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Wicker Bones 10 Days in Dublin Festival

  By Peter | July 6, 2013 - 6:55 am | Featured Post, Gigs
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This in from Ian and the geuine very lovely Wicker Bones lads Wicker Bones, the Dublin based experimental folk band, have announced their participation in the 10 Days in Dublin Festival, with a gig in The Pint, Eden Quay on Friday 12th July. Supported by Dublin band Let’s Set Sail, Wicker Bones will perform new material which continues in the band’s signature style of folk and electronic fusion, along with songs from their 2012 EP. Wicker Bones’ music has been enjoyed at festivals throughout Ireland, the UK, Germany and China (where they represented Ireland at the World Culture Festival in Louyang) since their inception in 2009. They also recently had the honour of performing at The Helix, DCU with President Michael D. Higgins in attendance. 10 Days in Dublin, an open format arts festival which has been running for three years, has grown from a small 32 act festival to … There’s more →

Review: A Betrayal of Penguins - The Workman’s Club

  By Andy Gaffney | July 25, 2011 - 11:45 am | Comedy, Featured Post, Gigs, Theatre
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A little while ago after seeing A Betrayal of Penguins supporting their sketch comedy peers ‘Foil, Arms and Hog’ at Whelan’s I mentioned that, golly I would like to see a full show of them. Sure enough just like that time I asked for Power Ranger toys for Christmas, I got my wish (which by the way, was very hard that year, when children did that thing where on Christmas Eve they talk to a Santa on a radio show, he was all like “Oh, I don’t know, the elves are finding them very hard to make”, so yeah, up yours other kids).

Review: Alpha & Omega / The Maids

  By Colm O'Brien | July 17, 2011 - 3:13 pm | Theatre
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I saw two plays this week as part of the 10 Days in Dublin festival – Odd Sense’s Alpha & Omega and The Sting’s The Maids. Due to a lack of situational awareness on my part, I ended up sitting on bare wood for the duration of both, so the Numb Arse Test can be applied for the purposes of a capsule review – during Alpha & Omega I minded, during The Maids I did not. Alpha & Omega is the story of two (initially) charming youngsters, Alph and Meg, living a sheltered, orderly life in an underground bunker, with only the disembodied voice of a computer to keep them company. Despite their situation, they’re bright and carefree, and the ominous feeling you get as the implications of this discrepancy set in is one of the more satisfying aspects of the performance. Where it falls down is in the tension … There’s more →

Festival Preview: 10 Days in Dublin

  By Sinead Keogh | June 30, 2011 - 10:52 am | The Culch
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10 Days in Dublin, which kicks off on Thursday July 7th and runs all the way through to the following Saturday is something we very much like the look of. Covering music, theatre and comedy it’s got an excellent and awesomely cheap line up (seriously, most shows are a fiver) and you’ll definitely bump into some of team Culch at the gigs (in the unlikely event that bumping into us is a selling point for anyone). Happening across a few entirely likable venues (The Workman’s and The International for the music and comedy and a bunch of others for the theatre listings), here’s a breakdown of some of the things we recommend catching: Comedy Conor O’Toole’s Manual of Style - A new comedy show about font - The International - 6:30pm, Thursday 7th July - €5. It’s been described as ‘quirky and endearing’ by Chortle (aka The Comedy Bible). If … There’s more →