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,=*416 ; 57;< -)/-: 8-:.7:5-:; Your burning desire is to perform. You’ll do anything it takes. You could be a singer songwriter, a spoons duo, a jazz trio or a rockabilly quartet. Maybe you do opera, R&B or goth metal. You could be a lone trumpeter wailing across the rooftops, a skiffle group complete with washboard or a crooner looking for your nightclub premier. You might just be a plain old rock band... Whatever way you make music we would like to hear from you. If you would like to give yourself more exposure to your potential adoring public (around Dublin’s exquisite Music Village), then we have the streets, the venues, the opportunities and the attitude to get you performing. Send us a demo (film or sound) to famous@musicvillage.com and start getting famous!

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U.S. band The National recently stopped by Musicmaker on their way to Oxegen to say hello and sign the obligatory drum skin! Drop in to the Drum Department to see the ever growing collection of signed drumskins by the leading names in the world of music.

Mark Bolton of Perfect Pitch with Joe Bonamassa after the recent Black Country Communion gig in Vicar Street where Joe was joined on stage by his fellow BCC companions Glen Hughes on bass/Vocals and Jason Bonham, son of legendary Zepplin drummer John Bonham, on drums. An amazing night of good old fashioned Rock was had by all who attended.

See if you can spot The National’s signed drum skin along with skins signed by Blondie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Feeder, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, and Pearl Jam, among other rock legends.

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Pick it up. Smell it. Rub your face in it. Make sure you’ve done all this before you read any more of this issue of Totally Dublin. What? You notice something? Did we get a new haircut? No. Did we gain weight? Well, yes actually. The eight foot strongman who carries the crates of our magazine to the office complained of back strain this month. After 82 issues of easily-rippable, replaceable toilet roll, we’ve decided to move on up. Print is certainly not dead, but maybe newsprint is, for now. This is an aspirational issue of TD. If we pooled our money with all of our readers, we’d probably have 60 quid and a squashed Drumstick lolly combined - but as you all know, money ain’t shit but ho’s and tricks. The most fun you can have, we’ve decided, is maintaining a lifestyle you can’t afford - a pastime we are honoring with our inaugural semi-gloss issue. Which we definitely can’t afford. Daniel Gray

8 Entry Level Islands are forever

52 Barfly Too much jizz in the Bank, according to Vincent Brown

10 A Picture Thousand words, you know

54 The Boozer Answering the question ‘few tins?’ with eloquence

12 Roadmap The nerd guide to books, tapes, and transferable tattoos

56 Gastro The soup is not a Gazpacho on the salmon

18 Threads No, sadly, we will NOT be doing a festival fashion special this year

62 Print Thread lightly

20 David Kronn Collection He’ll put your family album to shame

64 Games Including Kandinsky: The Video Game

24 Paris De Luxe A Parisian Cocktail recipe

66 Film Lunch is for wimps

30 The Rapture Yes, we know we’ve already done our apocalypse issue.

68 Audio Beybey should Knowles better

34 The Beautiful and the Damned The legend of Zelda

70 Sport Actual exercise for a change

40 LGBT Making tranny jokes acceptable since August ‘11

73 Listings Featuring Washed Out, National Heritage Week, and the Annual Magic the Gathering Convention

44 The TD Guide to… Maintaining a lifestyle you can’t afford

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Ideally located in the heart of Dublin, just a 5 minute walk from St Stephens Green, The award-winning Dax restaurant is now one of Ireland’s Premier food destinations Lunch Menu is served Tuesday to Friday 12.30 – 2.15pm €24.50 – 2 Courses €29.50 – 3 Courses Pre Theatre Menu is served from 5.30pm with last orders at 7.00pm Tuesday – Friday €25.50 – 2 Courses Our New A la Carte Menu is served from 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday offering a variety of dishes to suit every taste.

Dax Restaurant 23 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 Tel : 01 676 1494 Email: Olivier@dax.ie Web: www.dax.ie

Dax Café Bar is the only place in Dublin where you can enjoy delicious Tapas, a selection of over 300 Wines & 27 World Beers in a Georgian Townhouse steeped in 200 years of history. We have historical possessions belonging to Michael Collins with original hand written notes of his ideas, an original statement of policy from Eamon De Valera and an original signed Dax Café Bar cheque from Isaac Butt, the Leader 23 Pembroke Street Upper, and founder of the Home Rule Party Dublin 2 of the 1870’s. Tel : 01 662 9381 Open: Monday – Saturday Email: info@daxcafebar.ie 5 Minutes from St Stephen’s Green Web: www.daxcafebar.ie

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YOUR OWN PRIVATE ISLAND WORDS // Daniel Gray ILLUSTRATION // Kathi Burke A couple of issues ago I had the pleasure of reviewing Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands, a semi-fictive account of 50 islands around the world the author will never visit, but would very much like to. Her islo-wanderlust sparked off a forgotten romance for me, and after a few dusty dives through my childhood archives I found a marker-scrawled plan of the island I presumed I would one day own, administer, and, very probably, run into the ground. Now, the multi-millionaire demographic of Totally Dublin is a pretty small percentile - I realize most of you don’t have the overflowing off-shore account or Premier League weekly-wage packet one would presume a requisite for owning your very own piece of isolated land. But this month a curious story appeared in the Guardian’s property section. A ‘pirate’ island off the coast of Wales was up for grabs for a measly (and we’re speaking even post-Tiger relatively here) £95,000. That’s down from the original million-or-so valuation it had not so long ago. The island has a handsome history involving Vikings, Romans, and expensive angling - the perfect place to launch your aspersions to colonialism

or develop a Wicker Man-like cult, for significantly less than a banjaxed gaff in Finglas. If you’re not a recluse who expects to hide out on your landmass all year round, maybe we’d better take a look at the Irish market. There’s a few islands up for auction at the moment. Mutton Island, twenty kms out from Galway, was once a tobacco smuggler’s hideout and is now governed by a group of seals and seabirds. Or how about Mannions Island, near Cork, the perfect place to launch a clandestine rocket attack on the People’s Republic? Irish island ownership laws are lax. You could quite easily circumvent planning permission laws if a more primitive life of wattle-and-daub habitation appeals and, in reality, you can take out any approaching authorities in boats from a vantage point somewhere on your land. Still the stuff of fantasy, perhaps, though let us know if you want to go splitsies on a new utopia. My pound-shop marker blueprint is pretty solid. There are specific Irish estate agents for premier properties, but POI offers the most scope for tropical island fantasies.

www.privateislandsonline.com The one-stop shop for your island-buying needs, PIO not only offers a Daft.ie-style database of available land across the globe and a trove of advice on how to develop your new property without accidentally killing off all the indigenous fauna, but releases a biannual magazine on island affairs.

Republic of Rose Island Escaping the jurisdiction of your island’s mothercountry is never going to be easy. Just ask Giorgio Rosa, an Italian man who in 1967 attempted to establish his own micronation off the coast of Rimini. The man had the right idea - he built a nightclub and swank restaurant onto his man-made island. Rose Island had its own stamps and impending currency until the Italian Navy blew it to absolute pieces once they got wind of it.

Slebs Most private island coverage in the media is focussed on celebrity-owned islands. From Marlon Brando’s Polynesian hideaway Tetiaroa to Mel Gibson’s muchmaligned Mago Island project (one can only hope Gibson owns it as a self-inflicted Napoleonic exile to which he will soon be banished), movie stars have the cash, the ego, and the social anxiety to own their own paradises. If you’re in this category, just make sure there’s a McDonald’s within helicopter distance.

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The supposed demise of the printed word is well chronicled – and it only takes a whisper of the word ‘Waterstones’ to remind us that Dublin is not immune to this epidemic. But booksellers are resilient entities it seems. Undeterred by the neurotic prophesizing that dominates book-related discourse in recent media, The Twisted Pepper has just opened The Loft Bookshop: an independent space on the top floor of its premises, selling a mixture of new and second-hand titles. We spoke to Rob Brown, the man behind it all, about his Loft-y ambition. INTERVIEW // Rosa Abbott PHOTOGRAPH // E Comiskey

How did the Loft Bookshop come about? I came into the Twister Pepper looking to sell books at the Saturday market. Colin Harmon, who runs the 3FE cafe, recognised me straight away as I’d actually met him and his girlfriend whilst working in Chapters - I’d spent forty-five minutes with the two of them going from one end of the fiction section to the other, picking out books and chatting about them. It just so happened that he and Trevor O’Shea, who runs the venue, had been chatting about how cool it would be if someone opened a bookshop upstairs. He brought me up and said, “What do you think?”

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The Loft turns into a nightclub/live music venue at night. Has that given rise to any problems? There were concerns, because it is a nightclub three nights a week... They do nice acoustic gigs and comedy gigs, but they also have really hard dance music in here. But so far there’s not been any damage done.

The number of people buying printed books is decreasing, but do you think those remaining are becoming more passionate? I think they’re becoming more vocal. So many people came in when we first opened and said, “It’s great to see a new bookshop open.” The pool of buyers is definitely getting smaller, but there’s a lot of crazy journalism out there. People are saying it’s the end of books - I just don’t buy it. So what do you think the secret to success will be? I know it’s a word that keeps coming up everywhere - to the point where it’s almost becoming a joke - but curation is really important. The megastore model is losing out, because you have the biggest megastore on the internet now. You can’t compete with that. My hope is that by running a bookshop where I can stand by pretty much every book that’s on the shelf it will offer a different buying experience... I don’t want it to be exclusive. But I want it to be a little more personality driven.

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller

At Swim Two Birds Flann O’Brien

Too Much Happiness Alice Munro

The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco

The Day of The Triffids John Wyndham

An all time favourite of mine. Miller’s novel still has as strong an impact as it did when it was first published in 1934. A book about passion, desire and an unstoppable love of life, set against the backdrop of Paris between the wars. This is a book that has shocked many but remains a true classic and one of the most rewarding novels I’ve ever encountered.

A modernist Irish masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds is by turns hilariously funny, startlingly inventive and deeply touching. If you want to experience genuine Irish literary genius, this is a good place to start.

This collection of short stories was a recent pick for our shop book club and went down extremely well. Though some people avoid short stories, Munro’s writing is the best excuse I can think of to try out the form. Each story is a perfectly crafted slice of human frailty delivered with astonishing narrative power.

The Name of the Rose is probably Eco’s most accessible and enjoyable novel. One part historical novel, one part intricate murder mystery, this engrossing and at times elaborate novel never ceases to amaze me. Think Sherlock Holmes in a medieval monastery.

Yes, it’s technically sciencefiction, but don’t let that stop you. An extraordinary study in paranoia, fear and survival, tirelessly innovative and even quite humorous in parts this book is so readable it’s shocking that more people don’t know it. Ignore the so-so TV adaptations that we’ve suffered over the years and read the original, you’ll not regret it.

Tatt.ly

Not hard enough to sit under a tattoo gun for two hours? Tatt.ly, a project from design guru and the queen of the TD Google Reader, Swissmiss, offers the childhood glee of transferable tattoos and a top design aesthetic to offer weaklings and geeklings a range of easily-orderable tats.

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Gojee.com

You know when your hunger is so crippling and all-consuming that you can’t even decide what you want in your gob? Gojee is a clever little site that asks you what you have, what you like, and what might make you vomit, and regurgitates an appealing recipe from its mouth-watering database.

Your answers in our centrefold guide this month might lead you to a private rocket into space - Virgin Galactic’s website will sort out your booking. You’d be forgiven for thinking VG’s SpaceShipTwo is a construction of 3D graphics and not much else, but check out the catalogue and introduction video and start hoping that Lotto jackpot comes up for you soon.

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People make mistakes. Animals are here to fix them. Fredflare, home of multi-coloured, multi-purpose ephemera, are selling a three pack of animal-shaped jumbo erasers that they promise will not only help you, but help endangered species through the Center for Biological Diversity.

ROADMAP WORDS // Karl MacDonald Setting up a record label to put out limited releases, often on tape, isn’t exactly the best way to make money in this day and age, but then a small label isn’t exactly a business in the conventional sense. Set up in 2006 by Neil Brogan (Sea Pinks/Girls Names), Belfastbased CF Records’ launch was an enthusiastic one. “The first release was the compilation in 2006 which was a run of 500 CDs. I thought this would be super easy to offload (with no distro) at the time, not having a clue what I was doing. I guess it was a learning curve from there.” With a catalogue of releases characterised by lo-fi pop and experimental music, CF’s business model tended mostly, like many modern labels, towards online sales. “I try to sell direct as much as possible. As the label has evolved it seems to have found a niche putting out one-off, limited run stuff and that doesn’t really fit with using big distributors.” For a Belfast-based label (Brogan returned to his home town in 2008), CF attracts some fairly exciting international artists including High Places, Cloud Nothings and Mt. Eerie for specialist releases, but there are apparently no problems with their home labels. “I tend to catch people in the first phase of their career, before the big labels get to them. The stuff I put out doesn’t really overlap with the big releases anyway, it’s generally more one-off boutique kind of stuff. That’s the way I like it.” CF’s previous names, Caff//Flick and (in a tape-heavy period) Cass//Flick, could understandably be misunderstood as the appellation of a Northern Irish label, but it’s all innocuous. “It was originally known as Caff/Flick which was derived from the word catholic with a small c, meaning eclectic, nothing political or religious. It was a pretty stupid name though and did cause understandable confusion so it’s now known simply as CF. It’s like Marathon/Snickers kind of. It’s Snickers all the way from now on!” CF Compilation 2, featuring Patrick Kelleher, No Monster Club, Girls Names and more, is available for free from http://cf-records.bandcamp.com. More information at www.cf-records.com KEY RELEASES Cloud Nothings/Kevin Greenspon – Split Cassette Patrick Kelleher/School Tour – Split Cassette Double EP Sea Pinks – Youth Is Wasted

Hank gets mobile, catches Walt. Walt Jr. gets a girlfriend

Skyler turns evil

Walt turns evil

Skyler and Walt get back together

Walt stays alive

Skyler stays good

Walt goes back to being good

Gus and Walt have a showdown. In Los Pollos Hermanos. Agonizing moodsetting waits for action Mike sides with Walt. Bald pride! Jesse gets a real job

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“Class address, class background, class characters”, purrs a gravel voiced Lauren Bacall as Schatze Page in 1953’s How to Marry a Millionaire. By renting a penthouse apartment beyond her means, Schatze’s plan is to create an illusion of wealth that will have Rockefellers and Vanderbilts clambering over themselves for her hand in marriage. It’s after this wily dame that Shotsy Vintage take their name. Packed full of high quality apparel at rock-bottom prices, their Temple Bar boutique is a haven for modern-day Schatzes to cultivate a well-heeled wardrobe without breaking the bank. “Vintage really is the poor girls way to feel decadent,” says Lisa Magrath, who co-founded the boutique with her cousin Katie Prior. “I have a wardrobe worth thousands, but have never had lots of money to spend on clothes. It’s all thanks to years of collecting vintage and a ruthless pillaging of my Gran’s wardrobe.” If you’re not lucky enough to have a treasure-owning grandparent like Katie and Lisa’s (my own granny has accumulated a great collection of Tenerife ashtrays and a foul vocabulary as she’s aged, but alas, no Pucci scarves or strings of pearls), then vintage shopping it is. Shotsy’s collection of antique dresses, sumptuous fur coats, jewellery and accessories (we recommend grabbing one of their turbans to feign that ‘just back from Dubai’ look), leave no excuse for looking shabby. And that goes for the gents as well, who can snap up dress shirts, ties and blazers – “the first rule,” according to Schatze Page, “is that gentlemen callers have got to wear a necktie.” You’ve been told, lads. Temple Lane South (opposite the Button Factory), Temple Bar, D2.

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Former TD Launch Party home, Dame Court’s Odessa Club throws out its private members club policy this month and opens its doors to all (respectable) members of the population. It retains its Thursday night live sessions (of which Jape, Cathy Davey, and Fionn Regan are all alumni) and monthly contemporary classic Kaleidoscope club - not that you need an excuse to check out one of our favourite roof terraces in Dublin.

Who said print is dead? Beggars’ Bush’s National Print Museum, one of our favourite hidden weekend haunts, gets a revamp this month. On exhibit are a replica Gutenberg press and an original 1916 Proclamation, and the luddites among you can engage in calligraphy, printmaking and linocutting workshops. Rumour has it the exhibition will be filled out with the historical Totally Dublin printing press before long.

Alright, so unless you’re either homeless or live too far out to get a Nitelink you probably don’t frequent the city’s hostels all too often. However, the problem of leeching little friends from foreign countries cramping your couches is easily resolved from this month with the opening of Dublin’s very own Generator hostel in Smithfield. Generator’s the Hilton of hostels - offload your visiting mates there, and then stick them for their jacuzzi privileges.

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SIBLING RAVELRY Way back in 2008 in London, three young designers gathered and collaborated, intent on ‘giving mens knitwear a kick up the arse’. The result was Sibling. The menswear line goes where no needle-wielding great aunt has gone before, weaving together acid-bright yarns and pop-art patterns. The Autumn 2011 line is a riff on British pub culture; ‘Darn the Boozer’ takes a knitted tour of favourite East London drinking spots, with each piece inspired by a different venue. ‘St George and the Dragon’ spawns knightly armour-style shoulder plates and a stitch inspired by dragon’s scales, while ‘The Golden Heart’ features embroidered tattoos and spider-web elbows. Head to www.siblinglondon.com to see their collection film.

SHOE-PER TROUPERS INTERVIEW // Roisín Kiberd ‘F-Troop’ was, according to Wikipedia, a ‘satirical army sitcom set in Fort Courage, Kansas’. And though Sergeant Sylvester, Captain Wilton and co. sound like a hoot and a half, we’re far more interested in F-Troupe, the niche London shoemakers who create semi-retro, semiironic but wholeheartedly gorgeous designer footwear. Stocked worldwide by Opening Ceremony and Urban Outfitters, the designs are drawn up in a pokey little basement in Soho, underneath their flagship store. We paid a visit to brand founder Mick Hoyle, to talk Monty Python and the specific width of Winkle-Pickers.

TOM TOM CLUB Hold on to your wallets. Sometimes it takes one small, exorbitantly expensive purchase to make a girl feel like a million dollars. When swarthy fashion pin-up Tom Ford launched his Private Blend lipsticks a year ago, priced at €50 each, they were that one ‘It Product’. And now he’s expanded into full cosmetics line, including primer, foundation and lipgloss. The luscious ad campaign features Dutch Super Lara Stone in full 80s style lipstick and winged eye makeup, along with The Ford himself (as ever), who has already confided that he uses the skincare and foundation himself. Languid, luxe and a little bit mad, we advise you to get on the waiting list now. Coming to Brown Thomas this Autumn

First things first, how did F-Troupe start out? Did you already have a background in shoes? It started more than twenty years ago. I had some of the franchises for a company called Red or Dead, and then I sold them. After that I had a shop in New York. I started thinking about my own collection, looking around for styles I couldn’t find anywhere else. Then around eight years ago I decided to start making my own shoes. Was it always planned to be a very London thing, a kind of heritage shoe company, to appeal to Dandy Revivalists? Not really, though we are inspired predominantly by British history. But the line is full of all sorts of reference points. Britain has a great history of shoemaking; around the Midlands and Northampton there’s a major industry. Or there was, rather. It’s fizzled out now. But the core remains, craftspeople making good handmade shoes. Do you test out the shoes? Everything gets tested. We test them out ourselves - the samples usually come in my size. Right now they’re the shoes for next summer, so I get to wear them around town for a bit and see what they feel like. What’s your favourite decade for inspiration? I’m still really into Victoriana.

Do you think there’s a more general move towards fashion nostalgia, with people going for old-fashioned, proper handmade shoes as part of that? That’s true; we do a Made in England collection that’s our kind of Heritage Line, with the shoes made in Northampton. It’s very much part of a recession, that people go for something that will last, that they can wear more. We also get people every so often doing costumes for a show. They come in and buy ten pairs at a time. Some of the stuff is so relevant, for instance right now we’re very closely inspired by Victoriana, and it’s easier for them to buy from us than to remake period shoes. The golden age of buttons... We find ways to put them onto everything. Lots of button shoes. We do Victorian gaiters with buttons on them; originally they were for tucking trousers into, and the military still have them for keeping their socks dry. Do you look through archives for ideas? We tend to buy antique shoes and get ideas from looking at those. Yes I have quite a collection at home, it’s pretty intense. It’s an obsession for me; I’ll just buy up anything I like, on the off-chance I can use it for work… We design the shoes ourselves from scratch, though I like to look at vintage shoes for ideas on details, or on the shape of the last. All our shoes are based on a wooden last, with a different shape for every one. When we made winkle-pickers, for instance, we based them on a Victorian style last with a squared toe instead of a really pointed one. They’re very different to modern winkle-pickers, a lot more elongated and with a bit of a heel. Do the people who buy the shoes always know the work and thought that goes into each model? Nearly all of our customers find us and come to us because they know what they’re looking for. They tend to be as thoughtful as we are about our shoes. They’re the kind of customer we really like.

HORSES, HORSES, COMING IN IN ALL DIRECTIONS Rich people love horses. There, we said it. Never mind the Duchess of Cambridge’s horse allergy, any toff worth their organic flaked sea salt will tell you that the real gentry simply love to ride. But if you lack the patience and skill (not to mention the funds for a stable) allow us to recommend this little nugget of equine style; handmade jewellery from the upcoming designer Birgit Marie Schmidt. Picked for greatness by style collective Not Just A Label, Schmidt’s eerie little artworks originate in childhood dreams of being chased by horses. All Freudian connotations aside, we’re very taken with the bands of gold-plated hooves forming everything from neckpieces to knuckledusters. Odd, but oddly wearable, find her designs at www.notjustalabel.com

‘F-Troupe’ was the name of an American sitcom in the sixties, right? It was spelled ‘F-Troop’, like a cavalry troop, so we wanted to play on that and make it into a dancing troupe. It’s a combination of the two. The font on the inside of the shoe is kind of Germanic or Russian, industrial age-inspired. Was building the brand planned out in your head from the start, British heritage with a bit of Monty Python thrown in? Oh the website is totally Monty Python! The hardest part was sourcing things; with the shoes just about anything can be recreated in this day and age, but for the shop, how do you even begin to track down thirty Victorian tiles for the fireplace, or antique wood to make the counter out of? Though I’ve a got a great collection of Victorian bric-a-brac and curiosities and things in the shop, it was quite fun assembling it all. Like the two-headed cat! I got him in America from somebody who used to run a circus side show. I don’t think he’s actually real, though. We were going to have a competition to name him - right now we’re calling him Tintin... Are you really the ‘Cobblers to Her Majesty’? (It says so on their shop sign) Haha no! That was a bit of a naughty joke. An innuendo. You might have to be British - or maybe Irish - to get it, though.

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hat were the first and last artworks you bought? The first photograph I bought that’s in this exhibition is by William Claxton - it’s a portrait of the poet Terry Southern releasing a dove. That one came in at auction, and it’s one of the first things I ever bought. I’m not sure when it was - maybe sixteen, seventeen years ago. It’s been on my wall for almost the entire time since then, so it’s proved a good purchase. Then the latest photographs would be the works by Asako Narahashi. She’s a Japanese photographer who takes photographs with her camera half-submerged under water, looking towards land - they’re from 2009. Also there are the works by Martine Franck - they’re from the late nineties, but I only just purchased them this year, and they come from a series focusing on the children of Tory Island in Donegal. Dr. David Kronn has long since ditched Dublin for the dizzy heights of New York. However, the genetics and pediatrics professor has pledged to give something back to his hometown - his extensive collection of photography, which spans from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to cutting edge contemporary work. Though this will be a gradual process, over 150 of the works from his collection are now on show in Out of the Dark Room at IMMA, including works by Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Liebovitz and Ansel Adams. We asked him to talk us through his collection. INTERVIEW // Rosa Abbott

You’ve described Irving Penn as an “early obsession” – what attracted you to his photographs? It’s the style of his work - it has a timeless quality to it. He’s a perfectionist in the way he positions images. His fashion work is utterly iconic, and very well known, though I wasn’t so much drawn to that initially - I’m more interested in his portraiture. I supposed his printing process is also of interest to me, as he produced platinum prints, rather than the more conventional silver gelatin prints. He actually came back to some of his early works - like the Vogue images from the forties and fifties - and reprinted them in this platinum grade. The result is very beautiful, very permanent and very true to nature.

Have you had any obsessions since then? Mostly my collecting is fairly constant – I’ve always collected images of children, for example, as I’ve a background in pediatrics. But I suppose there are phases. Recently I’ve been focusing on collecting images from Ireland, and works by Irish photographers... that’s my latest direction. Do you just collect photography? Well, I have some paintings, but my main focus is photography. I’ve always been a practitioner of it, so I know about photography - I know about how the images are printed and processed. It’s also a fairly accessible medium in terms of collecting. Painting can be much more expensive. You’ve decided to donate works annually to IMMA. Was the decision to part with your collection a difficult one? Well, it’s going to be a gradual process, so I’ll still have works hanging on my wall at least... plus I’m still collecting, so that balances it out a bit. Do you have a favourite image from the exhibition? I really love the image of the boy and the lampshade by Kenneth Josephson. It’s on the front cover of the publication IMMA has produced, and is also where the exhibition title, Out of the Dark Room, comes from. What emerging or contemporary photographers have you been looking at recently? There are a couple of people - Asako Narahashi and Alison Rossiter are both very, very interesting. Then there’s Trina Sondergaard and Nicolai Howalt - two contemporary photog-

raphers from Denmark who produced a great series of photographs about hunting. I have a pair of works from it upstairs in the exhibition [The Dolmen I and The Dolmen II]. These images are fascinating, because they’re actually multiple exposures, but on initial reading they appear to be straightforward landscape scenes. It’s only when you look at them closely that you realise they tell a narrative - they tell the story of a hunt, but in a very subtle way. Yeah I really like those. I want an art collection like yours, but I can’t afford one. Do you have any advice on acquiring art on the cheap? Well I think photography is available at every level. There are many art fairs that have new and emerging artists there, and you have the opportunity to buy works from them directly. Also, when a photographer produces prints in larger editions it drives down the price, giving you an opportunity to start collecting their works relatively inexpensively. I also think books are very important, especially in photography, because the photography book is also a representation of the work... So in a way, they’re also works of art. That’s good, because I’ve just been given a copy of the ‘Out of the Dark Room’ book. Can you sign it? Sure. Thanks. My art collection is increasing in value already. Yes... Out of the Dark Room is on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art until October 9th.

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We arrived at the Gare de l’Est unpleasantly early, quickly realising we’d need to have a sit down before attempting the walk to our hotel. We went to Le Train Bleu in the hopes of nursing their cheapest coffee, so I could sit and gawk at the ceiling. Le Train Bleu is the gilt-y pleasure of the Gare du l’Est, its antithesis to austerity. You enter via a sweeping fin-de-siècle stone staircase and the restaurant itself is full-on brass and mirrors, its ceiling an overwhelming symphony of landscapes and gold. You might as well be eating in the Sistine Chapel, except overlooking the busyness of the massive train station and the plaza outside full of wildly gesticulating French drivers. We were ushered past the imposing main room and the large high-backed chairs lining the corridor, into the coffee area towards the back. Sitting down at a recently deserted table, we found the restaurant’s resident pussy-cat, and played with him while we perused the menu for anything under a tenner. But after discovering that even the most meagre espresso was €9, we decided that we’d seen all there was to be seen and hastily got up to leave, not before finishing the peanuts and olives neglected by our table’s previous occupant. If you fall in love with the décor and can’t bear to leave, their €98 taster menu comes highly recommended. Instead of my usual list of five or six bookshops to visit I planned on limiting myself, since we only had a couple days and an intoxicating number of bars and restaurants to get to. Paris’ most famous English bookshop is easily Shakespeare and Co, opposite Notre Dame. It’s not a long walk there from the Gare de l’Est, just straight down the left bank of the Seine. Customers spill out into the street, sitting on benches where you can have a read before buying. Neglecting to purchase any rare or first editions, I went next door to their slightly more prosaic bookshop

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to have a nose about. Shakespeare and Co have weekly talks from writers and is also a good place for Anglophones to get away from all those horrible French people (LOL; JK). After finally dropping off our luggage, we headed up to Jipangue, a Japanese restaurant hidden away in the backstreets of Champs-Élysées. We were brought by our friend Ken, who always tries in vain to get the recipe for the sauce that they fry their slices of beef in. It was busy, but we managed to get a place in their darkest upstairs corner table with a heated concave stove in its middle and let our friend do the ordering – my Japanese is pretty shoddy. A mess of udon noodles, gigantic shiitake mushrooms, chunks of tofu, fresh cabbage, and thinly sliced beef were all set onto the heat with the mystery brown sauce. It wasn’t quite as sweet as teriyaki, nor as thick, and after our waitress disappeared into the kitchen we sheepishly licked up its leftovers from the jug before waddling full-bellied into the street to find the metro back to the hotel.

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Waking up near the Pont Neuf means that you’re a baguette’s throw from the Louvre. It’s not too much of a hassle getting in, so long as you’ve got a valid student card and you’re willing to be up at the crack of dawn to avoid waiting in line for an hour. But since I lost my student card to Barceloneta beach, and our earliest conceivable getting up time was near to midday, we took the lazy option, ambling past the pyramid of the Louvre’s inner courtyard into an underpass which allows a glimpse through a window into part of the museum’s collection of enormous classical marble statues. This would have to do, since my erstwhile art-fan companion was already getting antsy. We headed north to the rue Saint-Honoré, chock-a-block with staggeringly overpriced shops. Colette is a well-established Saint-Honoré institution. You might not be able to buy anything, but it’s worth the visit to have a good gape. I came to sigh over the beautiful Junya Watanabe jumpers, coming close to stealing a military-style Russian princess coat that probably cost about three grand. Colette will do this to you. Don’t even get me started on the knee-high iridescent purple snakeskin roller-skates. And that’s just upstairs. On the ground floor is an on-the-button collection of super swish magazines, and downstairs is a “water bar”. Even the people

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who work here look amazing – bow ties and bright Paul Smith suits abound. It’s difficult to maintain your composure, especially if you’ve only got limited amount of time to stroke all the handbags and your friends are hooing and hawing about the gaudiness of consumer culture. Feck ‘em, though. This place is Disneyland. Since I was still feeling light-headed, we continued down Saint-Honoré to the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz hotel. This is a good place to go if you feel like you’ve some money that’s weighing you down, and you want to purchase a €36 cocktail served in a long-stemmed crystal martini glass, garnished with a fresh orchid by a team of bartenders regularly ranked as best in the world. Disguise yourself as wealthier than you really are and go some night when there’ll be maximum potential for people-watching. If you’re lucky, you’ll get the bartenders on their own, and they can perform tricks for you with magic matchsticks, or mix up a cocktail according to your mood. Just don’t get drunk and challenge them to create something too strong for you to drink. These bartenders know what they’re doing. Continuing with the cocktail buzz, I remembered a bar on the other side of Pont Neuf I’d been to years ago. I first went to Le Kong for the cocktails, but felt comparatively shabby next to all the other customers. It’s a bar/restaurant on the top floor of the Kenzo headquarters overlooking the Seine, and not the cheapest place to try to drink yourself confident. In light of the location and décor, the drinks come relatively cheap, at around €20 a cocktail. Yes, in Paris this is to be expected. You can perch yourself at the luminous pink bar, or sit in one of their booths and get an Asian platter that’ll only set you back a tenner. There’s possibly even better people-watching to be done here – customers tend to the gaudier side of wealthy, in contrast to the comparatively conservative Hemingway Bar. After spending the afternoon sitting in Place des Vosges, then drinking a bottle of wine on the steps of the Sacré Coeur, we decided to go to Chartier for dinner. Originally devised as a no-nonsense restaurant chain where blue-collar workers could get high quality food at reasonable prices, it’s the last remaining of its kind. Built in the 19th century, it still looks exactly the same as it did when it was first created. No linen tablecloths here, waiters write your order and tot up your bill on disposable paper ones. The interior of the restaurant is still timelessly elegant – in typical brasserie style, mirrors line the walls, and decorative brass separates the booths. Arriving late, we had to queue, and were one of the last tables seated. This is probably advisable, as it gives you a bit more time to play

with the hundreds of little drawers on the wall beside your table. We ended up back in Saint Germain with Ken, looking for some jazz. He took us to Caveau des Oubliettes, just around the corner from the hyper-famous Caveau de la Huchette. Ken tells us you need to dish out up to €30 to get into la Huchette, and aren’t able to tell if it’s worth it until you’re actually inside. Since he’s in his second year of a real-life Parisian jazz college, we took his word for it. Caveau des Oubliettes is friendly and no-nonsense, unlike lots of jazz bars in Paris there’s no cover charge so long as you actually buy a drink. People know each other here – there are actual regulars as opposed to just tourists. While upstairs you have a bog-standard, grimy little bar, downstairs, beneath the arches of a former medieval torture chamber, you’ll find sweaty jam sessions and gigs on almost every night of the week. Though musicians on first-name terms sit dotted in the crowd, anyone is free to go up and play. We stayed until the very final song – the walls perspiring heavily at this stage -- then meandered back to our hotel, plaintively asking passers-by if any boulangeries were open yet. For our final day in Paris we wandered in the North-East, along the canal. There’s a strange similarity with Berlin in this part of town, perhaps reinforced through everything being slightly less expensive, and everyone seemingly more relaxed. I’d heard about Pink Flamingo, a pizza restaurant decorated like a kitschy jukebox love motel. If you fancy eating al fresco, they’ll give you a balloon and you can sit in the nearby park while you wait for your pizza to be delivered by bicycle. We went there for a beer (they have their own brand) while we waited for La Madonnita to open. La Madonnita is an Italian restaurant decorated with Virgin Mary icons and staffed by two skeletal, but cheerful, waitresses who should clearly be gorging themselves more on the ricotta tortellini. The evening ended in Point Éphémère, further

up the canal. It’s a mixture of restaurant, bar, art gallery, and music venue, which, at the outset, had not been meant to last. There’s not an awful lot of seating inside, so most people lounge by the canal. Immediately spilling my entire first pint, I shuffled back inside to find the bartender had seen what had happened and was already pulling me a free one. This probably isn’t something that regularly happens in Paris’s more up-market watering holes. Paris has an excess of the flamboyant and ostentatious. But even if you can’t afford a drink at its chi-chi bars, you can always grab a great bottle of wine, picnic in Tuileries or Luxemburg gardens, and you’d already be living the Parisian fantasy. ■

The perma-cool New York label DFA Twitter-quipped that Harold Camping was not so much wrong about his prediction that the Rapture was coming - his estimations were just three months off. This September sees the return of a band that even the bravest prophet might not have bet on resurfacing. After the departure of bassist/vocalist Matty B Safer, an expired major label deal, and even LCD Soundsystem, that other sturdy pillar of New York dancepunk, calling time on the erstwhile movement, it seemed like the Rapture were in apocalypse mode. INTERVIEW // Daniel Gray

The Rapture’s trajectory had always been erratic. Their earliest releases, Mirror and Out of the Races, On To The Tracks, were ice-cold, frantic pieces of post-punk revival-ry - 2003’s Echoes was an almost-perfect distillation of their broad range of influences, spearheaded by the ubiquitous House Of Jealous Lovers. The influence of the record reverberated for years afterwards. One album that seemed strangely bereft of the Echoes influence, however, was their follow-up, the Paul Epworth, Ewan Pearson, and Danger Mouse-produced Pieces of the People We Love. A glossy, party-orientated record which featured the disco-lit Get Myself Into It, and the the Beasties-posturing, clunker-laden Whoo Allright... Yeah Uh-Huh (sample lyric: ‘She said your allegory is far too blunt/I said this ain’t no laboratory, you’re the c*nt’), the album wasn’t necessarily bad - we’d just come to expect more. After five years of sparse gig schedules and break-ups, a DFAuploaded video surfaced of a freshly-cut, white-labelled record spinning on a turntable, with a new Rapture song, all housepiano, discordant sax, and distinctive shrieks, cut into its grooves. The good news? It’s the best thing they’ve ever released (even if

the pre-chorus is somewhat redolent of Sisqo’s Thong Song). The better news? You can catch it live at this year’s Electric Picnic. The best news? We talked to saxophonist and cowbell-specialist Gabe Andruzzi about escaping the end times. Is your How Deep Is Your Love going to become more definitive than the Bee Gees? I’m pretty sure. You might have to win over the karaoke demographic. I’m not sure we’ll do that, but we’ll see. The dude from Cassius produced the album, right? Yep, Phillipe Zdar produced it. There were three separate producers on Pieces, did it make more sense going back to one entity, like with Echoes? Yeah, it did. Pieces was really two different production teams. We were hesitant then about working with multiple people, and working with Danger Mouse felt like a vibe thing - we’d recorded

most of the record with Paul and Ewan... Danger Mouse was really enthusiastic, and we’d been talking about working together for a long time, but I don’t think he was necessarily the right man for the job. How was your major label experience? And what’s it like being back on DFA? The major label experience was... alright. It was working with a big corporation, that provides difficulties. It’s less personal at times, you’re working with people you have no affinity with sometimes. I feel like at a certain point when the company lost steam with Pieces of People, there was no way of getting it back. Around the world, there were definite perks to being major, but in the U.S., it really sucked. Oh? In the U.S. it really, really sucked. It was important for us to work with a partner in New York who we got on with - everything was being outsourced, our deal was primarily in the U.K. with Universal. The guy we signed with in America, Gary Gersh, is this kind of legendary A&R guy who worked with Capitol for a second, with the Beasties on XL, signed Nirvana, all this bullshit. He talked the talk, but when it came down to it was pretty selfserving. And then he just disappeared at one point, and the sublabel with Universal went under. It was us, the Mars Volta and Le Tigre... So we just started to work with DFA again recently. We recorded the album under our own steam. DFA came in after we’d finished it, and we wanted to work with them. DFA’s got some really strong points for being a really small company. The amount of clout DFA has is impressive for how small a label it is. They have a lot of love and respect around the world, you know. In America, they have great connections, but also, marketing a record takes way more people than it should. If you have some amount of success... it’s nitty-gritty stuff, but it takes up way too much of our time. Were you guys at the last LCD Soundsystem show? Yeah. It was great. It was a beautiful show. To me, at least, James [Murphy] seemed to make Madison Square Garden, which is a huge, huge place, seem really intimate. I pretty much knew everybody onstage - at one point I realized there was this woman onstage singing back-up who I’d met maybe 17 years ago when I was on tour with another band. The shows were on the one hand very professional, but still quite DIY. It really summed up LCD in a lot of ways. LCD ending is painted as this end of a generation thing. When you first came out, obviously New York was considered a big part of your identity even though you guys aren’t from New York. What’s going on there now musically, and do the Rapture still fit into that landscape? I have no idea what’s going on in New York right now. I do think of us as a New York band. We’ve been based here for maybe 12 years now, there’s only a handful of bands that are actually New York natives. We’re inspired by New York, moreso than anywhere else, but the difference is that when we started out there was only a handful of clubs and a handful of bands. The 90s was a really dead period for rock in New York. There was a couple of things going on, and you knew were they were happening - there were only four clubs, maybe, in Manhattan. Brooklyn now, as with the world over, well, neighbourhoods get gentrified, and there’s new clubs and boutiques and stuff, it’s exponential. I know from going out at night and being part of the nightlife to some extent that people of all ages still have a fondness for the band, and that’s always really nice. A 21 year old kid finds out you’re in the Rapture and they’re like ‘Ohhh shit, really?’. We haven’t been playing shows for maybe three and a half years, so that’s nice. I’m 22 by the way, and I fucking love the Rapture. What was the pull to New York back then, if it was a black hole? I’m not sure, you know. Other cities were getting boring. There was a strong underground in the 90s, and different cities would have their heyday. Vito and Luke, I think, were sick of the West Coast. They lived in Seattle for a while and fucking hated it, they were miserable there. For me, I grew up in D.C., and if I was going to

live in a big city in America, it might as well be New York. Why the fuck not? Were there any regrets about the last album? How Deep Is Your Love seems to break with the direction of it in that it’s got the noirish vibe you used to have? That’s interesting, I think everything on this album wasn’t exactly planned out. We tried out different things on the album. It’s really different to Pieces I think - Luke and Vito started the band, Luke saw it as his creative vehicle, he has a big personality and he was pushing it in a certain direction, but then when Matt joined the band he started singing, and he played bass in a way that nobody else they’d played with before did, that effected the way the band sounded as Matt became more aggressive and confident - he sung half the songs on Pieces. So that affected Luke - he thought he invited Matt into the band and he wanted him to sing, but at the same time

he wasn’t really cool with it, he wanted to be the singer. So there was this friction back and forth - they’re both really different creatively and intellectually. So this album is a lot different just because it’s the three of us, and I think a chunk of it is about Luke finding his footing again, and being very positive. So I wouldn’t say the subject matter of How Deep Is Your Love is very noirish, the feeling of it is more uplifting, but there’s definitely mood in the bass. What’s your favourite thing about the album? I’m just happy we got to make it. For me it was as much about the process and having confidence that we were a good band. We were all pushing ourselves to keep things in that excited ourselves. The Rapture play the Electric Picnic at some point between the 2nd and 4th of September.

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eda Beaux Reves is unstoppable. No matter how much you want her to just feck off she won’t. The word Drag Queen is used to describe her but it really doesn’t fit. Gender illusionist? Nope. Robotrannie man woman Queen? Not really. Vampire Robot Trans man woman? Getting there. Her look is striking, fierce, iconic, her music soulful electro pop (yes soulful), storytelling, honest and sincere. When the average gay thinks drag queen they probably think big boobs, caked on make-up and a gown that is 60 stories high. In some cases this is accurate. Not in Dublin though, where the calibre of Draggery is as high as any of the bastions of Drag

Culture, New York, Paris, Los Angeles. We punch well above our trannie weight (which is 8.5 stone if anyone’s asking). Veda literally is a work-a-holic, righteous, unforgiving man woman. Star’s Edge was Veda’s first album. From the album sleeve to the inlay card the package was a work of art. The music on there told her story but did it with fun and balls. Lines like “Fo, fo, fo Force it into a corset” or “He knows how to deal with my shit” made you listen with salivating desire. The Tranny Robot Mother Ship Veda is working fast and hard on her latest music mission to make an EP and with the help from Fundit.ie she will start selling it to real fans next month. It’s going to be a hard dance EP with four or five tracks. Those familiar with Star’s Edge will already know this next offering will be a ‘very beautiful artefact’. In the interim to keep Veda groupies on a life line she is releasing Murder on the Mind, her next single, which is available on iTunes from August 12th. Space ‘n’ Veda on Wednesday nights in the George is her own ‘self made man made boy/girl world’. It attracts that alternative art student type. The sullen but well dressed variety of gay and a gaggle of lesbians hankering for a grope of the sexy leggy lady. There is always a massively high quotient of boyish lads and even straight people cross the George border of a Wednesday. Veda herself has been accosted in the sexual sense countless times by lesbians who seem to believe there’s a chance. “I’d say I’ve had double maybe triple the amount of female approaches than I have had from men and if I’m fooling them then I’m winning because I’m fooling the professionals.” Veda has been through a few musical transformations from the early beginnings of Daddy’s Little Princess to Ladyface. She writes songs from the heart (which she keeps in a jar under her bed), about life, how it can shit all over you and the beauty of living. When you spend your life bending genders and evading definition you can meet with a lot of resistance. The Gay scene and community vies for acceptance, tolerance, and the celebration of difference. Sadly the same warriors of equality can be extreme and fascist ironically to anything that does not fit neatly into what is deemed “acceptable gay”. Gay men who seem heterosexual acting, gym buff men, girlie lesbians you all may pass the bridge into normality and acceptance, fatties, bottoms and trannies you must forever be dammed to the exclusionary limits of the scene. Veda is targeting transphobia head on and if you want to get a look at the goods go to www.vedamusiconline.com

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Laugh your pantis off Comedy is a rare and splendid thing. Rare in the fact that it is rarely brilliant and as such is often looked down upon by arty types. One liners and stand up acts aint poetry, is often the opinion of those nasty little know it alls in tight skinny jeans with massive glasses and jumpers that have about two miles too much wool in them. Well I think comedy is great, I think comedians are the bards and poets of the West. They observe culture and tell it like it is. From witty one liners to long involved stories building to a risky twist at the end comedy has all the elements and variations of poetry. Take the Japanese Haiku, very structured, strictly enforced syllable count and in many ways similar to a classic joke structure, introduce a common enough fact, subvert it and deliver a punch line. Stick to this format and you’ll certainly be popular with the kids. Old pond... A Frog Leaps in Water’s sound (Bashó) A beautiful filipino woman got on the Luas yesterday and sat in front of me. I kept thinking don’t get an erection, don’t get an erection. Then she did. (Anon) Comedy in Panti Bar every Sunday from 7-9, entry free, check out www.pantibar.com or http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-bear-abull-and-a-chicken-walk-into-a-bar

Drag Queens on you! Remember the Boom? When we all had money and could buy stuff? Exclusive stuff that no one else had and we all thought we really wanted or needed? The Birkin, Teletubbie Dolls, a three bed house, etc. Well now it’s not so booming and I pine for the days when a girl could get all excited over the next must have fad item, alas poor tamagotchi, I knew thee well. So you may understand my joy at Belong To’s latest effort to raise funds in an original fashion. Achtung Kindern, this is a Totally Dublin inside fashion tip that’s worth its weight in twinks! A very exclusive t-shirt campaign is in the development stages as we speak. Drag Genius Veda Beaux Reves has come to the rescue once again to raise moola for that noble youth group charity and breathe fresh air into the dull consumer less lives of the average gay. Get this, 54 t-shirts will be created, emblazoned on the front is your very

own Veda. Each shirt will be influenced by the essence and style of the drag queen plastered on the chest. When these T’s sell out, that’s it, you will never see ‘em again. Then it’s a good month or two before the next Drag Queen t-shirt is available, perhaps Shirley. Again it’s only 54 up for grabs and once they sell out, kiss ‘em good bye. 54 was chosen as that’s how many cards you get in a deck, life is a game after all and the money goes to Belong, too. Everyone’s a winner. Each t-shirt event will be hosted in a different venue and the queen on the shirt will be the hostess for that night. The icing on the cake is the first one will be in circulation in time for Christmas so get your wish list out, cut copy and paste it to facebook and let the t-shirt massacre begin. http://www.belongto.org/ www.vedamusiconline.com

Mad For Glasses Molloy and Dowling (MaD for Glasses) are two men who got knocked down by that all too familiar economic thingy that has the IMF over for tea every frigging Friday. Well they got back up and went to Market got knocked down and in true homo fight back fashion are on their way to round three. The business deals in vintage glasses. They stock some stylish frames of a very high quality and as vintage it has never been worn. If you are stuck for what to get your loved one for his/her next present a pair of sexy specs is hard to beat. On account of recession blowing their shop down for the moment you can buy frames and face scaffolding from here: http://www.facebook.com/MaDGlasses molloyanddowling@gmail.com

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The Old Jameson Distillery

GAA Museum

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

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

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. 8 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2

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

The Temple Bar

Teddy’s Ice-Cream

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 old city’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. 47 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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. 1a Windsor Terrace, Dún Laoghaire

IMMA 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

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The Signal Box â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clonsilla

The well preserved Clonsilla Signal Box is considered a landmark in Dublin 15. Composed of glazed timber above a red brick base, the signal box with its crossing gates and signals overlooks the picturesque rail line. Although the original structure was burned down in 1938, it was rebuilt and remains an important historical structure.

Swords Castle

The Beehives A thirteenth century castle complete with battlements, towers and centre courtyards lies just north of Dublin. The newly renovated Swords Castle with an adjoining chapel was previously the home of the Archbishop of Dublin, and it is the only fortified residence to survive today. Built over a period of 400 years, the buildings comprising the castle form a rough pentagon shape. Its arched ceilings, square towers and slit windows showcase its historic architecture. After the Church of Ireland sold the castle, the ownership passed through different families until it was purchased by the Fingal County Council in 1976. Since then, the council set to restore the structure to its former glory. Its efforts paid off when Swords Castle became the backdrop for the last series of the highly acclaimed show The Tudors. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the historic castle represented the first Siege of Boulogne, France in 1544. The castle is open for visitors Monday through Friday and admission is free.

The Beehives are an example of roadside art along the M1 Motorway in Ireland that were commissioned by local authorities by open competition. They consist of three corbelled beehives, inspired by the tale of the beekeeper St. Molach, along the Balbriggan bypass and were created by artists Robert McColgan and Irene Benner.

The Baily Lighthouse

The Baily Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the southeastern part of Howth Head in Dublin, Ireland, maintained by the Commissioners of Irish Lights. First built in 1667 by Sir Robert Reading, the lighthouse was the scene of a number of significant shipwrecks and still today serves as an automatic ship-warning station.

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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

The Temple Bar

The Long Hall

47 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

51 South Great George’s Street

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.

Surrounded on all sides by boom-era glass and concrete, The Long Hall is literally a slice of the old Dublin in its prime location on George’s Street. Befitting of the name, the further you tread down the red-carpeted lounge towards the back, the more distant and inconsequential the hustle and bustle of the city centre seems. Catering equally to both tourists and locals, The Ling Hall even earned an in-song shout-out from Bruce Springsteen during his last visit to the RDS.

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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

Madigan’s

Carr & O’Connell

16 Lower O’Connell Street

30 Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1

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.

Whether a business meeting, or simply meeting friends, the warm comfortable seated area at the heart of Carr & O’Connell is the perfect venue. Offering both an excellent food menu and range of cocktails on top of a selection of your favourite beers, Carr & O’Connell is also home to weekend DJs and a selection of big screens for sporting events - a little something for every patron.

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The International

The Palace Bar

23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2

27 Fleet 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.

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

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McDaids

Mulligans

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.

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.

3 Harry Street, Dublin 2

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8 Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2

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THE BANK WORDS // Oisín Murphy PHOTOGRAPH // Patrick Hough Anton is refused entry to The Bank on account of his obstreperous manner on (attempted) entry, his shoelaces dragging along the ground as he eyeballs the assembled, suited patrons, smoking outside the front entrance. “Mad posh place . . .” he mutters, spitting on the doorstep, as an ambulance passes by, squealing and drowning out the rest of his aggrieved protest. Converted from the old Hibernian building on College Green, The Bank is perhaps Dublin’s most architecturally imposing pub, the “History” section on its website proudly describing the upmarket venue as “a stunning example of mer-

chant power and patronage”, “a symbol of grandiose Victorian splendour” and, fictionally, “a monument to the enduring primacy of God and associated Capital”. An ISEQ stock-ticker behind the island bar is the solitary reminder to its customers of their being in the present, the historical significance of the architecture met with heedful table service, a fine cocktail menu and food served all day. There is a timeless quality to the place, ensconced in the iconography of affluence and sanitised indulgence, a pleasant experience had by, in the grand scheme of things, very few, though no less immediately enjoyable for it. It is busy, on a Tuesday night, with its patronage consisting, seemingly, of moneyed tourists and (moneyed) locals. I drink a mint julep, liquid flagstaff of

the Confederacy and its attendant oilwealth, and it is delicious. Megan has an elderflower martini, a Swedish twist on the classic cocktail, a delicate, insubstantial and pleasant drink more palatable to the pub’s clientele, one presumes, than the socialist-democratic politics of its mother country. The playlist shuffles quietly in the background, decanting familiar, easylistening hits (Snow Patrol, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, etc.) into the magnificent main room. It is as inoffensive as the entire premises is temperate (including the bathroom, which actually smells good and offers both soap and hand lotion above its sinks) and secure. This is, after all, a multi-award-winning pub, as the sandwich board outside the entrance proudly boasts. I continue with a Long Island Iced Tea, which seems perhaps less appropriate for nighttime consumption than its antecedent, though is still appropriately tasty and alcoholic (also the man who invented the drink was called Mr. Butts!). Megan orders a Margarita, a tart, pastel libation (of disputed origin) which borders on the acidic but she assures me is delicious. The experience of drinking in The Bank is no doubt pleasant, in a commercial and sterilised sort of way - there seems to be no chance of your conversation dovetailing with or being interrupted by someone else’s - the sort of gratifying comfort and space that comes at a price, within the walls of a bank excavated of its purpose (though perhaps now serving as a better area for investment than some of its financial counterparts have proved to be, though an equally appropriate place for one to have been, so to speak, fiddling while Rome burns) but not of its dramatic, symbolic aura. Stepping out into the streetlit and cloud-fallen night with designs on catching the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit double-bill on TV3, The Bank suddenly seems unreal by contrast with the outside city; the residue of Anton’s saliva now barely visible on the corner of the final step, the smokers departed. A complete spatial disassociation from its immediate surrounds, if you were to stay in there, you would hardly even know that he existed. The Bank 20 College Green Dublin 2 t: 01 677 0677

FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK WORDS // Zoe Jellicoe PHOTOGRAPH // Patrick Hough Rúta (also known as O’Byrne’s Beverage House) is the only official Irish supporter of the renegade St. Pauli football team. This is understandable – it goes part-in-parcel with the stress-free mind-set at this bar. We found ourselves inside its cosy, red-lit belly, one Saturday evening after an exhibition in the Curragh. From the outside (and, if you look, over the bar), one of the letters on its sign is faded, giving the impression that you’ve ambled into somewhere called Rua, with appropriately virulent red fairy lights strung up and gleaming over the polished oak bar. Of the normal taps you’d expect to find in bars there’s only Guinness and Smithwicks (best of the bunch really), but if you’re feeling more adventurous, there’s a great selection of some foreign brews. Rúta is a Lithuanian bar (its name apparently refers to some kind of Lithuanian flower), and stocks a selection of beer from that part of the world – Švyturys, from one of Lithuania’s oldest breweries, is on tap, alongside lager, red ale, and Weiss beer. They’ve also got Hendricks gin here, in all its cucumbery loveliness. We blearily reclined on their assortment of welcomingly scruffy furniture, and found a box of Jenga (mysteriously dubbed ‘Tumbling Blocks’). This happens to be our game of choice for casual drinking accompaniment – it’s relaxed enough that no one’s going to get into a big strop about anything, it’s loud and boisterous, and, as a game which requires

a certain degree of manual dexterity, it gets more tricky the more you drink. Perfect. The music was equally complimentary; ideal for the end-of-the-evening-pint we’d wanted. There’s nothing that’s going to go over anybody’s head here – it was the first (and hopefully not the last) time I’ve ever heard Murder She Wrote in a bar North of the equator. Rúta are working on getting more live music, and, while in the past they’ve had folk and rock gigs, the more dancey mix we heard leads one to believe that there’s a chance they might branch out in that direction a bit more. Staff and customers are both extremely friendly here. Even when you’ve been drinking for hours and everyone except you wants to get to bed. It’s a very mixed crowd, as you’d expect with something situated at the top of Capel Street. For somewhere that’s so very inner-city Dublin, this part of town often feels like one the city’s densest mixing pots. Thin Lizzy posters plaster the loos downstairs, and the bar itself looks typically Irish (except for all the fairy lights). The windows even still say O’Byrnes. But its been reconstituted: walls have been repainted, and bits of old lamps and disused televisions have been scattered around for good measure.

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Rúta 199 King St North Dublin 7

Clos de la Briderie

Howling Gale Ale

Brugse Zot

Walking East of the Pompidou Centre into the heart of the Marais, we decided to pick up a bottle to drink in Montmartre before heading to Grands Boulevards. We dropped into a likely looking wine shop, and after explaining our preferences in jumbled, three-person French, were presented with the Clos de la Briderie (2009), a wine from Val de Loire for €9.90. I’d offered to go up to twenty for something really special, but the shopkeeper insisted that this was one of the best wines he had in at the moment. After borrowing a bottle opener and plastic cups from our affable Parisian landlady, we took the metro to Sacré Coeur. The bottle mentioned the wine’s compatibility with mild cheeses, but a not-so-mild cheese hotdog from the narrow avenue of souvenir shops would have to do. Clos de la Briderie is richly coloured, an opaque garnet in appearance. On the nose it presents at first a predominantly dark berry, specifically blackcurrant aroma, with a final emphasis on spicy cardamom. After gulping some water to purge our mouths of the overpowering taste of the cheesy snack, the taste of the wine turned out not to be as strong as the smell. Still deliciously fruity, the wine side-steps any dryness or heaviness through its soft tannins. It’s slightly more alcoholic in smell, and on the tongue provides a well-balanced taste with a warm, round finish. This Touraine wine is a full-on fruity fiesta, which works well in the summer when you might want to avoid a more intense red. We finished the bottle easily, dodged some chancers trying to sell us friendship bracelets, and made our way to dinner. - ZJ

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6% De Halve Mann €2.79 330ml bottle in O’Brien’s

Cork-based brewers 8 Degrees liken Howling Gale Ale, their debut beer, to “a refreshing crisp smack around the gills” and they’re not exaggerating – this is an ale that really doesn’t pull its punches. Not as sweet or fizzy as you might expect from a pale ale, Howling Gale’s smell and initial taste are overwhelmingly that of hops. This hoppiness subsides and leaves a slightly astringent but ultimately fresh aftertaste that is distinctly grapefruity. The alcohol content doesn’t make its presence very well known, making for a very drinkable beer that you’ll want to follow up with a second. And probably a third. - JH

I was hoping that this beer would be as mischievous as the grinning jester on the label, but was mildly disappointed. Brugse Zot pours so golden it looks like a lager and sparkles very aggressively making a frothy head that goes flat pretty quickly. The smell is very fruity, mostly like apple, but this doesn’t really carry into the flavour. The honey taste is so sweet as to be almost overpowering – not surprising to see that the label lists sugar as one of the ingredients. Brugse Zot is second fermented in the bottle, which might account for its very strong alcohol flavours. This is nice as a first beer, but most people wouldn’t have more than one as the sugar could easily become sickening. - JH

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Let’s face it. Few of us can afford dinner at Dublin’s finest restaurants. But can we manage their fixed price lunches? Aoife McElwain continues on her quest to find the best value fine-dining experience in the city.

WORDS // Aoife McElwain PHOTOGRAPH // Patrick Hough

Ever thought of bringing a 12 week old baby to a Michelin-starred restaurant? I probably wouldn’t have either. Until I met Squeak. They say that babies are like farts in that you can just about tolerate your own. This doesn’t seem to adhere to myself and Squeak. I am of no blood relation to this little cutie yet I must confess to being utterly smitten. I had originally intended to have just her mother Jocelyn accompany me on my trip to L’Ecrivain but, we thought, that wouldn’t be very fair on Squeak now, would it? First things first, I had to suss out how this long-standing posh-nosh emporium would fly with us having a baby on board for lunch. So, I broached the idea when I rang to make the reservation. L’E: “Hello, L’Ecrivain, how may I help you?” TD: “Um, hello, yes, I’d like to book a table for lunch this Friday.” L’E: “Wonderful. And how many is that for?” TD: “Um...well...it’s for two...and a half. The half is...um...it’s a baby.”

L’E: “A baby?! Oh, how lovely!” We were in. And so it was on a Friday that us three ladies trotted off to L’Ecrivain for lunch, with emergency nappies in tow. We were greeted at the door, Squeak’s stroller given a nod of recognition by the lady who welcomed us in. L’Ecrivain is owned by Derry and SallyAnne Clarke, who’ve been hosting fancy lunches and dinners to discerning Dubliners for the last 22 years. The Michelin star status means the dinner prices are out of reach for the vast majority of us. So was lunch any more affordable? The restaurant does a fixed price lunch menu at €23.50 for three courses. As we perused our menus in the beautifully high-ceilinged and calm main room of L’Ecrivain, it became clear that almost two-thirds of the options had additional supplements of between €3 and €10. Still, we managed to have an exceedingly agreeable lunch by sticking somewhat within our €23.50 boundaries. For starters, Jocelyn had the chilled gazpacho while I went for the veal sweetbreads which came with a €5 supplement. Sweetbreads are the heart, belly and stomach of the calf: what is barbarous and vile to some is succulent and divine to others,

myself included. The sautéed gnocchi and the tomato terrine with purée set off this light and elegant yet old-school dish sublimely. Jocelyn’s Gazpacho was served with a side of fine dining theatrics. Her giant white plate was placed delicately before her. A few lonely looking croutons sat upon a few swirls of basil oil. One of our waiters appeared with a jug of the gazpacho which was gingerly poured over her dish while our eyes lit up. Even Squeak’s. Although I’m not quite sure if she can properly see yet. I think she liked the bright colours. For mains, I had the Clare Island salmon. “Boring!” I hear you say, but nay, it was lovely (and supplement free). It had that crispy skin that Torode and Wallace talk excitedly about on Masterchef UK. It sat upon a large tablespoon of perfectly cooked saffron risotto while a smattering of mussels and glowing broad beans took turns at wowing my taste buds. A glistening of gremolata - a garlic, parsley and lemon zest mixture - gave it a loving kick. Jocelyn went for the hake which did its €8 supplement proud, right down to the aesthetic of the dish. It was so very pretty with petit pois à la Francaise and farfalle pasta perfectly positioned around the piece of glorious fish as it sat glistening on the ginormous L’Ecrivain plate. For dessert, I had a seasonal panna cotta with gooseberry parfait, yogurt foam, and gooseberry and elderflower sorbet. It felt like eating the dreams of our childhood Irish summers, where the sun shone everyday. Jocelyn went for the white peach dessert, which was vanilla and balsamic ripple ice-cream with poached peach, crushed honeycomb and peach froth all bunged together in a large martini glass. A luscious grown-up sundae. The portions were a little small perhaps, but every mouthful was astonishingly designed. The staff’s treatment of Squeak and her mum was our lunch’s real cherry on the top. While Squeak may be a fallen angel on this earth, even angels get wind. When Squeak got a little, well, too squeaky, a senior member of the waiting staff (our youngest waiter told us she’d been with the restaurant for 15 years) took charge and let Jocelyn use one of the private rooms as a place to help the little babe chillax. Her and all of her colleagues were wonderful to us throughout. Our final bill for three courses each plus two bottles of still water and two coffees came to €87.64. That included a 12.5% gratuity but the staff were worth a lot more than that. We left what we could and promised to return for Squeak’s 18th birthday. No doubt L’Ecrivain will still be there providing its understated and subtle service to the lucky folk who find themselves in its dining rooms. L’Ecrivain 109A Lower Baggot Street Dublin 2 t: 01 661 1919

THE CHEESE PANTRY Words and picture Aoife McElwain

WORDS // Aoife McElwain PHOTOGRAPH // Patrick Hough

You may have noticed The Cheese Pantry in Drumcondra as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sat on the airport bus on your way to warmer and more affordable climes. It looks nice, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? My friend Fiona and I made a trip out to Drumcondra on the Number 3 to see if it lived up to its welcoming exterior. Fionaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family home is but a half hour walk away and her local friends had raved about the restaurant to her before our trip. A tip they gave her was to look out for The American Waitress, who was said to know her wines and have a charming dose of stateside service awareness. Imagine our joy when we were welcomed at the door by a friendly woman with a definitively American accent. We gave each other a sly thumbs up as she led us into the room. The Cheese Pantry is a cheese shop, a cafe and a restaurant. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been with us since 2007 in the premises that was the Youk-

stetter Pork Butchers featured in Joyceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ulysses. As you come through the front door, past the few seats outside under a generous canopy, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re greeted by walls of wines and chutneys, and your eye canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help itself but focus on the cheese fridge, which is also packed full of cheese-based desserts. Our American Waitress led us through a long, bright hallway, at the end of which we could see the naturally lit and bright dining room. We were there for the evening menu, where three courses are â&#x201A;Ź22 all night every night. The menu is local and seasonal, with a hefty choice to suit cheese lovers and cheese sceptics alike. For starters, Fiona went for the grilled asparagus, which was wrapped in pancetta and drizzled with a lemon and caper butter while I had the pressed ham hock persadille which came with a mesculan salad and piccalilli. Both were simple and straightforward, yet devoured with aplomb. Fiona kept it simple with the chargrilled Hereford 10oz rib-eye steak while I went for the roast barberie duck breast. Fiona had ordered her steak medium-rare and

although it arrived well on its way to medium-medium, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hide the fact that this was a quality piece of meat. I had a few mouthfuls and, being a crisp-loving gal, adored the pomme gaufrettes (a bit like posh crisps) while the accompanying garlic butter were more of a hit with Fiona. Our American Waitress had told me upon ordering my duck that it would arrive pink and would that be ok with me? I replied I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it any other way. Which is why when it arrived I was a little disappointed that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really very pink after all. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spoil my meal too much. One look at my empty plate after Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d scoffed the lot, including the accompanying herb mash, fine green beans and red onion marmalade, was testament to that. For dessert, we went for the smaller Three Cheese Board, which boasted a Wicklow blue, a brie and a pecorino alongside some grapes and oatcakes. Perhaps it was my duty to ask, but I would have liked our American Waitress to give us more information on the cheeses, it being The Cheese Pantry and all. Our bill came to â&#x201A;Ź88.75 which included a bottle of Cotes du Rhone, at â&#x201A;Ź23 one of the cheaper on the extensive list. A good choice by our American Waitress. I liked The Cheese Pantry very much. Simple, casual and enjoyable to hang out in. I would, however, like to see more provenance on the menu. The Cheese Pantry fit in to the category of small Irish businesses that have to work really bloody hard to survive. It would be great to see a list of their local suppliers on their menu. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small point that would make a passionate Irish food lover return to The Cheese Pantry again and again, taking place alongside the locals that no doubt feel blessed to have such a lovely little spot at their disposal. The Cheese Pantry 104 Upper Drumcondra Road Dublin 9 t: 01 797 8936

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TREAT YOUR MUM LIKE A QUEEN AT SABA THIS AUGUST

Saba on Clarendon Street has long been the place to go for deliciously fancy Thai food. But with prices a little steeper than your neighbourhood Thai take-away, their August three lunches for the price of two will help those of us striving to maintain our pre-tightened-beltbuckles lifestyle. If two diners go for the fixed price lunch menu - which is a rather decent three courses for €19.15 - the third diner in their party will eat for free. So where does your auld Ma come in then? Well, it just so happens that it is Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand’s birthday on the 12th of August. Because the Queen is seen as mother to all Thai people, her birthday is also celebrated as the nation’s Mother’s Day. So Saba have made the kindly suggestion of making your Mum the third diner and treating her to a free lunch. How sweet. To have a gander at Saba’s mouth-watering menus and for more information on their special summer deals, have a look at www.sabadublin.com.

PROHIBITION HENDRICK’S GIN TEAPOT AT THE EXCHEQUER

If you’re a gin lover, you’ll already be aware of the wonderment of pairing Hendrick’s gin with a slice of cucumber. The Exchequer have taken that delicious sophistication to the next level with the Prohibition-inspired Gin Teapot for Two (€16). The teapots are filled to the brim with a Hendrick’s gin, cucumber liquer and tonic concoction to be drunk in dainty matching teacups and shared between two. Have a look at The Exchequer website for their summer menu as well as more information about the Gin Teapot for Two (www.theexchequer.ie).

Food Blogger of the Month

Cheap Eats (www.cheapeats.ie) is a blog about eating well in Ireland without breaking the bank. Run by a group of goodvalue hunters led by Jean O’Brien and Peter McGuire, Cheap Eats highlights some of the best culinary deals in Dublin and beyond, including restaurant reviews and supermarket deals.

SHERIDAN’S CHEESEMONGERS

In my personal fight against those dull recession blues, I’ve discovered an unlikely ally in Irish-produced artisan cheese. Pop into Sheridan’s Cheesemongers South Anne Street shop and let the pong of cheeses waft over you like a giant, edible comfort blanket. They import from overseas but stock some of our nation’s best dairy and artisan meat products. Everything tastes awesome and by buying Irish you’re also supporting the local economy thus giving a triumphant two fingers up to the financial crisis. Cheese-wise, keep an eye out for the peculiar and utterly addictive taste of Louth’s Glebe Brethan cheese (www.glebebrethan.com) or Cork’s mature Coolea Farmhouse Cheese (www. cooleacheese.com). Sheridan’s also stock McCarthy of Kanturk’s black pudding (arguably the best in the country - it was served to the Queen of England and everything) and their North Cork pancetta (www.jackmccarthy.ie). They also stock Ed Hick’s Bacon Jam (http://www.hicks.ie). That’s right. Bacon. Jam. Just get down to Sheridan’s and support your local artisans. See www.sheridanscheesemongers.com for all further details on their nationwide shops and what delectable products you’ll find within their doors.

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WORDS AND PHOTOS // Aoife McElwain Niamh Healion and Fiona Fairbrother opened the doors of Soup Dragon at 168 Capel Street in 2000. Ten years on and they continue to serve delicious soups and stews alongside freshly baked goods, sandwiches, bagels and other delights. With their €3 soup deal - a choice of six to seven freshly made vegetarian soups plus bread and a piece of fruit to takeaway - they offer one of the best value lunches-on-the-go in the city centre. Oh, and did I mention all of their freshlybrewed coffees are €2 to take-away? Tell us about the history of Soup Dragon - how did it all begin? We worked together in a restaurant in Dublin and both expressed an interest in opening a business. Fiona had read an article on soup bars in London, and we both loved the concept so we took it from there. We went to London to do research and spent a year working on our business plan, brand and recipes. As former school teachers with only waitressing experience, it took a while to become confident in the kitchen. A lot of money was spent on cookery books initially but now all the recipes are 100% Niamh and Fiona’s. Tell us about your food ethos. There are soups of course, but what about your stews, sandwiches and baked goods? We use the best of local ingredients and absolutely everything is made in our little shop. We insist on the highest of standards in all areas. Niamh’s mother Mary has worked with us since day one and bakes all of our desserts, brown bread, scones and muffins daily. Our customers delight in getting one of her delicious goods straight out of the oven.

How have you adapted in the last few recession-influenced years? Since the recession hit we have really had to take a good look at all our suppliers and costings. But rather than compromise on quality we have managed to source quality ingredients at a reduced cost. From our landlady to our coffee supplier we have made savings which we can now pass on to our customers in the shape of our €3 soup and €2 coffee deals. What are some of the challenges facing small businesses in Dublin and Ireland at the moment? The cost of running a business is astronomical from water rates to a licence to the use of Dublin city drains to city rates... It’s so much more expensive to have a business in Dublin than elsewhere in Ireland. And there are no sign of the costs coming down. You have a €3 soup deal, which includes home-made bread and a piece of fruit. Whose decision was it to offer such a great value deal and what sparked it? Fiona’s husband and brother influenced the decision through hearing about the £1 dinner trend in England so we decided to offer a deal that was as cheap as bringing your own lunch to work. Do you guys ever eat soup anymore? You must be a little sick of it. We eat it everyday! We absolutely love it. Soup Dragon 168 Capel Street Dublin 1 01-8723277 www.soupdragon.com

Make it yourself Gazpacho Andaluz Serves 6 to 8 One cucumber 2 cans of plum tomato 2 cloves of garlic 2 roasted red peppers 2 tbsp of red wine vinegar 4 tbsp of olive oil 2 tbsp tomato puree Half tsp of dried chilli flakes One pint of chilled veg stock Roughly chop all ingredients and then blend in a food processor. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Chill in the fridge and serve cold, with a few sprigs of fresh mint on top.

Indigo & Cloth has always stocked an amazing collection of magazines - have magazines always been an obsession? What do you look for in a magazine, and did your background knowledge have a hand in creating Thread? It’s a strange one, I’m not that big into magazines myself. Lately I haven’t had the time to sit down and enjoy one, though the magazines stocked in the store help me stay creative as I’m quite visual and aesthetically-minded. Luckily for Indigo & Cloth, our customers love that they can pick up beautiful publications alongside the clothing.

THE RAG TRADE

Basement style oasis Indigo & Cloth has always offered fashion magazines and books alongside their clothing rails, a weird and wonderful collection filled with the unexpected (Apartamento and AnOther sit side by side with the sullenfaced, obese cover-boy of the Acne Paper). But this month an equally exciting addition joins the shelf; Thread, an Irish free magazine showcasing native style talent. The minds behind it? WunderStylist Aisling Farinella, Keith Nally of makeitwork design, and Indigo & Cloth’s own Garrett Pitcher. We talked to Garrett about the print adventure, and how it would never have got by without the help of some stylish friends. INTERVIEW // Roisín Kiberd

Fashion is such an odd one - you want to create art, to experiment. But on the other hand there’s the need to showcase a designer’s work. Do you ever feel conflicted about keeping the balance? I have never seen anything in life balance out perfectly. You answered your own question in the first sentence. The second part is the reason Ireland has so few credible and interesting publications; I see no conflict. In Thread, creative is left to be creative. Commercial is a different conversation and takes place after we have the best creative content possible. There is no commercial without creative. For a small nation, we’re fairly creatively loud, and it’s great to see Irish talent rounded up in print form in a magazine like Thread. Are you setting out to create something uniquely Irish, or is Thread aiming for international presence? Thread is both, but there is a leaning to being Irish first and foremost. I think we nailed that balance in our front cover image in Issue 1. We have an amazing wealth of Irish talent both here and abroad. Not only that, I believe we have a lot of talent yet to be encouraged out of the nest.

Similarly, is there a uniting theme to the magazine, or a signature style of any kind? Absolutely, we named the magazine Thread for two reasons; it is about clothing and the main reason was that there was a common thread throughout the people we featured. That was also the reason the theme of issue 1 was The Friends Issue. Our friends made issue 1 happen and hopefully will continue to work with us (Pretty Please??). Going back to the basics, where did the idea for Thread come from? Was this in the works a long time, or was it a spur of the moment idea? Was there an original defining concept? That’s the big question, and the answer is that I don’t really remember all the ins and outs of it. It was quite organic and happened primarily because the three founders (Garrett, Keith and Aisling) all knew each other and were thinking similarly. We also add three very different talents to it and it’s fair to say it would not have happened without all three of us and our friends. What says Irish fashion to you? Our current crop of designers seem so utterly different (Eilis Boyle and Una Burke, for instance!) that a uniquely ‘Irish style’ is quite a hard thing to define. The perfect magazine for Dublin right now is one that pushes traditional boundaries and sets new standards, and Thread will always have an Irish aspect. But where a designer is from is not that important, whether they are good or not is the question and I think we forget that Irish designers can be good designers. http://threadfashionmagazine.tumblr.com

Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992 Edited by Linda King and Elaine Sisson [Cork University Press] With the achievement of independence comes the need for a redefined identity. In Ireland, this is usually thought to have happened linguistically, at the hands of literary greats, but as Ireland, Design and Visual Culture sets out to show, postcolonial identity was shaped as much through imagery as it was wordsmithery. Smallish and text-heavy, this is no coffee table book - nor does the academic tone make for light reading. But covering everything from the expressionist set designs of early Peacock Theatre plays to the ‘cult of death’ exemplified by Catholic memorial cards, this collection of essays gives a compelling alternative perspective on twentieth-century Irish history. - RA

The Green Soccer Journal (Summer Edition) Biannual [Junior Junior Media] As much a reaction to the endemic shallowness of tabloid and TV punditry as a result of the continued middle-class gentrification of football, the flowery, deeply analytic style of soccer journalism promulgated by outlets like the Guardian and Run Of Play is in a healthy state of growth. That this style incorporates the playful and sometimes irreverent work of art and film journals and online music criticism, rather than the sensationalism of gossip columns, has gone a long way to keeping football as the go-to sport for even the artiest of individuals. The Green Soccer Journal is marketed towards the more aesthetically-concerned of football fans. Rather than the in-depth panegyrics of Jonathan Wilson’s (superior) magazine, the Blizzard, the Green takes some well-worn subject matter and presents it with exemplary design, presenting it almost in the language of fashion. But football’s not meant to be this pretty - some sloppy copy-editing, and a real lack of meat hamstring the magazine. Nevertheless, an exemplary interview with cover star Patrick Vieira and intriguing study of feminism in football with Sky Sports News’ Hayley McQueen make it worth a half-time tea-break flick. - DG

Jalouse Monthly [Les Editions Jalou] Jalouse is structured in a playful, tonguein-cheek way, composed of a bite-size show-and-tell-style news section, engaging fashion forecasts and shoots, and short, digestible features. It is the petite and perfectly formed macaroon of lightweight glossies. Its shoots are cinematic and sexy, but never fail to fall within the magazine’s gamine aesthetic – in terms of clothes, Marc Jacob’s Little Sister line and Miu Miu dominate, while most of the jewellery is sourced at Colette. Jalouse is cosmopolitan in a very particular, very Parisian kind of way. This isn’t a bad thing, in fact it’s inevitable for a relatively boutique publication, and it’s so well put together, and carried off in such a teasing, alluring way that most readers will be left deliciously sated. - ZJ

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Breakfast With Anglo Simon Kelly [Penguin] One particular claim to fame that Simon Kelly enjoys amongst the legions of other indebted property “developers” is that he was the first big developer to go bust and that he is sorry for it. This book provides first hand insight into the workings of the minds of the wheelers and dealers who fuelled Ireland’s economic bubble years. It is this first hand examination that differentiates this book from numerous journalistic approaches to the subject already published and the many more sure to follow. So in that sense, Breakfast With Anglo is a valuable artefact and somewhat enjoyable. However, throughout it is difficult to accept the supposed contrition of Kelly. It

comes across as one of those “I’m sorry if you’re offended” apologies as opposed to admission of any guilt for his time riding the credit wave. He’s only apologising for not getting away with it. As he freely admits “As a developer, I’d thought I was always right.” One particular chapter recounting his preferences for working on the statistical models he used to measure and the unease he felt visiting the sites of his buildings underlines just how much of a disconnect grew between the practice and profit margins. Having come from a heritage of boom-and-bust property men, it is really not to surprising that Kelly displays such an attitude. He who fails to learn from the past is destined to repeat it, etc, etc. - IL

Ocarina of Time 3D Nintendo – 3DS

LD - Leo Devlin JH - John Hyland

Even with a less than thrilling offering of titles at its launch, the 3DS was never going to go the same way as Nintendo’s now forgotten first foray into 3D, the Virtual Boy, but still had to prove itself as a worthwhile console. Ocarina of Time 3D is that proof. A shining example of how to truly remake a game, 1998’s Ocarina of Time has been made accessible and enjoyable for a new generation of players without abusing the original. Just like 13 years ago, Link sets out from Kokiri Forest on a quest to help Princess Zelda prevent Ganondorf from gaining control of the kingdom. His journey takes him back and forth across the intricate land of Hyrule and through time between his child and adult selves. OoT is still action adventure at its best: exploration, fighting, boss battles, puzzle-solving and mini-games balanced exquisitely and spread across distinct, exciting environments. Some of the updates are cosmetic, others functional, but all are extremely welcome. The most obvious changes are graphical: every texture has been lovingly redrawn and the characters look rounder and softer, but the 3D is the biggest step. The glasses-free 3D gives the impression of looking into a box in which all the action is happening in its

own space. Enemies don’t leap out of the screen, the effect is more subtle, rather the world is given a sense of depth that has to be seen to be understood. The practical updates are subtle, too, with menus being streamlined and added to the lower screen, the infamous iron boots being equipable with a button press instead of in the pause screen, colour-coded nudges in the right direction in the notorious Water Temple and motion-controlled aiming using the system’s gyroscope. The largest actual additions are an ability to replay boss fights in a challenge mode and a hint system in which Link can have “visions” of what to do next. Zelda purists can ignore these if they want, but it’s useful for those new to the series. This is a marathon of a game, taking over 20 hours to finish and when it’s done there’s the Master Quest: the same main story with harder dungeons. One of the best games ever has only gotten better, and Ocarina of Time 3D is a perfect reason to buy a 3DS. Unless you’re embarrassed telling your friends you play a game with fairies in it. - JH

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Alice: Madness Returns

Duke Nukem Forever

Proun

Spicy Horse – Xbox360, PS3, PC

3D Realms – PS3, Xbox360, PC

Joost van Dongen – PC

Decidedly dark, Madness Returns is a fantastically twisted imagining of Alice’s story after Wonderland. Ten years have passed since Alice has left an insane asylum and, on the cusp of a mental breakdown, she retreats into Wonderland – only to find it, and her sanity, at risk of destruction only she can stop. The gameplay is distinctively ‘90s – action platforming in linear levels with lots of collectables – so feels slightly dated. Cute as a kitten Alice may be, but she’s fierce, too, and this makes for fast-paced and entertaining battles. Blasting murderous teapots with a machine-gun-like pepper mill and then cracking giant crabs with a hobby horse is seriously satisfying, but the combat fails to really evolve. The thing that will most keep you playing is the pleasantly bonkers art style. The Wonderland of Alice’s shattered mind is at parts illuminated by the Aurora Borealis pouring from a spliff the moon is smoking, and then later littered with the still twitching bodies of dismembered fish-people. Beautiful and gruesome, this game is well worth playing but unfortunately at points feels stuck in the past. - JH

Duke Nukem Forever starts with players controlling Duke as he wees into a urinal, then picks poo out of a toilet and throws it across the room. This is for the most part representative of the level of wit and imagination that has gone into DNF over its twelve-year development. We can all enjoy a bit of faeces flinging, but with not a glimpse of solid gameplay to back it up it’s appalling that this is a full-price game. Nukem has to defend Las Vegas from hordes of aliens – politely turning up in pairs to avoid stressing the decrepit game engine – though an array of dated mechanics lifted from the last decade of FPSs. Rechargeable health, two weapon slots, on-rails machine gun sections and destructible cover all reek of hurriedly trying to catch up with the rest of the genre. The reference jokes are also struggling, and failing, to stay relevant (Olsen twins?!) and rarely raise a smile so much as a grimace. Ultimately this game is obnoxious and derivative and doesn’t even have “so-bad-it’s-good” appeal as it’s so horribly tedious. - JH

Ostensibly a racing game, Proun sees players not steering around corners, but rolling a white marble along a length of cable, about which they can rotate to avoid abstract shapes. It’s exhilarating, often dizzying, as towering geometric objects, arranged against the cable’s surface, whizz past in vibrant pastel bursts. The feeling is of diving headlong into a Kandinsky painting (one of the game’s inspirations), with motion suggested on canvas becoming actualised on screen. The developer is generously offering his game (at www.proun-game.com) on a ‘Pay What You Want’ system, for as little as €0.00. Unfortunately, though, despite the prospect of user-made tracks down the line, there’s a current paucity of levels in which to perfect your technique. But while its exacting mechanics and abstract style give a clinical air, Proun’s details - the jazzy soundtrack and warm colour saturation, the marble’s quiver as it collides with an imposing cuboid - communicate a strange humanity worth experiencing. - LD

Cell 211

Director: Daniel Monzon Talent: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines

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Director: David Yates Talent: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes The Harry Potter film franchise manages to end as weakly as it started, and persistently was for the last decade, with a big-budget abomination of Waterworld proportions (in two parts, no less!) saved, nay, consummated! commercially only by its predetermined market success as adaptation; we need not wonder why mainstream creativity in cinema is dying (evidenced by the dearth of original, non-adapted projects in the modern age) while gubbins like this is cleaning up at the box office. Its astounding commercial success should come as no surprise to an industry so deprived of surprise that “prequelising” well-received films is seen as a gamble of sorts. The stunted, shakily adapted script is acted out with utter disinterest and disassociation by a mixture of fine actors blithely disgracing themselves and the young trio of dunderheads whose negligible skills seem to have deteriorated as they have physically matured. Add to this a genuinely horrific shot of a bloodied Voldemort-foetus in the film’s closing stages, which is shocking only insofar as the surrounding film is so superficial and witlessly banal that such graphic imagery is unprecedented and, frankly, unwelcome. Its CGI is irritatingly sub-par, Ralph Fiennes’ performance as Voldemort hilariously borders on the homophobic, and the “19 Years Later” epilogue is literally one of the worst things ever filmed, along with the seventeen-and-a-half odd hours of this franchise, the length of which, in celluloid, with grace will be enough to circumnavigate the throat of late capitalism to self-asphyxiate in glorious 3-D. - OM

Cell 211 is the Spanish equivalent of the myriad This Is England cum Lock, Stock... hardcase British crime films, which affect contemplative, moral maturity while revelling in the violence they depict: by its nature, socially and societally abhorrent. Juan, prison security guard (Ammann), is being shown around his place of work in advance of his first working day (in plain clothes) before being knocked unconscious by a falling brick and, due to a preposterous sequence of events, ends up having to disguise himself as a prisoner to survive the full-scale riot which subsequently erupts. So accomplished is his ruse that he becomes a leading figure in the semi-organised unrest, cosying up to “Malamadre” (Tosar), the bald and scary man who serves as unofficial leader of the block. The prisoners are rioting over the illegal and immoral treatment they suffer at the hands of the guards/state, apparently, and the film dares to ask the question of whether it is the prisoners or the fat-cats who are the real violent criminals. If you like black velvet paintings, you’ll probably like this. - OM

Bobby Fischer Against The World

Director: Liz Garbus Talent: Bobby Fischer, Henry Kissinger, Garry Kasparov

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Both an exploration (however shallow) of the bizarre life of Bobby Fischer and a ballad to his greatness, Bobby Fischer Against The World is an unusual viewing experience, not because it feels like a TV documentary (it was produced by HBO) but because it retrospectively endorses the racist propaganda of US politics during the Cold War through the representation and non-engagement thereof. Henry “History’s Greatest Monster” Kissinger is one of the talking heads involved, while Garry Kasparov inadvertently dampens American hysteria as one of the only people interviewed who doesn’t refer to Fischer as “the greatest chess player of all time” while simultaneously actually being the greatest chess player of all time himself. Fischer makes for a fascinating character study, but the film never delves too deeply beneath the surface to truly unnerve or convey the gravity of his mental breakdown. - OM

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Horrid Henry

The utterly bewildering experience of watching The Tree of Life is one which defies everyday critical dissection. Like starting into James’ The Jolly Corner, hearing Grieg’s The Last Spring for the first time, or beholding the hellish casting of the bell in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, one is left bereft at the gulf of the mystical, before something which is distinctly more than the sum of its parts, whose means are beyond comprehension but fundamentally of affect. Malick’s latest film is a triumph: the most ambitious American film (along with Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York) in living memory, carving a subjective vision of childhood, of life as we know it, as universal truth, or something towards truth. There is nothing quite like it and there almost certainly never will be again. Much has been made of the film’s “Christianity”, with Malick’s contemplative religiousness echoing throughout the film’s more universal spirituality as a magnetic field of sorts, oscillating between faith and despair and, mostly, bewilderment. It is hard to imagine any other director attempting anything on a similar scale, or swooping towards the mystical with the same poise, as Malick. Genius. - OM

Horrid Henry is a children’s phenomenon with at least 14 million books, audio and paper, sold worldwide. A while back I saw the trailer of this piece of ‘Cinema Diabolique’ and wondered if there was someone I could sue to get those two minutes of my life back. Still, I thought, at least it’s over now! Of that there was no question. And then the email from our venerable editor came through. Henry, (Theo Stevenson) is not horrid. He is a complete and utter obnoxious little candy-coated shit, who tries and, (let’s ruin the ending), succeeds in saving his school from the evil Vic Van Wrinkle, played by a fast asleep Richard E Grant trying to play a wide-awake Johnny Depp. The King’s Speech it ain’t, but it is British and it does have a Girls Aloud member and every living washed up English actor in the credits, so there’s no doubt the collective media will bite. - SK

Director: Terrence Malick Talent: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn

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Director: Nick Moore Talent: Richard E Grant, Anjelica Houston

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It’s A Wonderful Life

Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) performs the dual function of (thinly-) veiled pro-Capital propaganda and (appropriately) heartwarming Christmastime family viewing staple. Presenting a basic conflict between Big Capitalism, represented by Mr. Potter, a fat and greedy landlord who exploits his poor tenants’ financial insecurity and traps them into lifetimes of debt; and Small Capitalism (disguised as a Socialist manifesto of sorts), represented by the suicidal George Bailey’s (Jimmy Stewart) sympathetic, small town building and loans company. George’s own financial problems mean he will have to forefeit his company, and thus the fates of his friends and townspeople, to Potter, to whom he is in severe debt, until he is bailed out by the collected savings of the community. George and Christmas are saved by this act, which performs an analgesic rather than comprehensive “curing” function, as the illusion of collective social parity and justice persists beneath the conservative reality of Capital’s primacy, the ghost of Horatio Alger happily present at the feast.

Wall Street

Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) suffers from similarly dissonant diegetic politics, allowing for Michael Douglas’ unscrupulous Gordon Gekko to be undone by his disgruntled apprentice, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), who utilises his skills as a stockbroker (through insider trading) to sabotage his mentor, after being betrayed by him on an emotional level. The film is preachy in a way that only an Oliver Stone film can be, whilst maintaining the confused narrative metaphor of “an eye for an eye” as a positive, Socialist solution with grand self-righteousness. Iconic though it may be, Wall Street is an abdication of the responsibility to examine the system it denigrates as something pervasively ideological, living and dying by the sword it refuses to acknowledge as real.

Avatar

(James Cameron, 2009) is the most expensive and highestgrossing film ever made and, as though to satisfy the weak pan-critical clichés of the armchair cinéaste, is as overblown, undercooked and mindless as any blockbuster that has come before it or since. Positing itself as a parable of humankind’s shortsighted greediness, our fictional lust for “Unobtanium” overriding any feelings of respect for the natural habitat of the massive and blue-yet-Africanised (still fictional) inhabitants of Pandora: the Na’vi, James Cameron presents a strained “come on, lads” plea for conservationism through clouds of ash and smoke wrought by explosions in glorious 3-D for the entertainment of the spectator, whose thoughts could only unwittingly slip into questioning whether the proceedings are slightly hypocritical or not before feeling slightly ridiculous: the thinker in repose, eyes dim behind La Forge-esque 3-D glasses.

DOLLA DOLLA BILL Y’ALL A Totally Dublin guide to money in films

WORDS // Oisín Murphy Film, perhaps more than any other art-form, is inextricably tied to the worlds of industry and finance. While the commercial rules of production have been bent in recent years, with the advent of digital technology and Youtube, the distribution of film and its wider media-critical industry remain, fundamentally, a money-game. What happens when the American cinema-machine, as a cultural apparatus loathe to acknowledge its own commerciality, makes films about Capital? (Warning: spoilers of old films herein).

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (2008), adapted from the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, is the sort of airtight criticism of human greed as exemplified by exploitative Capital that comes around (particularly in American cinema) only so often. A brutal and unflinching portrayal of the rise of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), an oil man and rugged individualist, in the untapped West of early 20th century America, the film dedicates itself to examining the chaotic and destructive nature of unrestricted enterprise, culminating in one of the finest and most shocking scenes in recent memory, in which the troubled preacher Eli (Paul Dano) is humiliated and beaten to death with a bowling pin (such significance!) by Plainview. Also he says “I drink your milkshake!” to him.

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Restaurant Guide

Ormond Wine Bar

Odessa

Kafka

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.

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 dinerstyle 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.

At Capel St Bridge, Dublin 1

14 Dame Court, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 7634 www.odessa.ie

t: 01 497 7057

t: 01 874 9778

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.

Citywide

www.eddierockets.ie

t: 01 808 4418 www.dublinskylonhotel.com

89 Upper Rathmines Road, Rathmines

t: 01 4979428 www.zenrestaurant.ie

Salamanca

Mexico to Rome

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

t: 01 6772727 f: 01 6774795 mexico2rome@hotmail.com www.salamanca.ie

Eden

Acapulco

7 South Great Georges Street, 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.

Acapulco is an authentic and colourful Mexican restaurant situated on South Great Georges Street. With an invigorating atmosphere and friendly staff, the memorable dining experience offers something out of the ordinary. Not only do they offer authentic Mexican cuisine, they also offer a wide range of desserts, including their deep fried ice cream, and drinks, including their famous margaritas. Open 7 days a week, Acapulco welcomes patrons for lunch or dinner specials.

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!

t: 01 677 1085 www.acapulco.ie

t: 01 888 0856 www.cafecarlo.net

1 St Andrew st, Dublin 2

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

t: 01 670 5372 www.edenrestaurant.ie

236 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6

23 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Dundrum Town Centre

t: 01 2964799 ek@teddys.ie

Café Carlo

The Counter

Havana Tapas Bar

Bang Restaurant

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.

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. With early bird discounts of up to 20% off, a Spanish language exchange on Wednesdays between 5 - 7pm, and Salsa lessons on Saturdays from 11pm - 1.30am, Havana has plenty of extracurricular reasons for a visit too.

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.

Suffolk Street/Dundrum Shopping Centre

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

South Great Georges Street, Dublin 1

t: 01 400 5990 www.havana.ie

11 Merrion Row, Dublin 2

t: 01 400 4229 www.bangrestaurant.com

The French Paradox

53 Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4 Since the opening in 2002, The French Paradox Wine Bar & Wine Shop have been dedicated to bringing the finest and freshest of produce from France and the Mediterranean right here to Ireland. With the simple philosophy of serving directly imported wines from family-owned wineries, and quality cured meats, cheeses, fish and pâtés in an environment reminiscent of those charming wine bars in France, The French Paradox is the perfect place to relax and indulge in delicious French tapas and exquisite wine. What is more, the restaurant offers the unique chance to taste the delectable wines and foods in the tasting room with the possibility of purchasing them in the shop downstairs.

www.thefrenchparadox.com t: 01 660 40 68

Oliviers at The Schoolhouse

La Maison Restaurant

2 Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

15 Castle Market, Dublin 2

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.

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.

www.lamaisonrestaurant.ie t: 01-6727258

www.oliviers.ie t: 01-6675014

Tante Zoe’s

Eataly

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.

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.

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

1 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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

t: 01 6794407 www.tantezoes.com

t: 01 857 1888

The Chili Club

Bloom Brasserie

11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4

174 Pembroke Rd.,Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Koishi

Salamanca

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.

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.

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 teriyaki beef is sensational. No wonder this eatery is frequented by foreign diplomats, embassy 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. Located beside the American embassy and a stone’s throw from Aviva and the RDS. Prices are customer friendly too.

1 Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2

www.bloombrasserie.ie t: 01 668 7170

t: 01 677 3721 info@chiliclub.ie

t: 01 668 8393

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

Seagrass

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.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Il Primo has abundant experience in serving rustic Italian food 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

16 Montague Street, Dublin 2

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

38 - 40 Parliament St, Dublin 2

3 Dawson St, Dublin 2

11 am to 11 pm 7 days a week

t: 01 671 8654 hello@thefarmfood.ie

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 www.seagrassdublin.com

classically trained, when it comes to engineering and production, I don’t have the terminology to describe anything. Ben’s great at interpreting abstract descriptions that I would give him.

BLEACHED BOY Ernest Greene began his Washed Out odyssey when he was fresh out of college in 2009 when his lo-fi tracks were thrown into the limelight by powerful American music blogs in the initial ripple of what came of to be known as chillwave. Influenced by J Dilla and Panda Bear, this wonky, woozy sound tapped the nostalgia of Polaroid photos and long summer days, kissed with tape hiss and sunshine. In a broad Georgia drawl Ernest spoke with Totally Dublin about the travails of making his first full-length release, Within and Without. INTERVIEW // Ian Lamont PHOTOGRAPH // Dan Wilton

Was this the first time you’d work ostensibly with another producer [Ben Allen] on your music? Definitely. And it was something I was a little skeptical about coming in. I started work on this new record around this time last year and from the beginning the songs were turning into much bigger sounding songs than before. My production skills just weren’t cutting it. And so, I’d met Ben before and reached out to him, luckily he had the time. You referred to yourself as being very stubborn and selfish about your music and not particularly good at sharing it. Exactly. I was worried that someone else would come in and clean things up to the point where they would take away the magic that was in those more raw recordings I had done. I basically recorded the songs to the best of my ability so they were probably 80% done, and I had a very strong idea of what I wanted them to sound like. We spent tons of time playing youtube videos for Ben referencing what sounds I wanted. Because I’m not

Your music constantly associated with summer time and beaches. For a record that comes out in the summer, when was it written and recorded initially? I started work around this time last year. I was experimenting with different sounds and trying to school myself on more traditional recording concepts. I didn’t start really writing until late summer and most of the fall, so to me, it’s more melancholy and feels more like autumn. I’d say it was a bit of strategy with putting the record out now because I think people really do associate my music with summer. How are you playing live? I assumed that it would be you with a laptop but a lot of the time it’s you playing with a drummer and bass player. Yeah, the line-up we have now is more of a rock set up. It’s a drummer and a bass player and a Rhodes keyboard and a couple of synthesizers, so it comes out sounding quite different from the records since we’re limited to a handful of keyboards and we up the tempo a little bit to make things a little more fun. To my ears it sounds more like cosmic disco – that’s the reference I’m using. So the transition from bedroom artist to semi-famous musician is complete now? It’s pretty odd looking back at how naïve I was starting out, its kind of ridiculous! Initially I didn’t want to do any shows. Because I think knew the attention was there and I knew it would probably be an utter disappointment to my fans! But it’s sort of a confidence thing. It’s kind of odd, I went from living at home with my parents to being a fulltime musician in the matter of a month or two, so I haven’t really looked back since. It’s pretty mindblowing! Washed Out plays the Grand Social on the 13th August. Read the full chat at www.totallydublin.ie

ARTSDESK

GO BUY: PRRINT Hailing from Palma de Mallorca, Prrint are a small team of crafters who specialise in one product: vintage prints on vintage books. The pages of outdated dictionaries, orthography books and other discarded literatures become adorned with intricate and colourful antique-inspired illustrations of owls and octopuses, anatomical studies, Victorian dresses, clocks, cameras and trinkets to transport you to another era in the most exquisite way. What’s more, at $8 (approx. €5.85), the Prrints are as affordable as they are desirable. http://www.etsy.com/shop/PRRINT

RUSHE IN A R.A.G.E. Loreana Rushe’s Manga-ish minefield of illustrations, prints and paintings were sold with lightning speed when she stuck them up on Fund:It last month. And though it’s now too late to bag yourself an artwork via the crowdfunding site, the money raised through this endeavour means you’ll be able to catch the works (with more where that came from) at Rushe’s first solo exhibition, ‘SoLo’, at R.A.G.E. this month. Alongside works produced for clients such as Fight Like Apes, Adebisi Shank, Dylan Haskins, Le Cool and Punt Magazine, the selfconfessed Japanophile will be presenting some photographic projects and new work produced specifically for the exhibition. Rushe to it. Catch it at: R.A.G.E., Fade Street, August 4th-13th. Launch party 6-8pm on the 4th. Also check out: Loreana’s blog over at http:// myleftventricle.wordpress.com/

DISAVOW 6 Rue du Pot de Fer, the Latino Quarter, Paris: a young George Orwell takes up residence here in 1928, just steps away from where Hemingway and Fitzgerald had lived not so long before. But far from finding the romance of la vie bohème, Orwell finds poverty and arduous long shifts potwashing in restaurants. His time in Paris, and his subsequent experience as a hobo in London, are chronicled with vivacity in his first full-length work Down and Out in Paris and London now regonised as one of the most poignant and accurate explorations of poverty and workers’ conditions in the Twentieth Century. It’s from the pages of this book, and the discussions it sparked between curators Enagh Farrell and Magda Marysia Wieckiewicz, that ‘Disavow’ began to materialise. An exhibition shifting Orwellian ideology to post-bailout Ireland, three young Irish artists - Ella Burke, Elaine Reynolds and Francis Wasser - will all present their own explorations of social phenomena, inertia, dogma and idealism through progressive mediums. Catch it at: The Joinery, August 17th-22nd. Opening reception 6-8pm on the 17th. Also check out: Participating artist Francis Wasser’s video mash-up of the words ‘Are you talking to me?’ for TateShots http://tiny.cc/1ix5g

LANDING ON LANDSCAPES For a subject matter that seems so neutral, the landscape has rarely been so. From the then-provocative Realism of the Barbizon School, whose ideals were developed against the backdrop of revolution in France 1848, to Georgia O’Keefe’s indirect penetrations of the human body, artists have always projected meaning onto the natural terrains that surround them. Some more recent interpretations of landscape can be found in two parallel exhibitions taking place at the Douglas Hyde Gallery this month. In the main space is ‘Interlude’, a collection of paintings from some of the leading names in Irish contemporary art (Michael Canning, Fergus Feehily, David Gobold, William McKeown and Elizabeth Magill all feature, amongst others), whilst experimental composer Richard Skelton will be presenting his sonic and textual response to the scenery of his native Northern England with ‘Landings’ in Gallery 2. Catch it at: Douglas Hyde Gallery, until August 29th Also check out: The screening of three Ingmar Bergman movies also being held in the Douglas Hyde this month, beginning with Summer Interlude on the 4th.

JAZZ

SWING IT SISTER WORDS // Ollie Dowling Jazz and swing music has had a very vibrant scene in the city for the last number of years, but there has been one for a longer time than that. Who can remember hearing and dancing to lots of jazz and swing music at the seminal Pink Elephant, Suesey Street and Hooray Henry clubs back in the mid 80’s, and of course the Lord John Jump Band session on Eden Quay was the place to be every Sunday. Another hotspot was the legendary sessions at the Cottonwood Cafe every weekend in the early 90’s, once compared to London’s Dingwalls club by the Irish Times, and then there was the ‘original’ Bluenote in Bedford Lane, which was a hot and sweaty jazz dive, if ever there was one. 1995 saw the emergence of ‘jazz pirate’ Jazz FM to Dublin’s airwaves. Cult listening was the swing show on Saturday mornings, hosted by American Jamie Furler before heading to his dance classes at the original 40’s swing night, The Cotton Club (launched in 2003) with the resident Herb

Live gigs July Tue 2nd Aug The Old Firm Casuals Whelans, €16.50, 8pm Rangers fans, sure to draw a strong crowd Nathaniel Rateliff Academy 2, €13.50, 7.30pm Veal cutlet to Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop

Dade (RIP) band, and classic 40’s music, movies, cocktails and moves. Jamie recently celebrated seven years of his Route 66 swing night at the Turk’s Head, he’s there every Wednesday, and has been teaching dance classes for ten years now, and lots more details can be found on www.boogiebeatswing.com. Another hard working lady of swing is Jessica Yates and her Monday night club at the Grand Social, called the Hep Cat Club, and on August 22nd, she celebrates her 6th Birthday bash, so expect cool Djs, top dancers and a few surprises too, and more news on Dublin’s swing scene can be got on their site www.dublindy.com. Let’s remember also the sterling work done by Sara Colohan of The Tassel Club, who really helped to get the (mirror) ball rolling in this town for swing and burlesque, before she headed to the bright lights of London town, and doing very well

Featuring Identity Parade, A Plastic Rose, Kid Karate The Riptide Movement Whelans, €10, 8pm Up for some old time boogie-woogie? Street Dogs The Grand Social, €16, 8pm Old skool Beantown punx

Wed 3rd Aug Sat 6th Aug Grimes + Catscars Upstairs in Whelans, €9, 8pm Rescheduled date for Canadian musical explorer The Dillinger Escape Plan The Academy, €20, 7.30pm Algebracore rockers This Nachez Workman’s Club, Free, 8pm Mixing Prodigy and Led Zeppelin worringly

Bell X1 Marlay Park, from €39.20 Juniper side project The Lost Weekend (Day 2) Crawdaddy, €10, 7.30pm Featuring Andrew Hozier Byrne, Fallen Rule and Reader’s Wives The Universal Whelans, €14, 8pm Scouse mods, la

Thu 4th Aug Feldberg Upstairs in Whelans, €8, 8pm With guests The Last Days of 1984 Fri 5th Aug Dan Deacon + Angkorwat The Button Factory, €20, 7.30pm Baltimore electronica guru Phantom First Friday The Academy, €13, 7.30pm Darling don’t you go and cut your hair

Mindfield Compilation CD Launch Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm Presented by the out-there Psychonavigation Records

Celebrate the release of their split 7 inch single

Sun 21st Aug

Fri 2nd Sep

Wed 17th Aug

Thur 11th Aug

Niwel Tsumbu The Globe Show, Liberty Hall, €15, 9pm Congolese ex-pat now local guitar guru

Taking Back Sunday The Academy, €25, 7.30pm Emocore legends

Electric Picnic Stradbally Hall, €240, all day See highlight

Tue 23rd Aug

Sat 3rd Sep

Kaiser Chiefs Olympia Theatre, €30, 8pm Vs. Orlando Pirates

Electric Picnic See highlight

Pugwash Whelans, €10, 8pm Cricket loving power poppers

Niwel Tsumbu The Globe Show, Liberty Hall, €15, 9pm

Fri 12th Aug

Shonen Knife Whelans, €14, 8pm Japanese punk legends!

The 4 Of Us Whelans, €16, 8pm Special acoustic gig by local stalwarts Well Enough Alone with Vincent Cross Upstairs In Whelans, €6, 8pm Playing in the bluegrass style The Original Rudeboys The Sugar Club, €13.50, 7.30pm Support from The Plagiarising Politegirls Sat 13th Aug John Spillane Whelans, €20, 8pm Popular singer-songwriter with special guests

Sun 7th Aug

Washed Out + Solar Bears The Grand Social, €15, 8pm Chillwave hero Sun 14th Aug

Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson

Thu 18th Aug

Jason Webley Upstairs in Whelans, €9, 8pm Seattle-based accordianista with Leanne Harte

Wed 10th Aug The Lost Weekend (Day 1) Crawdaddy, €10, 7.30pm

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Whelans, €10, 8pm Australian troubadours with Mescalito & Sons of Gingerbread

Downhill Academy 2, €10, 7.30pm All downhill from here

Bonnie Tyler National Concert Hall, €32.50/38.50, 8pm

for herself over there by all accounts. Another Monday night worth checking, is the weekly residency of the 18 member Hot House Big Band, and if you have never seen or heard the spectacle of big band jazz in action before, shimmy down to the Mercantile bar, Dame Street from 9pm and listen to the sounds of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and a whole lot more. Rumour has it, the same venue is starting a new jazz and swing session at the weekends, due to public demand, possibly in the Sing Sing (basement) area, and I will have more details in the next issue about that. So it’s fantastic to see the swing scene hopping at the moment with the great music, clothes and original drinks and cocktails that’s associated with it and long may it last, all we need now is an original 1930’s supper club in town...

Katie Kim / Laura Sheeran Whelans, €10, 8pm

Wed 24th Aug Fri 19th Aug

Brad Paisley Olympia Theatre, €44.20/49.20, 7.30pm The real Chris Gaines Niwel Tsumbu & Parish (feat. Donal Dineen) Button Factory, €tbc, 8pm One-off gig

India 9 Nine Crawdaddy, €5, 8pm Widescreen Dublin troupe

Electric Picnic, Stradbally Hall €240/99.50 (Sunday only), all day Sunday only day tickets available

Flogging Molly Olympia Theatre, €26, 8pm The Depaaaaahted.

Mon 5th Sep

Bring Me The Horizon The Academy, €25, 7.30pm Glue your MySpace fringe to your face

Sat 20th Aug Fri 26th Aug Ian McLagan Whelans, €15, 8pm Former Face, both Small and regular plays solo show The Former Soviet Republic Upstairs in Whelans, €tbc, 8pm Post-rock tinged indie

Sun 4th Sep

Q-Tip The Button Factory, €33, 7.30pm Legendary rapper with a live band

Thu 25th Aug Paddy Usher Workman’s Club, €10, 8pm Has featured on Midlands Radio

Lumiere Whelans, €14, 8pm Eilis Kennedy and Paulin Scanlon bring their voices together

Legend The Academy, €15, 11.15pm Marley tribute night Thu 1st Sep The Civil Wars The Sugar Club, €13.50, 7.30pm

Owl City The Academy, €21.50, 7.30pm Like UPS, ripping off the Postal Service Wed 7th Sep Brian Wilson Grand Canal Theatre, €61.80, 7pm The bonkers genius of the Beach Boys Fri 9th Sep Junip Whelans, €20, 7.30pm Rescheduled show for Jose Gonzales’ old charges

ELECTRIC PICNIC

Stradbally, Co.Laois, 2-4 September At this stage of the Electric Picnic's evolution, the line-up barely matters. Where Oxegen tends to attract the very dregs of humanity amongst the die-hard music fans willing to risk trenchfoot and hot dog poisoning, you'll find the very salt of the earth in Stradbally at the end of every summer no matter who's on the bill. Nevertheless, Flying Lotus's long-awaited debut, the return of Beirut, and big hitters Arcade Fire, Pulp, and PJ Harvery are at the top of our checklist though if you haven't embraced the artsier elements of the festival before, this is your year to branch out. And, despite having its very own mini-festival now, the Body and Soul arena is still the only hemp-hewn haven you'll ever want to stumble into wide-eyed and directionless at 3 in the morning. See you there.

Jazz August Sundays Kevin Morrow Trio Hampton Hotel, Donnybrook, D4 12.30pm, Free Rebecca Sinnamon Quartet The Gibson Hotel, The Point Village, D1 12.30pm, Free

Pacino’s (Cellar bar), Suffolk St. D2. July 3rd Rhythm Method July 10th Petra Odlozilikova 6.30pm, Free Globetrotter Quartet Shebeen Chic, South Great Georges St. 10.30pm, Free

Aug 9th Peter Dobai’s Kavorka Aug 16th Scott Kohlmann Group Aug 23rd ZoiD Vs Dorata Konczewska and ReDiviDeR Aug 30th Turrisi/Erdei/O’Donovan and Dennis Wyers’ Rhombus 8pm, Free

Tuesdays

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

Fridays Brasserie Le Pont, 28 Fitzwilliam Place, D2 5.30pm

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

Wednesdays Mondays

Rebecca Sinnamon Duo The Bank Bar, College Green, D2 6pm, Free Zinc Jazz Club

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

Thursdays

The Jazz Kitchen The Grand Social, Lwr.Liffey Str. Every Tuesday (2 Bands nightly) Aug 2nd Riona Sally Hartman and Mathew Halpin Trio

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

David Tobin – Debut Concert NCH, John Field Room, €15, 8 p.m. National prizewinner, 16-year-old violinist presents an event to raise funds for Barretstown children’s charity.

Tue 16th Aug

Sun 21st Aug

RTE Summer Lunchtime Concert Series NCH, €10, 1:05 p.m. Featuring music of Bill Whelan’s Riverdance

Irish Youth Wind Ensemble NCH, €15, 8 p.m. Ensemble of over 60 brass, woodwind and percussion musicians

Thu 11th Aug

Fri 19th Aug

A Latin American Night To Remember NCH, €20, 8pm Featuring Paraguayan Harp music and much more

Latin Recital by Classico Latino NCH, John Field Room, €15, 1:05 p.m. Mixes traditional Latin-American melodies with classical techniques

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

Isotope JJ Smyths, Aungier St., 9pm, € 8

Classical August Tue 2nd Aug RTE Summer Lunchtime Concert Series NCH, €10, 1:05 p.m. Featuring “Danny Boy” and Sullivan’s “Yeomen of the Guard” overture Fri 5th Aug / Sat 6th Aug Casablanca: live screening with RTE Concert Orchestra NCH, €25-40, 8 p.m. Here’s looking at you, kid

Tue 23rd Aug Fri 12th / Sat 13th Aug

Fri 19th Aug

Singin’ in the Rain: Concert performance with RTE Concert Orchestra NCH, €15-40, 8 p.m. First Irish concert performance of the original film score

RTE Concert Orchestra: The Very Best of Mantovani NCH, €10-38, 8 p.m. Including Mantovani’s “Night & Day” and “Charmaine”

Sat 6th Aug Trio Time National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Room €7.50, 10.30am, 11.20am, 12.10pm Three workshops from budding maestros Tue 9th Aug

Sat 13th Aug

Sat 20th Aug

RTE Summer Lunchtime Concert Series NCH, €10, 1:05 p.m. Featuring music of Mozart and Strauss

Trio Time NCH, Kevin Barry Room €7.50, 10.30am, 11.20am, 12.10pm Three workshops from budding maestros

Tue 9th Aug

Tango Extremo meets Piazolla NCH, Kevin Barry Room, €15, 8.30pm Features Argentina tango and music of Astor Piazolla

RTE Summer Lunchtime Concert Series NCH, €10, 1:05 p.m. Featuring soprano Colette Boushell

Performing contemporary electronic works and improvisation

Mon 29th Aug An Evening With Cara O’Sullivan NCH, John Field Room, €25, 8pm Celebrated Cork soprano shares songs and stories

Tue 30th Aug A Flanders and Swann Tribute NCH, John Field Room, €15, 1.05pm Featuring Jack Morrissey and Brian McIvor The John Williams Collection NCH, €22-38, 8pm RTÉ Concert Orchestra plays the music of world famous film composer Sat 27th Aug

Thu 25th Aug The Irish Composer’s Collective Presents ‘The Laptop Ensemble’ NCH, Kevin Barry Room, €10, 8:30 p.m.

The Philadelphia Orchestra NCH, €40-85, 8pm A visiting performance from one of the world’s leading orchestras

Fri 26th Aug

Wed 24th Aug Meitheal Orchestra NCH, €15, 1.05pm Young trad musicians from Meitheal Summer School

A family trad show

Trio Time NCH, Kevin Barry Room €7.50, 10.30am, 11.20am, 12.10pm Three workshops from budding maestros The Session NCH, John Field Room €7.50, 10.30am & 12.15pm

RTÉ Concert Orchestra NCH, €10, 1.05pm Summer concert series, featuring music of Gershwin & Bernstein

Clubbing weekly August 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 Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 DJ Alley King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free 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 Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm

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 Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative. 8.30pm - 11.30pm. Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free 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 Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free

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

Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B

Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer

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

Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6

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

Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5 Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free Oldies but Goldies Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free Austin Carter + Company B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Piss-up with Peaches The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less, 3 Jagerbombs for €10

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 DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Andy Preston (FM104) 11pm, €5 Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5

Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop

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

Wednesdays

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

Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year. 9pm, Free Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/ rock/alt/hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, Free Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5 Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free 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 Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free First Taste Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2 A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar 7pm, Free

John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am

Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm

DJ Keith P

Space ‘N’ Veda

Tuesdays

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, 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 Strangeways Here We Come The Lost Society, South William St., D2 Dubstep and clubstep, 11pm Thursdays Sounds@Solas Solas, Wexford St, D2 9pm-1am, Free Soul @ Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond. International guests too! 8pm, Free CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer 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 St, 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 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 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

A new night of Fashion, Beauty, Shopping and Drinks in association with Style Nation and sponsored by Smirnoff. 7pm, Free The Odeon Movie Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Classic Movies on the Big Screen at 8pm. Full waiter service and cocktails from €5. 8pm, Free Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5 Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5 Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free Fridays 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

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

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

Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm

Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm

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

Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free

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

Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the weekend! 8pm, Free

Chewn Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Mincey indie music 11pm, €5

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.

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

Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2

DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat, 9pm, Free Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics, Free Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm Late Night Fridays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Social Club & Choice Cuts, 11pm War Andrew’s Lane Theatre Indie, Electro and Pop 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10 Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart , 9pm Fridays 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

Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free Frat Fridays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen 10pm John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Funky Friday and music mayhem Free, 11pm

Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Rock n Roll with Rory Montae in the bar while Aoife Nicanna and Marina play House and Latino Breaks and Beats in the club 10pm, Free Basement Traxx Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Freestyle club with DJ’s Half Dutch and Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, ska, reggae and party nuggets 10pm, Free Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 With DJ Mikki Dee 10pm, Free DJ Barry Dunne Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm 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 Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre 11pm, €TBC Saturdays

Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without

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

Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free

Konstrukt The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Eamonn Barrett. Indie/Electro/Party Anthems., 10pm Propaganda The Academy, Middle Abbey St. D2 British indie disco conglomerate 11pm, €5

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)

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

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

Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aidan Kelly does his thing. Expect the unexpected. 8pm, Free

Room Service

A Jam Named Saturday

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 Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, Andrews Lane, D2 11pm, €10 KISS Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Keep It Sexy Saturdays with DJ Robbie Dunbar 10pm, Free before 11pm, €8 after

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

The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta 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

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

Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics

Music with Words The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free

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

Saturday @ The Wright Venue The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance Punch The Good Bits Indie/Disco in one room and Techno/House and Electro in the main room 11pm, €2 between 11-11:30

Banquet

Tripod, Saturdays This feast of indie, hip-hop and 90s nostalgia in Tripod comes for free for anybody arriving before midnight during August, so get your pre-drinks out of the way quicker. Saturday with Resident DJ Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Chart, Dance and R&B 10:30PM, €15/€12 with flyer

Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free

Viva! Saturdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Retro club with house, electro and 80s 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

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

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

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 AAA 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

Saturdays @ 4 Dame Lane 4 Dame Lane, D2 Goldy mixes beats/breaks/hip hop and funk in the bar and Gaviscon plays everything under the sun in the club 10pm, Free Eardrum Buzz Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 House party vibes with Thatboytim playing mix of dance floor classics with of hip hop, reggae, ska, rock, electro and teenage memories. 10pm, Free DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

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

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

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

Saturdays @ Purty Loft Purty Loft Nightclub, Dun Laoghaire Funky House & RnB DJs, 10pm, €10

Wes Darcy Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2, 9pm

Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC

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

Ragin’ Full On The Button Factory Everything from Thin Lizzy to Wu Tang Clan, Van Halen, The Damned & Prince. 8pm, Free

Strictly Handbag Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 80s with DJ Mark Kelly , 10pm, €10

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

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

Sundays

Sidesteppin’ Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free

Jitterbop The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 DJ Oona Fortune. Rockabilly/Swinging Sounds. 8pm - 11pm. (2.30am on bank holidays)

Saturday @ The Village

The Matinee Brunch Club

Ear Candy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Disco tunes and Funk Classics to finish the weekend. 8pm, Free

The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free Sundown Bia Bar, Lwr. Stephen’s St., D2 Chill-out house, funk, electronics and acoustic 10pm, Free The Latin Beat The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland. Classes from 6pm, club from 8pm - late, Free Dancehall Styles The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style 11pm, €5 The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm 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. Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret show 9pm, Free before 11pm 12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 6pm – 12am, Free DJ Karen The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Pop Commercial and Funky House Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without The George Bingo with Shirley Temple Bar The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc & Latin 8pm, Free 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 August Friday 5 August Julio Bashmore, DJ Tu-Ki The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €10 UK-based house DJ Julio Bashmore burst into the music scene in late 2009 after growing up with an interest in electric music. Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 Big bass sounds with an afro groove! Afrobass regulars Leroy Culture and MC LittleTree are joined by special guest Nic James 9pm-3am Bizarro 2.0 – The Jack Lab South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 House music research! DJ Fassman + guests Saturday 6 August Handsome Paddy The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Formerly DJ Fonetik, Dublin-based DJ Handsome Paddy mixes everything from ‘80s and ‘90s hip-hop to dubstep. Mike Dehnert, Boxcutter, Barry Redsetta The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €12 Experimental, house, techno DJ and founder of Fachwerk Records Mike Dehnert brings his mixes for a one-time stint in Dublin before heading to London and New York City. Metrotek Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 The Berlin/Dublin based producers come back to Pygmalion to raise the roof one more time. Free in & Open Late Fever South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2

Presented by Bill Scurry 9pm-3am Sunday 7 August Tom Beary & Conor L The Bernard Shaw, 16:00, free Influenced by Marvin Gaye, Theo Parrish and DJ Spinna, Dublin-based DJ Tom Beary mixes reggae, soul, funk, house and disco beats. Thursday 11 August Howes / Spontaneous Rhythm The Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m., free Disco House, techno DJ John Howes brings his electro sounds to Dublin from the UK. Friday 12 August Rockwell, Spectrum The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €10 Thomas Green, a.k.a. DJ Rockwell, pays attention to detail and arranges each drum and bass tracks to perfection. Family South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 Salacious and friends 9pm-3am Saturday 13 August Mark E, Laser Tom and the Blast Crew The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €12 The enigmatic Laser Tom and the Blast Crew is all about experimenting with disco grooves and electrofunk. Pow Wow South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 Featuring DJs Mark Kelly and Brian Cuddy 9pm-3am

Sure Shot South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 Featuring DJs Jazzbin and Matjazz spinning Funk Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dub, Samba, Tropical and more 11pm-3am Thursday 18 August Westway Flyover The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €8 This collective group of DJs mix everything from kuduro, dancehall and garage.

Wicklow St., D2

Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9 Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5

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

Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10 Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5 Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe

Funk 45s South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 Dublin’s top DJs/record collectors battle it out once again for the ‘45 King’ title 8pm-12am Friday 26 August

The Scientist and DJ Click The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €12 The Scientist is a protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), one of the originators of dub music. DJ Click’s mixes reveal a range of Mediterranean music, flamenco, and techno for a universal sound.

Jackmaster, Egyptrixx and Space Dimension Controller The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €15 “Back through time with a mission of groove,” Space Dimension Controller (a.k.a. Jack Hamill) brings his quirky mix of futuristic house music to the Twisted Pepper. Saturday 27 August

Saturday 20 August Henrik Schwarz, Merchantsville and more The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €15 Germany-based DJ and producer Henrik Schwarz (a.k.a. Rikputin) is a veteran of the German deep house scene. He takes his house, jazz, techno live sets and nine years of experience to crowds worldwide. Emil Damyanov & Matjazz South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 9pm-3am

Perc, Bluestack Records, Sidetracked and more The Twisted Pepper, 22:30, €12 UK DJ Perc has traveled all over Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South Africa and Japan with his electronic/ house mixes. Filthy! South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 With DJs Mark Kelly & Mark Alton 10pm-3am

Audio Sunshine South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 With King T + guests 10pm-3am

Noah & the Tower Flower

Treasure Island

South Great George’s St., D2

More than thirty years since it was first produced, “Translations” is now regarded as one of Brian Friel’s modern masterpiece. Subtle and resonant, it’s a political drama, an historical tale, a funny and clever play on language and a tender love story. The Abbey Theatre, June 23rd-August 13th, 7:30pm, €13-40

A comic love story about two Dubliners, Noah and Natalie, struggling to leave their pasts behind as they begin to fall in love. The Civic Theatre, September 2nd-3rd, 8pm, €12

Ballet Ireland’s Annual Summer School comes to Pavilion Theatre for the first time with a voyage of excitement and discovery as we embark on a fun filled week of workshops, encompassing art, mime, drama and dance, with a performance onstage as a finale. The Pavilion Theatre, August 22nd-26th, Older: 11am-1pm, Younger: 2-4pm, €90

Comedy once-offs

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

Cock Tales (men in the raw) International Bar 1st August, 6:45 p.m., €8-10

Curse of the Starving Class

Jack Wise Anseo 3rd August, 9 p.m., €8

A tragic play about a family who are all hungry for a better life, but can’t escape the cycle of violence and desperation in which they’ve become trapped. The Abbey Theatre, August 23rd-September 10th, 7:30pm, €13-40

Camden St., D2

Trinity St., D2 Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10 Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10

Take a visit from the creator of one of the year’s finest electronic albums (Mark E), the debut show from a highly-hyped 18 year old (Moths), a journey into the cosmos with Laser Tom and the Blast Crew, and an unexpected house set from one of Dublin’s most established musicians (David Kitt), and you’ve got one night in Twisted Pepper it would be inexcusable to miss.

Translations

Parnell Street, D1

The Bankers

Twisted Pepper, €12/10, 13th August

Shebeen Chic

The Wool Shed Baa & Grill

Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian 8.30pm, €5/€7

HSSH Presents...

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

Anseo Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/€10

Thursday 25th August

Friday 19 August

Comedy August The International

Mr. Whippy Soundsystem South William, 52 Sth William St, Dublin 2 9pm-3am

Joe Rooney, Niamh Marron International Bar 3rd August, 9:30 p.m., €10 Jack Wise & guests The Laughter Lounge 5th August, 8:30 p.m., €26 Simon O’Keefe Anseo 10th August, 9 p.m., €8

It Only Ever Happens in the Movies… Derek knows love is in the air and he’d rather not spend another summer unkissed or unloved. The one thing, the only thing that Derek has going for him is that he’s mildly inventive, and he has just come up with a plan! The Abbey Theatre, August 22nd-August 27th, 8pm, €25 Bedbound

Lenny Henry Olympia Theatre 15th August, 7 p.m., €31.50 Michael Mee Anseo 17th August, 9 p.m., €8

Bedbound runs at fever pitch, an exhilarating, violent and tragic interrogation of relentless ambition, pride and the price of success. The New Theatre, August 8th-September 10th, 8pm, €15/12

Riverdance Of all the performances to emerge from Ireland in the past decade, nothing has carried the energy, the sensuality, and the spectacle of Riverdance—truly a global phenomenon. Gaiety Theatre, June 28th-August 28th, 7:30pm, €20-55 Hay Fever A hilarious comedy of deliciously bad manners, Hay Fever introduces you to the eccentric Bliss family: a star actress mother, a self-absorbed novelist father and their two grown-up children, for whom all the world, literally, is a stage. The Gate Theatre, August 2nd-September 24th, 7:30pm, €20-35 All That Fall A multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score, but that gains from being experienced in Pan Pan’s uniquely atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber. Project Arts Centre, August 22nd-September 2nd, 6&8pm, €15/10

Grease Grease is the word in Dublin! Dust off your leather jackets, pull on your bobby-socks and take a trip to a simpler time as “bad boy” Danny and “the girl next door” Sandy fall in love all over again.” The Grand Canal Theatre, August 9th-27th, 7:30pm, €25-55 The Wizard of Oz Join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin-Man and Lion on their action packed adventures in Oz as they follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. The Helix, August 9th-13th, 7:30pm, €15/50 family

Visual Art August Alliance Francaise Sommes-nous? ‘Sommes-Nous ?’ (‘Are We?’), Is an intimate chronicle, the fruit of a common reflection, a concerned look focused on our time. Tendance Floue continues the questioning began in his previous works, with a new perspective and new respect. 1 Kildare Street, D2 , July 1 - September 9 Chester Beatty Library 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. Dublin Castle, D8 , May 26 – September 25

tions and whose photographs are represented in major collections worldwide. This exhibition explores a particular strand of international practice, showcasing what can be called ‘slow’ or ‘considered’ photography. This has come about in response to the increasingly throwaway nature of photographic images in the digital world. In contrast, the images in The Long View were made as part of a sustained process of engagement over periods of months or even years. Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, D2 , July 1 - August 28 Gormley’s Fine Art ‘A Passing Thought’ by Owen Rohu Owen Rohu presents a new body of work of his renowned still life paintings in our forthcoming show this August. ‘A Passing Thought’ represent unusual displays of still life and a play with everyday objects in how we view them. 24 South Fredrick Street, D2 , August 15 – September 8 Graphic Studio Gallery

The Doorway Gallery Forty Four An exhibition of new paintings by Nick Munier. 24 South Frederick St, D2 , August 4 - 25

Summer Show A variety of prints from members and gallery artists. Temple Bar, D2, July 7 – August 18

Douglas Hyde Gallery

Green on Red Gallery

Interlude: Aspects of Irish Landscape Painting This exhibition - the first such show to take place at the Douglas Hyde Gallery since 1990 - is an informal gathering of Irish paintings that have been inspired, in various ways, by landscape. Intended to have an air of lightness and ease, it is also a reflection of darker, more ambiguous, moods and currents in the world. July 22 – August 29

Arrangements - Caroline McCarthy McCarthy has consistently used the visual codes of product range and presentation to examine processes of production and consumption, and no more so than in the current exhibition. What is remarkable about Caroline McCarthy’s practice is the manner in which the most ordinary and least noteworthy material is employed to reveal so much about ourselves, our society and our value systems. Even as we gaze at these unremarkable but very familiar source materials we struggle to feel at ease. What we are faced with instead is nothing short of an epistemological challenge. Lombard Street, D2, June 24 - August 6

the arts, politics, industry, sports and fashionable society, with striking images of, amongst others, Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Lady Mary Heath, Lady Charles Beresford, Hazel Lavery, Iris Tree and Clementina Anstruther Thomson. The links between many of the artists and sitters are explored, and the works, spanning some 80 years, showcase the broad variety of art created during this time. Women of Substance celebrates the parts these women played in society, and challenges preconceptions of the role of women at a time of great social change when new possibilities for women became available. May 19 - August 7 Hugh Lane and his Artists Since 1901, Hugh Lane had been championing the establishment of Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland. Encouraged by the members of the Celtic Revival movement, including his aunt Augusta, Lady Gregory, and William Butler Yeats, Hugh Lane set about amassing a collection of modern and contemporary art. Hugh Lane and His Artists presents selected treasures from the Gallery’s founding days. It includes paintings by Corot, Constable, Fantin-Latour and Degas previously in the Staats Forbes collection along with works by Monet, Nathaniel Hone and John B. Yeats. Parnell Square North, D1, May 19 - August 7 IMMA

Richard Skelton – Landings Richard Skelton, who has spent the last year or so living on the west coast of Ireland, is well-known as a composer - he was recently featured on the cover of ‘The Wire’ magazine. ‘Landings’, possibly his most ambitious work to date, is the culmination of several years of recording on the moors and hillsides of his native northern England; the music is a form of diary, a dialogue with the landscape. It has a sense of narrative and place that is both engaging and intimate. Nassau Street, D2 , July 22 – August 29 Draiocht 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. Blanchardstown, D15 , June 9 – August 27 Gallery of Photography The Long View The Long View is a group show of work by a selection of Ireland’s leading contemporary photographic artists. For the first time, it brings together work by artists who have established considerable international reputa-

Hillsboro Fine Art Sheila Rennick New paintings. 49 Parnell Square West, D1, July 28 - August 30 Hugh Lane 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 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 Women of Substance This exhibition draws on portraits of notable women found in the collection of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and will feature a selection of works by artists such as Philip de László, George Frederic Watts, John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, William Orpen, Antonio Mancini, James McNeill Whistler, Sarah Purser, Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, John Lavery and Maurice de Vlaminck. The sitters include numerous individuals connected with

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 Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection This exhibition is drawn from a collection of more than 450 photographs brought together by the Irish born American collector David Kronn. The collection ranges in content from 19th century Daguerreotypes to the 20th century photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award-winning contemporary photographers, such as the husband and wife team of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Sondergaard, and the Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi. It is particularly strong in its representation of Harry Callahan, Kenneth Josephson, Irving Penn and Brett Weston. July 20 - October 9 Gerard Byrne Artist Gerard Byrne works primarily in film and photography, which he presents as ambitious

large-scale installations, to question how images are constructed, transmitted and mediated. Influenced by literature and theatre, Byrne’s work consistently references a range of sources, from popular magazines of the recent past to iconic modernist playwrights like Brecht, Beckett, and Sartre. As a part of its two-year series of solo exhibitions, IMMA highlights Byrne’s international relevance within current artistic discourse, bringing together leading European cultural institutions for the first time. The exhibition at IMMA consists of a series of film works and photographs that provides a survey of his work over the last decade. July 27 - October 31

initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate General for the Promotion of the Country System, and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities on a project of Vittorio Sgarbi, the works of Italian artists active in foreign countries will be exhibited in the 89 Institutes located around the world. Through multimedia installations the 89 exhibitions will come together within the Italian Pavilion at the Arsenal, offering unprecedented visibility to 217 artists as well as to the Italian Institutes of Culture themselves. 11 Fitzwilliam Square East, D2, June 10 - August 26

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: For Tomorrow For Tonight Apichatpong Weerasethakul, from Thailand, is a renowned independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, winner of a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and is the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Military Road, D8, July 27 – October 31

Disavow: Ella Burke, Elaine Reynolds and Francis Wasser According to Peter Hallward, “while we never choose the circumstances in which we make our own history, some circumstances are more provocative than others.” On paper, Ireland’s bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last November could be considered the most provocative in recent Irish history. The bailout, negotiated by the Irish government, was hailed as the country’s darkest moment by the media. Public discontent became apparent through the small marches and protests that occurred after the economic decision of the ruling minority was put into place. Ella Burke, Elaine Reynolds and Francis Wasser will attempt to highlight and critique the social inertia that often exists in society and will investigate this lack of response and reaction. Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7, August 17 – 22

IMOCA IRL: In Real Life 2011 exhibition Group exhibition to accompany the IRL: In Real Life conference. Pembroke Row, D2, July 15 – August 15

The Joinery

Jorgensen Fine Art Instituto Cervantes Luis Ramón Marín Luis Ramón Marín, known to the press simply as Marín, was one of the first photographers to get out into the streets to record daily life and the news with his camera, supplying magazines and illustrated dailies which were enjoying a heyday during the first decades of the last century. Moreover, Marín is a pioneer of aerial photography in Spain, an aspect of his work begun in 1913, hardly a decade after the development of aviation itself. Marín was essentially a press photographer (he published more than 1,000 photos per year). He was, amongst his other jobs, press correspondent to the Royal Family, which he followed even during the holidays (thus many of the photographs have an unusual family air). He recorded the main events of Spanish cultural and political life and portrayed its leading figures. He also turned his lens on street scenes and anonymous faces of the common people. According to the exhibition’s curators, Rafael Levenfield and Valentín Vallhonrat, “his work draws the profile of a photographer who lived what he did, independently of who his client was. The variety of the subjects reflects the immense vitality with which he carried out his countless activities. We don’t know if it is the photography and its content which contribute this vitality to his life or vice versa. We think it is his fabulous appetite to live intensely which stamps character on his enormous work. By car, plane or motorbike, Marín was able to photograph the most diverse events one after another.” Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, D2, July 7 September 24

Summer Exhibition 14 Hibernian Way, D2, July 7 – August 30 Kerlin Gallery Jaki Irvine Before the page is turned is a new body of video work by Irvine, taking their starting point from the processes of printmaking. In 2010, Robert Russell and Jackie Ryan from Graphic Studio Dublin, invited Jaki Irvine to spend some time working in their studios, thinking about print. By way of response, Irvine spent several months videoing and recording, developing a series of five works that act at once as a meditation on the processes of printmaking and on the wider context within which it is placed. Anne’s Lane, D2, July 8 - August 20 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Room Outside Group show featuring Karin Brunnermeier, Oliver Comerford, Michelle Considine, Patrick Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Stephen Loughman, Sean Lynch, Paul McKinley, Tadhg McSweeney, Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh, Paul Nugent, Geraldine O’Neill, Dermot Seymour and Ulrich Vogl 28 July - 27 August Eamonn O’Doherty Chancery Lane, D8, August 16 - 31 Pallas Projects Helen Horgan – The Horse’s Mouths July 29 – August 6

Italian Institute of Culture Dublin

Fiona Galvin Delaney – Sew Much Time Lower Dominick Street, D1, August 12 - 20

The Italian Pavilion in the World In the context of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy, the Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2011 features this year a significant new development in extending for the first time beyond national boundaries to involve the entire network of Italian Institutes of Culture. Thanks to a joint

Project Arts Centre Mondegreen Project Arts Centre presents a new collaborative project between artists Geoffrey Farmer and Jeremy Millar. This exhibition marks the first time the artists have collaborated, bringing together their individual approaches to art-making, and experimenting with their

shared fascinations and vocabularies. The slippages that occur in the retelling of a story, their shared interests in the chance operations of John Cage, the separation between text and image, as well as an underlying interest in James Joyce’s Ulysses, all contribute to the context of their work. The new artwork they are developing for the exhibition is titled Mondegreen - a durational play performed daily in the gallery of Project Arts Centre and existing over a seven week period. Mondegreen is a unique collaborative experiment between two highly regarded international artists, and opens to audiences on the 7th July 2011. 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2, July 7 - August 20 Severed Head Gallery Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt by Ann Schwalbe Schwalbe’s Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt (slow worm and giant leaf) describes an anonymous natural world, at once both familiar yet touched by the unreal. Sometimes sublime, Schwalbe’s temporal incisions explore environments defined by stillness, emptiness, and light, spaces in which man exists only as a trace denoting the existence of an ambiguous present-absence. These dichotomous and discontiuous elements conspire to suggest an elusively personal yet resolutely open narrative, one suggestive of the poetic possibilities layered within the microcosmic levels of everyday experience. 16 Lower Mount Street, D2. July 8 - August 13 R.A.G.E. SoLo by Loreana Rushe SoLo is the name of the first ever solo exhibition by Loreana Rushe in R.A.G.E (Road Records) on Fade Street. On display will be work for bands such as Fight Like Apes and Adebisi Shank along with editorial illustrations for the likes of Le Cool and Punt Magazine and new work created especially for the exhibition. It will also include her collaborative photo work with renowned artist Gary Baseman and a small selection of photography. Fade Street, D2, August 4 - 13 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Versions and Diversions Versions and Diversions brings together a selection of works by contemporary artists who have all developed an experimental approach to working with found photographs, intervening in the image at surface and compositional levels through a range of processes, from cutting and placing, to stitching and tearing.The exhibition explores how these contemporary works might be seen as a series of ‘versions’ and ‘diversions’. Version, in the sense of adaptation; of a composition that has been recast in a new form, and diversion as redirection or an instance of turning something aside from its course.The results are delicately constructed statements, highly subjective and ambiguous, which seduce us into a world turned upside-down. 5-9 Temple Bar, D2, July 14 - August 20

HERITAGE WEEK All across the country, thousands of people are ready to celebrate their culture with an overwhelming number of events during the annual National Heritage Week. Sponsored by the Heritage Council, the last week of August is dedicated to protect and enhance Ireland’s national ancestry and traditions with a series of events organized by local communities. Family art workshops, historical reenactments, traditional music sessions, medieval walking tours and local festivals are just a small part of the mostly free educational festivities. “We may have felt during our boom that we belonged elsewhere,” writer Colm Tobin said during an event on the Hill of Tara last year. “On flights to the Canary Islands, or on flights away from ourselves, but this is a way to bring us back to ourselves, and back

to what’s valuable and important in our country.” Ireland is just one of nearly 40 countries across Europe that participates in European Heritage Days. About 370,000 people participated in the events last year according to the organizers, but even more are expected this year. August 14 is the last day to register an event in your community, and over 13,000 events are already registered on the website, said project manager Rebecca Reynolds. National Heritage Week events guides are distributed in libraries, tourist offices, hotels and hostels, with updated versions on their website and Facebook page. Although the family-oriented events seem to be the most popular, there are so many different events that it is impossible to pick a favorite. Reynolds hopes people will enjoy the festivities with their communities and help solidify Irish culture for future generations. “Our heritage is part of all of us,” Reynolds said. “It gives us a sense of well-being.”

Festivals August Northside Music Festival 1st – 18th August, free The 5th annual Northside Music Festival celebrates music from across the globe in a three week programme. The varied music includes jazz, bluegrass, classical, Latin American, African and contemporary Irish. The festival also offers more family-oriented events, including three children’s concerts. Discover Ireland: Dublin Horse Show 3rd – 7th August RDS complex, Dublin, from €15 Ireland’s top equestrian event since 1864, the Dublin Horse Show features events for horse enthusiasts and families alike. Highlights include the Longines International Grand Prix, the Aga Khan Challenge Trophy and over 100 national showing and show jumping classes. The festival also features live music, nature zones, Blossom Hill Ladies’ day fashions, arts

and crafts stations and over 300 trade stands. Classical Twist 6th – 7th August Dun Laoghaire, 8 p.m., free Classical Twist returns to The People’s Park for an evening of classical music (from Bach to the Beatles) with a twist. Des Bateaux – Maritime Festival 11th – 14th August Dun Laoghaire, free The Solitaire du Figaro is a solo multi-stage sailing race created in 1970, and Dun Laoghaire will be the only international stop on this famous French yacht race. To celebrate this, the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company and the National Yacht Club have joined forces to create this festival filled with fireworks, music and foods of France. Highlights include the

grand opening ceremony on the 12 August, varied festival markets, festival themed events and the closing ceremony as the boats depart on Sunday 14 August. Dublin Latin America Festival 12th – 21st August Temple Bar area, free The Latin American Native Community in Ireland presents the 2nd annual Dublin Latin American Festival with authentic cuisine, traditional folklore and dance performances.

and resident DJ Johan Steyn. Deveney’s of Dundrum: Lughnasa Beer Festival 2011 19th August The Pod Complex, Crawdaddy, Tripod, 5:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. The Lughnasa Beer Festival features over 300 craft beers from around the world, all available to taste during this event.

the goal is to build awareness and education about Irish heritage thereby encouraging its conservation and preservation. Dublin Bay Taste & Music Festival 25th – 28th August Dun Laoghaire, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m. daily, price TBC The Dublin Bay Taste and Music Festival is a new culinary event that will feature a boulevard of top Dublin Bay chefs and live musical entertainment including Flash Harry, Niamh Kavanagh & the Illegals, Bagatelle and Otis and the Elevators.

Argentine Tango Festival 18th – 21st August Celebrating Argentine culture, the 9th annual Argentine Tango Festival offers workshops, live music, performances, food tasting and more. Special guests include tango partners Claire and Dario Da Silva, Maxi Cristiani and Belen Bartolome, the Quinteto Tango Extremo,

National Heritage Week 20th – 28th August Dublin, free As part of the European Heritage Days, Heritage Week is a national event that features a variety of activities ranging from fairs, wildlife tours, lectures, music recitals and historical reenactments. Coordinated by the Heritage Council with support from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government,

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25th August, 10.45am Clontarf Cricket Club, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3 Four years ago Irish cricket established itself in the mind of the sporting public with their defeat of Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. Further, it happened on St. Patricks Day of all days, which gave many people the chance to blather on witlessly about “yer man lashing an over at the batter” on a day when celebrating ourselves is already in very much in vogue. But as we all know, nothing cements sporting success in the Irish mind as much as beating England, especially at something they invented. And in March this year, Ireland did just that with a frankly astonishing and multiple record-breaking performance in Bangalore. As the summer draws to a close, Ireland will once again take on England in the one-day format in Clontarf Cricket Club. England have recently defeated World Cup finalists Sri Lanka in Buzz Lightyear lookalike Alistair Cooke’s first series as captain. They aren’t the hapless schmucks of the World Cup, but are in fact remarkably competent and popular (polar opposite of their football team), though this may be in part due to the amount of South Africans in their team. A recent defeat to Scotland has kept Irish feet firmly on the ground. However Ireland’s greatest struggles of late have been off the field, with the decision to deny us the chance to qualify for (let alone participate in) the next World Cup in 2015 taking place down under. In the aftermath of March’s heroics, cricket’s overlords, the ICC, announced that only the big boys (that is, the Test Nations) would play at the next World Cup, and it wasn’t until late June that this decision was reversed. So late August’s game provides Ireland with the chance to beat the auld enemy again, sledge Three Lions-wearing Irishman Eoin Morgan and celebrate our renewed World Cup dreams. Meanwhile it’s also an opportunity for the Irish sporting public to celebrate one of the great feats of the Irish sporting year rather than have it be overshadowed by Rory McIlroy’s cheeky wee smile. Ireland have only been defeated once in an ODI in Dublin, against the Aussies, so another enjoyable upset is a distinct possibility.

Ireland vs England, RSA Challenge: One Day International Cricket St. Patrick’s Athletic vs Karpaty Lviv UEFA Europa League 3rd Qualifying Round, 2nd Leg 4th August, 7.45pm Tallaght Stadium, Whitestown Way, Tallaght, Dublin 24 After putting the mighty Shakhtor Karagandy (they’re Kazakh by the way) to the sword in the 2nd qualifying round, the Saints take on another similarly bleak-sounding bunch from Soviet hinterland Karpaty Lviv, of Ukraine for the right to play some teams you’ve actually heard of in the group stages. Hopefully Pats can take a useful enough result back from Lviv to keep the tie alive and set up a big European night at Tallaght Stadium.