Una Mullally

• festivals
• December 28, 2012, 13:14

This starts next week. And this is what it’s all about: Last year was my first First Fortnight and it was a revelation. Never before have I been in a room where people were talking so honestly and openly about …

• Uncategorized
• December 28, 2012, 12:33

1. ‘Ah here, leave it out’. I must be the only person who thought that the catchphrase of the year wasn’t remotely amusing considering it involved people getting the absolute crap beaten out of them in Dublin 1. LOL STREET …

• Dublin spoken word video
• December 28, 2012, 11:56

A great riff on life in Dublin, reasons to go, reasons to stay. Written and directed by Dave Tynan and produced by Kathryn Kennedy. Well done to all involved.

• film
• December 20, 2012, 14:34

Michael Bay wants him.

• PopLives
• December 20, 2012, 08:05

Mark O’Halloran is an award-winning Irish actor and scriptwriter. He wrote and starred in Adam & Paul, and also wrote the screenplays for Garage and the RTE series Prosperity. He also wrote the 2011 play Trade which won the New Play Award at …

• awards culture
• December 18, 2012, 16:19

Over the next few days, I’ll be publishing one (rather large) post a day for the PopLife Review of the Year, the vast majority of which is Irish-focussed. Today, it’s the kick off point, a bunch of PopLife Awards as …

• feminism
• December 18, 2012, 11:09

Great piece by Laura Slattery in today’s newspaper.

• music
• December 17, 2012, 12:55

Here’s a new tune from And So I Watch You From Afar, ‘Like A Mouse’ from the upcoming album ‘All Hail Bright Futures’. The tracklisting for the new album, released on March 19, is as follows: 1. Eunoia 02. Big …

• Uncategorized
• December 17, 2012, 12:43

There’s a part of me that would like an XX-ifying app, that would turn the most upbeat, fun and lush songs into a sparse, downtempo, yearning version. Here they are covering ‘Last Christmas’ for BBC’s Live Lounge. The xx play …

• video
• December 14, 2012, 15:35

Possibly the greatest YouTube upload in the history of time.

• video
• December 14, 2012, 12:48

They sound like Muse all of a sudden:

• Uncategorized
• December 14, 2012, 12:36

And surprisingly, that someone is not me. It’s her. Good attention-seeking troll-gag if it’s a spoof. Image via Reddit

• Uncategorized
• December 14, 2012, 12:17

I wrote this short story on Wednesday afternoon for a ‘performance’ (talking into a mic) at PETTY CASH that evening in the Little Green Gallery in Christchurch. I’ve never written a short story before, so it’s just a bit of …

• Daily Digest
• December 14, 2012, 11:51

No more walking down dead ends! Google maps for iPhone is back. What faces look like when they’re hit by a 186mph gust of wind. A recap of the disintegration of Katt Williams that makes Lindsay Lohan look like a …

• Dublin
• December 14, 2012, 10:53

This project currently on Fund It is a great idea; a large city centre rooftop garden on top of the Chocolate Factory, a rejuvenated building with some exciting and ambitious plans.

• gigs
• December 14, 2012, 10:36

Tomorrow (Saturday) at Mandela Hall in Belfast, an awesome bunch of bands is coming together to raise money for Macmillan Cancer and UK Bowel Cancer. The bands say: “This December at very short notice and group of musicians, promoters, venues, …

• PopLives
• December 13, 2012, 08:44

Amy Conroy is a theatre maker who directs, writes and acts. Her company HotForTheatre won the Fishamble Award for New Writing (Conroy) and Best Female Performance Award (Clare Barrett) for I ♥ Alice ♥ I at ABSOLUT Fringe 2010. HotForTheatre’s …

• art Dublin going out
• December 12, 2012, 13:20

When myself and my creative partner Ragin started an alternative spoken word series earlier this year called Come Rhyme With Me, a young man Oisin McKenna approached us, asking to perform the material he was writing at one of the …

• Daily Digest
• December 12, 2012, 13:09

Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest Indian musicians of all time, George Harrison’s inspiration and Norah Jones’ pop has died. It’s end-of-year-list-mania at the moment, but some of them are useful, such as this list from the NME of 50 …

• Uncategorized
• December 11, 2012, 14:52

I just came across this old report from Nationwide on Willie Heffernan’s monkey sanctuary in Wicklow and thought I’d share it. It’s not a place many people know about, but it’s a fascinating site – 13 man-made islands on a …

• going out
• December 11, 2012, 11:16

Banter’s review of 2012 takes place in Twisted Pepper on Wednesday evening with Joe Duffy and Emmet Malone and hosted by Jim Carroll. I’ll be replacing Orla Tinsley on the panel. Pop down and bant.

• LGBT
• December 10, 2012, 17:55

A video from BeLonG To about the experiences of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland.

• music
• December 10, 2012, 14:52

So The xx seemed to dig MMOTHS‘ two night stint with them at the Olympia in Dublin, as they’ve now invited Jack and Co’s live set up on tour with them for six English dates starting tonight in Leeds. Newbridge …

• Uncategorized
• December 10, 2012, 14:32

Here it is, the list that people in the know love to nark about and those outside the know use to be in the know. Yup, it’s annual BBC Sound Of… list, a collection of 15 acts brought together by …

• Uncategorized
• December 10, 2012, 10:58

The story.

• film
• December 10, 2012, 09:28

I wrote this piece in Saturday’s paper. In 1985 the cartoonist Alison Bechdel created the Bechdel Test when a character in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For queried the mistreatment of women in film. For a movie to …

• documentary
• December 7, 2012, 14:53

I met up with my buddy Cillian McDonnell last night with whom I run the music documentary film festival OneTwoOneTwo. Cillian is a gold mine of documentary information. A doc fiend! The previous evening I had seen Vito at the Best …

• awards
• December 7, 2012, 12:07

You can vote for your own choices in the areas of music, film, games, and festivals here. You can win stuff when you vote too, including Electric Picnic tickets, an annual IFI membership, a pair of season tickets for the …

• music video
• December 7, 2012, 11:52

Hansard returns to his hometown of Ballymun for this vid directed by Hedi Rose.

• culture Dublin
• December 6, 2012, 15:40

More info about The Trailblazery here, and here’s the 20-person Poll I did at the last event.

• gigs music
• December 6, 2012, 10:37

(photo via Gothamist.) Kraftwerk are set to perform a residency at the Tate Modern in February, playing eight of their albums in full, one each night. The series of concerts will happen in the Tate’s Turbine Hall. Their musical retrospective …

• Daily Digest
• December 6, 2012, 08:45

Louise McSharry is the co-founder of Fanny.ie and currently fronting Weekend Breakfast on 2fm. What are you reading? Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach, I read an article last week about how this book is still so relevant despite being …

• festivals music
• December 5, 2012, 20:54

I have emerged from the annual Dingle Bubble at Other Voices that for me marks the start of the festive season as well as an opportunity to check out some decent music in intimate settings, be it in St James’ …

• documentary music video
• December 5, 2012, 20:11

Jay-Z had this doc made about the run up to the opening of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and the series of gigs he was doing there as part of a publicity drive and celebration (I guess) heralding the new home of …

• Uncategorized
• December 5, 2012, 17:14

The Chicago Tribune reports the jazz legend’s death.

• Daily Digest
• December 5, 2012, 17:03

The demise of The Daily – great post by Jim Carroll. Put down the potato, scoop-monkey, it’s The Budget 2013 live blog. Gawker asks some photographers if they would have taken the now infamous New York Post subway photo. Here’s …

• Uncategorized
• December 5, 2012, 13:35

A friend from Monaghan txtd this to me this morning:

• music video
• December 3, 2012, 18:43

A band whose name is on plenty of people’s lips down in Dingle where I am at the moment for Other Voices, is Drenge, two brothers who pretty much capture that raw and raucous Sheffield sound.