Film Review: Four Lions
photo credit: BovenX Meeting heavy criticism for alleged insensitivity to the victims of terrorist attacks on the eve of its release, Chris Morris’ eagerly anticipated first feature Four Lions tells the story of five hapless would-be jihadis, shambolically plotting destruction from their terrace houses in Doncaster. The Swiftean TV satirist directed the film, researched it with characteristic seriousness over five years and co-wrote it with Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse... Read More
Review: Ghosts of Cite Soleil
photo credit: Un Photo With humanitarian disaster drawing all eyes to Haiti at the moment, there’s a higher than not chance people will be drawn to seeking out films or documentaries dealing with the country’s past and present. Off hand, not many spring to mind, but among those that do exist, Ghosts of Cite Soliel is Asger Leth’s attempt to look at life in the slum that gives the film its title. It’s an interesting flick, following the typical cinematic... Read More
Romancing The Photocopier.
Back in the olden days, before the digital miracle and the gilded purr of the Celtic Tiger there was the humble zine. A zine was a very simple thing, usually a photocopied melange of thoughts and images cut out with a Stanley blade, and flung together in an act of love making to both words and whatever they tried to give meaning to. Once zines were a vital communicative hub for sub cultures, but that role dropped away due the net. Yet some have kept up their habit of romanticising... 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
Interview: Vomito Attack On The Streets of Buenos Aires.
Time flies when you are sitting on your hole. Nearly a year ago I made a short trip to Argentina and was pretty taken aback at the highly developed street art culture my eyes were left to devour all around the city. You can have a taste of it from a large Flickr gallery I created to store the photos I took. Sometime after returning I contacted one of the collectives involved in putting this art up and got this interview down through the auld email. Who are Vomito Attack and... Read More
Captain Moonlight Interview: “I just couldn’t take skirting around the issues any more.”
Barry must have been thinking exactly along the same lines as myself when he posted about Captain Moonlight some time last week. For a flash last year Moonlight received a glare of attention for a track called “Dirty Cunts.” The track scratched the face of our gombeen elite with hip hop beats and a visceral abuse tempered with some precision angered comments on developers and corporate Ireland. Keen to avoid a critical discussion about politics, most media obsessed... Read More
