If there was an underground-electro district of Diagon Alley (of Harry Potter fame), then Patrick Wolf would certainly be the headliner every night.
The Bachelor is Wolf's fourth album and he continues on his streak of conjuring worlds of dark magic and quenched dreams but yet in the way that only a wizard can, leaves you feeling as if the quest for the Philosopher's Stone will just be a walk in the park.
Tilda Swinton plays the role of The Voice of Hope on 'Oblivion', 'Thickets' and 'Theseus' which proves that as a concept album, a political concept album at…

Interview with David Kitt 3 April

David Kitt is a man of many words. These sporadic and sometimes mumbled words can often form a sentence but they are more are just a unconscious stream of thought. With the release of his latest album The Nightsaver last month, he tracks how he and his music style has changed and shifted since the beginning of his career.
"I've gone back and forth, to the left, to the right, gone to a different country, gone on holidays…It's pretty close to where it came from and it's in the sweet stage at the moment.…

Of all the venues in all the world, you had to rock this one. Dublin city is beriddled, not just with rats and one-legged pigeons, but with music venues that have the potential to charm the pants off audiences and bands alike.
One such venue is The Olympia Theatre. Built in 1879, it is one of the more elaborate venues with a golden touch denoted to everything but it also allows intimacy with the capacity for 1,300 people. This built-in intimacy in such refined settings made Michael Stipe of REM take notice and chose the Olympia to test out live…

Of all the venues in all the world, you had to rock this one. Dublin city is beriddled, not just with rats and one-legged pigeons, but with music venues that have the potential to charm the pants off audiences and bands alike.
One such venue is The Olympia Theatre. Built in 1879, it is one of the more elaborate venues with a golden touch denoted to everything but it also allows intimacy with the capacity for 1,300 people. This built-in intimacy in such refined settings made Michael Stipe of REM take notice and chose the Olympia to test out live…

Sat 21 Feb – Villagers

The interest in Villagers can be benchmarked by the various members of the Dublin music scene that attended the gig in Crawdaddy that was packed like Christmas Eve Mass.
Former member of The Immediate, Conor O'Brien has delivered to us, the curious public, an engagingly dark and romantic music project. Not only does it mark the sheer talent that exists in the world but it also reminds us that there is still some spark and individuality left in Dublin.
Every song makes you say "oh hello" and take notice, particularly his finishing song 'Pieces'.…

Anthony Burgess' book A ClockWork Orange brings you to a new society with its own rules, its own language and its own identity. Reading the book, you create your own world for the droogs to roam but Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation illustrates the ultraviolence in such a graphic way that it will shake up whatever Clockwork Orange world you knew before.

JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy was in no doubt a masterpiece but Peter Jackson's films were an homage to the books. The films could never truly capture the magic of the Middle-Earth but the awe factor is…

It is everywhere. From the desk you sit at in lectures to the streets that you pass every day from getting from destination A to destination B. Graffiti can be seen as vandalism or it can be seen as art that goes beyond the regular canvas.
In Dublin alone, graffiti artists vary in style and range. Once you are aware of it, you will find it difficult to go a day without seeing a unique stencil or tag (a tag is the graffiti artist’s personal signature). The most commercial of Dublin’s street artists is Maser. He uses the line ‘Maser…

Facing the cool,white surface of a toilet cistern, you lean in and inhale. That €20 bag of confidence will last you the night but if you wish to share with friends you will need more.
Where did you get it? The man in the smoking area. Where did he get it? From one of those drug lords whom you imagine to look like Vinnie Jones or Phil Mitchell. But where did he get it? If you think long enough, you would say Colombia or somewhere like that. But would you think that the feet of street children were used in…

“I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority, if you type ‘Google’ into Google, you can break the internet. So, please, no one try it. Even for a joke… It’s not a laughing matter. You can break the internet.”

And with that, Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd won the International Emmy Award for Best Comedy last month and deservedly so.

This award adds to those that the former Coláiste Dhulaigh student has already won from his golden lineage of work. Previously a writer for Hot Press, the Castleknock-er is best known for his work with…

'We took our first pill when the music was shit', sings Richie Egan on his 2004 song Floating which was written about a particularly bad night out in Dublin.
Better known as Jape, Egan tries not to focus on how bad that night was but tries to 'always pocket the goodness'. Little did he know that the result of that night would later be covered by Jack White and his band The Raconteurs.
Already with five critically acclaimed albums of his own work and with his other band, Redneck Manifesto, Egan is aware of the downfall that many Irish bands…