Reflections at 150 – Joel Conroy
Joel Conroy had released his acclaimed surfing documentary Waveriders when we featured him in our 55th edition in April 2009. Here he reflects on that moment and what it led…
Roadmap: The Thousand Year Old Boy
The Library Project’s New Irish Series continues with Yvette Monahan’s The Thousand Year Old Boy.
Retro Cinema Review: Gladiator
"If it was the last great sword-and-sandals movie, it’s proven to have remarkable durability." 17 years on from its initial release we revisit blockbuster Gladiator.
Choice Covers: Bantum – Move (Self Released)
Bantum is the moniker of Ruairi Lynch’s musical output. Shane O’Driscoll created the album artwork and explains the origins of the cover.
Reflections at 150: M&E
We asked Matthew Bolger & Emelie Lidström (M&E) to illustrate our first cover of 2010 (issue #64). The couple consider that time and the intervening seven years in six paragraphs.
Barfly: A Cut Above – The Barbers
A cosy single room, featuring a side area with a barber’s chair for those wishing to indulge the crossover, the crowd mixes auld lads, suits, and a healthy smattering of…
Choice Covers: Lisa Hannigan – At Swim (Play It Again Sam)
Lisa Hannigan worked with the New York based Irish photographer Rich Gilligan and designer Amanda Chiu for her cover.
Cinema Review: Lost In France
Equal parts wistful and angry, with a real political consciousness simmering just beneath its surface.
Roadmap: Our Rolling Stone
Irish photographer Richard Mosse returns this spring with some thermal trickery in two exhibits examining the refugee crisis.
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.