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Festival Preview: Belfast’s Belsonic @ Custom House Square

  By Culch.ie | March 2, 2012 - 3:00 pm | Festivals, Gigs, Music
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Festival line-up season is in full swing. Belfast correspondent, White Rabbit, previews August’s Belsonic Festival to whet your southern appetite and coax you aboard the Enterprise for a swift trip up north. With possibly their most random line up to date, Belfast’s Belsonic Festival returns to Custom House Square in August for your entertainment and your money. Slowly growing in size each year, the festival aims to cater to all musical tastes and this year seems to be no exception. Although he has both the hair and face of an arse, people much cooler than thou claim that Skrillex is worth listening to. Having carved out a hole for himself in the UK music scene, California born Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore) was named 2011 MTV Electronic Dance Music Artist of the year and was nominated in BBC Sound of 2012 if that means anything to you. He kicks off the … There’s more →

Holy Emaciated Bale Batman

  By Lottie | July 18, 2009 - 3:12 pm | Celebs, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Christian Bale looks shockingly thin for his role in The Fighter. Say what you will about Christian Bale, when it comes to acting, the man gives 100% to each role. Unfortunately, that might not be a good thing when it comes to his health. The Dark Knight star infamously subsisted on an apple a day for his role in The Machinist, resulting in a shocking 63-pound weight loss. Alternately bulking up for the Batman films, the movie star is once again losing weight for his newest film, The Fighter. Gone are the muscles, replaced with hollow cheekbones, for Bale to play the role of Dickie Eklund. The film chronicles Eklund’s career as a boxer and trainer, who became a drug addict in the process. This of course might explain his infamous on-set tirade. If I were screwing with my metabolism that much, I’d probably consider murdering someone for fussing with … There’s more →