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first things first

it’s what’s inside that counts 8 Entry Level

60 Greg Behrendt

Skate or die

You don’t want to know what this man does with crickets

10 Roadmap For your American road trip.

(Mostly Irish)

16 Threads Flashion

“IRISH BLOOD WAS SPILLED ON OUR BATTLEFIELDS. IRISH SWEAT BUILT OUR GREAT CITIES. OUR SPIRIT IS ETERNALLY REFRESHED BY IRISH STORY AND IRISH SONG.” IT’S NOT THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA OVERSTATED OUR ROLE IN AMERICAN CULTURE DURING HIS RECENT SUPPORT SLOT AT THE COLLEGE GREEN JEDWARD CONCERT OR ANYTHING, BUT IT MUST BE SAID THAT AMERICAN CULTURE, EVEN NOW WITH ITS INFLUENCE DILUTED SLIGHTLY BY THE ACCESSIBILITY TO OTHER CULTURES THE INTERNET AFFORDS US, STILL INDELIBLY STAMPS ITS MARK ON OUR IDENTITY. THIS ISN’T A HOMOGENIZATION PANEGYRIC - WHILE IT’S VITAL THAT OUR OWN CULTURE CONTINUES TO FIND ITS OWN PATH, THIS TOTALLY DUBLIN IS DEDICATED TO THOSE BASTIONS OF AMERICAN CULTURE IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH. AMERICAN NOVELS THAT MAKE US THINK. AMERICAN COMEDY THAT MAKES US NOT NEED TO RELY ON JASON BYRNE FOR LOLS. AMERICAN MUSIC WHICH ALLOWS TO PURSUE THE DELUSION THAT WE CAN BE BLACK. AMERICAN FASHION THAT MAKES US LOOK HOTTER THAN WE ARE. AMERICAN SPORT THAT MAKES US REALIZE WE SHOULD PROBABLY JUST STICK TO HURLING. TRUST THEM. THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING.

64 Barfly Cataloguing the best places to vomit up your stomach-lining in the city

66 Gastro

18 Sorority Sister Gossip girls

Teaching you your Itadakimasu from your Gochisosama

26 Rebel Yell

74 Print

Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut HIKE

Smooth day at the library

32 Listings

The music page that never reviewed Adele

Including Taylor Momsen, and the Street Performance Championship

76 Audio

78 Film Yes we Cannes

56 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Sweet dreams are made of these

79 Games The trust TD Megadrive review section makes a welcome return

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Contributors Rachel Copley McQuillan Dave Darcy Ollie Dowling Aisling Farinella Peter Fingleton Ciarán Gaynor Paddy Hough John Hyland Zoe Jellicoe Roisin Kiberd Ian Lamont Swede Levov Fuchsia Macaree Karl McDonald Aoife McElwain Sean McTiernan Oisín Murphy Conor O’Toole St. Martin de Porres Megan Specia

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Skating for non-skaters Words Karl McDonald Picture Rachel Copley-McQuillan

There is a certain vision of America that was once the very epitome of cool. It was a place where cherry bombs, backwards caps and slices of pizza reigned, and beside the dictionary entry for the word ‘awesome’, there was a sketch of a kid with long hair in elbow and knee pads jumping off a ramp on a skateboard. Simpsons writers had Bart carving concrete in the opening credits as a shorthand way to tell us he was a cool, punk kid. There was even a movie called Gleaming The Cube in which Christian Slater tore down an international crime syndicate partially by ollieing through plate glass windows. Then X Games happened, energy drinks started to pay skaters, and there was a schism between high-flying Tony Hawk types and those kids who never stopped just rolling around their neighbourhoods trying to pop tricks anywhere there was an obstacle.

If you weren’t one of those kids (or you weren’t very good), you missed out on an entire subculture. Nerdy about its history and chill about almost everything else, street skating is the part of skating that grew out of SoCal punk when you did. It’s as much based on personality and style as technical ability, though that is obviously respected, and its medium of delivery is an increasingly stylised short film of tricks edited together, often with camera effects, soundtracked by a song of the skater’s choice. Spike Jonze made skate videos before he ever even made music videos, never mind feature films, and his 2007 film Fully Flared for Lakai stands as a classic not only for its skating – Mike

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Carroll, Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, Mike Mo Capaldi and Alex Olson feature, amongst others – but also for Jonze’s beautiful slow-motion intros for each skater and the way it’s shot in general. Not everyone is Spike Jonze, but the average skate part is rarely a hassle to watch.

If you’re over the age of 14, it’s going to be difficult for you to get into skating the conventional way. You’ll feel awkward, in your mid-twenties, trying and failing to turn on your board as your roll up and down outside your house in front of your neighbours. And buying board stuff or videos is going to be awkward as the guy behind the counter judges you harder than you’ve ever been judged for not having a clue what you’re talking about and being a clear poseur. But thankfully, the internet exists. There is no denying that it angers actual skaters to their very souls that there are people who follow it, think about it and talk about it without actually being a part of the culture. If you meet one, keep quiet and look apologetic. But besides that, there is no reason why you can’t enjoy something that, though a little more underground these days, is still one of the coolest, most interesting things around.

Epicly Later’d – Patrick O’Dell’s documentary series on Vice’s VBS.tv is not only a great place to start to learn about skating but also probably one of the best things you can watch on a computer screen these days. Now on his third season, O’Dell essentially builds a canon of important skaters in a certain mould, from talismanic early 90s legend John Cardiel to ‘buck wild’ prison-skirting Antwuan Dixon. Combining footage from each skater’s career with a ‘we are already friends’ attitude to interviews, he tells each skater’s story with minimal intrusion and ends up giving a sort of snapshot of what a skater is and should be.

Slap Magazine – The chill-ass yin to Thrasher’s skating and destroying yang, Slap Magazine compiles skate news and runs a yearly reality show called One In A Million that’s also a decent entry point by virtue of the fact that it follows raw amateurs as they try to consistently do the stuff that pros do to win a contract.

Watch them learn and learn yourself with the latest edition, and grow to either love or hate Forrest Edwards, the most disagreeable young man who has ever existed. Also check out the Slap forums, spiritual home to the kind of skater bro who considers videos where people look cool more interesting than videos where people do difficult tricks.

Skate – Don’t worry, we’ve established that you’re too old and embarrassed to actually try to do anything on a skateboard. If you want at least some little simulation of where you’re supposed to be putting your feet and what it’s possible to jump off, EA’s Skate series far outstrips the once-mighty, physics-defying, Jackass prankheavy Tony Hawk’s franchise. With Animal Collective and No Age complementing original music by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and Rugrats theme fame, it is to hipster fake skaters what GTA is to kids who never got in trouble in school.

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Scene Kidz

SceneNotHerd is the pun-tastic name of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust’s new project to involve teenagers in the cultural life of the city, encouraging de yoof to take an active role in turning their artistic hobbies into something more concrete and serious, even a career, God forbid. Targeting an oft-forgotten demographic of pre-college age kids, SceneNotHerd gives 15-19 year olds a platform and network in which they can find cultural events relevant to them, interact, create and maybe even find like-minded collaborators.

Check out www.templebar.ie or SceneNotHerd’s Facebook and Twitter acounts for more information.

Joyce Summers

A wealth of Joycean activities have been planned for the five days in June leading up to this year’s Bloomsday celebrations (the 16th). Ulysses-heads are cordially invited to wander in Leopold Bloom’s meandering footsteps. Kit yourself out in your most dapper Edwardian gear and grab a gorgonzola sandwich and a burgundy at Davy Byrne’s, sup a pint in Barney Kiernan’s, or just go and pick your nose on Sandymount Strand.

Get onto www.jamesjoyce.ie for more details.

FESTIVAL DIGEST With festival season in hyperdrive, we unfortunately don’t get to afford a lot of space to some of the fresh-faced festival options popping up in summertime. However, here is a tiny bit of space for our favourites:

Body and Soul Festival « Ballinlough Castle - June 18th & 19th The most crustytastic day out last year returns for round two this summer with a neat line-up (Nicolas Jaar, Toro y Moi and Lee Scratch Perry, anyone?), a large amount of arty distractions, and some beautiful site design. A small-scale Electric Picnic to break your wellies in for.

Let’s French Festival Across Town - June 16th to 25th A rare opportunity to engage with the more under-the-radar elements of French music and film culture, the Let’s French 2011 program includes a Basque evening in Dublin Castle, film screenings in the IFI, and a performance from singer Agnes Bilh in the Alliance Francais.

10 Days In Dublin Across Town - July 7th to 16th A totally open arts festival, 10 Days in Dublin is inviting anybody and anything that can promise a show with a twist this July.

Already booked in are the very, very funny Josie Long, the impossibly popular Trinity College Orchestra’s Daft Punk performance, and former TD-covered comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog. Watch it.

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Adventureland

You thought Bray was knackered, right? Jennifer Cunningham and Simon Fleming’s forthcoming ‘I want to get off’ exhibition is a study of American amusement parks fall from coloured-lightbulb grace. The results are wistful glimpses of once-grand family holiday sites. The artists write: ‘Among the dandelions and the chip wrappers, a shoddinesss is revealed.

There is rust under the paintwork, cracks in the plaster, and the chairs worn. For many people they are nostalgic places, they spark off a range of associations and images, of feelings and senses. We are interested in that nostalgia, in the sense that the carnival can never be what it was in our memories.’

Hot dogs, get ya hot dogs at Monster Truck Gallery from the 11th until 28th of June.

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Finders Keepers Words and pictures Megan Specia Tucked away on Cow’s Lane in Temple Bar is one of the latest additions to Dublin’s vintage scene. Stocked with a serious collection of unique and stylish furniture, clothing, and accessories, you could spend an afternoon just digging through the tiny treasures. Between the eclectic mix of items available in the shop, and the “Find List” which allows customers to request specific items, Naomi Hanrahan’s fledgling shop looks set to become one of Dublin’s most vital vintage outlets.

If you were going to describe Find and the clothes and furniture that you have on offer to a potential customer, what would you say about the shop?

I’d say it’s a treasure trove of unique individual items that have a strong design quality. They have all basically been heirlooms to someone and are going to be heirlooms to somebody else in the future.

You are clearly very passionate about the things you have in the shop - where did your passion for vintage and repurposed goods come from?

It came from my mother really. Basically I grew up in a house where my mother made all of our clothes and all of our quilts. She had to make those things because we didn’t have any money really, so it was make and do. And I ended up with all of my brothers’ secondhand clothes which also gave me a passion for adapting menswear to wear in a cool way and make it look feminine.

Temple Bar is a great choice as a location for a vintage shop, but why did you choose Cow’s Lane in particular?

Well, Cow’s Lane is a really classy designer area, it’s a nice end of Temple

Bar. So that was how I was attracted to the area. Plus I ran a pop-up shop before Christmas around the corner, and they gave me an opportunity to give it a shot.

It’s a great community with lots of the shops and cafes having a unique kind of vintage element. And when this space became available, I decided to try it out.

Saturdays here are great because the food market and designer market are on, and it’s much busier here. I get a lot of tourists in on those days looking for a unique Irish find.

Is there any particular period in fashion or art that you are keen on and would stock a bit more of in the shop? Or is it more the case of what is trending now?

That’s a very difficult question; it’s like asking me what my favorite cake is! I love all periods, I really do. Obviously I love the glamour of the 30s; I love the whole art deco period, especially the art

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deco mirrors I have in the shop. In terms of clothing, I love the 70s and the big flowing dresses and prints. But I like really old stuff too. It really depends on the item of clothing, or art or furniture. I can have some objects that I can’t tolerate no matter what time period; it’s just too ugly for words. But I always find those are the objects that someone else will love.

Can you describe what the typical customer at Find is like?

My customers range in age, like vastly different types of people are shopping in this shop. I think it would actually be a really interesting anthropological study.

It’s so interesting to see what kinds of people are attracted to a shop like this and for what reasons. Some are just fascinated, others have never seen anything like it, and some are so used to coming into a place like this they come to root and rummage and see what they can find.

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Divine Decadence

Few people do more for Irish fashion on the world stage than designer Joanne Hynes, the Galway-born international success whose waspish, provocative designs -think Hitchcock femme fatale with a 70s glam twist- have graced the pages of Vogue, Dazed, Harpers and their glossy ilk. Rich detailing and unexpected juxtapositions are a hallmark; the wonderfully-named ‘Debased Glamour’ line for Autumn/Winter features embellished brocade, exposed zips and sleek, pin-tucked leather (also, look out on her website for former TD covergirl Iseult, who is Hynes’ house model for the season!).

Available from Brown Thomas, and at www.joannehynes.com

Black swans and bad apples

Well-Loved

It seems natural that the Aussies would have the edge on us when it comes to fashion; they’ve snapped up their Winter wardrobe just around the time we dig out our shorts and tees for Summer. The latest line to hail from the upside-down continent is Lover, a label with a cult following among slebs and streetfolk alike. They have a taste for grungey romance and updated, subverted vintage; previous collections have been inspired by everything from Wu-Tang to Godard films to Patty Hearst, and are presented in the form of video installations instead of traditional fashion shows. For Spring/Summer 2011 they’re coming over all Black Swan, with soft colours, lace and slouchy, dance-friendly layers of grey marl.

Items even have ballet-themed names; check out the ‘Coppelia’ blouse, and the ‘Practise’ sweatshirt. Currently available at net-a-porter.com, though it’s only a matter of time til it arrives on Irish shores. www.loverthelabel.com

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Rotten Apples

Threads rarely get excited over scented candles - the ultimate wash-out gift for someone you don’t know very well.

But D L & Company, a collective of ‘modern alchemists’, create such seductive little objets d’art that it’s hard not to want one. And it’s not every candle that comes with biblical, mortality-laden connotations and a luscious designer fragrance to boot; part of their ‘Jardin Fruitier’ collection inspired by Eden, the enamelled ‘Pomme’ sculpture is filled with a crisply-scented candle, though we’d find it hard to burn something so small and perfectly formed. They also produce giant metallic skulls, lepidoptera-patterned pottery and skeleton-laden stationary, as well as a gift set of gilded ‘Rotten Luck’ dice. Witty, gorgeous and utterly pointless; just the way we like our style. www.dlcompany.com

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Soldering On Caora Words Roisín Kiberd Pictures Alan Moore It takes a foreign point of view to really celebrate our cultural heritage. Or in this case, a semi-foreign view. Frenchraised, half-Irish jewellery designer Maeve Keenan creates beguiling little wearable artworks in silver, gold and rose-gold, inspired in equal parts by Art Nouveau and imagery found in the Book of Kells. Currently working on her own line, Caora, in Stillorgan-based jewellers Rocks, she worked as an apprentice for Cartier before moving on to develop her craft on her own terms. But how does one learn to wield a soldering torch, and how do you survive as a new initiate in the stuffy world of heritage family businesses, demanding commissions and shifty, unfair-trade diamonds? Here she explains all.

First things first, why did you choose to come to Ireland from France, and how did you start out in jewellery-making?

People always ask me that! I wanted to get back to my roots; I grew up in Lyon, with a French mother and an Irish father.

I used to work as a social worker; I dropped out of school straight after the Baccalaureate, and started working with ghetto kids doing crafts. Then I went to Africa for a few months, and saw how there they’ll take bits and pieces from bins and create amazing jewellery. I realized I wanted to do something crafty, so eventually I just packed up and quit! It was a matter of building a portfolio and then just knocking on every door until I got an apprenticeship. Eventually I was lucky enough to work in the studios of Cartier in Lyon. It was tough, I cried a lot over those few years, but an amazing

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training. Then in the end I felt they were too much of an industry for me; I wanted to work on the craft of jewellery-making, rather than the business. So I though Ireland might be a good place to start out, and was lucky to be picked up by Rocks and allowed to work on my own collection, Caora.

What was your inspiration for the Caora pieces?

My boss at Rocks gave me pretty much a carte blanche! But we wanted something that took Irish people back to their roots, without being naff. And with a French twist. I got really stuck into the research going through books in NCAD, and eventually I came across this one image of the ‘Tree of Life’ in the Book of Kells that really struck me. I’ve also always been obsessed with Art Nouveau, so I wanted to combine that with the image. And I wanted to work in rose gold, as it really suits Irish coloring.

Have you always had a good idea of your signature style?

I’ve always known what I wanted, though it’s hard to get the money to realize it.

Like with Caora, originally I designed the circular pieces as big torques to go around the whole neck, with an articulated clasp at the back. But obviously that costs a lot to make, so it’ll have to wait for a future project. I’ve also always wanted to work in recycled materials and ethically-sourced metals. It’s a good time for that, actually, as this year on Valentine’s Day they brought in the hallmark in Britain for fair-trade gold and silver.

The sudden awareness of ‘blood diamonds’ really shook up the industry...

It’s not something I want anything to do with. I started using recycled materials early on, during the apprenticeships. They weren’t paying me anything, so I’d make money by going around the flea markets in Lyon sourcing old pieces of watches, scrap metals, then making them into new pieces to sell on at other markets. The markets are something I really miss, you don’t seem to have many going on in Ireland, but they’re all over Europe. Last year I went over to Croatia with a friend who sells vintage clothing, and she ended up getting everything for the next four seasons at a market for less than €30!

Are you going to stick with Celtic inspiration, or visit other eras in your work?

No, I have so many other obsessions!

Jewellery plays such a role in art history, I mean Botticelli and other old masters were put to work in jewellery studios before they worked on canvas. It was viewed as the ultimate ‘high art’. And I’ve always loved Victorian mourning jewellery, all the jet and woven hair and coded messages. Working on the antiques in Stillorgan is always fascinating for me; you have all these hidden compartments and clasps that double up as brooches. So that period is really interesting. And I’d love to go even further back in time, to the ancient Romans and Etruscans. They were the real masters, they did filigree perfectly. The real old masters. It’s like, ‘you think that’s vintage, I’ll show you vintage’!

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espite the glorious weather, the Dublin Rebels sideline was grim at half time in their game against the Dublin Rhinos. The Irish American Football League’s defending champions were facing a still-developing northside team in a match that they had hoped would be effectively over by this point. Instead, they were 6-0 up, meaning one good play could hand their opponents – who they’d dominated without truly outplaying – a victory. Their running back Aaron Smith, precisely the kind of player a team relies on to finish off close games comfortably, was icing his hurt shoulder with a hand bandaged up from the previous game – that injury had been aggravated early in the day too.

The kicker – another useful player for grinding out wins – had already missed two field goal attempts and coaches had already decided not to use him in the second half. Less than three games into the season, the seemingly invincible force in Irish American Football was starting to look decidedly fragile.

The Rebels, it’s fair to say, don’t like close games. Perhaps that’s because they’re still getting used to them. Last year, they breezed to the ‘Shamrock Bowl’ without losing a game, or ever looking likely to. Scorelines of 30-0 or even more weren’t uncommon but, with more people getting into the sport, the competition is getting better. A clutch of players quit the team after the 2010 season, and the Rebels have also been victims of their own success, as two of their best players have been given the chance to play semi-professional American Football in Germany. The remaining players are obviously proud of their former team-mates, but their absence showed when they lost the first game of the 2011 season to the UL Vikings. “We’ve lost a lot of players and gotten very sloppy,” says starting quarterback and head coach Andy Dennehy, adding that their performance in the following match – a 6-0 win against Trinity College – was also far from ideal. “It came right down to the wire. We had to punt on third down from our own one-yard line (for the uninitiated, that’s akin to a soccer team defending a slender lead by hoofing the ball down the field at every opportunity) and that saved us. It was a lot closer than I would have liked.”

A defence in an American Football team, which simply depends on eleven athletes having a knack for disrupting the opposition, can cope with losing a player or two fairly easily. But on the offence, cohesion, timing, and intuitive understanding between the eleven players is critical. “It’s like choreography. If we run a really good running play and I look at it on game film, it’s like a dance. People are taking their steps in unison, blocking one guy, sometimes in a double-team, and then one guy will peel off at exactly the right time to take the linebacker. When that works, it’s great to look at, but it’s really hard to get to that level,” says Dennehy, who’s used to releasing a pass

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quickly before the other team can get to him or relying on the Rebel’s running game to ease pressure. These days, he doesn’t have that luxury.

The game against the Rhinos had begun very well. A dominant defensive performance stymied their opponents from the kick-off. Then, when the Rebels received the ball, they moved quickly up the field, with Aaron Smith grabbing a touchdown and six points. Missing the kick for an extra point hardly seemed to matter. But things didn’t go so smoothly thereafter. The Rebels defence found itself on the back foot a little too often, and mistakes on timing or communication stopped even promising attacks from yielding points.

The mood among the veteran players – who also double-up as the team’s coaches – was a mix of frustration and anxiety.

“There are a couple of plays that could have been big, 50-yard gains but ended up being nothing,” said Dennehy to his coaching colleagues. “I don’t know if we need to make any adjustments, because we’ve moved the ball on every single drive. We need to stop giving away penalties – that’s killing us. We’ve a rookie running back – we’re leaking yards. But the offensive line’s doing a great job pushing them around the place. Brendan (Cleary, the aforementioned rookie running back) is very slow, taking bad angles for the hand-off.” Smith, still wincing with every movement of his shoulder, confirmed he’d be back on the field if things took a turn for the worse.

Even though the defence had done its job, the coaches weren’t celebrating that – in fact, the scrappy defensive back and coach Markus Naylor had been constantly correcting his team-mates on the field. Off the field, he was just as critical. “Today, we’re just doing enough to get by,” he told the defensive line. “Just lazy play. And I know it’s hot, and we’re all gassed out there or whatever, but the tempo is set by you guys up front. When you start doing great things, everything behind is much easier. All the blitzes, all the coverage, it’s much simpler when you guys are working up front. I need you to pick it up, because I don’t know what’s going on.” After an exchange with ‘Sunday’ – the 40-year-old leader of the defensive line – he turned to the group as a whole. “All we need to do is make one mistake and a team that has nothing gets back in the game.”

The nature of American football – tensecond bursts of activity, coupled with plenty of time on the sidelines – makes it possible for the coaching staff and players to analyse what they’re doing and discuss it throughout the game. Perhaps more than any other sport, success depends on tactics, organisation, and adapting to what’s happening. It also means that coaches need to consistently tell players what they’re doing wrong without getting their backs up. Naylor – the most vocal player/coach on the team by some distance – doesn’t see that as a problem. “I’ve been coaching this unit five years now and I do have a pretty direct approach to it. When I started coaching,

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I ruffled a few feathers, and now people realise what I expect of them. I don’t ask them to do anything above and beyond their skill set, but I do know what they’re capable of – and when it’s not happening, I ask them for more.” Naylor is quite open that, this year, the defence isn’t quite as dominant as it once was – however, he’s proud of its resilience. “We used to come up here, beat the crap out of them and be off straight away. Now, sometimes, they get long drives against us. But when the field shortens, it becomes difficult to score, and the defence comes into its own.”

The Dublin Rebels players and coaches often rattle off lines like this that wouldn’t be out of place in the professional game. Indeed, an admirable lack of irony seems to characterise the team, who approach each game as something more than a bit of fun on Sunday. They study recordings of previous games, and of their opponents. Before the game, coaches read out who’s playing in each position to cheers from the rest of the squad. They’ll quote lines from celebrated sports films (before the game, ‘Sunday’ reminded the team that “pain heals, chicks dig scars and glory lasts forever”), and it’s not a stretch to imagine them practicing some speeches in front of the mirror. But what other people may find a touch ridiculous actually has a point: their 90-minute long warm up ritual is designed, we’re told, to build the players into the rhythm of the game by the time it kicks off. “You’ll find that the different warm-ups and approaches reflect the professionalism of a team. We may be amateur, but we’re quite professional in our approach – our play calling is quite professional, our

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THE POSITIONS Offence Quarterback The offensive mastermind. He’s the man who takes the ball first and selects a player to throw it to, or hands it to the running back.

Running Back The clue is in the name. When he gets the ball, he’ll try to outpace or power through the opposition defence.

Wide Receivers These players dash up and down the field, trying to catch the ball when the quarterback deigns to throw it their way. Speed and timing help here.

Offensive Line To the untrained eye, these players look like unthinking, 300-pound lumps of muscle. In reality, the big guys up front protect the quarterback, or open up spaces for the running back, by blocking defenders in closely-choreographed plays.

Tight Ends The nearly men – sometimes they act as receivers, sometimes they slog away on the outside line. They have to be quick and strong – a mean streak also helps.

Defence Defensive Line These players have a nice, simple job: find the player with the ball, and bring him down any way they can. They’re the sporting equivalent of a Navy SEAL team.

Linebackers These all-rounders sometimes go hunting for the ball carrier, and sometimes they look to intercept errant passes.

Defensive backs Defensive backs look to intercept or prevent any passes the quarterback attempts. They have to be ready, though, to tackle somebody when it all goes pear-shaped.

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entire standard on the field is quite professional. That’s why we’ve been the dominant force on the field for the last ten years. It’s not because we’ve always had better players – we’ve just had a better approach to the game. In Ireland, that’s made a huge difference,” says Stephen Archibald who, when he’s not playing linebacker for the Rebels, runs health and fitness clubs.

Indeed, while people could accuse the Rebels of being a bit intense about the sport, that does have its advantages. For one, it means that players like Shane Campbell – who ‘retired’ at the relatively young age of 34 – have stayed involved as coaches. Campbell, who works with the team on kick-offs, punts and field goal attempts, is learning about the coaching game from more experienced team-mates.

He’s seen first-hand how the ‘x’s and ‘o’s of carefully-drawn-up plays can be disrupted by the reality of what happens on the field. “All it takes is one guy – an ‘x’ or an ‘o’ on a page can be 25 stone. And, if you can’t get that guy moving, it’s a lot different to drawing an arrow on a whiteboard with him moving back. In reality, this guy could be a beast – he could be very big, or have more experience than your guys. That’s where the thinking on the fly comes, and you change stuff to deal with that. You have to know when to back down from things. If you can’t move him, you’re going to have to adapt.

It’s ok for me to draw ‘x’s and’o’s – ‘move this guy here, we’re going to run over the top of them, or around that.’ If you can’t physically get that done, that’s a problem,” he points out.

In the end, the Rebels did get the job done, even if it wasn’t pretty. The defence

THE BASICS Plays American football is divided into ten-second bursts of activity called ‘plays’. The offence will attempt to either run forward with the ball, or pass it to a receiver for a bigger gain – the defence will try to stop them. It sounds and looks simple, but both the offence and defence will have spent hours mapping out and practicing each play. Every time the ball carrier is tackled, runs out of bounds, or fails to complete a pass, the whistle blows and the teams line up for the next play.

Downs The team with the ball has four ‘downs’ (plays) to move the ball forward ten yards – this is not as easy as it sounds. When they do cross that ten-yard-line, they get another four downs to move forward.

Touchdowns When the ball carrier crosses the goal line, or a player catches the ball while over the goal line, it’s a touchdown. The team scores six points, and can attempt a short field goal to gain an extra point.

Field goals Like penalties in rugby, field goals help a team when touchdowns are hard to find. By kicking the ball through the goalposts, a team can gain three points.

Punting American football games are often a war of attrition, which each team battling to move closer to the goal line. This is why, on their fourth ‘down’, a team will often punt – essentially, they hoof the ball far away up the field to make it harder for their opponents to score.

Interceptions Catching a wayward pass from the opposition quarterback is just about the best thing a defender can do. His team regains possession, often in a very good position.

Fumbles When a player drops the ball – or, more likely, has it wrenched from his grasp – a mad scramble ensues to gain control of the football and ‘recover’ the fumble.

held firm through the second half. The offence, despite a few mistakes, also delivered: Brendan Cleary managed to break through the opposition line and run the ball 40 yards for a touchdown. The game, which acquired a fractious quality as the play got rougher, finished 13-0.

It’s perhaps telling that Cleary, straight after helping to seal the win with his second-ever touchdown, was quick to praise both the offensive line and Aaron Smith, who’s been coaching him along. On professional teams, the running backs who compete for time on the field are more often sniping at each other than providing mutual support – and the competition for places on amateur teams in other sports isn’t always wholesome either. But here, the solidarity seems entirely genuine.

The Rebels’ emphasis on team spirit and togetherness may seem a little over-thetop at first glance, but it’s given them a certain resilience that helps them push through potentially tricky games. Even if they’re no longer the juggernaut that they were last year, it’ll take more than a few players quitting to knock them off their perch. ■ To check out the team, visit www.dublinrebels.com.

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Let it be said, Taylor Momsen did not bring up Courtney Love. Nor did she have anything to say on Miley Cyrus. In interview, the panda-eyed Lost Girl and prolific wearer of over-the-knee socks comes across as disconcertingly sweet, hardworking and focused to a degree that would sicken her Leaving Cert-aged contemporaries. The eighteen-year-old has racked up an impressive CV of acting work, including working with Gus Van Sant on Paranoid Park and a longrunning role as Jenny on series Gossip Girl, a role from which she only departed earlier this year. Not that she’s taking a break; having fronted her band The Pretty Reckless since 2008, this summer sees her taking to the road, landing at Oxegen in July to promote their debut album, Light Me Up. We interviewed her to talk tampon strings, insomnia and tabloid intrusion.

First things first; is the album title Light Me Up a response to critics saying that you need to lighten up?

No, no... it’s more of a thing we decided on early on. Naming the record was probably the easiest part of the whole process. Someone just threw the title out early and it just fit. It seemed a good name for our very first record, like we’re only just lighting up the fire, just starting out.

Heidi Montag famously recorded a song that you wrote when you were eight years old - does the album have any more (very) early efforts on it?

I was never even aware of her recording my song. It had been recorded and released by the time someone told me.

And I was like, ‘I never wrote Heidi Montag a song!’ I’d written the thing forever ago. It’s hard to keep track of cover versions, though of course it’s great to hear other artists singing my songs. But for Light Me Up it’s all new, none of my old stuff.

Do execs ever question the fact that you’re in control of all things and you’re so young? Or is it just a matter of ploughing ahead and not thinking about it?

It’s only really hitting me now how I’m lucky to be so in control of my own music. Whereas with acting and modeling, I got put into them at a very young age. And while I do enjoy them, they’re very much jobs to me. Not to look down on either, but it’s just not the same.

Are your songs a reaction against that

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Which do you find more scary or exciting, acting for camera or performing in front of a crowd?

I never think of either of them as scary, I don’t really get stage fright. But performing, without a doubt, is a lot more exciting. Weirdly enough the stage is one of my comfort zones. I’m quite a shy person, but I feel at home on stage, and in the studio as it’s a small place with only people I know.

Moms The Word Taylor Momsen Words Roisín Kiberd lack of control? The song Zombie seems to be about getting too deep into something.

Zombie is about something very specific; I was at this place in my life where I was just working all the time and not sleeping.

I was an insomniac and couldn’t sleep even if I had the time... I went a little bit mad, and the song is definitely a reflection of that, of being on autopilot and not even knowing what your doing anymore. But you have to break free of that.

Though we made the record at least, so in the end it turned out well. But for at least a year I was a fucking walking zombie.

I’d get about one hour a night.

It’s weird, you’re the opposite of the old cliché of the actress checking into rehab for exhaustion, when it’s because of your own work ethic and creativity...

It works out rewarding in the end. The record is very much a reflection of my outlook on life, and to have people hear it and respond to it - and actually like it is the best feeling on the planet. It’s different to anything I’ve ever done; with films and TV shows you’re conveying someone else’s vision, I never had any say in the scripts. So to have that creative control felt pretty awesome. It’s incomparable, really.

I doubt people expect you to be shy. A cursory Google shows you have a bit of a record for outraging people.

The tabloids like to take the smallest thing and spin it way out of proportion so its fun to read. It’s more like fictional entertainment than journalism, though I think people know that it’s fake and just for effect. I don’t even read what people say because it’s just not real, and what can I do about it? Nothing really shocks me anymore. I always joke that once there’s a picture of your tampon string on the internet, you have to just give up and not care anymore.

Or you can manipulate it to your advantage, like, say, Courtney Love.

That’s another of those things! I mean, I never said I was a fan of Hole. My influences are a lot of things, but they’re not Hole. I mean I love Nirvana, but I also like the Beatles, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Oasis… I’m a big classic rock fan. but Hole is something that other people came up with.

As this is our America Issue, we wanted to know: what’s the best and worst thing about being an American?

Oh I don’t know. I love New York City.

I’ve been a lot of places - not all the places, so it’s hard to say it’s the best place in the world when you’ve not seen them all properly, but I really do love it. It really is raw, it has an energy different to other cities. I think of New York as the polar opposite to LA, dark instead of sunny, with all those tall buildings and darkness and shadows. New York is one of the best things about America. With the worst... I can’t really say. It’ll be different for every person.

Let’s just say Miley Cyrus..

I have to go now.

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Danleo Âť Danleoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings may have the clean lines and bold visual impact of street art, but the delicate colour balance and attention to detail in his works give away a youth spent studying graphic design, rather than recklessly spraying tags on backstreets (though we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on what he got up to outside the lecture halls of IADT). Fittingly, he uses spray paint, but prefers to apply it with a brush â&#x20AC;&#x201C; blurring the boundaries between fine art and graff-art. Likewise, his emulation of vector shapes, but desire to create them by hand, breaks down the barrier between the twin realms of art and design. Mostly working with motifs from nature or mythological subjects, Danleoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colourful creations are now on show in his solo-exhibition Random Specific at KTContemporary.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not familiar with KTContemporary, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be because the D4 gallery only opened its doors in November. The brainchild of industrious twenty-five-year-old curator Katie Tsouros (hence the KT), the new contemporary art space is devoted to younger artists who create quality output but at a more attainable price point, providing a platform for emerging talent from Ireland and overseas. Danleoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show, organised together with Le Cool, will run until June 18th, and we expect to see plenty more where that came from....

Matisseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Books If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a fan of the Chester Beatty Library, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know that their collection of artistically important books â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from the opulent and intricate to the ascetic and contemplative â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most enviable. But though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the historic religious texts that are the Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most celebrated, the book as an art form also reached an aesthetic climax in the twentieth-century. Appropriated by the Dadaists and Futurists as a new medium of expression, the Art Book lent itself perfectly to printmakers and graphic artists, as well as falling in line with the ideals of Modernism. None of this was lost on Henri Matisse, whose Art Books are the subject of a new temporary exhibition at the Chester Beatty, running until September 25th. Works on show include the famous Jazz â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 1948 collection of around one hundred prints made from paper cut-outs. The bold and colourful

graphic style of these works has lead to them being widely reproduced as posters: many, such as the distinctive Icarus, have become iconic images in their own right.

An illustrated version of Ulysses will also be on show as part of the exhibition, alongside many other eminent works â&#x20AC;&#x201C; most of which have never been on public display in Europe before.

IMMA is 20 Twenty years may seem a long time, but for an art institution on the scale of IMMA, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still sprightly young. That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped the Irish Museum of Modern Art becoming one of the leading galleries of its kind though: already itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to picture the Irish art world without it. Through its retrospectives of leading native artists of the past century, the gallery has been instrumental in establishing Irish Modern Art as an internationally respected field (as well, of course, as bringing big-name international shows to our shores). Despite this, IMMA

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Amongst the twenty names on the bill are Corban Walker (the architecturallyinformed artist representing Ireland at this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Venice Biennale, kicking off June 4th), Eva Rothschild, Willie McKeown, Fergus Feehily and Orla Barry.

Though linked geographically, temporally and by their inclusion in the exhibition, the event also aims to highlight the diversity of the artists on show, encouraging visitors to appreciate them as individuals, rather than a homogeneous group of Young Irish Artists. Opening on May 27th and lasting until Halloween, IMMA prompts us not only to reflect upon the achievements made since its conception, but also to gain a feel of where we are now, and glimpse forward into the future of Irish art.

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Jazz June Sundays

6pm, Free

The Merrion Gates Fitzpatricks Castle, Killiney 12.30pm, Free

Globetrotter Quartet Shebeen Chic, South Great Georges St. 10.30pm, Free

Stella Bass Trio Cafe en Seine, Dawson St. 2pm, Free Zinc Jazz Club Pacino’s (Cellar bar), Suffolk St. D2.

June 5th Petra Odlozilikova June 12th Colette Henry June 19th Edel Meade’s Swoo-Beh Project June 26th ZoiD Vs Dorota Konczewska 5.30pm, €8/6 Jazz Globetrotters Purty Kitchen, Temple Bar

The House, 4 Main St. Howth, Co.Dublin Jazz 7.30pm, Free

Isotope JJ Smyths, Aungier St. 9pm, €10

Mondays

Swing Factory O’Reillys Bar, Seafort Ave. Sandymount 8pm, Free

Alex Mathias Qrt. International Bar, Wicklow St. 9pm, €8

Hot House Big Band The Mercantile Bar, Dame St. 9.15pm, €8 18 Piece Big Band

Jam Session Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lwr. Pembroke St. 8pm, €7

Essential Big Band Grainger’s Pub, Malahide Rd. 9.30pm, €5 17 Piece Swing Orchestra

Thursdays

La Cuvee Bistro and Wine bar, Custom House Square, IFSC. 6pm, Free

Triple Helix Gilbert and Wrights, Lower George’s St. Dun Laoghaire 9pm, Free

La Dolce Vita, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar Every Friday Jazz Every Saturday Latin/Bossa nova 9pm, Free

Saturdays Kevin Morrow Qrt. Mespil Bar, Burlington Hotel, D4 7.30pm, Free June (One Offs)

Wednesdays

Fridays

Edel Meade’s Swoo-Beh Project The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St. D1 8pm, €5 Tues June 7th Zinc Jazz Club Pacino’s, Suffolk St. D2 5.30pm, €8 Sun June 19th

8pm, €5 Tues 21st June Kevin Barry Rm. NCH, Earlsfort Tce. D4 8.30pm, €10 Thurs June 30th Madame Anne and the Teasers (6 Piece Jazz/Swing band) Tease Burlesque night Break for the Border Fri June 24th 10pm, €15 www.tease.ie

The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St. D1

Clubbing weekly June Mondays Upbeat Generation @ Think Tank Think Tank, Temple Bar, D2 Pop, Rock and Soul 11pm Sound Mondays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Indie, Rock, Garage and Post Punk 11pm, Free Island Culture South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Caribbean cocktail party Free Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 DJ Alley Free King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free

Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free Oldies but Goldies Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free Austin Carter + Company B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Chart, pop, and dance with a twist Piss-up with Peaches The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less 3 Jagerbombs for €10 Tuesdays

Soap Marathon Monday/Mashed Up Monday The George, Sth. Great Georges St, D2 Chill out with a bowl of mash and catch up with all the soaps 6.30pm, Free The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ 8pm Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6 Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5 Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free

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Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B 9pm Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock 7pm, Free before 11pm The DRAG Inn The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Davina Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and makeovers.

8pm, Free Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm

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

11pm, €5

DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie 10pm

Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative.

8.30pm - 11.30pm.

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

Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free

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

Rap Ireland The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm

Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5 John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop Wednesdays

Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7

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

9pm, Free

Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free

CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free

Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, 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

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

Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free

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

Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5

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

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

Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free Wild Wednesdays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Frat Party €5 entry, first drink free Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, €8/6 A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free Synergy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 All kinds of eclectic beats for midweek shenanigans 8pm, Free Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm 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

Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green West, D2 Latin, Salsa 8pm, Free Rob Reid + EZ Singles + DJ Karen G Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Chart, pop & dance with a twist Free, 11pm Space N’Veda The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Exquisite Mayhem with Veda, Davina & Guests Music on the Rocks South William Swing, jive, cabaret 8pm, Free

Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5 Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm Thursdays at Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am. Cocktail promotions.

8pm, Free CBGB Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 Crackity Jones & Readers Wives on the decks Free Guateque Party Bia Bar, 28-30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Domingo Sanchez and friends play an eclectic mix 8.30pm The LITTLE Big Party Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night with DJ Brendan Conroy 11pm, Free Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5 Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm

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

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 Davina’s House Party The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2

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Drinks Promos, Killer Tunes and Hardcore Glamour 9pm, Free before 11pm, €4 with flyer After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired.

6pm, Free before 11pm Big Time!

The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups! With a DJ. The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret.

10pm n Mofo + One By One + DJ Jenny T Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am 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 Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Groovalizacion bringing their infectious and tropical selection including Cumbia, Samba, Dub, Reggae, Balkan, Latin and Oriental Sound 9pm, Free DJ Jim Kenny Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Chewn Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Mincey indie music 11pm, €5 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

M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free

The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts 11pm

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

The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 11pm, free

Fridays

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

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

Saturdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30pm. Cocktail promotions 10pm, Free

Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House music magnet with special guests each week 12pm, Free NoDisko Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Indie/Rock N Roll/ Dance 10pm – 2.30pm.

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 Hustle The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Dance floor Disco, Funk and favourites. All Cocktails €5/. Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend!

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

Budweiser promotions. DJs until late.

Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free

Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart 9pm Fridays at V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance 10pm, €5 before 11pm, €10 after Sticky Disco The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 A gay techno electro disco in the club and indie, rock, pop, mash and gravy in the main room 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7 after Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod 11pm, Free Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics

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 Anto’s X Factor The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm The search for Dublin’s singing sensation is back!

Prize €1,000 & Professsional Recording Session followed by DJ Karen Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC Saturdays

Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without Music with Words The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free The Bodega Social Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Soul and Disco with Eamonn Barrett 11pm, €10 (ladies free before midnight) Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm, Free

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 Konstrukt The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Eamonn Barrett. Indie/Electro/Party Anthems.

10pm - 2.30a.

Propaganda The Academy, Middle Abbey St. D2 British indie disco conglomerate 11pm, €5 Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 Lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm, Free Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing. Expect the unexpected.

8pm, Free

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

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

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

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

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

Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5

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

John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am

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

Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5

Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics Free

Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10

Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry

Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free

DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm

Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests

Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm

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

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Green Sunrise The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with some guilty pleasures Free Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2

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

Guest band + DJ KK and DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 New live band plays every Saturday night 8pm, Free 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 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 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

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 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

Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, €5

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

The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free

DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs

Rocked O Reillys, Tara St. Launching 9th October with LLUTHER, Rock DJ,All pints €3.20, Pitchers €9 9pm, €5

Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B

Saturdays @ Purty Loft

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Purty Loft Nightclub, Dun Laoghaire Funky House & RnB DJs, 10pm, €10 Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC Ragin’ Full On The Button Factory Everything from Thin Lizzy to Wu Tang Clan, Van Halen, The Damned & Prince.

8pm, Free Latin Mix Havana Club With DJ Leo and DJ Steve 10.30pm, Free

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

8pm, Free

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

Jitterbop The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/Swinging Sounds.

8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays)

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

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

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

The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free

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

Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm

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

12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free

Sundays

Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free

Session Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 40% off all the booze all day & Mr. Ronan spinning only the best Indie, Rock & Roll.

Free in before 4pm, €5 after.

DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without

Ear Candy

The Latin Beat

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The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar

Alan Keegan + One By 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 w The Ultimate Single’s Night Free, 7pm

Clubbing once-offs June Friday 10th June Skitty & Nolige Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €10 With Intinn.

Family South William, 9pm, Free Dave Salacious and friends

Friday 17th June Lone/TR-One Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €12 Highly awesome instrumental hip-hop & techno. Belfast’s excellent Defcon also plays as part of the inaugural First Thought Best Thought Pow Wow South William, 9pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Brian Cuddy

Saturday 11th June Anton Pleete Tripod, 11pm, €8 Amsterdam Techno, plus David De Valera Gold Panda Workman’s Club, 8pm, €15 Ignore the venue, this is potentially the gig of the month

Sure Shot South William, 11pm, Free Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dub, Bossa, Samba and Tropical Emil Damyanov South William Backyard, 11pm, Free Back yard beats

Friday 24th June

Joe Syntax Twisted Pepper, 10pm, Free Absys Records presentation as part of Mud

Donnacha Costello Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €10 Irish techno don, plus Barry Redsettaz and Discotekken Live

Juice Box South William, 9pm, Free Chewy and friends

Bizarro 2.0 South William, Free, 10pm DJ Flore and friends.

DJ Wiseacre South William, 9pm, Free NY DJ visits with funk, Latin and house.

Audio Sunshine South William, 10pm, Free With King T and guests

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Sunday 19th June

Body and Soul Festival Ballinlough Castle, €109 Electronic heaven - Nicolas Jaar, Darkstar, The Field, Mount Kimbie, and Lamb all feature.

Discotekken vs. Subject Bernard Shaw, 4pm, Free Recommended all-dayer

Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5

8.30pm, €5/€7

Emalkay Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €12 Plus Loud Mouth presenting the Gruesome Twosome Best Foot Forward South William, 9pm, Free Choice Cuts DJ Rizm and Colm K play hip-hop, afrobeat, funk, disco and house Kelp South William, 10pm, Free DJ Shane Hall and guests play deep and progressive grooves.

James Joyce Cafe Bar, 10pm, €16 Esteemed DJ duo, plus our favorite pun fail of the month, the Chillage Idiots.

Kyle Hall Twisted Pepper, 10pm, €15 Nothing major, only the future of Detroit techno.

Filthy!

South William, 10pm, Free DJs Mark Kelly and Mark Alton Fever South William 9pm, Free With Billy Scurry and Maurice Collier

Saturday 25th June Layo & Bushwacka

Comedy June The International

8.45pm, €8/€10

Wicklow St., D2

Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10

Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10 Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5 Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10 Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop

Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5

The Bankers

Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free

Trinity St., D2

Comedy once-offs

Tommy Tiernan Vicar St, D2 Friday, 16th,17th , 24th & 25th June 8.30pm, €35

Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10

Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre, D2 10th & 11th June 8.00pm, €33.60 - €36.60

PJ Gallagher Vicar St, D2 30th June 8.30pm, €28

La Carnival The Laughter Lounge In aid of the Niall Mellon Township Trust 10th June, €25

Inn Jokes with Colm O’Regan Patriots Inn Pub, Kilmainham, D8 Wednesday, June See innjokes.com for details 9.00pm, Free

The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1

Ha’penny Bridge Inn

Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5

Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2

Anseo

Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9

Camden St., D2

children.

Gate Theatre, Until 18th June, 8pm, €20 - 35

Philly lived and played for his team, the jersey, the parish, his friends - the very pitch his enemies are now trying to take from him to turn into a housing estate.

New Theatre, June 13th - 18th, 8pm, €15/12

Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10 Shebeen Chic South Great George’s St., D2

Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian

Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch

Des Bishop Vicar St, D2 11th June 8.30pm, €28

Theatre June Pygmalion Bernard Shaw’s most popular play performed at the Abbey for the first time ever. Linguistic professor Henry Higgins accepts a bet to transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady in this play, later adapted into the famous Broadway musical and Audrey Hephburn film My Fair Lady.

Abbey Theatre, April 27th – June 25th, 7.30pm, €15-40

Blood Brothers The tale of twin boys separated at birth, only to be re-united by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret. The score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and Tell Me It’s Not True.

Gaiety Theatre, June 7th - 25th (No performance Sundays), 7.30pm, €25-55

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by Rua O’Donnachu New Theatre, June 6th - 11th, 8pm, €15/12

his heart yearning for love, is permanently at odds with the prosaic, hard-scrabble, smallhorizoned, backbiting existence of his fellow farmers in an adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel Mill Theatre, June 8th - 18th, 8pm, €18/15

Iphigenia in Aulis

Living Quarters

When Helen, Queen of Sparta, abandons her husband for the Prince of Troy a thousand ships are launched on a mission to reclaim her and to punish Troy. Performed by Classic Stage Ireland.

Project Arts Centre, June 17th - July 2nd, 8.15pm, €20/16

Join the Butler family in Ballybeg, Donegal, as they gather together to celebrate their Army Commandant Father’s bravery in action and subsequent promotion, only for secrets and lies bubbling under the surface to emerge by the evening’s end, with devastating and lifechanging consequences for all. By Brian Friel Draiocht Theatre, June 7th - 10th, 8.15pm, €15

Lovers Brian Friel’s dark comedy classic.

New Theatre, June 27th - July 9th, 8pm, €15/12 Bloodknot

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof A wealthy Southern family gathers to celebrate Big Daddy’s 65th birthday. Brick the alcoholic son, married to the beautiful Maggie ‘the Cat’ hasn’t slept with his wife since his friend Skipper died, leaving Maggie sexually frustrated and childless, unlike Brick’s brother Gooper and his wife’s generous brood of

Dream to shreds, exposing a sordid nightmare of lust, rejection, manipulation and self-denial - a darkly comic re-imaging of Shakespeare’s classic tale for the 21st Century Project Arts Centre, May 31st - June 18th, 8pm, €20/16

The story of two half brothers trapped in the madness of South Africa’s apartheid.

Project Arts Centre, May 30th - June 11th, 8.15pm, €18/16

Tarry Flynn A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Pitch Loose Canon is ripping A Midsummer Night’s

Nanny who tackles the giants of nannying Foxrock children, hospitals, leprechauns and Ryanair. She will sacrifice love and bare whatever is necessary to achieve her goal: to be crowned the Rose of Tralee, and win the keys to the Volvo that come with it Draiocht Theatre, June 17th - 18th, 2pm/8.15pm, €14 Fast Portraits Inspired by the realistic observations of the true human condition by artists Bill Viola and Caravaggio, Rex Levitates Company explore the layers of emotion and memory that infuse captured images and transfer them into movement.

Project Arts Centre, June 22nd - 25th

Zocorro Rose of Tralee Poet-farmer Tarry with his nose in a book, his head in the clouds, his hand on a spade and

Zocorro is a Spanish testosterone-fuelled

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Visual Art June 13 North Frederick Street

Chester Beatty Library

Group Show All-female group exhibition showing drawings and paintings by Helen Downey, Laura Mcauliffe and Leeza Marie Romans with photographic works by Irene Siragusa.

May 13 – June 8

Dublin Castle, D8

Back Loft 7-11 Augustine Street, D2 Movement of Sound Movement of Sound seeks to combine movement and sound in a way that will speak across a number of artistic platforms, attracting fresh anduntried audiences and creating new and more complete experiences of movement, sound, movement through sound and sound through movement. This project will involve 4 artists: Karen Power (Composer / Live Electronics), Mary Nunan (Dancer and Choreographer), Deirdre O’Leary (Clarinettist) and Kate Ellis (Cellist).

This type of program aims to bring a more holistic performance to its audience, where sound, sight and movement are all considered equally, creating a specific type of environment.

June 19 Blackrock Market Café Main Street, Blackrock, D4 Veronica Heywood – Ag Seasamh An Fhoid Dún Laoghaire artist, Veronica Heywood showcases her mythological landscapes in a solo show at The Blackrock Market Cafe in May and June. ‘Ag Seasamh an Fhóid’ will feature a selection of works from throughout her career. The exhibition is curated by Tony Strickland. In her practice, Veronica creates a visual diary of Ireland through Watercolour and Drawing. When she sets out to visit a new part of Ireland, she researches it’s history, archaeology, flora and fauna, and it’s people, so that she will know where to look for inspiration. Veronica always works plein-air, to capture the magic of the moment.

May 10 – June 19 Blue Leaf Gallery The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2 Suzy O’Mullane New work May 19 – June 10 Centre for Creative Practices 15 Pembroke Street Lower, D2 Janusz Kapusta – ‘The Captive Mind and other illustrations’ ArtPolonia is honoured to present an exhibition of selected works by Janusz Kapusta including his illustrations of “The Captive Mind” along with his other awards wining illustrations.

Janusz Kapusta’s work can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries around the world including Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, The IBM Collection. His work ranges from small graphic forms, posters, magazine illustrations, graphic design, book illustrations, to set designs and painting. In 1985 Janusz Kapusta also discovered a new geometrical shape – an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron, used in fine arts and architecture and in the applied arts. In May 2004, Kapusta won a Grand Prix in an international competition in Ankara commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic. As a visiting professor, Kapusta collaborated with the newly established School of Visual Art and New Media in Warsaw.

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the museum and the canons it values. Painting and drawing, placing and framing are the nuts and bolts of his response to gallery 8.

Shanahan’s work is concerned with foreground and background, light and colour and the power of colour quantities to morph the apprehension of space. The installation creates an unbounded wall-painting that is both parasite in and protagonist to its cultural and architectural setting. Each gains meaning according to the other and this reciprocity mirrors our potential dialogue with the artwork.

An understandable aesthetic pleasure is thus evoked but the de-materialised nature of the work also interrogates the exhibiting function of the institution and its values.

May 18 – August 21

Cross Gallery

crossing present-day Turkey, which was intended eventually to reach the oilfields around Baghdad. The infrastructural system into Anatolia enabled fluent trade of goods, troops and people.

The construction of steal structures (designed for longevity and accountability) existed alongside tents that (on the construction sites) appropriated the nomadic lifestyle and material culture that the new railway was soon to extinguish. For this exhibition Raum installs an extensive, tent-like structure stretching from floor to ceiling in the gallery. The tent is made from long pieces of cotton fabric, which were dyed and painted to show what could be traces of time and different usage. Voices reading out reports and file entries by German and British engineers and diplomats fill the space between the fabric.

May 5 – June 17

59 Francis Street, D8

Gormley’s Fine Art

Military Road, D8

She would argue a Crow is White Solo exhibition by Ann Quinn June 9 – July 2

24 South Fredrick Street, D2

Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi This survey exhibition of the work of the American painter Philip Taaffe, features 34 mixed media, mostly abstract paintings from the last ten years. Taaffe’s work has been celebrated in museums around the world for its rich fusion of abstraction with ornamentation, combining elements of Islamic architecture, Op Art, Eastern European textile design, calligraphy and botanical illustration. The exhibition includes many of the most striking examples of the vivid, complex images that result from Taaffe’s highly individual use of line and colour.

March 23 - June 12

The Art Books of Henri Matisse The Library is delighted to announce that the Library and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will present this exciting exhibition of the art books of Henri Matisse. The exhibition will feature four of Matisse’s most artistically significant books on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection together with works by Matisse belonging to the Chester Beatty Library.

This exhibition is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art in our Communities programme.

May 26 – September 25

The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick St, D2 Summer Selection ‘Summer Selection’ is a group show including work by Michael Flaherty, Lucy Doyle, Francis Boag, Brian Mc Donagh and sculpture by Seamus Connolly.

May 10 – June 8 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Mairead O’hEocha June 10 – July 13 Mark Manders – Two Interconnected Houses June 10 – July 13 Draiocht Blanchardstown, D15

Summer Exhibition Gormleys Fine Art look forward to the Summer season with new works by their many artists, including, Sean Cotter, Peter Monaghan, Jonathan Aiken, Rowland Davidson, Tony Lynch, and Eileen Meagher.

June 16 – July 16 Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street. D2 John Cronin – Augmented Reality In John Cronin’s large oil on aluminium paintings called Augmented Reality we see the artist at his best. Few Irish artists can achieve the sumptuousness and visual exuberance in pushing the boundaries of technique and possibilities with colour as Cronin shows himself capable of doing here. The continuing Augmented Reality series points to a hyper-overloaded information age. Layer after layer of lurid purples and greens and yellows assert the vibrancy of colour abstraction that persists in his work, healthy as ever.

May 20 – June 18

Desmond Kenny For the past 22 years Kenny has worked as a figurative painter. Through portraiture, landscape, the nude figure and Dublin City Street scenes he has explored diverse subject matter. Over the past 3 years his style has shifted into that of a more abstract painter.

The sudden change occurred whilst looking at paintings produced by his grand niece in his studio. Her work appeared free and spontaneous and not bound by art history. To tap into this elemental childlike creativity the artist removed all figuration from his work. Whilst still concerned with painting the resulting body of work is greatly removed from Kenny’s previous practice.

This will be the first major solo exhibition of Kenny’s new departure into abstract painting.

A retrospective of Kenny’s earlier figurative work will run concurrently in the First Floor Gallery.

June 9 – August 27

Hello Operator

Goethe Institut Irland

Ross Bleckner and Jeff Schneider ‘New York Paintings’ May 26 – June 18

37 Merrion Square, D2 Judith Raum Since 2009, Judith Raum has engaged in artistic research dealing with the effects of German profit-orientated expansion on the cultural relations between the German and the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century.

In a solo-exhibition and lecture performance for The Return Gallery, Judith Raum will follow a few narrative threads from this research.

In 1888, the Ottoman Empire commissioned a corporation founded by Deutsche Bank and German construction firms to construct the Anatolian Railway – a railway

12 Rutland Place, D1 Bridget O’Gorman – Vitreous Humour Vitreous Humour is an evolving collection of drawings and found, invented or crafted objects. Informed by themes of mass-production and consumption, the cast porcelain figurine relates specific association whilst simulating life. Referencing art history and 19th Century artefact, the work alludes to an ethos of anthropomorphism and collation, raising questions about value and function of the inanimate as well as the construction of fiction as a human requirement or didactic device.

May 12 – June 12 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West, D1

LUST: Fiona Dowling, John Kindness and Sheila Rennick June 23 – July 22 Hugh Lane Parnell Square North, D1 The Golden Bough: Sean Shanahan Sean Shanahan’s installation for the Golden Bough is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but an open space: an interludium inviting reflection upon the social function and authority of

IMMA

Old Master Prints An exhibition of Old Master prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making. Works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Rembrandt van Rijn are all featured in Old Master Prints: The Madden Arnholz Collection, which is drawn from the Madden Arnholz Collection. It was donated to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) in 1989 by Claire Madden, prior to the opening of the Museum in 1991. The exhibition is curated by Janet and John Banville.

March 23 – June 26 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, presents the iconic paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the two central figures of Mexican Modernism.

Few artists have captured the public’s imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957). The myths that surrounded them in their lifetime arose not only from their significant body of work, but also from their active participation in the life of their time, their friendships (and conflicts) with leading figures, their imposing physical appearance and spirited natures. The paintings exhibited include key images by Kahlo such as Self Portrait with Monkeys, and Self Portrait as a Tehuana or Diego in My Thoughts, and the major work by Rivera, Calla Lily Vendors (all 1943). The paintings are supplemented by other works including diaries, lithographs, drawings, pastels and collages – all offering a rich visual experience for the visitor. Also included are striking photographs of Kahlo and Rivera by Lucienne Bloch, Héctor García, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray and Bernard Silberstein.

April 6 – June 26 Les Levine: Three Works from the 1970s Regarded as the founder of Media Art, New York based, Irish artist Les Levine has donated to IMMA three series of etching and photographic works made in the 1970s. In the works, he mixes text and image to reinforce his belief that social and political problems

are valid concerns for art.

March 23 – June 12

The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7

Twenty As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage.

Commonalties and dialogues appear between the artworks in Twenty, but the exhibition seeks to allow sufficient space that each artists’ work may be viewed as an individual practice. The show includes installations, photography, painting and sculpture, and featured are artworks from IMMA’s Collection

by Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily, Patrick M FitzGerald, John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O’Callaghan, Niamh O’Malley, Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild and Corban Walker. The exhibition also features a borrowed piece by Irish artist Sean Lynch.

May 27 – October 31 Barrie Cooke Organised to mark Barrie Cooke’s 80th birthday, this exhibition includes some 70 paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. It draws from the Museum’s own significant holding of his works, including Slow Dance Forest Floor , 1976, Megaceros Hibernicus , 1983 and Electric Elk, 1996, as well as loans from various private and institutional collections.

June 15 – September 2011 Instituto Cervantes May 12 – June 10 Carlos Araya Vargas For the first time in Ireland, the Instituto Cervantes together with the Embassy of Chile are pleased to invite you to enjoy the most recent work from the renowned Chilean artist Carlos Araya Vargas – “Carlanga”, with his collection ‘Bucolic Landscapes’ made up of 10 oil canvasses in big format. He trained in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, and has resided for over 20 years in Paris.

Carlanga has had a long career as a graphic artist and has won prestigious awards in Chile, France and other countries. In addition, this artist is one of the most relevant representatives of the Chilean current contemporary scene of the last 20 years.

May 12 – June 10 The Ivy House

Yvonne Woods & Susan Montgomery Susan Montgomery and Yvonne Woods have created work inspired by the prose of the Canadian writer Anne Michaels. Their inspiration is drawn directly from Michaels’ 1996 novel ‘Fugitive Pieces,’ a profound meditation on loss and love, the dead and the living, and the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Taking Michaels’ themes of archaeology, memory, loss and the body as central concerns, the artists articulate these ideas through their individual work processes.

June 8 - 14 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 Repo Man Released in 1984, Repo Man is a film produced and set in the economic recession of the 1980s and follows a young punk rocker in L.A. who falls into his first ever job - a repossession agent. Both the role of repossession agent and the film’s underlying theme of youth in revolt present loose departure points to consider the assemblage of respective practices presented in Repo Man at Kerlin Gallery. Sam Keogh, Fiona Hallinan, Ruth Lyons, and Joseph Noonan-Ganley have developed distinctive practices that consider their positions as both artists and political subjects. What is commonly termed in fine art as ‘appropriation’ may also be viewed as ‘repossession’. Time ensures repossession is an inevitable process and although authorship is protected posthumously, future generations will most likely appropriate aspects of work into new contexts, often changing meaning and blurring originality.

May 20 – June 25 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Chancery Lane, D8 Mark McGreevy June 2 – 25 Vanessa Donoso Lopez June 30 – July 23 KTContemporary 25-27 Donnybrook Road, D4 Danleo The first big solo show of the London-born Dublin-based graphic designer and street artist. Presented by le cool Dublin.

May 12 – June 18

114 Upper Drumcondra Road, D9 MadArt Gallery Grace O’Sullivan – Out of Eden Art at The Ivy House is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by artist Grace O’Sullivan.

Grace’s interest in gender representation and religious belief systems comes together in this exhibition entitled Out of Eden. She is fascinated by signs and symbols, myths, mysticism and illusion which are always important elements in her work to create layers of meaning. The work in the exhibition developed from her research into newspaper photography and an ongoing interest in the powerful affect religion has had on society and in particular the repercussions of the story of Adam and Eve. The series of photographs explores the ideas of power and religion, and has a subtle narrative, allowing the viewer some freedom to interpret the work and draw their own conclusions. All the photographs were taken in a former Magdalene Laundry. The paintings developed from the photographs and as such are an extension of the friction between outside powers and the self, and the legacy of the story of genesis.

May 5 – August 1

56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1 Jacqueline Nicholson “Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego” is Jacqueline Nicholson’s first solo exhibition since graduating from IADT in 2010 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Arts Practice. This exhibition is a continuation of her graduation piece “Templates” along with new paintings and drawings. Jacqueline’s work explores the theories of psychoanalytical concepts. For this exhibition she has studied Freud’s theory of mourning and melancholia and how this concept affects, shapes and impinges on our lives. This new work is Jacqueline’s understanding of mourning and melancholia.

June 2 – 9 Monster Truck Gallery 4 Temple Bar, D2 Meadhbh O’Connor - Biosphere

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THE TEMPLE BAR WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT The Temple Bar, one of the friendliest pubs in Ireland, based in the heart of Temple Bar, is hosting one of the most exciting events of the year in an attempt to break a world record.

On Sunday 12th June 2011 at 4pm, talented home grown talent Dave Browne will enter The Temple Bar Pub and undertake a challenge like never before - to play guitar for over 100 hours in a bid to break the current world record.

Dave will be joined throughout this once in a lifetime challenge, by a host of well known friends and musicians in a bid to win the Guinness World Book Of Record title â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Longest Marathon Playing Guitarâ&#x20AC;?.

People are expected to come from all around the globe to join in on this spectacular challenge and help Dave in pursuit of his dream. You might just see Paddy Casey, Kila, Something Happens, Mundy, The Hot House Flowers, The Undertones and maybe even the Dubliners!

Sunday 12th June 2011 at The Temple Bar, Temple Bar.

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Biosphere is the first solo show by Dublinbased artist Meadhbh O’ Connor. The show brings together new works arising from the experimental path O’ Connor’s practice has taken since graduating from IADT in 2009.

Working predominately through installation, over the last year O’ Connor has begun to experiment with the use of living organisms in her work such as various plants and fungi. The show will also feature a text by Dublin-based curator Seán O’ Sullivan.

May 28 – June 7

National Botanic Gardens

2011. Inside a display case positioned metres north of the Spire of Dublin, an exhibition programme will showcase images and artefacts selected by artist Sean Lynch that evoke a variety of the city’s artistic and social histories.

With a nod to the by-now cultured Irish tradition of nicknames for public art, the title of the project is part of local slang, and is borrowed from Eamonn MacThomais’ 1974 book Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin. Located on the central axis of the city’s main thoroughfare, the display case suggests a loose alternative to the line of official monuments (Parnell, Spire, Larkin, O’Connell, etc.) that appear there.

Instead of commemorating historical achievements or momentous occasions, Me Jewel & Darlin’ will focus on incidental occurances and artistic practices that engage Dublin as a source and subject.

January 1 – June 30

Glasnevin, D9

Oliver Sears Gallery

Transformations An exhibition of work by the West Cork Craft and Design Guild. The 15 exhibitors work in a variety of media including: jewellery design, textile design, lace making, wood turning, green wood chair making, ceramics, knife making, blacksmithing and wood/furnituresculpting. ‘Transformations’ focuses on the inspiration, the materials and the process – the design, skill and craftsmanship behind the making of individual pieces. This theme is taken up by the screening of ‘An Inspired Gathering’ – the Guild’s DVD – showing beautiful and accomplished pieces produced with tremendous skill and patience from raw materials, using basic tools and equipment.

May 4 – June 12

Molesworth Street, D2

Mother’s Tankstation Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 Kevin Cosgrove June 1 – July 9

O’Connell Street, D1 Me Jewel & Darlin’ Me Jewel & Darlin’ is a public artwork on O’Connell Street, Dublin, beginning in January

Mark Fairnington Born in 1957, Mark currently lives and works in London. He employs “the language of natural history to frame [his] pictorial fictions” and the results are exquisitely executed hybrid images of birds, flowers and insects. These mysterious almost mythical beasts exist alongside studies of real animals and natural history specimens, but in common they share a painstaking attention to detail and co-exist in a frequently luxurious habitat accentuated by the use of rich paint materials such as gold and palladium leaf.

This collection will include a body of new plant paintings entitled The Cuckoo Orchids and a painting entitled Zebra Box which depicts a display case from the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring which has also been the source of inspiration for many of the bird specimens featured in previous work.

April 28 – June 9

Katherine Boucher Beug – Some Time June 23 – July 29 Pallas Projects

both internationally and in Ireland, Browne’s project hones in on a community story that becomes the lens through which to examine the depth of emotional investment, and resistance to change, in economic systems.

May 5 – June 25

23 Lower Dominick Street, D1

medium and action. Through the use of time based structures, contemplative paintings and drawing emerge on carefully manipulated materials. The casting of the support mimics the layering of a painting and allows for control of the work from inception.

May 12 – June 14

Gallery of Photography & The National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2 June 7th - 26th

RHA Alex Martinis Roe Workshops, archives, white boards and stenographers. The artworks, documents, objects, images (both moving and still) and texts in Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibitions are dependent on the artwork’s interlocutors (workshop participants and exhibition viewers) who record the history of their specific encounter or production without attempting to transparently communicate the content of that experience/activity. The artist employs the act of writing to engage thoughts and fantasies that are embedded within the human unconscious through interactive, performative sessions. Discussions become, via the coded products of a stenographer’s hand, abstract data banks hung on the gallery wall, while participants write upon white boards with white chalk, the next written layer overwrites the last, accumulations of dust gather beneath the writers’ feet.

May 6 – June 4 Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2 Sarah Browne Sarah Browne’s new film installation focuses on the small French town of Le Blanc, where a coalition of local artisans and shopkeepers have created one of the last refuges for indigenous currencies. Le Blanc is still accepting the franc as payment for goods and services in certain shops although it is technically no longer legal tender, and will continue to accept it until 17 February 2012 a deadline imposed by the Banque de France. Produced against a backdrop of extreme economic vulnerability,

Taylor Galleries Ely Place, D2 16 Kildare Street, D2 181st Annual Exhibition May 24 – June 30 The Science Gallery

The Tenderness of Attention An exhibition in two parts by Melita Denaro June 10 – July 2

Pearse Street, D2

The Workman’s Club

Human + HUMAN+ is an interactive exhibition experience looking into the future of the human race.

Will enhancement of humans become the norm? What types of enhancements will we choose? What is our genetic future? Will computer technologies continue to change the way we socialise? HUMAN+ will explore the implications of enhancement on how we define ourselves. Could smart pills, personalised medicine, cognitive enhancement, or genetic manipulation change us into something other than human? Will converging technologies in robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and aesthetics create a new race?

April 15 – June 24

Wellington Quay, D2 Traces of the Real An exhibition featuring long exposure photography by Hugh McCabe. Each image shows a gig in a Dublin venue – the shutter button being pressed at the start of a song and closed at the end, creating ghostly, ethereal images of live music performances.

May 5 - July Monster Truck I want to get off Simon Flemming and Jennifer Cunningham June 10th to June 28th DIT Design Show

Talbot Gallery & Studios The Complex, Smithfield, Dublin 51 Talbot Street, D1 Jane Fogarty - | p nti NG | Jane’s work roots itself in the realm of painting, exploring the ontology and materiality of the medium while placing a strong emphasis on the process of creation. | p nti NG | is a manifestation of a recent body of work in which equal importance is given to support,

A collaboration of innovative design solutions created by three DIT design courses; Visual Communication, and Interior & Furniture Design and Product Design.

June 7th - 11th DIT Graduate Photography Exhibition 2011

Festivals June Mary Swander, Seamus Cashman, and Joan McBreen 9th June, Irish Writer’s Centre Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writer’s Centre and Dublin UNESCO city of Literature. Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, will give a reading. Swander is author of several memoirs and three books of poetry. www.writerscentre.ie Taste of Dublin 9th-12th June, Iveagh Gardens Entry from €15 Held in Iveagh Gardens, Taste of Dublin is a gathering of the city’s most exciting gastronomical offerings, a four-day outdoor foodie playground. Go for the eleven top chefs taking part in the ‘chef theatre’, the wine tastings, and over a hundred artisan food producers. www.tastefestivals.ie Salmon Poetry Book Launch 10th June, 7pm, Irish Writer’s Centre The launch of two new collections of poetry, Joseph Lennon’s Fell Hunger and Padraig O’Morain’s The Blue Guitar.

Dalkey Book Festival 16th-19th June www.dalkeybookfestival.org Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Neil Jordan, John Simpson and Sinead Moriarty are just some of the writer’s who will be taking part in the Dalkey Book Festival, now in it’s second year.

Set up as a response to the community’s dwindling trade during the recession, the festival cleverly draws on Dalkey’s great numbers of literary residents.

battling it out in Merrion Square for the AIB street performance world championship title. www.spwc.ie Where’s Wally World Record

Ulysses Day aka Bloomsday

18th-19th June Merrion Square, Price €12 per costume Building upon the success of last year’s space hopper world record, the street performance festival is hoping to gather together a worldrecord breaking Where’s Wally gathering. Tens of thousands of Wallys are needed, so head down and show the love.

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Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival

Sophie Mayer & Nina Karacosta 16th June Cat and Cage, Upper Drumcondra Road Poetry Ireland in association with Wurm Im Apfel.

Street Performance World Championship 16th-19th June Merrion Square, Free Contortionists, magicians, breakdancers, comedians and world class jesters will all be

17th-26th June Head down for the visual spectacular that is the pride parade (second only to the St. Patrick’s day festival in size), to be held on June 25th, whether your LGBTQ, have friends or family who are, or are simply interested in celebrating diversity and creating mutual respect. Alongside the parade itself, the festival will feature events like the sports day and dog show, the day of dance, poetry, and song, and stage performances at the post-parade party.

Check out www.dublinpride.ie for more information.

Dublin 30km Lunar Walk 25th-26th June, 10pm The diabetes foundation of Ireland holds its second sponsored Lunar Walk through the streets of Dublin, this year venturing North to the coast, ending with a sunrise and a big breakfast at the Burlington. To register or seek out more information, contact Kate Moran on 1850909909 / 018764571, email her at kate. moran@diabetes.ie, or check out www.diabetes.ie Dance Theatre of Ireland’s Block Party 26th June, 2pm, Free A smorgasbord of music, architecture, and dance. The troupe of dancers and musicians have performed throughout Ireland, Korea, and Europe. Brian Flemming and friends will be providing the percussions. Come and be immersed in a world of gigantic toy blocks.

For more details, get on to www.dancetheatreireland.com, email danceire@iol.ie, or phone in to 012803455

bike challenge, a 200 mile a day cycle over 2 days, which will starts off in Dublin and heads up to Belfast via the scenic route. Cyclists will have the choice of cycling on either Saturday (the Dublin to Belfast route) or the return journey on Sunday. Hardcore cyclists can participate in both journeys if they wish, and there’s even a Minicycle of 50 miles for the less manic. www.cooperationireland.org/maracycle A Night of Prose and Poetry 30th June, 7pm Irish Writer’s Centre Readings will be given from some of the students at the Irish Writer’s Centre. www.writerscentre.ie Publishing Seminar: Poetry and Short Stories

Poet and Co-organiser of Over The Edge Reading Series. www.writerscentre.ie Irish Youth Dance Festival 3rd July, 19:15pm, Free Pavilion Theatre Taking place as part of the aforementioned Dance Theatre of Ireland’s “Block Party, Summer Tour”. www.dancetheatreireland.com Squarebound 18th June, Irish Writers Centre A One-Day Comics Event concentrating on Irish Comics Creators, both in small and mainstream press here at home, and breaking into bigger markets overseas.

Outré Fizz Presents Le Cirque Électronique

25th-26th June Maracycle is co-operation Ireland’s flagship

2nd July, 10:30am Irish Writer’s Centre A day-long Poetry and Short Stories Publishing Seminar with leading figures across a variety of branches of the publishing industry. Talks will be given by Ciaran Carty, Editor of New Irish Writing; Declan Meade, Editor of the Stinging Fly; Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director of Salmon Poetry; Kevin Barry, Short Story Writer and Novelist; and Kevin Higgins,

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The Grand Social, July 1st A surreal electronic circus and masquerade ball

Poker June Fitzwilliam Card Club

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Balbriggan Market

Whether you’re after a new plasma screen telly, a big box of Daz, some vintage clothing, or, in one strange case, Nazi memorabilia, Balbriggan hosts one of Dublin’s more storied markets every Sunday morning. Be warned - the thriftier get there by 6am.

Farmleigh House Originally the home of Edward Cecil Guinness, great-grandson of Arthur himself, the Farmleigh estate has been under the control of the Office Of Public Works for just over a decade. In that time it has grown famous as both a venue for visiting dignitaries (I think someone called Liz stayed there recently) but also as a place for visitors to explore as well as being host to numerous special events in the warmer months.

Boasting 78 acres of estate in the west of the Phoenix Park, Farmleigh’s centrepiece is of course the mansion built and extended by the Guinness family in the 19th and early 20th century. The house includes a large number of artifacts, antiques, memorabilia on display that still belong to the family. Outside there are large ornate grounds feature a range of treasures from the walled and sunken gardens to the incredibly peaceful boating

pond for those looking to dream away the afternoon on the water.

The house is open from Thursday to Sunday each week with (excluding when dignitaries are staying) by guided tours.

Visitors can also simply explore the estate on their own time any day of the week, or avail of the art gallery or dine at the Boathouse Café.

The summer time is also an opportunity to take part in some of the events planned on the ground including their Food Market (next upcoming events June 12th and July 10th), garden tours, live brass bands in the bandstands at Sunday afternoons and exhibitions of the some of the rare books and manuscripts of literary value that form part of the celebrated Benjamin Iveagh Library. The library of the late Guinness heir includes many important historical books including first editions of Gulliver’s Travels and Ulysses.

Sylvester’s Well

Not exactly a reason to drive all the way out to Malahide of a Saturday, but a local curiosity nonetheless, Sylvester’s well is a papally-dedicated source of water that happens to have some strange customs involving a magic eel. Seriously. Go ask one of the locals.

Donabate Beach

One of nine beaches stretching out along the north Dublin coast line, Donabate is mighty stretch of pale sand located on a peninsula just north across the bridge from Malahide. Easily accessible by DART (to the Donabate station), zoom straight from the city centre to this hideout and haven on the shore.

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What makes Dublin Dublin? TD’s new guide to the best bits of the city...

The Old Jameson Distillery

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The Old Jameson Distillery is the fount of the real ‘water of life’ in Dublin. A fascinating landmark in the history of the city, the old Distillery also gives you a chance to put your taste buds to the test and prove you know your whiskey from your scotch. Offers guided tours daily with a choice of bars to sample a Jemmie and lunch in the mezzanine restaurant.

Bow Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7

Kilmainham’s Royal Hospital has been the home of Irish modern art since 1991, but it stands as the country’s most spectacular 17th century building. Indebted Paris Les Invalides, IMMA’s sprawling grounds and super-maintained cloisters and courtyard are as fascinating as the art contained within.

Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8

Glasnevin Museum

Mulligans

Leo Burdocks

Seeped in Irish national history, Glasnevin Cemetery is an interactive visitor attraction offers a fascinating view of Ireland’s many renowned figures that shaped the country we live in today. The adjacent Glasnevin Museum also offers guided tours of the cemetery - a must see for anyone interested in Irish Heritage and Genealogy. Glasnevin Museum, Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11

A magnet for both tourist and native, traditional pub and sometime Bachelor’s Walk set Mulligans is as renowned as watering holes in town come. Mulligans perfects the basics and in the grand Irish tradition avoids ‘yer fancy stuff’. It’s nonetheless a welcoming refuge for all patrons.

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If you like some history with your chips, Leo Burdocks has as much backstory as it does salt and vinegar. Its Werburgh St. branch has been chopping potatoes for almost a hundred years now, and the chips are only getting better. Pay a visit, and ask about their celebrity fans.

2 Werburgh St, Christchurch, Dublin 8

The Pen Corner

GAA Museum

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Still stocking Dublin with the most sumptuous stationery in town, the Pen Corner’s continued existence after so many years and so many changes is a victory for romance. The Pen Corner is not only the city’s premier stockist of pens, paper, ink, quills and etc., but is very much a slice of an older Dublin that warrants a visit (or five).

12 College Green, Dublin 2

The Croke Park Experience offers a unique opportunity to learn more about the history of the GAA through guided tours and interactive exhibits. Test your GAA skills in the museum’s specially-designed interactive games area, or experience the magic of a match day with a Croke Park stadium tour. You can also see the dressing rooms, walk pitchside via the players’ tunnel and take a seat in the VIP area.

Croke Park, Jones Rd., Dublin 3

Satisfying the sweet teeth of South Dublin since 1950, Teddy’s Ice Cream hasn’t had to change its formula an iota. A red, white, and blue must for ice-cream eaters of all seasons.

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The Temple Bar The old cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular stop for trad-hungry tourists and pint-thirsty natives, the Temple Bar boasts a tradition of warm welcomes and friendly service, which gives it a reputation nationally and internationally as the Temple Bar bar du jour.

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REGULARS Pubs and bars

J. McNeill’s 140 Capel Street

In a former life, McNeill’s plied its trade as a one of Dublin’s most famed musical instrument shops, and a window full of banjos, bazoukis and bodhrán’s still belies that image to the world outside on Capel Street. Inside however, the place has been reborn as the home of some of Dublin most highly-regarded trad sessions with music on a nightly basis, as well as a daycent pint of plain to go with it, as you’d rightly expect. t: 01874 7679

James Toner’s 139 Lower Baggot Street

Featuring perhaps our favourite snug in Dublin, if you’re ever lucky enough to get it, Toner’s is a Dublin fundamental. When its petite interior reaches capacity (and it often does) you can spill out onto Roger’s Lane for some fresh air and maybe even an auld sing-song. The perfect launch or landing pad for a visit to Lansdowne Road but still just a hop, skip and a jump from the Green, Toner’s is one of Dublin’s most tried and trusted public houses. t: 01 676 3090

Neary’s

1 Chatham Street, Dublin 2 There’s a reason that Neary’s has remained so consistent over the last few decades – the formula works. Housed in elegant slice of Edwardian Dublin with its old-world interior still in pride of place, the early evening buzz in Neary’s is a rare sight to behold. With a crowd ranging from theatre-goers to thespians from the nearby Gaeity to local suits and Grafton shoppers, Dave and his team of old-school barmen will take care of all your needs. t: 01 677 8596

The Duke

8-9 Duke Street, Dublin 2 A classic post-office haunt if ever there was one, barely hidden just between Grafton Street and Nassau Street, the Duke is one of the best places in Dublin to indulge yourself with that well-earned pint of a Friday (or indeed any) evening. Combining a prime location with all the fundamentals - plenty of comfy seats, wholesome carvery grub and honest pints - let The Duke be the recipient of your blown-off steam. t: 01 679 9553

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The Palace Bar 27 Fleet Street, Dublin 2

Famous for its literary heritage, the Palace Bar is an unspoiled slice of Dublin’s erudite history. Frequented by Irish Times writers since the dawn of time, and some of the city’s most well-respected authors, the Palace is the thinking-man’s spot for a jar.

Despite changes all around, the Palace remains untarnished and popular as ever. t: 01 679 9290

Madigan’s

McDaids

16 Lower O’Connell Street

3 Harry Street, Dublin 2

A popular haunt on GAA match days with live coverage available on a large technicolour TV, Madigan’s is a cosy home away from home with all your mother’s cooking you could want available down stairs from bacon & cabbage, Irish stew, and bangers & mash to salmon with Cajun spices for the more adventurous.

McDaids is, if we’re honest, the kind of place where you’d call yourself lucky if you’ve nabbed a seat early in the night. Its much cosier, shoulder-to-shoulder affair where an unbeatable Guinness is only a quick shuffle away and commenting on overheard banter is de rigeur. The perfect place for whiling a night away righting the world’s wrongs with a few close friends or quiet pint in Brendan Behan’s memory.

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The International

Kehoe’s

23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

9 South Anne Street, Dublin 2

Famed for both its earnest singersongwriter nights, as a great place for a close-quarters guffaw with local comedic talent and even as a small theatre venue, the International has always been a bit of an off-beat, if not quite bohemian place. It has served many patrons in its many guises but has always maintained its understated, proper pub vibe. No fancy makeovers here, just an endless stream of stories and laughs to behold.

Decorated in the traditional Irish pub style with parts of the original pub in tact, a small snug at the front and a larger one in the back, Keogh’s isn’t just for the tourists.

A lively place full of banter and conversation, this is the place to be for Dubliners relaxing after a long week. Just be sure to get there before the best seats in the snug are taken. t: 01 677 8312

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The Temple Bar 47 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

The tourist quarter’s most packed-out bar, day and night, The Temple Bar has been doing something right for the last 160 years. Continually voted as the best spot for trad music nights in the city, there’s a constant line-up of entertainment to keep patrons busy while their pints are flowing. t: 01 672 5286

Mulligans

8 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2

Originally a shebeen, Mulligan’s has been legit since 1782, making it one of the oldest premises in Dublin city. A magnet for both tourist and native, traditional pub and sometime Bachelor’s Walk set Mulligans is as renowned as watering holes in town come. Mulligans perfects the basics and in the grand Irish tradition avoids ‘yer fancy stuff’. It’s nonetheless a welcoming refuge for all patrons with an unbeatable back story. www.mulligans.ie

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it should be the most important thing in life for them. So yeah, I guess I don’t mind being called a nerd. I can’t help the way I am. It’s how I identify with life, and I suppose the bands you like can be used as a badge to meet other people who like the kind of things you like.

Have you ever got a comparison you disagree with?

Sometimes I don’t see similarities. Like, sometimes people compare to these great iconic classic bands and I don’t really think we sound like that, but it’s not a bad thing. If I’m walking down the street and someone says I look like Brad Pitt, I might not agree with that. I might think they’re crazy, but I’d probably feel pretty good about myself.

How do you become a popkid in America?

I think about that too. How did I get into it? It kinda came in two tiers. When I was 14 in the suburbs me and my friends would take anything Kurt Cobain said as gospel, so any time he mentioned a band like Beat Happening, Teenage Fanclub or the Vaselines, or covered one of those bands, we’d go check it out. It was the

Named after an unpublished short story and recalling simultaneously basically every band that’s ever worn a jumper on stage, Brooklyn’s The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are more than simply revivalists. For a certain type of music fan, they are a talisman, singing naïve pop songs soaked in reverb for the lonely teenager, to crowds bigger than anything the average K or Sarah Records band ever saw.

On their second album, Belong, they gave their sound a shot of steroids in the service of making an “immediate pop record”.

Leader Kip Berman talks to Totally Dublin ahead of their Dublin show.

I’m interested in the idea of Pains as curators of older music, sharing things you like that others might not have heard. How do you feel about that?

Yeah, I get excited when people look into the things that inspired us. There are bands that are maybe less appreciated but deserving. It happens with everything.

If you were listening to The Ramones, you have to go back and check out The Stooges. If you really like Nirvana, you have to listen to the Pixies. No band is an island, it’s all part of a continuity, so it’s fun to be part of the cycle and to get people interested in the history, the music we love. The new album has an element of that, but they’re not museum pieces. We tried to make immediate pop music that people could relate to now. They don’t need to know the bands we listened to. We tried to strike a balance.

You’ve been called a music nerd before.

I think if you’re gonna play music for a living, you should love it. I think anyone in a band is going to be a huge fan of music,

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only way we had to hear that kind of stuff. A lot of that suburban punk or even K Records or whatever, I came to that through Kurt Cobain. And then I guess it’s self-referencing as well, especially Glaswegian indiepop. If you like Belle & Sebastian, they almost tell you to go back and check out The Pastels and Orange Juice and those bands.

The second tier was just living in Portland before I was 21. I was listening to some indiepop but I was mostly into general indie rock, bands like Yo La Tengo, but the only venues I could get into were these places that had all-ages shows with twee and indiepop. Mates of State and Elephant Six, bands and things like that would play. You learn to like what you can get in to see I suppose. I like lots of stuff, I like glam and the Stones, Scott Walker, New Order. But I guess indiepop resounded. It’s kind of like punk for kids who aren’t very punk.

How did you end up deciding on going with a bigger sound for the second record?

It wasn’t a conscious thing to be ‘small’ on the first record. We tried to make it as good as we could under the circumstances we recorded. And we did think it sounded good. We had Archie Moore from Black Tambourine mixing it. We wanted to make it like Sunny Sundae Smile by My Bloody Valentine, the last record they had with the old singer. When people thought it sounded lo-fi, that was surprising. We wanted to make an immediate, pop record, not something gritty or muffled, but I guess I can see that, looking back. On the new record we had more of a pro studio. It was mixed by Alan Moulder who has extensive knowledge in making that type

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of record [with Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, U2, etc], but it’s not like we were going for bombast. We just wanted to make the songs immediate and fun.

I’m excited to hear that. Other than that I like the Frank & Walters and I know it’s not indiepop but I love Ash, Girl From Mars is great. Our drummer is very into Microdisney. And that band, the Sultans… “dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper”

Do you regret not having the circumstances you have now for the first record?

No, I still like the first record, I still think it’s a good record. It’s different sounding, but it’s still us, and I don’t regret it or the experience we had making it. It’s kind of surprising looking back, it was like being on a plane and looking out the window to see the wing attached with duct tape. It’s better now though.

Sultans of Ping. Sultans of Ping FC, I think.

Yeah, they’re awesome. And the band with Kevin Shields’ brother. The only time we’ve been to Ireland we were on tour with The Wedding Present before our first record and the woman doing sound was playing that record over the PA and I went up and asked her what it was.

Rollerskate Skinny?

Yeah, Rollerskate Skinny. I have a friend in Brooklyn who’s mostly into real lo-fi pop, but weirdly that Rollerskate Skinny album is his favourite band. That was the last time we were in Ireland. We didn’t get to come with our first record, but our first show of this tour will be in Dublin and we’ve been practising so hopefully it will be good.

There’s a sincerity to your lyrics that you might not expect from a Brooklyn-based band so steeped in references. Is that intentional?

There’s definitely an element of affectation to that. We tried to get immediate emotional ideas across in the most concise possible way, without cleverness or sophistry. There’s nothing wrong with sincerity.

95% of our lives are spent joking around, but when I’m writing lyrics I try to express meaningful stuff that people can relate to in an immediate way. It’s ironic because

Watch Pains play some songs for us live at www.totallydublin.ie. Belong is in shops now.

I’m quite long-winded in interviews. But anyone can use a lot of words and have that confused with intelligence. There’s value in expressing big ideas in few words.

But lots of the bands you’ve talked about – Beat Happening or Belle & Sebastian say – seem like their lyrics are bound up in a lot of “cleverness and sophistry” as you say.

There’s still funny stuff on our record.

Like My Terrible Friend, that works on a lot of levels. There’s nothing wrong with humour, and there’s definitely some falsehood or levity in the songs. Like in that song there’s reference to laying on your bed, your hands feeling heavy, which is basically being heavy. And ‘laying’ obviously is a double meaning. It’s pretty overt, I’m not shy. The first record maybe has more sex jokes and double entendres.

Underneath it all I’m still that 15 year old South Park. I need to get my cum jokes in any way I can.

How famous would you be comfortable getting?

Wow. That’s a good question I think. I think I would be happy for everyone to hear the songs. But that’s the songs, not me. I’m not the vehicle, like Katy Perry or Lady Gaga, you don’t experience the songs through me. There are no arena gestures, but I believe in them. I don’t mind if they’re blasted at major sporting events.

Are you aware of any Irish indiepop at all?

Girls Names from Belfast just signed to your label Slumberland.

Yeah, they’re labelmates! I’ve been trying to get that record off Mike at the label. It’s just run by one guy but it has some amazing bands like Crystal Stilts and Weekend.

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From New York Times bestsellers to gross-out podcasts and vagina jokes, this is the Greg Behrendt show.

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Words Séan McTiernan Greg Behrendt was a consultant on Sex and the City when he uttered the nowimmortal phrase “He’s just not that into you” to a co-worker and changed his life forever.

This chance piece of advice lead to Behrendt providing the male perspective in the He’s Just Not That Into You book which, in turn, put him on a path to Oprah appearances, movie adaptations and his own talk show.

Now, seven years after the book was published, he divides his time between doing stand-up, playing in a surf-rock band and recording himself arguing with his friend in his closet. And he’s much, much happier. How did that happen?

Greg Behrendt has been doing standup for over 20 years and the names of those he started with will be familiar to anyone with a passing interest in comedy. Affable nerd-metaller Brian Posehn, Arrested Development star and Mr Show co-creator David Cross and voice of Ratatouille and nerd humour behemoth Patton Oswalt were all friends in the early days. How does it feel like to watch you and your goofy friends become the Mount Rushmore of alternative comedy?

“The funny thing is none of us didn’t want to just be regular comedians who work in comedy clubs. That’s all there was. There wasn’t something called the “alternative comedy scene”. Everyone had their heroes, be they Bill Hicks or Bill Cosby, we all just wanted to be professional working comedians. Now there’s a stigma like “oh, you work the mainstream clubs”. Well, comedy’s comedy, I just want to work for the people who think my jokes are funny.”

Greg is still immensely grateful for what his first book did for his career but is also pretty candid that once its popularity exploded, his stand-up audiences were flooded with people who weren’t necessarily interested in seeing comedy.

“It happens to everyone who has a weird spike in fame, be it because of a sitcom or a popular book for girls. For me, what was antithetical about it, the majority of comedy superfans are men.

Women come to shows and we have a lot of female fans from the podcast but most comedy superfans are men. They outright rejected the idea of me or the book and I don’t think I blame them, entirely.’

“Then I had these women coming to the shows expecting some kind of standup version of Sex and the City, I don’t even know what that is and I wouldn’t be able to make that. The only reason I worked on that show was I was antithetical to everyone who worked there. I

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was there to bring the point of view that didn’t exist among the seven women and two gay men. That’s a lot of explaining to do to an audience. I’m proud of the book, it’s part of who I am as a person, but it’s not the sum total.’

“The funny thing is (a) I didn’t expect the book would do anything and (b) I didn’t want to derive fame from that. The only reason any of us want to be famous, even Dave (Cross), Zach (Galifinakis) or Sarah (Silverman), is that we want to do stand-up. No one I know wants to be just famous, they want to be able to go into a room full of people and talk. We want the same thing from the podcast, we want to be able to go out and be funny in front of people. That’s the goal. That’s the Louis CK of it all, the Chris Rock of it all.’

“When I perform now I let people know it’s just going to be stand up, going forward. The only credit I list now is the podcast, Walking The Room. I’m not distancing myself from the book, it just feels like an old credit. Everyone wants to move to the future. I will never not acknowledge it, it just doesn’t have to be front and centre.”

Greg’s podcast with fellow comedian Dave Anthony basically consists of two long-time friends and professional comedians being as disgusting, off-kilter and dumb as possible. Incorporating prison lingo, the questionable actions of Dave’s neighbours and an unashamed love of candy, Walking the Room is one of the weirder podcasts on offer.

“We’re not doing anything anyone else would want to do. I’m pretty sure, unless another podcast comes out with a segment about a woman feeding crickets to her 19 vaginas, no one is as committed to filth and sadness as we are.”

Thankfully, Walking The Room is probably the funniest podcast around, by a surprisingly wide margin. But why did they start one in the first place?

“It was all Dave, he said ‘let’s do a podcast’. I said I’d tried everything and I wanted to quit but Dave convinced me if I had any fans, they’d like it and it’s important to give them more content.

And it’s been a gift. It goes both ways because I told Dave to get a Twitter and he’s an artist with that.”

Dave Anthony is the other 50 percent of the podcast equation. Blisteringly funny, manic and angry in equal measure, Dave is one of the few “dark” comics with any originality. He’s a ridiculous human being who deserves to be a household name. If the last 30 seconds of the South Park episode Scott Tenorman Must Die, where Cartman reveals he’s tricked a

bully into eating his parents, were a person, that person would be Dave Anthony.

Dave’s dark edge is probably one of the reasons Greg is so happy about the lack of censorship in podcasting.

“When you have a podcast, you have no excuses anymore. Now you get to be as funny as you weren’t allowed to be on everything else. No one is stopping you from being as funny as you can be. It’s my version of the Daily Show. Everyone wants to have that, that vehicle that so fits them, everyone wants that perfect mechanism for showing exactly what their comedy is. That’s podcasting for me.”

The difference between fans of Greg’s book and fans of his podcast is not really about the male/female divide. It’s more that fans of a self-help book are into it because it is about themselves whereas fans of the podcast seem sincerely interested in Greg and Dave’s lives and disgusting fits of fantasy.

“That is totally true. But look, that really is what that book is for. The whole point of that book is ‘look it’s your life, it shouldn’t be shit. Get out of your crappy relationship. If the guy liked you he’d treat you better, that’s how humans are.’

The book just happened to be for women

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because they don’t write those books for men and the publishers didn’t want to include men as part of it. So it is about them.”

The podcast is free, which may seem like a move strange for two professional entertainers, but Greg has always felt getting paid for comedy is weird.

“Well, you can write songs and they can be separate from who you are but if you’re funny that’s generally how you make your way through life. To then accept a cheque for just being you... which is really what it is on some level, just seems weird. If you’re a genuine stand-up it’s all you up there and it’s odd when they go ‘here you go, here’s a cheque for processing all your neurosis on stage.”

Greg’s gleeful and relieved approach to Walking The Room is a stark contrast to his days as a daytime talk show host, where he usually came across as confused by or sad for the people he had to talk to.

“What you’re seeing is someone going ‘this is not how I expected it to turn out,

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how do I make this something that I can be proud of.’. Let’s just say that had that show been on for a while I guarantee it would have turned into something I’d have been proud of. Oprah’s show at the beginning was a trash fest but she turned it into something that works for her.”

“But I just found myself talking to people about their lives and going ‘my life isn’t perfect either’. I just didn’t want to be an authority. When there were days when we did make-overs and I didn’t have to be an authority, then I was fine with it. But when I had to tell people how to live their lives I felt suspect.’

“I mean, there’s my thoughts, I put them down in the book, take them or leave them. But when you get all Doctor Phil about it and you’re standing there instructing people, it felt weird. Also that kind of daytime TV is just, it’s a dowdy... dowdy place to be. There’s nothing ‘bright’ or ‘up’ about it, it’s really just grandmas and cats. That’s hard to get excited about.”

It almost seems Greg’s daytime TV show was desperation and anger masquerading as affection, his podcast is vice versa.

“That’s 100 percent. The reality is, I like people and I believe in people. I have a genuine affection for fans. I mean, people turn up to shows dressed clown from the neck down now...”

Does that really happen?

“It’s happening, man.”

At this point it would make sense to explain that Walking the Room is a podcast with its own language and its distinguished dedicated group of followers. Named Cuddlahs, to signify their kinship with the Insane Clown Posse’s Juggalo fans and Walking The Room’s self-awarded “Podcuddle” classification, they dress “clown from the neck down”.

The Walking The Room website features an extensive glossary for the myriad of in-jokes and terms the podcast have created but it’s better you hear it first-hand.

But the occasional emotional honesty on display in Walking The Room creates a connection with the audience that few other mediums can provide and with it, the possibility that Walking The Room is helping people just as much as Greg’s previous projects.

A good example of this is the now-infamous episode 37, where both Dave and Greg were unusually frank about being financially and emotionally in dire straits.

The episode and the response to it shows the true power of podcasting.

“I asked Dave if we should put that out and he said ‘this is how we feel now, it’ll probably change. But if we’re fake with these people we’ve invited in, what’s the point? They can get that anywhere else, they can’t get us anywhere else.’ Also, the fact so many people were concerned about us changed that situation. I mean I went from wanting to quit stand-up when we started the podcast to touring this summer and doing it on TV again. It’s been the best thing that’s happened to my comedy career, maybe ever.” n

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Sub Culture Strangeways, Here We Come!

Words Oisín Murphy Picture Oliver Smith

“Stop, oh yes, wait a minute Mr Postman-WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB . . .”

Anton is holding my head with both hands and making the noise above with his face about six inches from mine. He was very excited to accompany me to a dubstep night and has been reliving the enjoyment he felt while listening to a remix of The Carpenters on Youtube by singing it back to me at varying levels of intensity in the hour that has since passed. “‘Dirtier than seeing your mom get banged by your post man’,” he reads aloud the top-rated comment beneath the video before laughing, his eyes fixed upon the screen, “. . . Dirty . . . .”

The taxi beeps for us, outside.

Testimonies from various friends have collectively formed a uniformly positive endorsement of Strangeways, back when it was in Crawdaddy (though I never went myself). It strikes me that its previous venue is much more suited to what the night has to offer than The Lost Society, the two main parts of which seem too distant from one another to maintain a ‘flow’ of any sort. The club is congested (a testament to its popularity as well as the partial inadequacy of the venue) before it fills up. The smoking area downstairs is crowded and

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claustrophobic (they haven’t opened up onto the path outside, at street-level) and rivals both dancefloors for franticness and, indeed, dirtiness. Back inside, in the liminal space between the dubstep room and the hip-hop room, a young man puts his hands down the tights of the girl straddling him while some podcast leaks through the speakers and meshes in with the relentless ambient noise.

The largest room in the building is offlimits, it seems, with the upstairs portion of The Lost Society reduced to a single room in which the dubstep gets played.

Not being a dubstep aficionado, the rapturous enjoyment of those dancing is not echoed in my mind or body, though it seems to be extremely well-received.

People who like dubstep have gotten drunk and are enjoying themselves dancing. It seems a sad reflection of many club nights in Dublin that the sincere, collective enjoyment of a set of any kind is somehow novel. Strangeways seems to be doing its job while maintaining a distinct identity rooted in music rather than more intangible and fleeting notions of socially-projected authenticity or, indeed, being Chewn. One man is literally flailing, with nobody ostensibly accompanying him.

Downstairs is the hip-hop dancefloor

and it is decidedly more chaotic, on account of being a thoroughfare for the smoking area and having a low ceiling which maintains, for the reveller, the illusion of being compressed or contained.

The set is lively and familiar and goes down well. My drink is knocked out of my hand. I go back to the bar to get more and find it pleasantly not understaffed. Another coup for Strangeways, simply by doing what ought to be expected of it, as a well-staffed bar in a Dublin club is unfortunately uncommon. Drinks promotions include ‘H-Bombs’ (an offbrand Jaegerbomb), vodka splashes and Coronas for €3. The ‘H-Bombs’ have made the entire bar sticky however, on account of being unpleasant and sticky, and my hands are now sticky also. There is no soap in the bathroom.

‘Dirty . . . .’

Anton smiles broadly as we walk back along Wicklow Street, his urge to go to Burger King overwhelming my inclination to go home quietly without sharing his company. The difference in temperature between the inside of The Lost Society and Dublin’s streets is remarkable. It is only once we leave that I realise what an incredibly hot place we were in. Anton says he was sweating ‘like a paedophile’, but doesn’t add a qualification of any kind to his joke. He tells me between gulps of cola that he will certainly be coming back and that apparently Strangeways is moving to what he calls The Slut-ton Factory, which we both agree is a good idea.

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Axe Grinding The Ha’Penny Bridge Inn

5 Week Jive Course: Rock N Roll Jive and Jump Jive 8pm-9.15pm

Words Ian Lamont Picture Dave Darcy

Given its location both technically in Temple Bar and also at the base of the city’s most famous former toll bridge, it is no surprise that The Ha’Penny Bridge Inn is a pub with a large complement of irregulars readily interspersed with its own share of Dublin regulars.

That’s not to say that this is by any means a Temple Bar pub like, for example, its close neighbours The Quays or the Auld Dub. No, the Ha’Penny is far too dowdy, rough-hewn and unprepossessing to compete with the diddlie-eye Paddywhackery perpetuated by the speakeasies and saloons around the corner on the old main drag.

Downstairs here, your entertainment is a pint, possibly your company, a couple of tellies that will be showing sport of any kind and, if you’re lucky, a friendly insult from one of the bar-staff.

Unpretentious is yer only man here.

Upstairs is a different atmosphere, given that it plays host to the odd burst of bluesy strum-strummery, trad sessions and more famously, twice-weekly Battle of the Axe open-mic comedy gigs.

If the defining mark of a successful open-mic night is its continuing existence, Battle of the Axe, a 15-year veteran, is winning by those stakes. But, being an exhibition of that most daunting of pasttimes, stand-up, it also has the tendency to be a complete and utter mixed bag on any given night. Our most recent visit was no exception.

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5 Week Swing Course: Smooth Swing and West Coast Swing 9.15-10.30 pm Things began edgily when the MC decided to meet his first hecklers head-on by trading for-the-most-part humourless insults, setting the crowd somewhat on edge. The comedians of the first section began slowly ramping the punters back towards a more comfortable vibe by regaling us with many of the tropes of observational comedy: “You know what’s weird about Irish people?” “You know what’s weird about foreign people?”

“You know what’s weird about women?” and of course, “You know what’s weird about my ex-girlfriend?” and so on.

It’s very much amateur hour, but as always, it has the habit of being weirdly diverting watching people throw themselves to the lions for something they love. As beer hits belly, the crowd and comedians both warm to the swing of things in the second section before some more weirdly abrasive MCing and a catastrophic penultimate act turns our thoughts to the last bus home.

These nights never pass without some enjoyment and much of the fun is watching folk attempt to hone their skills in a place as homely and unaffected as the Ha’Penny. However it is telling that the biggest guffaw of the night is raised by barman Séan with a stray heckle as he fetches a few empty glasses. What can I say? That kid has timing.

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The Write Venue Chapter One Words and picture Aoife McElwain

The upper echelons of the Dublin dining scene have long been out of most Dubliners’ fiscal reach. So how can you partake in some of the best culinary experiences the city has to offer? Why, go to lunch, of course!

Chapter One sits at basement level under the Parnell Square Irish Writer’s Museum. My lucky lunch date and I were greeted at the door of the restaurant (after ringing the doorbell - it’s that posh) by an exquisitely groomed maître d’ who led us down the front hall of the restaurant, past a magnificent stained-glass homage to some of our country’s literary greats.

The lunch menu offers three courses for €37.50 and two courses for €30. With Ross Lewis at the helm - the same Ross Lewis who cooked for Queen Liz II’s State Dinner on her visit to Dublin last month - the emphasis is on seasonal, local produce. So the hell what, I hear you say. Every restaurant worth its weight in truffle oil offers seasonal and local produce. That’s true, and that’s truly wonderful. However, few take their produce to the palatable heights reached in this kitchen.

My lunch got off to an ever-so-slightly bumpy start with the gratinated asparagus with pata negra stuffing. The cured ham which made up the stuffing usually comes from Spain or Portugal, and I was disappointed to hear the asparagus had been flown in from France. Having been spoiled a few weeks back in The Tannery in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, with just-plucked asparagus from their kitchen garden, this French import never had a chance to live up to the memory of the Irish stem which had tasted like a woodland fairytale. No matter. It was all up from there.

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Although there was a €10 supplement, my lunch date went for the charcuterie trolley, powerless was he to the dish once faced with the list of delectable meats it comprised of. An actual trolley was wheeled over to our table by one of our waiters who carved two slices of smoked duck and a chunk of the Cork-made Gubbeen salami. These were placed upon a plate already adorned with pig’s trotter boudin with a raisin and madeira jus, a foie gras terrine with duck jelly and ice-wine verjus, potted rabbit and cured ham, all circling round a watercress and hazelnut salad. The final touches of piccalilli for the salami and a celeriac remoulade for the smoked duck completed this exquisite starter, from which it is almost impossible to pick out a star. The pig’s trotter boudin - black pudding to you and me - supplied

by Cork-based McCarthy’s of Kanturk was a definite fore-runner in a dish almost overwhelmed with delight.

One of the sommeliers on hand to guide us advised a glass of the Spanish Fillaboa Albarino from Rias Baixas 2009 from 2009 (€11.50) for myself and a 2008 French Sipp Mack, France, Pinot Gris Reserve from Alsace (€9.75). Mine was crisp and well-balanced, while my date’s was a more fruity number. Both were enjoyed thoroughly.

For my main course I went with the middle neck of Tamworth pork, which was served with braised cheek that crumbled at the touch of cutlery and melted in the mouth. The Cork-reared pork fricassée other components were lentil du puy and lettuce purée, and this up-market stew was surrounded by roast endive and delicate baby turnips cooked in sherry. While the middle neck was magnificent, the taste

bully on the plate was the braised cheek.

What a revelation. The dish was perfectly matched with a glass of 2008 Fattoria di Basciano Chianti Rufina (€8.50).

The other main was the haunch of veal poached in Madeira with Ferguson’s smoked bacon, served on a watercress purée with a sauce blanquette. Veal is always a delicious guilty pleasure, but the smoked bacon stood out for being such an old school thickly-cut rasher that would have sat proudly on the breakfast plate of Bloom or Dedalus. This was paired with a bang on glass of 2006 Dom du Grand Ormeau Bordeaux (€12.25).

Our meal was rounded off with one last kick of lusciousness. The warm chocolate mousse with caramel jelly, an espresso mousse, lime ice cream and honey comb disappeared all too quickly.

Meanwhile the chocolate macaroon with mandarin cream, grue de cacaoa tuile and mandarin sorbet was like what a cupcake would taste like in a magical dream.

Our final bill for three courses each, four glasses of wine, and two bottles of sparkling water came to €137.50. Service charge was not included so we added a well-deserved 20%.

So, how good exactly was Chapter One? I can say without hesitation that it is the best dining experience I’ve ever had in Dublin city. Although I’ve eaten food of matching quality, I’ve never had it paired with astoundingly refined service.

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Mitsubfishy Parnell Street Sushi Words and picture Aoife McElwain

When the strict rules are followed, formal dining in Japan seems to me to be a very long food-based game of Chicken. The loser is the dishonourable person who caves in and eats the final piece of sushi on a shared platter.

I once read that Japanese hosts often ignore their Western guests’ unutterably grotesque table manners, understanding that they’re just ignorant in the ways of dining decorum. Imagine the idea that you could be unwittingly horrifying your hosts by holding your chopsticks at the wrong angle or cutting your nigiri with a knife.

Safe in the knowledge that our vile use of chopsticks would be tolerated, a friend and I headed off to Mitsuba on Parnell Street for a lazy Sunday evening meal.

Mitsuba, named after a Japanese type of shamrock, has been open since March of this year.

At the centre of the room sits the sushi bar, where the sushi chef prepares all pieces to order. There is also the Teppanyaki table, a table with a large grill attached where the chef cooks your meal under your noses. I’ve eaten Teppan-yaki

style before and it’s a giggle, so keep it in mind if you’re visiting Mitsuba with a large group and do remember to book the table in advance.

Our waitress, who proved to be surly yet efficient for the entire evening, handed over our menu. She came back within two minutes for our drink orders so we had something to sip on while perusing the extensive list of grub. We went for a bottle of cold Asahi beer each (€4.50).

Our meal was brought to us as it was ready, which meant the first to appear were the beautifully conical Spicy Tuna Temaki (€5.50). Wonderfully fresh tuna lay in the rice and seaweed blankets which oozed a not-too-spicy sauce with each bite. Our gyoza (€6.50) turned up next, and as chicken dumplings go, they were pretty good. Silky pastry with added crunch from frying were wrapped around a tasty chicken filling.

Our Mitsuba Matsu sushi platter (the most expensive on the menu at €21.00) arrived and we shared the tuna makimono, and the shake, ebi, ika, kani, unagi, tako, ama ebi and tobika nigiri

pieces, with some tamagao thrown in as well. So we’re talking about eight pieces of superbly fresh and delicate tuna makimono, which are the mat-rolled seaweed wrapped sushi. The other seven pieces were the nigiri, the unrolled pieces of rice with toppings of salmon, shrimp, squid, crabsticks, eel, octopus, sweet shrimp and flying fish egg, each with a little squirt of wasabi paste hiding between fish and rice. Finally there were the few pieces of tamago, the Japanese omlette, which tastes a bit like rubbery tofu. The platters allow budding sushi-lovers to get an overall view of the nigiri and are best enjoyed as a shared dish. Be prepared to fight over the nigiri.

We also shared a huge bowl of chicken ramen (€9.95), a giant bowl teeming with free-range Irish chicken (I checked), noodles, meaty mushrooms, crisp beansprouts and spring greens soaked around in a flavourful and spicy broth. It was lovely.

There is a short dessert menu on offer, but we were full to the brim. Our bill came to €51.95, service not included.

The Mitsuba menu remains largely the same for lunch, with the addition of a generous selection of lunch bento boxes all for around €10. The prices are also the same, and while they’re not exactly Parnell Street prices, Mitsuba’s sushi is excellent value for money. As their website says, it’s “the food you will die for” a charming, if slightly threatening, mistranslation. But it’s true. This is very good food, served well at a reasonable price. Itadakimasu!

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Campo Viejo Tapas Trail Bloomsday Eats

This year’s Bloomsday falls on a Thursday this year and if you are so inclined you could make your very own Bloomsday Breakfast. Joyce makes Leopold Bloom’s gastronomic tendencies, especially for the first meal of the day, seem somewhat... challenging.

“Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a tough roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod’s roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.” Holy moly.

Perhaps it would a more realistic culinary tribute to Leopold Bloom to put together a gorgonzola sandwich with a salad and a glass of Burgundy, which our Ulysses protagonist enjoyed in Davy Byrne’s off Grafton Street. Head to Sheridan’s Cheesemonger on South Anne Street and enquire after their finest Gorgonzola. Pick up a baguette, some honey and a ripe, juicy pear. Once home, toast your baguette and slather with generous slices of Gorgonzola and pear, drizzled with honey. Enjoy with a glass of good Burgundy, as is your wont.

Nothing like a walking and tasting tour to make scoffing a load of tapas almost entirely guilt free. For the month of June, the Campo Viejo Tapas Trail will be taking over the city’s favourite tapas spots including Bar Pinxto, The Port House, Salamanca and Havana Tapas Bar. Every Wednesday and Saturday throughout the month, Campo Viejo will host a tapas treasure hunt of sorts whereby, for €20, you’ll be put into a group of 20, given a map to guide you to where you can enjoy tapas and Campo Viejo wine tastings along the trail. Don’t be surprised if you meet some wandering flamenco dancers and guitarists along the way. For all further details, have a look at www.facebook.com/campoviejoireland.

For more traditional Bloomsday Breakfast ideas, see http://bit.ly/bloomsdaybreakfast

Food Blogger of the Month

The Runcible Spoon is a relatively new blogger on the blog, but its author Catherine Brodigan has been a champion of local Irish produce via Twitter for the last few years. Expect simple and seasonal suppers, delivered alongside tales of her County Louth childhood and her family’s culinary heritage be it rhubarb muffins and comforting fish pie. Check her out on http://therunciblespoon.com/

Veg Out - Broadbeans Broad beans are just one of the joyous greens of June. Along with their BFFs peas and asparagus, they’re at their peak for the summer months. But these little pods of lusciousness are often cast aside in favour of podded peas.

This summer, give broad beans a chance.

Look out for some Irish-grown broad beans at the Temple Bar Market on Saturdays, either from Jenny at the McNally Farm stand or Denis Healy’s stand. If you can’t find Irish, try the Spanish variety.

There is a bit of effort involved preparing these lovely beans, but their bright and summery flavour make it totally worth it. To make a banging broad bean purée, gather about 20 to 25 pods of broad beans from your local farmers’ market. Pod your broad beans and give them a rinse in the sink.

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Don’t be disillusioned as to how few beans the pods yield. At this point, you should remove the outer casing of each bean. However, it’s a bit of a palavareve and isn’t entirely necessary, so if you’re a lazy cook like myself, we can look the other way.

From your 20 or so broad bean pods, you’ll end up with two good handfuls of broad beans. Whizz them in a food processor with a handful of finely grated Parmesan, a squeeze of lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. Slather on toast and top with the finest black pudding you can get your hands on. Try McKarthy of Kanturk’s Black Pudding, available in Sheridan’s on South Anne Street.

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Big Mack Joe Macken Words and picture Aoife McElwain

Joe Macken is the Joe in Jo’Burger of Rathmines, famed for its enormously delicious burgers served with sides of fries and tunes. Another of Joe’s culinary projects is Crackbird, the pop-up restaurant which lived in Crane Lane of Temple Bar between February and May of this year.

Jo’Burger feels like a local restaurant for local (and non-local) people. Tell us about your local vibe and your idea for crowd-sourcing ingredients from the local area.

We are a local restaurant. We create unique offers for our surrounding neighbours and local businesses. Our baker is in Rathmines and our beef is from 30kms away. We do a special burger each week in Jo’Burger and normally it’s something seasonal. This week it’s broad bean, walnuts and spring onion with a simple vinaigrette & rocket. All on a burger. You can add an egg too. It’s savage.

If we could do local trades for fruit or vegetables that would be truly amazing.

It’d be nice to get more of the ingredients locally from city gardens or allotments.

We would barter with burgers in return.

Have the government woken up to the food industry’s importance to the recovery of the Irish economy? If so, are you seeing any impact from your point of view as a restauranteur?

The VAT is a huge change, but really we don’t look to the government too much for help. Hard work and thought seem to work for us. If you’re not giving the customer what they want you’re wasting your time

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What culinary treats to have in store for us next? In Jo’Burger and beyond.

Jo’Burger is gonna grow again, that’s for sure. I hope to open in the city centre soonish.

Your pop-up restaurant Crackbird brought addictive chicken to Dublin for three months. What were some of the biggest challenges faced with running Crackbird, being a pop-up restaurant?

There’s a big leap of faith on the landlord’s behalf. Some people just didn’t get the idea, though it will be easier for others now that we have carved out a path. The place is beginning to crumble at the edges now, we used some surface finishes and fittings that weren’t up to the battering they got. As much as I love cork floors there aren’t for the long term.

What were some of the advantages of it being a pop-up restaurant?

Closing. I’m looking forward to a few days off.

Now that your customers are addicted, are you really going to go cold turkey on us? Will Crackbird disappear?

Keeping schtum on this one, but like all other Crackbird info it’ll be on twitter first. www.twitter.com/crackBIRDdublin.

We’re defo doing something though...

Make it yourself Mild Jalapeño Sauce Mild jalapeño sauce is something we make all the time. It’s better than any jalapeno sauce you can buy in the shops.

What you need One blender Cider vinegar Large bunch of jalapeño chilies Salt Top the jalapeños. Don’t deseed or any of that crap. Don’t even chop them. Just break them into the blender until it’s full. Put in a very large glug of vinegar, until about half the blender is full. Add a big spoon of salt and blend.

Put in a clean jar that you have sterilized in the dishwasher.

Leave it in a cupboard or the fridge. I like it after a day or two when it’s still fresh. Or you can leave it for about a month in the cupboard and it will be a more Tabasco-like affair.

Since you’ve blazed the trail, will we be seeing a bevvy of pop-up restaurants in the city?

I hope to see some soon. I’ve heard http:// www.popuprestaurant.ie/ is one to try. I hope to do another one myself.

What new food trends would you like to see in the city?

There are so many options but I’d love to see more street foods. They are so accessible. I’m also currently loving Korean & Lebanese foods. As two flavours bulgogi and baba ganoush dumplings would make a weird mash-up...

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Ormond Wine Bar

Odessa

The Temple Bar Pub

The Ormond Wine Bar is a hidden gem in Dublin.

Looking like a quaint shop from the outside, you would nearly miss it walking by. On entering you realise it is a huge townhouse with 2 levels. Exposed brick, skylights in the high ceilings and comfy couches set the tone for a bottle of wine and nibbles.

The breathtaking restaurant has a fully Irish bistro menu. This is possibly the best value in the city. The walls are dripping with artwork. Only a few weeks ago the place was taken over by new management.

With new menus and an eclectic wine list the place seems to be pulling in the foodies. Located at Capel St bridge, this is worth crossing out of Temple Bar to try. They also run monthly wine tastings.

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.

The building that houses the Temple Bar Pub is the original home of William Temple, a renowned philosophy and eventual provost of Trinity College.

Dating early part of the 17th century, the Temple’s plot gave its name to Temple Bar, which has since its redevelopment in the 1980s become Dublin’s cultural (and partying) quarter. The Temple Bar is itself renowned for its musical heritage, celebrated as the Traditional Irish Music Pub of the Year for practically the past decade.

At Capel St Bridge, Dublin 1

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The Best Western Dublin Skylon Hotel

Upper Drumcondra Road

The Rendezvous Room Restaurant is open for both breakfast and dinner. Enjoy a delicious meal in the relaxing and pleasant surroundings, with both A La Carte and Table d’Hote Menus available. The Skylon also boasts a superb selection of wines to choose from. Enjoy a drink or a meal in the Cosmopolitan Bar, newly decorated in traditional Irish style. This is the ideal meeting point for any occasion and is a favourite with locals and visitors alike. Evening menu is also available.

Eddie Rocket’s City Diner

Zen

Eddie’s manages to escape the trappings of restaurant franchising - its 100% fresh Irish beef burgers are consistently as excellent as most designer burger joints in town, and its (brilliantly-designed) menu diversifies seemingly by the day, making it the perfect stop for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night munchies, parties, and family days out - we couldn’t hope for a whole lot more from an Irish-owned business.

Celebrating its 20th year of serving imaginative, authentic Sichuan food in the unique setting of an old church hall. Real Sichuan cooking is unlike Cantonese, eastern or northern Chinese styles, and unlike any other outside China. Zen is the only Chinese restaurant in Ireland listed in the MICHELIN Guide. Using only the finest ingredients, favorites such as prawns with wild Sichuan pepper and fresh chilli and fillet of beef in hot bean sauce with broccoli have maintained a very loyal following. An early bird menu from Sunday to Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 offers excellent choice and incredible value.

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Teddy’s Ice-Cream & Grill

Salamanca Tapas Bars and restaurants, offer fantastic value, great quality food, service and atmosphere.

They pride themselves on a wide variety of menus and great value deals, that offer creative, innovative, delicious dishes. Visit either Salamanca and be prepared to be whisked away from the mundane to the excitement of the warm continent ,in either of two prime city centre locations. Salamanca Dame street offers the €10 lunch and the €15 early bird 7 days, Salamanca Andrew st offers the €11 lunch and the Tapas tower early bird menu. Exciting new Tapas launches in both restaurants in Feb 2011.

Mexico To Rome restaurant over looks the historic cobbles of Temple Bar, and is ideallly situated across from the world wide known Temple bar pub. It’s renowned for its combination of Mexican and Italian dishes and its newly introduced grill menu adds to its popularity. At Mexico to Rome they boast friendly, efficient and extremely helpful service. Their unique dishes are prepared in full view of the customer, which adds to the attraction of the restaurant. Great for a group reservation or an intimate meal for two. Best lunch deal around, starter, main + glass of wine or soft drink all for €8.95.The Early bird menu is a starter, main + dessert all for €14.95.

99-cone institution for nearly 60 years in Dun Laoghaire, Teddy’s Dundrum Grill offers another side to one of Dublin’s most-loved establishments – Teddy’s offers steak, spare ribs, and burgers par excellence, without destroying your wallet in the run-up to Christmas. And yes, they still do the best ice cream in town.

t 01 6774799 f 01 6774795 email info@salamanca.ie

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Eden

Venu

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

63 - 64 O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

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.

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

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!

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 5372 www.edenrestaurant.ie

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1 St Andrew st, Dublin 2

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89 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines

23 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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

Dundrum Town Centre

t: 01 2964799 ek@teddys.ie

Café Carlo

t: 01 888 0856 www.cafecarlo.net

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Oliviers at The Schoolhouse

Olivier’s Restaurant at the Schoolhouse Bar on the banks of the Grand Canal offers high-end cuisine with a seasonal menu and locally sourced ingredients in this retreat within the city. Breton head chef Olivier Quenet spent part of his time learning his trade in the Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud amongst other places and a little of the Michelin-star magic has rubbed off on him. Serves lunch from 12 til 3 weekdays with an a la carte menu on offer from 6 to 10 from Tuesday til Saturday. And 8 course tasting menu can also be availed of.

Havana Tapas Bar

Bloom Brasserie

La Maison Restaurant

Havana is a lively tapas bar and fully licensed restaurant that specialises in simple, appetising food with an authentic Spanish flavour. Open from lunch ‘til late, Havana excels in both its spread of nibbles and its range of wine and cocktails.

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.

www.lamaisonrestaurant.ie t: 01-6727258

South Great Georges Street, Dublin 1

t: 01 400 5990 www.havana.ie

www.oliviers.ie t: 01-6675014

Tante Zoe’s

Bang Cafe

Temple Bar, Dublin’s own French Quarter - is an appropriate home for this lively Cajun/Creole restaurant where great music meets great food. Try the gumbos, Jambalayas and blackened dishes...

You won’t find better this side of the Mississippi.

Originated from Louisiana, and is a combination of American Indian, African, French and Spanish cuisines - and it’s Tante Zoe’s speciality.

Reopened in April 2010 Bang’s goal is to create a restaurant experience that is second to none. The philosophy at Bang is simple: great quality food at affordable prices, in relaxed and informal surroundings. Recommended by the Michelin Guide 2011, Frommers, Georgina Campbell and Paolo Tullio, the entire team at Bang work diligently to live up to its award winning reputation.

Tante Zoe’s also has private rooms to cater for parties of 20, 40 and 100 people.

t: 01 400 4229 www.bangrestaurant.com

1 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

11 Merrion Row, Dublin 2.

t: 01 6794407 www.tantezoes.com

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4

Two years ago this place transformed from a café and boulangerie into a fully blown restaurant. With their range of experience and nous, La Maison’s chefs and staff have impeccable credentials in presenting an authentically French high-end culinary experience and are in receipt of universally glowing reviews. Opens at 12.30pm each day until 10pm (11pm at weekends) and from 1 until 9 on Sundays.

www.bloombrasserie.ie t: 01 668 7170

Kafka

Eataly

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.

Take a trip to Glasnevin or Rush’s Eataly pizzerias and you might mistake the place for Naples. The Eataly team are constantly busy, in a way that only Italians can be in this authentic pizzeria whose owners hail from from Fontechiari, the tiny South Italian village. They have even designed their own ovens that can heat to 450 degrees, so you can imagine they achieve the perfect crispy while moist formula (ovens and pizza bases with Eataly sauce are for sale to the trade). Try the Spicy Barby, or the house special Eataly pizza and you will be transported to birthplace of the most remarkable of Italian cuisine.

236 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6

66A Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9 3-5 Main Street, Rush

t: 01 497 7057

t: 01 857 1888

The Chili Club

The Counter

Koishi

Salamanca

Just shy of its 20th birthday Dublin’s Chili Club has had a welcome restyling and is now under new management. Quietly hidden away in Anne’s Lane opposite Kehoe’s Pub, the Chili Club was Dublin’s first Thai restaurant and has since its heyday been consistently serving, delicious, authentic Thai food.

A recent makeover of cool greens and vibrant fuschia, along with a new bar breathes fresh life into the premises. It has long been a popular spot with local stockbrokers and visiting celebrities and continues to draw an eclectic clientele. A two course lunch is €9.95, three course €12.95 and a recessionary early bird menu is priced at a tempting €14.95.

Combine these reasonable prices with cool tunes, friendly staff and a carefully selected wine list, this makes the Chili Club an ideal place for after work supper or a great night out.

Counter’s two outposts in Dublin represent an alternative dining future - patrons are offered complete control over their burger’s fillings. The variety of options is bewildering - you’re in safe hands with the expanded menu of Counter’s own recipes. Their shakes, beer and wine menu is nicely expansive too - if you want to make sure you never eat the same meal twice, Counter’s your Mecca.

Exquisite simple Japanese food. Freshest fish, meat, and vegetables are cooked with care to retain delicate flavours and tantalizing textures. Try the sushi with tempura and wild salmon and feel your energy lift. The teriaki beef is sensational. No wonder this eatery is frequented by foreign diplomats, ebassy people and local CEOs entertaining clients. Check out the special lunch menu from 12 noon and enjoy a light Japanese meal that leaves you feeling great for the afternoon. Prices are customer friendly too.

Salamanca Tapas Bars and restaurants, offer fantastic value, great quality food, service and atmosphere.

They pride themselves on a wide variety of menus and great value deals, that offer creative, innovative, delicious dishes. Visit either Salamanca and be prepared to be whisked away from the mundane to the excitement of the warm continent ,in either of two prime city centre locations. Salamanca Dame street offers the €10 lunch and the €15 early bird 7 days, Salamanca Andrew st offers the €11 lunch and the Tapas tower early bird menu. Exciting new Tapas launches in both restaurants in Feb 2011.

1 Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2

Suffolk Street/Dundrum Shopping Centre

www.thecounterburger.com Suffolk St: 01 611 1689 Dundrum: 01 2164 929

174 Pembroke Rd.,Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

t 01 6719308 f 01 6774795 email salamancadamest@salamanca.ie

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Pacino’s

Il Primo

The Farm

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.

Il Primo is one of the longest-established Italian restaurants in Dublin’s city centre. For over a decade, Il Primo has been serving rustic Italian food paired with some of the best wines that Tuscany has to offer. Most of its wines are imported directly to Il Primo and cannot be found anywhere else in Ireland.

The restaurant is located in a romantic period house, which has been converted into a lively, homely bar area and a cosy and intimate dining room, located five minutes from St. Stephen’s Green. The emphasis throughout Il Primo is on providing some of the finest wines from Tuscany with a range of simple and delicious Italian dishes in the heart of Dublin.

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.

18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2

t: 01 677 5651 www.pacinos.ie

38 - 40 Parliament St, Dublin 2

16 Montague Street, Dublin 2

3 Dawson St, Dublin 2

11 am to 11 pm 7 days a week

t: 01 671 8654 hello@thefarmfood.ie

Seagrass

30 South Richmond Street, Portobello, Dublin 2 Seagrass has a simple philosophy: to offer great food and service at affordable prices, They have a great BYO wine policy where no corkage is charged. They source the best local and international produce They can find. They are passionate and progressive in what they do and also offer a genuine and friendly atmosphere Check out their incentive page for special offers. They also have a group menu available for dinner parties priced at €25 per person which enables you to bring your own wine.

t: 01 478 9595

t: 01 478 3373 Email: info@ilprimo.ie

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Q Issue 300 [Bauer] The only thing that’s shocking about Q reaching 300 issues is how bloody old that makes it (and to an extent me, given I probably still have issues 100 and 200 at home somewhere.) Because shocking isn’t something Q does. Safe, warm, Mondeomusic like Elbow Q does.

My opinion of Q sunk more and more over time as my tastes developed away from a fairly catholic stance on guitar rock (still evinced by their lauding of tedious Brit-pop icons). But it’s only with the benefit of perspective, looking back on its history and trajectory over time that I can see why.

Q didn’t get uncool. It always was pretty much middle of the road music mag. That was its point to begin with. It catered for a large market that publishers felt was being missed by mid-80s NME and Melody Maker.

So in a sense I’ve been sore with this publication for many of the wrong reasons but picking it back up for its 300th issue, I’m greeted with many of the same things that made me put it down in the first place. Its entirely self-congratulatory tone is fairly hard to stomach, given that despite its ability to stick around Q has hardly ever been a worthwhile or celebrated musical institution. But most intensely, it is the gratingly smug humour and attitude throughout the magazine that leaves a bad taste. - IL

The Pale King

The Rule of War

David Foster Wallace [Hamish Hamilton]

Aoife Feeney [Somerville Press]

There are two reasons to be apprehensive before opening the posthumously-released new novel from David Foster Wallace. Reason one: if you’ve given a couple of months of your life up to reading Infinite Jest, you’ll know that Wallace pretty much refuses to give you a pay-off equivalent to the time that you put in - Infinite Jest was a novel with no ending, the Pale King is a novel that never got to have one. Reason two: it’s about taxes.

Making a banquet out of the most boring ingredients, of course, is one of Wallace’s strongpoints.

His interest in the microscopic workings of subjects you might never have dreamed of intersecting between two paperback covers (porn and lobster fishing, weed and tennis school, Wittgenstein and talking animals), illustrated with all those idiosyncracies that either endear or frustrate readers, reaches a new acme in the Pale King.

Outside of the rather challenging prospect of dealing with the theme of boredom without inflicting said theme right back on the reader, Wallace’s triumph here is transcending his own excesses as a writer. The novel’s most uproarious chapters (and this is a literal lol-fest throughout) are those written by the “author”, which are pockmarked almost every second line with self-conscious asides, non-stop footnotes, layers of metafiction no normal human mind could enjoy. His own memoiresque chunks are interspersed with those of his band of reliably neurotic characters, cameoed sometimes only in the shortest of vignettes. The Pale King feels like the most fun Wallace ever had with fiction.

Put aside expectations of the Pale King to satisfy in the traditional way and approach the work as you might his collections of articles, and you’ll find that this unfinished and unfocused collection of what are basically brainstorming sessions is perhaps the most masterful representation of Wallace’s talents available - DG

Aoife Feeney’s first novel is a darkly satirical recounting of four women’s struggle for power and recognition in the near future, revealing how the characters depicted, major players in Dublin’s art world, are guilty of the same loathsome selfinterest of which they accuse the bankers.

Miriam is fast losing control over her life and lovers. Futilely, she looks to her philandering and capricious husband, Finn, for comfort and understanding. She is adrift and malleable, dimly aware of being manipulated by everyone surrounding her.

Perhaps least odious of all Feeney’s characters, it is in her woes that the reader is most enmeshed, as she is used by her husband, lovers, and friends.

A predominant theme of the novel, apart from the overt hypocrisy and greed, seems to be violence. Finn finally finds inspiration in his abusive grandfather, writing a pastoral ode to his incestuous brutality towards his children. Miriam, jilted by her lover, decides to stay with Finn as a last resort, convincing herself that the depraved subject matter of his prose is a metaphor.

The depth in which we are immersed within her character’s minds is such that early on it can be difficult to hold onto the world of her novel in one vision. Nonetheless, it is a world that comes together slowly and precisely. Feeney depicts internal dialogue with an unapologetic, often devastatingly personal voice. - ZJ

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American Pastoral The Work of David Foster Wallace Words Karl McDonald David Foster Wallace’s unfinished posthumous novel The Pale King, published recently, has stirred all sorts of debate of the type you’d generally associate more with a dead musician than a softspoken author. Is he overrated? If so, is it because, like an incredibly verbose Kurt Cobain, he committed suicide while he still had years of potential genius ahead of him? Do people only like David Foster Wallace because it’s cool to like David Foster Wallace now?

Wallace’s reputation, at least in the popular sphere, is certainly experiencing a bump recently, with the new academy of blogs and tumblrs pitching their own interpretations and the spin-off coolness leading to sales of 500+ page novels to people who might not have actually read a book in years. That some of this is down to the suicide is definitely true, but having a narrative with which to sell an author is rare and, crucially, it’s not exactly Wallace’s fault.

Raised in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, Wallace is something of an anomaly amongst the slew of postmodernist writers in that, despite possessing a towering intellect, he is from the kind of Middle American background that makes coastal liberals cringe and worry for the future of their nation at election time.

He belonged to a church everywhere he lived in his adult life and had a large personal library of self-help books. As a high school football player and prodigious young tennis talent, it’s fair to call him a jock. His long-form journalism, collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again and Consider The Lobster, he writes about talk radio, election campaigns and state fairs with a refreshing lack of condescension.

It’s this compassion that makes his masterpiece – and it is a masterpiece – so good. At almost 1100 pages, Infinite Jest includes around hundreds of endnotes that are not only explanatory but actually need to be read in order to understand the swirling, sprawling action of the main text. It is impossible to even satisfyingly summarise the plot: it takes in tennis, Quebecois separatism, addic-

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tion rehabilitation, art film, dog murder and OCD, amongst other things, but on a macro level it’s about entertainment, or having too much fun. On paper (and it is, obviously, on paper), it seems incredibly unwieldy, and with the central family bearing the Pynchonian surname Incandenza, it would be easy to dismiss as an exercise in cleverness. Wallace’s ability to engage with and depict the mind-states of actual people, from ideologues to junkies to teenagers, makes it readable and relatable in an almost unprecedented way for something that never stoops to melodrama. It is, for this generation, the Great American Novel.

What, then, is its successor The Pale King? Well, where Infinite Jest dealt with entertainment, The Pale King deals with boredom, the inevitable next step after the stasis of having Too Much Fun. In Wallace’s final hours, he organised his manuscripts so that his widow could find them and publish them. Cut from more than a thousand pages to 540 for the final version, to risk falling prey to the rock star hysteria, Pale King is Wallace’s Closer, the first posthumous work of a genius before the quality control slips and the whole archives get tipped out and sold on name recognition alone. Like Joy Division’s last record, it can’t be experienced without the knowledge of what was going on in its creator’s mind while it was being made. Whether or not you consider that rubbernecking is up to you, but in both his fiction and non-fiction, Wallace is the most talented writer of the last quarter of a century at least, so it’d be a pity to skip it.

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Heartbeats

Director: Xavier Dolan Starring: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider Release date: 3rd June

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Director: Matthew Vaughn Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon Release date: 3rd June This is it: the best Marvel film to date. Establishing back-stories can be a difficult task and lead to a weak film (see The Godfather II) or a masterpiece (see Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, etc.) but despite the unsteady ground upon which this venture was poised, Matthew Vaughn has delivered in spades. The casting of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, as Professor Xavier and Magneto respectively, is a masterstroke, with the former delivering a career-best performance and the latter typically brilliant, a brief set-to in an Argentinean bar echoing the most memorable scene of 2009’s Inglourious Basterds. The resemblance of both to their elder counterparts in Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan is uncanny, though their portrayals are starkly individual. The intrigue of the establishment of the Academy (hinted at in the title) is matched by a solid ‘World War 3’ plot, led by Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Vaughn manages to straddle a kitsch self-awareness with sincerity in the film’s dealings with history, coming across as thoughtful and outrageous in equal measure. The only minor flaws are Nicholas Hoult’s weak and disconcerting portrayal of Beast (though he was filling the shoes of Kelsey Grammer) and the illogical presence of Havoc (Cyclops’ younger brother) in proceedings at the genesis of Professor X’s project despite his elder sibling’s absence (note: if you are genuinely upset by this, you are probably a dork). Otherwise, it is an ambitious and exciting film which takes care to make its mutant/Civil Rights allegory stick and dwells silently on the morality (both individual and political) of its constituent parts, even if at times it can be necessarily glib. X-Men: First Class defies all my expectations and, eventually, reviews itself.

Oisín Murphy

Originally titled Les Amours Imaginaires, Xavier Dolan’s plodding and derivative film about an unrequited lovetriangle is among the most intellectually unambitious and artistically devoid ever offered for public consumption.

A classically handsome (but contemporarily-dressed) young man attracts the admiration of both Marie (Monia Chokri) and Francis (played by Dolan himself) and they privately compete for his affection while members of the audience sleep with their eyes open. Characters voice their affected and banal opinions on literature, theatre, music and films! They wear nice clothes and it’s supposed to be interesting! They behave as conspicuous consumers! Do you want to see their clothes again?! Also, literally about half the film is in slow-motion. The end result is what you might expect if you handed some Core Modules spa from NCAD a camera and an endless supply of their own inflated sense of self-worth then made them edit the assembled footage while on amphetamines. - OM

Win Win

Director: Thomas McCarthy Starring: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale Release Date: 20th May

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I was baffled to see this release presented in ads as a laughout loud comedy after I had seen it, after not realizing it was supposed to be a one whilst watching. McCarthy’s Win Win floats effortlessly between the genres as a simply human story set in humdrum, middle-class New Jersey suburbs. Paul Giamatti leads with a typically pathetic performance as an “average” American, a struggling lawyer and high school wrestling coach, dealing with the economic travails of the time. Given the opportunity to venture onto shaky moral ground for financial gain he bends his ethical compass before becoming embroiled in the tangled web of his client’s family history. It’s easy to see why this film will strike a chord with many.

Throughout, Win Win ticks along enjoyably, never being too ponderous or wallowing while small comic turns from Giamatti’s buddies played by Tambor and Cannavale add to the fabric without ever delving into farce. - IL

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BLITZ

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise extends into its fourth outing without the presences of Knightley or Bloom, seeing Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow mince his way along a quest for the fabled Fountain of Youth, alongside Penelope Cruz’ fiesty piratess and a curiously un-menacing Blackbeard, and also that guy from the first few films who only has one leg now. Sub-Bond innuendo is offered to the audience as gold and vague Christian dogma is clumsily negotiated (presumably) in order to satisfy corporate image stipulations. It’s all so bland and familiar that you could be forgiven for hallucinating your own untimely death in magnificent 3D. One eagerly awaits a world in which this sort of film isn’t very popular and successful. - OM

Jason Statham rhetorically identifies the weapon in his hands (a hurley) to a gang of youths who have tried to rob his car, lauding the Gaelic game of its origin as ‘a cross between hockey . . . and murder’, before delivering upon them a beating of truly Stathamian proportions. The opening credits roll. Statham is a hard-boiled cop: an irredeemable prick who says un-PC things that your dad would like and utilises excessive force, seemingly for fun, in order to fight the crime on the other side of the blue line. Carcetti from The Wire plays a flamboyant serial killer targetting police. Paddy Considine is Statham’s reluctant partner (who is also gay and ‘gets stick’ for it). The audience are bludgeoned by the moral weight of Ken Bruen’s conspicuously sadistic and misogynistic politics, under which the film, as an oneiric device, collapses and becomes enjoyably self-deconstructive. A must-see! - OM

Director: Rob Marshall Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush Release date: Out now

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Words John Hyland Conduit 2

High Voltage – Wii

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If you take the blocky blandness of the original Halo, the convoluted conspiracy theories of Nick Cage’s National Treasure and a splash of Stargate you begin to get close to Conduit 2. Michael Ford, our meat-head protagonist, has to fight off the suitably named “Drudge”: bafflingly boring alien invaders who are linked to the Masons, Aztecs, Nessie and so on. Ford attempts to cringe the aliens to death with inane B-movie utterances, instructing them to “come get some” and “catch this” every five minutes. Terrible voice actors hack their way through an awful script, the only saving grace of which is its brevity – little over 5 hours. This dearth of artistic flair is not only confined to the writing, a very passable graphics engine has been squandered on rendering nothing but dull, grey corridors leading you from room to blocky room. This is a shame, because the highly customisable controls show promise – maybe indicating that pointer based shooters are the way forward. Conduit 2 wastes one or two good ideas on a game so poorly-executed that if the boring gameplay doesn’t stop you playing, then one of the game-breaking glitches will.

World Cup Italia ‘90

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Valve – PC, Xbox360, PS3 Valve’s legendary Source engine – the foundation for the Half Life 2 series and its offshoots – is like an ageing stripper, marched out for one final dance. She’s not as young and perky as the other girls, but she knows all the tricks and has to work extra hard for the tips, and Portal 2 doesn’t fail to impress.

Portal 2 takes place in the ruins of the Aperture Science testing centre, the setting of Portal. Our silent heroine is woken up from cryostasis by Wheatley – a nervously chattering robot, voiced by comedian Stephen Merchant. The giant underground laboratory has been reclaimed by nature since the defeat of GLaDOS, the insane computer in charge of the facility in the first game, until Wheatley accidentally brings her back online. Escape is only possible using the Portal Gun, a device that allows us to open portals in two flat surfaces, so that we can jump through one and come out the other. This fascinating mechanic allows us to solve puzzles that would be otherwise impossible – and GLaDOS provides plenty of these as she playfully tries to exact revenge for “killing” her.

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guided through portals in increasingly intricate ways to progress. And there is real joy in finding solutions. Although quick reflexes are necessary, the real challenge is cerebral. By forcing you to imagine new ways of using the portals, the game provides some fantastic “eureka” moments, provoking feelings of genuine elation that few games can.

This humblingly intelligent design is combined with tear-inducingly hilarious writing and fantastic voice acting to make a sequel possibly even better than the original, and able to stand entirely on its own merits.

And if the single player campaign didn’t quench your puzzle thirst, the co-operative story, where you and a friend can play as two Portal-Gun-wielding robots, seals the deal. The co-op mode, nearly as long as the main game, has entirely new levels with conundrums only solvable with two brains and four portals. Learning ever more complex portal techniques together and sharing the joy of breakthroughs cements this as a unique and unmissable experience.

Exciting, ingenious and witty, Portal 2 is a rare game that I can recommend to everyone.

This was a triumph.

Sega’s World Cup Italia ‘90 brings all the excitement of the beautiful game right to your home! You can recreate classic World Cup 1990 campaigns, experiencing the fiesta flavour of Italian football. Football fans will be delighted to see that Sega have pulled out all the stops to include all their favourite set pieces, corner kicks, goal kicks and throw-ins. Lead the USSR to World Cup glory in tournament mode, or go head to head with a friend in test match mode to see who can master the skills of high pass, low pass and shoot. The most notable technical updates in World Cup Italia ‘90 are the ground-breaking radar to show positions of players off screen and the inclusion of penalty shootouts, meaning no more rematches if you draw. One criticism is that the list of teams playable differs somewhat from those competing in the actual tournament, but this allows us to answer that age-old question: “If Peru or Morocco had qualified for the 1990 World Cup how would they have fared?” The omission of Ireland from the line-up is vexing but, if you pick Algeria, you can pretend coz their shirts are green, too!

Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars

Travellers Tales – PC, Xbox360, PS3, Wii

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Having bled the Star Wars films dry, Travellers Tales have now turned their knife on the lesser known TV series that spans the gap between episodes 2 and 3. Amusing as the Lego games’ childish humour is, source material this obscure makes it more difficult to enjoy. Lego Star Wars 3 is essentially an OK game, but that’s because not only are all the Lego Star Wars games the same, but all the Lego games are the same. Graphical updates can’t save this rehash, and Travellers Tales haven’t even learnt from their previous mistakes – the clumsy controls and camera are as unwieldy as ever – being a Jedi isn’t much use if you keep accidentally flinging your mates down holes you can’t see.

The strategy sections show that someone on the production team was eager to try something new, but their efforts are hampered by those unwilling to stray off the beaten, profitable path. Lego Star Wars is a great concept, but I can’t recommend this game over either of the two previous instalments. Not looking forward to Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (out now), Lego Gone with the Wind (not impossible) and, I dunno, Lego Ulysses (unlikely).

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