Daily Archives: October 18, 2010

Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - October 18 - 24 2010

  By Will | October 18, 2010 - 11:25 pm | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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One Night Only (terrible name for a band if you think of the posters) take their second album on tour stopping off, visiting the Academy 2 in Dublin on Wednesday 20th October. The first single from this album “Say You Don’t Want It” (embedded below) features an actress called “Emma Watson” that you might know from a few movies. By the way, is it just me or does the lead singer look like he’s channelling the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? No Age perform live at Whelan’s, Dublin on Sunday 10 October with Male Bonding, Silje Nes and Mice Parade. No Age’s album “Everything in Between”, release date Friday 24 September was recorded in Los Angeles from the end of 2009 and into 2010 by the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall. They emerged from former band Wives in 2005, to become No Age, part of the … There’s more →

Competition Closed: Soundings

  By Sinead Keogh | October 18, 2010 - 4:57 pm | Books, Competitions, Featured Post, wantsies
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**Competition closed, congratulations to Emer.** If you were in secondary school in the ’80s or ’90s then you probably had a copy of Soundings. It was the go-to poetry anthology for Leaving Cert for over two decades and I’m told it holds many happy memories for many a grown up.(I don’t mean to kick you in the stomach or anything, but I’m too young to know, Leaving Cert ’04 REPRESENT! :p). Luckily, it’s got more than its nostalgia factor going for it. When the good folk at Gill & MacMillan sent us a review copy there was plenty to be delighted by on browsing through the poems as a Soundings first-timer. From Monaghan’s own Patrick Kavanagh (“the bicycles go by in twos and threes, there’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn tonight” - Patrick Kavanagh. “Nobody on them, just these feckin’ bicycles!” - Tommy Tiernan) to Eliot, Yeats, Thomas Kinsella … There’s more →

The Apprentice Liveblog Week Five

  By Darren Byrne | October 18, 2010 - 4:45 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, Movies & TV, The Culch, TV
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Welcome to the fifth of this year’s Apprentice Liveblogs. If you’re unfamiliar with liveblogs, it’s simply a place to chat about the show while we’re watching. It’s one big moderated chat room for The Apprentice. You can follow it below on Culch.ie or you can launch a stand alone window and follow it there. It’s simple and fun, so please come join us. Also, after the show, I’ll be announcing the winner of last week’s Apprentice competition in association with Ryobi. Yes, the competition is still open until the end of this week’s show. ENTER HERE! The Apprentice Ireland 2010 Week Five Click Here to Launch in a Separate Window

Competition CLOSED: RED

  By Sinead Keogh | October 18, 2010 - 3:51 pm | Competitions, Movies & TV
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***COMPETITON CLOSED. Congratulations to Michael and Oisin, the correct answer was Retired Extremely Dangerous* The trailer for RED did a great bit of attention-grabbing during a cinema trip a few weeks ago. The plot centres around retired CIA agents Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) who used to be the CIA’s top agents and have now become targets. It looks big, noisy and fun and it’s out this Friday (22nd). To celebrate the release the good folks at E1 Entertainment have given us two limited edition comics to give away. RED is based on a DC Comics graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer but what we want to know is – what does RED stand for? For your chance to win the Bruce edition or the Malkovich edition, email the answer to [email protected] by Friday (22nd) at 5pm and we’ll pick … There’s more →

Ag Damhsa Sean Nós

  By Peter | October 18, 2010 - 3:04 pm | Gigs
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Friday just gone, I stayed a little more local and went to the Fingal Folk Clubs Friday session. It’s definitely not Temple Bar… but the lads in Ballyboughal are trying out different guests every week and that makes it even more special and a little unpredictable. I spoke about the Fingal Folk Club before here on Culch.ie. My reason for this post…? Check out Connaught Sean Nós Champion Cathy Scanlon dancing who was the featured guest artist. When was the last time Is this the first time you’ve ever seen it….? Fancy a bit of the real deal diddly eyeeeee ? You know where to come New artists and guests are always welcome. The Fingal Folk Club is €5 entry. Kids and musicians are free. And in fairness you’ll probably get your fivers worth back in tea and an oul’ slice of cake They are also on twitter as @FingalFolkClub … There’s more →

X Blather 2010: Empty Bladder

  By Ronan | October 18, 2010 - 10:51 am | Featured Post, Movies & TV, TV
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Heroes Week on X Factor this week. Whose heroes, I don’t know, but that was the theme. Like one of those costume parties with a theme, where there’s thirteen gangsters and then a priest. Sadly, Sunday night’s eviction show saw the pirate leaving the party, and their was also an exit for the only person to totally Adedeji their hair so far this season (yes, it’s now a verb).