Daily Archives: August 5, 2011

We’ve Got A Captain Morgan Key!

  By Culch.ie | August 5, 2011 - 5:55 pm | The Culch
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Heard about the Captain’s Island competition being run by rumalicious Captain Morgan? The Captain’s Island challenge is offering anyone over 18 the chance to win a trip to a Caribbean island and a share in €15,000 of bounty. You have to take part in a number of challenges to earn ‘keys’ and log them on the Captain Morgan Facebook page here and keys can be found on Facebook, at various upcoming Captain Morgan parties in bars around the country, on promotional packs, and on websites…including Culch.ie

Theatre: The Living Room

  By Sinead Keogh | August 5, 2011 - 2:33 pm | Events, The Arts, Theatre
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Fledging theatre company Outlandish Theatre have been in touch to give us a head’s up about their debut production ‘The Living Room’. Based on the ancient tale Bluebeard (which scared the bejaysus out of at least one member of the Culch.ie team as a child) it’s being performed in a ‘Georgian living room space’ at the Pearse Centre on Pearse Street and it’s happening from Mon 15th – Sun 21st of August at 8 pm, Matinees Thur/Sat/Sun at 2pm. The official blurb goes: “Story-telling is Mother Maria’s religion. Maria believes that the power of ‘Bluebeard’, an ancient Eastern European folk tale about sexual curiosity and the loss of innocence, will keep her daughter Lena from marrying Sebastian and ensure she stays with her forever. All Daughter Lena wants is to escape from her mother’s reign. Every night at 12 pm ‘story-time’ begins and the battle between the old and the new, and the eternal powers … There’s more →

New Music: Paul Melia - Summer in the Sand

  By Culch.ie | August 5, 2011 - 11:11 am | Music
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This one came to us via Twitter where the singer himself asked if we were interested in checking it out. The poppy, happy summer sound is not bad at all and Melia’s voice is extremely pleasant to listen to. Paul Melia-Summer In The Sand by Paul Melia Facebook tells us that 25-year-old Melia, perhaps known to some of you from Electric Picnic 2010, has synaesthesia - “As he describes it himself ‘ it’s a feeling of knowing where things go in the overall arrangement’. The songs on ‘Hold Onto The Colours’ demonstrate this very special sensibility and play with the listeners ears in a way that is quite unique” which makes this an interesting offering in itself, but add to that drums from Johnny Boyle of The Frames and there’s something here worth paying attention to to see how it pans out.