DYT has proven a hotbed for many of the most promising and dominant voices on our theatrical landscape. As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, this retrospective grafts performance, archive footage and recollections. Take a bow.
“The music’s brutal jackhammer base drums, the synth sounds that seem to be sampled from water boarding sessions and the extreme state of inebriation render Gabba clubs of somewhat of a niche market.” claimed Clive Martin of Vice’s Noisey channel back in 2013. Whatever. The city is long overdue some 180bpm and Alberto Guerrini will […]
Contemporary jazz trio based in both New York and Israel. As well as straight Jazz their music is also influenced by genres such as rock, classical, African and Middle Eastern. They are dynamic live performers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9Vi0caS4k
Ireland. The near future. You sit down with a cup of tay, and tune in to RTÉ Radio 1 to catch The Definitive View with Sneachta Ní Mhurchú: your favourite arty interview and playback show, featuring the quirkiest, murkiest Irish radio from the past week, hosted by Ireland’s most popular self-important presenter. A brand new comedy radio play with a live musical […]
"Look on my Pipeworks ye mighty and despair" OK we might be twisting a bit with ya. This ain't no Percy Bysshe Shelley music mash-up but rather a feast of organ of music. The Pipeworks festival spans five days, seven concerts and locations such as Whitefriar Church and St Patrick’s Cathderal. Ein feste Burg ist […]
Chamber Choir Ireland's new concert series, The Orthodox Spirit traverses centuries, countries and composers, connected at its core by the spirit of the music of the Orthodox Church.
You know there’s an edge of Europe island pang when an act you’re pining for doesn’t play our shores. That feeling was certainly felt last summer as The Avalanches didn’t drop by off the back of Wildflower, their first release in 16 years. With the sound of an endless summer flowering out of every crevice […]
Poetic and bathed in evocative imagery, the songs of the elder Peruvian songstress Susanna Baca are transporting. She’s been a Minister for Culture in her native country, a Latin Grammy award winner and recognised folklorist and ethnomusicologist. If your folk pine for the Buena Vista Social Club then this one is for them (or you). […]
“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern … the whole world is a work of art” – Virginia Woolf in recognition of subtleties and interconnections at the heart of creative work. Plot and Piece is a group show with Pallas Studio artists, Birgitta Horan and Sarah Farrell, joined by Ciara Ward and Kerry O’Hare. The group […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA Does Phil Collins have 51,700 fans on our island up for shelling out between €89.50 and €144 for a night with him? It’s a wildly optimistic pitch by the promoters even with Blondie on board off the back of their brilliant Pollinator album. Regardless of this, the former Genesis drummer though not a titan […]
It is more than apt to have the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring in town as part of a series of talks around the Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting exhibition (June 17 - September 17). Chevalier’s 1999 historical novel explores the fictionalised relationship between Vermeer and a servant called Griet who […]
Inspired by their Despacio experience at the Electric Picnic in 2015, Lumo was born. And it's established itself as a favoured monthly amongst discerning music lovers who ain't afraid of hearing relatively unknown acts like Rainbow Team dropped alongside Phil Collins. Their all-dayer at the Garda Boat Club is testimony to their eclectic loves with […]
Dragons of Eden is a double bill of energetic new work from Dublin-based artists Aoibheann Greenan and Terence Erraught at The MART gallery. Greenan presents The Eighth Seal, an audio and sculptural installation that takes the ongoing struggle for female bodily autonomy in Ireland as its cue to construct an enormous vulva-spacecraft via a reinterpretation […]
Join Spanish composer and musician Su Garrido Pombo for a relaxing candlelit evening of music at Instituto Cervantes. Originally from Vigo in Galicia she will perform a fusion of jazz , latin and spanish guitar as well as bossa and folk. Entry price includes a glass of wine. Photo credit: Finn Richards
We’re sure any of those fortunate to catch Robert Glasper’s sensational Whirligig show in the Workmans back in November 2011 assumed he’d be ascending to a larger venue here in 2012. Six years later and it hasn’t quite panned out like that here even though this Grammy Award winning artist is playing all the buzz […]
The site specific installation remembers and pays tribute to different groups of exploited women from around the world.
Kathy Tynan’s eye for idiosyncrasies and her ability to distil an essence from daily encounters lends her paintings a profundity that is interspersed with self-reflexive humour. Each painting captures a moment in which a feeling or mood prevails. In the making of these paintings, Tynan proffers a world in which chance encounters and oddities are elevated […]
Fans of Mogwai, Arab Strap, Franz Ferdinand, The Delgados, Chemikal Underground... take note!
Femi, firstborn of Fela, has been adding further notes of distinction to his pioneering auld fella’s formidable legacy since the 1980s.
We all know what to expect from the reanimated Pixies
