A Rebel Without ID

With DJ legend Fergie landing in Cork next weekend for the gig of the year, Culch.ie has a nice cuppa tea with instigator Veronica M to find out about Dire Straits, spinning in your smalls, and being the youngest club promoter in The People’s Republic. There’s an old saying that I’ve just made up which goes, “Tell me your Fergie and I’ll tell you who you are”. For kiddies (and irrepressible nunkies), Fergie is yer wan tacked on to the arse of the Black Eyed Peas. For pint-swillers, he’s the scary, lairy manager of Manchester United. For women too old to read Heat, she’s the less-ginger-than-Harry member of the Royal Family. But for clubbers, hedonists, and other such yokeymagokeys, Fergie is legendary DJ Robert Ferguson, a man whose pedigree is so impressive, he may well shit glowsticks. Playing his first set at fourteen, mentored by the late, great Tony de … There’s more

NINE review

Lucky little me got to see five times Golden Globe nominated movie NINE on Wednesday with thanks to Kate Bowe PR. The five nominations are for Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Supporting Actress (Penelope Cruz), Best Song (Cinema Italiano, featured in the trailer below) and finally, Best Picture of the Year. Guido “Maestro” Contini is film director extraordinare in Italy in 1965. He is about to embark on his ninth film and although his early films were huge hits that became a fabric of Italian and Roman society, his more recent films have been flops.