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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  February 9, 2012 @ 1:54 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Viggo Mortenson: on playing the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method tale of Freud, his pupil Carl Jung and the woman in the middle.

  Jameson Dublin International Film Festival: what to see at this year’s festival which opens in the capital on February 16.

  Grand Pocket Orchestra: the GPO tell us how their ‘chongo pop’ is going to take over the world.

  Perfume Genius: on the fabulous new album “Put Your Back N 2 It” and the video that was too explicit for YouTube.

  Cold Specks: Q&A with Al Spx from Etobicoke, Canada

  Booking the Cooks Valentine’s Special: Miss Panti bakes red velvet cupcakes for the day that’s in it.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including Field Music, Perfume Genius, Emeli Sande, Prinzhorn Dance School, Lethal Dialect, John Talabot, Sharon Van Etten, Karen Tweed, Tord Gustavsen Quartet, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close OST”, the Punch Brothers), movies (Star Wars: Episode I (3D), Big Miracle, Casablanca, A Dangerous Method, The Muppets, The Vow, Woman in Black), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Black Keys, Ireland, 2012?

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  February 2, 2012 @ 1:52 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Miss Piggy: “Garbo, Marilyn, Dietrich – I feel that I’m a continuation of that timeless legacy”. The world’s biggest female movie star talks frogs, fame and feminsm.

  Emeli Sandé: how the Scot with the mighty voice put her medical career on hold to pen hits for Tinie Tempah, The Saturdays and many other pop luminaries before striking out to sing her own songs.

  Martha Marcy May Marlene: Elizabeth Olsen may not be able to do an interview without reference to her sisters, but Martha Marcy May Marlene marks her as one to watch, with or without her siblings.

  Kurt Vile: the man with the hip, careworn, lovelorn folk and rock talks turkey.

  Kathleen Edwards: Q&A with the Canadian singer about her new Justin Vernon-produced album “Voyageur”

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including The 2 Bears, Paul McCartney, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Truir, Beth Jeans Haughton, Christa Bell, “Chimes of Freedom – The Songs Of Bob Dylan”, Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters, East Of Underground, Tim Berne), movies (Chronicle, Bombay Beach, Carnage, Jack & Jill, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Man On A Ledge, Martha Marcy May Marlene), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Do not under any circumstances waste your time with Haywire.

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  January 26, 2012 @ 1:36 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  The Descendants: when it comes to flicks about a mid-life crisis, director Alexander “Sideways” Payne is your go-to guy. Plus five great mid-life crisis films to put you in the mood.

  Lana Del Rey: the Pop Corner guide to Ms Del Rey. Ailbhe Malone decides if she is a faker or a shaker.

  Maverick Sabre: how Michael Stafford went from being the odd-one-out with the funny accent in New Ross to the man with the soulful plan via hip-hop.

  King Charles: a fash-mash-up of Adam Ant, Russell Brand, Prince and a 19th-century swashbuckler, King Charles on bringing his flamboyant mojo to Dingle for Other Voices.

  Like Crazy: how Felicity Jones’s performance in Like Crazy has won her major acclaim at international festivals.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including Leonard Cohen, Delorentos, Django Django, Juan Selada, Perfume Raft, Goldfrapp, The Maccabees, “Voguing & the House Ballroom Scene of NYC 1989-92″, The Internet, Maverick Sabre, Nels Cline), movies (The Descendants, House Of Tolerance, Intruders, A Monster In Paris, Like Crazy, Night of the Hunter, The Grey), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. I’ve got the moves like cheddar.

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  January 19, 2012 @ 1:43 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Margin Call: he might be a famous Vulcan (Spock) and mutant baddie (Sylar in Heroes), but Zachary Quinto tells Tara Brady he has no problem being fully human. Plus panel on the new Star Trek

  Boyzone: Tony Clayton-Lea’s short history of boy bands – the good, the bad and the managers.

  One Direction: Lauren Murphy gets annoyed by a sugared-up boy band and concludes that Niall Horan & the One Directioners are a pain in the ass.

  Eurosonic: our guide to the 293 acts (including 21 Irish acts) who rocked at the new music festival in Groningen last weekend.

  The 10 unsexiest sexy film bits ever: Donald Clarke selected the most unsexy sex scenes in movie history.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including David Holmes (sounctrack for “Haywire”), Rodrigo Y Gabriela & C.U.B.A, Kathleen Edwards, Islet, Walpurgis Family, “Kitsune Maison 12″, Hooray for Earth, Diagrams, Lamb of God, Leila, Jeff Williams, Noah Kaplan Quartet), movies (Haywire, J Edgar, Coriolanus, L’Atalante, The Sitter, W.E.), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. This month is never going to end, is it?

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  January 12, 2012 @ 1:59 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  J Edgar: screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the new flick about former FBI director J Edgar Hoover

  Delorentos: Nial Conlan and Kiernan McGuinness on the ups and downs behind how the Dublin band’s best album yet “Little Sparks” came together.

  Coriolanus: why would Oscar-nominated actor Ralph Fiennes want to direct and star in a violent film of one of Shakespeare’s least popular plays? “Because I am perverse,” he tells Donald Clarke

  A level playing field?: Louise Bruton looks at how Dublin’s main music venues handling their obligations to their customers with mobility issues. Plus Irish musicians on their observations of and commitment to access for all

  Diagrams: the former Tunng Frontman on going it alone with new guise Diagrams and brand new album “Black Light”

  Booking the Cooks: musical comedian Reggie Watts whips up a toasted cheese sandwich. Not just any old toasted cheese sandwich, mind, but a toasted cheese sandwich by Reggie Watts.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including The Weeknd, The Big Pink, Frank Turner, Howler, Andy Stott, “War Horse”, First Aid Kit, Ex Norwegian, “Café Irlandaise”, Brad Mehldau Trio, The Wiyos, Dan Gurbey, Angelika Niescier), movies (War Horse, The Darkest Hour, Margin Call, Shame, Tatsumi), games (BBBB), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Het is niet wat je doet, het is de manier waarop je het doet.

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  January 5, 2012 @ 1:51 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Movie previews: Donald Clarke runs the rule over cinema releases from now until April.

  Cashier No 9: Danny Todd and his bandmates are finally hitting the big time after many years on the go so what does it feel like to finally get some recognition? Plus a preview of First Fortnight, the mental health arts festival which runs until January 14th

  Zawe Ashton: on the move from TV roles in Case Histories and Fresh Meat to a movie lead in Dreams of a Life.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including Rory Gallagher, Trailer Trash Traceys, Bic Runga, Letka, The Do, A$AP Rocky, “Electronic 11″, Bryan & the Haggards, Ruth Moody), movies (The Iron Lady, The Artist, Dreams Of A Life, Surviving Life, Tabloid, Goon), games (Kirby’s Adventure), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Oompa Loompa do-ba-dee-doo.

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  December 22, 2011 @ 1:50 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: meet Rooney Mara, the star of David Fincher’s blockbuster film of the blockbuster novel

  Album Club Christmas Special: Daragh Downes hears from members of Dublin’s homeless community about their favourite albums of all time

  Seasonal gigs: there’s a kicking line-up of music events around the country in the coming 10 days and Tony Clayton-Lea is here to give you the heads-up. Plus Pugwash and Annie Tieranniesaur on what they want for Christmas and James Vincent McMorrow and Ham Sandwich on the joys of 2011

  Warhorse: Tara Brady meets Warhorse author Michael Morpurgo on the set of the book of the film in the Wiltshire village of Castle Combe. But is he pleased with it?

  OTR’s Gongs of 2011: the only awards that matter

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including Rubberbandits, The Men, Boo Williams, Fidil, The Driftwood Manor, Liffy Light Orchestra. Jonti, “Reekus Records 1981-2011″, Jonsi, Amir Elsaffar & Two Rivers, Three Cane Whale), movies (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), games (Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Please note that no reindeers were harmed at the OTR Christmas party.

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  December 15, 2011 @ 1:35 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  The Ticket Awards: let the fuming begin as we reveal the results of what you, The Ticket readers, decided was the best in music, film and games in 2011. Remember, it was your votes so it’s YOUR fault.

  Imelda May: a festive howya from the heart of the Liberties as Ms May prepares for Xmas shows in Dublin’s O2 on December 16 and 17 and a bout of Xmas Eve busking on Grafton Street.

  Jared Harris: the son of Richard Harris, once-stepson of Rex Harrison and former son-in-law of Edward Fox (and Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which opens in cinemas tomorrow) has a bit of a gossip with Donald Clarke.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including The Roots, Randy Newman, Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Rebecca Ferguson, The Music, Hanni El Khatib, Dusty Springfield, Rod Stewart, John Escreet, Kip Hanrahan, The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc), movies (Meet Me in St Louis, It’s a Wonderful Life, Romantics Anonymous, Ballymun Library, The British Guide to Showing Off, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 3D, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), games (Super Mario 3D Land), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Now for the weather on the ones….

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• Listomania: The Ticket music writers’ lists of stuff from 2011

  December 12, 2011 @ 9:35 am | by Jim Carroll

  It’s the longest list post of the year, list fans. When Pope Gregory XIII came up with the aul’ Gregorgian calendar back in 1582, he didn’t realise we’d be using it centuries later to put a top and a tail on the albums, tracks and gigs released in a 12 month period. While there are some dissenters – Donald Clarke was huffing and puffing at the weekend about lists (though that didn’t stop him listing his own top 10 albums for 2011), while Laura Barton in the Guardian thinks we’re better off listening to bands covering the Stereophonics in a pub than making lists – we here at OTR think these lists are a fabulous idea, if only because it neatly ties the year together and we can get on with listening to new music again.

  After the jump, you will find my Top 30 albums for 2011. You will also find the tracks, Irish bands and breakthrough acts of 2011 as voted for by me and Ticket rock/pop writers Lauren Murphy, Tony Clayton-Lea, Sinead Gleeson, Brian Boyd and Ailbhe Malone. These selections were the basis for the shortlists for The Ticket Awards, which were voted on by readers and the results of which will be revealed in The Ticket next Friday (December 16).
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• Have you excercised your franchise in The Ticket Awards yet?

  December 9, 2011 @ 10:55 am | by Jim Carroll

  If not, you have until Sunday at midnight to vote in The Ticket Awards 2011. It’s your chance to have your say when it comes to music, movies and games in 2011 rather than just fuming, whinging and whining about it. Vote now, vote often etc. Results will be announced in The Ticket on Friday December 16. For those who can’t get enough lists at this time of th eyear, we’ll be running down The Ticket music writers’ albums, tracks, Irish acts and breakthrough acts of the year here on Monday morning. I’ll make the tea if you bring the almond croissants.

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• What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

  @ 8:00 am | by Jim Carroll

  Zac Ephron: we find out how the star of New Year’s Eve is coping with translating teen fame into grown-up stardom. Plus how have other High School Musical stars fared with the transition.

  Wild Flag: former riot-grrrl rocker Carrie Brownstein on why her new band Wild Flag is all about the here and now and not bloody nostalgia.

  Booking the Cooks: gather around the stove for some deep fried turkey and chicken and pepperoni on sticks with the Trailer Park Boys.

  David Kitt: most acts wait until the 20th or 25th anniversary of a decent album – or if they’ve run out of steam – to dust it off for re-evaluation, but David Kitt explains why he’s going back to “The Big Romance” just 10 years after its release.

  Plus CD reviews (including Theo Bleckman, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Childish Gambino, Rolling Stones, Tunng, Colin J. Morris, Elevens, Rammstein, Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra, M83, Thea Gilmore), films (New Years Eve, Las Acacias, Another Earth, Puss in Boots, Very Harold and Kumar 3D, Wings of Desire), games (Need for Speed: The Run), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times today in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Are you feeling festive yet?

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• You voted for Ming. You voted for Dana. Now, make your vote really count!

  December 2, 2011 @ 10:46 am | by Jim Carroll

  It’s time for The Ticket Awards 2011! Voting is now underway here and polling booths remain open until midnight on Sunday December 11. Results will be announced on Friday December 16. Plus, to get you in the mood, you can listen to a podcast of The Ticket music writers discussing the shortlist (we’ll be revealing individual lists on the blog next Friday) and read all about it here. We’re waiting to hear back about the Tonight with Vinnie Browne debate so hold onto your horses….

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• What’s in The Ticket tomorrow – and your plugs

  December 1, 2011 @ 1:11 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  The Ticket Awards: it’s not us, it’s YOU! It’s your chance to tell us about your year in music, film and games. Our critics have selected the shortlists in everthing from Best Irish Film and Best Documentary (in film) to Album of Year, Irish Act of the Year and Gobshite of the Year in music and it’s over to you to decide. Forget the general election in February or the prez election in November, THIS is the only election which counts. Voting is open until midnight Sunday December 11 on irishtimes.com and we’ll reveal the winners in our special awards issue on December 16. You can heard Lauren Murphy, Tony Clayton-Lea and myself discuss the music choices on a podcast online from tomorrow.

  Junior Boys: talking about finding funk in the Canadian wilderness and staying suave in a world of nerds ahead of their Dublin show on December 10.

  Aloe Blacc: he needs a dollar, we need some answers to our questions

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including Amy Winehouse, Drake, Korn, The Black Keys, Smith & Burrows, Brendan Begley, Sepalcure, Korallreven, Ogham, The Henry Girls), movies (The Thing, Happy Two Feet, We Have A Pope, Huge 3D, Les Enfants du Paridis, Blood In the Mobile), games (Assassin’s Creed: Revelations), apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  Banter plug: it’s the Banter Review of 2011 and it happens at the Twisted Pepper, Dublin next Wednesday December 7 (the night after our two budgets – or three, if you count the German one). The thinkers, talkers and troublemakers who will reviewing the flotsam and jetsam of a very busy and eventful year are Sinead Gleeson, Miriam O’Callaghan and Conor Pope, with me as the one prompting them to stop talking about the royal wedding. Start-time is 8pm, admission is €5 on the door or sign up in advance to our guestlist here. Full info on Banters past on the new website.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Je suis dans Rennes pour le weekend raving a les Transmusicales, OK?

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• What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

  November 18, 2011 @ 8:02 am | by Jim Carroll

  Wuthering Heights: the former star of E4’s Skins, Kaya Scodelario puts on her moody, tortured face for her turn as Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights. She tells Tara Brady what it’s like to make a classic.

  David Guetta: he’s gotta feeling. We track down the superstar DJ and producer with the Midas pop touch.

  Take Shelter: the best actor you’ve never heard of, Michael Shannon talk about playing the lead in the “film of the year”.

  Little Dragon: Q&A with the Swedes who have collaborated with Gorillaz, Big Boi, Raphael Saadiq, SBTRKT and David Sitek’s Maximum Balloon

  Cults: on how they learned to flll a room

  Plus CD reviews (including The Coronas, She & Him, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Joker, Youth Lagoon, Bossa Jazz, Chris Stout, Redivider, Polly Barret and Mike Gibbs & Norma Winstone), films (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Justice, Snowtown, Bernadette and Pocket full of Miracles), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times today in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  OTR Presents plug: the next OTR Presents gig happens tomorrow night at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) with live sets from The Field and Walls. Tickets are €15 (or €12, if you’re a Bodytonic member) in advance and can be purchased here (no booking fees or TM charges). Bonus feature: you can also hang around for the Twisted Pepper third birthday bash afterwards which features Joy Orbison, Floating Points, Barry Redsetta, The Vertical Rhythm Joint and much, much more.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. It’s time for some Banter.

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• Tomorrow in The Ticket – and your plugs

  November 10, 2011 @ 1:51 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Twilight – Breaking Dawn: it’s Taylor bloody Lautner! The lad who landed his first leads six years in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3D talks about how removing his shirt to produce shrieks is all in a day’s work when you’re part of a multi-billion dollar franchise about vampires, werewolves and puppy love.

  Snow Patrol: while you have to wonder if anyone really needs more than one Snow Patrol album in their life, millions of punters love the band’s sound and Gary Lightbody has the confidence to keep it that way.

  Tabloid: Errol Morris on his documentary about the case of former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney, who was charged with abducting, imprisoning and raping a young Mormon missionary – her former boyfriend – in the 1980s.

  Oh Land: Denmark’s biggest pop success since Aqua unleashed Barbie Girl on life after ballet – and supporting Katy Perry.

  Twin Sister: Q&A with the excellent Brooklyn band who play Dublin’s Grand Social on Saturday night.

  Okkervil River: Siobhan Kane talks to singer-songwriter Will Sheff

  Booking the Cooks: Royseven dish up a creamy fusili with chorizo.

  Plus reviews of new album releases (including David Lynch, New Look, Spectrals, Bonnie Prince Billy, Wakey! Wakey!, Bill Ryder-Jones, The Who, Liz Green, Keith Jarrett, Phil Robson, Dale Ann Bradley and At First Light), movies (Arthur Christmas, The Awakening, Immortals, The Rum Diary, Tabloid, Trespass, Wuthering Heights, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Silence, Weekend), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine, Salt’n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine

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• What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

  November 4, 2011 @ 8:45 am | by Jim Carroll

  Katy Perry: The Tickets joins the pop star for a glass of bubbly as she celebrates her 27th birthday.

  The Coronas: huge in Ireland but largely untested out foreign, it’s an interesting time for Danny O’Reilly and friends.

  Cher Lloyd: the X Factor troublemaker jumps off the production line.

  Miranda July: she’s everything that’s wonderful and woeful about the indie movie scene as we meet the phenomenon behind The Future

  Domhnall Gleeson: the familiar face on going from Harry Potter to playing a farmer running a brothel in Sensation.

  Cars Love Girls: what’s on the rider of the Dublin duo

  Plus CD reviews (including Snow Patrol, Little Xs for Eyes, Goodtime, Manic Street Preachers, Odonis Odonis, Ane Brun, Real Estate, Camille, Mayer Hawthorne, Mary Black and Southern Tenant Folk Union), films (Machine Gun Preacher, Tower Heist, Sensation, Inni, The Future, Straw Dogs, In Time, Jack Goes Boating), games (Battlefield 3, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Sims 3), apps (Wall Of Sound), listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times today in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. It was all a dream, I used to read Ireland’s Own magazine.

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• Tomorrow in The Ticket – and your plugs

  October 20, 2011 @ 1:49 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  We Need to Talk about Kevin: Lionel Shriver tells Tara Brady what she really thinks of the movie of her book.

  Justice: why the French duo are keeping the cross out front as they begin to plug new album “Audio, Video, Disco”

  Billy Bragg: the big-nosed bard from Barking keeps on keeping on.

  Marketa Irglova: the Czech half of The Swell Season flies solo with debut album “Anar”

  Galway Comedy Festival: four page supplement including features on David O’Doherty, Tim Minchin and 4 Poofs and A Piano, listings, overview, comics tell their favourite jokes and a guide to Galway grub and drink

  Screen Writer: “George Clooney is the E-Type Jaguar of movie actors. Everybody admires his class, but relatively few people are prepared to pay money to (help, the analogy is breaking down) sit in his driving seat”

  Plus reviews of new albums (including Coldplay, Marketa Irglova, La Faro, 3Epkano, Saccade, Dirty Projectors & Bjork, Gem Club, Modeselektor and “Contagion OST”), movies (We Need To Talk About Kevin, Contagion, Judy Moody And The Bummer Summer, Monte Carlo, The Yellow Sea, The Green Wave, ), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Now is the winter of our disco tent.

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• Tomorrow in The Ticket – and your plugs

  October 13, 2011 @ 1:48 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  James Vincent McMorrow: from pushing trolleys around Dublin airport to taking on the world, how JVMcM got from there to here via London and Termonfeckin.

  Bon Iver: Justin Vernon has left the log cabin behind, built himself a studio, expanded the band and collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z and James Blake. Life’s good, he tells Lauren Murphy.

  Grassroots cinema: welcome to the manifesto movie which it’s less Michael Moore polemic and more how-to guides to fighting the power. Tara Brady on Debtocracy, Just do it and The Green Wave, the documentaries growing from the ground up

  Noel Gallagher: the best rock’n'roll interview in the heritage rock department does some swearing.

  Pop Corner: gossip, scandal, fake tan, Cher Lloyd, baby Beyonce and Snoop’s massive cucumber.

  Plus reviews of new albums (including Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, DRC Music, Future Islands, Joe Chester, The Stepkids, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Twin Sister, The Jayhawks and John Doyle), movies (The Three Musketeers 3D, Albatross, A Dolphin Tale, Parked, Real Steel, Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Footloose, First Night), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Do you want fries with that?

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• What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

  October 7, 2011 @ 8:00 am | by Jim Carroll

  Bjork: The Ticket’s gone to Iceland on the occasion of Bjork’s new album “Biophilia”

  Hugh Jackman: from Wolverine to song-and-dance man hosting the Oscars and from a robot boxing trainer to the “sexiest man alive”, meet the Jackman of all acting trades

  Ray Stevenson: how the Lisburn giant ended up a mainstay of comic-book films like The Three Musketeers.

  Plus reviews of new albums (including Bjork, Lisa Hannigan, Still Corners, You Me at Six, Ryan Adams, Emika, Rustie, Ben Folds and Lady Antebellum), movies (Johnny English Reborn, La Piscine, Midnight in Paris, Perfect Sense, The Lion King 3D, Tyrannosaur, Bal (Honey)), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times today in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  OTR at Hard Working Class Heroes 2011: I will be moderating the panels at the annual Hard Working Class Heroes festival in Dublin this weekend. The four panels, all on the theme of The Knowledge, will take place at the Button Factory (Temple Bar, Dublin 2) today and tomorrow. Full details here and admission to all the panels (and Bandtips’ conversations) is free. If you’re gigging over the weekend, don’t forget the OTR vs Nialler9 night as part of HWCH with Moths, Cloud Castle Lake, Tieranniesaur, The Depravations, The Danger Is and Last Days of 1984 at the Workman’s Club on Saturday night. Full information on all HWCH activities here with the gigs’ schedule for the weekend here, details of the free HWCH & The City gigs here and ticket info here.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. No sleep till Sunday.

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• Tomorrow in The Ticket – and your plugs

  September 29, 2011 @ 1:51 pm | by Jim Carroll

  What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow:

  Jape: why Richie Egan would dress up as a chicken (and be the best chicken in the world) to sell his music and new album “Ocean Of Frequency”

  Lisa Hannigan: we take a trip with La Hannigan on the occasion of her album “The Passenger”

  Kevin Smith: the man who made Clerks on his new flick Red State and why a film that mocks Christian fundamentalism had to rely on self-distribution.

  Album Club: Cashier No 9’s “To the Death of Fun” gets the once-over.
   
  Anna Faris: the What’s Your Number? star on why this summer has been a victory for women.

  Plus reviews of new albums (including Wild Flag, Jape, Feist, The Waterboys, NewVillager, The Chakras, Marketa Irglova, Stewart Agnew, The Koubas, Martyn and Alan Kelly Gang), movies (The Debt, Cane Toads: The Conquest 3D, Guilty of Romance, Melancholia, Red State, What’s Your Number?), games, apps, listings, news and much, much more.

  That’s your winning Ticket in The Irish Times tomorrow in print, online and the best of The Ticket on the app.

  The OTR plugs service is now open for business. Please feel free to plug and recommend stuff away to your heart’s content, but remember some simple rules: (a) declare an interest where one should be declared, (b) plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense and (c) plugs which mention a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. We’re here all week, try the veal.

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