Another year, another brain-frazzling Fringe program. This year themed loosely around activism, outsiders, women and children (it is the Lockout anniversary, after all), the cross-pollination of artistic and performative disciplines
September 20th marks the end of an era for Shane O’Brien, James Walmsley, Demian Fox and Mick Cullinan. Having toured 6 shows internationally, won numerous awards and starred in their
A place to drink prosecco until your piss turns fizzy.
Nicolas Winding Refn, a man who once claimed that ‘making a film is like fucking’, has reprised his partnership with Drive‘s Ryan Gosling to produce Only God Forgives, a film
Landfall is a piece of dance theatre set amid a dystopian post-apocalyptic landscape. Suspended beams of metal and discarded pieces of technology are balanced, hanging and swinging above the stage.
"We were supposed to do live musical accompaniment for an opera based on a dog" - Dublin hardcore/brass band on their new album Beastenders, being broke and the consistency of…
A radio play necessitates in creating an absence of the visual, but in the staging of the voices, director Gavin Quinn has created a visual and auditory experience that both…
Designers in Ireland are very lucky, in a way, to work outside the chokeholds of fashion cities like New York and London. Being at arm’s length of the metropolis allows…
Karley Sciortino may only be 27 years old, but she’s had more life experience than all your most eccentric friends combined: university dropout, former London squat resident, sex blogger, visual…
Anyone who has ever seen her perform knows that there is a special communion between Derbhle Crotty and her audience. As soon as she leaves the stage there is a
Prior to the unfortunate appropriation of the ukelele by doe-eyed saps like Zooey Deschanel and Eddie Vedder, Peter Delaney was mining his own weird vein of folk, played almost entirely
It’s time to roll up the sleeve and dip into the bag of things in my inbox tagged ‘Demos’ once again. There are questions aplenty raised this week, from “why
Ulrich Seidl's films are difficult, antagonistic affairs. From 1996′s Animal Love (“Never have I looked so directly into hell” – Werner Herzog) to 2007's Palme d'Or nominated Import/Export, his is…
Who is the worst person on Twitter? Is it Noel Fielding? Or Richard Dawkins? Or is it, as some people have claimed, Callum Hamilton and Dom Passantino, writers of the…
TWIN started as an outlet for Irish DJs, both established and bedroom bound, to play together. One year on and the string of talent uncovered during its Twisted Pepper residency…
Karl McDonald accepts demo submissions and then listens to them and writes about them. Send 'em in to karl@totallydublin.ie
Our weekly music review was going to review Magna Carta Holy Grail, but we don't have a Samsung.
We delve into the daunting ouevre of German techno kingpin Ben Klock with a little help from Not Saying Boo!, who host his next Dublin gig.
