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…
What If Dublin… Loved Its Little Parks?
I envision a role, even a destiny for the parks, not as discrete bounded entities but as active hubs enlivening wide arcs of urban green.
Letter Love: Holly Pereira – Hyper Pictures
We caught up with illustrator, animator and signwriter Holly Pereira ahead of her appearance at RHA Hennessy Lost Fridays to discuss illustration, her love of big letters and the creatives…
Cinema Review: Trespass Against Us
Damning social considerations aside, this is a poorly acted, uneven and half-hearted film whose central father-son relationships fail to intrigue or engage.
Audio Review: Oczy Mlody – The Flaming Lips
Ambitious? Certainly. Silly? Somewhat. Their best work in years? Absolutely.
Cinema Review: Fences
An impeccably acted affair, with electrifying turns by Washington, who also directs, Viola Davis as his long-suffering wife, and newcomer Jovan Adepo.
Book Review: Private Citizens – Tony Tulathimutte
Private Citizens has more to offer than satire. Tulathimutte’s protagonists appear as horrified by themselves – and their world – as we are.
Book Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was – Sjón
The book, like the boy, moves ever outward – from the intimate towards an expanded focus that takes in the whole of Icelandic society.
Book Review: Nutshell – Ian McEwan
In Ian McEwan’s brilliantly realised latest novel, Prince Hamlet literally does find himself ‘bounded in a nutshell’, or rather, a womb.