SSH Special Edition: Suburban Superheroes go to the Nightmare Before Xmas
photo credit: spyderkl Using a zoom recorder – Krossie and Groove go to a sleepy town in Somerset and end up in a chalet with a gang of 7 who dress in the floppy mad hatter hats of the little people. Our loveable rogue aliens report back from the music & events they go to in a Butlins holiday camp, this festival known as All Tomorrow’s Parties. They see bands, strange TV, chicken out of an intellectual pissing contest, interview people... Read More
SSH 15: Don’t Look Back In Ongar.
photo credit:Dr Groove SSH 15: Don’t Look Back In Ongar. The Superheroes find themselves even more Suburban when they are teleported to Planet Ongar, far far away from Groovetown studios where they normally transmit their broadcasts home. Here they meet up with their host Nora Bam who brings them on a chronological journey back to 80′s Dublin and tells us about being on Craggy Island. They conduct an interview with Bruce Lightyear,... Read More
SSH 14: Our Heroes Ponder The Tyranny of IMFacebook and Low Slung Skinny Jeans
photo credit: orianomada Our heroes are joined by DJ Oneshot and talk about life here on an island which has the IMF goons in situ and where we practice asking people to lose the attitude. With the bodies of their earth hosts growing older, they ponder jealously on the low slung jeans of your average Dublin hipster, rub their nipples and find a new love for Dave McSavage. Download Suburban Superheroes Episode 14 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player... Read More
Jimmy The Hideous Penguin
photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor Some Community Scratch Games action down at the K Club tomorrow. It’s been a breezy morning and early afternoon here on Soundtracksforthem, pouring over some online reading and listening to this chilled piece of class from Jimmy The Hideous Penguin. who’s playing down in Sweeneys tonight. An interview with him resides over here. Jimmy penguin [it depends what your into] by Jimmy penguin Read More
In Me Ears: Bassline Bizness.
Live @ Freakshow Belfast 25.09.10 by Yeahhbuzz on Mixcloud Yeahbuzz brings the nasty bassline business here, expect groove busting speaker shaking antics a go go. Not one for the workplace. Read More
Book Review: The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Men and Women Today
photo credit: TheeErin 28-year-old British activist Kat Banyard opens her polemic The Equality Illusion with a quote simply beyond satire from Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman of Marks and Spencer: ‘there really are no glass ceilings despite the fact that some of you moan about it all the time…. You’ve got a woman fighter pilot who went on to join the Red Arrows… I mean what else do you want for God’s sake? Women astronauts. Women miners. Women... 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
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
Meet The Richter
photo credit: Ben Murphy There’s a regular circuit you can do around a peculiar little hub of Dublin, it arches around South William St and there our endless Spars and high street chains suddenly mash and mix with scatterings of independent stores whose walls are plastered in posters. They’re unofficial notice boards really, and they run across the optics of unsettled minds looking for gigs to go to. For a city of our size, we are... Read More
Gig Reviews: Crystal Castles and DJ Sega
photo credit: Jalapeno It was quite by accident that I found myself dragged along to the home coming gig of Toronto’s Crystal Castles on March 29th last. It’s been quite some time since their supposedly accidental release blew up all over Myspace. And apart from enjoying one or two of their remixes, especially of that Klaxon’s track – I’d diverted my eyes from anything carrying their rather obscured visages. Apparently,... Read More
