Archive for September 20th, 2007
The Flaws acoustic set and signing copies in Dublin
The Flaws will be performing an acoustic set and signing copies of their new album ‘Achieving Vagueness’ at HMV Grafton Street store, on Friday 21st September at 5.30pm. The Flaws, a four-piece from Co Monaghan, Ireland released their debut self financed EP in the summer of 2005. The 4 track EP won a host of admirers with tunes like [...]
Singing With The Enemy – musical and moral meltdown?
Singing With The Enemy is a brand new 6 x 60’ thought-provoking factual entertainment series for BBC3. Imagine a wholesome all-girl pop band forced to collaborate with a misogynistic death metal group. Or a sleazy, sex-obsessed punk band sharing a house with an evangelical Christian group. They come from radically different tribes and [...]
Ex-olympic champion Sally Gunnell to get children active
With current obesity trends suggesting that one fifth of children will be overweight or obese by 2010. Sally Gunnell, Tumble Tots and Cartoonito are calling to children to join the 50,000 Tumble Tots members to ‘Jump for Joy’ during National Children’s Activity Week. Now in its 14th year, National Children’s Activity Week which runs [...]
Tommy Tiernan’s “Bovinity” nights at Vicar St
It’s been two years since the last Tommy Tiernan Irish tour but he has not been resting on his laurels, quite the opposite in fact. Tommy has been focusing his energy on America and Canada with a 3 week run at UCLA, a 6 week run in New York, a 6 week tour of Canada, 2 Just for Laughs Galas, numerous American club dates including Philidelphia, [...]
Animal Collective at Dublin’s Tripod
For the uninitiated, Animal Collective is a group of four best friends who grew up playing and recording music together in Baltimore County, Maryland. Why Animal? Cause it's the only word they could think of that made any remote connection to what they thought their sound was -- and of course, they love their fellow animals very much. Why [...]
Conned: Scams, Frauds And Swindles
Conned: Scams, Frauds And Swindles By James Morton And Hilary Bateson In this entertaining and alarming book, the authors look at the scams, frauds and swindles which, over the years, confidence tricksters, both men and women have worked on a public just as gullible and greedy today as they were three centuries ago. Some of the oldest cons – [...]
Henry Rollins full spoken word show at Vicar st
Musician, writer, actor, spoken word maestro, Henry Rollins returns to Vicar St. for a full spoken word show on January 29th 2008. Henry Rollins joined the Southern California band Black Flag as vocalist in 1981. Upon the demise of the legendary punk band in 1986, he formed the Rollins Band and has been making records and touring the world ever [...]