Free Gig: Street Perfomers World Championship 2012 Launch

DUBLIN 2: Top of Grafton Street, outside St.Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre Friday May 25th @ 1pm ‘Professional freak’ and daredevil The Lizardman is one of this year’s 16 finalists of the Street Performance World Championship and will launch the festival this Friday by performing a free street show at 1pm at the top of Grafton Street, outside St.Stephen’s Green. Straight from the presser, with a few mild edits………. Also known as Erik Sprague, The Lizardman is one of the most iconic street performers worldwide and even has his own lifesize statue in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Having sent over 700 hours getting tattooed with the estimated cost /value close to $250,000, he also has his tongue split to mimic that of a reptile’s, subdermal implants above his eyes to form horned ridges and four of his teeth have been filed into sharp fangs. He will perform some of his … There’s more

Music Festival: Spirit of Folk 2012 - The Line Up

Spirit of Folk Festival Unveils Line-up and Announces Extra Night Taking place in the idyllic surroundings of Dunderry Park, Co Meath [and they are very idyllic...] from September 21st to 23rd, Spirit of Folk 2012 Ireland’s friendliest festival, as nominted by me returns again with another whopper of a line up and all things razzz-a-mataz. Wasn’t that a tv show way back when ? More to the point, I was there for year one with Messrs McGuinness and Greene. I will be back for year 2. Back to it… This year’s Spirit of Folk festival line up features some new great additions like John Spillane, The Lost Brothers, Lisa O’Neill, David Gray; I Draw Slow, Spook of the Thirteenth Lock. Other acts of note see The Hot Sprockets return; Mossy Nolan and Brian Greene’s latest favourite The Henry Girls. To accompany this feast of musical acts, there will be an … There’s more