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.
Repair People: The Hoover Fixer – Fergus Doyle
“I’m probably the only person left in the city now who could take a 1950s or 1960s Hoover apart and put it back together again."
Roadmap: Designist Dynamite
The newly evolved shop bridges the gap between head-scratching wonder and artistic delectation.
Fringe Fest 2017: Saharcasm – Sahar Ali
Sahar wants to open up a conversation about ‘Irishism, Arabism and racism’, to, as she puts it, ‘dedicate 15 minutes to blackness’
Bitesize: Find My Pint App
Sean and Barry Walsh have developed an app that magically assists beer enthusiasts seeking out hostelries pouring their preferred craft beers and ales.
Garb: Dublin Vintage Factory
Filling a hole rather than a gap Smithfield’s Dublin Vintage Factory is the secondhand, kilo store where visible piping commands every inch of its Feng Shui
Artsdesk: Cathedrals of The Mind – Isabel Nolan
Isabel Nolan considers lofty cathedrals, dirty feet and Tony Soprano within her new work.