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  • irishtimes.com - Posted: June 19, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    Why did the chicken cross the road? To plug his gig at the weekend

    Jim Carroll

    In The Ticket today, you will find an interview with John Turturro (“one of the most distinctive actors of his generation (and) the best reason to see Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen” says Donald Clarke), a short history of pre-historic movies, a look at how the summer is shaping up for festivals like Castle Palooza and Indiependence amd Brian Boyd on why EMI Records do not heart Danger Mouse.

    There´s New Music love for Local Natives, Housse de Racket, Fly Girlz, Hundred In The Hands, EleventyFour and Rubik, while Lauren Murphy has the news on Dylan Haskins´new all-ages venue in Dublin, Belfast´s Trans festival and Sigur Ros trying to win a cuddly toy on Icelandic TV.

    CD of the Week comes from Wilco and there are also releases of new releases from Gossip, White Denim, The Holy Roman Army, The Mars Volta, Oskar, Sam Isaac, Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics, Túcan and many more.

    In the cinemas, the week´s new releases are Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Fugitive Pieces and Katyn. Plus the weekly movie quiz and some DVD reviews from the lads who cover the flicks, there´s also movie news.

    The Ticket: you know it makes sense.

    The OTR community noticeboard is now open for business. You know what to do – and if you don´t, someone will be along very shortly to show you what to do. Please declare an interest because it´s only polite

    By the way: some very interesting comments still coming in here and here – thanks to everyone for their contributions to what has been another very busy week at OTR.

    New week: a report from the Sonar festival in Barcelona. Yep, I´m back in Catalunya again with another bunch of Irish yahoos for the 16th running of the Sonar bulls. Tune in on Monday (or Tuesday) for the skinny. I´m here to do a special show for The Far Side in a few weeks and have already seen awesome live sets from Konono No 1 and Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics (and interviewed Hank Shocklee) so I´m very happy. See y´all next week.

    • 24 Comments

    1.
    June 19, 2009
    10:57 am

    Weekly Le Cool guide to Dublin. Out now. Sign up at http://www.lecool.com/dublin

    DOI : I’m involved in putting it all togethert

    Comment by miguel_myriad
    2.
    June 19, 2009
    11:10 am

    hi Jim,

    I entered the Guess the Gig Comp and got a bounceback on the e-mail address printed in the Ticket. The IT IT dept doesn’t seem to recognise it – is this another competition scandal like the BBC’s rigged phone lines!!

    Think I got all the answers right as well.

    Comment by fionaoc
    3.
    June 19, 2009
    11:17 am

    Fionaoc – have passed that info onto the powers that be. U wouldn’t get that with an OTR competition……

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    4.
    June 19, 2009
    11:26 am

    Reemo play in Dingle tonight supporting the Alphastates….the venue name is far from my mind..

    DOI- I’m stuck at work today and as miserable as that sad puppy that was flushed down a toilet earlier this week…but im still spreading the love

    http://www.myspace.com/reemotheband

    Comment by caroline
    5.
    June 19, 2009
    11:29 am

    WATUSI is on tonight in the thomas house for some great northern soul.

    Jim make sure you see late of the pier, i think they are playing over there.

    Comment by petee
    6.
    June 19, 2009
    12:16 pm

    i meant to ask…is anyone as excited as I am about the forthcoming Florence and The Machine album as I am?

    Comment by caroline
    7.
    June 19, 2009
    12:16 pm

    Presume you’ve seen this already Jim but just in case

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_8108000/8108589.stm

    £1.2million (sterling) fine for uploading to Kazaa. Seems a tad excessive

    Comment by Neill
    8.
    June 19, 2009
    12:17 pm

    Sugar Water Presents
    CORRIDORS (USA, Byron Westbrook of Rhys Chatham’s ESSENTIALIST)
    & Time And The Bell

    Friday, June 19th
    7pm | 10 Euro

    The Joinery
    Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7.

    BYOB

    Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Sawako, Stefan Tcherepnin, Lichens, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, James Blackshaw, Anette Krebs, and Soft Circle, among many others.

    DOI: I’ll be selling records at the event
    http://boldlump.com/catalog/index.php

    Comment by Bold Lump
    9.
    June 19, 2009
    12:22 pm

    Roman Flugel (Alter Ego)
    This Saturday June 20th at Wax (Basement of Spy).
    11pm doors.
    10e admission.

    I work in Spy obviously!

    Comment by anthony remedy
    10.
    June 19, 2009
    12:43 pm

    COMPETITION: Messages are coming through to the competition email account, including yours Fiona, so it looks like any bounceback messages are caused by a technical glitch, which the IT crowd are working on now.
    Cheers, Conor

    Comment by Conor Goodman, Ticket Editor
    11.
    June 19, 2009
    12:45 pm

    Ticket competition error fixed Jim – good work!

    Now about that OTR competition….?? There hasn’t been one in a while, is that due to this economic crisis people keep wittering on about.

    Comment by fionaoc
    12.
    June 19, 2009
    1:02 pm

    Fionaoc – next OTR competition week commencing June 29 – stay tuned

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    13.
    June 19, 2009
    1:10 pm

    caroline @6 i’m loving what i’ve heard from Florence & the machine
    especially their cover of ‘You’ve Got the Love ‘ which is amazing

    Comment by petee
    14.
    June 19, 2009
    1:26 pm

    Clarke’s one-star review of Transformers is a bad joke. “Monumentally tiresome” says he all indignant and stuff.

    They’re ROBOTS in DISGUISE! How anyone could tire of such a concept is beyond me, Donald Charlatan.

    He would have given it five stars if it had been in bleedin’ French.

    Comment by dealga
    15.
    June 19, 2009
    1:50 pm

    @Caroline – yes can’t wait till Florence and the Machine’s album in July – as said about the cover of ‘you’ve got the love’ is amazing and Cosmic Love is just brilliant

    Comment by C
    16.
    June 19, 2009
    1:57 pm

    “He would have given it five stars if it had been in bleedin’ French.”

    Heh heh heh

    Comment by Neill
    17.
    June 19, 2009
    2:21 pm

    @15 + @13

    yes that cover is amazing…im searching youtube for more gems..will post if I find..if thats cool with Jim…of course it is, Jim’s down with the kids..

    the album can’t come sooner…her music is getting me through this rubbish day

    Comment by caroline
    18.
    June 19, 2009
    2:29 pm

    last minute plug

    halves in whelans tonight
    doors 8pm, support from chequerboard,
    lovely

    this is daves last gig with us too,
    we’re playing new songs also

    nice one

    brian

    Comment by brian halves
    19.
    June 19, 2009
    3:08 pm

    The Thermals are playing the Acadamy 2 tonight. Should be super.

    I have no interest to declare, I just love their new record.

    Comment by Ian
    20.
    June 19, 2009
    4:01 pm

    Hi Jim, thanks so much for the mention today. I’m delighted ar fad!
    Can I be so bold as to ask where you came across my tunes? Maybe you can’t reveal your sources… but as a fledgling musician I’m curious to know!

    Thanks again, EleventyFour

    Comment by EleventyFour
    21.
    June 19, 2009
    4:41 pm

    Already an Irish best-seller, ‘Joe Dolan – The Biography’ is being launched internationally with a night at the Boogaloo in London this coming Wednesday, June 24th, from 6pm.

    There’ll be a specially commisioned film on Joe, me reading some extracts from the book (and some stuff that didn’t make it in), a Q&A and it’s all followed up by a gig from great Irish band and fellow Mullingar men The Aftermath. Dozens of special guests also lined up, it should be a cracker.

    So, if you’re in London this Wednesday evening, do come along.

    http://www.boogaloo.co.uk

    DOI – I wrote the book.

    The Aftermath and another Mullingar act, Greg Perle, are also playing with John Illsley and Mark Knopler from Dire Straits on Tuesday night at the 100 Club in Oxford Street.

    No declaration of interest for that one, only to say it too should be a cracker. Oh, and The Blizzards are playing Slane this Saturday with Oasis. Say what you like about Mullingar, but at least it rocks with the best of them.

    Comment by Ronan Casey
    22.
    June 19, 2009
    6:29 pm

    EleventyFour – myspace links! As simple as that.

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    23.
    June 19, 2009
    6:46 pm

    Hurray for the interweb! Thanks again, I hope somebody does something lovely for you today :)

    EleventyFour

    Comment by EleventyFour
    24.
    June 22, 2009
    1:20 am

    3-Bit is DJing in Spy this Thursday, 25th June at 9pm

    Two mixes of his up on http://www.myspace.com/dj3bit

    Declaration of interest, he is also the keyboardist/drummer in the band that I am in. And also my future brother-in-law. That enough interest for ya??

    Comment by Neill

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