Jim Carroll

The age of niche

• Art Irish music Jazz Pointyheaded stuff Society
• February 25, 2013, 09:36

Why the most exciting and innovative music and art can be found in the magins – and why the mainstream is content to ignore it

• Art Festivals Ireland Live music
• February 12, 2013, 09:44

The view from Derry as the Other Voices show arrives in town as part of the City of Culture shenanigans

• Art Music business
• June 1, 2012, 09:38

You are Bill Drummond and, because you are Bill Drummond, you can do whatever the hell you like. Drummond has always followed his own star and this has resulted in a life rich in adventure and incident. From managing idiosyncratic …

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• March 6, 2012, 09:11

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s photos make the city of Detroit look like a post-industrial Pompeii. Abandoned hotels, derelict theatres, ruined workplaces, empty schools: it’s as if the people left everything they had created behind when they fled the city. …

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• September 12, 2008, 09:54

There are many reasons to look forward to the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) next month. One of the fringe events is a special edition of SweetTalk, with presentations from Irish and international creative talents. Steve “Steinski” Stein, the influential …

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• June 20, 2008, 09:40

Charting the ins and outs of independent music culture in Ireland is the ambitious aim of the Underground exhibition and publication, to be launched next week in conjunction with the Darklight festival. Curated by artists and musicians Peter Maybury and …

• Art Clubs Festivals
• June 18, 2008, 09:31

Regular readers will remember that last summer saw all sorts of things (usually festival line-ups) falling off the back of trucks driving through the On The Record’s hood. Well, it seems those trucks are back because a big chunk of …

• Art New releases
• September 21, 2007, 09:04

They’re coming home. Earlier this summer, Galway’s Cane 141 took their Lost at Sea collaborative installation with artist Róisín Coyle to the GraceSpace gallery in New York. The installation will now feature at Nimmo’s in Galway on October 4th, along …