Daily Archives: February 8, 2011

New Music: The Suicide of Western Culture

  By Éilish Burke | February 8, 2011 - 7:29 pm | Music
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Proving that it’s not just the Nordics of our Euro brethren that can release electronica ready to crawl into your earhole and linger there, is the duo from Spain known as Suicide of Western Culture. Although recorded over a year ago now, their eponymous debut album is beginning to take flight with high praise in Spain and a slot at what is shaping up to be one of the best festivals this year, Primavera Sound. All in all it looks like 2011 is going to be the breakthrough year for the pair with a penchant for Daft-Punkish facial anonymity. And it’s no wonder with tracks as lovely (and punchy) as This is The Last Time I Shake Your Hand: Taking their DIY ethos seriously and inspired by bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor the album was created in a London youth hostel using a super limited roster of equipment including … There’s more →

Comedy: Abie Philbin Bowman for the Roisin Dubh this weekend

  By Allan | February 8, 2011 - 4:18 pm | Comedy, Events
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Abie Philbin Bowman presents two of his shows this weekend in the Roisin Dubh in Galway. On Friday February 11 at 8.30, Abie will perform Sex Lies & the KKK, and on Saturday February 12 at 8.30, Eco Friendly Jihad. “Way beyond superficial satire… Absorbing, intricately woven, challenging and highly entertaining.” – Malcolm Hay, TimeOut Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and www.roisindubh.net and cost €14 (€10 members).

Review - Chalet Girl

  By dinglesurf | February 8, 2011 - 12:46 pm | Movies & TV
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Let’s get this straight. I don’t watch T4. I don’t have Twilight posters splashed all over my room. And I don’t navigate my iPod to my latest Lady GaGa playlist every time I turn it on. And therefore I am probably not within the target demographic for first time director Phil Traill’s Chalet Girl. But I do (don’t tell the lads down the pub this) enjoy a good rom-com, and one that is set upon the backdrop of extreme sports and has comedy legends, Bill Nighy and Bailey in the cast, I am willing to give a go… Chalet Girl sees feisty skateboard prodigy Kim Matthews (played with admirable spirit by Felicity Jones) propelled into the upper-class world of a glitzy Alpine ski resort when she is forced to become the breadwinner for her family after the untimely death of her mother. In the space of one winter season she … There’s more →

Review - As If I Am Not There

  By dinglesurf | February 8, 2011 - 9:10 am | Movies & TV
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Think of great prisoner of war films and you may think of Bridge On The River Kwai or Schindler’s List, to name just a couple. True masterpieces of their genres but too often focusing on the male perspective of these awful atrocities. So what makes As If I Am Not There so unique is that this time, the focus is on the women. The story follows Samira (Natasa Petrovic) who soon after taking her first teaching job in a rural village finds herself in the middle of the burgeoning Bosnian war. Enslaved into a concentration camp with only women and children (all the men being executed) by the Serbians, Samira is forced into a life of sexual servitude and humiliation. Soon she realises that her looks are her only chance of survival, but at what price to herself?