Punk and New Wave Hedge School.
A fascinating event happened outside the Phibsbronx library on Sunday, entitled “Punks or posers?: Dublin’s late ‘70s New Wave scene” it featured contributions from Billy McGrath (UCD Ents 1976-’77), Eamon ‘Dev’ Delaney, David ‘Black Catholic’ Donnelly, and Councillor Cieran ‘Punk’ Perry. Hosted by History Ireland, the audience consisted of a strange blend of locals, punks from across the generation divide and various... Read More
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... Read More
That’s Entertainment In Modern Ireland.
photo credit: gordonflood.com Red Wedge writes an account of his day out to see Oasis in Slane. I love Oasis. I know my love is true and I know this for a reason. I have seen them 7 times live. I have defended every song they have ever made. I have even defended the songs I don’t like out of utter loyalty. I have worn t-shirts, tracksuit tops and fisherman’s hats in tribute. I’d even buy a Man City shirt if I ever saw one for sale. I was... 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... Read More
Mantua, That Cunting Place
Seeing as I lost my ability to piece together some sort of report from Belgium’s Dour in a post-festival oblivion, I’ll use the softer post-Mantua landing to relay some highlights from the mucky hill tops of Roscommon. Yes, there was mud and plenty of it. Driving up in the car I’d text along to a forward operations team of mates that were setting up camp to get reports on conditions. Being city folk, you’d swear they’d... Read More
Glasto Sunday Report: Hard To Get Into and Even Harder To Get Out Of!
What a way to start your day. Shuffling around to the very nice gypsy sounds of Forty Thieves Orkestar and suddenly one of the five or so people dancing has collapsed. Great hardly up out of bed and I get to see some one die. She’s twitching and very pale – her boyfriend is screaming to her stay with him, the securities are running and walkie talkieing. All is well though within a minute or two she’s back up and talking and... Read More
Glasto 2007 Review 2: A Solo Pilgrimage Across the Wastes
OK back to Friday My next venture was a solo pilgrimage across the wastes to see the most talented member of the Wainwright family – the mighty Martha. No I could not persuade any other person to go to this! The sun came along with me though. Hello sun Fuck off Krossie! I took a great liking for the new Park Area – programmed by Michael’s daughter Emily Eavis, in general, I have to say. Very few folks hanging around for this one. Bean searbach... Read More
Glasto 2007 Review 1: The Mud Scientist Prelude
After providing us with a chemically enhanced review of the 2004 festival, our roving raver Krossie is back with some more installments in his Glastonbury romance. All photos are pulled from this deadly Flickr collection. Michael Eavis: Well what have you got for us in the way of mud this year my bofin-tastic friend? Mad Scientist: Very Vell – If a vay can be found, in which, through radical agitation of the slippy mud – a partial transition... Read More
Hot Docs: Indie Cinema Orgy
The annual Hot Docs Festival took place from April 19th to 29th earlier on this year in Toronto, and some version or other of the following material may be familiar to you from coverage published in the latest Totally Dublin...Before Morgon Spurlock’s grease laden death diet and Michael Moore’s spot-on vendetta against neo-conservative America were banking the big bucks as blockbusting summer successes, documentaries dealing with the... Read More
Chinese Rock and Movies At NXNE
Alongside panel discussions on how bands can grind the best use out of their myspace, the NXNE organisers put on a sequence of movies related to the industry over at the Toronto Film Board Building. Kevin Fritz’s Wasted Orient was a quick paced look into disaffected youth in modern China, going on the road with Joyside the director documents the Chinese punk scene in all its drunken apathy as it turns its back on society with anthems like... Read More
