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8 Roadmap Disco and naked queens 14 Threads Made for you by hands 16 Your Last Supper Zombie Ainsley Harriot had to sit it out 22 Bret Easton Ellis Disappear here 26 Christian Rock We’re not talking the Electric Picnic kind of P.O.D.

31 Listings With Liars, Death of a Salesman, and the Signal Arts Centre 48 Edinburgh One big fringe flick 54 Vincenzo Natali Splice, girls 56 Barfly Covered in swiss cheese and whipped by three hulking men 58 Gastro But… strawberries don’t grow on trees…

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JU T XIBU T JOTJEF UIBU DPVOUT DSFEJUT XIFSF DSFEJU T EVF GJSTU UIJOHT GJSTU It’s not fair. While Geraldine Kennedy spends her life opening envelopes, the epistolary existence has evaded us entirely. The only fun things that arrive in our letterbox on an average month are Viking Direct brochures, Pizza Hut coupons, and CDs from bands with names like The Rayban Conspiracy, Marie Maguire feat. Kila, and Chris Rea (huh?). This was not an average month.

“Dear Totally, I really like you’re [sic.] magazine but next time can you PLEASE have more JOKES pleas [sic.] and COMPETITIONS. JoKE: Knock knock.

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JOANNA NEWSOME [sic.] better jokes than this!!!!

From, Jamie (age 5½)” Now, we’re no handwriting analysts here at 56A Leeson Street, but we can conclude with great conviction that this is the penmanship of either a very, very funny 5½ year old, or the drunkest person to ever grasp a pen, lick a stamp, and confuse which postcode we’re based in. Either way, Jamie, you’ve made our month. Send us in another postcard with another joke and even better dogs and we’ll send you out a packet of CDs and Totally Dublin stickers.

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When Lucien Freud unveiled his portrait of the Queen of England in 2001, the majority of newspapers dubbed it a “travesty”. Loyal to the intense and disturbing style of painting that made him famous, Freud didn’t set out to flatter: “it makes her look like one of the royal corgis who has suffered a stroke”, commented the editor of the British Art Journal. Yet, facing a sea of bigoted and art-ignorant Sun reporters raving about how ugly Freud’s painting is, it’s easy to forget that the Queen – who would no doubt have been aware of Freud’s unflattering style – fully agreed upon the piece.

Portrait sittings took place over a period of eighteen months in St James’ Palace. It’s this series of visits made by Freud to the palace – and not the tirade of criticism he faced for it – that interests the young Paris-based artist Mia Funk. Given Freud’s ‘lothario’ reputation (rumour has it, he’s fathered over forty illegitimate children), not to mention his penchant for painting fleshy nudes, Miss Funk prompts us to wonder what really went down over at the royal palace. The culmination of these musings, An Audience with the Queen, is even more eyebrow-raising than Freud’s original piece: artist and sitter lounge about naked, scoffing Pot Noodles and watching TV in a light-hearted ‘what if’ scenario. The work has already bagged Funk the Thames & Hudson Picture Works Prize and can be seen at the Sandford Gallery in Ranelagh until the end of September.

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Droney-voiced NYC broads Telepathé hit Whelans on the 14th August, which gives us a chance to apologize for being kind of scabby about them in our last interview for all the shallowness of their self-titled debut album, the law of second album returns means their new material should capitalize on former promise.

A band with no consistency issues whatsoever headline the Twisted Pepper on the 26th August. San Francisco’s Tussle have been cranking out distressingly brilliant dubby disco to fuck up your leg muscles to since 2001, and if you’re left intact by the time they finish their set we’ll personally refund your entry fee.

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I can’t go to the corner shop now without Damien Dempsey nagging at me about living in a world of shame and regret.

Maybe you’ve been hounded by him warning about the difficulty of being a good man on your way home from work.

He’s been known to pop up on street corners telling passersby not to speak with a mouthful of shite. Are we in a dystopian Dublin where Damien Dempsey is omniscient as telescreens?

Gladly not - Damo’s been putting his particular brand of Donaghmeade observationalism to good use over the past few months in the arresting They Are Us campaign. A collaboration with spraycan love-spreader Maser in support of the Simon Community’s good work, the project has interacted with some of the more destitute spaces throughout the city (St. Patrick’s Institute, East Wall, amongst the scarier areas, with Andrew’s Lane Theatre definitely taking the biscuit), illustrating some of Dempsey’s one-liners through some sweet 1940s/50s signwriting styled street art. Prints are up for grabs on the project’s website, from which proceeds will go to the Simons. http://theyareus.ie

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(On cover) What would be your last supper?

The last supper would have to be moved to the weekly Sunday morning breakfast slot, in Nana’s crib!

Magic ingredients: One nana, one granda, four aunts, three uncles, two great aunts, my mam and dad, brother and sister, six cousins and the odd foreign randomer. Three pounds sausages, two dozen eggs, two pounds of rashers, two rings of pudding, and two slice pans. Everyone screaming and shouting all at once, particularly Nana.

What would be your last supper?

Native Irish oysters, caviar and bellini with sour cream, seared foie gras with brioche, Dover Sole with lemon caper butter and asparagus, surf and turf with fillet steak and lobster tail with garlic butter, and a creme brulee and a cheese board. All the courses would have accompanying wines.

Who would you spend it with?

My wife and family. Our son is 10 months old and we have another one on the way.

Who would you spend it with?

The Sunday morning breakfast crew.

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Stephen Gibson, Pichet What would be your last supper?

Snails with loads of garlic butter and crusty bread followed by a whole roast wild sea bass, just served with some good olive oil and tomato salad. To finish, I would have warm doughnuts filled with apricot and served with vanilla ice cream.

Who would you spend it with?

My fiancĂŠe and my family and Billy Connally, just for a laugh.

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Juha Salo, Juno’s Café What would be your last supper?

My ideal last supper would include Russian style “Zakuska” table for starters.

This is kind of an antipasti made Russianstyle, normally consisting of cured meats, herrings, pickled vegetables, cured fish, smoked fish and so on.

For the main course I would love to have some freshly caught Arctic char, smoked in a box over the campfire somewhere in Lapland using selected alder wood for smoking, and accompanied by creamed false morels and boiled new “puikula” potatoes.

For dessert I would stay with the wild theme and gather wild berries like Arctic cloudberry, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. These would be mixed with some quark, a low-fat dairy product that is very thick and slightly sharp flavoured.

Who would you spend it with?

I’d like to share this experience with my friends and family.

Deirdre McAfferty, Cornucopia What would be your last supper?

Vegan raspberry chocolate cake.

Who would you spend it with?

Oscar Wilde, because he’s amusing, a bit of a laugh.

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Tony Soper, Gruel What would be your last supper?

A traditional New Zealand Maori Hangi.

It is when meat and vegetables are wrapped in wet muslin or leaves placed in baskets and set on hot steaming rocks buried in the ground. The food comes out steamed with a smoky flavour.

Who would you spend it with?

I would share it with my lovely Irish fiancĂŠe and my family back in New Zealand.

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7 4 4 1 8 On the 25th anniversary of his critically acclaimed debut Less Than Zero, American novelist Bret Easton Ellis is returning with a sequel. In Imperial Bedrooms the main character Clay returns to his original stomping ground once again. When we call the author to ask him about his new book, his mother and why he always gets mixed up with his least amiable characters, a hung-over Bret Easton Ellis answers the phone.

“I had a huge party here at my place last night. It could have gone out of hand but it didn’t. Well, there was an aftermath to it. A couple of glasses fell from my eleventh floor balcony and landed on some of the cars that were parked below”, Bret Easton Ellis explains as he’s emptying the dishwasher in his West Hollywood apartment. Then he apologizes for postponing the interview earlier this day.

“I would have talked to you earlier but I had to deal with my neighbours who were very angry because of the smashed glass.

And then my mother dropped by. You know how it is.”

Are you close to your mother?

In a mother-and-son way? Yes, we’re close.

She’s nice. But like all mothers she has her craziness. I mean, she is a woman after all.

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Haven’t you figured that out the older you’ve gotten? Women are crazy! I grew up in a house with three women and I do think I have the right to say that women are crazy. I’ve seen it first hand. Don’t get me wrong, men are no picnic either and I’m not saying women are better or worse, but they are nuts. When I tell women this, because I’m very upfront with it, you know what they do? They lean in, grab my wrist and go “I know! We’re all fucking crazy”. But yes, I’m close to my mom.

Even though she’s a constant worrier.

But aren’t you a worried person?

Not anymore. Or maybe to a certain degree I still am. I guess because I was raised in a fear-based household I do worry about things. But it doesn’t get you anywhere and no one really cares, so why do it? It’s not worth it. It doesn’t fuel creativity and life is difficult enough as it is.

Are you paranoid? The main characters in your last three books are extremely paranoid.

I guess I was before but not so much anymore. Well, I think I was very paranoid when I was working on Imperial Bedrooms and it’s reflected in the book. It

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So when did you start being paranoid?

I guess it kicked in when I got famous. Or when Bret Easton Ellis or the idea of that person, whoever he is, got famous. The more famous you get the more paranoid you get. But there’s a point when you just give that up as well. You grow out of it.

It’s like with drugs. I grew out of them because I wasn’t interested anymore. It was fun and I liked doing them but there comes a time when you hit the wall and you’re like “oh, coke… nah I don’t wanna do that, let’s move on, what else is going on tonight?”. It’s involuntary though.

You never have any problems with talking about anything except once when I asked you something about politics a few years ago and you went dead quiet.

And I’m not fully open about my sexuality either even though I’ve dropped hints here and there. So yeah, my sexuality and politics I rarely talk about. Or actually, to be honest I don’t care anymore. To care about things like that is old school. It’s part of the empire. And politics is the thing that I’m the least interested in talking about and I didn’t want to talk about it back

then because Bush was in office.

Why is that?

Well, I was not as anti-Bush as I should have been. That’s the reason. But it feels different to talk about it now.

Do you see your books as political?

I guess they automatically are because I’m an American and I write about contemporary culture. People do take them to be political, especially in certain countries, where they are seen as distinctively political fiction. But I’m a fairly non-political person. I’m not very interested in politics and it’s a business to me. I know people who work in politics and it totally turns me off. And I’m not thrilled with Obama if you’re wondering.

Have you ever intended to write politically?

No, but for a minute I thought about making the protagonist in Lunar Park a guy who worked on a political campaign.

The novel was to been set in Washington DC but I changed my mind.

In Glamorama the father of the main character Victor Ward works in politics.

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no which I’ve done a lot of times before.

But you didn’t this time.

No, the novel persisted. I reread Less Than Zero when I was working on Lunar Park and there was a voice in the back of my head that kept asking what Clay was doing right now. When I drive around, went to the gym or was hanging out in my apartment more questions arose and I found myself having conversations with myself.

Sounds scary.

Well, it became this thing about Clay. For some reason he meant something to me. I mean I reread all the books while working on Lunar Park but it was only Clay who emerged in these questions.

idea from. I have friends who live in Georgetown and thought that would be a good location. The Exorcist was set there as well. But it didn’t happen. It didn’t feel right so I moved it to the fictional suburbs instead.

What’s the reaction on Imperial Bedrooms? What are people saying about you writing a sequel to Less Than Zero?

When people ask me about it, there’s often an accusatory ‘why’ in the question rather than a ‘how’. “Why did you write a sequel to Less Than Zero?” or “Why did you fuck with Less Than Zero?” or “Why did you write a sequel to a book that means so much to this generation?”

So how do you respond to that?

Ok, first of all, I wrote it. I wrote Less Than Zero. I don’t have the same relationship with the book as the audience have.

It’s completely different. When I wrote Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero was never an obstacle. I didn’t have to write a better book, I didn’t have to write it in a certain way. I never thought of making it appealing to people. It’s become kind of tiring to have to explain myself, not that you’re asking me those kinds of questions.

But I’ve felt that I’ve become defensive when asked why I wrote the book. But I guess that’s just me. I guess that’s my own problem.

So… Why a sequel to Less Than Zero?

No accusations made.

Well, it’s not like I woke up one day thinking that I want to write a sequel to Less Than Zero. It doesn’t work like that. The novel decides for you. The novel says “you’re gonna write me”, and at first I said

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I guess because something went on in my life that meant something to me but what it was I don’t know. Also I was reading a lot of Raymond Chandler books and wanted to do a noir novel set in Hollywood. These things combined are the reasons behind Imperial Bedrooms.

We talked about your mother before, but when it comes to Imperial Bedrooms there is no mention whatsoever of Clays family.

Why? Clay has no family ties at all anymore. No mention of a mother or a father. Nothing.

I was aware of that. He’s just completely lost in his own world, his own appetite and his interest in himself and it makes him even more disturbed. But also it didn’t seem relevant to me at the time when I was writing. I was only interested in Clay.

How come Clay was the one that caught your attention?

Because for me Less Than Zero was always about Clay. I never saw the book as a group portrait. The emotion of the novel that one gets is really not much from the acts themselves as they are from his narration. It’s his tone and sensibility that’s important. If anyone else had narrated that book I don’t think it would have worked.

I never saw Less Than Zero as a novel about Los Angeles or young people and I never wanted to make a statement with the novel. I wrote it for myself and it was a very personal thing. The way it’s been interpreted is so far different from what it is to me that all I can be is amused.

So you’re not very interested in other people analysing your work?

If people ask me what things means in my books I tell them that I don’t know.

The whole idea about book culture is so old school and it’s ridiculous when people

get all serious, I mean, we’re moving into another world. Things are happening out there and even writing a novel feels a bit old to me. I liked writing this one but it’s not like I have another one going on at the moment.

But you do read still.

Yes, I love reading but it’s the whole seriousness thing that surrounds the novel culture that I don’t like. I never took it seriously to be honest. I mean, I always wrote what I wanted to write but I’m expected to be a person making some kind of statement and a person who gives a shit. Asking me, for instance, what the dead boy in Imperial Bedrooms means totally tunes me out.

Do you care how your books are being reviewed?

No, I honestly don’t. They always get mostly bad reviews anyway but I’m beyond caring. No one cares about reviews anymore.

But you do obviously read the reviews, don’t you?

Yes I do. And I read comments on me and I do Google myself. I get a feeling people are afraid of me because even when it comes to bad reviews there are a certain kind of politeness creeping in I’ve noticed lately. I guess it’s because I’m old.

With you being part of the movie industry these days, how have your own experiences from Hollywood influenced Imperial Bedrooms?

A novel is a novel, and Imperial Bedrooms is a made up story but certainly some things I’ve experienced have helped forming the novel. In Hollywood there’s a mutual exploitation between people and I guess that’s reflected in the book. Yes, people do sleep with each other to get somewhere but I mean, that happens in all industries and the only difference in Hollywood is that people are better looking.

Aren’t you sick of people always confusing you with the characters of your novels?

Of course they do but I don’t really care anymore. The audience have always confused the artist with the art. To a degree I suppose it’s even true that the books reflects a side of me but they are novels not autobiographies. Perhaps emotional autobiographies but that’s all. I’m not a sick twisted person, I’m not interested in fashion and celebrities and I’m not a serial killer. If I had a dollar for everyone saying that I’m so much different than they thought I would be, I’d be rich.

Imperial Bedrooms is out now.

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Imagine an album that soars from its searching, stirring strings, shifting beautifully between perfect pop, heart-wrenching soul and country folk, woozy with harmonies and deep, dreamy melodies. After two years away they’ve managed to craft their finest record to date with love and ambition. The Magic Numbers are back, and more special than ever.

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The final installment of a trilogy that started with 2009’s Hombre Lobo and 2010’s End Times (released a half year from each other), Tomorrow Morning finishes the story on a high note. Unlike the combustive garage-rock longing of Hombre Lobo or the stripped-down acoustic starkness of End Times, Tomorrow Morning is a new musical landscape: electronic keyboards, drum machines, tape loops and found sounds.

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Recorded in such disparate places as California, Texas, Louisiana, Denmark, Edinburgh and her native Glasgow, “Hawk” is a pan-continental affair. There’s folk, country, blues, gospel, dreampop and a fair spoonful of Southern soul. The album also finds Campbell rejoined by Mark Lanegan, gruff sage of Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age fame.

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Knowing time waits for no one, Philip Selway has delivered “Familial”, a collection of sublimely fragile, haunting and heartfelt songs that will surprise many, and not only because drummers traditionally don’t do this kind of thing. Familial is so persuasively good, it sounds like Selway has always been a singer-songwriter.

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“I saw myself in the mirror and I looked a bit like Satan, to be honest.” Joe O’Donnell is describing the moment 28 years ago when he found God. “I was drinking in a pub in Coolock – Campion’s it was – and I went into the toilet and looked in the mirror. A twelve by twelve inch mirror. I got a fright from what I saw. Looked old. My face looked rough and my eyes were red.”

The 65-year-old alcoholic describes a drinker’s typical moment of clarity, but for O’Donnell it coincided with an intervention from God. “Around that same time, my wife was ready to leave me. She’d had enough of my drinking. But a voice told her – not a voice she could hear but something in her head – that she should have the strength to stay with me.”

“Within a few days of that I had that experience in the pub, and the next two days I went to mass and didn’t drink.”

The Donnycarney native has been to mass virtually every morning since. He now sings with the Revival Gospel Choir – a multi-denominational group that performs at religious services in Arklow, Co Wicklow, where Joe lives.

The choir is performing at Mad – Make a Difference – a Christian rock and music festival held in the rolling wooded countryside not far from Wicklow town. Now in its third year, the festival was the brainchild of the late agricultural entrepreneur Tim Phillips, once the driving force behind poultry firm Ballyfree Farms.

Tim’s father David left the UK for Wicklow in the early 1950s after selling his patent for the ziplock, a technology still used for sealing plastic. Tim was a keen aviator who hosted air rallies in Wicklow and even raced his own plane. In 1979 he and Goal’s John O’Shea persuaded Air Lingus to lend them a fully-crewed plane to drop aid into Cambodia after the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge.

The Mad website says that in the summer of 2006, Tim “repeatedly had a vision of a huge Christian music festival” on the family land, and aimed at young people.

His vision “suddenly burst into life” in the spring of 2008 at a meeting in the family home, and the first Mad was held ten weeks later.

Tim died this year at the age of 71 – his daughter Scarlett now runs the festival.

She says her father always dreamed big: “Maybe next year we’ll have Bono come and kick us off on a Saturday. You might laugh but my father never took no for an answer. Who knows?”

From a distance Mad resembles any small Irish music festival. The focus of the site is a large big top - It’s never more than

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half-full, but that leaves room for punters to relax or pray on mats around the edge.

The big top is a slick operation, with carefully-chosen graphics on jumbo screens either side of the stage accompanying each song. There’s even room in the budget for a jib, recording footage from impressive angles as it swoops over the stage and crowd.

As well as the big top there’s a children’s play area, a second tent for smaller acts, and various stalls - there’s the online “music-driven” radio station Spirit FM (coming to the airwaves soon), a “Prayer Pod” where festival-goers can pray with volunteers, a book stall, a table selling God-themed school stationary, various food stalls – including Eddie Rockets – and a tent selling band merchandise.

And the bands are centre of attention.

LZ7 are the headline act – their slick mix of pop, dance, and hip-hop thrills the God-loving teenyboppers. The Manchester group’s songs exhort the crowd to love Jesus, hate racism, and transform their lives for the good. Their dance-pop reworking of the first holy communion staple This Little Light gets the crowd jumping, but it’s their I Gotta Feeling / Bonkers mash-up that really raises the roof. They skip the Black Eyed Peas’ lines telling a girl to “just take it off”, but the juxtaposition in the mind of the band’s Christian message with Fergie wiggling her ass is unavoidable.

Other acts are in the folk-rock vein we expect of contemporary Christian music.

The Rend Collective Experiment, from Bangor in Co Down, sound and look like many acts that grace the 2FM/Hot Press stage at Oxegen, and they’re popular with the young crowd. London “praise band” Worship Central’s exalting-but-bland lyrics roll on the screens as they play, encourag-

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ing the crowd to sing along as they bow heads and raise hands towards their God. Electric Picnic regulars the Dublin Gospel Choir add their hymns to the mix too.

Modern Christian music was partially born in the hippy counterculture of the late 1960s. As the era of free love came to an end, the Jesus Movement blossomed as some hippies swapped the fuzzy spirituality of the peace movement for full devotion to Jesus Christ.

One of the most influential of these “Jesus freaks” was Lonnie Frisbee, who found God on acid and converted to Christianity in San Francisco. Frisbee teamed up with a pastor named Chuck Smith, and the two started a youth ministry at Smith’s Calvary Chapel converting hippies and street musicians and putting music at the heart of their ministry, which turned out to be hugely influential in the genre.

By then the Californian garage-rock band The Crusaders had released Make a Joyful Noise With Drums and Guitars - perhaps Christian rock’s first major album - and Larry Norman had released his first record. Hailed as the father of Christian rock, Norman challenged more conservative believers who saw rock music as anti-Christian. His struggle was neatly summarised in his song Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

For many the genre means bland soft-rock and cheesy lyrics – and on the evidence from Mad, the stereotype rings true. But its themes have spilled into the mainstream. A few people we meet at Mad claim U2 for the genre. In 1981, just before the release of October, the band headlined the Greenbelt festival of “arts, faith and justice” in England.

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Nielsen SoundScan reported that Christian and gospel music sales had exceeded those for classical, latin, and jazz. But in Ireland the scene is still small. “It’s a nice little community of bands and worship leaders and musicians,” Steve Evans, guitarist with Worship Central, says of the UK and Ireland scene. With his long hair, beard and chilled demeanour, he could have stepped straight out of the Jesus Movement.

Steve plays with non-Christian bands too, and while that might mean toning down overtly Christian lyrics, he sees it as a chance to influence.”You get to kind of shine in a dark place,” he says.

He says he’s comfortable with the drink and drugs of a typical club - but he’s not convincing. “As long as you’re secure in who you believe in and how you feel about those things it’s kind of like... it is awkward” – he laughs – “but it’s doable.”

Steve describes performing to a Christian audience as “leading worship”, a phrase we hear throughout the day.

“Worship is expressing oneself throughout whatever creative means you may have,” he says. “Even performing, I would see it as worship because that’s where it comes form in my heart.”

The diversity of people at Mad is striking: there’s trendy twenty-somethings who could have been dropped in straight from Electric Picnic, teenyboppers dashing to catch their favourite bands, and lots of kids running around who probably think they’ve been taken to a strange funfair with no rides. But there’s more than just young people here: there’s African men in immaculate suits, waistcoats and polished shoes - and their wives with elaborate hairdos, in bright purple and green dresses.

Then there’s middle aged men walking about leisurely in panama hats, guys with mohawks covered in tattoos, and quite a few punters who resemble American tourists. And then there’s the bikers.

With his thick beard, stocky frame and leather waistcoat, Mickey Walker wouldn’t look out of place at a Hell’s Angels rally - until you read the insignia on his back: ‘Riding for the son - Christian Motorocyclists Association. The badge on his chest just says, ‘Hard Core Jesus Freak’.

The CMA preaches the word to the biker community in 18 countries. “Our bikes allow us into the biker community and the biker community respect us and they invite us in,” says fellow CMA member Pat Browne. But he qualifies this: “Some of them do, some of them don’t.”

Pat and Mickey both ride Harleys.

“Bikers have kind of a rough edge,” Mickey says. “Part of the community is definitely their fist-in-the-face type of thing. They call themselves the one percenters. So just because of the mutual interest in bikes they’ll often let their guard down a little bit.”

The group hand out ‘Biker Bibles’ and literature at rallies. They hand us one of their pamphlets - titled The Grand Finale, it’s the story of a biker who tries a wheelie to impress a crowd only to realise he’s

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forgotten to remove his front disc lock.

It continues: “What goes up must come down and he went from a wheelie, to a steppie, to a swan dive to a headstand, to a broken neck to a lifeless corpse in a matter of seconds.” It warns most people die suddenly and with no chance to say goodbye to loved ones, or to prepare for “what comes next”. “If you want him to be there for you on that day, you need to make things right with him today,” it concludes.

Mickey’s had a few of his own brushes with death on his bike. “You remember yourself flying through the air and landing on your head on the other side of a car,” he says. “I’m living testimony that biking is in the blood. You lay the ground and the ambulance is coming, and for about five minutes you’re thinking, ‘Oh, I gotta give this up’. And then as soon as you realise you’re gonna live, you start worrying about the bike.”

The crowd at Mad might be diverse, but the festival openly targeted at youth.

Scarlett Phillips says her father’s aim was to provide hope - and even just something to do - to young people. “Go down to Arklow or Wicklow or Greystones on a Saturday night - there’s nowhere, there’s nothing [for young people],” she says.

“And now more than ever in this recession, even if you go to university you’re not going to get a job. It’s just empty, it’s hollow.”

When she talks about offering teenagers something to do, she’s probably thinking differently to the average 17-year-old. “I’ve got three teenage children. I wouldn’t pack them off to Oxegen for a few days - goodness knows what might happen to them,” she says. “Fortunately they don’t want to

go.”

But what do the kids think? We meet Emily Stewart 17, and Owen O’Neill, 16, chatting on bales of hay near the big top.

It’s their third year at Mad - they’re enjoying it but say something’s missing this year, though they can’t pinpoint it.

They say being Christian during adolescence is tough. “At my age it’s when everyone is starting to get into the whole drinking scene, and it’s difficult to try and seriously stop yourself,” Emily says. But being Christian makes her stronger in those situations too, she adds.

What about sex? Have the chastity rings of evangelical teens in the US made their way to Irish shores? Mercifully, no.”I personally don’t think I’m gonna have sex until I’m married,” she says. “I don’t need a ring to prove it.”

Owen says most of his friends don’t know about his faith. “Not a lot of people see me as a Christian, they just think of me as Owen,” he says. But he’s worried his friendships could hold back his Christianity. “They kind of see you as something different if they see you Christian and holy.”

Emily says one of her best friends is gay - she hasn’t made up her mind whether homosexuality is a sin, or whether it’s nature or nurture, but says she’s “totally fine with it”. “If they’re Christian and they love God and they’re true to that and they’re gay, what’s so wrong with that?”

If Totally Dublin came to Mad expecting to find a deliriously happy and fanatic type of Christianity, most young people here seem the opposite: intelligent, thoughtful and fairly open-minded. Alex Delap, 24, embodies this – a fresh-faced aspiring filmmaker, he’s working in the

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cafe tent, making coffee and serving brownies. Money raised at the stall goes to a charity that offers support to young people in Ibiza - which includes “running a van to go around the town, taking people [home] who are OD’d on ket or whatever,” he says. A big dance music fan, he’s been over to volunteer.

Throughout our chat he emphasises that Christians shouldn’t act as moral judges, and shouldn’t aggressively evangelize - he says preaching to others would feel as unnatural to him as talking about his faith with a magazine, which he admits to being a little uncomfortable with.

He reckons churches must revive the sense of community he feels Ireland has lost - regardless of whether those they serve are Christian. “I think that’s where God is played out, in people looking out for each other and caring for each other.”

He also finds the idea of an insular Christian sub-culture “nasty”. “To me being a Christian just means I want to be like Jesus. I loved his way of life, I love a generous way of living,” he says.

To an extent Alex and his cohorts proved us wrong: Totally Dublin went to Mad with its prejudices about Christian music, and while these were largely confirmed by the big top performances, there wasn’t much of the happy-clappy, insular, judgemental sub-culture we expected.

Perhaps sensing our preconceptions, Scarlett – the organiser of this whole jamboree – moves to dispell any myths as we chat. “We’re not weird!” she laughs.

“We’re not a cult! We’re not weird!”

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For something a little more contemporary, head for The Fruitmarket Gallery where Turner Prize winner Martin Creed is holding a solo show, Down Over Up. An exploration of progression, the conceptual artist will focus on the rearranging and reordering of objects, from the stacking of chairs to the turning of a staircase into a synthesiser. Alternatively, for a less musical but equally thrilling set of stairs, seek out the Scott Monument in Princes Street Gardens: an exhibition by local photography group Edinburgh 283 is split between four viewing galleries inside the 200-foot gothic tower. As well as the exhibition, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get breathtaking panoramic views of the city â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hopefully thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough to keep your vertigo in check.

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4&--0VU 5IF (BUF T %FBUI PG B 4BMFTNBO Following the sell-out production of All My Sons last year, the Gate Theatre presents Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Death of a Salesman, which runs till Saturday the 4th of September. Featuring Harris Yulin, the character actor who props up movies as diverse as Scarface and Rush Hour 2 (and whose guest appearance in Star Trek DS9 as the Cardassian war criminal Marritza was the highlight of the whole series) it is directed by renowned American director David Esbjornson, best known for helming the first ever run of Angels in America. Esbjornson explains why he chose Ireland, Salesman and Arthur Miller.

Is this your first time directing the piece or was there some other attraction to working in Ireland?

Michael Colgan had said that he wanted to do DOAS for quite some time but that it might be too big a play for the space. I really wanted to do that play and I was not put off by the challenge of attempting to do it in a small venue. What you gain is an intimacy with the characters.

What attributes do you look for in an actor playing Willy Loman?

A really solid craft. Somebody who has a lot to draw on and who is able to shift and turn and play all those psychological demands that are asked of him. To be able to technically turn on a dime from one thing to another. You want somebody who has a debt of emotion and intellect and passion but at the same time you want someone who can handle the technical twists and

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turns that Arthur Miller asks of the actor.

Richard Eyre during his period as head of the National Theatre put on a production of Salesman and said that it was now a period piece and not a parable for our times?

You can’t take it out of its period because the language is so specifically about the 1940s. You can’t really find a modern equivalent, so I agree with him, it is a period piece. That being said the resonance is there and I think it helps us understand more about how we got to where we are now.

This play is incredibly timely.

Harold Clurman said that DOAS showed that Americans were not afraid to view themselves critically and that it made them aware of social responsibility. Who are the modern American playwrights who have the same affect?

I had the great fortune to direct the world premiere of Angels in America and I would say Tony Kushner is very much in that camp. I think he tried to put a mirror to 80s culture and the AIDS crisis, and how that was integrated into the political landscape.

There are a number of writers who tap into the political landscape but I think there should be more. Our Arthur Millers and Tony Kushners are few and far between and I think we could use a little bit more introspection when it comes to our politics and our country.

I think when Arthur’s play was produced there was very strong feeling of social responsibility and I think we have lost some of that. I wish there were more writers who could give a real perspective like these writers can but you have to wait for that talent to emerge.

Spilt Gin is a young company, set up in April 2009 by Trinity graduates Maeve Stone and James Hickson. Embracing new writing and unconventional theatre structures, they have already gained critical praise for their previous productions; Take Me Out, performed in Players Theatre in Trinity and described by playwright Marina Carr as ‘very funny [...] and just beautiful’, and Andy Warhol’s Nothing Special, their professional debut. The latter was taken on tour and was well received with critics noting the sense of humour and playfulness in the show.

The Irish Times’ Peter Crawley called it ‘an appropriately playful riff on Pop-art’.

In a theatre scene overcrowded with superfluous companies, it is refreshing to see a new group emerge with such a well defined voice and clear goals, with a stress on new writing. Their shows to this point have had an emphasis on collaborations with musicians, film-makers, photographers and visual artists, creating a unique voice for this company in a hugely crowded theatre scene.

Their upcoming show, titled Soh, is to be performed as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. It is laconically described as a play about people. People who meet, try, talk good hellos, and better goodbyes. In typical Spilt Gin style it promises to ‘work in dialogue with a non-traditional Smock Alley setting’. Anyone who has seen a performance in Smock Alley will know what an unusual space it is, but also how promising it can be.

Time will tell if Spilt Gin can repeat their success.

Death of a Salesman continues its run until the 4th September.

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It must definitely be frightening, I’ve had nightmares that could be soundtracked by the new album.

We should totally make a nightmare porno.

-JBST -JBST 1BOUT PO 'JSF When we talked to Angus Andrews, Liars’ Aussie-accented, Frankenstein-frontman, January snow was blowing in the window and we were still playing with the Game Boy Color we got for Christmas.

We talked about Sonic Youth, we talked about porn, we talked about Sonic Youth porn, and we talked about Sisterworld, the band’s reliably twisted recent album that seven months later is as terrifying as ever. With the Sisterworld tour finally hitting our now snowless doorsteps, we thought we’d finally go ahead and let you eavesdrop.

Even though we should talk about your new album, we really, really should talk about your new remix album first. That documentary Kill Yr Idols that came out in 2004 was really condescending about your band, and your place in the New York canon – and now you’re being remixed by Suicide.

I actually never fully saw that documentary, but I remember being aware that a lot of this older guard from New York would be weirded out by the new stuff coming out. I mean I do the same thing now with new bands coming out of New York.

You hate them.

Yeah. Heh heh, no, I just don’t understand it. It’s the same for most people I think, once you come back to a place and there’s a whole new movement of art, it’s difficult to connect with.

I am totally crowbarring this in.

SPEAKING OF KILL YR IDOLS, I recently discovered that there’s a series of porn movies set to Sonic Youth songs.

Would Liars make good porn sound-

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tracks?

Yeah! Why not. That’s another genre that could use some refreshing, why not us?

You did see that porno cover we did for some single a while back [ It Fit when I was a Kid], right? You can see we don’t have any problems getting into the… nitty gritty.

So did you decide what was going to be behind the tiny little door on the Sisterworld album cover before you put it out?

It was pretty simultaneous actually. After we made the record, we took a break from the music and took a trip up to Big Sur, and left everything behind to put ourselves out in this environment we were imagining while making the record. It was a good way to get a more tactile feeling of what the album was about. That was when we discovered what should be on the other side of the door – we knew that we wanted to do some fairly interesting packaging – what had to come on the other side had to resonate.

If environment is a key factor in your records, and this one was made in L.A., what’s reflected about it in the album?

L.A. is such a fascinating city. It’s a frightening experiment gone wrong.

There are a lot of ideas we’ve dealt with on records before, like isolation, alienation, identification, vanity, that when we came to make a record in L.A., all those ideas seemed to lay over the landscape perfectly. It’s a place considered as this paradise with palm trees, but the reality is much more frightening – it’s interesting to open your eyes in L.A. as opposed to sitting in your car on the freeway. How

You’re in the right place too – you could just go down to the Valley, it’s perfect.

That’s what most people do. L.A. has the largest pool of rejected people. They come here to try and make it, don’t, so what do you do? They end up going to the Valley and making porn. The other weird things people do are just as interesting.

Instrumentally, the album’s a lot wider than before – how are you working the brass and piano and stuff into the live band of three or four of you.

It’s tricky, it’s a question of maybe understanding the live arena as a different medium, and it’s possible to rethink how the songs function entirely. It’s not as if we’re so well-known for… perfectly replicating albums live.

The last time I saw you was Primavera 2009…

That’s interesting, that was around when we were making the album and it was a nightmare trying to give justice to it with three people. We’re going to have to take more people onboard.

What’s the worst thing Liars has ever done?

Starting off this trend of talking very conceptually about everything we do. Even if we made something entirely devoid of meaning, that would have to be a meaning within itself at this stage. It’s something that’s always on our minds. It’s a really fine line when you’re talking about your work – do you just keep things pretty simple so people don’t get caught in your madness?

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Social Club Tripod 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź37.50-42.50 Latin legends â&#x2013; Peter Murphy Button Factory 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź28.50 Godfather of Goth â&#x2013; Katatonia The Village 7pm, â&#x201A;Ź20 With guests Parhelia and Decayor â&#x2013; Henry McCullough and

Band JJ Smythâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9pm, â&#x201A;Ź8 With the Polish band Walk Away

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Thursday 5th â&#x2013; C O Neill and Co. Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź8 Upstairs â&#x2013; Alabama 3 Leopardstown Racecourse 4pm, â&#x201A;Ź16.50 Sweet home Alabama â&#x2013; The Spatial Music

Collective presents The Dublin Guitar Quartet Smock Alley Theatre Exchange St. Lower, Dublin 8 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź13.05

Friday 6th

â&#x2013; Blue Fever Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 Upstairs, in quarantine

Sunday 8th

â&#x2013; Orquesta Buena Vista

Social Club Tripod 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź37.50-42.50 A Cuban musical revolution

Wednesday 11th

CrawDaddy 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź20

Saturday 14th â&#x2013; Toots and the Maytals Tripod 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź22.50-28.50 Still proving Reggae Got Soul â&#x2013; Telepathe Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź15 Mind-controlling post-punk â&#x2013; The McGetigans Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC

Monday 16th

â&#x2013; Kris Kristofferson Olympia Theatre 7pm, â&#x201A;Ź49 Country great brings Nashville to Dublin

â&#x2013; Arlo Guthrie National Concert Hall 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź30-35 Renowned folk singer, or at least the son of one

â&#x2013; Liars Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC Honestly, we swear

Wednesday 18 August

â&#x2013; Zodiac Sessions Bruxelles 9pm, Free Weekly acoustic showcase

â&#x2013; Summer Blow Out Donnybrook Stadium 4pm, â&#x201A;Ź49.20 Featuring Alexandra Burke and N-Dubz

Thursday 12th

Zodiac Sessions

â&#x2013; Windings Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC With Vertigo Smyth â&#x2013; Kris Kristofferson Olympia Theatre 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź51-61 Freedomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just another word for nothing left to lose â&#x2013; Damo Suzuki CrawDaddy 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź14 With The Jimmy Cake

Friday 13th â&#x2013; Bushman The Button Factory 8.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź17.50 With No More Babylon â&#x2013; The Cast of Cheers Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 Post-punk rockers, not washed upâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s TV stars

Clockwork Noise

â&#x2013; Sticky Digit Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC With Lights Over Phoenix

Saturday 7th

â&#x2013; Jamie Jones

â&#x2013; John Grant Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź15 â&#x2013; Lorcan James and Band Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Bandstand Free, 1pm Park your ass.

Sunday 22nd â&#x2013; Charm Offensive Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC Upstairs â&#x2013; Suffocation Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6pm, â&#x201A;Ź22 Breathtaking death metal

Monday 23rd â&#x2013; Girls The Academy 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź17.50 Actually boys â&#x2013; Megafaun CrawDaddy 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź13 Megafun

8pm, â&#x201A;Ź16.50

The Village 7pm, â&#x201A;Ź15 Pioneers of Celtic metal

â&#x2013; David Dondero Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Upstairs 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC

Wednesday 25th â&#x2013; Mark Lanegan Academy 2 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź24 Ex-Queen of the Stone Age â&#x2013; Harlem Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź14.50 With Yeh Deadlies â&#x2013; Zodiac Sessions Bruxelles 9pm, Free Weekly acoustic showcase

Thursday 26th â&#x2013; Rust Never Sleeps Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź8 Neil Young cover band. He also never sleeps â&#x2013; The Dead Flags Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC

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Bruxelles 9pm, Free Weekly acoustic showcase

â&#x2013; Bernard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prettyâ&#x20AC;? Purdie National Concert Hall 5pm, â&#x201A;Ź5 The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recorded drummer â&#x2013; Riona Hartman

Wednesday 1st Sept â&#x2013; Guns Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roses The O2 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź65.70-70.70 Spreading Chinese Democracy across Europe â&#x2013; Zodiac Sessions Bruxelles 9pm, Free Weekly acoustic showcase

Friday 3rd â&#x2013; Dionne Warwick Citywest Hotel 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź49.50-65.50 With 56 charted singles, one of the top 20 performers of the rock era

Series National Concert Hall 1.05pm, â&#x201A;Ź10 Featuring mezzo-soprano AnneMarie Gibbons

â&#x2013; James Lavelle CrawDaddy 11pm, â&#x201A;Ź15 Became a DJ because he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breakdance and was no good at graffiti

â&#x2013; Cannibal Corpse The Academy 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź25 Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come hungry

â&#x2013; Blink-182 The O2 6.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź44.20 Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their age again?

â&#x2013; RTE Summer Lunchtime

Friday 20th

Saturday 21st

Tuesday 31st

Tuesday 3rd

â&#x2013; Feeder The Academy 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź30 Renegades no more

â&#x2013; Sean Donohoe Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC

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Thursday 19th

â&#x2013; Sweet Jane/Kowalski/ Whelanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC Upstairs

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â&#x2013; Allen Toussaint National Concert Hall 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź35 New Orleans soul and jazz great

Tuesday 24th â&#x2013; Beirut Tripod 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź28.50-34 World music meets electronica â&#x2013; Limp Bizkit Olympia Theatre 7.30pm, â&#x201A;Ź39.20 Still doing it all for the nookie â&#x2013; Besnard Lakes Academy 2

â&#x2013; Jason Derulo The Academy 8pm, â&#x201A;Ź25 In his head, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be screaming â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;noâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x2013; Tussle Twisted Pepper 7.30pm, â&#x201A;ŹTBC Worth fighting for

Friday 27th â&#x2013; Cruachan

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Friday 6th â&#x2013; Anna Kiselvova National Concert Hall 1.05pm, â&#x201A;Ź12 Ukranian pianist plays Bach â&#x2013; RTE Concert Orchestra

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National Concert Hall 8pm, €15-40 My Fair Lady in concert

Friday 13th

Tuesday 17th

■ RTE Concert Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €15-40 My Fair Lady in concert

■ RTE Summer Lunchtime

Saturday 14 August ■ RTE Concert Orchestra

Series National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €10 Songs by Mozart, Brahms, Bartok, Dvorak and Elgar

Friday 20th ■ Leslie Cassidy

National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €12 Guitarist playing Domeniconi, Piazzolla, Dyens, Barrios, Albeniz, and Malats ■ RTE Concert Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €30-60 With Michel Legrand on piano

Sunday 22nd ■ Russell Watson National Concert Hall 8pm, €30-70

Rescheduled from April

and piano

Tuesday 24th

Wednesday 25th

■ RTE Summer Lunchtime

■ Meitheal Orchestra National Concert Hall 1pm, €15 Youth trad orchestra

Series National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €10 Featuring soprano Mary O’Sullivan ■ Celebrating American

■ RTE Concert Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €11-38 Featuring the works of Riverdance composer Bill Whelan

Tuesday 31st

Friday 27th

■ RTE Summer Lunchtime

■ Jack Morrissey & Brian

National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €10 French horn solos by Cormac Ó hAodáin

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National Concert Hall 8pm, €15 Music from contemporary American composers, on flute

National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €12 A tribute to Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

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■ A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free

Wednesdays ■ Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year.

9pm, Free ■ Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/rock/alt/ hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm ■ 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

■ 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska Free ■ Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night ■ 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 ■ Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm

■ 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 ■ Sounds@Solas Solas, Wexford St, D2 9pm-1am, Free ■ Soul @ Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond.

International guests too!

8pm, Free ■ Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer ■ 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

■ 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

■ Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm

■ DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

■ Noize Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 Student night with live bands, Indie and Electro

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9.30pm, €5 or €8 for two people with flyer ■ Thursdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am.

Cocktail promotions.

8pm, Free ■ Choicecuts presents: The

Beatdown Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 Hip hop 9pm, free ■ 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 ■ DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm ■ Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm

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

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

■ 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

■ Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5

■ DJ Jim Kenny Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

■ Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat 9pm, Free

■ Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3

■ The Beauty Spot Dakota Bar, 8 South William Street, Dublin 2.

A new night of Fashion, Beauty, Shopping and Drinks in association with Style Nation and sponsored by Smirnoff.

7pm, Free

■ Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm

■ Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm ■ Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm ■ Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock Free

■ The Odeon Movie Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Classic Movies on the Big Screen at 8pm. Full waiter service and cocktails from €5.

June - Dark Comedy.

8pm, Free

Fridays

■ Control/Delete Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 Indie and Electro 11pm, €3/4

■ Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House music magnet with special guests each week 12pm, Free

■ 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

■ NoDisko Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Indie/Rock N Roll/ Dance 10pm – 2.30pm.

■ After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired.

6pm, Free before 11pm

■ T.P.I. Fridays Pygmalion, 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

■ 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.

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

Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free

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

10pm

■ Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm

■ Mofo + One By One + DJ

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

■ Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm ■ Fridays @ The Turk’s Head

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■ Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer

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

■ 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

10pm, Free ■ 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 – 6pm, Free

■ Basement Traxx Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Freestyle club with DJ’s Half Dutch and Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, ska, reggae and party nuggets 10pm, Free ■ Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 With DJ Mikki Dee 10pm, Free ■ DJ Barry Dunne Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

■ Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10 ■ KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, €8 after ■ Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, €15/€12 with flyer ■ Viva! Saturdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free ■ Saturdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm.

Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free ■ Guest band + DJ KK and

■ 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 Andrew’s Lane Theatre Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10

DJ Keith P ■ 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)

■ 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

■ Shindig Shebeen Chic, Georges St, D2 Each and every Saturday you’ll find the Shindig Crew rocking Shebeen Chic’s quirky Bar with an eclectic mix of music to move to.

Free, 8pm

■ Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm, Free

■ Konstrukt Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ Eamonn Barrett. Indie/ Electro/Party Anthems.

10pm - 2.30a.

■ Room Service Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free

■ Propaganda The Academy, Middle Abbey St. D2 British indie disco conglomerate 11pm, €5

■ Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm

■ Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 Lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm, Free

■ John Fitz + The K9s + DJ ■ Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart 9pm

Saturdays

Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am ■ DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm ■ Green Sunrise The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with some guilty pleasures Free

■ Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing.

Expect the unexpected.

8pm, Free ■ 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 ■ Strictly Handbag The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Music with words for your dancing pleasure with an alternative 80s feel.

Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 New live band plays every Saturday night 8pm, Free ■ DJ Dexy and DJ Aido Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Dublin’s biggest party night 11pm, Free ■ Saturdays @ Break for the

Border Lower Stephen’s St, D2 Current chart favourites from DJ Eric Dunne and DJ Mark McGreer.

1pm, Free ■ Transmission The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Indie and dance with international guests 11pm, varies ■ Pogo The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Funk, Techno 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) ■ 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, €12 ■ Flirt Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Sultry, Funky and Sexy Beat alongside Chart Hits 10.30pm ■ The Weird Scientist Eamonn Doran’s, 3a Crown Alley, Temple Bar, D2

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11pm, €8/5 ■ Laundry Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Bumpin House, Techno, Disco, Nu Disco 10pm, Free ■ Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin 11pm, €15 ■ Reloaded The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Commercial Electro 10:30pm, €5 before 12, €8 after ■ Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free ■ Space... The Vinyl Frontier Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro with DJ’s Glen and Gary from Beatfinder Records 11pm, Free ■ Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, €5 ■ The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free ■ Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1

R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs ■ Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B 9pm ■ Basement Traxx Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock 11pm, Free ■ Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Soul, Chart 10pm, Free ■ Strictly Handbag Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 80s with DJ Mark Kelly 10pm, €10 ■ 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 ■ Sidesteppin’ Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free ■ Saturday @ The Village The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta & Special Guests 11pm ■ Whigfield

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Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House and techno til late, with special guests each week 10pm, Free ■ DJ Karen @ The Dragon The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 House music 10pm ■ Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Karaoke and DJ Miguel Gonzelez playing super sexy Spanish House.

9pm, Free before 10pm, €10 after ■ Basement Club Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Pop and Electro ■ Saturday @ The Wright

Venue The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance 10pm ■ Punch The Good Bits Indie/Disco in one room and Techno/House and Electro in the main room 11pm, €2 between 11-11:30 ■ 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 ■ 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 ■ DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

Sundays ■ Ear Candy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend.

8pm, Free ■ Jitterbop Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/ Swinging Sounds.

8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays) ■ The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free ■ Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free ■ The Latin Beat The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland.

Classes from 6pm, club from 8pm - late, Free

■ Dancehall Styles The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, €5

■ Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free

■ The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm

■ Alan Keegan + One By

■ Father Vincent Half-Price Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 Half-price drinks and guest DJs All day, Free/€5 after 6pm ■ Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free ■ Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm ■ 12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free ■ DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without ■ The George Bingo with

Shirley Temple Bar The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free

One + DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 9pm, Free ■ 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 FM’s DJ’s playing Soul to Rock n Roll to Punk 7pm, Free ■ 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 ■ DJ Paul Manning Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm ■ Sunday Roast The Globe, Georges St, D2 9pm, Free ■ Magnificent 7’s 4 Dame Lane, D2 The Ultimate Single’s Night Free, 7pm

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Clubbing once-offs August Thursday 5th ■ Notorious Pyg Pygmalion, Sth William St, D2 New night with Jaycee and Robin Graham playing topdrawer hip hop.

Free, 8pm

Friday 6th ■ Kasra and Break The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Rising drum and bass star Kasra flys in from London. €10, 11pm ■ Afrobass The South William, 52 South William Street Afrobeat, jungle, dancehall, dubstep and funky, featuring Lex Woo, MC Little Tree & MC Leroy Culture 9pm, Free

Saturday 7th ■ Pantha Du Prince and Ben

Klock The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 All German techno affair takes over the stage and the basement. €10, 11pm ■ Discotekken Lite Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 With Gerry Molumby, Louis Scully and Chris O’Donohue on deck duty

€10, 11pm ■ Fever The South William basement, 52 South William Street Billy Scurry and monthly guests 9pm, Free ■ Sexual Chocolate The South William basement, 52 South William Street Discrete and James M with guests.

9pm, Free

Friday 13th ■ Jamie Jones POD, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 The Welsh born and bred Crosstown Rebels ace hits The Pod €15, 11pm ■ Hertz U & Serge Present:

Friction and AGT Rave cru The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 DJ Friction lashes out Drum n Bass while AGT Rave Cru churn out electro, old school, and rave classics. Nostalgia ahoy! €10, 11pm ■ Family The South William, 52 South William Street DJ Dave Salacious and friends play disco and house.

9pm, Free ■ Red The South William basement,

52 South William Street David De Valera and friends play tech house.

9pm, Free

Saturday 14th ■ Theo Parrish The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Listen to the Detroit house legend tear the hoop out of the eqs. €10, 11pm ■ Pow Wow The South William basement, 52 South William Street Djs Mark Kelly & Brian Cuddy 9pm, Free ■ Go4it!

The South William basement, 52 South William Street 4-deck beat jam. DJs Matjazz & Jazzbin play hip-hop, breakbeat, jungle & jazz.

9pm, Free

Friday 20th

■ Climaxxx The South William, 52 South William Street Chewy and co play all sorts.

9pm, Free

■ Zombie Circus The South William, 52 South William Street Live electronic acts, guest DJs and ‘Plug Artists’ residents 9pm, Free

■ Drum Beats The South William basement, 52 South William Street DJ Keith O’Reilly and Bongo Jason 9pm, Free

■ Bizaro 2.0 The South William basement, 52 South William Street DJ Fassman and guests 9pm, Free

Saturday 21st

Saturday 28th

■ Plaid The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 The legendary electronica duo brings their live set to the Twisted Pepper stage room. €10, 11pm

■ Kenny Larkin The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Detroit techno luminary/ part time stand up comedian takes over the basement.

10 euro, 11pm

■ Best Foot Forward The South William, 52 South William Street Choice Cuts’ DJ Rizm hooks up with Colm K to play hip-hop, afrobeat, funk, disco & house.

9pm, Free

■ Discorotique The South William basement, 52 South William Street Djs Mark Kelly and Kelly-Anne 9pm, Free

■ Drop The Lime The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Blog house wonder-boy stops off on his world tour. €10, 11pm

■ DJ Madlime and Guests The South William basement, 52 South William Street 9pm, Free

■ James Lavelle POD, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 The Mo’wax head honcho stalls in to the pod. €15, 11pm

■ Exxon Valdez (live) The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Local hip hop crew launch their new EP with a live performance. €10, 11pm

marriage to a wealthy heiress, Anne Chute, can save them from ruin. But there’s a snag - Hardress is already secretly married to the beautiful, and

set in Mountjoy Jail on the day and night before the unnamed Quare Fellow is to be hanged for murdering his brother. Brendan Behan had spent time in the same jail for his IRA activities.

8pm, €15/10 12th July – 7th August

■ Mr Whippy Soundsystem The South William, 52 South William Street Disco 9pm, Free

Sunday 29th

Friday 27th

■ MJ Birthday Tribute The South William, 52 South William Street Michael Jackson tribute night 8pm, Free

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Theatre August ■ The Plough & the Stars The Abbey Theatre

By Sean O’Casey Now regarded as a masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars is one of the plays most closely associated with the Abbey Theatre. Set in a tenement house, against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in 1916, The Plough and the Stars is both an intimate play about the lives of ordinary people and an epic play about ideals and the birth of our nation.

2pm, 7:30pm, €15-€33 27th July – 25th September ■ Death of a Salesman The Gate Theatre

By Arthur Miller Directed by renowned American director David Esbjornson and featureing a stellar cast including international stage and screen star Harris Yulin (Scarface, Clear and Present Danger, Training Day) as Willy Loman.

3pm, 7:30pm, €15-€35 15th July – 4th September ■ Riverdance The Gaiety Theatre

By Bill Whelan Riverdance returns to the Gaiety Theatre for its 7th summer season marking the 15th anniversary of the show described

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by the Hollywood Reporter as ‘the sort of spectacle and experience that comes along once in a lifetime.

3pm, 8pm, €10-€55 23rd June – 28th August

Death of a Salesman ■ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Grand Canal Theatre

By Ian Fleming Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, and his two children Jemima and Jeremy alongside Truly Scrumptious and Grandpa Potts, all try and outwit the dastardly Baron and the evil Child Catcher.

7:30pm, €25-55 21st July – 14th August ■ The Colleen Bawn Project Arts Centre When Hardress Cregan’s family falls on hard times, only his

not so wealthy, Eily O’Connor; and Anne is in love with someone else, 8pm, €12-22 21st July – 4th September ■ The Quare Fellow The New Theatre

By Brendan Behan 56 years after its first performance in the 50 seater Pike Theatre, The New Theatre: Dublin will honour the spirit of Brendan Behan, Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift (founders of The Pike) by once again staging a huge theatrical work in a small intimate space. The play is

■ A Dream Play The Abbey Theatre

By Caryl Churchill.

A dream about a girl from another world who comes to find out why people complain so much. The National Youth Theatre performs Strindberg’s groundbreaking experiment in surrealism, in a new version by Caryl Churchill.

2:30pm, 8pm, €12-25 25th August – 28th August

■ Boss Grady’s Boys The Gaiety Theatre

By Sebastian Barry Presented by Noel Pearson and Directed by Jim Culleton. A much anticipated and exciting new production of the play that established Sebastian Barry’s reputation. With a stellar cast including Pat Shortt, one of Ireland’s most popular performers and Tom Hickey, this is a theatrical event not to be missed.

2:30pm, 7:30pm, €12.50 - €45

31st August – 11th September

And, can the lives of those effected ever be revived?

8:15pm, €16/12 23rd August – 4th September

■ Vincent River Project Arts Centre

By Philip Ridley Davey and Anita were always destined to meet. He’s a teenager who saw something he that he just can’t forget. She’s a middle aged woman forced to flee her flat, the home she’s lived in all her adult life. Both of them perfect strangers - until today.

Two lives connected forever by a dark by a secret ...the secret of Vincent River. A tale of love, loss and the road to redemption.

8:15pm, €16/12 10th – 21st August

■ Fame the Musical Grand Canal Theatre Starting in April, RTÉ1 will feature Ireland’s first ever Musical Theatre talent show with a life changing prize - a guaranteed starring role in a full-scale musical. With fabulous sets and the country’s top production team, this subsequent live stage show featuring the TV show winners, promises to be a spectacular event. 2:30pm, 7:30pm, €25 + 19th August – 12th September

■ Confessions of an Irish ■ Mouth To Mouth Project Arts Centre Laura is an obsessively doting mother with a teenage son. Her friend Frank, a gay playwright with a failing career, is suffering from a terrible wasting illness.

When Laura’s son returns home from abroad Frank’s appearance at the family’s celebrations sparks a tragic train of events that will haunt the friends forever. Will Frank confess to what really happened that day, or will he stay silent and try to profit from the family’s misfortune?

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By John B. Keane Confessions of an Irish Publican brings to life the colourful, eccentric characters of John B Keane’s experience as a writer and Kerry publican. We meet characters from the local village, including the parish priest, a cursing closet drinker, Mother Superior of the convent, his friend Plather (who’s slept with a mermaid), and a headstrong Dublin lawyer. 8pm, €20/18/15 26th August – 28th August

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Visual Art August Alliance Francaise 1 Kildare Street, D2

■ Pierre Jamet, ‘Belle-Ile en

Mer’ Acquiring his first camera in 1924, Pierre Jamet is associated with the Humanist Photography movement and some of his pictures are amongst the most important of his time. This is his first retrospective in Ireland and it focuses on Belle-Ile en Mer, and island of the coast of Brittany where Jamet worked as a young man and spent the later years of his life.

July 1 – Sept 10

BlueLeaf Gallery

10 Marino Mart, Fairview, D3

reveals. Everything has its’ time, after death all that remains is documentation or the memory of the person, the place or object. But even if the imagery has dark elements, the beauty of them becomes more evident.

June 4 - August 28

Green on Red Gallery

26-28 Lombard Street East, D2

■ Painting Today Group exhibition of painting.

July 15 – August 21

Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery

■ Summer Show July 7 - September 4

Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College, D2

■ Dana Schultz / Eugene von

Bruenchenhein Upon seeing a work by HYPERLINK “http://www.artinfo. com/artists/profile/165799/ dana-schutz/”Dana Schutz, you’re likely to wonder, “How did she imagine that, much less paint it?” Her grotesque and often humorous scenarios have elements of sci-fi and apocalyptic survivalism, but they’re also about the challenge of finding novel approaches to the figure.

July 16 - September 15

Draiocht

The Blanchardstown Centre, D15 ■ The Great Ark and Other

Stories by Michael McSwiney Michael McSwiney portrays a world of abandoned, often threatening panoramas of land and sea. A sense of elusiveness is central to these mood-orientated images, where through alienating colours and strong atmospheric effects, these paintings portray an unnerving picture of nature.

June 4 - August 28 ■ Three Birds and a Rabbit

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Furniture

Hugh Lane Gallery

59 Francis Street, D8

Jorgensen Fine Art

Jorgensen Fine art is pleased to announce a Summer Exhibition of fine paintings and antique furniture in association with David Allen of Clifden Antiques July 29 – August 13

Paintings, Ireland and Mexico

Visually, her work examines the traditional codes of space and perception, inviting query into the everyday. Somewhere but here, another other place at the LAB presents a substantial body of new work encompassing drawing, sculpture and installation.

July 8 – August 28

Molesworth Gallery

16 Molesworth Street, D2

■ Phil Kelly: Selected

Chester Beatty Library

Cross Gallery

Contemporary photography exhibition comprising of thirteen personal representations of themes, both old and new, that define contemporary Spain: immigration, bulls, tourism, water, land, people, housing, marriage, family memory, terrorism, motorbikes, religion and bars.

May 13 – August 21

■ Fine Paintings & Antique

July 29 - August 21

■ Muraqqa Named by The Art Newspaper as one of the top ten Asian exhibitions worldwide for 2008 and back home after a four-venue tour of America, this is a stunning, not-to-be-missed exhibition of paintings from the land of the Taj Mahal. The Library holds one of the finest collections of Indian Mughal paintings in existence, and this exhibition is a rare opportunity to see many of the best of those works.

June 25 - October 3

Documentary Photography in Contemporary Spain

1 Parnell Square East, D1

■ Summer Exhibition June 14 - August 30

2 Palace Street, Dublin Castle, D2

■ Here and Now:

■ Summer Exhibition New work by gallery and invited artists. Thomas Brezing’s work will be exhibted concurrently at The Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition, Altered Images, which runs until August 16th.

July and August

■ Not the Royal Academy

Body

A group show of gallery artist’s work inspired by the hanging of the open section of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. Works by the gallery’s artists will be hung from floor to ceiling to afford an opportunity to see a wide range of styles and works by the gallery’s prize winning artists in the one show.

Why does a minor cord sound sad? Why is pop music at 120 beats/minute? How does a DJ manipulate a crowd? BIORHYTHM - Science Gallery’s flag ship exhibition in 2010 will be exploring the physics, neuroscience and mechanics of music.

July 2-October 1

Pearse Museum

Signal Arts Centre

St Edna’s Park. Rathfarnham, D16

■ Sir John Lavery: Passion

and Politics John Lavery was one of the original supporters of Dublin’s Gallery of Modern Art when it was established by Hugh Lane in 1908. Lavery again donated a substantial number of works to the Gallery when his Americanborn wife Hazel died in 1935.

His donation provides a unique visual record of one of the most significant periods of modern Irish history and is at the heart of Lavery: Passion and Politics.

July 15 - October 31

Told

By Sonia Haccius. In contrast to her work in Set Design, Sonia is interested in creating sculpture that does not originate with the text of a play, and where the visual image creates, rather than supports, a story. Though these sculptures do not originate from an outside text, nevertheless they are strongly influenced by theatre; each one is a scene, which tells a story. The sculptures use elements from theatre and set design- puppets and scale models, a world in miniature.

August 17 - 29

Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, D8 ■ Collecting the New: Recent

Acquisitions Collecting the New presents artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection and marks the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection.

May 19 - August 8

Stone Gallery Something tells me it’s all happening at the zoo

Kerlin Gallery

■ Altered Images Accessible, interactive and inclusive in ethos, Altered Images aims to stimulate engagement with the visual arts for the general public and particularly for people with disabilities.

May 19 - August 15

Insituto Cervantes Lincoln Place, D2

By Eoin O’Connor. Employing a variety of media including painting, sculpture and photography, Eoin’s work explores themes relating to architecture and the urban environment, scientific study and the natural world. Within these spheres the images produced aim to portray the structure and form of our environment, both in a physical and psychological sense. Working between the representational and the abstract these images allude to the notion of the ideal city. Self contained universes, they appear nostalgic and tranquil, but in reality are symbols of an unrealistic ideal.

August 4 – 15 ■ Stories That Were Never

IMMA

■ Ferran Garcia Sevilla Spanish painter Ferran Garcia Sevilla is a collector of images.

His eclectic pictorial style draws on his travels in the Middle East, and on comic books, urban graffiti, philosophy and Eastern cultures.

June 10 - September 5

Bray

Exploration on the Outskirts ■ Walk Through the Seasons An exhibition of paintings by Blanaid Lynam. The work on display will be the culmination of a year spent walking the grounds and observing the remarkable transformation wrought by the changing of the seasons.

June 30 - August 31

Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, D1

■ Carlos Garaicoa Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa has been working since the early 1990s using a multidisciplinary approach that includes architecture and urbanism, narrative, history, and politics.

June 10 - September 5

■ Biorhythm: Music and the

Summer Exhibition

Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2 ■ Gallery Artists Group show.

July 23 - September 4

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Chancery Lane, D8

■ Annual Summer Event ■ An Instructional New work by gallery and invited artists. Thomas Brezing’s work will be exhibted concurrently at The Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition, Altered Images, which runs until August 16th.

August 4 – 7

NCAD Gallery 100 Thomas St, D8

■ Sheila Rennick – Hot ■ Something tells me it’s all

Body/Ugly Face Syndrome

happening at the zoo

Sheila Rennick’s paintings are as dense with layers of narrative and bright, thick oil paint. Using imagery taken from everyday media outlets, newspapers, magazines and most recently, social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo, Rennick creates a cast of characters, human, animal and in between hybrids, who are at once familiar and grotesque.

June 12 - September 4

July 29 - August 28

The LAB Foley Street, D1

■ Somewhere but here,

another place by Maria McKinney Maria McKinney’s work explores subjects of boredom and activities used to pass the time, echoing the escapist nature of their objective. Using commonplace materials her work has a methodical and often compulsive character, drawing influence from conceptual and folkart.

Pearse Street, D2

Paul Kane Gallery 6 Merrion Square, D2

Project Arts Centre Temple Bar, D2

■ King Rat A dark and menacing exhibition, originally inspired by all things Gothic, King Rat presents a series of artworks by some of visual arts most original international voices.

The gallery will transform in to a space filled with a sense of unease and discomfort, the stuff that nightmares are made of.

A carpet made of thousands of black pieces of paper will create a striking landscape from which sculptures rise, paintings hover above, tapestries loom and text speak.

July 9 - Sept 4

Rua Red

South Dublin Arts Centre, Blessington Road, D24 ■ Summer Show 2010 July 19 – August 21

Science Gallery Trinity College, Pearse Street, D2

Exhibition Group exhibition featuring Gallery Artists July 24-August

Temple Bar Gallery ■ Sonia Shiel – Bran New

Brains The first exhibition of the new programme is an installation

by Irish artist Sonia Shiel. ‘Bran New Brains’ is confidently proclaimed by the Scarecrow, in L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. Having become empowered by the placebo of his awarded intelligence, he explains the recent metalwork to his head, revealing the will of his selfdeception. The first phase will build over a four week period, when Shiel will work on the installation in the gallery space, producing an evolving series of works, addressing subjects as diverse as the audience and the romance. Implicit to this strategy is the positioning of the artist somewhere between the idea and its consumption.

July 16 – August 28

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Comedy weekly August Ha’penny Bridge Inn

Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2

Peadar Kearneys 64 Dame St., 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

Camden St, D2 ■ Wednesdays ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Comedy Nights with resident MC Aidan Killian.

8.30pm, €5/7

■ 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.

The Bankers 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.

The Flowing Tide 9 Lwr Abbey St., D1 ■ 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 ■ Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club with resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/10 ■ Saturdays 8 & 10.30pm The International Comedy Club. Early and late shows added due to popular demand.

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

8.45pm, €5

The Woolshed Baa & Grill Parnell St., D1

■ Mondays.

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

Hedigans, The Brian Boru

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 9pm, €5 / Students €2

Twisted Pepper 54 Middle Abbey Street

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

Comedy once-offs July August ■ Colm O’Regan Dripsey-born O’Regan takes the stage of the Helix for one night only as the soft-spoken gagsmith exhibits a new tour’s worth of his usual wistful, charming material. Fans of his Edinburgh show should be very

excited indeed.

The Helix, 8pm €28 Tuesday 17-18th ■ Michael McIntyre Resistance proves futile as Michael McIntyre’s sold out show

sells out. Barring a nasty fall or some form of weaponised bacteria he will be back again.

Fans sitting in first three rows should be warned that should he turn sideways, they risk being sucked into his cavernous, gaping grin. And yes his hair is always like that.

The Academy, 8pm €15 Thursday 26-29th August

Vicar St, 8pm €28 Thursday 2nd-5th September

■ Katherine Lynch If you like regional accents and caricatures of the poor, you may be in for a treat of treats.

■ Dara O’Briain Popular and funny, O’Briain’s like a cross between Michael McIntyre and a comedian. Retuning to Vicar St after popular

prepare to pillage and plunder your way through Vikinginspired events on Wood Quay

Zone’, though its career workshops probably aren’t the real draw here.

■ National Heritage Week 21-29 August More than 1000 different events will take place throughout the country to celebrate Irish heritage. In Dublin, there’s everything from a historical home movie showcase at the Irish Film Institute to genealogy talks to a bat walk through Castleknock.

■ People’s Photography Exhibition 2010 28-29 August St. Stephen’s Green Themes on display include landscape, monochrome, photojournalism, portraiture, creative, nature, and analogue as well as digital and abstract photography.

demand following his series of July dates, the hard working stand-up - and sometime mayor of Toytown - will be purveying his usual quick witted gags and audience interaction for his ever demanding hometown audience.

Vicar St, 8pm €28

Festivals August ■ The Contemporary Music

Festival 1-31 August A series of 5 sound installations throughout Medieval and Viking Dublin connect the oldest parts of the city in a modern musical trail ■ Northside Music Festival 2-20 August Now in its fourth year, a showcase of Irish and International bands at venues all across the north side of the city ■ Failte Ireland Dublin Horse

the top equestrian events in the world, featuring jumping, riding, dressing and just about anything else horses can compete in.

■ Milk Festival 14 August Ballinlough Castle Ireland’s first and only gay and lesbian outdoor music festival ■ Big Bang Festival of

Rhythm 20-22 August Performances, workshops, drum circles and a universe of percussionists

Show 4-8 August RDS A 5-day festival and one of

■ Dublin Viking Festival 21-22 August Load up the longboats and

■ The Ultimate Girls Day

Out 27-29 August RDS Beauty and accessories expo.

Also features a ‘Smart Girl

■ Sustainable Saturdays 28 August Airfield House Celebrate sustainability with a book swap, vintage bazaar and discussions about farming and climate change

■ Kilmainham Arts Festival 3-5 September Workshops and demonstrations from local artists ■ Kilkenny Arts Festival August 6-15 www.kilkennyarts.ie Summer festival with 10 days of the very best in Irish and international visual art, clasical music, theatre and dance, jazz, world & traditional Irish music, literature, film, architecture, indie music, craft and children’s events.

■ A Dream Play Written by August Strindberg ck Stage Produced by the National Association of Youth Drama

on the Peacock stage and directed by Jimmy Fay. A dream about a girl from another world who comes to find out why people complain so much. The National Youth Theatre performs Strindberg’s groundbreaking experiment in surrealism, in a new version by Caryl Churchill.

The cast of 16 was chosen from over 120 youth theatre members who auditioned from youth theatres all over the country.

25th - 28th August (previews 23rd & 24th) €12 - 25

Jazz August Sunday 1st

Sunday 15th

■ Tommy Halferty Trio JJ Smyth’s 8pm, €10 Influential Irish improvisers

■ Red Rocket JJ Smyth’s 8pm, €10

Sunday 8th ■ Trilogue and Lupo JJ Smyth’s 8pm, €10 Double bill exploring the boundaries between jazz and contemporary ■ Louis Stewart Trio The Dark Horse Inn 5.30pm, €10

Sunday 22nd ■ Zahr JJ Smyth’s 8pm, €10 Part of the Big Bang Percussion Festival

Sunday 29th ■ Jeremy Sawkins’ Jazz

Organism JJ Smyth’s

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8pm, €10 Celebrating the launch of Live at JJs CD

Sundays ■ Louis Stewart Trio The Dark Horse Inn 5.30pm, €10 Legendary guitarist ■ Joan Shields Quartet The Dark Horse Inn 8.30pm, €7 With Jazz Jam Session ■ Jazz and Sushi Yamamori Sushi 7.30pm, Free

Something’s fishy here ■ Max Greenwood Town Bar and Grill 7pm, Free ■ Jazz Globetrotters Purty Kitchen 6pm, Free

8pm, €10 Featuring different musicians each week ■ Kristina G. Trio Café Novo 3pm, Free

Mondays

8pm, €7

Thursdays ■ Alex Mathias Quartet International Bar 9pm, Free Bray-based saxophonist and composer

■ Globetrotter Quartet Shebeen Chic 10.30pm, Free In case one group of globetrotters isn’t enough for the night

■ Hot House Big Band The Pint 8.30pm, €6 18-piece big band

Saturdays

Wednesdays

■ Kevin Morrow Quartet Burlington Hotel 7.30pm, Free

■ Pendulum JJ Smyth’s

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jazz words // OLLIE DOWLING

Now, Sunday has always been the day for jazz in Dublin for as long as I can remember, going back to my younger days of checking out the Long John Jump Band at an Eden Quay venue in the early 80s. So I met up with some friends and brought them on a musical jazz journey of sorts on a Sunday recently, starting with a visit to Cafe Novo on Harry Street and beside the Westbury Hotel. Novo has jazz from 3pm with the Kristina G.Trio, comprised of Croatian-born Kristina along with Dave Redmond (Double Bass) and Johnny Taylor (Piano) and what a way to start, with cocktails and the sultry singing by this girl who can melt microphones.

Moving on to the Odeon on Harcourt Street, which hosts The Latin Beat, the city’s best Latin music club for 3 years now, and what an atmosphere with hundreds of the Latin American community in Dublin and Dubliners alike enjoying the sound of + 55 Samba Rock Syndicate (usually on stage around 9pm) led by the amazing Andre Antunes on percussion, and expect to hear the very best in Latin Jazz, Salsa and Samba Grooves.

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Horse Inn) on Georges Quay to find guitarist Louis Stewart playing as a Trio with Myles Drennan (Piano) and Mick Coady (Double Bass). When I find out that some of his regular crowd have been following him for over 30 years now, seeing his sublime jazz guitar playing I can see why.

The newly-reopened Dark Horse Inn has live jazz four nights a week at the moment (Thursday - Sunday), just what the city needs...

Next it was a short walk over to Yamamori Sushi on Ormond Quay for some food and to catch the end of their jazz set, where you can find a cool jazz trio from 7.30pm weekly and after a few sakes it was time to bid goodnight to one and all as early starts for everyone on Monday morning, so next Sunday why not gather some friends and do the same as it beats sitting in and reading the Sunday papers about all the doom and gloom.

Michael Janisch an American-born double bassist, but now resident in London appears at JJ’s on Monday August 9th as part of his ‘Triad’ tour of Ireland and to promote his debut release Cd ‘Purpose Built’. He’s joined on the night by NYC based Will Vinson

(Alto Sax) and David Lyttle (Belfast) on Drums, and having worked with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Gary Burton and Quincy Jones you can be sure this will be an amazing night of great jazz. Entry is €10 at the door and you also get a free CD on the night.

Something else definitely worth checking out on any Monday night, is the Big Band sound and spectacle of the 18 member Hot House Big Band (upstairs) at The Pint venue, Eden Quay. Formed about a year ago and resident here for the last 3 months, these guys play the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Glenn Miller with vocal duties from Charlie Cavanagh and Johnny Grahan doing numbers from the likes of Sinatra and Paul Anka, and getting the crowd too and nice to see people coming along in vintage costume to help create that 40s feel to the night. Doors are 8.30pm and band on stage for 9pm and €6 in. jazzindublin@gmail.com

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$PVSTFT 'PS /PU +VTU )PSTFT 5IF 3%4 4UVEFOU "SU "XBSET It’s not only equestrians competing at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show – the event also gives student artists, as well as amateur and professional craft designers, the opportunity to showcase their works and win prizes.

The RDS Student Art Awards recognize excellence in the work of full and parttime registered art students, and the exhibition of the winners will include pieces of various formats, including multimedia, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Some of Ireland’s most eminent artists got their start at the student awards, and the show continues to highlight new generations of promising talent. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the competition’s most prestigious award, the RDS Taylor Art Award.

Also on display during the Horse Show is the RDS National Crafts Competition Exhibition. In association with the Crafts Council of Ireland, the exhibition features works from amateur and professional designers from across the country. Prizes are awarded in 20 categories, ranging from jewellery and furniture design to ceramics and calligraphy.

Both exhibitions will be on display first at the Horse Show from the 4th to the 8th of August, with entry fee required. The exhibitions continue free of charge until 12 August.

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words // JIM WATERSON pictures // FUCHSIA MACAREE Edinburgh is a city that’s actually two towns and hosts a world-famous festival that doesn’t exist. It’s a belligerent, beguiling mess of a settlement that mixes high culture and classic architecture with excess drinking and Irvine Welsh. It’s brilliant all year round but we recommend topping up your Prepaid Mastercard, hopping over on Ryanair and heading over in August to experience a cultural event that’s deserving of the hype.

The city Closing time in Edinburgh’s Old Town.

The dreary barman has had enough of us, having made his distaste clear every time we handed over an English banknote for another round of Deuchars, the local bitter beloved - as the publicity keeps reminding us - of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus. (In reality the locals tend to stick to the sickly Tennant’s lager.)

Rankin knows what he’s doing. You couldn’t choose a better setting for a detective story. Two weak street lights attempt to provide illumination as we’re ushered out onto one of the countless snickets that lace the city. These stinking medieval alleys run between the buildings, tiny capillaries that allow the clued-up visitor to nip around the medieval city with ease. There’s hardly enough space for two people to pass, though a tramp still manages to be standing there, muttering about the world’s ills and pissing in the corner. He clocks my English accent and turns his opprobrium towards me. It seems that the national sport of Scotland has become, er, nationalism. I’m sure it’s just their way of being friendly.

But who cares - move on, look up, take in the buildings. During the late middle ages Edinburgh became a staggeringly rich boom town constrained by geographic quirks. Lack of space meant it developed into the world’s first vertical city, dotted with the 16th century equivalents of tower blocks. Presbyterian reformers mixed with economic pioneers in one big stinking intellectual morass that earned Edinburgh the nickname of ’Auld Reekie’.

Occasional natural disasters, fires and redevelopment added and removed streets with ease while rooms that were once at street level suddenly became cellars deep below the new city. It is an M.C. Escher engraving made real, high rise tenements clinging to steep hillsides and vistas that appear at the most unexpected moments.

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up more of those pesky hills, natch) that retains a more upmarket edge. Getting around either means walking and walking might as well mean ‘mountain climbing’.

Bring a sturdy pair of shoes - you’ll need them.

Still outside the pub. Fuchsia has a complaint: “This city shouldn’t work.”

Yeah. Edinburgh doesn’t work on a map. The only way to get to know this city is to wander. On your first day you should head to the Royal Mile, the steep arterial street that runs the length of the Old Town, avoiding the tourist shops en-route (Hamish McHaggis’ World of Tartan? Really? Is this what Bonnie Prince Billy fought for?) and then abandon all intentions when it comes to your destination. Ignore what’s written in travel guides, even those in incredibly informative and entertaining Dublin magazines. Spin around. Point in a direction. And head there. Allow yourself to be distracted, dart down any alley that might lead somewhere interesting, stare in shop windows and go into that tiny gallery that you almost missed. Always take the road less travelled and you’ll encounter twee cottages with gardens in the centre of the city, crumbling medieval graveyards and cute cafes like Forest, just near the

University, where volunteers run a veggie restaurant/music venue collective. The latter also features ’Sip and Snip’, a barbers run by an affable Eastern European lady who joins you for a shot of finest vodka before each haircut. It wasn’t clear whether the quality of the haircuts declines as the day progresses.

The festival For the whole of August this entire crazy capital city is taken over by thousands of aspiring comics, actors and street performers from around the world. There isn’t such a thing as the ‘Edinburgh Festival’, more a collective of overlapping events appealing to similar audiences that have organically ended up sharing the same space. The ‘Fringe’ is just that: thousands of events that have no actual connection to anything, apart from turning up in town at the same time. Any and every available space is suddenly transformed into a ‘venue’. Got a spare basement? Then you’ve got a theatre. Able to fit a PA system into your tiny pub? Then you’re a comedy club for up and coming acts. Most shows will play every day for the whole month, regardless of whether anyone turns up or not. Almost all shows

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are an hour long, creating a tapas form of culture where the emphasis is on tasting the dreary play won’t drag on forever but by the same token the hilarious comedian is going to be shunted off far too soon.

Choosing who to see is the challenge.

With no strong central organisation to exercise quality control the majority of performances are uninspiring dross and 90% of the ’comedians’ would struggle to get a laugh in nitrous oxide factory. Every step you take in the town will involve some enthusiastic student shoving a flyer in your face, desperate to pull in punters to their show. Words to avoid include: “radical reinterpretation”, “…turned into a musical” and “recommended by Michael McIntyre”. Otherwise: go lucky dip. Ask around. Take tips from strangers in the queue. Pick up a copy of reviews bible Fest and follow their lead - though be aware that, given the cliquey nature of the event, the journalist probably demanded sexual favours in return for a five star review.

Often the best stuff is on in midafternoon slots at either the Pleasance, Gilded Balloon or Underbelly venues, the more professional setups that dominate the comedy side of the festival. Plan your day carefully, buy your tickets in advance and build in time for sprinting between venues. There’s nothing worse than stumbling up another hill in the summer heat and banging on the door of the venue to be let in.

The real danger is cost. You’ll want to see at least three/four shows a day and with even medium sized venues charging up to £10 a ticket for relative unknowns you can very quickly burn through your cash. It’s hardly ever worth paying to see a comedian that you’ve seen on the telly. They’re only here to cash in. Instead make the most of discounts at the start of the festival (2 for 1 offers are common during the first week to build up buzz) and stick to the lesser known acts rather than be distracted by big names. Even some of the best shows struggle to sell

seats so head down to the ’half price hut’ outside the National Gallery where venues offload cheap tickets in order to pad out the crowd.

There is a place where ‘cheap’ and ‘quality’ intersect. Increasing numbers of performers can’t be bothered to deal with the expense and hassle of playing a paid show to ten people and are signing up to the Free Fringe. Grab a copy of the Free Fringe booklet (http://freefringeforum.org/programme.php) and you’ll find shows that range from performance art to comedians who could be playing far bigger venues. Nothing’s ventured so any gain is a bonus - and you’re asked to chuck a few quid in a bucket at the end if you enjoyed it. Circle a few names and see what happens. One of the main attractions of last year’s programme was simply entitled “A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For Fifty-Six Minutes And Then Leaves”. A packed venue watched one man do exactly that.

Pretentious, hilarious and the sort of thing you wouldn’t do anywhere else - the Fringe in a nutshell.

8 SHOWS TO SEE AT THE FESTIVAL Jonny Sweet Used to perform in a comedy troupe with Simon Bird and Joe Thomas before they went on to star in The Inbetweeners. Went it alone with a posh boy persona and a set based around his fictional deceased brother. It worked. Brilliantly. Sweet gets a recommendation in spite of humiliating your correspondent for a good twenty minutes during last year’s show.

Ian D. Montfort The character of Sunderland based Psychic Ian D. Montfort is the creation of former radio DJ Tom Binns who got sacked for ‘treason’ in December after interrupting the Queen’s speech. His new character is only capable of channelling crap celebrities with something to get off their chest.

Reginald D Hunter You know what we said about not going to watch people off the telly? Ignore it.

You must see this laconic American from the deep south at any cost. This year’s show is “Trophy Nigga”, follow up to “Pride & Prejudice…and Niggers”. (Hey, white middle class reader, are your toes curling with embarrassment at the prospect asking for a ticket to that? Yeah, me too, that’s the point.)

…And Bosnich Is Off His Line 2 Things we like about this. 1) Needless drugs references in the title of a humorous

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• • • Presented by Joe Kearney August will see Gay Nation giving away tickets to MILK, we will be speaking to Mark O’Halloran and Dr Lydia Foy but thats not all. To see what else we have in store tune in to UPC 107.

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8 PLACES TO GET AWAY FROM THE FESTIVAL Leith show that starts at midday. 2) References to 90s football in the title. 3) A collective of really quite good Cambridge Footlights comedians doing stand up. 4) It’s part of the free fringe!

Frisky and Mannish: The College Years Last year’s word of mouth hits return to pack out the venues. Their twisted cover versions of pop songs are much more than limp parodies, mainly due to them being both funny and musically talented. Packed out Trinity College’s own Fringe Festival at the end of last year.

Asher Treleaven Picked up the Critics Choice award at Melbourne Comedy Festival, the warm-up for Edinburgh Hasn’t hit the mainstream yet; be sure to see him before he does.

Expect sell-out shows once word gets out.

David O’Doherty I first saw the shambolic Dubliner in 2007, enjoying telling rambling anecdotes and playing his plinkety-plonk keyboard to a small crowd. Then he inadvertently won the main prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, was bumped up to a big venue and attracted too many meatheads who just didn’t get it. This year he should be back to a more sensible level.

Penny Dreadfuls It’s worth noting that there’s a lot more to Edinburgh than comedy. We just wouldn’t dare to recommend any of the fantastic one-off theatre productions above any others. So as an intro we’d recommend The Penny Dreadfuls troupe, purveyors of dastardly funny whodunnits.

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Originally a separate town based around the docks, Leith has now grown to be a suburb of Edinburgh. It’s where Trainspotting was set and it’s still struggling to shake off its downmarket image.

Head down for some bracing sea air and cheap accomodation.

Calton Road

defined by the deep fat frier - and the various items that are coated in batter. While journalists like to highlight the availability of Deep Fried Mars Bars, we prefer a battered haggis for the authentic coronaryinducing experience of an Edinburgh chip shop. It’s offal-ly good. (See also: deep fried Pizza, deep fried Camembert and deep fried Steak)

Did we mention Trainspotting? Although the movie gave Edinburgh some much needed ’edge’ it was mainly filmed in Glasgow. But this unremarkable street behind the station is the location where Renton gets hit by a car in the opening scene. You too can be like Ewan McGregor: get a friend to play ‘Lust for Life’ on their phone as you run down the street shouting that you’ve “chosen life”.

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Glasgow

Home of the perennially underachieving Hibernian football club and a chance to, god forbid, actually encounter some real Edinburgh residents (and, er, devoted fans The Proclaimers) while in the city.

It’s only forty-five minutes away on the train - but Scotland’s biggest city remains completely untouched by the festival chaos. Glasgow might lack the dramatic setting of the capital but still has stunning architecture and great bars. Head over to ‘Mono’ - an art space that combines a vegetarian restaurant, gig venue, microbrewery and fantastic record shop - all run

by Glaswegian indiepop legend Stephen Pastel.

Arthur’s Seat In the middle of one of the world’s most beautiful cities is this enormous hill, a public park based around the stubborn remnant of an ancient volcano. Climb to the top on a sunny day and you can see the whole of the Edinburgh and all the way across the Firth of Forth. But it’s best experienced late at night with a bottle of cheap gin in hand - stumble around the foothills in the dark and you’ll see the magical city all lit up.

Try a deep fried haggis Scotland’s culinary delights are generally

A sliver of green tucked in behind the University, this park is perfect for lounging around, drinking cheap beer and spotting dead-eyed comedians struggling home with their shopping after yet another show (yes, Mark Watson, you really need a hand the next time you go to Tesco). There’s also a municipal pitch-and-put course for drunken golf.

National Gallery Sure, it’s as cultural as anything in the festival but after spending hours pressed inside tiny, sweltering venues it’s always nice to escape into airy galleries filled with the best art in the Scotland. They usually have special events during August but the permanent exhibitions are also worth a look.

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SPLICE WORLD VINCENZO NATALI’S NEW BABY

Vincenzo Natali has spent his career on the line between ‘acclaimed’ and ‘notorious’. His first film, Cube, became an international cult classic and even though he hasn’t officially been given the title of “the new David Cronenberg” it can’t be denied that his latest film fits the term ‘Cronenbergian’. Splice follows two brilliant scientists whose experiments with genetics result in a super-secret humananimal hybrid, Dren, who they watch grow from an embryo, to a baby, to a girl, to a woman, to a... let’s not give too much away.

In today’s world of receding economies, if a film isn’t a sequel or a remake it is almost impossible to get funding. Natali’s Splice with all its mad science, body horror and corruption of basic human nature must have been a challenge: “It’s a miracle that it got made. And it’s an even greater miracle that it’s received the release that it’s had. I had the first draft written twelve years ago. It has been this very long, fortuitous process and

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numerous moments along the way I just thought there’s just no way this is going to happen but somehow it’s like this film just sort of willed itself into existence, despite my best efforts. The good side of a long development is that it becomes very rich, very layered.”

The film incited major festival buzz when it screened at Sundance earlier this year, however it was not without its detractors who were put off by the film’s mischievous treading of the line between exploration and exploitation. “It’s a very divisive film. There’s one particular moment in the film... I can’t say what it is here... but it’s kind of a litmus test. Some people can take that leap and others simply cannot. That was always part of the design. I was very aware from the beginning that this was going to shock everyone but I also felt that the people who do respond to it will respond to it in a big way. Audience reaction has been amazing and to be perfectly honest I don’t even mind the negative responses.”

One of the many things that makes Splice such a joy to watch is that it is an effects-heavy film that never forces the audience out of the film’s world because of heavy-handed effects; the creature Dren is a human/CGI hybrid and the

subtle adjustments to a brilliant physical performance makes for a very believable monster. Natali calls it; “a great compliment to me, and to the great artists and technicians who made Dren a reality and of course a great compliment to Delphine (Chaneac) and Abigail (Chu) who played Dren as a child. Not to make the comparison too strongly but designing Dren was allowing me to be a mad scientist. It was one of the reasons I wanted to make the movie; I wanted to be able to make this creature. But I wanted to do it in a way that’s very realistic. That was always the prime directive; let’s make this biologically possible. Let’s not just make a movie monster. And so, to that end, we really tried to portray a real physical persona to Dren, even though Dren always has some level of digital augmentation, I felt it was critical to have a real performer. I think the level of believability was really because of that and I really had an amazing effects department.”

Another fascinating project that Vincenzo Natali has on his CV is the group effort Paris Je T’Aime, a film made up of short films about Paris. Some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers worked on the project such as the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven

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to name but a few. Natali’s film stood out from the others because instead of a quirky tale of true love it was a highly stylised, very dark film starring Elijah Wood as a tourist who falls in love with a sexy female vampire. When I asked him what it was like to work on such an adventurous project, he replied; “I was there working on my film at the same time Alexander Payne was working on his film and Wes Craven was working on his film. There was a very congenial attitude but I felt very much like I didn’t belong there amongst all that exceptional talent but professionally it was an exciting experience. Being a French production, we had complete creative control. The only boundaries we had was that it had to be a film about love and it had to be five minutes. And you could do whatever

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you wanted in those five minutes.”

Most of Natali’s fame and notoriety rests on his classic sci-fi mind-melter Cube, a film that is so high-concept that sci-fi fans get giddy at the set-up alone.

Six people wake up in a cube-shaped room and soon find that outside the room there are more cubes, set with booby traps and they must solve complex mathematical problems in order to finally escape. Despite its seemingly simple setup Cube is not merely a cheap thriller. It has stood the test of time and is still a respected genre piece some thirteen years later, having spawned a sequel and a prequel. Natali explains why the film has survived in a sea of low-budget horror/sci-fi films; “I think these things, when they work, they tap into these very archetypal contexts that are universal and

very profound. It uses very mythological archetypes but it is re-cast into a science fiction context so it becomes something new. But basically it is about existence.

We’re just dropped into this life. No rules, no concept of why we’re here and yet we have to figure it out. And it is a dangerous road. I think that resonates because it’s about the human condition. He goes on to explain his mistrust of human nature. “I always believe that the greatest enemy lies within. If you want to face the enemy, first look in the mirror. I think that’s where it comes from. I have a lot of faith in people by the way. If anything it’s myself I don’t trust.”

Although his twelve year journey of Splice is coming to an end, he has recently confirmed that he is currently adapting the previously-condemned-as-unfilmable cyberpunk classic Neuromancer. “Yes, it’s confirmed, it’s real, I’m writing it. I don’t have any money yet but I do think it is filmable. I think it’s a very adaptable book. I think any book comes with challenges. I think that comment comes from the fact that William Gibson’s prose is not easily digested. But if you really look at it, Neuromancer is a fairly conventional story. Maybe conventional isn’t the right way to put it but it does have a story and it is quite film friendly. I think the key is not to be too reductive. If you want to turn the book into a film that’s like Star Wars, then you’re going to have a problem because you’re not going to be able to be faithful to the book. But if you believe that Blade Runner for example is a commercial film and a good film then I think Neuromancer is very adaptable.”

Splice is on general release now.

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Anton and I have been friends since we were five years old, but it feels like we don’t have very much in common nowadays. “Hey, I appreciate it though, man, getting these beers for me and all,” he elongates the word “beers” with relish, “I wouldn’t turn down some free fuckin’ brewskis, you know?” Yeah, I know. The Pint has a great smoking area, three storeys up and overlooking nothing in particular, with two tiers of decked flooring you can enjoy when it’s not raining. “This would fit in my fucking garage, man,” Anton laughs, “fancy another Ice Cold?”

Seeing as I’m paying, I suppose I will.

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night (and on Mondays, all pints are €4), something which I’d never experienced until now - it’s amazing while it remains “ice cold”, but about halfway through you realise you’re drinking Budweiser - while a visibly inebriated old man in a t-shirt saying “I Love Beer” converses with the flat-screen showing the World Cup. “Put it in the mixer!” I shout, hoping to win his favour, but there comes no response. It’s actually a lovely bar, which isn’t immediately obvious from the outside, looking as it does like a relatively identikit Dublin pub, and for watching sports it’s certainly a very decent venue, with plenty of screens and comfortable seating.

That said, there does seem to be a certain lack of “identity” to the place, which is perhaps understandable for what is a reasonably new bar and venue; vague talk of “character” and “authenticity” is absurd and redundant, but The Pint doesn’t seem to know whose custom it wants to attract. There’s nothing hugely remarkable about it, nothing unpleasant, certainly, but I don’t feel like there’s anything holding me there - I could leave and get the exact same experience some-

where else without having to walk very far. Perhaps not for €4 on a Monday night, however, which is certainly a boon when you’re on a budget; less of a boon than being sensible and just not drinking, obviously.

So I try a Guinness later on into the night, to see how The Pint fares at the token barometer of a pub’s quality: it’s nice! I feel like everything’s becoming a little too ordered if I say that it’s unremarkable but good, but unfortunately that’s the case. There’s no sign of that old man in the “I Love Beer” t-shirt any more, though I have a feeling he’s paid by the hour to add atmosphere and intrigue to pubs further up the quays, who may have difficulty attracting custom, from tourists in particular, without a gimmick of some kind. It certainly did the trick for me and now, in his absence, the pub becomes all the more average. Looking back, with the World Cup now finished, I can’t see why I might visit again, although they do put on gigs which I’d like to see from time to time. While I’m not necessarily underwhelmed, I’m certainly not hugely impressed. Other than a very nice smoking area, The Pint is a pretty standard affair.

Now it’s eleven o’ clock and Anton is staring at me, having finished his pint thirty seconds ago. “Come on, man, let’s go!” He has to meet some friends in Twentyone and has asked me to come along. I’ve still got half a pint left and don’t really want to neck it or go to Twentyone, so he goes on ahead, muttering things about me “bottling it” and the like. I walk home as the heavens predictably open, soaking me in a way which might seem poetic if I was upset about something, or funny if I was in a good mood - but sadly I am neither of those things, merely a bit listless. I have had a mediocre night. There’s something a bit unsettling about it.

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words // ROISÍN KIBERD My future is in plastics, as Dustin Hoffman might have said. Warned about Nimhneach, Dublin’s flagship BDSM night’s notorious dress-code, I Google fetish dress and find an alarming catalogue of latex tailoring, much of it made- (or sprayed-?) to-measure and costing in the thousands. I opt for the DIY approach and wrap myself into a tube-top made from black tape, bought on the way to the club. The tape-top, thankfully, is deemed ‘kinky enough’, and after mutual corset-lacing in the changing room we go out onto a basement floor replete with dancer’s pole, A-Frame and some kind of restraining contraption with hand-cuffs hanging on it. The ambiance is restrained, straight-faced conversation while you pretend to ignore your friend’s rubber pants.

The closest experience I can liken it to is a school disco, all stomach butterflies and competitive dressing.

The school disco similarities lead us to consider Nimhneach’s unique aesthetic standards; what passes for hot in this sweaty, squeaky universe? Men in Zentai suits and leather headgear look less like humans than some new breed of superalien. The ladies here are all pasties and mesh, but it’s the men who really put on a show. Respect at Nimhneach is directly proportional to how wincingly tight you wear your PVC Y-fronts, and the usual gym-honed standards do not apply. Most of the men here resemble that seasoned older lead in a basement porno, the guy in the leather apron who inexplicably pulls the nubile starlet.

A night at Nimhneach can be divided into sections, the ‘mingling’ early on, then the stage where braver people strap themselves onto the ‘equipment’ and beat the shit out of each other with riding crops, while everyone has a dance. The final third of the night is a little less courteous, a little more about asking that girl you met earlier if she’d consent to being beaten gently by three men while being covered in Swiss cheese (this really did happen, though the spirit of Gonzo journalism can only take you so far...).

Like a swingers club, an AA meeting, or a concert by Justin Bieber, you can social-

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ize to your heart’s content but are not meant to talk about your night to the outside world. I wonder if there is a fetish persecution complex at work, or is this just a by-product of the secretive, semimasonic vibe. The ‘enforced’ dress code helps to kill inhibitions - you’re less likely to worry about cellulite when the woman at the next table is wearing only nipple tassels- but there is a distinct sadism to the way they treat newbies, either making them leave or take off all their clothes.

A bald man lurking by the door tells me the dragons and elves tattooed on his chest are ‘all my fantasies spelled out on my flesh’; the fetishist is above all things a dreamer. But a ‘Mask of Zorro’ fetish?

A medical fetish for white coats and stethoscopes? A fetish for feeding other clubgoers sweets? It is only after swallowing a Licorice All-sort offered to me by one lady that I realise she enjoyed it more than I did. Nimhneach provides a home for the improbable. It takes the stranger, cringier moments of sex and spreads them out, shoving them in your face until they seem perfectly natural.

Still, the nature of fantasy is that it’s unreconcilable to life. I ask Andrew, who runs the night, if he lives the BDSM lifestyle as a full time pursuit, and he replies no. People travel from as far away as Galway every month to join the kinky festivities, but they swap the PVC for pinstripes in day-to-day life. The submissive dog-ladies put their clothes back on, the dominatrices change into flat shoes on the bus. I am told that latex washes off in the shower, and that the feeling of peeling it off is unrivalled for delicious sensations.

Though I decide to leave it on for the walk back home, as plastic clothing is conveniently rain-proof.

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%VDIPNQ 4PVUI 8JMMJBN 4USFFU T %BEB The one rule of Dadaism is: Never follow any known rules. The movement (or non-movement) born in post WW1 Europe was characterized by the collective abhorrence of a particular group of writers and artists at the nationalism, rationalism and materialism that they believed led society to a senseless war. Concentrating their anti-war politics through a rejection of all traditions, especially artistic ones, participants set about creating non-art by thrusting mild obscenities, visual puns and everyday rudimentary objects (renamed as “art”) into the public eye. They referred to their project as ‘Dada’, some say after the French word for hobby-horse while others believe the name was coined as a result of two of the leading members Romanian artists Tristian Tzara and Marco Janco’s frequent use of the phrase ‘Da da’ which translated into English means ‘yeah yeah’ as in a sarcastic “yeah right”.

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from geometric tapestries to glass, plaster and wooden reliefs, Dada art is colourful, whimsical and mocking and despite its intention to mean nothing, is responsible for a number of literary journals, concurrent visual trends and Surrealism, which followed in the early 1920s. Dublin’s own offshoot, a Moroccan restaurant on South William Street called Dada represents a cultural movement of sorts too. However, instead of defaced reproductions of a moustached Mona Lisa hanging on the wall or urinals posing as fountains in the lobby, this Dada in D2 owned by husband and wife team Aziz and Eva reflects the art of the Western Kingdom. Arabian archways, palatial lanterns and tribal tiles capture the magic and mystique of Marrakech while intricate wood carving and decorative brass relief tables endorse the large candlelit space with modern elegance. On this particular Saturday night, Dada is populated by a mix of large parties and intimate pairs. I watch,

entranced, as a dark-haired waitress pours steaming hot liquid from an ornate teapot into two glass vessels on a tray while waiting for my friend, a newly converted vegetarian, to arrive. Thankfully the menu here (recently updated) is plentiful with meatless delights.

Kick off commenced with three ‘briwat’ (€6.90), typically triangular pastries stuffed with spiced meat or in this case, spinach and Manchego cheese from Spain’s La Mancha region. Katherine enjoyed the buttery texture of the sheep’s cheese and its slight piquancy that was enhanced by a well-furnished spice rack. More filo pastry for me as I chewed on a set of cigars but not of the cancer causing Cuban variety. These narrow flutes were filled with sardines that had been flavoured with the skins of preserved lemons (€7.50).

The process of preservation can take up to three months; the lemons are stuffed with salt and packed into a jar with a sprinkling of peppercorns and a bay leaf. Once pickled, the citrus fruits add a world of flavour to any dish, and here they complimented the salty sardines tremendously as did the hot chilli and garlic harissa dip that accompanied them.

To our bemusement, we were then both presented with a rather odd looking vessel that consisted of a round wide based bottom and ceramic conical lid. Until this eureka moment, I was unaware that a tagine is not only the name for the casserole style dish we were about to devour, but also for the instrument it is both cooked and served in.

Long after the conical lids had been pulled away to reveal two traditional Moorish nosebags, our food remained piping hot. My tagine of spicy lamb (€18.50) with sautéed French beans, preserved lemons and harissa came with a choice of either pitta bread or cous cous and I went for the latter. The meat melted on the tongue, the preserved lemons giving it a distinctive bite. Featuring a host (or seven) of vegetables, the seven vegetable tagine (€14.50) embodied sugar and spice and all things nice including courgette, carrot, pumpkin, chickpea, fava beans, cabbage, cinnamon, turmeric and saffron. A pot of delicious spicy potatoes (€4.90) was placed within a fork’s reach of both of us but proved too much food to finish and our merriness was a nod to the superb value to be found at the bottom of a bottle of zingy Sauvignon Blanc from Domaine C’Auberet in France (€22). Our Moorish Moroccan meal including an assortment of baklava (€6.50) to take home totalled €80.60 and although the Dada dolly mixture caused no great shakes amongst us, these two dolls had already signed up to Dublin’s Moroccan movement and were ready to break some rules.

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The road to the Strawberry Tree is a long and winding one. Once off the N11, the narrow meandering route through a patchwork of rain soaked green dotted with sheep, impressive foliage of Amazonian stature and secluded villages populated by stone cottages and pubs might well render your GPS redundant, but will undoubtedly renew your appreciation for the beauty of the countryside. About an hour from south Dublin, Brook Lodge Wells & Spa in County Wicklow is the ideal retreat away from the city’s ceaseless pace, and their current offer of up to 50% off B&B and spa treatments for the month of August means everyone can afford to pamper themselves before the summer’s out. If however, like us, you can’t afford the luxury of time off work, an evening at Ireland’s only certified organic restaurant The Strawberry Tree, set within the spa’s hidden leafy compound, will not only lovingly massage your stomach but will caress every corner of your soul too.

Dining at the Strawberry Tree is a truly unique experience. The main entrance of the

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restaurant is reached via a tunnelled archway lined with loose cobbles that leads to wooden decking where clients may savour the last of the summer evenings in the company of nature. Expansive gardens and the shushing sound of nearby waterfalls forge the feeling that we are miles away from home. When we bump into an old but fresh faced friend (fresh that is from an Aroma Massage Facial) as she is about to tuck into dessert, we’re reminded of how small our island really is.

“You must get the chocolate pavlova”, we are advised.

First though, there are three courses to conquer. The St. Tola goat’s cheese from County Clare was my choice. Served on a bed of poached nectarine infused with cinnamon, this worked well with the sweetness of the fruit and spices to conjure an overall subtle flavour of Indian chai, while the smooth consistency of the organic cheese provided a dose of decadence. Garnishing the dish was an array of mixed leaves and pink flower petals drizzled in a balsamic reduction and on top, a razor thin crouton angled at 45º.

Niamh’s gloriously light wild crab starter captured the essence of summer with juicy cherry tomato, sugar snaps, shallots and peas in the mix, all doused with a lemon dressing.

Next a single scoop of yoghurt and black pepper sorbet cleansed my palette before the

penultimate course. While the overall flavour of the natural yoghurt was mild with hints of citrus, the aftermath of the black pepper was rather arousing, sending minute signals like tiny electrical currents to my taste buds that erupted in sparks at the back of my throat as if I had ingested a bag of crackle pop candy.

In contrast to the icy sorbet, Niamh’s roast tomato and herb soup was piping hot and interspersed with deliciously chewy parmesan crisps.

While still maintaining a relatively high standard, my main course of wild monkfish was less satisfying than its predecessors. The overpowering waft of sweetness emanating from the strawberry salad at the base of the dish was a little sickening and marred the flavour of the exquisite piece of fish. Fennel, lemongrass and an inconspicuous ginger foam all featured in the description of the dish on the menu but were overshadowed by the strawberries’ sheer saccharine tenacity.

Of greater pleasure was the wild garlic baked chicken breast, Niamh’s selection. As hearty as a Sunday roast, the chicken steeped in shiitakke mushroom sauce was fantastic, even if the kohlrabi (a root vegetable like parsnip) was slightly undercooked. A portion of buttered veg including boiled potatoes, vibrant broccoli and carrots sprinkled with bacon bits was a lovely addition to the table.

If my entree failed to wow me, dessert certainly did not. While the butterscotch mousse with a very tart gooseberry compote did not constitute a perfect match for my friend and had me on the fence, we were both smitten with the chocolate Pavlova.

Each layer from the ripe raspberries to the fresh cream in the centre down to the chunks of rich dark chocolate enveloped in a weightless egg white base was confectionary bliss.

The coffee was terrible but who cares with pudding like this!

At €65 a head for dinner, our bill including gratuity and two glasses of organic wine (€8.40 each) came to €162, the price not only of superlative quality pesticide-free food but of an altogether uplifting experience.

And our organic escape, however short, was exactly that.

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+VTU 0GG 'SBODJT There’s a bit of the Big Apple in Frank Kelly’s cosy New York-style eatery Just off Francis that happens to be located, yeah you guessed it, just off Francis Street. The appropriatelynamed joint specializes in straight-up tasty grub, the sort you might seek after a hard day’s grind at the office or even before catching a show at Vicar Street or the Tivoli Theatre, both just round the corner. On the menu at lunch expect to see New York Delistyle skyscraping sandwiches like the caprese (beef tomato, buffalo mozzarella and pesto) or the New York Reuben (pastrami, Swiss and sauerkraut), both at €7. Creamy seafood chowder with pancetta and a couple of pasta dishes are also on offer. For dinner there’s linguine pesto (€14), mussels & clams with roasted potatoes (€14) as well as the popular ‘sliders’ – three mini burgers instead of one big one with caramelised onion, Swiss cheese and a drizzle of bbq sauce (€13.50). A broad selection of wine including Italian, French and New Zealand varieties are available by the carafe and a complimentary bloody Mary or mimosa come with all brunch dishes on a Sunday. Open from 12 noon during the week and at the weekend from 11am, Just off Francis is a casually sophisticated spot with a vibey, relaxed atmosphere. The décor is minimalist with art work by Frank’s three kids (all under the age of four) thumbtacked to the wall adding to the homely feel.

And it couldn’t be more obvious that Frank, back from his decade long stint in NY since 2004, feels right at home here too.

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The Wagamama ethos, developed since the first restaurant opened in London in 1992, is to combine delicious fresh and nutritious food with great service and value for money. Many of us had never even held a pair of chopsticks let alone use the wooden implements to transfer bits of food from plate to mouth before the Japanese chain arrived on Dublin’s South King Street twelve years ago, later expanding to Cork. Come rain or shine, bust or boom the Wagamama philosophy of ‘Positive Eating + Positive Living’ has remained unchanged with standards as high as ever so it’s no wonder that despite our current doom and gloom economy that a new branch in the blanch has just been added to the Wagamama portfolio.

With an ever-changing seasonal menu, communal dining and the best in authentic Asian fare, Wagamama, Blanchardstown is not only an ideal spot for a bite after a cinema date or

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trip to the Draíocht theatre but the 100 seater restaurant also caters for large parties. The weekday lunch special offers diners a main course with a complimentary drink for €9.95 while the dinner menu encompasses a vast choice of ramen, noodle and rice dishes all priced at €11 - €18. The ‘Complete Wagamama’ special includes seafood ramen, three ebi gyoza (deep fried prawn and vegetable dumplings) with a glass of house wine, a 330ml Tiger beer or a juice for €16.95 while the ‘Wagallini’, soon to be known as the cocktail of the summer, is paradise in a glass packed with fresh peach, berries and lemongrass topped with sparkling wine for a reasonable €8. For more exclusive deals and news on special offers, join Wagamama on Facebook.

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Chai Yo offers Japanese and Thai food in the friendly settings of its Baggot Street restaurant. With three Teppenyaki areas for group bookings and a wide, varied menu, Chai Yo offers affordably good food in a laidback environment.

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Offering a full hot-plate cooking experience,Yo Thai gives visitors not just fantastic Thai food, but the buzz of open-kitchen cooking for those looking for more entertainment from dining out.

Great for both special occasions and quieter meals,Yo Thai is accommodating and friendly.

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Unit 1 Old Orchard Inn ButterďŹ eld Avenue Rathfarnham Dublin 14 T: 01-493 4938

June 13th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; September 25th Bookings: 01 618 5600 Email: reservations@burlingtonhotel.ie

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when he’d come home we’d get all these weird different types of things. It was always interesting. Two big pigs’ heads came in the back door one day and my mother’s going ‘Oh my God, what does he expect us to do with these?’ They ended up being glazed and their teeth were cleaned and an apple was put in their mouths. Then they were sent over to England.

0*- ."(/"5&4 5)& 03("/*$ )&3# $0.1"/: Founders of the Organic Herb Company Paul Pritchard and Michael Martin have never been the type to go down the hard sell route, “We probably could be millionaires by now but we’re not because we have a different approach”. Avoca, Caviston’s, Harvey Nicholls and Harrods in London stock their beautifully packaged pots of herbs, spices and bottles of oils and with plans afoot to infiltrate the Asian market, it won’t be long before the world is infused with Paul and Michael’s very unique flavour. Paul or ‘Hawkeye’ as his partner calls him due to his attention to detail, was a trained dancer working in television production before embarking on a career in blending while the sweettoothed Michael’s resumé includes chef positions at the late Restaurant Na Mara, Dun Laoghaire and the Lombard in London.

On how it all began: P: It started with a design in 1997. We were blending oils and we had about five flavours in the oils (Twine Inc. was the original company). We did a Thai basil flavour, rosemary and garlic, lemongrass and it was a real love for blending and working with herbs and trying different tastes because the both of us have trav-

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M: We love international food. As a chef, I worked in Ireland, England and a bit in France. Twenty odd years ago everybody was holding onto a job and I’d get fed up after a year ‘cause I’d go round the whole kitchen, learn everything and do it all again and I’d get bored and have to move on.

On planting the seed: M: By the time I was six my mum had a press all the way up to the ceiling full of gadgets for me. I had everything. My mum is a gadget person anyway. After school I would come home and cook the family dinner. I actually got a place in Cathal Brugha Street and got the acceptance letter when I was already in England.

I went to Worcester and on the way up in the train I was telling everyone I was off to Wor-chester and everyone was going “What, Wor-chester? Where’s that?” But anyway, I went to college there and literally from the age of 5, 6, 7, I was cooking family dinners. I loved baking as well.

P: My father was a naval chef for years.

He worked on the Arc Royal; he was a head chef there. When he was away we used to eat potatoes and your normal food that we would have in Ireland but

On the challenges of organics: P: We’re quite seasonal and always try to get the best crop. We have to travel around the world to get certain spices to blend because we don’t have the weather in this country.

M: Like vanilla pods from Madagascar; they’re not grown here. At the moment cumin is quite scarce; pine nuts are extremely scarce. One year Coca Cola came out with Vanilla Coke and practically bought up the world’s supply of vanilla pods. It didn’t matter if it was organic or conventional, they practically bought everything and the prices went up 2000 per cent. It was absolutely outrageous.

P: We’re always very conscious that in this climate you can’t expect, and not even myself or Michael would go out and pay extravagant prices.

On returning to their roots: M: We hadn’t done any kind of public show for five years, not even the RDS mainly due to the fact that I had an operation on my back so we just concentrated on shops.

P: Since we’ve been doing the Point Village Market we get more feedback from the customer and it has proven another point to both of us; you can put your product in a shop but it’s the shop owner who knows his customers, so you have the relationship with the shop owner and not the customer. So it’s really nice to be able to talk to, not only the owner of the shop but to the customers as well.

M: It gets people excited because they meet the producer. It’s very much about the interaction. It builds the trust in the product.

P: And it gets us away from the usual day to day routine. We enjoy it when we have the time. Now not every Sunday morning would we enjoy it! It’s the getting up and getting there… Once you’re there it’s great, I could go on all day.

M: If I don’t tell my mum and dad when we’re doing a market or a show, there’s war. I’d be afraid of the consequences because they love the interaction and getting involved. You know the guy that does the Irish Apprentice…Bill Cullen? He wrote a book called Penny Apple and there’s a picture of my grandmother in it. She sold apples on Moore Street so it’s somewhere in the blood!

You can find Paul and Michael and their amazing herbs, spices and oils most weekends at the Point Village Market. For more info see www.organicherbco.com.

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Kafka

Odessa

Le Bon Crubeen

On the doorstep of the Swan Centre lies one of Rathmines’ best kept secrets. Kafka offers affordable, wholesome, and well-made brasserie fare at a reassuringly reasonable cost. The sparse, minimal décor goes hand in hand with the delicious diner-style food; free of pretence and fuss. With a varied but not overstretched menu, Kafka touches enough bases to cover most tastes.

Appetizers range from delicious chicken wings to golden breaded brie, while the main menu offers up anything from hearty bangers and mash, to porcini mushroom risotto. While their prices are easy on the pocket, Kafka cuts no corners with quality of their food.

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 relative new comer to Dublin’s restaurant scene, Le Bon Crubeen is a refined yet unpretentious brasserie. With food quality at the forefront of their philosophy, the people behind this Talbot Street establishment serve up honest, well sourced, brasserie fare. Impressive rotations of weekly specials accompany a menu that offers up among other things, pork belly, and Steak frite, the benchmarks of any brasserie worth its salt.

236 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6

14 Dame Court, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 7634 www.odessa.ie

81- 82 Talbot Street, Dublin 1

www.leboncrubeen.ie t: 01 704 0126

t: 01 497 7057

Brasserie de Verres en Vers

The Green Hen

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.

Open for lunch, dinner, brunch, and snacks, Exchequer Street’s Green Hen offers one of Dublin’s most idiosyncratic menus - with mains ranging from fresh sea trout to tartlet of St. Agur cheese, and duck and mushroom pie amongst the daily specials, the Green Hen’s platters are unparalleled. Traditionalists, fear not - ribeye steak, and duck confit all offer equally delicious options for the less adventurous.

at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin

Breakfast: Dinner: Sunday Brunch:

33 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 6707238

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

www.radissonblu.ie

The Exchequer

Café Carlo

3-5 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

63 - 64 O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

A bright addition to Dublin’s growing ‘gastro pub’ scene, The Exchequer abides by its mission to provide fresh, simple, and wholesome food to accompany its impressive selection of cocktails, wine, and imported beers. The stylish and plush surroundings encourage relaxation, but their approach to cuisine is anything but lax. Their well thought out lunch and dinner menus are outdone only by the Sunday roast, which is fast becoming a weekly institution.

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!

www.theexchequer.ie t: 01 670 6856

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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t: 01 888 0856 www.cafecarlo.net

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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Yamamori Sushi

Coppinger Row

La Mere Zou

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Yamamori has two locations in Dublin’s City centre; Japanese restaurants with a wide variety of Japanese dishes from sushi and sashimi, to Japanese grill and tempura. This restaurant has 15 years of experience in the Japanese food business. Yamamori Sushi is located in the heart of Dublin overlooking the Ha’penny bridge.

The restaurant has a 300 seat capacity, one of the largest venues including four different dining areas, one of which is our newly decorated Bamboo garden. The restaurant has a large open plan kitchen complete with a sushi bar.

Sit back and enjoy one of our Japanese movies and keep an eye out for our Japanese girls wearing traditional Japanese Yukata. Try our Jazz Sushi Sunday Night gig at Yamamori Sushi on Ormond Quay Dublin 1, a perfect way to wind down the weekend.

The Bereen brothers from the South William Urban Lounge have created an exciting new option for dining out in Dublin: fresh, simple Mediterranean dishes, perfect for diving in and sharing with friends, family and work colleagues alie, in the funky laid-back atmosphere of Coppinger Row, slap-bang in the middle of the coolest quarter of south city Dublin

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.

Attached to the Old Orchard Inn, this Chinese restaurant on Rathfarnham’s Butterfield Avenue has an extensive menu, which couples traditional Chinese cuisine with several house specialties. Cantonese style fillet of beef and black pepper spring lamb head a thoroughly enticing menu.

Mon - Sat Lunch Menu 12 - 3pm Afternoon Menu 3 - 6pm Dinner 6 - 11pm

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

t: 01 8720003 www.yamamorisushi.ie / www.yamamorinoodles.ie

t: 01 672 9884 www.coppingerrow.com

Diep Le Shaker

Bloom Brasserie

Diep Noodle Bar

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4

Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6

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.

Bloom Brasserie is a restaurant with lofty ambitions. With an excellent head chef well versed in the traditions of French cuisine, Bloom’s offers up accessible cuisine that accentuates their quality local ingredients. Head chef Pól Ó hÉannraich has lovingly assembled a menu that sees Angus Beef carpaccio alongside Caramelised King Scallops, and Roast Seabass. All dishes are freshly prepared and cooked to perfection.

t: 01 661 1829 www.diep.net

www.bloombrasserie.ie t: 01 668 7170

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.

38/39 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1

55 Pembroke Lane, Dublin 2

Off South William St, Dublin 2

Sunday Brunch 12.30 - 4pm Evening 6 -9pm

22 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

Unit 1 Old Orchard Inn, Butterfield Ave, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14

t: 01 493 4938

t: 01 61 6669 www.lamerezou.ie

t: 01 497 6550 www.diep.net

DAX

Yo Thai

23 Pembroke Street Upper

Deerpark Road, Mount Merrion, Dublin 18

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.

This much loved fusion restaurant marries traditional Thai food with the energy of Japanese Teppanyaki tables. Whether you want their highly skilled chefs to put on a show cooking at the table, or simply order food to you table, Yo Thai is a reliable source of good quality East Asian cuisine.

t: 01 288 8994

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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cinema Colony Director: Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell Talent: The Beeeeeees Released: July 23

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinski Director: Jan Kounen Talent: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Yelena Morozova Released: August 6 This film, based on the fictional novel by Chris Greenhalgh, follows the romance between composer Igor Stravinski and couturiere Coco Chanel in the 1920’s. After his disastrous first performance of Rite of Spring in 1913, Stravinsky became a somewhat notorious figure in French society and soon, during the Russian Revolution found himself fleeing to France, with a wife and children. An admirer of his work, Coco invites the Stravinsky family to stay at her villa near Paris. However, a mutual respect soon develops into attraction and things begin to get awkward in Chez Chanel.

Despite the tantalising possibilities for such a story this film is unfortunately less than the sum of its parts. The two cultural icons were pioneers in their fields and ultimately became 20th century heroes. The links between their art forms may seem tenuous and what makes this film interesting is the links it finds between the two artists and how their relationship blossomed out of their artistic passion. The focus is on what the two have in common and how embracing other art forms can widen the depth of artistic scope. Unfortunately, apart from a fascinating theoretical framework, the film doesn’t tend to engage the audience emotionally.

As a romance there is little to fall in love with; the pair are not entirely convincing, the chemistry feels flat and the pacing feels a little too leisurely at times. Having said that the director takes pains to set a romantic tone throughout the film and this assists somewhat in getting swept along with the character’s story. The film looks absolutely gorgeous, the sets and costumes are glorious, particularly when we visit Chanel’s home. The production designer made much use of her love of monochrome and the palette is used to tremendous effect in parts of the film.

It is frustrating to watch a film and know that is could and should have been much better, but nonetheless this is an entertaining story, well told. As a snapshot of two artists and their context in history, this is an interesting film, but as a love story it is not quite so successful.

Charlene Lydon

If you can recall any of the articles written about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) which first came to international attention two years ago and subsequently found yourself periodically wondering, ‘I wonder how the bees are doing?’, Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnells film is for you. Their extensive documentary elegantly weaves together the characters most involved in the subject; from the man who first discovered that entire colonies of bees were randomly dying in huge quantities, to the American Beekeeping society and their efforts to determine possible causes and moving their plight into government and the mainstream media. Pleasantly the documentary is emphatic rather than holding a specific agenda.

The film shows a rare instance of man doing our part in the natural world, with capitalistic drives sadly making beekeeping a less sustainable profession. The cinematography by Ross McDonnell is excellent throughout, one shot in particular depicts seemingly hundreds of bees coming in out of focus against an overcast sky. The latest date given is February 2009, and you feel a bit saddened that an update on these people is not given. - DM

Gainsbourg Director: Joann Sfar Talent: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta Released: July 28 Animator, comic book artist and unapologetically adoring fan of Serge Gainsbourg, Joann Sfar seems like the perfect fellow to challenge the international perception of Gainsbourg as a sort of real-life Pepé Le Pew. Sfar, in accordance with modern biopics attempts to film Serge’s story with some of the same artistic tropes found in Gainsbourgs own work. The best device personifying the self-created ‘Gainsbarre’ alter-ego into a large caricature of Serge himself, part puppet, part CGI, it looks fantastic.

Pacing, however, is something of a problem. He has two kids, his marriage falls apart, the French press turns against him, he enrages the country by performing a reggae version of La Marseillaise and then remarries in the space of about ten minutes. The final image of Gainsbourg underlines the frustratingly inexplicable character Sfar has made, which is doubly a shame considering how perfect Eric Elmosnino’s performance is. Third Act aside, a portrait as respectful and romantic as this reminds me of Gainsbourg at his best in ‘Je T’Aime… moi non plus’ when he sings, “You can go and you come/ Still I retain myself”. - DM

The Rebound

Undertow

Director: Bart Freundlich Talent: Catherine Zeta Jones, Justin Bartha.

Released: July 30

Director: Javier Fuentes-León Talent: Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo Released: August 6

On the surface The Rebound could very easily be sent off to die with those awful Kate Hudson/J.Lo rom-coms, but on closer inspection perhaps it deserves a chance. The first act is an infuriatingly unoriginal tale of Sandy (Jones), a cheated woman who moves out of suburbia in an attempt to build herself a new life in the city. But fortunately when Sandy and her kids begin to settle in the city and befriend Aram, the barista who works in the cafe downstairs, things start to look a little sunnier. Aram is 25 and Sandy is pushing 40 and they slowly embark on an affair that is obviously destined for disaster. However, the relationship that Freundlich builds is based on friendship and respect, and it is difficult not to feel infuriated when they run into difficulty. This film may not be the most profound but it’s certainly more involving and provocative than most fluffy rom-coms. Earns your Saturday night tenner! - CL

A distinctly average piece of Queer Cinema tagged as yet another ‘breakout indie’, Undertow (or ‘Contracorriente’, in its native Spanish) is a gay ghost story set in Peru, a worthy but well-crafted drama which never quite lives up to its original premise.

Fisherman Miguel (Cristián Mercado) divides his affections between pregnant bride Mariela (Tatiana Astengo) and painter-photographer Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a socially-ostracised painter who lurks around the village and meets Miguel for liaisons in caves. The two smouldering leads keep things passably buoyant, but the uninventive gay-persecution plot quickly bores, as do the endless succession of lovely but boring seascapes. The slow plot strains at the cracks in this film; the heavy-handed religious imagery, and the shallow, under-developed characters stretch it to breaking point. Even when a plot twist moves the film into magic-realist territory, it remains muted and infuriatingly slow. Though affecting and witty, Undertow is oddly unprogressive in its views, lazily pitting football and tequila-drinking machismo against homosexual ‘artistic’ sensitivity, and dragging itself under with a heavy dose of moralising. - RK

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games words // EMMET PURCELL Dragon Quest IX [Square Enix] NDS In Japan, Dragon Quest is big business – its ninth installment arrives to Irish stores having already sold over 4 million copies in its native land, and incorporates local multiplayer to entice newcomers to the series.

With a charming, but altogether unspectacular art style, Dragon Quest won’t have Western gamers chomping at the bit, but it ultimately succeeds in providing classic gameplay, colourful graphics, and a game world unrivalled in scope.

Despite its relatively simplistic story and battle system, you’ll find Dragon Quest IX quickly becomes a compulsive addiction, one that may even be the finest example of the RPG genre on Nintendo’s handheld. With 50-plus hours awaiting you, and an incredibly elaborate character building system, it’s time for us all to catch onto Japan’s biggest gaming secret. - EP

Crackdown 2 [Ruffian Games] XBox360 Three years ago Crackdown was an unexpected Xbox 360 success, with detractors stating that the game’s success was based solely on the enclosed Halo 3 beta invite enclosed with each copy. True or not, the title’s open-world nonsensical thrills ensured it became the console’s first-ever sleeper hit.

Three years on, and with new developers Ruffian Games at the helm, little has changed. Incredibly little, actually – with the open-world map unchanged from its predecessor and aside from its lightweight storyline, it’s tough to find any compelling reason for Crackdown 2 to exist. Crackdown initially won gamers over in 2007, as it was the first ‘next-gen’ open-world title that arrived fully-formed. Years later, after the entirely diverse but superior charms of inFamous, Assassins Creed 2 and Red Dead Redemption to entertain us, Crackdown 2 is exposed as a superfluous upgrade. Maybe pack in a Halo Reach beta next time guys. - EP

5IF TISJOLJOH NBSLFU GPS UIF IBSEDPSF HBNFS The videogames industry’s biggest yearly event, the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) has come and gone – leaving in its wake a saddening outlook for so-called ‘hardcore gamers’. With their forthcoming motion-sensing platforms Sony Playstation Move and Microsoft Kinect taking centre stage at both companies’ press conference, veteran gamers were effectively cast aside, in the name of courting the Wii-favouring ‘expanded audience’.

One of the surprising aspects of both companies’ E3 performance was this deliberate shift in tone, with Microsoft in particular shilling Wii-alike titles such as Kinect Sports. After all, hardcore gamers have grown ever-wary of Nintendo’s postWii launch direction in recent years, seeing Sony and Microsoft as the last bastion of mature gaming experiences.

Weeks later, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick compounded gamer woes, telling industry press he wishes he could monetise the company’s Call of Duty franchise’s online play, and that he feels he is ‘owed’ millions of dollars from Microsoft for his series’ dominance on the subscriptionbased Xbox Live service.

Now that critically acclaimed singleplayer-only titles are routinely experiencing disappointing sales (Alan Wake, Metro 2033), and console multi-player titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 are dominating hardcore gamers’ playtimes, are veteran gamers losing their value to publishers? Wedbush Morgan Securities’ games industry analyst Michael Pachter has said that publishers should now be well within

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their rights to charge console gamers monthly fees, similar to subscription-based MMORPGs (Massive multiplayer online role playing games – such as World of Warcraft). Pachter believes the slowing of the videogames market is directly linked to habitual, continuous online game play, and that online shooters will ‘continue to be a drain on gamers’ time and wallets, and that sales will again slide into negative territory’. To combat the lack of new purchases from hardcore gamers, he believes Activison ‘is motivated to charge for multiplayer, has a window of opportunity to do so, and can extract greater profits if it imposes a charge’.

Unfortunately, Pachter is exactly right.

In many ways the extortionate prices of downloadable content for Call of Duty titles was test from Activision to see how much their loyal fans would pay for simple and sometimes regurgitated mappacks.

Console consumers will pay monthly fees for shooters, but once such a plan is ever implemented, expect little risk-tasking or ingenuity in the future of hardcoregamer-centric entertainment. Why develop state-of-the-art single player experiences when you can either a. develop a low-risk, cheap ‘Party’ title for the casual audience or b. develop an expensive, potentially illfated MMO shooter, with potentially millions of subscribers as your reward?

Sadly, veteran gamers only realised this sober reality in the wake of E3 2010, as this worrying future edges closer to inevitability.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Capcom DS Originally overlooked by many gamers, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for Nintendo DS is a legal adventure definitely deserving of re-discovery.

The protagonist is defence attorney Phoenix Wright, through whom you must piece together crimes using investigation, evidence, and crossexamination. The court system in the game is based upon the inquisitorial Japanese system, which strengthens the game-play. As the story starts you are presented with a fairly straightforward court case in which tips and encouragement are given by busty boss Mia Fey. However, from then on you get to explore crime scenes alone and question suspects to gather evidence to build a defence. Each new case builds upon the last, making the game genuinely engaging.

The game provides ever more detailed and challenging puzzles, and the manga-style characters deliver some fantastically tacky puns and are constantly accompanied by suitably intense courtroom and murder mystery music, stimulating the crucial Midsomer Murders section of the brain.

If you too have a love for intrigue and a thirst for justice then Phoenix Wright might just be perfect for you. - ZJ

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