kept the crowd reveling. A change of pace came next, … There’s more →

Seán’s Movie Music Magorium: True Blood Season 1

  By Seanplaywrite | September 29, 2010 - 12:05 pm | Movies & TV, Music, Soundtracks, The Culch, TV
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Nathan Barr’s score for the first season of HBO’s vampire series ‘True Blood’ is a display of a man on a mission. He writes, arranges and performs the music himself – all by himself. The music, in keeping with practicalities, is minimalist for the most part. It sometimes stays in the background as Sookie, Bill or Sam face danger after danger (after danger) and sometimes becomes a part of the story – Eric’s ode from his younger days or Gran being taken home. Much of the season floats in mystery – the score reflects this. The released album contains 21 tracks and is a fair representation of the soundtrack of the show – it combines most of the elements of the musical narrative, not in order, but in a musical flow. The show itself is a mix of sex, violence and good ole’ fashioned home cooking. It’s a more adult … There’s more →

Nostalgia (Hump Of The) Week: Will Smith ALWAYS Gets A Free Pass.

  By Lisa McInerney | September 29, 2010 - 12:00 pm | Movies & TV, Music, Nostalgia Week, Random Whimsy
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… aaaaand we’re over the hump of the week. Happy Wednesday afternoon, everyone! Half the week is gone! Two and a half days out of your life you’re never getting back. Two and a half days closer to death! But never mind. Yeah, you’re not fourteen anymore, but if you were, you wouldn’t be able to roar your guts out to this beauty, would you? I want you all to do me a favour. Click the link (because we’re not allowed embed this piece of cultural history, boo, hiss). Square your shoulders. Press play. And wherever you are: the office, on the train, at the bus stop, in the hairdresser’s - sing out at the very top of your lungs! For this is the greatest nostalgic tune there ever was or ever will be! This separates the twentythirty-somethings from the boys. This. Is. THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR!

Nostalgia Week: Boys of the Nineties

  By Kitty Catastrophe | September 29, 2010 - 10:16 am | Celebs, Nostalgia Week, The Culch, TV, wantsies
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As a fully qualified kid of the Nineties, I have to say I’m loving the revival that’s going on at the minute. 80s nights are gradually being supplanted by 90s nights flush with high top runners, brightly patterened shirts and Boom Shake Shake Shake The Room. So naturally I’m delighted that Culch.ie have decided to go all retro on our asses with Nostalgia Week. Now to the topic at hand. I’ve decided to focus on some of the boys of the 90s. At least, the boys that I found myself blu tacking to my bedroom walls as I entered the adolescent minefield of crushes. Saved By The Bell was a show that gave us comedy, questionable fashion, “serious issues” episodes where they’d crowbar in a moral message about smoking, alcohol or drugs, but most importantly to my eleven year old self, it gave us Zack Morris and AC Slater. Dreamboat … There’s more →

Competition Closed: Nostalgia Week Day 3 : The Den Saves Christmas

  By Andy Gaffney | September 29, 2010 - 9:50 am | Comedy, Competitions, Nostalgia Week, Random Whimsy, The Culch, TV, wantsies
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The occurrence of nostalgia can a lot of the time be pinned down to one exact moment. It’s that magical time during a night out with your friends and a couple of bar stools. It’s at the point which is post the slightly sober conversations of if Mizzoni’s is simply the best pizza in Dublin or actually an addictive cocaine topped slab from God himself. While it’s pre the part of the night where you have fallen out with your best mate and are drunkenly obsessing about some stranger with a degree in politics simply because ‘The Frontline’ with Pat Kenny happened to be on in the back ground when your Ex stamped all over your heart, the adorable little thing. Yes, the trip down Nostalgia road should happen somewhere in between the two and is clearly marked with a ‘Sure you know what I miss?’ line from one of … There’s more →