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
Hyper spacers Reunited – Suburban Super Heroes Prog 10.
Gig Review: I Still Love You Kid 606
Mark keeps the home fires burning with this review of kid 606. (Photo by Gusset) Last Friday was a big night for Gigs in Dublin, with Battles, Chris Clark, and Kid 606, all billed. It was to The Mighty Kid 606 for me who was supported by Irelands finest Herv and new boi Creator. For those who are familiar with 606 they will know that he is as versatile as he is spanner bendingly mental, from the beautifully organic ambient sounds of Resilience to... Read More
Film Review: This Is England, This Is Masterful
The first obvious thing to do when reviewing a film or book is to take an interest in the director or author. To interrogate their past and look for associations between their personal life and the hidden message that you feel is contained within their work. More often than not the association is not there but constructed for the sake of pluralizing interpretation. I am usually the first one to declare the death of the author, and try to concentrate... Read More
Bloc Weekend Review: Faceless Chalet Blocks , Techno and Arcade Machines
A review of the Bloc Weekend that went down from March in a Pontins Resort in Norfolk wings its way into us courtesy of Kyle Browne. The photo of Authechre is nicked from a Flickr set by Micheeky. If you were to try and describe Bloc Weekend to a lot of people, they would probably stare back at you with a faintly blank slightly worried face. This wasn’t your typical, run of the mill festival, it was something a lot different and to many who attended... Read More
Gig Review: Bonde Do Role in Toronto
When I first saw NME coin the phrase “new rave” I thought it was a joke. That they were creating a market where there was none to seem cutting edge, to create a market for their magazine. Well now I have seen the scene in action, and I’m running in the other direction. Its not that what is coined as “new rave” is all bad, far from it, there are some bands in this category that make for a damn good time. Bonde Do Role being... Read More
A Big Hole On Jagtvej: Remembering Ungdomshuset.
There’s a big hole on Jagtvej. They tore it down and now there’s nothing but a big hole. It could be a carpark. At the wall to Saxons there is still a chimney and flue that they couldn’t destroy. Some people gather around it and there’s a few candles lighting, a makeshift shrine in an imaginary fireplace. Someone tells me that you can go down Jagtvej and if you don’t pay attention you can still see Ungeren in the corner... Read More
Gig Review: Modeselektor…. So tell me….
photo credit: nudevinyl Ha ha see what I did there clever yes? No? Oh well never mind Modeselektor are Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary a two man DJ /producer team from Germany releasing almost exclusively on Ellen Alien’s Bpitch Control label their music is influenced in turns by hip-hop break beats techno and dub exemplified by their first full album Hello Mom released in 2005 and remixed and re-released in 2006 featuring the brilliant... Read More
54 Tells the Story of Life in the Shadow of A Failed Revolution
“The Italian resistance was so significant that it basically liberated Northern Italy, and it was holding down maybe six or seven German divisions… In fact, when the American and British armies made it up to Northern Italy, they had to throw out a government already established by the Italian resistance in the region, and they had to dismantle various steps towards workers’ control over industry that were being set up.” Noam... Read More
Fascism, Infertility and the smallest violin in the world; Children of Men fails to deliver.
Directed by stylish Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men is is the latest in a series of dystopian visions of a totalitarian society that isn’t actually so far away. It’s a cheap buck that appeals to the “Oh gosh, isn’t George Bush awful?” Banksy appreciating market, but really that market should be bloody well ashamed of itself if it swallows this sort of shite. Children of Men begins with the premise that human beings can... Read More
