Audio Review: Ghostpoet – Dark Days + Canapés
Arresting piano chords and reverberating distorted guitar notes create an atmosphere that is simultaneously inviting and indignant.
What If Dublin… Took Over Control of the Phoenix Park?
A severe case of arrested development, the Phoenix Park stands as victim of disjointed Government and public deference.
Restaurant Review: Restaurant Forty One at Residence
The room is grand in the actual sense of the word and what you would expect on the first floor of an eighteenth century townhouse that was lavishly restored some…
Magnified: Four&Sons
Four&Sons is both a print and online publication “where dogs and culture collide”. We spoke to its creative director Marta Roca.
Craft Beer Ireland: Wicklow Wolf
Wicklow Wolf's Quincey Fennelly gives us the scoop on the craft beer trade at the moment.
Garb: A Certain Vintage – Lyón Loring
Lyón Loring is offering the D7 axis of Stoneybatter/Smithfield a rather fine selection of old threads.
Sound: Pop Goes Le Boom
Ahead of their appearance at Hard Working Class Heroes, Le Boom reflect on how this showcase helped launch them, a summer of festivals and possibly releasing some material.
Audio Review: r.kitt – Jigsaw
Jigsaw is r.kitt’s broody homage to the community centre on the Northside of Dublin where the DIP crew have been running (some of) their parties since 2015.
Roadmap: Intricate Sailing
Avast Ye Rapscallions, and float to worlds of rhythmic doubloons and iambic bliss!
Audio Review: Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
A tremendously adult album by men who value their internal bond and their privacy
Repair People: The Typewriter Repairer – Joe Millar
With typewriter manufacturing coming to a halt in the 90s, there simply aren’t enough typewriters left to repair.”
Audio Review: Ariel Pink – Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
A concept album based on the various tragic stories of impermanence retold by Ariel Pink in a series of synth and drum machine laden melodies.
Fringe Fest 2017: The Assassination of Pope Urban II – James Moran
“I was interested in violence. I think the Crusades are a well-known account of violence.” James Moran
Fringe Fest 2017: Papini – Felicity
Papini revolves around a group of friends, Claude, Val, Mongrel and Ash. And above them all, Papini, a lunar influence over these tiny ships lost at sea.
Repair People: The Sewing Machine Mechanic – Frank Richardson
“There was a bomb literally just outside the shop in ’74, the place was nearly demolished"
Roadmap: Tombolo
Eight artists explore, interpret and produce sculptures inspired by their surroundings at Brow Head this September for the second installment of Tombolo
Nice Gaff: The Rotunda
The Rotunda hospital is the apex of an incredible part of the city, lush with history like a microcosm of Irish life.
Roadmap: Specs Appeal
Our favourite tea cosy is the subject of illustrator Peter Donnelly’s new book.