Quompilation Week: Cloud Castle Lake
To celebrate the launch of the Quompliation on Thursday night, Totally Dublin talks to some of the bands involved at length about their contributions and
Interview with Cloud Nothings
Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi is a good example of how the internet has made this ‘getting big’ thing a lot easier and a lot quicker. In 2009, he was releasing
Calendar Girls
Perhaps February isn’t the wisest month for people to be stripping off in Ireland but we have been assured the Grand Canal Theatre is cranking up the heat for the
Interview with Darkstar
Darkstar emerged in a hail of praise when their dubsteppy early 12 inches Need You and Aidys Girls A Computer appeared all full of 2-step rhythms and ghost-in-the-machine chopped up
The National – Bryce Dessner Interview
Aside from playing guitar with the National, Bryce Dessner has made him name by dipping his talented fingers into a variety of different pies. In between organizing Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival,
Reunion
Reunion is the tale of a summer two young boys spend in the spectre of Nazi Germany. Originally a novella written by Fred Uhlman, it has been adapted for stage
Dirty Sanchez
So you might know Matt Berry from the IT Crowd, but he does music too. With the trademark baritone voice familiar from confrontationally weird boss Douglas Reynholm, he sings songs
Lunar Disko
Very much from the D.I.Y school of thought, Andy Doyle and Barry Donovan are the co-founders of Dublin’s Lunar Disko records. Spawned from an Italo/ Electro / Chicago night, they
Legowelt
With 20 pseudonyms and counting, Danny Wolfers is impossibly hard to pigeonhole. Born and raised in The Hague, the man most commonly known as Legowelt is steeped in the electronic
The Silver Tassie
Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid’s biggest ever company of actors – in this sweeping production of Sean O Casey’s most controversial play, that uses
Music – Interview – Thread Pulls
Minimalist is one thing, Thread Pulls are another. With only two members, typically playing bass and drums and embellishing them with textural loops, they craft austere but accessible post-punk of
Motor City Drum Ensemble
We’ve lost count of the amount of times we’ve heard people whinging about Irish closing times, or the lack of good night clubs, or any one of several other gripes
Getting The Gremlins Out Of Joe Dante
Legendary director Joe Dante is releasing his much-anticipated, The Hole 3D this week. A filmmaker who is has never been afraid to scare youngsters with such films as Gremlins, The
Squick and Easy
It’s difficult to believe that Meljoann’s impeccably produced, woozily electro-influenced R’n’B came from Dublin, but it did. TD tries to find out how it happened. So you were presented to
The Abominable Grinderman
She was raised by beasts Photographed by vultures Here come the Wolfman! The Abominable Snowman! Gotta little poison Gotta little gun Sitting in the bathtub Waiting for the Wolfman to
Entering The Void with Gaspar Noe
Gaspar Noé is one of the world’s most divisive, loathed and admired directors, this month releasing his third feature-length film, Enter The Void, on the international market. It is loosely
Confessions of an Irish Publican: Interview with Des Keogh
A few years ago I was privileged to see a performance of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer in the Wexford Arts Centre and it was a wonderful theatre
Liars Liars, Pants on Fire
When we talked to Angus Andrews, Liars’ Aussie-accented, Frankenstein-frontman, January snow was blowing in the window and we were still playing with the Game Boy Color we got for Christmas.