PHONiC Magazine - Issue 2 by Mikey Maguire

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Take Me

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Three-way Its just you and me! Hold on, that’s not a threeway…

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly What’s happening in the world, and more importantly, how ugly it is…

Jesus Christ – Is that a law? A guide to Irelands new blasphemy laws and what they mean for you and your satan fetish…

LAMB TO THE 8 SLAUGHTER... Lamb To The Slaughter A guide to some of the worlds craziest religions that you now cant take the piss out of…

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Clubbing in Dublin From Juan Atkins to Dublin’s very own DJ Heart-throb, David De Valera – we take you through Dublin’s clubbing action for the next month, including interviews with DJ Vadim & Horse Meat Disco

Live Gigs Your full guide to what bands and live acts to check out over the next four weeks, including an interview with Mark Kozelek Full clubbing, live and weekly listings for the next month in Dublin.

Here is a little riddle for you. It isn’t food, but you can eat it. It isn’t a plane, but you can try and fly it. It isn’t your better half, but you can try and have your mucky little way with it. What is it?...

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Its me! PHONiC issue two. Good to have you staring at me. Please bear in mind though, eating me, trying to use me as some freesheet style magic carpet or trying to get your hole with me will only end in tears. That being tears of laughter from everyone watching you and the tears of disappointment from your parents when they find out what you’ve been up to and how much they have failed in raising a normal child. Don’t take that road. Take the simple, old skool option and just read me instead. It’s the entire reason I’m sitting in your mits right now, but sure you already know that don’t you? You’re obviously already reading me, you clever little sod…

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Also, please be aware, if you’re allergic to paper and have just started to sneeze, drop the paper and run away really fast. There is no need to suffer. We’ve now got everything PHONiC related and much, much more on our shiny new website at PHONiC.ie – Designed especially with allergies in mind (or not) Enjoy Issue two!

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3way

Each month here at PHONiC, we want to have a three-way with you, our beloved reader. It’s just our way of spreading the love. We pick three things each month that we want you to do, and you must do them. It’s that simple. Maybe one month we’ll ask you to jump off a bridge, the next month we ask you to stick your head in an oven. What are you going to do? As your good mother used to always say to you as a child “If PHONiC magazine asked you to stick your head in an oven, would you do it?” – Your answer to the question… yes, mother. I would do it. But only on the promise of a three-way…

Carlsberg Comedy Festival Laughter is apparently the best medicine. So if you or anybody you know are involved in an accident anytime between Thursday 23rd and Sunday 26th of July, just head for the Carlsberg Comedy Festival. Same for a bout of sickness. Although if you’re hit with a dose of Swine Flu then heading into a large crowd of people packed into tents in a park probably isn’t the best idea. This year’s festival has a great line-up with loads of top Irish and international acts geared to take the stage over the weekend. Des Bishop, Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, Pj Gallagher and Ardal O’Hanlon make up some of the Irish crew, while overseas guests such as Bo Burnham, Hans Teeuwen, Phil Nichol and Sean Lock are currently in the Ryanair departure lounge waiting for lift-off towards Dublin. The festival is set in the beautiful surrounds of the Iveagh gardens and by all accounts is a great little event, not to be missed. And when something is not to be missed, you shouldn’t really miss it! Tickets available from ticketmaster.

You can BANK on it Bank on what? August Bank Holiday being da shizzle, as Ryan Turbridy would say. Fo Sho. Yes, the first weekend in August is a bank holiday and we here at PHONiC demand you make the most of it. There is loads on. Big Brother, Corrie, Ross Kemp Sheriff Street Special, The News… even the weather. And if you don’t fancy sitting on the couch watching telly all weekend, there are other ways of making the most of the weekend too. There are two Irish festivals happening in the form of Castlepalooza & Indie-Pendance (more details inside), there is Airbound, the festival run by Dublin promoters Nightflight & Bodytonic and happening in some shit hot location over in Croatia. There is the gig out in Marley Park with Fatboy Slim, David Guetta, Calvin Harris and more. There is that guy that stands busking outside HMV on Grafton Street pretending to play a keyboard when it’s really just set to automatic. The list in endless. Basically what we’re saying is just don’t forget to make the most of the bank holiday. They don’t come along often and they stop you having you to stare at your ugly boss whilst hung-over on Monday morning. Unless you work for yourself, in which case you can never escape the ugly…

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Global warming, world peace, even a cure for Cancer. These are all things that can wait. Unlike the new PHONiC.ie website, which is now online! We asked 2 million Irish citizens if they could choose between the three things mentioned above and the PHONiC website, which would they rather first? 119% of people said they definitely wanted the PHONiC website first (One of the people surveyed had a really bad stammer and kept answering over and over, which accounts for the extra 19%). Log onto the site to check out our daily blog with the best of everything the world has to offer (no, really) as well as updated PHONiC articles, the best videos on the web (Better than youtube, they are thinking about closing down because our site is so good), Photo Galleries from Dublin’s best events, Competitions and more. We’re even giving away two grand to everyone who signs up. Two large. Straight into your bank account within 24 hours of signing up. That’s not bad as far as web promotions go….

*Please note: The person who wrote the above paragraph is a compulsive liar (It was me!) and nothing they say can be believed. The survey thing might be a lie, and the thing about two grand might not be true either. Youtube do think our site is deadly though, and they are actually thinking about closing down because they are scared of PHONiC.ie and what it might do to the internet. It’s that good.

x x x THE GOOD

the bad

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+the ugly

4am Closing

Over Priced Pints

Dermot Ahern

The INIA have released a report once again calling for later nightclub opening hours, this time they are asking for a very fair 4am. Which would be great! This issue comes up over and over again, and won’t go away until things are changed, which they very much need to be. You can view the report at INIA.ie. One of its major plus points at the minute is the creation of 8000 jobs in the nightclub industry that this bill would create. Let’s hope this one sees the light of day…

I love paying nearly €6 for a pint. I LOVE IT! Greedy pub landlords, did you not read what I just about the recession in” the good” column? Lower priced pints please, or we shan’t be supping your ale, you bastard.

For unleashing his new blasphemy laws on the public this month, which we have covered in great detail in this months issue. Dermot, the best advice I can give you is to get in a phone box, spin around loads of times really fast before emerging in a blue spandex suit. Then fly away really fast… and don’t come back.

Picnic is next month! Yes, that’s right! Ireland’s best festival kicks off next month, spread over the 4th, 5th and 6th of September down in Stradbally, Co. Laois. Last week they released the line-up for the comedy tent which is looking quite good, but as usual 98% of the stuff you’ll end up doing wont be advertised and you wont even know its there until your butt naked and tied to it, with a crowd of 300 people all huddled around you, painting. We is well looking forward to this, innit? If you haven’t got your ticket yet, sort it out…

Cheap drink I said it once, and I’ll say it again. The recession is deadly! (Unless you’ve lost your job, in which case I’m an insensitive bastard. Feel free to send any hate mail to info@PHONiC.ie and I’ll print it out and use it as jacks roll). Pints are now €3 in loads of places all over town, we’re seeing bottles of wine for €10 in certain pubs, 3 drinks for a tenner etc. Brilliant. Maybe now we as a nation can get back to our roots and start getting drunk. Go on the recession!

MJ Dead A childhood hero passed away. Very sad to see, even sadder to see the circus that’s unfolding after it. Maybe time to just leave things be and let the man rest. That’s all we’ll say about. We’ll let our cover do the talking for us. RIP MJ, Shaamon!

Its lashing I know it always rains in Ireland, but I’m still not used to it. To be honest, I don’t really like writing about bad news, it’s a pain in the hole. Too much of a bad buzz for my liking, so I’m sitting on the fence this month. The rain is as good a subject as any. If I had my way, I would remove the “bad” section out of this column, but that would just leave the good and the ugly. And we can’t be having a full column dedicated to just Mother Teresa, can we?

Dermot Ahern For generally just being a big wet blanket of a man. Why can’t you just be a light-hearted, fun loving creature like the justice minister before you, Michael McDowell? Oh no wait, he was an absolute cunt too, wasn’t he?

Dermot Ahern For being a made up person. I don’t think you really exist, Mr. Ahern. It says on your website that you come from LOUTH! Louth? Nobody comes from Louth, not anybody I know anyway. Prove yourself.

Nothing. Exactly. Nothing. Its summer, the evenings are long, there’s loads to do and most people seem to have stopped crying about the downturn. It might be raining, but rain or no rain, everyone seems to be in a better mood. So I can’t find anything else to moan about! Lucky you…

Dermot Ahern Lastly, just because he’s really ugly. I mean, it is after all the name of the column…

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Jesus

Christ... 

IS THAT ACTUALLY A LAW?

Blasphemy. Just what exactly is it? To find out, we turned to a modern day God for the answer, namely “Wickipedia”. Wickipedia describes Blasphemy as “the use of the name of one or more gods, in a manner which is considered objectionable by a religious authority. It may include using sacred names as stress expletives without intention to pray or speak of sacred matters; it is also sometimes defined as language expressing disapproved beliefs, or disbelief.” Well, guess what? Blasphemy is now a crime in Ireland. Jesus, I don’t believe it, you may say! Well watch out, that kind of disbelief could get you locked up around here, you fiend…. Blasphemy first became Irish law back when we were just starting to get the hang of making up our own laws without the help of the English, way back in 1937. So we created the Blasphemy law, which we copied directly from… the English constitution. Oh well, maybe next time for the originality. So the law was the law, and many non-believers fell foul over the years (As if hell wasn’t enough). Then, in December 1991, the Law Reform Commission recommended deleting the reference to blasphemy from the Constitution on the grounds that there was no place for such an offence in a society which respects freedom of speech. This obviously didn’t happen, as most Irish politicians at the time were too busy stuffing their faces with wild pheasant and venison dumplings, the special of the day in the Dail. No time for politics when you’re stuffing your face, Charles Haughey famously once said… Again in 1996 the Irish Constitution Review Group recommended that the reference to blasphemy be deleted from the Constitution and after that, a supreme court battle involving the Sunday independent (who were being sued for publishing

a so called blasphemous cartoon) proved that the blasphemy laws couldn’t be upheld in modern day Ireland, therefore making them a pointless law. What a turn up for the books! In 2008, the UK abolished their blasphemy laws, which were the exact laws that we copied back in 1937 for our constitution. Again in July 2008 the Joint Oireachtas Committee recommended deleting the reference to blasphemy from our Constitution, on the grounds that a modern Constitution should not expressly prohibit blasphemy, and that the Supreme Court decision of 1999 had already rendered the offence a dead law anyway. Last year, Ireland voted with the other EU states that there should not be such a crime as “defamation of religion”. The Minister for Foreign affairs, Micheal Martin, later explained why Ireland had taken this position. He told the Dail that “We believe that the concept of defamation of religion is not consistent with the promotion and protection of human rights” Then, on July 8th just gone, in true Irish fashion, our Dail passed the new Defamation Bill, which once again makes Blasphemy a crime. It says “A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000.” What was that you were saying about human rights? Its also worth noting that the discussion of this bill was only given one hour in the Dail, and during that time an average of only six TD’s were present at any one time. I wonder what the special was that day? Mary Harney (the) Pudding? So people of Ireland and the good, good readers of PHONiC… welcome to the dark ages 2009. Blasphemy is now a crime, but what does this mean for you?...

GOD IS GOOD So don’t be giving him any lip or back-chat. Slagging off the big man is now a complete no-no. Even if loads of his servants are proven paedophiles

who tortured Ireland’s kids for hundreds of years, you still have to show respect. Never mind the rape and the buggery, blasphemy is far far worse and you’ll be down €100,000 if you take the piss. Recession or no recession. The question I want answered is, if I slag off god by saying that he has a big head or that his eyes are too close together or something witty like that, and then I get taken to court and get the €100,000 Blasphemy fine… do they give that to God? It seems unfair for the government to get it. I didn’t do anything to them. And they can’t give it to the church, not after the church wont cough up the proper amount of compensation money for those abuse victims. It has to be a two-way street. So God must get it. And if they’re going to give the cash directly to God, would they not just have a word in his ear during the hand-over and get him to show face? Then nobody would be slagging him off about not existing, and blasphemy would go away forever. WHOO-HO! I mean me personally, I’m a devout believer, but all of them comedians on the telly are always giving G to the O to the D hassle. Blasphemous bastards…

Oops! Sorry! ALL GODS ARE GOOD Yes, that’s right. Blasphemy is the slagging off of any religion. So no more jokes about Budda walking into a bar, no more slagging off scientology… no more roaring abuse at the Jehovah’s witnesses as they run down your driveway on fire. Actually, thinking about it… you’re probably not even allowed set them on fire any more either! That’s €100,000 of a fine for everybody in the IRA for slagging off the Protestants, and the same for all the loyalists for calling the Catholics eejits. Never mind the Good Friday agreement or the early release programme, there will be no blasphemy in modern day Ireland! Even though the typical loyalist doesn’t live in the Republic (Not with our prices anyway).

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What religions are you aware of though? Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism… but what else? There are thousands upon thousands of religions around the world, with more being added each year. We cover a few of them on page 10 but lets take for instance the religion of “Iglesia Maradoniana” which when translated to English means “The Church Of Maradona” . Yes, we are talking about Diego Maradona, the junkie. Sorry, I mean footballer. The religion was founded in October 1998 and they now have over 100,000 members in over 60 countries. It’s an actual religion, no mess. So let’s say for instance Maradona wants to make a comeback this side of the water and we see him in next years Keith Duffy celebrity kick about. What if one of the Carter twins from way back when is shooting down the left wing, crosses the ball into the box for Maradona to punch it... sorry, head it into the back of the net, and he misses? The ball goes flying out of the back garden of Krystal and over the wall into Diceys Garden and I roar at the telly “MARADONA YA USELESS BOLLOX, YOU COULDN’T KICK SNOW OFF A ROPE”…. Do I then owe the government/church/ god €100,000 for blasphemy? I think I do…

Careful now As you can see, there are loads of things you now can’t say. “Jesus is a fudge-packer”, is now illegal to say, so you can’t do that. “The Virgin Mary is a big dope” is also not allowed, so don’t do that either. “Holy Communion tastes like shite”, while showing great culinary knowledge, will now land a Mayo version of Chief Wigum at your front door with a summons for a court appearance faster than you can say “Lourdes is for saps”. But it’s not just your mouth that could land you in the bad books with him upstairs, your entire life is now in jeopardy of breaking these new laws. Turn on your telly and by watching Father Ted, The life of Brian, South Park or even anything made by RTE could land you in a bad situation. Everything made by RTE isn’t Blasphemous though, its just shite and should be avoided. But the rest of them, now all illegal. Also, if you own one of those witty “I found Jesus, he was behind the couch” t-shirts, you wont be able to wear it anymore. Because, you didn’t find Jesus behind the couch, did you? Not unless your couch was last seen ascending into heaven from the top of a mountain somewhere in Israel. And I doubt that, Sofa’s cant float. Not as fast as Jesus can anyway…

Always read the small print I don’t know about other religions, but I’ve checked the bible and these is no small print. So I don’t quite know the terms and conditions on this. To be honest, I don’t have €100,000. I’ll even have to check if I have the cash for a taxi to court. So I’m doubtful that I’ll even be able to pay the fine if I ever blaspheme (which I obviously wont). So what happens if I don’t pay? Do I go to jail? Or can I just go to confession and be forgiven? I’m also wondering if I’m in court fighting my case, can I use the angle that Blasphemy doesn’t count because Jesus just turns the other cheek anyway? Or failing that, does “Sticks and stones” count as an effective excuse, as calling names can’t hurt you?

Thank God… For small miracles. One of which is that our Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, isn’t the head of any major religion. Just a member of the biggest bunch of useless bastards this side of Venus (which I’m told is in Cavan somewhere) namely our government. So, that means it’s not blasphemous for me to call him an absolute gobshite. Which is great! Dermot as Justice Minister was the driving force behind this bill, as well as loads of other great laws like the intoxicating liquor act from last year, which now sees offlicences closing hours before you even think about getting thirsty. Dermot is a wealth of great laws such as these, so please don’t elect him again, as I’m getting sick of him interfering with my “Buzz”, as they say in France. Not that slagging the Deity’s was my buzz, I just hate stupid laws. And please don’t forget that while this law was being debated in the Dail, the vast majority of politicians you elected weren’t there. Maybe when the next stupid law on the agenda shows face, our so-called spokespeople might do the same….. So to summarise. If its religion related, don’t be slagging it. Not only will you make Baby Jesus cry, you’ll piss of Fianna Fail too.

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E H T O T B LAM HTER... G U A SL

Religion is a very serious issue now that we have our new blasphemy laws. Usually, I would make a religious based joke right about now. Not anymore, these days I’m a changed citizen. I don’t fuck with the Holy Ghost; blasphemy is just not my bag. Over the last week or so though, we’ve been pondering the subject of religion here at the PHONiC HQ. If there is one thing that’s guaranteed to send a person round the bend and up the walls, its religion (or really really good crack). So, in the name of public service we consider it our duty to find the worlds craziest religions and inform you of them, so you know not to take the piss in future. Or in case you’re on the lookout for a replacement cult, you know, just to tide you over till everyone in your normal one comes back to life. Roll up, roll up…

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Venganza.org The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster started out as a protest by Bobby Henderson to the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution in public schools. Some now argue that due to its vast amount of supporters, including atheists, that it has crossed over and is now a valid religion. We doubt it very much, and on another point; if an atheist believes in this … then they aren’t an atheist. Duu… The central belief of the church is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the entire universe after drinking heavily. The Monster’s intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed Earth. All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster in an effort to test Pastafarians’ faith (A Pastafarian is a believer in the church). When scientific measurements such as carbon dating are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster “is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage.” (I hope that’s not his Mickey). The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains a beer volcano and a stripper factory and that Hell is very similar, except that the beer is stale and the strippers have STDs. According to the Pastafarian belief system, pirates are “absolute divine beings” and the original Pastafarians. Their image as “thieves and outcasts” is misinformation spread by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages and by Hare Krishnas. Pastafarianism says that they were in fact “peace-loving explorers and spreaders of good will” who distributed candy to small children, and adds that modern pirates are in no way similar to “the fun-loving buccaneers from history”. Pastafarians celebrate “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” on September 19. Ghost pirates are also believed to be responsible for all the mysterious lost ships and planes of the Bermuda Triangle. They also believe that pirates have a direct correlation with the climate and that the slow decline of pirates over the years in directly connected with the steady rise in global warming. They have recently been shining light on the fact that Somalia has the highest number of Pirates and the lowest Carbon emissions of any country, and that this is no coincidence. I don’t know about Pasta, but as I devout catholic I’ll certainly offer them the sign of peas. (Come on, one

Heavens Gate www.they-dont-have-a-website-cos-they-areall-dead.com Founders of Heaven’s Gate, Marcus Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, claimed to have arrived via UFO from another dimension (a level above human) and would return via a secretive process, which was taught to cult members. One of the group’s publications, “How to Build a U.F.O.” described how to build an interplanetary spacecraft built out of materials such as old tires. Heaven’s Gate members believed that the planet Earth was about to be recycled (wiped clean, renewed, refurbished and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately. While the group was formally against suicide, they defined “suicide” in their own context to mean “to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered” and believed that their human bodies were only vessels meant to help them on their journey. The cult’s end coincided with the appearance of the Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. Applewhite convinced thirty-eight followers to commit suicide so that their souls could take a ride on a spaceship that they believed was hiding behind the comet carrying Jesus. The suicide was accomplished by ingestion of drugs mixed with vodka, along with plastic bags secured around their heads to induce asphyxiation. They were found lying neatly in their own bunk beds, with their

faces and torsos covered by a square, purple cloth. Each member carried a five dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets. All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-andwhite Nike athletic shoes, and armband patches reading “Heaven’s Gate Away Team.” The suicides were conducted in shifts, and the remaining members of the group cleaned up after each prior group’s death. Sounds to us like there’s a bad batch of acid going around Finglas…

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Question: What Irish festival are Orbital playing at later in the summer? To enter the competition, simply log on to www.PHONiC.ie and answer the question. Competition closes on August 20th.

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They believe there is much more evidence in favour of Google’s divinity than there is for the divinity of other more traditional gods. Google is wicked alright, I see how it could be confused for a religion. Let’s say for instance if you’re looking to find spirituality, Google is perfect. Just type in “spirituality”. Tah-Daa! The believers reject supernatural gods on the notion they are not scientifically provable. Thus, Googlists believe Google should rightfully be given the title of “God”, as she exhibits a great many of the characteristics traditionally associated with such Deities in a scientifically provable manner. They have compiled a list of nine proofs which supposedly prove Google is the closest thing to a “god” human beings have ever directly experienced. Ah, but can Google clone seafood and bread? I think-eth not.

Family International thefamily.org Also known as the Children of God and the Family of Love, these folks are the reason most of us know the word “cult” today. Most famous for giving sex an even more prominent role in their beliefs than your

average nymphomaniac would, the Family has a tradition of religious prostitution. While eejits at regular churches were handed out pamphlets threatening you with Hell if you didn’t go to Church, the Family used positive reinforcement by having people ride you to convert you, a marketing ploy that could probably sell shoes full of broken glass if it wanted to. Since then they have decided to take an official stand against sexual child abuse, which they happily claim to have stopped a full 18 years after they were founded in 1968 (really, who knew child molestation was wrong before 1986?). They also take a stand on sexuality believing that it’s cool for chicks to be bi. But only if a fella is there, which is something Jesus probably would have said if he’d thought of it. Like most Christian-based religions, the Family loves Jesus. Unlike most, they feel they literally love Jesus. During sex or masturbation, women are encouraged to imagine its Jesus working his magic on them. Men, as you may expect, are actually encouraged to imagine they are women, so as not to seem gay when they think of Jesus doing them. You didn’t expect that? Neither did we. But, we try to always keep an open mind.

The Raelian Movement Rael.org Founded by a dude who lets you know on his website that he’s a Frenchman who used to be a cabaret singer and a race car driver, which rael-istically is slightly cooler than being a chippy like yer man Jesus. All of this was prior to meeting an alien named Yahweh, of course, who came to Rael to tell him about the origin of mankind as well as offering him the service of several futuristic sex robots. Futuristic sex robots? We said it last month in issue one and we stand over it still, banging robots is ULTRA cool. The Pope offers people holiday blessings and waves from behind bullet proof glass. Rael bangs sex robots from another galaxy. We’re not saying one’s cooler than the other, but if the pope was made out of metal and had a 320gig hard drive, I still wouldn’t be with him. The movement is noted for things like claiming in 2002 to have cloned a human (which turned out to sort of untrue) and accusations of brainwashing via sex (I’ve had similar problems in the past myself). Suavely balding leader Rael also has his own worshipping flock of women called the Order of Angels, who apparently exist just to bang the men and donate eggs to human cloning efforts. Not content with all this amateur whoring, Rael also has an actual subgroup of real-life whores called Rael’s Girls made up solely of woman who work in the sex industry. This in turn funds the day-to-day running of the order. If this whole religion sounds like some insanely clever man’s diabolical plan to wear pyjamas all day and have sex with really gullible women then, congratulations, you’re awake (and no, he’s not Hugh Heffner). Membership numbers indicate followers in the tens of thousands, most of whom were probably swayed in no way by the religion having its own squad of crazy women ready to sleep with them in the name of… in the name of… The name… I don’t actually get what they worship.

The Church of Google thechurchofgoogle.org The believers at the Church of Google believe the search engine Google is the closest humankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God.

Please bear in mind, while some of these religions might seem… strange, under our new defamation bill it’s a crime in Ireland for you to slag them. So keep your big mouth shut, right? My advice would be, turn the page and keep reading. That way nobody will end up in court. Except maybe me, I’m nearly sure I’ve committed blasphemy in this magazine somewhere. The mass has ended, go in peace…

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uan Atkins is generally recognized as one of the creators of techno music and he was probably the first person to apply the word “techno” to music. His novel electronic soundscapes influenced nearly every genre of music that came after. Yet except for followers of electronic dance music, few music fans recognize his name. Despite being prominently featured in “Techno: Detroit’s Gift to the World,” a 2003 exhibition mounted at the Detroit Historical Museum, he remains among the most obscure of modern musical pioneers. Techno originated in Detroit, Michigan, and it was there that Atkins was born on September 12, 1962. Fans worldwide associate the music with Detroit’s often bleak landscape, littered with abandoned buildings and other relics of the roaring 1920s and the golden age of the automobile. Atkins himself shared his impressions of Detroit’s desolate core with techno historian Dan Sicko: “I was smack in the middle of downtown, on Griswold. I was looking at this building and I see the faded imprint of an American Airline logo, the shadow after they took the sign down. It just brought home to me the thing about Detroit - in any other city you have a buzzing, thriving downtown.” But the true beginnings of techno took place a half hour’s drive to the southwest in Belleville, Michigan, a small town near an interstate leading to Detroit’s central city. Atkins and his brother were sent there to live with his grandmother after his grades dropped in Detroit, in the hopes of removing him from the city’s violence. As a junior high and high school student in Belleville, Atkins met Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, both techno pioneers. The trio made trips into Detroit for parties on the weekends. Later they became known as the “Belleville Three,” with Atkins, according to Sicko, receiving special mention as “Obi Juan.” Atkins’s father was a concert promoter, and there were various musical instruments around the house while he was growing up. He became a fan of a Detroit radio disc jockey named the Electrifying Mojo (Charles Johnson), one of a rare breed of “freeform” DJs on American commercial radio whose shows mixed genres and forms. Electrifying Mojo wove various kinds of music around the 1970s funk of artists such as George Clinton, Parliament, and Funkadelic (which had some Detroit roots of its own), becoming one of just a few American DJs who played the experimental electronic dance music of the German ensemble Kraftwerk on the radio. “If you want the reason techno happened in Detroit,” Atkins says, “you have to look at a DJ called Electrifying Mojo: he had five hours every night, with no format restrictions. It was on his show that I first heard Kraftwerk.” In the early 1980s, Atkins became the artist who found an American middle ground between Kraftwerk’s electronics and funk’s big bass lines and distinctive atmospheres. He played keyboards as a

teenager, but he was a DJ and sound manipulator from the beginning, experimenting at home with a mixing board and a cassette tape player. After finishing high school, Atkins studied at Washtenaw Community College. It was through a friendship with a fellow student, Vietnam veteran Rik Davis, that Atkins began to learn about electronic sound production; Davis owned a spread of then-innovative equipment including one of the first sequencers (a device allowing the user to organize electronic sound) made by Roland. “He was very isolated,” Atkins comments.. Soon Atkins’ collaboration with Davis gave rise to a new music. “I was around when you had to get a bass player, a guitarist, a drummer to make records” he says. “I wanted to make electronic music but thought you had to be a computer programmer to do it. I found out it wasn’t as complicated as I thought.” Atkins joined with Davis (who called himself 3070), and the pair billed themselves as Cybotron, a name they chose from a list of futuristic compound words that they had compiled and called “the grid.” The two released a single “Alleys of Your Mind,” in 1981, and it sold around 15,000 copies in the Detroit area after the Electrifying Mojo aired it on his radio program. A second release, “Cosmic Cars,” did equally well, and the duo’s sales got the notice of the West Coast independent record label Fantasy. Atkins and Davis hadn’t sought a record deal, and in fact, Atkins told Dan Sicko, “We didn’t know anything about Fantasy’s interest until one day we opened the mailbox and found a contract.” In 1982 Cybotron released “Clear,” a recording with a distinctive cool tone that would later mark it as an electronic music classic. The following year Atkins and Davis released “Techno City” and listeners began to use the record’s title to describe the musical genre of which it was a part. The term was probably inspired by futurist Alvin Toffler’s book The Third Wave (1980), which used the term “techno rebels” and which Atkins had read in a high school class in Belleville. Atkins and Davis split up over creative differences, with Davis wanting to push their music in more of a rock-oriented direction. Davis eventually drifted into obscurity, but Atkins took steps to popularize the new music he was making. Joining with May and Saunderson, he formed a collective enterprise, Deep Space Soundworks, which had begun as a DJ group headed by Atkins and in turn launched a downtown Detroit club called the Music Institute. A second generation of techno DJs, including Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin (also known as Plastikman), began to hold forth at the club, and techno even found a place on Detroit public radio affiliate WDET on a program called Fast Forward. In the middle and late 1980s, Atkins used the name Model 500. His recordings from this time, such as “No UFO’s” (1985) and the evocative “Night Drive” (which featured Atkins’s whispered narration of a drive

around Detroit’s freeway system), are often considered techno classics. Economical and polished, they inspired younger electronic musicians, especially after techno became popular over here in Europe. Atkins in 1985 formed a label of his own, Metroplex, releasing his own recordings as well as those of younger Detroit musicians. He had envisioned the label, Derrick May told author Dan Sicko, as early as age 17. The late 1980s were probably the high point of Atkins’s fame, and in England he was invited to do remixes of hits by top acts such as the Style Council, the Tom Tom Club, and the Fine Young Cannibals. He cut back his activities in the early 1990s somewhat, although he released several recordings on which he billed himself as Infiniti. A series of European reissues of his earlier work stimulated his creative juices anew, and he returned to the recording studio, now working in the more expansive album format. The 1995 Model 500 album Deep Space was really Atkins’s solo CD debut. He released new albums under the names Infiniti (Skynet, 1998, on Germany’s Tresor label) and Model 500 (Mind and Body, 1999, on Belgium’s R&S). Through all this, Atkins was only moderately well known, even in his Detroit hometown. But the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, held annually along Detroit’s riverfront, showed the impact of Atkins’s creation as a crowd of an estimated one million people turned out to hear his musical descendents make people dance with nothing more than an array of electronic gear. Atkins himself performed at the festival in 2001, and in an Orange County Register interview he reflected on techno’s ambivalent status as AfricanAmerican music. “I gotta believe that if we were a bunch of white kids, we’d be millionaires by now, but it may not be as racial as one may think,” he said. “Black labels don’t have a clue. At least the white guys will talk to me; they aren’t making any moves or offers, but they say, ‘We love your music and we’d love to do something with you.’ But blacks don’t even know who we are.” In 2001 Atkins also released the Legends, Vol. 1 album on the OM label. Scripps Howard News Service writer Richard Paton observed that the album “finds him not resting on past achievement, but still mixing pumping, well-crafted sets,”. Juan plays at the Hype Summer Soundsystem in the POD this coming July 31st to celebrate Subjects second birthday. The line-up also includes TR One, Eamonn Doyle, David O’Sullivan and Subject Djs. Tickets €15, Doors 11pm.

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Soul@ Solas greets_ DJ Vadim

Russian-born, London-raised DJ Vadim was one of the key Ninjatunes DJs to bring hip hop to an international audience in the early 90s. His trademark is incorporating the diverse elements of hip hop, soul, reggae, nu jazz, and electronica into his work, and his critically acclaimed release The Soundcatcher (on bbe) is an album that reflects the international, instrumentalist mindset of this legendary DJ and producer. With Soul @ Solas the idea is pretty simple. The Music must have Soul. The cover charge is zero. Be it Funk, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Latin, Broken Beats… the list could go on. They’ve also decided to invite over some of the worlds finest soulful DJs to show Dublin a thing or two about dancing. After Benji B’s performance to a packed Solas last month, it’s now the turn of DJ Vadim to step up to the turntables. We spoke to him quickly in the run up to next weeks gig. I hate to bring up bad news, but on the blogs, I looked on HypeMachine -- the first thing that came up is something about you having surgery lately? Yeah, I had cancer earlier last year. I’ve had surgery and my wife Yarah helped me find the right doctor and treatment. She was really instrumental in

me recovering from that. We received the good news just before Christmas time that I’m cancer free. Excellent. Has the whole experience influence your music? It’s kinda made me more productive and appreciate life more because it gives you a second chance.

Travelling around the world with all those records, do you ever run into problems? A couple of times I’ve had record boxes come missing. One time in L.A. about ten years ago, my records turned up on the conveyor belt but the record box never turned up. The records were going around individually like ‘what the fuck?’ Damn. So what’s the best city to play in? You can’t really say that. Some cities move forward, other cities regress. Like New York kind of died down with Giuliani, and things getting really expensive. A lot of my friends that were in music had to get like two jobs, really hustle. I really like San Francisco, Paris and London, my hometown.

Like I mentioned, I read about this on the blogs. What are your thoughts on the blogosphere, hype machine, and people getting your tracks for free? It’s a great way for people to communicate and to share ideas and music and design and news. It’s just a new way of communicating I guess. Well, it’s kind of like 50/50 in the sense that I work hard to make music and I make my living through selling music -people buying my CDs. So I hope that people understand that when they take tracks for free. If someone rips a track from me, ok cool, you rip a whole album, cool. But then, if you like it, you got an obligation to come to the show, and buy a t-shirt. If you’re gonna rip something, you’ve gotta give something.

What’s the wildest shit you’ve seen go down at a show? Well, about three years ago, we were playing in Rhode Island when that club burned down. People thought it was pyrotechnics, part of the show or something and others were like “no, the club’s alight.” Something like eighty or a hundred people died, and we were playing across the street that night.

Another technology question: I’m sure when you first started DJing, it was all turntables. Now a lot of DJs are going partly or all digital. What are your

DJ Vadim plays Soul @ Solas on Thursday, 30th of July at 8pm, Cover charge is zero.

Wow, crazy shit. Talking of fire, Who’s the hottest MC in the game right now? Well you wouldn’t wanna bet your money against Lil’ Wayne, but as far as what I’m feeling, I like Mos Def, The Roots and Talib Kweli.

late 70s early 80s. Although sadly we don’t have the talents of some of the singers who really made disco record so amazing in the first place.

Horse Meat Disco

Which artists are doing the most interesting work with disco at the moment? People like Faze Action, Lindstrom, Todd Terje and Prins Thomas You’ve had a host of amazing artists DJ at Horse Meat Disco in London, from disco & electro-funk pioneers such as Danielle Baldelli and Greg Wilson to contemporary fanatics such as Tim Sweeney and James Murphy… Who (alive or dead) would be your dream HMD guest? Larry Levan and Ron Hardy!

Can you start by telling us a little about Horse Meat Disco’s origins and what (or who) originally inspired you to start up the night? We started horse meat disco in the same way that anyone else starts a club night really. We weren’t that excited with what was on offer on the gay scene in London which had become very mainstream, with a few notable exceptions of course, but nowhere that played the music that we really felt passionate about. I was working with a new york dj called Adam Goldstone who suggested that I started a party if I wasn’t happy about the lack of a good gay party so I called on the expertise of my friend Jim Stanton who was already promoting a successful night called The Cock. Its went from there really and we got our friends Severino and Luke Howard involved as they shared our passion for disco music in all its many forms.

I think the themes of the songs speak of everyone’s life experiences, especially those of gay people so they are instantly bring meaning to the dancefloor. Also the fact that they are beautifully crafted songs mean that they are appreciated by music lovers of all persuasions. Disco is the distillation of all those infectious rhythms weather they be latin or African that are purposely made to dance to and from where every form of dance music has come from. That is a constant no matter what your age, sex, tribe etc.

What can Dublin expect to look forward to when you bring Horse Meat Disco to Dublin this week? Hopefully a little taster of what we get up to every Sunday at The Eagle. A rip roaring party where people get down to old classics and rediscover old gems that are still great to dance to today as they were when they first came out.

Apart from the use of modern instruments and arrangements, how do you find the new sound compares to the different disco flavours of the seventies and eighties? There are some great producers out there making new music that doesn’t sound out of place with the old stuff despite there being completely different recording and production techniques. I think they complement each other very well. I see the music being produced today as being of an equal standing to anything produced in the

What do you think it is about disco that can bring so many different types of people together?

thoughts on that? When I started out there was only one way to DJ -- turntables and a mixer. Nowadays, you can do the same thing in so many different ways. Some DJs only use CDs, Ableton, Serato... at the end of the day, it’s all about entertainment. You go to see a band to be entertained to have a good time. If they do it well and it’s entertaining, that’s great.

What do you believe to be the main reasons behind the resurgence of the disco sound in the last few years? In my opinion I think disco music has always been a part of the scene. As far as I can remember in my 12 years of living in London there has always been parties, mainly on the straight scene, where disco was played and appreciated.

Where do you see the future of current disco music? Can you see it ever going mainstream in the same way that the electro sound has penetrated popular music in recent years? I think it has the potential to cross over in the way electro did. I think there are enough great producers who are true to the sound who are very talented and who carry the respect of dancers and musos alike. Who knows where it will go but it will be interesting to see. What does HMD have planned for the future? Apart from the compilation that is coming out in August which we are really excited about we’ll be touring most of the main festivals this summer in the UK, including hosting the dance tent on Saturday night at The Big Chill. Of course we are really looking forward to coming to Dublin and seeing how we go down there. We’ve just started doing remixes so I hope we’ll be able to keep going with that and who knows… a horse meat disco album could be possible in the future. We just want to keep doing what we do because we love it. Its all about the party and we don’t want it to stop Horse Meat Disco play Wax on the 25th of July, Doors 11pm, €10.

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Subject is two!

Billy Scurry plays a 3 Hour Set for part 2 of Subjects second Birthday weekend at 4 Dame Lane on Bank Holiday Sunday August 2nd (Part one being the Juan Atkins gig). One of Irelands best known DJs, Scurry’s longstanding career stretches back to the early days of Irish dance music when he held a residency at the infamous Temple of Sound, Dublin. He then went on to play many, many venues local, national and further afield, earning him the reputation of the DJs DJ. Expect a seamless mix of funk, disco and classic house on the night...Also helping Subject celebrate their second Birthday are Conor Feeney [BigDishGO], Subway Mike and Subject residents - Russell Parker and Mark Greene. Doors 9pm - 3am. Adm: €5

Dear O’ Dear!

Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear’s most recent excursions have found him at the doorsteps of the minimal-but-funky regime of techno music. Inspired by pioneers like, Mike Inc., Thomas Brinkmann, and Ricardo Villalobos, Dear has ingested, manipulated and re-introduced his version of this always changing and innovative realm of sound creation. Recent acceptance into the legendary Plus 8 roster and ever-popular Berlin based, Perlon label has solidified Dear as a viable source for pushing the boundaries of modern dance music while at the same time remaining focused on the simple goal of making people dance. Matthew Dear aka Audion hits The Twisted Pepper on Sunday the 2nd of August, Doors 11pm, Tickets €12. Support comes from Jay Gilligan & Giles Armstrong.

174 Greets Metalheadz & Aaron Jay

Aaron Jay

Two contrasting styles touching down at 174 in July, Swerve & Fabric resident Aaron Jay and Metalheadz Data. Data has carved out a name for himself recently with a string of well received releases, the biggest of which was ‘Muted/Spliced’ on Metalheadz, which was a fine example of his diverse sound. One side being deep dubby, sparse, stripped back and menacing and the other being a bright, floaty, electronic twostepper. Aaron Jay is 174’s first return guest, having played there last in April 08’. A man who prides himself on pushing new drum’n’bass in his sets and on his podcasts and also Fabio’s main resident at Swerve for quite some time now, as well as owner of influence records and a regular guest at Fabric, Aaron’s known for his clean liquid sound but does venture into more experimental territory in his sets. See them both at 174 in The Twisted Pepper, July 24th at 11pm. Support from SOURCE (Phase 2/Cork) & Bonz (174). Bacardi + Pod + Loads of tunes = This thing!

Bacardi + Pod + Loads of tunes = This thing!

N.A.S.A

N.A.S.A. are set to play the POD this coming bank holiday weekend for another Bacardi live special. Their worldwide debut The Spirit of Apollo is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes. While N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the U.S., it is about as far from a tension-building geographical showdown as a record can get. Rather, The Spirit of Apollo was born with the righteous goal of bringing people together through music and art, and that is exactly what masterminds Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon) have done. You might recognise them from that catchy track featuring Kanye West that they have currently doing the rounds. Joining them on the night is house legend Ashley Beedle alongside Sheffield based Producer and DJ, Toddla T, as well as Brazilian Mix, Analogue Mindfield and Downtown Sounds DJs.

You must leave Dublin!

Daddy G

Following on last years TRANS festival when Andrew Weatherall’s skeletal bass bombs caused near structural damage to the Waterfront’s Penthouse Bar - Hydroponic Music return to the scene of the crime for what promises to be a birthday bash of epic proportions. Coaxing Massive Attack to pack a box full of tunes and play records at a party in Belfast was never going to be an easy task, but the Hydroponic crew has done it. Grant Marshall AKA Daddy G – one half of one of the most genre defining British bands of all time - will be weighing in to present an intoxicating selection of musical majesty. With a back catalogue including the seminal ‘Blue Lines,’ ethereal ‘Protection’ and guitar heavy ‘Mezzanine’ Daddy G’s selection promises to expose the dynamics behind a band whose name is indelibly etched in a million hearts. Support on the night comes from Hydroponic Music mainstay Michael McKeown, recently making waves with nomadic DJ troupe The Meat Market, and Reggae offshoot Hydroponic Hi-Fi. Overlooking the Belfast skyline at sunset, this will undoubtedly be the highlight of this year’s TRANS Festival, once again in Waterfront Hall’s Penthouse Bar on Saturday July 25th. Tickets are priced £10 and doors open at 9pm.

Download @ Crawdaddy The Perfect Bet For Saturdays

Download

If you’re looking for a good regular Club night that delivers week in, week out, then one of the best bets at the moment is Download at Crawdaddy in the POD complex, every Saturday night from 11pm. Download is run by David De Valera, a local DJ seemingly on the rise. David can be seen regularly on line-ups up and down the country alongside forthcoming gigs in some of the UKs biggest clubs over the next few months, including Ministry Of Sound in London. Alongside David each week are some of the best local DJs emerging on Dublin’s scene at the moment, mixed with a very simple music policy. You’re there to dance, and you’re there to dance A LOT! We’ve also got a few tickets to give away to Download, which is access all areas to all 5 rooms in the POD complex. Just log on to www.PHONiC.ie to enter…

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Alela Diane

Indie-Pendence

Castlepalooza

Yo Majesty Take The Stage

aptivating American folk singer/songwriter Alela Diane announces a return to Crawdaddy, following the February release of her outstanding second album To Be Still. Alela’s exquisite ballads possess a historic homespun quality, with lyrics inspired by the forests and rivers of the singer’s native northern California. Combined with the timeless depth and stillness of Alela’s remarkable vocals, the resulting sound evokes a chillingly beautiful voice from the desolate American frontiers of the mid 19th century. To be still benefits from a more fleshed-out sound to the sparse production of the critically acclaimed The Pirate’s Gospel. The addition of bluegrass strings, percussion, and harmony take nothing away from Alela’s incredible vocals, which lose none of the ringing clarity for which she is celebrated. Alele play Crawdaddy July 21st at 8pm, tickets €17

Indie-Pendence is a festival with a difference; it features some of the best established musical acts in the country as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming bands currently on the scene. This year’s festival takes place on August 1st & 2nd in Mitchelstown, Cork and features such acts as Ocean Colour Scene, Super Furry Animals, Blizzards, Mundy, Fight like apes and more. The Festival which is sponsored by Bavaria, offers three stages with 10 hours of music on site each day. On top of that, the entire town of Mitchelstown is turned into a festival centre with 2am extensions in all bars and live music and DJ’s on offer into the early hours. Tickets €59 inc Camping

August Bank Holiday weekend sees Castle Palooza take place once again for the fourth time at Charleville Castle, Tullamore with a capacity of 2,500. Some of the line-up includes David Kitt, Project Jenny Project Jan, R.S.A.G, Channel One, Robotnik, The Lost Brothers, Dark Room Notes and Noise Control. Aside from the music, there will be live Rocky Horror Picture Show; a Ceilí; dance workshops (including disco, burlesque, bollywood & circus tricks); performance artists, exhibitions and comedy to a cocktail bar, hot showers, flushing loos and a party bus. Two-day tickets including camping are €89.

Yo! Majesty’s rescheduled headline show will take place Saturday 15th August at Crawdaddy. Outspoken MCs Jwl B and Shon B return to Dublin for a long-awaited headliner after their amazing support to Neon Neon in Tripod last November. The female hip hop group from Florida are famed for their provocative antics on stage and off. Their x-rated lyrics, and hugely entertaining and incendiary live performances, stand in defiance of a musical genre that is often seen as the territory of misogynistic males. The rappers’ penchant for unruliness extends beyond their artistic personas. Last month, former member Shonda K announced an acrimonious departure from her record label and released 42 tracks for free online. Jwl B recently resumed touring with the group after a brief stint in Florida prison in January. Despite these dramatic tangents, the compelling Yo! Majesty continue as a top new hip hop act on the scene. NME named them one of the 11 best new bands of 2008. Their debut album “Futuristically Speaking... Never Be Afraid” was released through Domino in September of last year. Doors 8pm, Tickets €12.50 including booking fee.

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ROYSEVEN set to jam

Dublin 3 piece Sickboy played this year’s SXSW festival in Texas and also completed a 14 day US tour. They are gaining a reputation for an intense energetic live show and will be releasing their debut album this year. They are keen to prove they are a band to be seen heard adored and remembered. So maybe lend them a hand and pop in for a looksy. Friday 31st of July, Tickets €10

Dublin singer-songwriter, Declan O’Rourke’s, popularity continues to grow with a vast amount of sell-out performances and a double-Platinum selling debut album. He is praised for his heartfelt, intimate performances as well as his larger, energetic concerts having played support to such notable names as Paul Weller, The Cardigans, The Beautiful South, Planxty and Bob Dylan. Declan plays Whelans on Saturday 25th of July, tickets €25.

Oxjam 2009 is being launched in style this July with a double headliner from Dublin bands Royseven and Hoarsebox. Support on the night comes from Dublinbased singer/songwriter Remy. All proceeds raised will go towards Oxfam Ireland’s work in combating climate change. Wednesday 29th July, Tickets €15/10

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Mark Kozelek_ Plays Andrews Lane Theatre_

Having impacted the music scene in two consecutive decades, at the helm of both Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek is a rare specimen. Further, his musical presence has extended to film (most memorably, his acting turn in Almost Famous), and his own label, Caldo Verde Records, on which the latest Sun Kil Moon album, April, was released this month. Luckily for us, Kozelek’s newfound autonomy has put him in the position to make available his archives of unreleased material, and reprint his lyrics in a hardcover book (Nights of Passed Over). With a dozen albums under his belt, April lives up to the beauty and longing that one can expect from Kozelek, enhanced further by the contributions of guest artists like Will Oldham and Ben Gibbard. Your voice is a pretty undeniable instrument. I am curious if you have always considered yourself a singer, who then learned music to accompany it. Or if you started out as a songwriter or guitarist, and then learned you had this voice? I started out as a guitarist. It wasn’t until my late teens that I decided to sing. I wanted to express myself in a broader way than the guitar could allow me to. So, speaking of the new album, April: I smiled when your voice quivers in the very first sentence of the album, which also happens on the very opening track on Ghosts of the Great Highway... It’s like you’re warming up for the album or something... was this intentional in any way? I guess I’m not aware that the voice is wavering so much. I meant for it too sound more confident than it comes off. But I’m glad you smiled. I love when Will Oldham’s voice joins yours in the choruses of “Unlit Hallway”--one of several harmonies on the album. Has his music been an influence on you? How did you select which songs would be collaborations with other vocalists? I just hear things as I go along, like a painter changes colors, or a screenwriter gets an idea and changes directions. People think that when an artist makes a record, there’s a set plan, or direction they’re on. But accidents happen in the studio, you get ideas, things unravel and start to shape in ways you had no idea were going to happen. I had no plan for Will to be on the record, but I just heard his voice in the chorus of “Unlit Hallway” at some point, and knew it would be right. There is a strong sense of place on this album. The names of streets, cities, rivers, specific rooms, and general places like the sky. Do you feel that ‘place’ was a conscious muse for this album? Yes, especially here. San Francisco has been a lot of inspiration for me, for the last 20 years. There are a lot of memories here. I’ve been through a lot, seen a lot in this city. But yes, overall--environment inspires me. It’s the background of a lot of my songs. I am curious if you have a different attitude when working with your own material, compared to the covers albums you have released. Do you feel more reverence for the material one way or the other, are you more of a perfectionist, etc.?

I feel connected to both covers and originals. My friend said to me the other day, “I didn’t realize ‘All Mixed Up’ was a cover.” I forget sometimes, too. When I’m singing a cover, it’s not on my mind that it’s someone else’s song. Especially songs like that, ones I’ve been playing for years. Can you talk a little about the music that you grew up listening to? And what current music you’re into at the moment? I’m pretty shut off to music these days. I wasn’t before it became my way of living. But somehow, this decade, I’m not tuned into music anymore. I’m not seeking it out or going to see bands much. Maybe it’s because of my age. You tend to lose interest in standing around bars when you’re 41. But there is just so much music going on now that it all cancels itself out for me. Or maybe it’s just that 90% of what I hear doesn’t sound good to me anymore. I don’t know. I think I’m just too far removed from how things work now. I see bands when I’m on tour, listen to music when I’m in someone’s car, or on the stereo now and then, have signed a few bands I like. But overall, I’m disconnected. The last thing I heard that I liked is the Eddie Vedder soundtrack for Into the Wild. Beautiful. As far as what I listened to as a kid--Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Yes. There were about five bands to like then. There was rock (Black Sabbath), and soft rock (James Taylor). You heard Carly Simon on TV commercials, not The Shins or Magnetic Fields. Do you feel that there have been significant shifts in popular music and the music business in the last 2 decades that served as a more supportive environment for the art you’re making--either for Red House Painters in the ‘90s, or currently for Sun Kil Moon? Well, the environment is vastly different. In 1992, when Down Colorful Hill came out, you have to remember, there was no email, no websites, no cell phones, no internet, nothing. You played guitar or drums, and that’s what you did. But slowly since then, record stores have closed, and the clusterfuck of the digital age and internet have arisen, so you’re forced to deal with the homework that comes with that, to some extent or another. I’ve found a balance that works for me, have people who help me with it. But I prefer the way things worked back then. Your record being released had a suspense to it, and that is severely diminished. Now people hear it a month ahead of schedule, while they’re bored at work. Another download, some more text to scroll past on the iPod. It’s just not interesting times for music. There are more sides to how I feel about it--the pros and cons of now and then--but we’d have to dedicate an entire interview to it. I am interested in your philosophy behind starting a project (Sun Kil Moon) without the crutch of either of the names that had come to bring you recognition and popularity (Red House Painters and Mark Kozelek). Can you talk a little about the benefits and the setbacks of this choice? No setbacks. What I go back to, always, is that I started with nothing--no fans, no records, no fame, nothing. So it’s not a big deal for me to potentially

set myself back a few steps by taking a risk. Most things I do, there’s someone saying: “Are you sure you want to release a Modest Mouse covers album?” “Are you sure you want to start your own label?” “Are you sure you want to leave 4AD?” “Are you sure you want to license a song to Walmart?” “Are you sure the guitar solos aren’t too long?” “Are you sure you want to call it Sun Kil Moon?” There’s always some voice of concern from someone, but I ignore it, and trust my instincts. Using the SKM moniker was risky, but I knew it would catch on. It was beneficial, without a doubt. In regards to your experiences acting in films, you have said in past interviews that you are eager to take on a role less like your real persona, the artist with a guitar around his neck. I am curious, in regards to songwriting, do you ever feel that you have stepped far out of your own experience? Do the majority of your songs tell the story of your own life? Do you ever write from the perspective of, say, a literary character or someone entirely fictional? Not really. Sometimes I write in the voice of someone who I believe is trying to get through to me, sometimes. But I never really understood that Nick Cave style of “I am a murderer on this album” kind of thing. It’s just not me. I’d rather just cover someone else’s song. There has been a particular aesthetic and palette that has been featured on the majority of your album artwork, from Red House to Sun Kil Moon... (primarily the work of Nyree Watts). I am curious about the visual artists who inspire you, and if you are a painter or photographer yourself? No, I don’t own a camera. I had a few disposable ones in the past.As far as visual artists, I like Nyree’s stuff, but don’t follow photography or visual artists much. I like what I see, when I see it, but don’t know much about names, etc. The album closer, “Blue Orchids,” is deceptively sweet, but it’s heartbreaking to listen to. It has the nostalgic power of Red House Painters songs like “Summer Dress” and “Katy Song.” You are able to sum up a person and a time with one image that carries all this weight (“She comes by every morning, brings back pink and pale blue orchids”). I want to say “return to form” or something, but that sounds negative in a way... when I’m trying to say that you’re a genius... Do you feel that you recaptured or revisited any themes or philosophies on this album? I’m not sure, really. I’m drawing a blank. It’s late. But you definitely have been listening to the record. Thank you! And thank you for the genius comment! It made my night.

Mark Kozelek plays Andrews Lane Theatre on Thursday 23rd of July, Doors 8pm, Tickets €20 exc booking free and available from the usual outlets. Words by Anna-lynne Williams

ph nic label. He also began to experiment with the urban hip-hop music scene, as a generation of rappers reared on P-Funk began to name-check him.

George Clinton

Friday July 31st Tripod, Harcourt Street. Doors 7.30pm Tickets €30 or €37.50 from Ticketmaster

George Clinton is a lot of things to a lot of people. Most famously as being the purveyor of Detroit origin funk. That bass bottom music which revolutionized pop and brought Detroit into the eyes of the dancing world. Yes, he’s a father, husband, grandpa, but is a preservationist and iconoclastic father head who leads his P-Funk Allstars into a realm that’s otherworldly in its power and musicianship.

By 1990, Clinton had become recognized as the godfather of modern urban music. Beats, loops and samples of P-Funk appeared on albums by OutKast, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, De La Soul, Fishbone, and many, many others. As Clinton has said, “Funk is the DNA of hip-hop and rap.” Clinton also teamed up to create new recordings with artists like Too $hort, Digital Underground, Ice Cube, Q-Tip, Coolio and Redman. In 1996, Clinton released his most recent solo album The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership, which reunited him with Bernie Worrel and Bootsy Collins.

Clinton started his career in junior high, founding The Parliaments, a barbershop doo-wop ensemble, which scored a major hit with “I Wanna Testify” in 1967. Clinton then began experimenting with harmonies, melody and rhythm and taking cues from the psychedelic movement, forever setting himself apart from the Motown era. By the early 1970’s, the group’s tight songs evolved into sprawling jams around the funkiest of rhythms. They dropped the “S” from the band name and Parliament was born. Around the same time, Clinton spawned Funkadelic, a rock group which fused psychedelic guitar distortion, bizarre sound effects, and cosmological rants with danceable beats and booming bass lines which became the definition of funk. Funkadelic made a number of Earth shattering concept albums, focusing the politics facing the planet, with titles like Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, Maggot Brain, and America Eats It’s Young.

In 1997, George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Guitar Center’s Hollywood Rock Walk, and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the NAACP Image Awards. In 2002, SPIN magazine voted Parliament/Funkadelic #6 of the 50 Greatest Band of All Time. George Clinton & The Parliament/Funkadelic juggernaut has shown no signs of slowing down, remaining active on the recording and touring fronts. The line-up includes both original band members, such as guitarist Gary Shider, guitarist Dewayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight, guitarist Mike Hampton, and bassists William “Billy Bass” Nelson and Cardell “Boogie” Mosson, along with fresh new voices with sometimes as many as 30 people appearing on stage at once. A show not to missed is their upcoming performance On Friday July 31st in Tripod, Harcourt Street. Doors 7.30pm, Tickets €30 or €37.50 from Ticketmaster.

Parliament & Funkadelic dominated and revolutionized the music scene in the 1970’s, capturing 40 R&B hit singles and racking up four #1 hits: “Flashlight,” “One Nation Under a Groove,” “Aqua Boogie” and “(Not Just) Knee Deep.” Clinton’s collaborators included master keyboardist Bernie Worrel, guitarist Eddie Hazel, bassist Bootsy Collins, saxophonist Maceo Parker, trombonist Fred Wesley. On stage, spectacle ruled the day, with an enormous mothership,outrageous costumes, and marathon performances. In the 1980’s, George Clinton also emerged as a successful solo artist. He released Computer Games with the #1 hit single “Atomic Dog,” produced The Red Hot Chili Peppers pioneering Freaky Styley, and signed onto Prince’s Paisley Park

Conway has worked with everyone you can think of from the Australian music scene including Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) and David McComb (The Triffids).

Monotonix

Friday July 24th Crawdaddy, Harcourt Street. Tickets €12 available from Ticketmaster Monotonix are a Garage punk trio from Tel Aviv famed for their chaotic on-stage acrobatics and frequent physical contact with the audience, who are also banned from many venues in their native Israel. Monotonix’ well renound live set involves lead singer Ami Shalev climbing any available surface, swinging from fixtures, and generally mauling the very willing onlookers. Performances on stage are rare, with the guys most often opting to play at audience level, or frequently overhead, while they and their instruments are held aloft by the crowd. Definitely a break from the norm. Monotonix are singer Ami Shalev, guitarist Yonatan Gat and drummer Haggai Fershtman (Who has recently replaced original drummer Ran Shimoni). They hail from Tel Aviv, a city not necessarily famous for its rock’n’roll scene. Ami, Yonatan and Ran all knew each other well and wanted to do something together musically. When their previous bands started breaking up, it felt like the right time, and Monotonix started playing together in November 2005. Rock’n’roll? It’s not really part of the culture over there. Most of the music there draws from Russian, Greek, Arab and Mediterranean folk; contemporary Israeli music is a combination of cheap 80’s pop, Mediterranean licks and soft rock. According to Yonatan, most rock shows there still occur in front of a seated audience eating hummus. Monotonix didn’t really like that. They wanted to do the complete opposite from what was going around them. Their inspiration is the raw energy and awesomeness of all the great

classic rock bands, vintage pop and indie rock. That’s how the Monotonix style of performance started, and since the first time they did it in Tel Aviv — the trio, together, on the floor among the people, it’s been a party every night. But in Israel, the party was often too loud and wild for their own good. After finding themselves banned from half of the venues in the country, and having power shut down and cops called on them, they got tired of listening to their audience boo the promoters. So they decided to fly a guitar amp and some drums to New York. They started their first tour of the East Coast not knowing what to expect in the U.S.A. Getting to know themselves and what they love about music and communicating with audiences all over again, they found the show had as much of a liberating effect on audiences around the world as it did on the band themselves. Monotonix’s book of show stories is becoming epic. There’s the guy in Knoxville who set himself on fire. Then there’s the 55 year old woman in Haarlem, Netherlands who drank beer out of Ami’s shoe. And in Richmond, VA the audience lifted the entire band in the air, including the drums and guitar amp, for the last song of the set. Who knows what they’ll get up to when they play the intimate surrounds of Crawdaddy this Friday July 24th? Doors are 8pm and Tickets are €12 available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. Enjoy!

Conway follows in the great tradition of musicians who take their inspiration from country music, and like his heroes Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Willie Nelson, Conway has that rare ability to inhabit a song completely, making his live shows intimate and memorable. He is a singer with subtlety, emotion, respect and a deep understanding of the song, his accompaniments are in total sympathy with Conway Savage what he’s singing about. This Saturday August 8th quality is exemplified in his verCrawdaddy, Harcourt Street. Tickets €15 available from City Discs sions of Jim Yamouridis’ ‘The Cross’ and the traditional song Ticketmaster, Sound Cellar ‘Fair and Tender Ladies’. As the “Bad seed” Conway Savage man himself tells it: “(with) ‘Fair plays Crawdadddy this August and Tender Ladies’, any time I play 8th to celebrate the release a gig anywhere, I can play that and of his Live In Ireland album just close my eyes and know I’m this autumn. Conway Savage is gonna feel really good and set the best known as keyboard/piano scene for myself. It’s like breathing player with Nick Cave and the for me now to do that song, where Bad Seeds, having joined them you can let yourself stop thinking for the ‘Good Son’ tour in 1990 and has been a key member since about being onstage.” then, contributing to celebrated Conway will be releasing the live albums such as ‘Murder Ballads’, ‘The Boatman’s Call’ and ‘Abattoir album to coincide with his Irish tour this August. Entitiled ‘Live In Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus’. He is Ireland’, the album was recorded also a highly respected solo artist in The Glens Centre and has released several recordManorhamilton in October ’08 and ings over the last 15 years, from mixed later by Derek Turner at his debut EP (1993), to his Tumbleweed Studios. He will be collaboration with Australian joined on tour by his band Amansinger/songwriter Suzie Higgie on da Fox (keyboard/vocal/accordion) ‘Soon Will be Tomorrow’ (1998) to and Robert Tickner (guitar/vocal). his first solo album proper Special guest for the tour will be ‘Nothing Broken’ (2000) featuring Mick Harvey and Martyn Casey, to Mark Corcoran. Tickets on sale ‘Wrong Man’s Hands’ (2004), ‘Rare now priced €15, available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Songs & Performances’ (2005) & Cellar and usual outlets. Doors ‘Quickie for Ducky’ (2007). 8pm.

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THUR 23RD JULY THE SHOOS Whelans Live - €10

Dublin Band The Shoos, release their debut EP ‘Yeah’ on 23rd July in Whelan’s. They’re a hard working, serious band, crazy about music, who love doing gigs and having fun, trying new things, getting their sound & style right and would love a record deal. They’ll keep trying! All over 6 foot,3 right footers, a lefty and 2 brothers The Shoos are... myspace.com/theshoos LATE BAR WITH DJ JOHN WALSH ITO Whelans Wexford Street, Dublin 2 Admission FREE Leonard Cohen See Monday. The O2 8pm €90

Mark Kozelek Much-admired Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon frontman returns to Dublin. Andrews Lane Theatre 8pm €20

FRI 24TH JULY

MCD presents WALLIS BIRD Whelans Live - €20

This years Meteor Ireland Music Award 2FM Hope For 2009 winner; Wallis Bird has confirmed an appearance with her band at Whelan’s. Wallis’ new album ‘New Boots’ will be released 26th July and features the single ‘To My Bones’, an upbeat, life-affirming anthem: already a likely contender for the feel-good hit of the summer. www.wallisbird.com LATE BAR WITH DJ ED SMITH

Neosupertvital, Greystones Theatre, Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Doors 8pm / € tbc www.greystonestheatre.com

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www.whelanslive.com presents DECLAN O’ROURKE Whelans Live - €25

Dublin singer-songwriter, Declan O’Rourke’s, popularity continues to grow with a vast amount of sell-out performances and a double-Platinum selling debut album. He is praised for his heartfelt, intimate performances as well as his larger, energetic concerts having played support to such notable names as Paul Weller, The Cardigans, The Beautiful South, Planxty and Bob Dylan. www.declanorourke.com LATE BAR WITH DJ EAMONN SWEENEY U2 Croke Park 7pm Sold Out With Kaiser Chiefs and Republic of Loose No Means No The Button Factory 8pm €18.50 Efdemin Twisted Pepper 11pm €8

The Amazing Few Whelans Wexford Street, Dublin 2 Admission FREE

Mundy, Courtyard Concerts, White’s Hotel, Main Street, Wexford. Doors 5pm (Barbeque) Mundy on Stage at 9pm. €20

Whelans Live - €10/8 German-born and Irish-raised, Yngve Wieland has shared bills with Jape, Katell Keineg, David Kitt and Paul Weller. He returns to Whelan’s with his band The Innocent to follow up on the October launch of their debut album. Since then they have performed live on the Pat Kenny Radio show and on the Roadcaster with Jenny Greene. www.myspace.com/yngve RUBY TUESDAY FROM 11PM ELECTRO/INDIE Yngve & The Innocents Whelan’s 8pm €10/8 Like butter wouldn’t melt

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Oxfam benefit feat: ROYSEVEN + REMY Whelans Live - €15/10 Oxjam 2009 is being launched in style this July with a double headliner from Dublin bands Royseven and Hoarsebox. Support on the night comes from Dublin-based singer/ songwriter Remy. All proceeds raised will go towards Oxfam Ireland’s work in combating climate change

MARY GAUTHIER Whelans Live - €23

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Between Daylight And Dark is the new album from critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier. Her continued evolution and newfound confidence as a vocalist is evident throughout. Gauthier is a unique lyricist, who possesses an extraordinary gift for creating beauty out of some of life’s darkest moments, while she retains the ability to deliver the spoken word narrative of a compelling story. www.marygauthier.com LATE BAR

MONDAY 27TH JULY U2 Croke Park 7pm €Sold Out With the Script and Bell X1 Dublin City Jazz Orchestra The Button Factory

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8pm €10 The venue’s first big band residency

THUR 30TH JULY

CROOKED STILL Whelans Live - €16 Having established themselves as ‘the most important folk group to emerge from Boston since the early 60’s’, Crooked Still have evolved with line up changes and have fused modern and traditional influences to create music that blurs that lines between improvised old time music, bluegrass, and folk and they want to keep blurring those lines to make something all our own. www.crookedstill.com LATE BAR WITH DJ JOHN WALSH Neosupervital, Spraoi Festival 09,

Electric Avenue (with Ugly Megan & You’re Only Massive) Waterford. Doors 8pm / Admission TBC http://www.spraoi.com

Heritage Centre Whelans Wexford Street, Dublin 2 Admission FREE

FRI 31TH JULY SICKBOY Whelans Live - €10 Dublin 3 piece Sickboy played this year’s SXSW festival in Texas and also completed a 14 day US tour. They are gaining a reputation for an intense energetic live show and will be releasing their debut album this year. They are keen to prove they are a band to be seen heard adored and remembered. myspace.com/sickboyofficial LATE BAR WITH DJ ED SMITH Mundy, Le Cheile, Crean’s, The Square Old Castle, Co. Meath. Doors 9pm / €25 Tel: 0868338739. www.lecheile.com South Upstairs @ Whelans Wexford Street, Dublin 2 Admission € 8 Neosupervital, Spraoi Festival 09, Plaza (open air show along the quays), Waterford. Stage time 6:15pm / Free admission http://www.spraoi.com

Castlepalooza Music Festival Charleville Castle Offaly - 8:00pm Monday 10th August Devotchka @ Crawdaddy Harcourt Street Dublin 2 Dublin -8:00pm

WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST Le Galaxie, Antics @ Crawdaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin. Doors 11pm / Tickets TBC

THURSDAY 20 AUGUST Neosupervital, Psychonavigation @ The Sugar Club, Dublin. Doors TBC / Admission TBC

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SAT 1ST AUG Foggy Notions Presents… SJ ESAU (Anticon) + At Last an Atlas + Northstation Upstairs @ Whelan’s,

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Bia Bar Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 The Darko Sessions: Live acoustic acts every Monday from 9 to 12 The Mission @ ThinkTank ThinkTank, Temple Bar, D2 Club Night Doors 10.30pm

Weedway & Guests The Turks Head Parliament Street, temple bar, D1 10pm, Free Live Reggae till late Island Culture South William 52 South William Street, D2 Carribbean Cocktail Party, Free

Fionn Davenport Sin, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, D2 9pm, €5 A no-cheese eclectic mix

The Hep Cat Club 4 Dame Lane, Dame Lane, D2 8pm, Free Swing, Jazz and lounge with classes Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen Street, Smithfield, D7 Free – Dj Alley King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford Street, D2 11pm, Free Musical Game Show Dolly Does Dragon The Dragon, South Great Georges Street, D2 10pm, Free Cocktails, Candy & Classic Tunes

Funky house & RnB Tuesdays //

Metro Kitchen The Village, Wexford Street Micro Kitchen believes that a dash of new tunes spices up old favourites. Every Tuesday 10pm to late

Beauty Breaks Solas Bar, 31 Wexford Street, D2 Mo Kelly American Hip-Hop Ready Steady Go-go! South William, 52 South William Street, D2 8pm, Femmepop, Motown, 60s Soul Ruby Tuesdays Ri-ra, Dame Court, D2 11pm, Free before 11.30, €5 after Classic and alternative rock Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice bar, Queen Street, Smithfield, D7 Free Laid Back French hip-hop and groove Dj Shirena, Dj Rich Bea & Guests The Turks Head, Parliament Street, Temple Bar, D2 Latin House, Afro-Latin, Brazilian & Reggae Beats Jelly Donut The Village, 26 Wexford Street, D2 10.30pm, free Minimal Techno Give A Dog A Bone Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Pennys In The Bar

The Industry Night Break for the border 2 Johnstons Place, Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 8pm, Pool competition, Karaoke & Dj Make and Do-do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, Dublin 1 10pm, Gay arts and crafts night

Dj Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 10pm, Chart, Pop, Indie & Rock

Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 11pm, €5

Turks Head, Parliament Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 www.turkshead.ie Fosters only €3.75 per pint / 3 x Bottles of Miller / Sol only €10.00 / 2 x Cocktails for €12 Gaff Party @ Wax Powerscourt Centre, Dublin 2 11pm / Doors €5 / €4 drinks

ANTICS INDIE/ELECTRO night. CRAWDADDY.Doors: 11pm. Tickets €5

BREEZE SUMMER CLUB night. TRIPOD. Doors: 10:30pm. Tickets €10/12. Contemporary music mix covering Indie, Chart, Hip-Hop, Dance, Electro & everything in between. Tetric The Button Factory, Curved Street, Dublin 2 Electro, Funk & House Music Doors 11pm

The Drag Inn The Dragon, South Great Georges St, D2 8pm, Free Davine Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and make-overs.

Stylus Presents The Barfly sessions Solas Bar, 31 wexford Street, D2 With residents mr.moto, Paul Cosgrave and Michael McKenna Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Latin

Trashed Andrews lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 10.30pm, €5 Indie and electro Dj Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 10pm, Chart, Pop and Indie

Wednesdays @ Spy Spy @ Powerscourt Centre, South William Street Dublin 2 10pm Late Club Night

City Lady Play Shine, Wexford Street With Sally Foran. Dublin’s finest with a nice selection of anything from Soul to Pop.

The Song room The Globe Bar South Great Georges Street Dublin 2 8.30pm, Free Live Music

Jam Thinktank Templebar Dublin 2 Student Night 10.30pm, Free

We Got the Soul, The Funk and The Kitchen Sink Ri-Ra Dame Court, D2 11pm, Free Before 11.30pm, €5 after Soul & Funk Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen 34/35 East Essex Street Temple Bar, Dublin 2 7pm, Free Before 11pm Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards Space N Veda The George, South Great Georges Street, D2 9pm, Free Before 10pm, €8 after. Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s Noize Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews Lane, D2 8pm, Student night Thursdays //

A Twisted Disco Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D1 Free, 11pm 80s, Indie & Electro

Beatdown Disco The South william South William Street, D2 8pm, Free Balearic, Soul, Underground, Disco & House

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Galactic Beat Club Disco. Boogie. House. Funk. Balearic. Subject DJs and guest DJs weekly Adm: Free Free Free // 11pm - 3am

Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 7pm, Free before 11pm Live Classic Rock

Glitz Break for the border Lower Stephens Street, D2 11pm Gay Club Night

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Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, €5 Dj Andy Preston (FM104)

Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, D2, 9pm Underground House, Techno, Funk 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen Street, Smithfield, D7 Free, Blues & Ska

The Mighty Stef’s Acoustic Nightmares The Village Bar, 26 Wexford Street St, D2 Acoustic night with the Mighty Stef

Soul bitchin Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel street, D1 Gay Student Night

Sound Check and Le Cirque Every Thursday @ Spy Powerscourt Centre, Dublin 2 Free before 11pm, €5 after. Music starts 7pm. €10 bottle of wine til 9pm. 2 for 1 on cocktails til 11pm. €4 selected drinks after 11pm BRAZILIAN MIX CRAWDADDY. Doors: 9pm. Tickets: €5/8. Two rooms full of spicy Brazilian rhythms and a special taste of Electro House and Minimal Guateque Party Bia Bar Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 Guateque Spanish, Brazilian styled party with Domingo Sanchez, guest musicians and DJs. 9 to 12 Admission Free

The Bionic Rats The Turks Head Free Live reggae & Ska

Tea-Time Thursdays Howl @ The Moon 7 Lower Mount Street Dublin 2 Complimentry Captain Morgans & BBQ Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 9pm

Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, Up Beat lndie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro Thursdays @ cafe En Seine Cafe En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30 am. Cocktail promotions Free, 8pm

The Little Big Party Ri Ra Free, 11pm lndie music night Mr. Jones The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 llpm, €8/5 House, Electro, Baseline Cooler Than You The Underground @ Kennedys Westland Row, D2 10pm, € 6 /€4 before 1lpm or with flyer lndie Rock, Motown and Swing Alterative Grunge Night Peader Kearneys, 64 Dame St, D2 llpm, €5/3 Alternative grunge Soundcheck Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Stb William St D2 7pm - 11pm Unarocks and Sarah I Fox play indie rock n’ roll

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Soundcheck Afterparty Vs Le Cirque Spy, Powerscourt Centre, South William Street D2 llpm, €5, Fashion, fun, concept nights, indie-rock and electro Re-session Wax @ Spy Powerscourt Centre Sth William St, D2 11pm Minimal, House, Techno

Mash South William Street,52 Sth William St, D2, 9pm Free Mash-ups, Bootlegs, Covers

Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 9pm Dance, R’n’B House Control/Delete Andrews Lame Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm €3/4 lndie and Electro Annie’s Family Fortunes The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 9pm Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/4 with student ID Game show followed by 80s and 90s music. Thursday night DJ The Globe, 11 South Great Georges St, D2, llpm, Free

After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar D2 6pm, Free before 11pm , Live Rock with Totally Wired.

Free BBQ from around 5.30pm. Solas Bar 31 Wexford Street Dublin 2 www.solasbars.com Yep, free tasty treats, long drinks, cocktails and summer vibes. Then later… later...

D2, llpm, Free DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix.

INSIDE OUT Michael Stylus & Peter Cosgrove Disco Balearic Grooves.

Strictly Handbag The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson St, D2 llpm, €10 (2 for 1 before midnight)

Sub-Zero Transformer (below the oak) Parliament Street, Dublin 2 11pm, Free Indie, Mod, rock

The Turks Head Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, Free Live lndie music followed by DJ Eamon Clarke Drop Dead Gorgeous Ri Ra Dame Court D2 €5 Before 11pm, €10 after Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border Johnstons Place, Lower Stephens St, Dublin 2. Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm Budweiser promotions. DJs until late InsideOut Solas Bar, Wexford Street, D2. 9pm Free Balearic Soul, Disco, Re-edits, House, etc.

Moog 69s Thomas Reads, Parliment St, D2 9.30pm, Free Live covers band + DJ Funk, Soul, Pop.

Fridays @ Cafe En Seine Cafe En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 3am Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free

Big Time! The Bernard Shaw 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobelle D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups!

Club M, Anglesea St, Temple bar, D2, Chart, dance, R&B 10pm, Freebefore 11pm

The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 10pm Gay cabaret. Fridays //

Nightflight The Button Factory, Dublin 2 €10 / €5 with student card/nightflight keyring House & Techno from local and international guests each week As well as the Nightflight residents Doors 11pm

Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, 10 (varies if guest) Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall Babalonia Tropical Soundclash South William, .52 South William St, D2 8.30pm, Free Dub, Ska, Afrobeat

yu WAR - Every Friday @ Spy Powerscourt Centre, Dublin 2 Free before 11pm. €7 before midnight, €10 after. Bucket of Corona for €20 all night (5 bottles) 10e bottle of wine til 9pm.

NODISKO @ The Academy Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 Doors 11pm Adm Only €.50 b4 12, €5 after! Pint Becks €3.50 / Selected bottled beers €3.50 / VS ICE €3 / Quickie Shots €3

Music with words Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 9.30, Free Indie, Soul, Electro Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot Street Upper, D4 9pm, Free Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip-Hop GO! Bodega Club, Pavillion Centre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 11pm, €10, Soul, Indie, disco, Rock Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 – 12 South Richmond Street, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip-Hop Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Free Funk and Soul classics

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HYPE SUMMER SOUNDSYSTEM POD/CRAWDADDY/LOBBY/BAR/ COURTYARD. Bar and barbecue from 18:00. Club doors: 11pm. Tickets: €12

Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St,

Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra Dame Court, D2 llpm, €10 from 11.30pm International and home-grown DJ talent.

yu SQUEEZE Aiden Kelly (Electic sounds) Solas Bar 31 Wexford Street Dublin 2 www.solasbars.com Festa @ Shine, Wexford street, Dublin 2 All girl weekend with Kitty Kat doing her Disco thing....From 8.30pm

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Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar D2 9pm R’n’B House, Chart

Fridays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance

The Friday Night Project The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple bar, D2 10pm Free before 11pm Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 11pm - DJ Mikki Dee

Dj Fluffy in the Box The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 9pm, Free before 10pm, €9 after Camp, Commercial, Dance Karaoke Friday Break for the Border, Johnstons Place, Lower, Stephens St, D2. 10pm Karaoke night. Panticlub Panti bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Dj Paddy Scahill Dj Austin Carter Commotion @ Shine, Wexford Street Dublin 2 Saturdays //

VIVA! New and Retro Club Classics with an International Flavour! Presented by Aoife Nic Canna and Marina Diniz Adm: Free before 12am / e2 after // 11pm - 3am Turks Head, Parliament Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 www.turkshead.ie Fosters only €3.75 per pint / 3 x Bottles of Miller / Sol only €10.00 / 2 x Cocktails for €12

DOWNLOAD TRIPOD SATURDAYS POD/CRAWDADDY/LOBBY/BAR/ TRIPOD. Doors: 11pm. Tickets: €12

GROOVEMENT SOUL Upstairs @ 4 Dame Lane Every Saturday Night 9pm - 3am, Adm Free. Groovement Soul residents on rotation playing the finest sounds from the Soulful Underground with the emphases strictly on the party. Expect to hear Soul, Jazz ,Rare Groove, Jazzfunk, 80’s Boogie, Latin, Afro, Classic Disco & Soulful House with occasional international guests. Gossip, Every Saturday at Spy. Powerscourt Centre, Dublin 2, 80s, Disco, Hip Hop, Pop, Indie, Rock Free before 11pm. €10 after. 2 for 1 on cocktails til 11pm. €10 bottle of wine til 9pm.

Transmission The Button Factory Curved Street Dublin 2 Mix of indie & Dance

Pogo The Twisted Pepper 54 Middle Abbey Street Dublin 2 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) House, Soul & funk SIDESTEPPIN’ Bia Bar Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 CHUNKY N’ FUNKY UNDERGROUND DISCO AND HOUSE with Peter Cosgrove, Mick McKenna and guests. 8ish to 2.30ish Admission Free Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, D2 11pm, €15 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin Freaks Come Out The Academy Middle Abbey Street Dublin 2 €15, Dirty Electro & House with regular guest djs Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place IFSC, Dublin 1 RnB, Soul & Hip Hop With Regular guest DJs Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, D2 9pm, RnB Basement Traxx Transformer (Below the Oak) Parliament Street Dublin 2 11pm, Free Indie & Rock

Portobello, Dublin 2 Afternoon is car boot sales, film clubs, music lectures, t-shirt making etc Later on: Resident Djs playing Soul, Funk, House & Electro Saturday @ The village 26 Wexford Street, D2 11pm Djs Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta & Special Guests

Dj Karen The Dragon South Great Georges Street Dublin 2 10pm, House music

Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, South Great Georges St, D2 9pm, free before 10pm, €10 after Karaoke followed by DJs playing camp commercial pop

Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 DJ Philth & Guests Sundays //

SUNDAY SOLAS SUMMER SCENE It’s free BBQ time again. This time from 3pm on a Sunday. The last few weeks have been great. We’ve had Noel Phelan, Declan Comiskey Pete PAMF and Razor all playing some Summer tunes. Sponsored by our kind friends at Kapperberg. Bucket of Kapperberg 20e.

Sundown Bia Bar Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 Chilled Sunday with good vibes, quality sounds and tasty visual treats. 6 to 11.30 Admission Free

Audio update with Martin McCann Solas Bar Old and new soul offbeat sounds Live soul and funk

Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot Street Upper, D4 10pm, Free Indie, Soul, Chart Saturdazed Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire 11pm €10 Chart, Dance & RnB

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Once Off clubbing Listings

Friday 24th//

OneSevenFour Present: AARON JAY (Swerve, UK) OneSevenFour DJs The Twisted Pepper A$$quake DJs in the Café Doors 11pm

HYPE + ANTICS PRESENTS MIXHELL SUPPORT: ANTICS DJS FRIDAY 24TH JULY @ CRAWDADDY/ Doors 11pm Advance tickets €19 including booking fee. Stephens St Social Club Bia Bar Lower Stephens Street, Dublin 2 Mark Kelly and associates Play a mix of Soul, House, Funk and Disco classics 9 to 12 Admission Free

Nightflight The Button Factory, Dublin 2 €10 / €5 with student card/nightflight keyring Airbound Festival Pre-Party with Nightflight residents & Friends Conan O’Donnell (Electric Shock) Michael Gaffney (Kettle) Dan McElligott (Test) The Underground @ Kennedys Doors: 2300 - 0300 Admission: Free before midnight/ €5 after

Saturday 25th//

Michael Kelly, David De Valera Download @ Crawdaddy POD Complex Harcourt Street, Dublin Doors 11pm,

Sunday July 26th//

Roof Party @ The Sycamore Club Dyed Soundorom ( Freak n Chic ) 10 euro, doors 2pm POGO & Electric Shock Present... EFDEMIN (Dial, Berlin) LEGOWELT [LIVE] (Bunker, NL) BARRY DONOVAN DAN McELLIGOT PAULIE WALNUTZ (Stereotonic) Doors 11pm

Wednesday 29th July// Modrophenia w/ BREN BUTLER FLAVO The Twisted Pepper Mordrophenia present Bring Back the Funk a one off bash bringing you a tight selection of Northern Soul, Motwon, Ska and more. Spinning on the night are Modrophenia residents, Bren Butler (Twisted Pepper) and Flavo (Listen and Obey, Brassy, Dead City Radio). Admission €7/€5

Friday 31st July// Subject 2nd Birthday [Part 1] Friday July 31st at Pod, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 with special guests - JUAN ATKINS [Model 500, Metroplex Detroit], TR One, Eamonn Doyle [D1] & Subject DJs Doors 10pm // Adm: e15 [includes Access All Areas (5 Rooms) HYPE SUMMER SOUNDSYSTEM] Advance tickets from http://www. ticketmaster.ie and usual outlets

yu Horse Meat Disco @ Wax Powerscourt Centre, Dublin 2 11pm doors. €10 admission.

Global Underground’s Dave Seaman & Resident DJs Dizzy Dizko Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews lane, Dublin 2 Admission €15

PHIL KIERAN [Cocoon,NovaMute,Flying cabbage] Niall Power [Electric Circus,Resistance] The Loft Electric Avenue, Waterford Admission €10

Mud @ The Twisted Pepper Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 THE BREAKDOWN BAND feat. MC KWASI Doors 11pm Peter Gual Live Fran Harnett Live The Underground @ Kennedys Westland Row, Dublin 2 Plus Support Admission €8

Saturday 1st August//

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David De Valera, Des O’Leary, Sean Cleary Download @ Crawdaddy POD Complex Harcourt Street, Dublin Doors 11pm,

Pogo @ The Twisted Pepper Middle Abbey Street Dublin 1 MICHAEL BLACK JAMES M Doors 11pm Arveene (Spin 1038) Dizzy Dizko Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews lane, Dublin 2 Admission €15

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Nightflight The Button Factory, Dublin 2 €10 / €5 with student card/nightflight keyring Sunil Sharpe, Giles Armstrong & Saorise Ryan

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Renaissance Presents: Sammy Bizzle Thinktank, Eustace Street, D2 Expect a unique underground atomsphere based on Progressive / Minimal Techno / House /Electro (pop) / Cross-Over / Dubl-step / Drum&Bass.... Doors @ 10:30 Admin:€8

Sunday 2nd August//

Bacardi B-Live @ the PoD N.A.S.A. (Live), ASHLEY BEEDLE, TODDLA T Tickets €15 incl booking fee available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie Subject 2nd Birthday [Part 2] Two Floors of Music with... BILLY SCURRY [3 Hour Set] Conor Feeney [BigDishGo] Subway Mike Russell Parker Mark Greene Bank Holiday Sunday August 2nd // 4 Dame Lane Doors 9pm // Adm: e5 // e6 Cocktail Menu http://www.subjectevents.com

Electricity Present: MATTHEW DEAR aka AUDION (M-NUS / Spectral Sound, USA) GILES ARMSTRONG JAY GALLIGAN Doors 10pm Adm: €12

POD PRESENTS Sander Kleinenberg Bank Holiday Sunday 02nd August 2009 @ TRIPOD/ Doors 11pm Advance Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges. www.ticketmaster.ie Advance tickets €19 including booking fee. For more info www.pod.ie

AFROBASS @ SOUTHWILLIAM BASEMENT SOUTHWILLIAM BAR, 52 South William Street, Dublin 2 (first friday of every month) time: 11pm-late entry fee: zero euro DJs: Leroy Culture, Lex Woo, & MC Little Tree spinnin: dubhouse, dancehall, jungle, dubstep, afro & brokenbeat Breakology Present: KRUST (Full Cycle, UK) DJ OB The Twisted Pepper Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 Breakology bring Bristol DnB legend DJ Krust back to Dublin for a well over due show...

Saturday August 8th//

Conor G Dizzy Dizko Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews lane, Dublin 2 Admission €15

Nightflight Presents Sunil Sharpe [ Spindizzy] Giles Armstrong [ Electric City] Saoirse Ryan [ RTE Pulse ] The Button Factory, Dublin 2 Doors €10

Friday 14th August//

MUD: Reach Present APPLEBLIM The Twisted Pepper Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 + REACH DJs Doors 11pm

Donato Dozzy (Wagon Repair, Railyard Recs - Italy) Lerosa (Uzuri, Quintessential) Scott Logan (D1, Enclave) The Underground @ Kennedys Doors: 2300 - 0300 Admission: Free before midnight/ €5 after Saturday 15th August

Italian Factory, Marino Rispo, David De Valera Download @ Crawdaddy POD Complex Harcourt Street, Dublin Doors 11pm,

Tocadisco Dizzy Dizko Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews lane, Dublin 2 Admission €15

POGO: BARRY REDSETTA & SIMON RESOUL The Twisted Pepper Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1

Conor Feeney, David De Valera Download @ Crawdaddy POD Complex Harcourt Street, Dublin Doors 11pm,

Lunar Disco Presents Shane O’Meara ReStartPC Letterkenny Louis Scully – Dublin Bus Disco The Underground, Kennedys Dublin 2, Doors 11pm Admission €7 Italo, Electro & Chicago Trax

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Altern-8 Dizzy Dizko Andrews Lane Theatre Andrews lane, Dublin 2 Admission €15

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