Roadmap: Art Record Covers
Spanning six decades since 1955, Art Record Covers showcases over 500 covers taking in modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art and postmoderism.
Barfly: Humphrey’s – Drinking On Cloud Eight
Situated next door to the considerably more popular Smyth’s; Humphrey’s, for better or for worse, seems set to forever be discussed through the lens of what it is not.
Roadmap: Nice And Quay-Sy
With proposed closures imminent for Hangar and District 8, there’s a mini-respite and sense of relief for the house and techno community with the arrival of Index.
Roadmap: Pussys Riot
With a pink swish of hot to trot sass and non-conformist ass, a new incarnation of Pussys is born.
Roadmap: Guinea Up! Guinean Dance Workshop
Get thee to a Guinean dance workshop with Idrissa Camara, the choreographer behind the dance theatre company Ballet Nimba.
Roadmap: This Ain’t No Disco
“There was nothing else on,” explains Donal Dineen in terms of why No Disco became such a seminal TV music show.
Choice Covers: James Vincent McMorrow – We Move
Photographer Emma J Doyle on the idea behind her image which adorned James Vincent McMorrow’s We Move. Art direction is by Samuel Burgess Johnson.
Choice Covers: Overhead, The Albatross – Learning to Growl
Overhead, The Albatross worked with musician and artist Nick Boon who used a copper plate etching process in the creation of the artwork.
Choice Covers: All Tvvins – IIVV (Warner Music)
The boys from All Tvinns combined the forces of art director Alex Cowper and photographer Ruth Medjber to realise their cover look.
Choice Covers: Wallis Bird – Home (Mount Silver / Caroline International)
Wexford born Wallis Bird embraced her German connections to evoke the connections between her music and artwork.
St Patrick’s Day Festival 2017
Promising “Four Great Days”, the festival has devised a programme which extends well beyond the usual expectations.
Choice Covers – Katie Kim – Salt (Art For Blind Records)
Katie Kim’s fourth album Salt saw her collaborate with photographer Terry Magson on the artwork.
Choice Covers: We Cut Corners – The Cadences Of Others (Delphi)
It took over 150 portrait shots before Dublin-based duo We Cut Corners landed on the right one for the cover of The Cadences of Others.
Underground Resistance: Niall McCann – Lost in France
Niall McCann is Lost in France and angry at the system. The director discusses music, class and selling out.
Nice Gaff – Merrion Hall
Happened upon on trips to the sea, the modernist concrete structure can seem an anomaly on a road of otherwise higgledy-piggledy residential grandeur.
Choice Covers: The Divine Comedy – Foreverland
A recipient of the 2006 Choice Award for Victory for the Comic Muse, The Divine Comedy are back in contention with their 11th studio album. Frontman Neil Hannon sheds some…
SPECTRUM Festival: Creative Music For Curious Ears
A new festival experience for fans of innovative music-making, SPECTRUM presents a widely diverse programme of music that flows through the prism of the jazz approach
Soundbite: Raymond Gogan – Listoke Gin School
The country’s first ever gin school recently opened at Listoke Estate outside Drogheda. Co-founder Raymond Gogan tells us about the unique experience on offer and the family’s longstanding connection with…