Get Up (I Feel Like Being) A Machine – Simon Cullen & Neil O’Connor
Steve Reich's classic work Music for 18 Musicians is being given a new interpretation by two of the city's synth wizards, as Simon Cullen (Lasertom, Ships), and Neil O’Connor (also…
Barfly: Arthur’s
The slightly tepid vibe downstairs aside, I can’t help but fall for this place and feel that it’s their excellence as a venue that Arthur’s should be trumpeting when it’s…
Book Review: At the Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell is a skilful storyteller, effortlessly placing examinations of existentialist books and lectures within their personal and historical contexts.
September Audio: Euge Groove, Morgan Delt, Katie Dey + More
There’s not much of summer left and this month's new discs from Euge Groove, Morgan Delt, The Smoke Clears, Haley Bonar, Ryley Walker, Cass McCombs, Katie Dey and All Tvvins…
BeKreativ: A Saint in The City – Will St Leger
“I think if we’re not interrupted in our day-to-day life by things other than advertising, if we’re not interrupted socially or politically, then we just turn into mindless robots.”
Book Review: A Modern Journey – Derek Turner
While it is Turner’s inspired construction of Ambrose that is the most memorable and successful element of the novel, the protagonist’s sheer lunacy makes this otherwise promising novel difficult to…
Book Review: Labor of Love – Moira Wegel
Wegel shows how rituals of dating, sex and childbirth have always converged with gendered social and economic expectations, and how women and non-heterosexual men still generally perform the majority of…
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Brokentalkers – This Beach
Migration is something that has happened since the dawn of man. That’s how we survived as a species.
Book Review: Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty – Ramona Ausubel
Ausubel skilfully manipulates the three storylines (following Edgar, Fern and their three children) in a way that goads the reader, and leaves us craving a happy-ending family reunion. As page-turning…
Audio Review: Angel Olsen – My Woman
Going by her previous work, nobody could accuse Angel Olsen of being a stranger to despondence. On My Woman, her gaze drifts forwards to the road ahead.
Native Oak Live At Whelans
Enjoy a relaxing evening with Native Oak and find therapy within his lyrics and sounds when he plays live at Whelans Dublin on Sunday 25th September.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: THISISPOPBABY – RIOT
Catharsis in a stressful world: THISISPOPBABY are bringing RIOT, “their most entertaining show to date,” to this year’s Tiger Dublin Fringe.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Collapsing Horse – The Aeneid
“The anxieties of each generation… loaded” Stories are the speed at which truth happens.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Start With A Circle – NeedMoreInput
"A ball of possibilities" Start with a Circle is a stripped back performance lasting around 45 minutes that features three elements pushing and pulling at each other in a kinetic…