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GJSTU UIJOHT GJSTU ‘67 Shangan Green’ ‘Look love, we already sent out three taximen to you, and you wouldn’t come out of the door.’

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If I’d had the time to transcribe all the conversations I had over the crackled headsets of Ch*ck*rs Cabs between translating addresses from Finglasese and electrocuting rats with the broken wires of an old taxi meter, I would’ve recorded every last spat phoneme. While everybody else my age earned their cider-buying cash-money minding Yu-Gi-Oh!-obsessed gurriers and walking neighbours’ dogs around the Airside car park for a couple of hours, I whiled away my nights in a dingy Parnell Street shop-front, taking taxi requests from Dublin’s maddest Marys and Mickos from behind a bulletproof glass window (erected to protect us from the taxi drivers, as opposed to irate customers). It was the death of my ambitions to be a radio talk-show host, but it was my very first job, and I was very first proud of it.

Of course, things have come a long way since then. I no longer work for a company with solvency issues, with strong links to the mob , with a severe lack of working ballpoint pens. At Totally Dublin we’re always on time, and never casually racist. We don’t go missing at our lunch break and return three hours later with buckets of chicken in the crooks of our arms. We’ll pick up the phone and just have a chat about what a spa the taxi regulator is if you want. Just don’t ever, ever expect us to send out another cab to Shangan Green.

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56 Barfly Pitcher poifect 58 Gastro The gravy on your Sunday waffles 66 Audio Once got in a physical altercation with Owl City. Won.

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The OK Coral :: Probably the only hyperbolic space you’ll ever see in this magazine (that’s a geometry joke, by the way), our inner-grannies and outer-environmentalists are particularly excited for the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef’s visit to Dublin’s Science Gallery. Aussie sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim have helmed the project (an exploration into the mathematics and geometry of corals through crochet) across their homeland, America, Japan and Latvia so far, and its Dublin installment has already stoked up major kudos in the knitwearbiology scene. Mirroring the DNA codes of coral reefs with crocheting codes, the Science Gallery has evolved its very own multi-coloured, crenellated wall of wavy anemones – and all in the name of raising awareness of the particular natural perfection involved in coral creation, and how we’re wrecking its buzz with global warming (science says corals will be bleached out and no good to anybody’s eyes within a hundred years). Do them a favour and stick the needle in.

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Glass Mass :: You haven’t been to church in far too long, young man. You’ve lost your way, like a sheep without a shepherd. On the motorway. Fret not though. Salvation’s here, and it’s brought some guitars. The inimitable Dublin Guitar Quartet play their first show in about seventy four years this month, in the reverberated halls of St. Ann’s Church on Dawson Street. The foursome will tackle all of Philip Glass’s string quartets for those in the pews (as long as you put the required €12 in the collection plate).

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Life, Oh Life, Ohhh Life, Oh Life (Drawing) :: Our friend Rachel is sickeningly talented.

She can draw people the way people would look if evolution was better at its job. She is now sharing her gift with anybody who’d like to move on from stick men. Rachel says: I set up the life drawing class in the hope of creating a small weekly drawing session in a nice comfortable environment - the biggest problem with a lot of the classes in Dublin is that they get too cramped, and/or they don’t provide tuition. My class is a two and half/ three hour weekly class of twelve, the students may vary from week to week as it’s payas-you-come - people can book themselves in for the next class at the end of the current one. You don’t have to register and sign yourself up (and pay for) the whole eight weeks, as the idea of dedicating yourself like that can put people off, you have the freedom to pop in and out of different classes, provided there’s room. The class is aimed at anyone of every level of ability, from those who have never picked up a pencil to those who have drawn for years, and just want somewhere to brush up on their skills [we’re not sure if the pun is intended]. I think people were surprised at how tired they were by the end. The classes are €15 each, from 6:15-9pm, every Wednesday. They’re held in a studio above the Bernard Shaw pub. I provide the basic materials, charcoal, newsprint and easels, students are free to bring any mixed media they like.

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Shock Horror :: You’ve probably already seen Peter Fingleton’s name. You might have seen it plonked on top of his polychromatic club shots on these very pages, or popping up in your Facebook feed attached to those dread-inducing words ‘has tagged you in a photo’. It’s quite a funny name, I’m sure he won’t mind us saying.

Well, forget it. It’s gone. You won’t be seeing it anymore.

Peter Fingleton’s now a sort of social superhero. He only comes out at night, is accompanied by bright flashes of light, has a killer costume, and, best of all, a comic-book worthy pseudonym – Sharp Shock. That’s his new website – a compilation of slick shots from the city’s most iniquitous dens. These are the kind of clubs the same 20 or so select, aerodynamically-haired people frequent, but Sharp Shock does a good job of making each night look particularly singular. And that’s a superpower if ever we saw one. www.sharpshock.com

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Ghetto-Fabulous Gummis :: Eye candy of the highest order, jewellery brand Romeing Panda make ghetto-fabulous knuckle dusters and chunky chains adorned with perspex Gummi Bears. The clusters of plastic candy are hand-cast one-by-one from a lucite mould, and come in a range of flavours from licorice black to berry red or a multicoloured Mega-Mix. Glossy, gelatinous and good enough to eat, the line is available at www.romeingpanda.com, where the brand’s eccentric Pandaland blog is also worth a look. www.romeingpanda.com

Botanical Button-Ups :: Do you like your men dressed to match the wallpaper? Buttoned-up stylesetters and fans of Garden State will swoon over the latest collaboration by Fred Perry with venerable paisley-purveyors Liberty of London. Entitled the ‘Blank Canvas’ range, the psychedelic, vividly-printed shirts and polos are anything but. Liberty’s “Mark” (paisley) and “Edenham” (floral) patterns give the classic polo shirts a flamboyant makeover, while anyone shy of going full-on floral can go for the monochrome option with pattern detailing around the collar. Either way it’s an ideal wardrobe addition for Spring, and drops in shops this April.

Shoes from Somewhere Over the Rainbow :: While the fashion world goes mad for Tim Burton’s Alice and Johnny Depp’s redheaded Hatter, the real style innovators have gone back on the Yellow Brick Road for inspiration. French-born, London-based designer Natasha Marro creates shoe masterpieces for everyone from Daphne Guinness to Grace Jones and Goldfrapp. Her latest are these custom-made ruby slippers, halfway between fetish and childhood fantasy. Taking the humble Mary Jane to mind-blowing proportions, these heel-less heels might not transport you to Oz, but they’re sure to inject outfits with a bit of glam-rock magic.

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Away with the Pixies :: Those mourning the loss of Powerscourt style mecca Circus should check out Pixie Market, an online retailer specialising in the same intriguing international brands. The small-scale NY website is on a mission to source brands you can’t find anywhere else.

With regularly updated stock and a newly-introduced $15 (€10.90) flat rate for delivery, it’s hard to resist their selection of niche brands and quirky one-off accessories; highlights include knitted jewellery by Peter Jensen for Daydream Nation, draped and deconstructed basics

by Stolen Girlfriends Club and Aussie brand Injury, and the best selection of floral tea dresses this side of Kate Moss’ closet. We’re especially obsessed with this sheer ‘Skull’ top, a sexy but morbid number in inky black with see-through panelling. www.pixiemarket.com

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similar in interior as well. Maisha’s food is amazing and she’ll be doing lunch and cakes and so on. We both love this relaxed vibe of eating without having to spend too much money for good food.

fashion & food PETRIA LENEHAN Dolls Clarendon St & Emorville Avenue So you’re opening a second branch of Dolls, four and a half years after the first opened. Are there any major differences between the two?

We’re doing some menswear as well in the new shop. I’ve got a label called YMC for girls for this season and we’ve got their menswear too. Next season I’ll have Peter Jensen menswear in too. The menswear is quite simple, with a few quirky fun pieces, so it won’t be too difficult for Irish men.

I’m also planning to sell odd bits-and-bobs for your house. Some old pieces that I find when I’m away. I don’t want it to be too lifestyle-y, I’d like it to be more intimate than that.

And there’s going to be a café as well, is there?

Yes. It’s not exactly in the centre of the city.

What made you pick the location?

I live in the area and I saw the space and kind of fell in love with it. It all started from there. Initially I wondered whether a shop would work there, but my sister Maisha is a chef and we’ve always talked about opening somewhere together and this space just seemed to work for both of us and so we went from there.

So it’s the two of you opening it together, then?

Yeah. The cafe’s going to be called Bibi’s and they have their own entrances but are connected by a door as well. They’ll be

What made you want to expand at this point?

Was this a plan you’ve had for a while?

Well, the shop on Clarendon St has been maintaining sales throughout the recession and it hasn’t been affected directly so it seems like the right time. It is a little bit risky definitely but in a way it’s good because you can get premises for less, and we had been looking at different premises over the last few years and nowhere seemed quite right until now.

So the location was a pretty important factor, then.

Yeah, I think it’s got a really nice atmosphere and there’s quite a mix of age groups. I’ve noticed a lot of young people are moving into the area. It’s not too expensive and it’s so near town, so I do think it’ll grow. Dublin’s lacking in ‘neighbourhood’ areas. Everything is so centralised and giving a neighbourhood a bit of a personality is something I really like the idea of being part of. That’s what makes me so excited about the new store.

Sounds like you’re pretty optimistic about the future of Dolls. Would you feel the same way about Dublin?

Not really. I do think it is a difficult time here at the moment and I really hope that people will be able to have the chance to start more small businesses and that it gets easier to start smaller projects because I think it’s so important and for us to lose the local small businesses would be very sad, really. I don’t think the government make it easy for small businesses. But at least the rents are coming down. They were extremely high and that made retail so hard.

So you couldn’t have really found a space you loved until now. Do you think that there are some real benefits from the downturn, then?

Yes, definitely. It’s one of the reasons Dolls wasn’t able to do this a few years ago.

Everywhere we looked at was just so overpriced and that’s something that’s really changing now.

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vintage fashion online SINEAD KELLY fluorescentelephant.com When did you decide to open Fluorescent Elephant?

I decided in early 2009 that I was going to create an online vintage store. I had always been very into vintage clothing and in recent years had found that despite trawling the stores I wasn’t finding the kind of vintage I wanted to wear anymore. I no longer wanted the zaniest, most pointed collared shirt in the most static-attracting fabric that I could find but something a little more in trend, in great condition, and at a price I was willing to pay, and it was seriously eluding me. With this in mind, Fluorescent Elephant was born.

So it’s a pretty young business then. How are you finding being self-employed?

It’s great. Coffee tastes better when you don’t have to make it for ten other people and I have fewer headaches from banging my head against the keyboard. The bad news is that the boss is still a bit of a moan and it’s harder to pull faces behind her back.

What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of running an independent vintage retail shop in Dublin at the moment are?

The main advantage is being able to offer people an alternative to high street stores and highly disposable fashion. I think it’s quite cheering for people if they can source a quality product from an independent Irish retailer. It makes it easier to part with their hard earned cash if they feel they are supporting something homegrown. The disadvantage is that the financial reward is not always commensurate with the amount of effort put in. Many small businesses get off the ground but do not have the easy access to cash that they had in the past, meaning there is little budget for stuff like advertising which would help to propel the business forward.

Have you worked in retail, fashion or business before?

When I was in school, summer holidays were spent working as a sales assistant in Ireland’s most prolific clothing retail outlet... it was a dark period for fashion when chenille was all the rage. Since leaving college I have worked in advertising and in music PR which were both pressured environments and both in their different ways helped me realise I need to work in a creative environment.

Where do you source your stock?

At the moment I travel to the UK to handpick all my stock. There are a few very glamorous locations that I visit. Too glamorous to mention.

So do you alter them at all, or revamp them?

I wouldn’t say I ‘revamp’ them because I always maintain the integrity of the

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clothes, but I will take up the hem and so on. Some of the 1980s dresses are gorgeous but there’s just so much material, it’s like something from Who’s the Boss.

I basically try to make them a little more wearable.

Do you think there are any other stores or websites doing the same or similar things?

There are many vintage stores out there but our approach is somewhat different.

We do not stock clothes merely because they are vintage. They need to have a context. Our vintage is reflective of modern trends and so it’s more wearable. The look is modern but with a vintage edge.

Is there much sense of community within the Dublin independent fashion world?

Have you connected with other retailers?

I’m pretty new to it all but since setting up I have received a lot of support from others in a similar position. Dublin is a great place for this kind of thing. People like to feel part of something new and a bit different. They are definitely welcoming of alternatives.

Where do you see Fluorescent Elephant going? Have you hopes for expansion at all?

Definitely. We have a unisex section on the site with tees and sweats and the reaction from guys has been very positive so I’d would definitely love to expand that into a guys section proper.

So you’re optimistic about the future?

Oh, definitely.

Fluorescent Elephant will be at The Vintage Fashion & Decor Fair in The Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire on Sunday 18th April from 11am-6pm

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Do you think that there’s a gap in the market for what you’re doing?

Both: Oh, definitely.

Aoife: For sure there is.

Jenny: The higher-end 1960s furniture has been done so much by various people for the last 15 years, but we’re definitely coming in and offering the lower-end, massproduced furniture.

furniture JENNY WALLBLOM & AOIFE HANNAN Table Lighting Chair, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8 When did you guys start up Table Lighting Chair?

Aoife: Officially in October. Jenny and I have known each other for over 20 years.

Jenny’s background would be in furniture restoration and mine is in ceramics, but ceramics is hard to make a living from.

We both were thinking of what we could do to earn a crust. We started looking around and just seeing what sort of stuff was around and what we could pick up and start. The Brocante Market had just started at that point.

That’s the one in Newmarket, right?

Aoife: Yes. It’s on the third Sunday of the month. We ended up just going there with some furniture that we’d bought and redone.

Jenny: Our basic modus operandi would be to go to the auctions, pick up a chair cheaply, put a polish on it and recover it.

And then it kind of grew from there. Our taste is mostly the 1960s stuff.

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Only 1960s?

Aoife: No. I suppose post-war really. Once we did some research into it, we found our taste was really post-war functional design, but very stylish. Design-led stuff with simple lines and functionality above anything else.

Do you think there is a vogue or trend for that at the moment?

Jenny: There is, definitely.

Aoife: Yes, and it would fall under the whole ‘retro’ buzzword.

Is that a trend unique to Dublin or more international than that?

Jenny: I think this kind of stuff has been very popular in, say, Australia, for some time and the trend is starting here a lot more.

Aoife: At the Brocante Market there are three or four people doing similar stuff but with a slightly different slant. Some would be very retro-focused whereas we’d be a bit broader I think. We are most interested in simple design of the furniture, particularly Scandinavian stuff. All the textiles that we get and that we use to reupholster are Scandinavian. We import all our textiles from companies like Marimekko, Design Studio Almendahls and Bantie.

That’s a big task for a small business.

What’s it like, being a start-up business in a rough economy?

Jenny: I suppose from a business angle we’re starting off in a shed on the edge of town, and we benefit more from things like the Car Boot Sale, the Brocante market and so on. Small businesses like this who don’t necessarily need to start in a shop can grow quite well using the web to sell things online. It just shows that you can do business that way too, and that doesn’t cost a huge amount of money at all.

Aoife: It is interesting, people come into the studio and they just can’t see past the appearance. They go “this is a shed, I don’t want to buy my furniture in a shed”, and other people come down and go “wow, I’ve discovered a little find.” and they have a root around our stock.

Jenny: It’s the same people who go into the vintage clothes shops and can rifle through the rails and find a bargain instead of getting the Topshop, high street stuff.

So you’re optimistic about your future, then?

Aoife: Yeah. We’re looking to see if we can afford to open a shop and now is a good time to do that, just before anything starts shifting up.

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DOCKLANDS 5)& 10*/5 7*--"(& ."3,&5 In these times, it’s quite exciting to see an innovative new amenity opening up, rather than another facility closing down, and the new Point Village Market, situated beside the O2, looks like it could be very promising indeed. Establishing itself as a ‘cultural outlet’, it promises free stalls for students to sell their handcrafted wares, designated public stalls allocated on a waiting-list basis for general bric a brac, and space for more permanent vendors, open to local small businesses and producers, with an emphasis on quality.

To complement this, and to further the organisers’ aims of creating a ‘critical mass’ of bustling weekend activity, the stalls will be accompanied by a programme of events, including a free outdoor cinema, and a series of outdoor concerts, with buskers and street performers also encouraged to join in. While the new market will obviously find less cooperation from the Irish weather than its continental counterparts, and only time will tell if it can drum up the promised atmosphere, it has the potential to be an excellent new focal point for summer weekends in the city.

The market will be open from 8am until 7.30pm every Saturday and Sunday from the 29th of May, with 100 stalls offering everything from home-made crafts, to allotment grown fruit & veg, to record fairs, to exhibitions of photography, fashion, local community groups, and children’s workshops. Something for everyone in the audience, then. And I must say it’s also quite nice to see the Point name living on in some form.

Rachel, Student.

How long have you been living in the Docklands for?

Six months now.

What do you like most about living in the area?

I feel like im in the middle of everything!

Do you feel that public space in the Docklands is being used effectively?

Yeah, I really like the new Grand Canal Theatre.

Do you think there’s anything missing? What would you like to see more of?

I think there are too many high buildings around here. It could do with a bit more atmosphere, I suppose.

Carol, Lab Technician.

How long have you been living in the Docklands for?

A few months, not too sure!

What do you like most about living in the area?

Sitting in the Square by the waterfront, if and when it’s ever sunny!

Do you feel that public space in the Docklands is being used effectively?

Yes, although I think the area is a bit too expensive, coffee and food wise. It’s not very student friendly.

Do you think there’s anything missing? What would you like to see more of?

Definitely. I’d like to hear some more live music in the eveningtime, and some buskers might add more character to the area too.

Mark and Winne, Office Workers How long have You been living in the Docklands for?

Coming up to a year now, I’d say.

What do you like most about living in the area?

It would easily be Grand Canal Square for me, lots of bars and nice places to eat.

Do you feel that public space in the Docklands is being used effectively?

Not really. Everywhere except the square feels quite cold and detached from the world. It’s just a constant row of concrete buildings.

Do you think there’s anything missing? What would you like to see more of?

Personally I’d like to see a massive rollercoaster, akin to the London Eye. That’d be cool!

Richard, Energy Centre Operative.

How long have you been living in the Docklands for?

Its been three years now!

What do you like most about living in the area?

I’d say Café Riva for a great meal and proximity to town is a major bonus.

Do you feel that public space in the Docklands is being used effectively?

No, not at the moment anyways. The area is quite commercial, you have to spend money to do anything! Hopefully the new Theatre will attract more street performers and the like!

Do you think there’s anything missing? What would you like to see more of?

I’d like to see more free events in the area like festivals and markets. Also I hope they go ahead with the Anthony Gormley sculpture that’s been proposed to go in the Liffey.

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Winter's melted away like a Super Split in the sun. The third layer of wool shed, the balaclava used to keep your face warm rolled back to a normal hat, and the miniature snowman you tried to keep alive in the deep freezer is disintegrating in the kitchen sink.

One token of more distressing meteorological times is still in creaky business though: the pound shop umbrella. You bought it from Spar when the heavens opened and spat on you like a Turkish footballer, or stocked up from Brown Thomas for a rainy day. It's a boring old black thing one way or another. We asked four Dublin designers to reinterpret their umbrellas to make spring pissings that little bit more pretty.

Cover image: Veiled Umbrella by Lyn Allen, fashion designer

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words // CONOR CREIGHTON pictures // STEVE RYAN In 2008, we visited Kosovo to write about electronic music for this magazine. We went for a weekend in December and drank ourselves silly on rakia. We returned home with precious little photographs and only half a story. That half a story was wildly infactual. It contained more falsehoods than a JT Leroy novel. We apologised to our Kosovar buddies. It was our fault for getting you drunk, they said.

We’ll return for longer next time and do it properly, we replied. Sure, they said, you can rent a place and call it the Irish House.

We could do that, we said. Or we could just call it the Irish Embassy.

Be careful what you wish for as it may come true. In February of this year, we took a flight to Prishtina, rented a mansion in the embassy district, stuck a tricolour on the front lawn and called ourselves the Irish Embassy. But it was never that easy.

Now to understand the Embassy, you’ve got to understand Kosovo, and in particular the flaky independence it’s managed to achieve. Kosovo has been independent for two years. In the nineties, the Serbian Army attempted to ethnically cleanse Kosovo, which resulted in a US-lead intervention and the eventual liberation of the country. Bill Clinton gets all the praise for that, and they’ll be building statues and naming children ‘William’ for many years to come in these parts. The war had the dual effect of distracting the media from the most famous blowjob in history, but also established a gigantic diplomatic presence in Kosovo whose job it is to monitor independence. They live in forts, drive SUV tanks and are instructed upon arrival to not fraternise with the locals. It’s a shame because the Kosovars are a great bunch who will get you drunk and keep you out way past bedtime any night of the week...

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The idea behind the embassy was that we’d reinterpret the idea of international diplomacy, and this is how we went about doing that.

Finding the house was the hardest part.

It was the US Embassy’s old residence. It had a security ramp out front, safes built into the walls, twenty odd bedrooms to choose from, and a basketball court and a BBQ pit. The landlord told us, not a chance. We promised to bring him so much publicity he could double the rent for the next person. He said we were kids.

We’d throw parties, flood the bathrooms, burn the place to the ground. We told him we wouldn’t even use the bathrooms, and we’d empty the house of all flammables.

He wasn’t convinced. Then the deal breaker: we offered to live there with no heating to save him servicing and filling the oil tank. He smiled. We smiled. We moved in that night and for four weeks watched as the temperature dropped from minus three to minus ten. Our home may have been worth the guts of a million but it was about as cosy as a cave.

We had an open door policy at the embassy. Plus we’d done some begging before we left. Anyone could call in for a cup of Barry’s or a Guinness. Our neighbours, the British Embassy, were a little less sociable. If you wanted to even ring their doorbell you had to pass three secuity guards, two turnstiles, a body scanner and a team of dolphins with lazers attached to their fins.

On Tuesdays we showed Irish movies, Wednesdays we attempted an Irish class and Thursday hosted the Ambassadors’ Dinner, where we’d cook up stew, coddle, cottage pie and whatever other Irish dishes we could throw together that didn’t require pork. Kosovo is a Muslim country, although you wouldn’t think it sat in a packed bar at 3am on a Tuesday morning.

And in this way word started spreading. But first a disclaimer. We always insisted on calling ourselves the ‘Unofficial’ Irish Embassy. The actual ambassador to Kosovo, who resided in Budapest, knew about our project and asked us not to confuse people.

But when the Kosovar national broadcaster brought us on a breakfast show, people began to call us the real ambassadors, and if that was bringing a little happiness into their lives, who were we to take it away?

Kosovo has the youngest population in Europe. 70% of people are under the age of 30, which is phenomenal. In every sphere, apart from most of the cushty state positions, young people are running the show. We had newspaper editors and TV presenters up at our home every other night. Prishtina is small and salaries are low. The idea of an umarried person living away from their parents is not common.

The embassy was like one giant free gaff for the whole city. They’d come, hang out, smoke and talk shit at ours, then we’d read all about it in the next morning’s papers.

We got complaints from the neighbours.

The US Consul ratted on us. He told our

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landlord we were running a disco. We might have got evicted if it hadn’t been for the fact that the same day our landlord came to ball us out, a TV crew were making an ‘At home with the Ambassadors’ segment. He arrived in a fury and left all giggles and charm.

We ran a poetry evening and an art exhibition where Irish artists sent us postcards with one image to sum up Ireland.

We got pigeons, beer kegs and a Dub flashing the V’s. Sure, we had landscapes, people remarked, but don’t you ever have a sense of humour?

It was around our last week that we hit on an idea that would more or less be the grand finale of our whole trip. It came from a conversation with a superheavyweight boxer called Asis. Asis had got a bronze medal for Yugoslavia at the LA Olympics. He swears it should have been silver, but the US were ‘owning the podium’ in their own way that year and pipped him to it. Anyway, Kosovo, although recognised by 65 out of the 190 countries in the world is not recognised by any international sporting organisation apart from the ITTF (that’s the international table tennis federation, and they need the numbers). This means that international athletes can’t play international games.

The football team couldn’t even attempt to qualify for the World Cup and it looks like no Kosovar will be represented at the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

Hurling doesn’t belong to any international sports federation but our own GAA, so we decided to train a team of Kosovars to play an international friendly against a team of Irish internationals based in Prishtina.

Now there aren’t many capitals in the

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world where you can walk straight into the ministry building, ask to speak to the sports director of Kosovo, then inquire if you might borrow the national stadium for a Saturday afternoon. But I guess Kosovo’s lack of international sporting action was our gain. Of course ambassadors, we’d be delighted to let you play this sport. Primitive golf is it?

The GAA sent us a box of hurls and we set about training a team. Prishtina’s not green. The couple of patches of parkland in the city centre aren’t enough to counter the constant flow of pavement. We took off into the hillside to run training camps.

We lost a ball in a shell of a building marked with warning signs. It was riddled with Serbian mines.

The day of the game it lashed rain and the pitch got turned up nicely. We played eight-a-side and hoped that no one would need an ambulance as the whole stadium was turning into a muddy bath and nothing could get through. In the end, no one really won or lost the game. The hurls got signed and hang now, over the top shelf in the Irish bar like dirty swords. There are a couple of other hurls being used as walking sticks, door jams and table legs but it’s hard to keep track.

We left soon after that. Ireland recognises Kosovo but we Irish probably know very little about the country. The idea now is to establish a Kosovar embassy in Dublin, somewhere. Maybe next to the US building in Ballsbridge and see if all US embassies are as noise sensitive as our neighbours.

In the end our landlord got in a huff. He came to say goodbye, all narky and pissed off. I can’t rent this house he said. All my potential clients think it’s the real Irish

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We spent a month in Kosovo running the Unofficial Embassy. We introduced the country to hurling, Paddy Kavanagh and Adam and Paul, but I guess our greatest success was that you can now hop into any taxi in Prishtina and say the Albanian words ‘Ambasada Irlandes’ and they’ll take you directly to the door of our old mansion.

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words // PADDY O’MAHONEY Although he twice claimed the UK beatboxing championship, Beardyman has transcended the boundaries of his craft. Armed with four Kaoss pads, the Brighton based musician has perfected his innovative technique of sampling and looping his own voice. Hip Hop is the staple of beatboxing, however, Beardyman’s shows reveal his unwillingness to toe the line as he touches on jungle, Stevie Wonder, and whatever else takes his fancy.

Here the not-actually-bearded man reminisces on some of his stranger touring experiences.

On weird gig commissions I did a gig for Google, pretending to be a French lecturer on voice recognition technology. I got a couple of people up from the audience and got them to say their names into this system, which was actually my live rig and then started sampling their voices and forced them to dance and then I had these images come up on the screen, weird images.

And then I did a proper set and then I had to introduce the head of Google and the head of Youtube. I’ve done these children’s concerts in Dublin, Manchester, and London. In Manchester there were 8,000 children behind me singing when I beatboxed, and all of their parents. I’ve also done breakcore gigs, Like this one gig where there was this naked Spaniard saying poetry and everything he said ended with ‘you have the most beautiful cock in the world.’ That was his thing.

On the Late Late Show I was expecting a crowd made up of entirely older woman, but on the night it was a really mixed crowd. I’d seem some clips before, and it pans across the audience and it was just old women. It was really fun, I wanted to play longer and get a party going but I just had my four minutes before I had to get out of there. I didn’t realise how serious it was. I was standing up there waiting for my turn listening to Anna from Big Brother 1 talking about what it’s like being a lesbian nun.

On warm-up acts and ugly Russians Actually the weirdest warm up act I had was the entire Russian army choir. This was in Moscow and the bill was the Red Army choir, Groove Armada, and me. They were singing all these old-school, hearty Russian songs and then halfway through this, a house beat kicks in and they started doing this left to right march, and the weird thing was that no-one in the audience thought there was anything strange about it. That’s how weird Russia is, that they were all dancing and nobody even had a smile on their face.

They had this thing on the door called face control where if you’re ugly you don’t get in. I’m not even joking, in Russia that is a totally acceptable thing to do. You can advertise that you’ve got that policy on the door. I was chatting to groups of people who were like ‘our friends didn’t get in, they are too ugly!’ It kills the vibe in a club when there are no ugly people. If the all the girls are that good looking, the boys don’t want to act silly.

It was a very serious atmosphere.

On improv and crowd suggestions If there is a club of like 300 people it can be impossible. If you ask for a suggestion all you get is ‘yaaaaah’. I’m kind of budgeting for the fact that they might be really crazy by saying that the suggestions I’m gonna do are from Facebook and Twitter. I think that’s probably safer because I’ve had some really good suggestions so far. It’s probably just gonna be me announcing what I’m gonna do, or just do it and let people figure it out for themselves. If people are being reverential and chilled out and want to listen to me talk for a few seconds and explain what I’m going to do then great, if not and they’re just up for a mad party that’s cool as well.

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"35 8035) 5)*/,*/( "#065 "//& 5"--&/5*3&Â&#x2DC;4 5)*4 "/% 05)&3 5)*/(4 words // PADRAIG MORAN Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, IMMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s miles away. Tucked out past Colinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barracks, for most of us that means a bus and then a LUAS, a double Dublin transport whammy that we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wish on our worst enemies. At the end of the day though, the upside of this trek is that it becomes a bit of a treat.

You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just pop in on your lunch hour, nor stick your head in the door on the way to the post office. A trip to IMMA takes planning, takes thought. Sometimes, it takes a whole bloody Sunday, but once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there it can often mean a Sunday well spent.

Another consequence of location is that once there, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more likely to stay longer, and pay a bit more attention.

Which should come in handy, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re heading out to see Anne Tallentireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This, and other thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The Armagh native has been living and working in London since 1984, where she is Professor of Fine Art at Central St Martins. In this survey exhibition, her densely-layered work is both politically and socially engaged, warranting close readings that highlight the role of the viewer and of perception itself.

Piqued by our recent visit to the show, Artsdesk caught up with Tallentire for a quick Q+Aâ&#x20AC;Ś I noticed a lot of the pieces in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This, and other thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have been refigured or re-imagined for the IMMA space. Is this attention to context something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite important to you?

I am interested in how context contributes to meaning. In Drift, (2002-2010) consisting of 22 short video works, this concern is signaled directly in the use of subtitles.

This naming device (each configuration is given a number) also provides a concep-

Anne Tallentire, The Readers, 2010, Birch ply table, 224 x 122 x 84 cm; 10 paper stacks, 29.7 x 42 cm, Courtesy of the artist, Photo credit: Hilary Knox

tual framework that extends the possibilities of the work according to the specific context it is exhibited in. For example in Drift: diagram xi (2010,) Dominic Stevens (who worked as an architect on the construction of IMMA) brought knowledge of the building and an understanding of the physical structure of the space, that drew attention to the interplay of architecture and fine art disciplines.

Context seems to take on an even deeper dimension with The Readers, involving the very staff at IMMA themselves. Can you tell us a bit about the piece, and how it came about?

In 2006 I made an off-site work for Dublin City Library and Archive for Gallery 3, Douglas Hyde Gallery, that comprised a log of reading material returned to the library over the course of one day.

For IMMA I used the same approach by gathering titles of books being read by employees at the gallery during the month of August 2009. Titles and a line of text from each publication were collated and printed on sheets of paper that were made available to take away. I wanted this work to signify the often hidden contribution of those who work to make art visible and to acknowledge the potentialities of lives lived in and beyond the work place.

The level of interaction in your work could be seen as fostering a sense of community, though often it seems to be simultaneously highlighting aspects of contemporary isolation. Could you comment on this, perhaps in relation to

Nowhere Else?

The city is a site of diverse communities defined by economic, social and cultural factors and the transience and often alienating and isolating experience of urban life is reflected here [in this particular work]. Then to some extent, on another level Nowhere Else replicates something of the everyday experience where strangers momentarily come together. In this case to activate and then navigate the banks of images that comprise the work, images that record instances of incidental interruption or activity often determined by the environment and conditions that produce them.

How much of a role do your interests in the gaps of our visionary field and incomplete perception come into your collaborative work with John Seth? How are such explorations approached/altered when a second pair of eyes get involved?

Working with issues connected to the periphery is reflected in various strategies we have employed, including processes of chance and the use of rules relating to maneuverability. John and I have worked together since 1993 and over that time have established a dialogue that has been central to our way of working. It is by making visible the very activity of making that our work finds form. This approach has been employed and developed as a means to reinforce the relationship to temporality and interdependence.

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Upstairs ■ The Lynchburg Mob Whelan’s €6/7, 8pm With Liberty Kings and Trisian Carroll ■ RTE National Symphony

Orchestra ■ Adrian Crowley Whelan’s €15, 8pm Choice voice ■ Boylan plays Brubeck National Concert Hall €20, 8pm Including infamous jazz compositions like The Duke and Blue Rondo

Thurs 8 April ■ Port O’Brien Crawdaddy €14, 8pm Briny as sardines, and only half as fishy.

■ John Butler Trio Olympia Theatre €30/33.60, 7.30pm Dread the thought ■ Jody Has A Hitlist The Academy €13, 1pm As part of the Central Bank Sessions. (Not real) ■ Hermione Hennessy The Sugar Club €20, 8pm

National Concert Hall €10/18/24/30/35, 8pm A Russian special.

■ Jedward The Helix €22.50, 7.30pm The twins attended Scoil Bhríde National School in Rathangan and then King’s Hospital School for four years, but were constantly bullied for their love of pop music, until they were moved to the Institute of Education. During their school years, they had competed in school talent shows, and were inspired by Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake. John and Edward are also athletes—as members of Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club (DSD) in Dublin, they have competed in several tournaments in Ireland. In addition, the twins worked briefly as games testers for Windows and Xbox 360 format holder Microsoft.

■ Jack L Vicar St. €35, 7pm Soulpatch posterboy ■ Colette Cassidy JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Dublin jazz standard

■ Isotope JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Jazz session ■ Shield Your Eyes Thomas House 8pm The greatest three piece since the Four Tops. Plus Pneu. Do it.

Sat 10 April ■ Paul Brady Grand Canal Theatre €44.50/40.50, 8pm ■ David Lyttle Three feat.

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■ Evil Veto Whelan’s €5, 8pm Upstairs

JJ Smyths €12, 9pm Contemporary jazz and Moboawarded rapper

Fri 9 April ■ Chew Lips Crawdaddy €12, 8pm And our very own Cap Pas Cap ■ These Charming Men The Button Factory €16.50, 7.30pm That joke isn’t funny anymore ■ Paul Brady Grand Canal Theatre €44.50/40.50, 8pm Hooba Dooba Doo

■ Jack L Vicar St. €35, 7pm ■ The Spirit of Pink Floyd Olympia Theatre €29/23, 8pm Deadly rivals of Billie Piper At The Gates of Dawn ■ Laura Marling The Academy €18.50, 7pm Our reviews’ section darling

Child Concert

■ Anti Pop Consortium Whelan’s €18.50, 7.30pm Warped rap

Olympia Theatre €30, 7pm Save our kids from the perils of the Coronas, Aslan, and Ocean Colour Scene

■ Verona Riots Whelan’s €10, 8pm Alternatits

■ FM104’s Help A Dublin

■ Roisin O’Reilly National Concert Hall €15, 1.05pm ■ Small Cars Whelan’s €TBC, 8pm

■ Mig 21 The Village €20, 8pm Czech band that dislikes shirts.

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Mon 12 April ■ Chopin 200th Anniversary

Concert National Concert Hall €20, 8pm Performance of the composer’s ballades and waltzes.

Tues 13 April ■ Onerepublic The Academy €28, 7pm Or the reason our relationship with Timbaland went to the dogs.

■ Sumbrellas Whelan’s €5, 8pm Plus Sarah Elaine

Wed 14 April ■ John Smith Whelan’s €16.45, 8pm There is a 24% chance you’re named John Smith. If so, you’re playing Whelan’s tonight.

■ Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Whelan’s €20/22, 7.30pm Friends of Erykah and Albarn’s ■ Town Criers The Village €10, 8pm For World Vision Ireland, with Futures Apart and Heroes in Hiding ■ Ronan Swift Bewley’s Cafe Theatre €10, 8.30pm Alt-folk singer-songwriter, plus nice coffee.

■ Josef Locke National Concert Hall €32.50/39.50, 8pm World-famous tenor

Used to be in other bands which didn’t work out for some reason.

■ Isotope JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Jazz session

€5, 9pm With Cheap Freaks and the Mighty Atomics ■ Richard Clayderman National Concert Hall €45/55, 8pm Smoking-jacket clad piainist

■ Russell Watson National Concert Hall €30/50/70, 8pm With the RTE Concert Orchestra

■ Cranes Whelan’s €18, 8pm Dream pop that doesn’t really sound like your dreams

Fri 16 April

■ Martin Staunton Whelan’s €TBC, 8pm Plus the Lost Parade

■ Hells Bells The Academy €16.50, 11.30pm Like dressing up like schoolboys.

■ Patrick Kelleher Whelan’s 8pm Our favourite longhaired friend launches new remix album with Thread Pulls and HunterGatherer ■ The Dead Flags Whelan’s 8pm If Sligo had a college, this would be Sligo college rock ■ Ben Prevo JJ Smyths 9pm, €10 With Dermott Byrne and Dominic Mullen ■ Max Greenwood National Concert Hall €15m 1.05pm With three-piece band ■ RTE National Symphony National Concert Hall €10/18/24/30/35, 8pm With Boris Bereezovsky playing Brahms and Prokofiev ■ Scarecrow Disco/The Hot

Sprockets The Village €10, 8pm A split single launch

Sat 17 April ■ Whitney Houston The O2 €106.25/76.25

Thurs 15 April ■ Wooden Shjips Whelan’s €14, 7.30pm Hiptipped psychedelic rock

■ The Heavyweights JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Blues

■ Bellajane Whelan’s €8, 8pm EP Launch

■ Glyder The Village €11.80, 7.30pm Launching their album Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, erm, tonight.

■ Jim Jones Revue Crawdaddy €13, 8pm

■ Luxembourg Philharmonic

Orchestra National Concert Hall €45/55/60/65, 8pm Performing Beethoven, Grieg and Berlioz ■ The Hedge Schools Whelan’s €TBC, 8pm Upstairs

Tues 20 April ■ Whitney Houston The O2 €106.25/76.25

Sun 18 April

■ LCD Soundsystem Tripod €36.50/39.50, 7.30pm For drunk girls, drunk boys, and sober individuals

■ Whitney Houston The O2 €106.25/76.25 ■ Xeno & Oaklander + Led

■ New York Dolls The Academy €28, 7.30pm Dude looks like a lady.

Er Est Whelan’s €12, 8pm Give coldwave a warm welcome.

■ David Turpin Whelan’s €14.45, 8pm With fellow TD Launch Night alumni Hunter-Gatherer and Sarsparilla rounding out the bill ■ Greg Lloyd Quartet JJ Smyths €10/8, 8pm Australian jazz pianist

■ The Continuous Battle of

Order Twisted Pepper €8, 8pm With Patrick Kelleher, who’s also in that column over there.

■ Let There Be Love National Concert Hall €40/45/55/60, 8pm A celebration of Nat King Cole

■ Thee Vicars Le Cirk

■ Jedward Vicar St. €22.50/25, 7.30pm Twin brothers John and Edward were born to computer technician John Sr. and teacher Susannah, in Ireland, and were raised in Rathangan with their brother, law student Kevin. John and Susannah separated when the twins were ten years old, with their sons moving in with their mother in Lucan, Southside Dublin, while their father continues to live in Rathangan. The boys have maintained a close relationship with both parents.

Mon 19 April ■ Jedward Vicar St. €22.50/25, 7.30pm The X Factor finalists were halfway through a four-song show at Barnsley’s Escapade nightclub when security stepped in and guided the 18-year-olds away. The duo were expected to follow their performance with a meet-and-greet in the VIP area, according to the Daily Mail. The twins said that they were “disappointed” that the show was cut short, adding: “We didn’t even get to sing ‘Ghostbusters’.

■ Evelyn Evelyn The Academy €22.50, 7pm Conjoined twins Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) and

■ Powderfinger Vicar St. €39.70, 8.30pm Australialt ■ Kenyan Boys Choir National Concert Hall €24/28/32/35, 8pm President Obama’s little musical mates

Wed 21 April

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■ Mystery Jets The Academy €18.50, 7.30pm We know somebody with a Mystery Jets tattoo, so we won’t say they’re rubbish

■ Rain Machine The Academy €18.50, 7.30pm Featuring the dude from Iran and TV on the Radio that plays the beard.

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■ LCD Soundsystem Tripod €36.50/39.50, 7.30pm ■ Whale Watching Tour National Concert Hall €25, 9pm Featuring the whimsical Nico Muhly, and fellow Bedroom Community members Valgeir Sigurosson, Ben Frost, and Sam Amidon ■ Bob Schneider Whelan’s €12.50, 8pm Upstairs

Thurs 22 April ■ Dropkick Murphys Olympia Theatre €28, 7pm Like an eternal Paddy Irishman joke with no punchline ■ Blood Red Shoes The Academy €13.50, 7pm Doe-eyed grungepop ■ Isotope JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Jazz session ■ RTE Concert Orchestra National Concert Hall €11/22/27/33/38, 8pm Celebrating Sinatra.

■ Windings Whelan’s €8, 8pm Upstairs, with We Cut Corners (who we associate with greatly).

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Programme available at www.dublinbookfestival.com Dublinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2

■ Digable Planets Crawdaddy €22, 8pm Slick creamy spies ■ Stand Whelan’s €15, 8pm Seating tickets available ■ Joan Armatrading Vicar St. €37, 8.30pm Grammy granny ■ Gavin Mulhall Whelan’s Free, 8pm ■ Karma To Burn Academy 2 €14.35, 8pm Plus Year Long Disaster. Cheer up.

■ The Chapters The Button Factory €12, 8pm Made sense in 2006.

■ The Smiths Indeed The Academy €15, 11pm Only the second biggest Smiths tribute act this month, which by Smiths logic makes them better ■ Scouting For Girls Olympia Theatre €28, 7.30pm Whatever, they’re better than the Kooks.

■ Stoat The Lower Deck €10, 9pm With Large Mound, Captain A, and the Yeh Deadlies

No Belinda.

With the Dublin County Choir

circle of Hell, Coventry.

■ Yngve & The Innocent The Village €10, 8pm Plus John Shelly & The Creatures

■ Niall O’Shea Whelan’s €8, 8pm EP Launch

■ Meg Hutchinson Whelan’s €TBC, 8pm Upstairs

■ Gavin Mulhall Whelan’s €10, 8pm Upstairs, and you get a free CD ■ RTE National Symphony

Orchestra National Concert Hall €10/18/24/30/35, 8pm Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Schubert on the programme

Sat 24 April ■ Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius

Sun 25 April ■ Efterklang Whelan’s €23, 8pm Instrumental gorgeousness from Legoland ■ Cormac Kenevey JJ Smyths €10/8, 8pm Singing the music of Cole Porter

Pip Whelan’s €17.45, 7.30pm/1pm A band for all ages ■ The Chapters The Button Factory €10, 2pm Another band for all ages ■ Glamour of the Kill Academy 2 €15, 6pm Yet another place to send your teenage brother this afternoon ■ Glen Campbell Vicar St. €65.70, 8.30pm ... And monopolizing the older audience.

■ The Ed Deane Band JJ Smyths €10, 9pm ■ Beethoven Mass in C/

■ Brandi Carlile The Academy €16.45, 7pm

■ Masamba & Manteca Crawdaddy €10, 7.30pm

Rossini’s Stabat Mater National Concert Hall €25/30, 8pm

■ Jedward Vicar St. €25.50, 7.30pm OK, you get the point.

Mon 26 April ■ Joshua Radin The Academy €19.50, 7pm Him with the guitar ■ Dick Gaughan Whelan’s €18.50, 8pm Scottish, angry – oxymoron?

Tues 27 April ■ Josh Ritter Grand Canal Theatre €36, 8pm Eat yourself Ritter ■ Cathedral The Village €7, 7pm Doom metal from the fourth

Wed 28 April ■ Rufus Wainwright Grand Canal Theatre €40.20/44.20, 8pm He’s not doing Judy, but it’s still worth a punt

Music presenters Adam and Joe, and comedy duos Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.[67] The ceremony was held on 27 January 2010, but Jedward lost out to Reeves and Mortimer.

Thurs 29 April ■ The Fall Tripod €22.50/28.50, 7.30pm Drunk Uncle Mark’s coming over for cans

■ The Australian Pink Floyd

Show The O2 €44.50, 6.30pm Says it on the tin.

■ The Revellions Whelan’s €10, 8pm With the Urges

■ Basia Bulat Crawdaddy €12.50, 8pm Canadian Rough Trade rosteree

■ Uncle Monk Whelan’s 8pm, €16.50 Bluegrass

■ Shakespear’s Sister The Button Factory €22.50, 7.30pm Staaaaaaaay wiiiiiiiiiiiith meeeeeeeeeeeee

■ Idlewild The Academy €18, 7.30pm Because Roddy Woomble’s name is still gas.

■ Crystal Antlers Whelan’s €16, 8pm Better than Castles, Stilts, Method, not a patch on Swing.

■ Isotope JJ Smyths €10, 9pm Jazz session

Vicar St. €28, 7.30pm For everybody who was as Christy Moore the other night instead ■ The Duke and The King Academy 2 €12.50, 8pm Glammy folky yokies.

■ Surfer Blood The Academy €15, 7.30pm Quite nice shambly Cali-pop ■ Funeral Suits Whelan’s €8, 8.15pm Plus Disconnect 4 ■ RTE National Symphony

■ Alexej Gorlatch National Concert Hall €30, 8pm The debut recital of Ukranian piainist extraordinaire.

■ Christy Moore Grand Canal Theatre €49.50, 39.50, 8pm With Declan Sinnott to help fill up the massive stage.

■ Jedward Vicar St. €25.50, 7.30pm Ok, one more: Towards the end of 2009, Jedward were nominated for “Funniest Double Act” at the Loaded Laftas Awards, competing with 6

Fri 30 April

Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Chart, pop, and dance with a twist

St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo

■ Christy Moore Grand Canal Theatre €49.50, 39.50, 8pm

Orchestra National Concert Hall €10/18/24/30/35, 8pm An all-American programme, taking in Barber, Hindemith, and André Previn ■ Emergenza The Village €12, 8pm

Sat 1 May ■ Candi Staton The Button Factory €28, 7.30pm The one-woman Wigan Pier makes Florence Welch her bitch ■ The Black Eyed Peas The O2 €54.80/59.80, 7pm With support from Cheryl…

Tweedy?

■ Emergenza The Village €12, 8pm

■ Mick Flannery and John

Spillane

Weekly clubs Mondays

DJ Alley Free

■ Upbeat Generation @

Think Tank Think Tank, Temple Bar, D2 Pop, Rock and Soul 11pm

■ King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free

■ Hugh Cooney Don’t Like

■ Soap Marathon Monday/

Mondays

Mashed Up Monday

Pygmalion, Sth William St, D2 Cabaret + weekly video showcase of work followed by guest DJs 9pm, Free

The George, Sth. Great Georges St, D2 Chill out with a bowl of mash and catch up with all the soaps 6.30pm, Free

■ Sound Mondays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Indie, Rock, Garage and Post Punk 11pm, Free

■ The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, Dublin 2.

Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ 8pm

Island Culture South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Caribbean cocktail party Free ■ The Hep Cat Club 4 Dame Lane, Dame Lane, D2 Swing, Jazz and Lounge with classes 8pm, Free ■ Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7

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■ Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, Dublin 1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm ■ DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm ■ Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge,

D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer ■ Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6 ■ Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5 ■ Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free ■ Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free ■ Oldies but Goldies Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free ■ Austin Carter + Company

B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am ■ DJ Darren C

Tuesdays ■ C U Next Tuesday Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 A mix every type of genre guaranteed to keep you dancing until the wee small hours.

11pm, €5 ■ True Stories The Bernard Shaw, 11-12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 House, techno, hip-hop, B-more and loads more at the Shaw 8:30pm, Free ■ Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free ■ Rap Ireland The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D 1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free ■ Groovilisation South William, Sth. William

■ Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm ■ Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free ■ Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free ■ Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B 9pm

7pm, Free before 11pm ■ The DRAG Inn The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Davina Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and makeovers.

8pm, Free ■ Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm ■ Trashed Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 Indie and Electro 10.30pm, €5 ■ DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie 10pm

■ Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free

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

■ Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock

■ Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O

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■ Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5 ■ John Fitz + The K9s + DJ

Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am ■ DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop

Wednesdays ■ Rattle Records with Ross

■ 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska Free

Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond.

International guests too!

8pm, Free

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

■ Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night

■ Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer

■ Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm

■ The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free ■ First Taste Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free

(The Chapters) Pygmalion, Sth William St, D2 9pm, Free Entry ■ Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, Free ■ Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free ■ Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5 ■ Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free ■ Wild Wednesdays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Frat Party €5 entry, first drink free ■ Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, €8/6 ■ A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free ■ Synergy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 All kinds of eclectic beats for midweek shenanigans 8pm, Free ■ Gaff Party Wax, Powerscourt Centre, South William St, D2 Electro/Tech House Party 11pm ■ Antics POD, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Indie student night with live music slots 11pm, €5 ■ Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm

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■ Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm ■ Space ‘N’ Veda The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID ■ DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) ■ Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green West, D2 Latin, Salsa 8pm, Free ■ Rob Reid + EZ Singles +

DJ Karen G Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C ■ DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Chart, pop & dance with a twist Free, 11pm

Thursdays ■ Choice Cuts present The

Beatdown Pygmalion, South William St, D2 DJ Scope and Handsome Paddy + special guests take the controls with a mix of hip-hop, electronica, funk, and soul.

10pm, Free ■ The Beatdown with Choice Cuts Pygmalion, South William St. D2 Drink Promos on the night.

Free In & Open Late.

■ Jam Think Tank, Temple Bar, D1 Student night 10:30pm, Free ■ Soul @ Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2

■ Sidetracked Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 Indie, Disco, Loungey House 8pm, Free ■ Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5 ■ Tea-Time Thursdays Howl at the Moon, 7 Lower Mount St, D2 Complimentary Captain Morgan’s and BBQ. Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo 9pm ■ Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm ■ Noize Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 Student night with live bands, Indie and Electro 9.30pm, €5 or €8 for two people with flyer

■ Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock Free ■ Control/Delete Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 Indie and Electro 11pm, €3/4 ■ Davina’s House Party The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Drinks Promos, Killer Tunes and Hardcore Glamour 9pm, Free before 11pm, €4 with flyer ■ After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired.

6pm, Free before 11pm ■ Big Time!

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

With a DJ. ■ The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret.

10pm

■ Thursdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am.

Cocktail promotions.

8pm, Free

Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am

■ Guateque Party Bia Bar, 28-30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Domingo Sanchez and friends play an eclectic mix 8.30pm

■ The Bionic Rats The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Dance, Jump and Skii to Reggae and Ska Free, 10pm

■ The LITTLE Big Party Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night with DJ Brendan Conroy 11pm, Free

■ DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm

■ Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5 ■ Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 ■ Krash Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 Pop/80s/Disco/Hip Hop 7pm, Free before 11pm, €5 after ■ Monkey Tennis Thomas House, 86 Thomas St, D8 Live DJ 9pm, Free ■ Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm

■ Mofo + One By One + DJ

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■ Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm ■ Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Groovalizacion bringing their infectious and tropical selection including Cumbia, Samba, Dub, Reggae, Balkan, Latin and Oriental Sound 9pm, Free ■ DJ Jim Kenny Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Girls Girls Girls Crawdaddy 11pm, €5 Hey, did you know that girls can be pretty and DJ too? No?

Us neither! What a cool idea for a night!

Fridays ■ SUPAFAST The Underground @ Kennedys, 31-32 Westland Row, D2 An open forum for music, performance, drawing, painting, sound and installations 11pm, €5/€8 ■ T.P.I. Fridays Pymalion, South William St, D2 Pyg residents Beanstalk, Larry David Jr. + guests play an eclectic warm-up leading up to a guest house set every week.

9pm, Free ■ Jam Hot 4 Dame Lane, D2 Funky Disco, House & Electro with Rob Linnane.

Free ■ Hustle The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Dance floor Disco, Funk and favourites. All Cocktails €5/.

Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free ■ Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm ■ Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm ■ Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free ■ Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend!

8pm, Free ■ Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border, Johnston’s Place, Lower Stephens St, D2 Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm. Budweiser promotions. DJs until late.

■ Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am.

Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free ■ Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, South William St. D2 Aaron Dempsey plays smooth deep house from 12pm Free In & Open Late ■ Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer ■ Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat 9pm, Free ■ Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm

■ Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics Free ■ Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free ■ Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm ■ Late Night Fridays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts 11pm ■ War Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10 ■ Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart 9pm ■ Fridays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance 10pm, €5 before 11pm, €10 after ■ Sticky Disco The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 A gay techno electro disco in the club and indie, rock, pop, mash and gravy in the main room 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7 after ■ Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod 11pm, Free ■ Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics ■ Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without ■ Music with Words Pravda, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free ■ Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free ■ The Bodega Social Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Soul and Disco with Eamonn Barrett 11pm, €10 (ladies free before midnight) ■ Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth

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Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm, Free â&#x2013; Room Service Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free â&#x2013; Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm â&#x2013; John Fitz + The K9s + DJ

Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2.30am â&#x2013; DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm â&#x2013; Green Sunrise The Turkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with some guilty pleasures Free â&#x2013; Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Rock n Roll with Rory Montae in the bar while Aoife Nicanna and Marina play House and Latino Breaks and Beats in the club 10pm, Free â&#x2013; Basement Traxx Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Freestyle club with DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Half Dutch and Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, ska, reggae and party nuggets 10pm, Free â&#x2013; Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 With DJ Mikki Dee 10pm, Free â&#x2013; DJ Barry Dunne Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm â&#x2013; Trainwreck POD, Harcourt St, D2 House, techno, hiphop, and No Disko in Crawdaddy 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź8/6

Saturdays â&#x2013; Shindig Shebeen Chic, Georges St, D2 Each and every Saturday youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find the Shindig Crew rocking Shebeen Chicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quirky Bar with an eclectic mix of music to move to.

Free, 8pm â&#x2013; Wigfield Pygmalion, South William St. D2 Resident DJs come together for House & Techno from 11pm Free In & Open Late. â&#x2013; Ivano Cafolla The Grafton Lounge, Dawson St. D2 8pm, Free

Rnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B & funky house â&#x2013; Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 Lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm, Free â&#x2013; Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing.

Expect the unexpected.

8pm, Free â&#x2013; A Jam Named Saturday Anseo, Camden St., D2 DJs Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends.

Jazz, disco, breaks, latin, hip-hop, house, afrobeat, funk, breakbeat, soul, reggae, brazilian, jungle.

7pm, Free â&#x2013; Strictly Handbag The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Music with words for your dancing pleasure with an alternative 80s feel.

11pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 (2 for 1 before midnight) â&#x2013; The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen at 3PM. 12pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6pm, Free â&#x2013; Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 â&#x2013; KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź8 after â&#x2013; Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, â&#x201A;Ź15/â&#x201A;Ź12 with flyer â&#x2013; Viva! Saturdays The Turkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free â&#x2013; Saturdays @ CafĂŠ En Seine CafĂŠ En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm.

Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free â&#x2013; Guest band + DJ KK and

DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 New live band plays every Saturday night 8pm, Free â&#x2013; DJ Dexy and DJ Aido Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Dublinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest party night 11pm, Free â&#x2013; Saturdays @ Break for the

Temple Bar, D2 Indie and dance with international guests 11pm, varies â&#x2013; Pogo The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Funk, Techno 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 (varies if guest) â&#x2013; Pentagon POD and Tripod, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Access all areas at the Pod complex with local residents and special guest DJ slots over five rooms 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź12

Indie, Soul, Chart 10pm, Free â&#x2013; Strictly Handbag Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 80s with DJ Mark Kelly 10pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 â&#x2013; Toejam The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Afternoon: Car boot sales, film clubs, music lectures, t-shirt making etc.

Later on: Resident DJs playing Soul, Funk, House, Electro

â&#x2013; Gossip Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 80s, Disco, Hip Hop, House Free before 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 after

â&#x2013; Sidesteppinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free

â&#x2013; Flirt Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Sultry, Funky and Sexy Beat alongside Chart Hits 10.30pm

â&#x2013; Saturday @ The Village The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta & Special Guests 11pm

â&#x2013; The Weird Scientist Eamonn Doranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3a Crown Alley, Temple Bar, D2 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź8/5

â&#x2013; DJ Karen @ The Dragon The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 House music 10pm

â&#x2013; Laundry Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Bumpin House, Techno, Disco, Nu Disco 10pm, Free â&#x2013; Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź15 â&#x2013; Reloaded The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Commercial Electro 10:30pm, â&#x201A;Ź5 before 12, â&#x201A;Ź8 after â&#x2013; Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free â&#x2013; Space... The Vinyl Frontier Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro with DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Glen and Gary from Beatfinder Records 11pm, Free â&#x2013; Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, â&#x201A;Ź5 â&#x2013; The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free â&#x2013; Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs

â&#x2013; Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Karaoke and DJ Miguel Gonzelez playing super sexy Spanish House.

9pm, Free before 10pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 after â&#x2013; Basement Club Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Pop and Electro â&#x2013; Saturday @ The Wright

Venue The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance 10pm â&#x2013; Punch The Good Bits Indie/Disco in one room and Techno/House and Electro in the main room 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź2 between 11-11:30 â&#x2013; Saturdays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Goldy mixes beats/breaks/ hip hop and funk in the bar and Gaviscon plays everything under the sun in the club

10pm, Free â&#x2013; Eardrum Buzz Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 House party vibes with Thatboytim playing mix of dance floor classics with of hip hop, reggae, ska, rock, electro and teenage memories.

10pm, Free â&#x2013; DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

â&#x2013; Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm â&#x2013; 12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12am, Free â&#x2013; DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź5 with flyer, â&#x201A;Ź8 without

Sundays â&#x2013; Ear Candy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend.

8pm, Free â&#x2013; The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6pm, Free â&#x2013; Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year.

9pm, Free â&#x2013; Salsa v Samba The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland. â&#x201A;Ź5, Classes from 5pm, club from 8pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; late

â&#x2013; The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free â&#x2013; Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free â&#x2013; Alan Keegan + One By

One + DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 9pm, Free â&#x2013; M.A.S.S (music/arts/sights/

sounds) Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Power FM curates a night of sights & sounds with Dublin based Arts collective Tinderbox providing visuals and Power FMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing Soul to Rock n Roll to Punk 7pm, Free

â&#x2013; Dancehall Styles The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź5 â&#x2013; Father Vincent Half-Price Pygmalion, South William St. D2 All drinks are %50 off & Hilary Rose behind the decks. â&#x201A;Ź5 in after 8pm. â&#x2013; The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm â&#x2013; Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free

â&#x2013; Get Over Your Weekend Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Lounge around with Penny the Hound. All drinks half plrice all day.

1pm, Free â&#x2013; DJ Paul Manning Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm â&#x2013; Sunday Roast The Globe, Georges St, D2 9pm, Free â&#x2013; Magnificent 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4 Dame Lane, D2

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1pm, Free â&#x2013; Transmission The Button Factory, Curved St,

â&#x2013; Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B 9pm â&#x2013; Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4

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The Ultimate Single’s Night Free, 7pm

Once Off Listings Friday 9 April ■ Format B Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 The Berlin duo commandeer The Pod for a night of jacking tech house.

11pm, €15 ■ Dj Tuki & DJ Scope The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Two of Ireland’s finest hip-hop purveyors bring their 4 decks and EFX routine to the Button Factory.

11pm, €15 ■ Family South William, South William St. D2 Featuring Dave Salacious and friends 8.30pm, Free ■ Drumbeats South William Basement, South William St. D2 Featuring Keith O’Reilly & Bongo Jason 11pm, Free ■ Keep Schtum presents

Cosmic Boogie

Disco, funk, and electro from Liverpool 10pm, Free

Saturday 10 April ■ Feadz The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Relatively unheralded but probably most talented member of Ed Banger Crew.

11pm, €10 ■ Groovement Soul Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2 House, hip-hop, disco and everthing in between ■ Funk 45s South William, South William St. D2 Funk, soul, latin, hiphop, dancefloor-jazz, afrobeat disco & breaks 8.45pm, Free

Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar., D2.

■ Tuesday & Thursday Nights Battle of the Axe Dublin’s much loved open mic night.

9:00pm, €9 ■ Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club The club’s flagship night.

9:30pm, €7/5

Anseo

Peadar Kearneys 64 Dame St., D2 ■ Fridays ‘The Comedy Gaff’ promises drinks specials and comedians from around the world.

9pm, €10/Conc. €8/Students €5.

Sheehan’s Chatham St., D2 ■ Tuesdays Comedy Dublin: A night of improv and stand up. €8/6. Students €5.

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■ Climaxx South William, South William St. D2 DJs Chewy and friends 8.30pm, Free ■ Funky Sexy Spanish House South William Basement, South William St. D2 Featuring Miguel Gonzalez 11pm, free ■ Vamos Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2 With Djs Mark Kelly and Mark Allton Free, 10pm

■ Cubed The Bernard Shaw, 11-12 South Richmond St, D2 Conor Murphy of Hystereo fame teams up with The Conors 12 for some sweet three-way action. Conor haters stay home.

■ Sandwell District The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 Bodytonic enlist the services of the mysterious Sandwell District for a night of Techno and House.

11pm, €10

■ Sundown Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2 Quality sounds 6pm, Free

Friday 16 April

16 Trinity St., D2 ■ Thursday & Friday Comedy improv with ‘The Craic Pack’.

9pm, €10/€8 with concession.

■ Saturdays Stand Up @ The Bankers 21:00, €10/8

The Belvedere Great Denmark St., D1 ■ Sundays Sunday improv session hosted

by Comedy Dublin.

8pm €8/6. Students €5.

9 Lwr Abbey St., D1 ■ Wednesdays ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Comedy Nights with resident MC Aidan Killian.

8.30pm, €5/7

The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 The hotly tipped youngsters bring their IDM infused dubstep to the Twisted Pepper for this much-anticipated gig.

11pm, €10

Saturday 17 April

The Flowing Tide

Camden St, D2

Kimbie

Sunday 11 April

Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2

comedy weekly

■ Mud present: Mount

■ Fridays Neptune Comedy Night 8.30pm, €8

The International 23 Wicklow St., D2 ■ Mondays Comedy Improv night.

8.30pm, €8/10 ■ Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash (Brand new comedy showcase) 8.30pm, €8/10 ■ Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley 9.30 , €8/10

■ Nightflight Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2 The monthly residency from electro crew Free, 10pm ■ Luke Slater

The Underground @ Kennedy’s, 31-32 Westland Row, D2 English techno pioneer Luke Slater descends on the underground.

11pm, €10

Matjazz and Handsome Paddy 10pm, Free

Thursday 29 April ■ Kormac’s Big Band Launch

Thursday 22 April ■ NCAD Ball South William, South William St. D2 DJ Club and live music 10pm, Free

Friday 23 April ■ Autechre The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Warp duo Autechre, bring their off kilter brand of electronica to the Button Factory.

11pm, €25.50 ■ Kelp South William, South William St. D2 Shane Hall & friends play house 11pm, Free

Saturday 24 April ■ DJ Overdose The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 The Lunar Disko favourite plays Chicago house, electro, Italo disco and more.

11pm, €8 ■ Signal Flow Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2

& AC Slater The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 DJ Kormac brings his inimitable live show complete with full big band. Fidget house big boy AC Slater also rocks the Twisted Pepper.

10pm, €8 ■ Deep South South William, South William St. D2 Dig Deep DJs spinning house 11pm, Free

■ Ivan Smagghe & Michael

Sunday 1 May

Mayer The Underground @ Kennedy’s, 31-32 Westland Row, D2 Big Dish Go kick off Smagghe’s quarterly residency with a five hour back to back with Kompakt boss Michael Mayer.

Worth getting down early.

9 pm, €TBC

stand up.

8:30pm, €28

16th April

■ Saturdays 8 & 10.30pm The International Comedy Club.

Early and late shows added due to popular demand.

■ Fridays Comedy Ireland holds their weekly Voice Box, Zocorro, and Street Justice Showdown nights 8pm, Free

■ Sunday What’s New @ The International New material night.

8.45pm, €5

■ Jarlath Regan The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street The Just For Laughs alum and The Panel regular rolls in to the Sugar Club with his ‘Not So Common Sense’ show.

8pm, €15

3rd April ■ David McSavage – The

■ Mondays.

The Comedy Shed hosted by Australian import Damian Clarke. €5

Hedigans, The Brian Boru

8th/9th/ 10th April

The Woolshed Baa & Grill Parnell St., D1

5 Prospect Road, Glasnevin, D9 ■ Tuesdays Hedigan’s comedy features some of the best improv and comedy talent Dublin has to offer.

9pm, €5

Slattery’s 217-219 Lower Rathmines Road ■ Thursdays Farlmeister’s comedy box is a student friendly comedy night with up and coming stand ups and student / unemployment discounts

■ Mike Wozniak The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 This Moustachioed comedian has peddled his jokes at several international comedy festivals; he arrives at The Laughter Lounge for a three-night stand.

8:30pm, €25

15 April

Savage Eye Live Vicar Street, 58 Thomas St, D8 In a change of routine, the Dubliner takes a break from mocking passers-by in Temple Bar; and commandeers the Vicar St stage for a night of judgmental laughs.

8:30pm, €25

17th April ■ Ardal O’Hanlon Vicar Street, 58 Thomas St, D8 Forever linked with the hapless priest Fr Dougal McGuire, Ardal O’Hanlon has repeatedly proven his chops as one of the country’s finest stand up comedians. After a recent stint on television, the comedian returns to his stand up roots for a show in Vicar Street.

8.30pm, €28 ■ 19th April

Jeff Dunham ■ PJ Gallagher Vicar Street, 58 Thomas St, D8 Naked Camera and Makin’ Jake creator PJ Gallagher takes to the Vicar street stage for a night of

■ Ben Klock Berghain resident and Twisted Pepper regular, Ben Klock drops in to the capital for an extended bout of unrelenting techno.

11pm, 10 euro

■ Magda Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Berlin via Poland and Detroit; the hardest working woman in techno makes a long overdue stop in Dublin.

11pm, €16

54 Middle Abbey Street

■ Carl Donnelly The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 Very well received as a debutant at last years Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Donnelly’s name is regularly mentioned as an up and comer on the UK comedy circuit. He trots out his shtick for the Laughter Lounge crowd on 8:30pm, €25

■ Electrolizacion South William, South William St. D2 An electronic version of Groovalizacion 11pm, Free

Friday 30 April

9pm, €5 / Students €2

once-offs

■ Zombie Circus South William, South William St. D2 Skuzziport live 8.30pm, Free

■ French Friday Bia Bar, Lower Stephens St., D2 Monthly French party 10pm, Free

■ Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club with resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/10

Twisted Pepper

■ Sebo K The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Nightflight present Mobilee stud Sebo K. Expect deep, soulful techno and house.

11pm, 10 euro

Grand Canal Theatre, Grand Canal Square, Docklands Quite possibly the most famous ventriloquist Texas has ever produced. Those unfamiliar with

Dunham might be surprised to know he is the top-grossing stand up act in North America.

The man must know his way around a puppet.

8pm, €49.50

23rd April ■ Ricky Gervais The 02, Northwall Quay, D1 Does anybody need a brief description? The creator of The Office and Extras is one of England’s best-known exports, so much so that he was in The Simpsons. Admittedly the program has gone to the dogs, but still, he must be doing something right.

7:30pm, €40 ■ Comedy Kicks: In aid of

threshold The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D1.

Some of Ireland’s best comedians get together in support of the National Housing Organisation. Dave McSavage and John Lynn top the bill for this charity event.

8pm, €15

24th April ■ Jack Wise: The Five Faces Of Magic The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street.

A jack-of-all-trades - well two trades, comedy and magic. The Corrs, Robbie Williams, and Bono have all apparently hired the Dublin-based Wise; and they all know their comedy/magic, so I’m told.

8pm, €15

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Theatre â&#x2013; Evita The Gaiety Theatre

By Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber Bringing to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron, EVITA tells the story from her young and ambitious beginnings to the enormous wealth and power she gained and her ultimate rise to sainthood. With more than 20 major awards to its credit, including the Oscar-winning film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas, and featuring one of the most coveted roles in musical theatre, this brand new production of the smash hit show truly promises to be the theatrical event of the year!

2:30pm, 7:30pm, â&#x201A;Ź32 - â&#x201A;Ź60 13th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st May

â&#x2013; MacBeth The Abbey Theatre

By William Shakespeare Over 400 years after it was written, Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark depiction of ambition, guilt and murder continues to send a shiver down the spine. Macbethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sword is still wet with blood when he returns victorious from battle, a loyal servant to his King and a hero amongst his comrades. But when three weird sisters cross his path with mysterious prophecies, Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fearsome tragic hero comes face to face with his most fierce opponent yet â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his destiny. Swayed by promises of greatness and the demands of a power-hungry wife, Macbeth swathes his way to power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and moral decay.

2pm, 7:30pm, â&#x201A;Ź15-38 17th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15th May

â&#x2013; The Darkest Corner: No Escape The Abbey Theatre

By Mary Raftery In May of last year the high court judge Sean Ryan finally revealed the 2,600-page report of Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (commonly known as the Ryan Report). This report followed a nine year investigation into allegations of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse in Catholic Church-run institutions. In responding to the report, Taoiseach Brian Cowen claimed it shone a powerful light into â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the darkest corner of the history of the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Under the title, The Darkest Corner, we present a series of powerful work which both remembers the findings and reflects on the systemic abuse revealed within state-funded and regulated institutions. The Darkest Corner series begins with No Escape a piece of documentary theatre based on the findings of the

Ryan Report. No Escape marks a major departure for us. It is the first time we have commissioned a piece of documentary theatre to investigate current or recent events in Irish society.

2pm, 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź15-25 14th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 24th April

â&#x2013; The Darkest Corner: The Evidence I Shall Give The Abbey Theatre

By Richard Johnson As part of The Darkest Corner series, we present a reading of The Evidence I Shall Give by Richard Johnson.

The Evidence I Shall Give, which premiered at the Abbey in 1961, is a striking courtroom drama. The play centres on the case of a 13-year old girl, transferred from an orphanage to an industrial school due to her alleged indiscipline.

Richard Johnson was a District Court judge in Co. Kerry and the work, which is said to be based on actual events, was highlighted in Volume 4 of the Ryan Report under the heading â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Play at the Abbey Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

6pm, â&#x201A;Ź6/â&#x201A;Ź4 26th April

â&#x2013; The Darkest Corner: James X The Abbey Theatre

By Gerard Mannix Flynn The Farcry productions presentation of James X concludes The Darkest Corner series.

James X is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;Ś an account of life literally from the womb, and of the tribulations that beset a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passage through a country that is portrayed as grim, authoritarian and deeply prejudiced against him and his kindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. (Bruce Arnold) Performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź15-25 29th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st May

â&#x2013; La Locandiera Axis Arts Centre A seductive innkeeper Mirandolina has every man at her feet â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they cover her in diamonds and cower about her like puppy dogs. Until â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the declared enemy of Italian womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - the Ulster Gentleman checks in. Piqued, Mirandolina vows to vindicate her sex â&#x20AC;&#x201C; by making him fall in love with her. Who will lose the night? The misogynist Gentleman or the seducing Locandiera? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;La Locandieraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is one of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most celebrated comedies. Wonderlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sparkling period production includes a delicious dinner from axisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cafĂŠ, accompanied with a generous helping of live Neapolitan arias and folk songs from Mirandolina and her admirers.

7pm, â&#x201A;Ź25 15th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 16th April

â&#x2013; Pineapple

Axis Arts Centre

By Phillip McMahon Paula lives in the Ballymun flats. A young mother in her twenties, she lives her life for others, for her children and also for her younger, wreckless sister Roxanna. But when love presents itself, Paula is conflicted. Can she take a chance on Dan after her bitter past experiences with men? Is Dan really as different as he says he is, or is Paula setting herself up for another heartbreak?

Supported by axis, Calipo Theatre Company present a public rehearsed reading of the new play from acclaimed Dublin playwright Phillip McMahon (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Danny & Chantelle (still here)â&#x20AC;&#x2122; & â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;All Over Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;).

Time TBC, Free 23rd April

â&#x2013; Light Signals Axis Arts Centre

By Paul Meade â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Light Signalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tells the story of two children, John and Jennifer; best mates who are immersed in a world of science and discovery. In the secrecy of Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s box room, they are on the verge of constructing a machine that will alter the world as we know it a Time Machine! This machine is capable of bending space and time, enabling people to travel backwards and forwards on a whim. However, such inventions have consequences and when a strange man comes to warn John that his actions could have terrible consequences for Jennifer in the future, John and Jennifer are propelled on a great adventure that stretches the possibilities of science to its limits and puts Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smelly old cat Frailley at the centre of epoch changing events.

10am, â&#x201A;Ź8 26th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30th April

â&#x2013; Yapperhead Theatre Company Presents 3 Short Plays The New Theatre

â&#x2013; Lennon V Mccartney Since the dawn of time human beings have gathered in pubs and argued about who is greater - John Lennon or Paul McCartney. Now, finally, here at last (and not a moment too soon), is a short play that definitively sorts out the argument once and for all. Well, sort of.

â&#x2013; The Wire On Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;connell Street Have you ever wondered what might have happened if the greatest TV show of all time (The Wire) had been set in Dublin, Ireland? No. Well, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry; not many people have. Still. here it is. The Wire

on Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell Street. Good against Evil. Tall against Small.

Westside against Eastside. Hey, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in the game. So get ready to play or be played.

â&#x2013; Keep The Devil Way Down In The Hole This is a play about a man who hates his job working in a cash-in-transit van. This is a play about a man with growing money problems. This is a play about a man who goes for a pint one Thursday night and finds himself talking to the wrong people. The very wrong people. In short, this is a play about the stupid gambles that we all take in life.

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź12.50/10 5th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10th April

â&#x2013; A Year In The Life The New Theatre

By Niamh Cummins A Year in the Life, directed by up and coming talent Vincent Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly and performed by a fresh, dynamic cast of talented actors, promises to bring a smile to your face. This new play is an exciting and contemporary family drama which draws its influences from the traditional Irish kitchen sink plays of John B Keane and Brendan Behan. The play, which is performed in one act, puts the relationships of the Kelly family under the microscope, during a very eventful year in their lives. Throughout the lively and humorous production the audience gets a glimpse of a new form of family life which seems caught between the traditional and the contemporary.

Relationships between siblings, parents, children, husband and wife, all struggle to find a balance in this ever changing world.

8pm, TBC 13th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17th April

â&#x2013; Candy Flipping Butterflies The New Theatre

By Karl Argue Set in the mid 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, around the rave culture in Ireland, as we follow the lives of four teenagers wherever they may be, over a weekend of drug fuelled debauchery on this lyrically rhythmic roller coaster ride of ecstasy. A play about the 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the 21st century, combining the best of Electronica, laser light shows, dance, with mouth popping dialogue, and comedic and dramatic performances that will all have you on the edge of your seat, all mixed together in a poetic cocktail that will titillate your every senses.

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź15/12/10 19th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 24th April

â&#x2013; What Men Want The Civic Theatre

By Peadar De Burca

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What Men Want is a hilarious one-man show from writer and performer Peadar de Burca. Following the proven method used for his first hit show, de Burca took off across the country and interviewed more than 150 men, and a few women, in an effort to discover the secrets behind what every man wants, and what every woman wants to know. So why should men and women go see the show? â&#x20AC;&#x153;For men, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say to raise their awareness ... a lot of mistakes we make are because of a lack of confidence and a lack of awareness,â&#x20AC;? says de Burca. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For women, this show will give them an understanding of a very complex species â&#x20AC;Ś and maybe help them to sympathise with us a bit!â&#x20AC;?

8:15pm, â&#x201A;Ź20/16 7th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10th April

â&#x2013; Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Official The Civic Theatre

By Robert Farquhar Two football fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score. The refereeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision is final...or is it? Two cheated fans decide to take matters into their own hands, after the dodgy call sends their team crashing into the relegation zone, by kidnapping the Ref to force him to change his mind on the all important goal... with hilarious and unexpected consequences.

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź20/16 12th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17th April

â&#x2013; The Sanctuary Lamp The Civic Theatre

By Tom Murphy Three people locked in a Catholic church for the night. They are Harry, the English-born Jew and ex-circus strongman, praying to the flickering candle in the sanctuary lamp for the strength to kill his wife and his best friend.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maudie, the sixteen year old runaway waif haunted by her past, waiting for the release of forgiveness. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Irish blackguard Francisco, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anything â&#x20AC;Ś 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź22/18 20th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 24th April

â&#x2013; Krappâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Last Tape The Gate Theatre

By Samuel Beckett Following his outstanding performance in Pinterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Land in 2008, Michael Gambon returns to the Gate in Beckettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic one-man show, Krappâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Last Tape, for a limited number of performances. Each year on his birthday, self-absorbed Krapp records the important, and the banal, moments of the last year. As he prepares to record a new tape

on his 69th birthday, he begins to listen to his archives and stumbles upon a tender memory that he recorded half a lifetime ago. This immersion in his own history leads Krapp to question with growing regret whether his present lives up to his past.

3pm, 7:30pm, â&#x201A;Ź15-35 28th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15th May

â&#x2013; Eco-Friendly Jihad The Pavilion Theatre

By Abie Philbin Bowman An explosive new comedy, about the struggle to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;think globally, act locallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. EcoFriendly Jihad made its sold-out professional debut at the 2008 Galway Comedy Festival, and travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it again sold out.

From the writer/performer (Abie Philbin Bowman) of international hit Jesus: The Guantanamo Years.

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź14/12 21st April

â&#x2013; People Without History Project Arts Centre

By New York City Players History is based on the great Kings and Generals and the guys that won, but have you ever wondered what happens to the other guys? People Without History is the story of Alice, a woman trapped in the no-manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-land between England and Wales in the aftermath of the battle of Shrewsbury. A new play about war, loss and the dim time in between. Set on the border of England and Wales six centuries ago People Without History takes a humourous look at the post battle psyche.

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź20/10 9th April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10th April

â&#x2013; The End & The Calmative (Double Bill) Project Arts Centre

By Samuel Beckett A unique performance of Samuel Beckettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short prose works The End and The Calmative presented together in one exciting double bill. The End is a gritty account of the last days of an old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life as he struggles to live despite his willingness to die, while The Calmative tells the tale of a haunting night time trek across one manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hometown in a state somewhere between his dreams and reality.

Two stories adapted for the stage and presented in the great tradition of the Irish storytelling, the perfect introduction to the humour, compassion and integrity that are the hallmarks of Beckettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.

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Visual art Alliance Francais 1 Kildare St, D2

■ Tibet’s Tibet and

■ Sean Hillen - Return to

Selection of documentaries about Tibet and Mongolia by Wolfgang Kahlen, with new groups of film being shown each week in rotation as the exhibition progresses.

26th March - 19th May

Mongolia’s Mongolia Irlantis To launch the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Alliance Française in Dublin, a collection of acclaimed work by the important Irish artist Seán Hillen will be shown for the first time in Dublin since the 1990’s.

12 February until 10th April

Bad Art Gallery 79 Francis Street, D8 ■ Lucy Doyle - Persephone Still life and interiors, often incorporating figurative elements, with an experimental and explorative use of colour.

April 1st until 22nd

Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, D2 ■ Telling Images of China Major loan of thirty-eight figure paintings from the Shanghai Museum, exploring how stories and tales from folklore, religious lore and literary culture were translated into pictorial images in paintings across six centuries in China.

12th February - 2nd May

Douglas Hyde Gallery

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Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, D1

■ Francis Alys: Le Temps du ■ Ellsworth Kelly Drawings Exhibition of drawings executed between 1954 and 1962, personally selected by the artist himself.

17t March until 20th June

The Blanchardstwon Centre, D15 ■ Make Art Not Rubbish Exhibition of work created by first and second year students from Coolmine and Hartstown Community Schools, facilitated over a three month period by artist and sculpture Cris Neumann.

1st - 12th April ■ European Baskets Featuring work by almost 80 of Europe’s leading basket-makers in materials ranging from wire to willow and including examples of both contemporary, sculptural work and traditional techniques.

9th April - 29th May ■ Holly Dungan New series of drawings, in ink and Caran D’ache crayons, showcasing Dungan’s interpretation of the quiet notions of the everyday.

16th April - 29th May

Trinity College, D2

Goethe-Institut,

■ Alfred Jensen Collection of work that operates a sophisticated and unique fusion of metaphysics, sign systems, and the vigorous application of brightly coloured paint.

26th March - 19th May

37 Merrion Square, D2.

■ Katharina Schücke -

Tunneln Exhibition engaging with the architectural history of East Germany and the influence of social and political changes.

25 March - 30 April

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Tallentire explores how the ordering and disordering of things can signify cultural and social determinants of daily life.

17th February until 3rd May

IMMA Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, D8 ■ What Happens Next is a

Sommeil Ongoing series which now comprises over 100 artworks, some still in progress. Accompanied by instructions and postcards which resemble a diary, the work relates in an oblique way to visions of games and exercises seen in many of his actions and films.

26 February - 23 May 2010 ■ Vertical Thoughts with

Secret

Morton Feldman

An experimental exhibition that attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks are shown in the context of a collection. By changing and re-positioning works, or even adding new ones, the exhibition shifts over the course, generating absences, which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections, as well as new relationships that challenge our understanding of the narrative.

26 January until 18 April

Vertical Thoughts comprises music scores, record covers, photographs and documents, and works of art by fourteen artists associated with Feldman, including Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollack.

31st March - 27 June 2010

■ Jorge Pardo Exploration of new media and the future of art within new technology to present an exhibition that is at the forefront of art practice today. The result is a highly conceptual virtual retrospective comprising expansive photomural wallpaper.

17th February until 3rd May ■ Anne Tallentire -This, and

other things In this multi-collabortive effort,

Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2 ■ Liam Gillick - Seven

Structures and a Vodka and Soda No information at present.

26th March - 24th April

National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Sq West, D2 ■ Recent Acquisitions A decade of acquisitions at the National Gallery of Ireland will be showcased in an exhibition reflecting the different areas of the Collection.

13th March until 25th July

The Mill Theatre Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum, D16 ■ Hazel Fitzpatrick - Cocoon Photography that has been manipulated in postproduction, with a concern that lies in scratching the surface of an image and unearthing what exists beyond the tangible.

27th March - 29th April RHA Gallery 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2 ■ Gary Coyle - At Sea Series of photographs and large scale drawings of the sea and coastline. There will be a performance by the artist, in the gallery on the 25th and 26th March at 7pm.

19th March - 2nd May

spheric drawings, produced while in residence in Cill Rialaig. Together with a collection of poems by Sue Hubbard the pieces have been published in a book entitled The Idea of Islands, which will be launched at the RHA during the opening on 18 March.

19th March - 2nd May

Rubicon Gallery 10 St Stephen’s Green, D2 ■ Tom Molloy - Aftermath Exhibition of pencil on paper works from the NCAD alum, whose work has been accepted into the permanent collections of several international galleries.

24th March - 24th April

The Science Gallery Trinity College, Pearse Street, D2

■ Oliver Comerford -

Painting 1994 - 2010

■ Hyperbolic Crochet Coral

Comerford’s work as a representational painter has contributed significantly to the interpretation of contemporary landscape in Ireland. The exhibition will include 30 works, featuring paintings from the past 16 years, in this mid-career retrospective.

19th March - 2nd May

A woolly testimony that celebrates the hyperbolic geometry of coral, Crochet Coral Reef also draws attention to how global warming and pollutants are threatening this fragile ecosystem.

20th March until 28th May

■ Richard Gorman - Shuffle Gorman’s oil paintings, on linen, typically involve clearly defined interrelated blocks of colour, creating tensions between themselves and the edge of the picture.

19th March - 2nd May ■ Donald Teskey - The Idea

of Islands

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Talbot Gallery 51 Talbot Street, D1.

■ Auto-Mano - Fergus Byrne

/ Joe Stanley Two series of drawings, neither made from visual reference points, but prompted by the mediums of sound and a GPS system, the work aims to stimulate a discussion of drawing itself.

March 25th until April 17th

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SAMSON AND DELILAH

Warwick Thornton is the writer and director of Samson and Delilah, the Aboriginal teenage love story that has gained widespread acclaim as it continues on the international circuit. The film won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the premier prize for debut features, and has been a runaway hit in its native Australia.

After its crowning as the Best Film at the hands of the Dublin Film Critics Circle at this year’s JDIFF, we talked to the film’s antipodean creator.

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I suppose I should say from the outset that I really enjoyed your film - the opening shot was one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Did you have any specific aesthetic direction you wanted to take with the film?

I come from a documentary background, so I wanted a certain amount of realism in the film. One of the most important things for me was that, as an audience member, you would just go on this journey with these kids, so when writing it, it was very, very clear that whenever protagonists or antagonists would pop up, whenever other people were injected into their lives, that would happen in real time - it would happen to you at the same time it happens to them.

‘Minimalism’ is a tag which has been thrown at this film, but there is also your documentary sensibility which, I think, lends it a certain resonance that goes beyond broad, artistic labelling. There is a unique directness with which you address the audience, would you agree with that?

The tricks of cinema are incredibly subtle.

Audiences are quite intelligent and they know when you’re manipulating them a little bit too much with the editing or the basic composition, so I purposefully made it a much looser concept, not trying to play too many tricks... That opening shot - for me, one of the most important things about storytelling is, in that first five minutes, creating that sense of place. So you’ve got this song that says: “sunshiny day”, this happy song, but we’ve got this lethargic, sort of slow-motion shot of this kid waking up in squalor, he starts sniffing petrol... The shot’s way too long for an opening shot, generally, but I wanted to keep that shot way too long so that people thought: “well, I’m not going to watch a conventional piece of cinema, it’s something a bit left or right or a bit weird”.

That’s a task in editing, to get the film to really play at its own pace.

Realism is something which is quite important, I suppose, as far as Australian cinema is concerned, I don’t know, would you agree that Australia hasn’t been represented in “the right ways”, historically, on an international level.

Yeah, you know, there are some beautiful films from Australia out there, but there are these indigenous issues that people have been too scared to deal with.

I remember watching Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, this really fantastical film and then, at the end, this intertitle was shoehorned in detailing quite historically the plight of Aboriginal children in Australia.

It seemed a little artificial...

Yeah, it was a bit confused, there was a lot of history Baz had to tackle. I really enjoyed Australia, you know, because I was going to watch Moulin Rouge in a desert. I kind of knew what I was getting into, cos it’s a Baz film, Baz makes these kinds of films and if you understand that you can enjoy it. Otherwise you’d kind of be in trouble, in a sense. But, absolutely, you know, one of the key successes of Samson and Delilah is that, in cinema, these kind of children have never really been seen in Australia. You see them on the 5 o’ clock news. There is a hunger in Australian audiences to go on this journey with them and learn more about these kids that audiences hadn’t had access to before.

To what extent were you working towards, perhaps, a politically motivated cinema which would represent these marginalised communities in a more sincere

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way, in terms of Australian cinema?

I initially set out to make a teenage love story, and what I wanted to do was humanise these kids because they’re generally used as a political issue. That’s the only way they’re portrayed - a political football between federal state governments and mayors and the police and that kind of stuff so I said: “Right, I’m going to make a teenage love story about these two incredibly beautiful children and how they fall in love, the unique way they fall in love,” but knowing very well that I cannot make that film without bringing up all those obstacles and issues and problems in their lives. So it was secondary to the concept of a teenage love story, but I knew that I had to get that kind of stuff right, and when people started seeing the neglect of these kids, people started saying “Well, what’s going on? What can I do to help?”

There’s a universality achieved, I think, through the lack of dialogue which, occasionally, makes for deeply uncomfortable viewing, as far as conventional cinema is concerned, but as a result you’re forced to reflect more clearly on what’s happening...

There’s a gorgeous thing that happens when two people can go into Samson and Delilah and come out with two completely different concepts of the “unspoken” dialogue because it hasn’t been fed to them by the film. They’re making their own minds up. I mean, you’re thinking what Samson’s thinking and what Delilah’s thinking and it’s really kind of beautiful in that way we’ve all gone through love and pain and happiness and the way you’ve grown up and the way you see the world is how you’ll see how Samson and Delilah are, in a sense. So you have these very different kinds of emotions and reactions from very different people. I really like that.

You know, as soon as you take out all that really cheap dialogue like “I’m angry”, “I’m happy”, “I’m sad”, “I’m tired”, you get actors to start acting it rather than just saying it. It almost comes back to the novel, in a way, where the imagination of the audience has a lot more weight in the film than the basic act of storytelling.

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So, a great strength of the film is that it isn’t didactic, even though it’s dealing with these themes and issues which are typically approached by filmmakers in a sort of prescriptive, self-righteous way. A huge part of that is the skill in the performances of the two principal actors who, I understand, had never acted before?

Yeah certainly, I mean, they’ve never acted but they have grown up in these communities. They were both 13 when we made the film and they’ve got these 13 years of research and rehearsals for the roles.

Neither of them have sniffed petrol or anything like that, but they’ve got cousins who have and they’ve got a lot of people around them who have, so they have an in-built instinct, I suppose, to be Samson and Delilah. It was a 90-page script: every look and every song was in there, to the point where I was writing the lyrics to the songs versus actually writing the dialogue, so it was incredibly complicated and precise. All that stuff was there, and the two kids gave me the timing, which was incredibly beautiful to watch. I never said “do that faster” or “hurry up”, they played the timings themselves.

On to the experience of winning the Camera d’Or... This film has been received so well on an international level, it must be fantastic to come from making a very Australian film, in terms of what it deals with, and having it recognised on the international circuit?

Absolutely. After finishing the film, I was so proud of it and there was this clear, decisive thought in my head that I wondered, you know, am I blowing smoke up my own arse? I knew that I really liked it,

and I knew I was really proud of it but, as far as an audience was concerned, maybe it was just a load of tripe, you know? As a writer/director, you just can’t tell. The film was released in Australia at the same time that we flew to Cannes, and basically, in this one week, we had this massive box-office hit in Australia and we won the Camera d’Or. It was almost like going into a coma, in a sense, with this pure tranquility of happiness. (laughs) Because you never know, you can play with these formulas and you can write from the depths of your heart and become a storyteller, but whether anyone will like what you do... you don’t have any control over that.

It not only transcended language, but it transcended culture - seeing all that stuff, France loved it and Australia really loved it, and we had screenings in Alice Springs for the communities where about 6,000 people walked up to the football field for an outdoor, free screening and everybody loved it... It just worked incredibly well.

The other thing about Samson and Delilah is that there are Samsons and Delilahs in London, in Dublin, in New York, in Sydney, in Central Australia: they’re teenagers who’re in love and they’re neglected and they need a little bit of help.

Samson and Delilah is on general release from the 2nd April

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GrooveNauts.

house DJs and producers - Julio “Mr Chi” Chichelnitzky and Victor Sanchez – pictured at Mosebacke Runs the monthly club Subsoil at Imperiet, Götgatan 78, Södermalm, and has set up a label with the same name together with Chicago DJ Chez Damier.

Victor: The outstanding thing about Stockholm is the contrast between city and nature.

When you’re in the city you’ve always got the water and green areas so close. Even if you’re in the middle of the city, say Old Town, there’s only a few minutes walk and you’re by the water.

I was born here and I live here, but I’ve got Spanish parents and have lived

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in Madrid, and Stockholm is a lot more relaxed. To me it’s home and I can’t imagine ever moving away.

For a visitor, getting out into the archipelago is a must, but staying in town the first thing you have to do is to visit Mosebacke on a summer night. That’s where I always bring people when they’re visiting and every single one has been swept off their feet. The view is breathtaking and the atmosphere so special.

Julio: Stockholm to me is wooden boats, disco, five in the morning and a big heart. It gives me a warm feeling but with a teaspoon of melancholy, which I like.

I was born in Argentina and came here when I was four. Since then I’ve lived in a couple of different suburbs and on Södermalm.

My favourite hang out is the bar Imperiet at Södermalm. Some top class DJs – both disco connoisseurs and old house heads - make sure the music always keeps high standards.

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IN STOCKHOLM, THE BEAUTY IS WHAT STRIKES YOU FIRST. BUILT ON ISLANDS, THE CONSTANT PRESENCE OF WATER ENSURES YOUR SUMMER VISIT NEVER STRAYS FAR OFF THE POSTCARD. BUT DIG DEEPER AND YOU FIND A DIVERSE CITY, WHERE ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF TOWN HAS ITS OWN DISTINGUISHED PERSONALITY. TO GET SOME INSIGHT INTO STOCKHOLM’S HEART AND SOUL WE HOOKED UP WITH A FEW RANDOMLY PICKED FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES, EACH GIVING THE LOWDOWN ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY THEY INHABIT. words // PETER STEEN-CHRISTENSEN pictures // ANTON RENBORG

Isabel Strådal

student – phographed at Östermalm on her first day as a busker I have lived in the northwestern suburbs all my life and I really like Stockholm. I would only ever move if it were to a bigger city, like New York.

The good thing in Stockholm is that you can be yourself. Whatever style you have, you’ll always be accepted.

I recommend all visitors to see Stockholm’s fantastic archipelago. You can be really close to the city, and still be in a spectacular natural setting.

Ulrika Nilsson

fashion store proprietor – pictured outside her store. Owner of well renowned Stockholm shop JUS, Brunnsgatan 7 My oasis in Stockholm is a little garden I found and fell in love with by coincidence when I slipped through the gates to Drottninggatan 88 about 15 years ago. It was like finding a little slice of Paris in the middle of Stockholm. A stones throw from the frenzy and noise of Drottninggatan, the place seems forgotten in a melancholy way. It’s a park with goldfish in the pond, pears and apple trees and the

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ground covered by ivy. Surrounded by The Hårlemanska Stables (Hårlemanska Stallet) and Malmgården with ancestry from the 1600s on one side and The Central Bath (Centralbadet), the impressive Art Nouveau property from 1904, on the other.

I recommend everyone to just pass through the iron gates, sit down at a bench and enjoy the moment.

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Anders Ljung & Mats Rubarth

members of the rock band Casablanca – pictured at Stockholm’s busiest intersection.

Anders was earlier known for his project Space Age Baby Jane while Mats was previously a Swedish international footballer with ten seasons in the top league in Sweden. Casablanca will release their debut album in May and support Kiss in June.

Anders: I moved to Stockholm in the late eighties and have been enjoying the Stockholm nightlife for 25 years – almost since prehistoric times when there were rules stating you couldn’t buy alcohol without ordering food, most often it was a tiny sandwich. It’s fun and inspiring to live in a place that is like a spin-drier. Compared to most other European cities of similar size, like Brussels or Prague, Stockholm is far superior. There is so much talent, so much energy.

I’m very big on convenience so all my favourite things are in the area of Vasastan where I live and has the city centre nearby on one side and the Haga park just as close on the other. Café Non Solo is where you’ll usually find me - an international café with the best espresso outside Italy. I also go to the French inspired restaurant deVille on Roslagsgatan and its neighbouring Café Nero which is opening up a restaurant in a 400 square meter parking garage underneath them. Those places are my own personal little Stockholm enclave.

Mats: I moved here in 2000 when I was signed

by AIK Stockholm. I think the best thing about Stockholm is that it’s a city open to new things and changes both when it comes to culture and food. People in Stockholm are curious when it comes to exotic food, they are well on top of latest fashion trends and they all listen to laptop electronica while they upgrade their fancy kitchens. Unfortunately it can lead to standardization when everyone drowns out their own personal taste in fear of not being hip or down with the latest trends. For good or worse the people of Stockholm always makes sure it’s the hippest city in Europe.

What I like to do when I’m not working is to take a morning walk to Il Café at Bergsgatan on the Kungsholmen island and order the breakfast sandwich with Krutrök (Gunpowder smoke), which is Swedish Västerbotten cheese spiced with Northern Swedish aquavit.

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Niki Tsappos & Martha Nabwire

dancers – pictured at Åsögatan, Södermalm Winners of the Juste Debout – the street dance world championships – in Paris March 2010 Niki: I grew up in Stockholm’s southern suburbs and still live there. Stockholm is fantastic in so many ways, the only negative is that everyone and everything tries to be perfect which sometimes can have the opposite effect. Stockholm is also clean and fresh, everything works and is of high standards and everything is effective and fair.

Stockholm is an easy place to navigate and live in. The best place is Södermalm, and especially Mosebacke. All different aspects of it, the location, the people, the clubs, the theatre – there’s a special vibe going on. Everyone visiting Stockholm should go there.

Martha: I came to Stockholm in 2006 from Uganda where I was raised. I loved it from the word go and I really enjoy living here.

Stockholm to me means freedom, it’s a big city with cool people, great places to go and some very good clothing shops – the favourite being the Caliroots Store at Brunnsgatan by Östermalmstorg.

My favourite hangout without doubt is Mosebacke, nice music, good dancers and people who appreciate good music. It makes you feel good being there.

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Liselotte Westerlund

designer – pictured in her studio at Östermalm Liselotte Westerlund has showrooms in Paris, New York, Stockholm and Hong Kong and her clothes have appeared on shows such as Sex And The City.

I was born and raised in the southern part of the Stockholm archipelago. When I was younger and moved to the US to study fashion and design my feelings for Stockholm were not that strong, but since coming back I look upon Stockholm in a different light. There’s so much history, culture and enriched traditions and the best thing is probably that the air feels so clean and that there is so much water everywhere. I think most people have high morals and human decency too.

My favourite area is just around the Djurgården Bridge, the Nordic Museum and the Royal Motorboat Club (KMK) and has some nice places to drink and eat by the water.

Morgan Norman

fashion photographer – photographed outside his Södermalm Studio Represented at the permanent exhibition at Sweden’s National Museum. Once received a handwritten thank you-letter from Mel Brooks after photographing him for an article.

I was born in Stockholm but grew up in the countryside before I moved back.

Stockholm means freedom to me, and it’s like having a big and a small city in one.

One of its strongest points is that the various parts of town and the various islands differ so much from one another.

It’s a bit like New York where I used to live, you realise immediately what part you’re in. New York has also got some great cafes but Stockholm is at least on par. It’s a fantastic place to drink coffee, new creative cafés and bars pop up everywhere. And there are some great vintage shops too at Södermalm.

My very favourite place to hang out would be at the peaceful waterfront promenade by Eriksdalshallen at Skanstull, Södermalm. To sit down there by the water smoking a water pipe and drinking red wine at sunset is unrivalled, and still only five minutes away from the hustle and bustle of the Södermalm streetlife.

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Hogan’s has long been a staple of the after-work diet for many of this city’s inhabitants. More bar than pub, the George’s Street tavern is perfectly placed to bridge the gap between six o’ clock pints, and heading further afield into the night. If our city’s nightclubs aren’t your calling, settling in here for the night wouldn’t be your worst move. With windows on all sides, the layout of Hogan’s will be familiar to many whether they’ve actually been inside or not.

Despite several pints there over the last few years, the presence of a basement bar in Hogans had previously escaped me.

From Friday to Sunday, downstairs is occupied by club nights.

Carrying on past the bathrooms, you enter a dark cavern with a bar, a DJ

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booth, and two smaller adjacent sections.

I noted the complete lack of a queue at the downstairs bar (handy knowledge, given the sometimes-hectic scenes upstairs).

As you enter the significantly more dimly-lit basement, you are deposited on to a dance floor - well that’s the plan; however, the main room is entirely deserted. Every seat and stool in the basement is taken, and therein lies the problem. As things stand, people come here for drinks, not to dance. One woman is tucked away in the corner giving it socks. She looks like she’s having a great time, but eventually she sits back down with her mates.

The lone ranger routine can only last so long.

Although the patrons upstairs seem oblivious, or don’t care about the music that’s being piped in, there is a DJ downstairs taking care of business. On the night, it was DJ Half Dutch, who along with Dejackulate (!) runs Friday night pun-happy club Basement Traxx. They play a mix of hip-hop, jazzy breaks, and funk, and they play it well. Although her set tonight is ultimately enjoyable, it seemed like a bit of a lost cause, gauging by the reactions of people around me.

Unlike club nights with a cover charge, people are not here to see the DJ, and through no fault of her own, Half Dutch failed to captivate those in attendance.

Given the owners’ intentions to transform the Hogan’s basement into a fullyfledged club, the lighting is very low.

Were the basement rammed, it would not register; however, the sparse population was shrouded in near darkness as they chatted amongst themselves. A few glances are thrown toward the basement from upstairs drinkers on the way to the toilets; however, the empty, dark void is not exactly welcoming, and they retreated back to their comfort zone. There is a massive disparity between the two floors of Hogan’s. Upstairs is undeniably lively, downstairs devoid of any real atmosphere. Those expecting a legitimate club experience may well be left wanting. As it stands, the basement’s function remains overflow seating.

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5)& (&/&3"- "44&.#-: 3"/&-"() 4 5)& )*-words // OISÍN MURPHY picture // EMMA BRERETON Anton decided to give me a lift to The Hill on his way to Tramco, where he was going to “pre-drink” in his car before cutting it up all night long with his friend Roy, who had taken the passenger seat, relegating me to the back of Anton’s rather compact car. “This place looks gay, man,” he observed, as we pulled up to the pub, its stately exterior not finding any admirers in the front half of our Peugot 206, though it was difficult to make out fine details, what with the half-light and the tinted windows. “Say hi to my granddad for me!” laughed Anton as I hopped out of the vehicle, trying to disassociate myself from the Black Eyed Peas song pumping from his sound system by casually averting my gaze while waving thank-you.

I was unsure of what to expect from The Hill as I approached its entrance.

Our kindly editor had jovially suggested that I might be shot on arrival, a reference to its past notoriety as the preferred pub of some famous criminal or other - thankfully, nothing (or at least very few things) could have been further from the truth. The pub was exceptionally warm and welcoming, with a regular crowd of (I presume) local folk having all manner of discussions amongst themselves.

Its decor was familiar but well-finished, utterly unimposing but undeniably comfortable. For a relatively small pub, it seemed very spacious, a testament to its careful layout and benign lighting. In the now unlikely event of a gunfight, I couldn’t pick out many suitable areas in which I could seek cover.

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bar. The static seating along the walls was cosy and suitably sized for slouching and having passive-aggressive arguments about football while not making eye contact with your opponent. As a relief from the bitter cold outside and an accompaniment to a cold Guinness, I really couldn’t have hoped for better. The Guinness itself, however, was rather mediocre. I found it a little watery, while my companion also complained of “graininess” - it was by no means terrible, but it certainly wasn’t particularly good. Of course, this is but a small fault for your average pub-goer, and it certainly did little to spoil our night.

Its staff and patrons were, to a man, friendly and talkative, and we were made to feel very welcome, an outcome which I had not been led to anticipate either by my editor or the man in the chipper off Ranelagh main street, whose directions to the pub were accompanied by an ominous, Scooby Doo-esque level of foreboding. Even my first impressions, from regarding its exterior, were shown to be a wild underestimation of the pub’s calibre. Truly, this was the grand armadillo of south Dublin public houses. If I didn’t live so far from Ranelagh, I would be very inclined to revisit. Also, as an antithesis of your average, opulent Dublin 6 pub, it was exceptional. My companion remarked of one of its contemporaries that one would have difficulty even getting a pint therein. Shocking, that. The surrounding bourgeois taverns would certainly do well to observe the quiet humility of The Hill, sub-par black stuff notwithstanding.

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$6.#&3-"/% 4"6$&4 (063.&5 '00% 1"3-063 words // KATIE GILROY picture // EMMA BRERETON By day, the Gourmet Food Parlour is a jovial café that offers fantastic lunchtime fare; superior sandwiches boasting fillings of smoked cheddar, basil pesto, pastrami, sweet pepper relish, emmental cheese loaded into the freshest floured rolls or strategically placed between crunchy ciabatta halves. There’s more...

Moorish and delicious homemade soups, substantial salads, just-baked cakes and exquisite coffee. Set amongst a row of degenerative buildings on Cumberland Street, the Gourmet Food Parlour, with its rustic green-washed exterior and wholesome menu, is a diamond in the rough, an iridescent flower in an otherwise dull and lifeless bed of weeds. Its close proximity to both the east and west piers in Dun Laoghaire makes GFP the perfect pit-stop for a bite after a wind-swept walk by the sea and the rhythmic murmur of the nearby DART is reassurance that no matter how many glasses of Italian, Spanish or French wine you succumb to, you won’t be left stranded come closing time.

Yes. By day GFP ticks all the right boxes, and is a regular haunt of mine since I live just a pebble’s pelt away. At night however, on Fridays and Saturdays specifically, something magical happens.

The cheery café transforms from quaint to cool as the clock strikes 8pm. A live jazz band take their stance in the centre of the room as the lights dim on the moon’s

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nod. Candles flicker and cast atmospheric shadows on the walls while tapas are served in lieu of the daily sandwich board.

From outside, the eatery’s internal glow guides us up the darkened street and leads us to the pulse and heart of an otherwise subdued town. Brushes of percussion and nimble plucks of bass greet us on our arrival and we feel as if we have just stumbled upon some fabulous hidden secret (along with 26 others of course).

The walnut and gorgonzola ravioli in sage butter (€7) was first to grab our attention from the plainly printed menu.

This was sadly not available on the night so we commenced with a very generous helping of patatas bravas beneath a dollop of spicy garlic bravas sauce (€5), a dish of black pudding stacked between circular slices of roasted apple and potato (€7) and some beer battered calamari (€9). The traditional Spanish potatoes were cooked to perfection and the sauce, more garlic than spice, was muy bueno. While the idea of the black pudding had spiked intrigue in its written form on the menu and although I was impressed by its graceful skyscraper presentation, the flavours of this dish failed to spark any desire in me to keep eating once the first bite had been consumed. Expecting more sweetness from the roasted apple, the prevailing generic taste of the pudding was a slight let down for me. Likewise, the calamari was not as crispy as I hoped simply because it had been drowned in the accompanying pink sauce. A small ramekin dish containing the sauce on the side would remedy

the problem of the soggy squid, I feel.

To follow, we tucked into traditional seafood paella (€10), lemon chicken skewers (€8) and the special, which was lamb meatballs in a yoghurt sauce. All three dishes made up for any prior disappointments. A milder form of paella than you would perhaps find in Barcelona, GFP’s version was a less fishy but perfectly acceptable one featuring prawns, scallops, mussels and clams already scooped from their shells and ready to eat. Green peas were dotted in amongst the paella rice, the temperature was close to steaming and we couldn’t have been more satisfied with this offering. Typical to tapas, the lamb meatballs rolling in a mint and yoghurt dressing were subtle yet tasty but the chicken skewers were my favourite of the lot. Marinated in lemon and garlic and served with garlic aioli, these chicken lollies had more flavour than you could shake a stick at.

With three glasses of red wine, two of a rich and fruity red Primitivo from Italy and one of the Spanish oaked Rioja, la quenta came to a reasonable €63.50. On seeing our sizeable leftovers (a reflection of the generous portions and not of the food itself) the Spanish waitress offered to transfer them into a plastic container for us to take home. We were already looking forward to tomorrow’s lunch.

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With space to seat at least 100 customers, the Ormond Wine Bar is no matchbox but a few punters are certainly needed to set this venue alight. Church-high ceilings, stunning stone walls and a very grand, polished bar provide the ideal setting for large gatherings and art exhibitions (the wine bar doubles as a gallery space) but at lunch time, as we take our seat amongst the plethora of unoccupied delicate auction-house furniture, an echoing sense of desertedness closes in on us.

Unfortunately before we even glanced at the menu, the Ormond Wine Bar failed one very simple test. Arriving a few minutes be-

discover that it tasted like, well, a flower.

After the excitement of the meatballs and mediocrity of the fishcakes, the meal sort of reached a plateau with our main courses. My lamb tagine with cous cous harboured less flavour and spice than I would have liked but it was nevertheless, an enjoyable dish. My partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gripe with the mussels was that the awkwardly small bowl left little room for oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fingers to forage beneath the shelled molluscs for the spicy curried sauce. Again, this dish was pleasant but lacked the sort of kick that would compel either of us to return for seconds. And an unexceptional homemade brownie with ice cream could do little to elevate our Liffey-side lunch from average to excellent.

Whatever about the standard of the food, the prices did please us. â&#x201A;Ź14 for two courses and â&#x201A;Ź16.50 for three is a fair reflection of these post-boom times. Superb value is to be found in the wine list that offers French, Spanish and South African varieties among others with the cost of some bottles set as low as â&#x201A;Ź9.50. Our choice of wines by the glass, a Merlot for me and a Sauvignon Blanc for him, were reasonably priced at â&#x201A;Ź4.

The bill, including a cappuccino, came to an acceptable â&#x201A;Ź41 before service. A venue with massive potential, there is no reason why the Ormond Wine Bar couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a huge hit but more attention to detail is certainly needed.

If only the owners would get off their laurels (and laptops), roll up their sleeves and put in some elbow grease (starting with the loos), they might just have a success on their hands.

fore my companion, I followed the industrial metal and glass staircase down to the bathrooms in the basement which I guessed had not been tended to since the previous night.

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#*5&4*;& */5&37*&8 1*$)&5 4 45&1)&/ (*#40/ words // KATIE GILROY picture // EMMA BRERETON Much of Nick Munier’s career has played out on our television screens. As Marco Pierre White’s maitre d’ on Hell’s Kitchen, we watched him drop plates and muddle food orders to beat the band, finding his clumsiness endearing and melting at every smile he flashed us through our plasmas, even referring to him as ‘Nick’ to all our mates. No introduction was needed then when Munier appeared in a six-part documentary RTE series on setting up a restaurant, Pichet on Trinity Street, during the global recession in 2009, but his business partner Stephen Gibson (all six foot something of him) was less recognisable.

Since teaming up with Munier last year, the Donegal native and former head chef of l’Ecrivain has stepped out from behind the anonymity that sometimes comes with working in the kitchen and into the spotlight thrust upon him by Pichet’s enormous success. Everybody, I think it’s time you met Stephen.

Tell me a bit about your background…

I grew up in Donegal and trained in Killybegs Catering College. I left college and went to work in France for the year where I worked in a two star Michelin as a ‘stagiaire’ - you don’t get paid, you go for the experience. Then I did Australia, the whole backpacker buzz, then came back to Dublin and worked in La Stampa with Paul Flynn. After that I did a year on a cruise ship before moving to London to work in a place called Chez Nico, a three star Michelin. After a year there, I worked in a very good fish restaurant in Sweden and helped set up another restaurant with the head chef. I moved back to Dublin and started in l’Ecrivain in 2001.

How did you find the initial language barrier?

When I was in France, (I never learned French in school which was a big mistake) but I found the French very difficult.

The Swedish was quite easy to pick up.

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the language when I was there but… I remember my first day in Sweden standing in the kitchen doing a trial and I asked the chef what the words for cod (torsk) and halibut (halleflundra) were and just went through the service listening to the names of the different ingredients. I really enjoyed it there. The thing about Sweden too is that everybody is so mad to speak English over there you actually have to say, “Sorry, do you mind talking to me in Swedish?”

Why did you leave your head chef post at l’Ecrivain?

I worked there for seven years, did seven days a week and not that you want to be in the limelight but you want to get the credit for all the hours you’re putting in so it’s only a natural progression that you want to do it yourself. If it works, you get all the credit and whatever comes with it, and if it doesn’t work, you’re taking a chance. All my training was in Michelin level cooking, so much work put into each plate, so many different garnishes. I think the older you get as a chef, the simpler you want stuff.

How did you and Nick first meet?

I worked with Nick’s wife at l’Ecrivain for five years. She worked in reception so I got to meet Nick through her. Then Nick came to work at l’Ecrivain for a while and we just sort of clicked.

Do the pair of you ever butt heads?

Not really. I’m the laidback one and Nick’s the hyper one and we sort of bounce off each other. Obviously there are moments when we have an auld argument but very rarely. We respect each other’s areas. So far it’s working well.

What about chefs and their big egos? Is it a fair stereotype and how do you keep yours

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I don’t think I have an ego. I don’t know if you saw the TV show, but everybody was saying to me God, you’re so calm, how do you not go crazy… If I get pissed off in the kitchen then it’s something really serious. Loads of chefs get wound up about absolutely nothing and there’s no point. If you’re working in a kitchen and you’re shouting and roaring all the time, you’re causing chaos. When I worked over in London in a three star Michelin it was chaos everyday. There were chefs punched and hit, doors closed on their arms. It was just chaos, and every time it happened the whole service fell apart. I’m not that type of person. Maybe I’m too nice.

What’s in store for you and Nick in the future then, a second restaurant perhaps?

We didn’t expect this place to be as successful as it has been but we do over a hundred covers every single night. Nick’s very good friends with Harry Crosbie who owns the Point and he’s like, guys you gotta come down to the new Point Village and Nick’s sorta like let’s do it! And I’m like, let’s just appreciate what we’ve done so far here and give it a year or two.

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So many people have made that mistake in the restaurant industry where they become successful and then they open another one and it starts to feed off the first one.

I’d prefer to get this one right and keep it constantly busy. Then, maybe a few years down the line, think about doing something else. It’s pretty mental. I overheard the receptionist yesterday telling somebody who was looking for a table on a Saturday night that we were booked out for six weeks! We’re busier than we ever expected but it’s a good complaint.

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Restaurant Guide

Brasserie Sixty6 66-67 South Great Georges St, Dublin 2 Stylish, buzzy restaurant, right in the heart of Dublin’s shopping and entertainment district. Great food and drink, fantastic surroundings, exciting atmosphere, reasonable prices. Whether it's a lazy brunch at the weekend or a business lunch, or simply a romantic dinner, at brasserie sixty6 is always our pleasure. Finger-licking desserts, a full vegetarian menu, carefully selected wine list chosen with accessibility, value and good taste, delicious cocktails to start your evening… you will not be disappointed.

Odessa

Cafe Irie

Odessa is Dublin’s original dining lounge, a mesh of style and substance. Thanks to its newly-popular Fivers menu, its defining quality has become offering affordable sophistication. The restaurant offers a mouth-watering menu renowned for its tapas-style offerings and an unparalleled cocktail menu, all in a chilled-out atmosphere.

A Buddha-balanced haven from the helter-skelter lunchtime of the rest of Dublin 2. With a more-thancomprehensive range of coffees, teas, and juices, and a meaty menu comprising paninis, ciabattas, sandwiches, and some rustic pizzas, Irie’s Zen-attuned environment offers the food to match. Its car-bootsale approach to decor and smiling staff makes it impossible not to eat, drink, and be Irie.

t: 01 670 7634 www.odessa.ie

t: 01 672 5090

14 Dame Court, Dublin 2

11 Fownes Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Open: Mon-Fri at 11am, Sat-Sun 10am, Until: Sun-Wed til 10.30pm, Wed-Sat til 11pm

t: 01 400 5878 www.brasseriesixty6.com

Brasserie de Verres en Vers

Café Novo

Brasserie de Verres en Vers is a new, modern interpretation of the French brasserie. Quietly glamorous and sedately cool, design is an integral part, with clean lines, dark wood finishes and an elegant contemporary floral detail. With an all-day menu, the emphasis at Brasserie de Verres en Vers is on classic French bistro fare, with ever-changing plats du jour, staple and signature dishes and a focus on fresh quality produce. The menu at Brasserie de Verres en Vers is complemented by a carefully chosen list of French wines and champagne and a great selection of aperitifs and digestifs.

Café Novo, a chic new international bar and brasserie opened it doors in October 2008. This fun and flirty eatery will woo diners with a carefully selected menu that offers traditional favourites with a twist - making it the perfect brunch stop for peckish shoppers or evening dinner and drinks spot for city slickers. Conveniently located on Harry Street, just a few steps from Grafton Street, Café Novo offers informal-style drop-in dining, whether you want to grab a modern take on a club sandwich or to simply sip on a cocktail.

Mon-Sun 10am-10pm, bar open to 12.30am

at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin

Breakfast: Dinner: Sunday Brunch:

Harry St, Dublin 2

06.30-10.30 Mon-Fri 07.00-11.00 Sat-Sun 17.00-22.00 Mon-Sun 13.00-4pm

t: (01) 6463353 dine@cafenovo.ie

www.radissonblu.ie

Sinners

Café Carlo

12 Parliament Street, Dublin 2

63 - 64 O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

Belly dancing and Baba Ganoush, Sinner’s is a traditional Lebanese restaurant in the heart of Dublin City, which combines good food with a vibrant atmosphere. Sinners Lebanese Restaurant is a former recipient of a “Best Ethnic Cuisine” Temple Bar award and continues to serve patrons a wide variety of tantalising Lebanese fare. Guests at Sinners will find a welcoming staff, who provide an excellent service to ensure you have an authentic, fun night out.

The relaxed and intimate setting of Café Carlo, coupled with its high-quality, reasonably priced food and friendly, attentive staff has made this restaurant a huge favourite with Dublin diners. Not only is it a popular choice with visitors to our fair city, it's also found a place in the hearts of the discerning locals, who return time and again to soak up the Cafe Carlo atmosphere and enjoy some genuinely delicious food. Free glass of wine with every main course when mentioning this ad!

Open 5pm til late

t: (01 888 0856 www.cafecarlo.net

t: 01 675 0050

Eden

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The acclaimed, award-winning Eden restaurant serves contemporary food with a distinctive Irish flavour, overlooking the vibrant Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. With a set of mouthwatering dishes available for mains, from mushroom tarts to duck confit, and a stunning location, Eden is one of Dublin’s must-eat experiences.

t: 01 670 5372 www.edenrestaurant.ie

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Venu

Punjab Balti

Anne’s Lane, off South Anne St, Dublin 2

15 Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6

Venu has enjoyed a loyal following since it opened in 2006 and it has been renowned for its well-executed, varied food menu and for its award-winning cocktail bar. If you are looking for a vibrant place that serves great cocktails and quality ‘home-made’ dishes at reasonable prices it is hard to look much further than Venu Brasserie.

Tues - Sat: Dinner 5.30 til late Saturday Brunch: 12pm til 4pm

Old favourite Punjab Balti retains its popularity and success after 13 years by consistently serving authentic Punjabi cuisine, prepared in the same traditional manner as in the Indian subcontinent's Punjab region for centuries. Over the years this famous Ranelagh restaurant has won major recognition for it's top quality food, intimate ambience, excellent value and service. You can bring your own beer or wine and there are also takeaway and delivery services available that are perfect for a Balti night in. For current special offers check out www. punjabbalti.ie

t: 01 67 06755 www.venu.ie charles@venubrasserie.com

t: 01 496 0808 /01 491 2222 info@punjabbalti.ie

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SoHo

Coppinger Row

La Mere Zou

Harbor Bar & Grill

Unpretentious cooking, laid back surroundings, nice sounds, reasonable prices, easy dining and a friendly welcome. Bang in the middle of Dublin city centre - right where you want to be. One all day menu, whether for a quick bite, or a shared platter, or lunch, or casual dinner with friends or colleagues. We offer simple classics and staples prepared using the best ingredients, and executed with style..What you want, how you want it. Laid back eating at SoHo.

Don’t be an April fool, 1/2 price Tuesday lunches for all of this month.

A solidly French restauramt offering bistro classics with a moden touch, La Mere Zou opened in 1994 and specialises in Classic French cuisine. They also offer a large selection of seafood directly from the local fishmarket. At La Mere Zou you can relax in a warm, familial atmosphere while enjoying the very best in cuisine and service.

One of Dun Laoghaire’s newest dining experiences, the Harbor Bar & Grill offers elegant surroundings and a faultless menu. From pork belly to open smoked salmon, HB&G’s spread is diverse but complex. Average prices per meal is €12, with a wine list ranging from €20 upwards. The bar and grill boasts a perfect coastal location, with a stunning view of the eponymous harbour from the beer garden.

17 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2

Open: Mon-Fri 12pm, Sat & Sun 10.30am Last Orders: Sun- Wed 10.30pm, Thurs-Sat 11pm

Off South William St, Dublin 2

Tues - Sat: 12noon - 11pm Sunday: Brunch 12-4, Dinner 6-10 Closed Monday

t: 01 672 9884 www.coppingerrow.com

22 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

Lunch: Monday - Friday 12 -3pm Dinner: Monday - Sat 6 - 11pm

t: 01 61 6669 www.lamerezou.ie

6 - 7 Marine Rd., Dun Laoghaire

t: 01 214 5772 www.harborbarandgrill.com

t: 01 707 9596 www.sohodublin.com

Diep Le Shaker

Diep Noodle Bar

Prices dropped... Standard still very high. To ensure absolute authenticity in Thai cuisine Diep fly all essential ingredients in fresh from Bangkok. Diep Le Shaker make no adjustments in the chilli content of their fare. This stunningly designed restaurant is the recipient of the prestigious Thailand Brand Award awarded by the Government of Thailand and the Thai Select Award awarded by the Ministry of Commerce, Thailand for authentic cuisine.

Thai and Vietnamese food experts, Diep, offer a great value noodle-based menu with an exciting and exotic range of dishes including soups, salads and stir-fries. Diep Noodle Bar’s Bangkok Street Food menu is a steal and includes three courses of soup, appetiser and main course for €16 available Monday to Sunday until 7pm. With it’s fresh and genuine approach to cooking alongside it’s popular cocktail bar, warm hospitality and it’s releaxed but vibrant atmosphere. Diep Noodle Bar is a firm local favourite.

55 Pembroke Lane, Dublin 2

Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6

t: 01 661 1829 www.diep.net

t: 01 497 6550 www.diep.net

DAX

23 Pembroke Street Upper A welcoming bar area offers a post-work winddown or light evening meal, perfect for you and your colleagues to enjoy with hot and cold tapas, available Tuesday to Saturday. Ideal for business and perfect for pleasure, or to dine privately for groups of between 10 and 14 people, Dax Restaurant is only a stones throw away from you and your business so why not take the time to visit a restaurant of refreshment, rejuvenation and reinvigoration.

Tuesday to Friday from 12.30pm to 2pm Tuesday to Saturday from 6pm to 10pm

t: 01 676 1494 olivier@dax.ie www.dax.ie

Pacino’s

Ukiyo Bar

The Farm

Chai Yo

For over 15 years Pacino’s has been a family-run restaurant known for its delicious ‘Classic & Gourmet’ pizzas and pastas, steaks and salads. It serves traditional, fresh, quality Italian cuisine. Its beef is 100% Irish, and sourced from reputable suppliers, and its pizza dough made fresh, inhouse, daily. Pacino’s offers a modern dining experience, with an old world vibe – stylish brickwork, wooden floors and soft lighting all combine to create a relaxed, rustic, informal atmosphere.

Ukiyo Bar is Dublin’s premier late night bar, restaurant and entertainment venue. Open from 12pm till late 7 days a week, especially on Thursday, Friday and Saturday when we keep our kitchen open past midnight. At Ukiyo we strive to provide our customers with a unique dining and entertainment experience - from the best value lunches to great sushi and sake in the evening, attentive and knowledgeable service, top shelf cocktails and some of the best club nights in Dublin at the weekend. Not to mention our private karaoke booths, making Ukiyo the immediate choice for a first date, a birthday party or a corporate bash.

The Farm is about tasty homemade locally sourced free range, organic and fresh food.

Healthy vegetables and fresh herbs. All their food is freshly prepared and cooked to order.

Famed for their Teppenyaki tables creating a unique and interactive eating experience, as well as meals made from the freshest, highest quality ingredients and a great party opportunity, Chai Yo perfects the balance between fun and food. For the less party-inclined of visitors, there is a quieter downstairs section. Something for everyone!

18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2

t: 01 677 5651 www.pacinos.ie

7-9 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 633 4071 www.ukiyobar.com

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3 Dawson St, Dublin 2

11 am to 11 pm 7 days a week

t: 01 671 8654 hello@thefarmfood.ie

100 Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2

Mon-Fri:12.30-3pm, 6pm-11.30pm Sat: 5.30pm-midnight Sun: 3pm-10pm

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The Fall Your Future Our Clutter [Domino] Mark E Smith is the Paul Scholes of the indie rock world.

Maybe it’s a common Manc tenacity, but the Fall are consistently excellent, dependably creative, liable to stick the studs in, and occassionally pull jawdropping goals out of their ginger arse. YFOC is one of their more vicious efforts, more consistent than recent no-score-draw Imperial Wax Solvent, though not quite flashy enough to appeal outside the fan club. - DG

Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have [Hyperdub] Ikonika’s female input into the distinctly masculine offshoot of bass music, wonky post-dubstep, is as unequivocal in its sneering aggression. Very much in key with Bristol’s fledgling Joker-Gemmy-Guido aesthetic (a combination of serpentine G-Funk synths, hip-hop’s slackkneed beats, and dubstep bass drones) Ikonika’s collection is forgettable in album form, but memorable when broken into its composite singles. Take once daily, do not exceed prescribed dose. - DG

Goldfrapp

Dum Dum Girls

Head First [Mute]

Blissed Out [Sub Pop] During the 00s few pop acts were as quietly influential as Goldfrapp. Their second album (2003’s Black Cherry) rode the coat-tails of the muchmaligned electroclash scene, introducing a blueprint for post-millennial electropop that was so intriguing and engaging that Goldfrapp find themselves in 2010 playing catch-up. Little Boots, Florence, even Lady Gaga all owe something of their art to Alison and Will’s pervy personality-driven brand of glistening electroglam. When the electrobeast Black Cherry followed the mellow, dinner-party-friendly Felt Mountain out of the paddock it was enough to make anyone who’d been paying the blindest bit of attention to Goldfrapp do a double-take. After the consolidation of Supernature, Seventh Tree was another unexpected departure – this time into folk-rock, and was such a success on its own terms that it remains the best thing Goldfrapp have done.

The involvement of Richard X and Pascal Gabriel on Head First suggests an attempt to bolster Goldfrapp’s pop standing, but there’s something slightly fuzzy about this album; it’s like listening to disco music while under the numbing influence of valium. Where previous Goldfrapp dance touchstones felt upfront and in your face – punching, kicking, grabbing you by the collar and demanding your attention, on Head First even the uptempo tracks are left to float. The result is that Head First doesn’t feel as immediately ace as previous Goldfrapp albums and in many ways it seems like a retreat. Dreaming is beautifully hazy without going anywhere, Believer revisits the early Mute sound (conjuring the image of a leather-clad Vince Clarke on Cheggars Plays Pop circa 1982) and both Alive and the title track are reminiscent of ELO and ABBA; indeed the latter sounds like it could turn into I Have A Dream at any point. Lead single Rocket is a glossy and confident pop single - the equal of Ooh La La or Strict Machine.

Only Shiny and Warm feels like an outright misfire, while closer Voicething sounds just like Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians – out of step with the the rest of the album but not especially unpleasant. With nine tracks clocking in at less than forty minutes Head First doesn’t feel very substantial, and that’s disappointing, but they’ve been setting the agenda for so long they’ve earned the rest.

Ciaran Gaynor

Echo, repetition and dissonance tussle with soaring tuneful pop on this cassette only comp. Ghosts of Suicide, surfmusic, Jesus and Mary Chain and C86 types The Jasmine Minks haunt Dum Dum Girls’ music but their melodies transcend the predictable, “indie” arrangements (It’s lo-fi!

There’s feedback!) making Blissed Out worthwhile. Their debut album proper (I Will Be) is out next month. On wax-cylinder, presumably. – CG

John Butler Trio April Uprising [Because] Q: Who on earth created this torrent of borderline unlistenable, over-produced, spirit-sapping mulch? A: The Butler did it. Adult-oriented rock of the worst kind, not that there is a good kind. If this is what being an adult is all about, then Peter Pan had the right idea. Competent at what it does, but then so is Glenn Beck. If you want to picture what this album sounds like, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. -CC

The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis [Party Smasher Inc.] Hardcore still exists, even though it’s 2010. Surmounting the not insignificant obstacle of derivation is a difficult task, but the Dillinger Escape Plan, while staying broadly within the generic lines, manage something as brainy as exists in popular music while retaining the expected aggression. They turn on dimes for fun, musically, and then turn back just to make sure they’ve lost you. Impressive stuff. - KMcD

She & Him

Alphabeat

Volume 2 [Domino]

The Beat Is [Polydor]

Indie pixie du jour Zooey Deschanel and acoustic tunesmith M. Ward combine to surprisingly pleasant effect on their second album, the intriguingly titled Volume 2.

Deschanel’s voice alternates between country and sixties girl pop, but it’s the flashes of excellent songwriting that grab the attention here. However for every stomping sugary pop chorus like Don’t Look Back, there’s a forgettable retro meander like Lingering Still. It can stray towards the inoffensive, but that doesn’t stop it being enjoyable. -CC

Scandinavian pop almost-sensations Alphabeat are, on a basic level, too poppy even for the pop charts. In the 90s, when euro-dance still had a grip on the popular imagination and children got their vapid music from Dutch transvestites as much as Christian American teens, Alphabeat might have made sense, or even conquered the world. Right now though, the word ‘anachronism’ strains under the weight of trying to describe how ridiculous this is. - KMcD

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Raekwon, Method Man, and Ghostface Killah

Kormac

Wu-Massacre [Def Jam]

Word Play [Scribble]

‘For old time’s sake, let’s go fly on these niggas heads’, fires off Ghostface in Massacre’s opening salvo. Between chess references, mafia allusions, and the return of ‘BLAAH!’, Massacre’s an even sweeter Wu-Union than last year’s out-of-nowhere Raekwon renaissance. The Wu franchise is about as easy to buy yourself into as Centra these days, so the return of the original shadowboxers to make Ya Moms sketches and tracks of unparalleled comedy violence (Gunshowers surpasses anything from Tical) is decidedly more welcome than 8 Diagrams Pt. II. - DG

Theoretically, one day sampling will collapse in on itself.

Every song committed to shellac will have been cratedug, quantized, and rapped over. And then there’ll just never be another Avalanches album. Kormac does his bit for sustainability, crafting a particularly sunny brand of instrumental hip-hop from his very own live big band, with accompanying spoken-word samples and mercifully few guest raps. Which all equals an album to fry eggs on your bumper to. – DG

Laura Nyro and Labelle

MGMT

Gonna Take A Miracle [Columbia]

Congratulations [Columbia]

As homage-paying pop albums go Gonna Take A Miracle takes some beating. Nyro was one of the most iconic songwriters of the late 60s and early 70s but this covers project with soul sisters Labelle from 1971 might be her most enduring release. Now reissued, the album is in thrall to Harlem’s doo-wop phenomenon and benefits from Gamble & Huff’s jaw-dropping Philly soul production. It’s goosepimples all the way on I Met Him On A Sunday, The Bells and The Wind. This is a cool ice-pop-on-a-summer’sday sort of record and you need it in your life. - CG

As the band themselves have been at pains to point out, don’t expect anything as digestible as Kids this time around. The much-derided Flash Delirium is something of a microcosm, a ridiculous psychedelic mess of no discernible structure that confuses, but when it gets going, delights.

Stonking opener it’s Working, and the deceptively simple title track are highlights, and that’s without mentioning the bizarre, yet somehow brilliant, 12-minute Siberian Breaks.

Have they over-reached? Very possibly. Is over-reaching sometimes fun? Undoubtedly. – CC

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday [Sub Pop] Happy Birthday is the self-titled debut of this Vermont three-piece, headed by Kyle Thomas, a jolly good fellow indeed. You may already have come across lead track Girls FM, but if not, for goodness sake seek it out - an intoxicating rush of strained vocals, clanging guitars and a ludicrously catchy chorus. The rest of the album doesn’t quite live up to the opener, but it’s a fine collection of clattering, harmonising lo-fi rock nonetheless. - CC

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma [Warp] Having shown his crackly production come pop on last month’s Gonjasufi album, FlyLo is back to the instrumental drawing board on Cosmogramma. Not nearly as fizzing as the rocket-launched Los Angeles, this album is a gentle orbital drift around Earth wherein nothing much happens, but the view is something else. Boards of Canada & Prefuse 73 comparisons abound, though Cosmogramma is essentially not as clever or compelling as its predecessors. - DG

Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can [Virgin] There’s something very exciting about hearing an artist step up a gear, which is precisely what Laura Marling has done here.

Her evocative second album is the sort of timeless, homely sounding folk-pop record a thousand aspiring singer-songwriters dream of making. From the magnificent Devil’s Spoke onwards every moment is alive. It’s an early contender for folk record of the year and by the end of the summer will have firmly established Marling as a household name. - CG

Caribou Swim [City Slang]

Gorillaz Plastic Beach [Parlophone] If there’s one thing we can do as well as we destroy the natural equilibrium of the planet through greed and excess, it’s hating on ourselves. So it’s a little disarming to find a cartoon band enlisting every famous singer ever to deliver a message about the potentially positive or at least value-neutral results of consuming lots of crap and remoulding the environment using the waste. Legitimate pop chameleon-genius Damon Albarn once saw a snake sleeping in a decomposing plastic bag on a dump, apparently. This may have been the road to Damascus moment.

It works as a metaphor though, in ways Albarn might or might not have anticipated. Hip-hop is music constructed from the recycled rubbish of previous generations, and though Gorillaz aren’t necessarily chopping up the Amen break themselves, they’re inextricably involved in the whole discourse. So, conceptually, let’s say Plastic Beach works. That’s a far cry from saying it provides the music to back up its weird headiness.

New territory is broken, especially through the retained services of an orchestra, but the best stand-alone tracks are not necessarily experimental. Superfast Jellyfish, with the lazy, thoughtful rhyming of De La Soul and a pop hook provided by Gruff Rhys, becomes the plastic consumer product it parodies, making it a lot of fun to listen to. Lou Reed’s ruminations on new nature with Albarn warbling in the background are similarly entertaining.

But what Plastic Beach ultimately lacks, for all its conceptuality and postmodern confrontation of its own commodification and all of that kind of thing, is truly great songs of the sort that keep you hovering over the back button as they draw to a close. The first album had Clint Eastwood and Demon Days had Feel Good Inc. This album has nothing to rival either, and though it’s both interesting and pleasant to listen to, it’s working on more of a Gruff Rhys’ Candylion level than that of a pop blockbuster which, given how established they are, what they’ve shown they can do and the fact that Snoop Dogg is on this album, you can’t help feeling it should be.

Karl McDonald See also: Gruff Rhys - Candylion, Gorillaz - Demon Days, Beck - Sea Change

I got a little too giddy. I told everybody who’d listen that Caribou’s new album is the best thing in the history of the galaxy. I promised to kiss Daniel Snaith if I ever encountered him in the temporal world. But then I kept listening to Swim, the hooky funk/pop/sorta-trance follow-up to 2007’s chill-out Andorra, and its rough edges became a little too glaring. And then I learned to ignore them wholesale. So I’m pretty fucking giddy again. It’s genius. - DG

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Whip It Director: Drew Barrymore Talent:Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Drew Barrymore Released: 7 April

Shelter Directors: Måns Mårlind, Bjorn Stein Talent: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn Released: 9 April As if her freckled features hadn’t graced our screens enough of late, Julianne Moore is back for more in this stony-faced ‘psychological’ thriller. Playing a shrink-cum-personal investigator (the kind of vague, post-Clarice Starling qualification which allows her to meddle far too often in other’s business) our ginger heroine is assigned a patient with multiple personalities, all of whom resemble Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Meyers’ Adam is a vulnerable, paraplegic hillbilly. Or is that a south African-accented gangster? Or the gravel-voiced leader of a heavy metal group?

It’s difficult to take a subject so unfashionable and un-PC seriously, with Meyers’ shaky grasp of accents detracting further from the poorly-realised ‘psychological’ theme. Any actor might relish the chance to play a man possessed, and it’s not that Meyers mangles his multiple roles completely. But the erstwhile Henry VIII is consistently patchy - poignant as the helpless victim, hilarious when he tries to be menacing - and this is never more apparent than when playing three different people in space of a single scene. He is simply too beefy and static a presence to be genuinely affecting, though this might also be blamed on a lazy script. Moore, meanwhile, retains a straight face and sphynx-like calm as the Tequila-quaffing heroine, whose long plaid skirt is meant to indicate Catholic guilt.

Shelter is visually polished and well-crafted, with a Hitchcockian, elegantly spiky soundtrack. But it suffers a crisis of identity halfway through; the film takes a schizophrenic turn for the worse, from tensely-paced, sub-Silence of the Lambs thriller to ropey supernatural horror. Is Shelter a highbrow psychological thriller masquerading as pulp, or a miscast piece of schlock suffering from delusions of grandeur? Either way, the ludicrous ‘Satanic’ twist and predictably gory finale are no compensation for two hours of misguided hokum.

Roisín Kiberd

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Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, at the time of writing, has received mostly positive reviews, for no reason I can fathom other than that cinema, as an art, is being strangled from within by the filmmakers and critics who constitute it. Chief in Whip It’s strengths, allegedly, is its positive treatment of femininity. These girls dress a bit unusually, hit one another and drink beer and stuff, how do you like that, Dad? They’re just like men are in films, aren’t they?

Not to mention the film’s extremely evident fear of tackling the theme of homosexuality it so bravely and progressively (and quietly) implies. If the cynical, transparent commercial pandering to “alternative” adolescence as a market segment isn’t affront enough to an informed audience, the sheer, galling experience of having to endure the Capital-image posing as active feminism should be enough to render you both speechless and indignant. This is not a good film, nor is it a positive device or representation of femininity in the 21st century. This is, in the most conservative sense of the phrase, “fun for all the family” - providing, of course, that you’re partial to reductive, popular cinema and both your parents are mentally disabled in some way. - OM

Lion’s Den Director: Pablo Trapero Talent: Martina Gusman, Rodrigo Santoro Released: 26 March When 25 year old Julia (Martina Gusman) wakes up in her apartment to find her boyfriend dead and another man barely alive, the scene is set for what could have been a standard truth-finding, whodunnit. But director Pablo Trapero doesn’t take that route.

What we get instead is a fast-paced and involving tale of motherhood in the unconventional surrounding of a prison cell. Using Julia’s fragile relationship with her mother Sophie as a foil to her relationship with Tomás, her son, the film takes in almost four years of action in the space of two hours. Hinging on the performance of Martina Gusman, who is magnificent in what is her first lead role, we never find out whether Julia is innocent of her crime or not, a fact which should make us a bit uneasy about her but doesn’t. A singular story of the bonds of motherhood made all the more intriguing by the wonderful leading performance. - AH

Double Take

Director: Allen Coulter Talent: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper Released: 2 April

Director: Johan Grimonprez Talent: Alfred Hitchcock Released: 2 April

Remember Me recounts the doomed affair between two emotionally damaged individuals who bond over the tragedies that marred their respective childhoods. Pattinson is clearly eager to showcase his range and this is certainly a less chaste on-screen partnership than the tepid Twilight series. He plays Tyler, withdrawn, neglected and a perpetual disappointment to his distant father. Ally is the apposite dysfunctional love interest who struggles endlessly with damage inflicted as the sole witness to her mother’s murder ten years previous. Remember Me has been severely criticised both for its melodramatic tone (which has been all too cleverly concealed by its advertising campaign) and for the trivial treatment of events towards its close but these occasional oversights are more than compensated for by the solid performances from its cast (Tyler’s interactions with his bookish younger sister are beautifully sincere) while the ‘controversial’ ending seems entirely appropriate for a story about the injustices of love and loss. - AR

“If you ever meet your double, you should kill him” – This is the basic premise of Double Take. Part documentary, part insane fiction, the film follows Alfred Hitchcock on the set of The Birds as he runs into his doppelganger who claims he is the real Hitchcock. As per the advice in quotation marks above, a race ensues to kill our hero Mr. Hitchcock and the tale twists and turns every which way with a plot to rival Hitchcock’s most complex thrillers.

With a gripping, if over-the-top story and a wry, smirking sense of humour, Double Take is an entertaining and extremely fresh take on the “mockumentary”. Despite the complicated nature of the story, it never drags and its sheer lunacy is enough to keep you mesmerised. Definitely worth a look, if only for the rare look at Hitchcock in comedy mode. A sight for sore eyes! - CL

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