Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.
photo credit: cinocino In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather than the traditional job for life. Working through Chainworkers, Foti and others developed the Euro... Read More
Don’t Mention Art Rock.
Photo is copyrighted to Lindsay Foley Sometimes a piece of art can represent more than just itself. Through how it intertwines with what’s around it, it can take on new meanings. You might be able to say the same of Estel. One of the photo sliders on their Myspace sails through a montage of gig fliers stretching through the best part of Dublin’s underground live output for the first decade of this millennium. Estel so, through their longevity are like a wormhole... Read More
More Words On Zines..
photo credit: donkeycart I said I’d do this some time ago, but never got around to it. Well, after the leap you can read the full text of the interviews carried out over email for the piece based around the recent independents day. Simon Reynolds has published the roughs of his own interviews on zines in the Uk too, interesting to see the trajectories over on that side of the pond. Read More Read More
This is an interview with a band called Adebisi Shank
photo credit: lauranolanphotography Downstairs in Frazers, Adebisi Shank are celebrating the launch of the their debut album, it’s a pure drunken tantrum of a night and from about 10pm the venue looks and feels mentally over-subscribed. It’s all faces rammed in arm pits, and bodies reluctantly pressing against each other. The guy in front of me has had his head split open. Blood streams across his forehead and down his face. But he turns with a smile to the dude... Read More
The Lads From St Saviours.
photo credit: the justified sinner If you’ve ever entered the IFI at peak time, you’ll notice there’s a lot of people just standing around, standing around and waiting, for dates and friends. So, ambling over and interrupting several of the more male looking inpatients waiting with the question “are you one of the lads from Saviours?” left me with one clear lesson in mind when interviewing people you’ve never met before: it’s probably... Read More
Interview: Yo Majesty
photo credit: gretchen robinette Towards the end of 2006, the infectious shout of ‘fuck that shit’ in Club Action and a banging party delivery tore it up across the net in dozens of re-versionings aimed at getting asses on the floor. Trust me, butch and queer positive as hell, Yo Majesty are one of the most explosive live acts you can expect to see. A riotous response to scene misogyny in the more sexually charged corners of modern hip hop, they are the female 2... Read More
Detboi Interview: Beeping Mad
photo credit: joemiranda Dublin may seem just a tad off the track when it comes to the infusions of bassline house and generally chirpy chopped vocal carnage coming out of the UK club scene, but get this dears. From a bedroom somewhere in Dublin, a character calling himself Detboi has been holding it down with some of the big boys. His remix of that by now irritating Beeper track with Kid Sister squaking over the top has been getting air play from Annie Mac on the beep, and... Read More
Musicians Without Borders
Like most traditional musics that gets welded onto the seam of more modern beat structures, Balkan Beat Box was born out of a diaspora melting pot. The sort of pressure cooker formed only by the mass urban carpets of places like New York city. There a klezmer tune has the freedom to wormhole itself in your ear from a battered old stereo in an eatery, and then later wrap itself around the thud of a hip hop track that roars from a car passing you. It’s the aural ambiance of... Read More
In Me Ears 14: Sixfoot Apprentice.
Kaboogie messer Sixfoot Apprentice delivered a head bashing set over at the Mantua festival last weekend, it’s been floating around on line all week and is here now as a plain and simple mp3 download so you don’t have to fuck around with those nasty ads that count down and go pop. Read the usual questions and answer thing, and then scroll down for the file. Who is Sixfoot Apprentice? A 25 year old manboy addicted to bass and breaks and dancing and laughing. What... Read More
The Unmaking of Hollywood Legends.
Some weeks ago through the freebie magic of Skype I talked to David Zieger the directer of the documentary Sir, No Sir. It’s a Displaced Films and BBC production that came out about two years ago, and focused on the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. It consists in part, of interviews with veterans explaining why they resisted the war, and in some cases went as far as to defect. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile, by 1971 it was a movement that in... Read More
