Boo! Hiss! Down with this sort of thing. Or do they mean, get deep down and dirty? We haven’t quite figured it out but Down With Jazz promises ‘filthy foreign rhythms & divilish beats’. Watch out for the Robocobra Quartet (Sat - pictured) who have been compared to “Fugazi meets Mingus” by Drowned In Sound […]
Following a premiere at the Old Vic in London, No’s Knife comes to Dublin for its Irish opening. Conceived and performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan, the show draws on a selection of texts from Beckett’s short story collection Texts for Nothing. As Dwan says in an interview, “Beckett was writing these at a time […]
First of a four night stint for the iconic singer/ songwriter who started his career in the late 1960s and was part of the infamous folk rock scene in both New York City and Los Angeles. A hugely successful recording artist in his own right, his song where also covered by musicians such as Nico, […]
One of the worlds most celebrated film composers Hans Zimmer has composed scores for films such as Gladiator, The Lion King and Inception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k
There's precision engineering at play when you are a band of the scale of Arcade Fire. Everything Now dropped on 01.06.17 and while the US pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord overshadowed their pitch for momentary social media supremacy, it still managed to be viewed 2.25m times on YouTube within six days. The jury […]
Following Song in the Key of D’s biggest performance yet at London’s St Patrick’s Festival 2017, the 50 person choir are delighted to announce ‘Raised on Songs & Stories’, a night of Dublin song and story at Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin 1 on Wednesday, 14th June at 8pm. Led by musical directors and multi-instrumentalists KC Fusion, […]
American hard rock/ blues rock outfit who are known for their energetic live performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sj76eCy6ag
Illustrators illustrating illustrators. Oh and some designers, art directors and painters in the mix too. The pairings are drawn at random so expect it to be more Enlightened Date than Blind Date.
Kool Genius is back. Return of a Don marks his first album in six years. The rapper is a pioneer of mafioso rap/street/hardcore content influencing everyone from Jay Z to Pusha T. His new album features some dope guest appearance by Raekwon (Out for That Life), Willie The Kid and the late Sean Price. Time […]
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 […]
