Superhero Nymphomaniacs: CoisC
CoisCéim Dance theatre company was founded fifteen years ago this coming February. I met with David Bolger and Muirne Bloomer who have been involved with CoisCéim from the start to
People Won’t Be People: Battles Interviewed
When it came to choosing the potential cover stars of our last issue of the decade we had a list as long as Lapland’s most bearded. With our Thierry Henry
Music Interview: SACK
Sack, for the uninitiated, were one of the most unassumingly definitive Irish indie-rock bands of the 90s. Their three albums ‘You Are What You Eat’, ‘Butterfly Effect’ and ‘Adventura Majestica’
Nihon Eiga: The Japanese Film Festival
In response to the level of interest shown in last year’s event the Japanese Film Festival has broadened its horizons, now taking in three locations across the country before making
Japanese Popstars
The Japanese Popstars are having a whale of a time at the moment. Between remixing everyone from Beyonce to Editors and a hugely successful tour of the festival circuit during
Love and death with The Antlers
Concept albums are naff, received wisdom states. They’re the domain of longhaired dinosaurs, writing delusional, overwrought epics about dull mythology. But then, I suppose, it depends on your concept. Sufjan
Vitalic
Whether it be trendy sunglasses or Hawaiian shirts, Vitalic is a man who genuinely wears – and does – what he wants; though he has one of the most instantly
Music – Interview – Cymbals Eat Guitars
Out of the frying pan and into the fire with a helpful prod from Pitchfork; after their self-released debut Why There Are Mountains was scored an 8.3 and given a
Our Friend Electric – Gary Numan Interviewed
From those stark old videos of his Kraftwerk-styled robotic performances to the synth blizzards that made his name, I’m obviously chattering at the prospect of talking to Gary Numan, even
Modeselektor
Berlin’s brightest pair of messers, Modeselektor, were two-thirds of the bass-heavy force that gave technoheads their Electric Picnic highlight this year (the other third being long-time comrade-in-synths Apparat), the portmanteau
Music – Interview – David Turpin
There couldn’t be a more fitting month in the calendar than October, for the release of David Turpin’s Sophomore album Haunted! Buzzing with spectres and demons, yet also encompassing the
Boys Noize
Alex Ridha is a busy man. He is taking a well deserved break and enjoying a stroll around a particularly blustery Berlin, as Totally Dublin catches up with him for
Brendan Muldowney on Savage – Part of This Year’s Darklight X Festival
A young man’s despair following a brutal assault soon descends into a consuming desire for revenge in Brendan Muldowney’s exploration of the nature of violence at its most viscous and
Colouring In: HEALTH Interviewed
Totally Dublin fans will be familiar with LA noise merchants HEALTH after we gushed out inky love all over their new polychromatic album Get Color in our last issue. With
Bibio
Don’t get the wrong idea here. There’s Bibio’s Stephen Wilkinson halfway between a glower and a look of deep disappointment at you from the top of the page. You’re already
Raymond Chandler and the Movies
“I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.” After a big sleep (most of the titles being first released in the 1940s), the
Restrain Yourselves: The xx Inteview
Silent stars of Electric Picnic, The xx are the hotly-tipped act who actually deliver, holding audiences rapt with their whispered vocals and beautifully muted guitars. Enigmatic but utterly down-to-earth, the
Fringe Festival 2009 – Interview With Power Point Star Lisa Lambe
An experimental theatre company known for presenting its productions in a unique and alternative way, the Performance Corporation’s latest interactive experience Power Point to be debuted at the Dublin Fringe