Daily Archives: March 15, 2011

new album: Declan O’Rourke Mag Pai Zai

  By Peter | March 15, 2011 - 2:26 pm | Music
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Never heard of Delan O’Rourke before… try this for size On its release in Ireland, ‘Since Kyabram’ reached double platinum status and garnered Hot Press magazine’s ‘Best Debut Album’ award. A major record deal with V2 and a publishing deal with BMG followed, as did patronage from his peers – invitations to support Snow Patrol at Marlay Park in Dublin, Teddy Thompson on his UK tour, The Divine Comedy for dates in Germany and the U.K., and to perform at the legendary 100 Club at the request of Paul Weller. And Declan O’Rourke is back after a three year absense [he was doing other stuff], with his third studio album Mag Pai Zai. It goes on sale Friday 8th April.

Competition CLOSED: Between the Canals at the IFI

  By Sinead Keogh | March 15, 2011 - 10:35 am | Competitions, Events, Movies & TV, wantsies
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***Competition Closed: Winners Will Be Contacted*** Dublin movie Between the Canals has its exclusive opening at the Irish Film Institute this week (March 18th) and to celebrate, they’re offering 2 Culch.ie readers a pair of tickets each to any screening of the film from March 19th to 24th. Between the Canals is Mark O’Connor’s debut feature film and follows three small-time criminals from Dublin’s north inner city as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast-changing society. It’s been described as ‘A heart-breaking and occasionally hilarious story of loyalty, duty and masculinity…’ To win, answer the following question: The film, Between the Canals, is set between which 2 canals in Dublin? Click here for a hint. Email your answer to [email protected] by Thursday March 17th at 5pm. Best of luck! If you don’t win and you still want to check it out, tickets are available from the IFI Box Office 01 679 3477 … There’s more →

New (Hugely Recommended) Music: The Gold Standard

  By Lisa McInerney | March 15, 2011 - 9:00 am | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m biased. In a lock-in, in a bar on an island, I was once witness to The Gold Standard’s Muireann stunning the whole raucous place into silence with her amazing voice, and I’ve been a huge fan ever since. Cork band The Gold Standard are Patrick, Dom, Muireann and Steve. They play lush, harmony-laden guitar pop, quilted together from all the loveliest musical bits and pieces - “contemporary indie rock on both sides of the Atlantic, late seventies post-punk, the melodramatic excesses of the eighties and the occasional snippet of fuzzed-out shoegaze” … Oh gosh, doesn’t that intro just make you want to kick up your heels to match the buzz in your tummy? Ah, it does. The group have just completed a nationwide tour supporting Ham Sandwich, inspiring Podge Sandwich to describe them as “scary musicians”. I have to assume he means scarily talented, because … There’s more →