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• celebrity documentary
• January 31, 2013, 15:08

The date that Beyonce is set to offer an insight into her world in a new documentary is drawing closer.

• PopLives
• January 31, 2013, 08:50

Over the next few weeks on PopLives, the Q&A that concerns itself with the media consumption of interesting people, the nominees of this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize will be answering the questions. The Choice takes place in the Olympia on March …

• Uncategorized
• January 30, 2013, 14:34

It’s always interesting to see how words and phrases progress as they get morphed by various uses. Amazon used to be a river, now it’s more likely people will think you’re referring to the website, for example. In the changing …

• festivals
• January 30, 2013, 11:30

No it’s not the big MCD announcement, but another festival for the summer listings, Groove, which will take place at Kilruddery Estate in Wicklow on the 6th and 7th of July. The headliners are James Morrison and Imelda May, the …

• journalism
• January 30, 2013, 10:55

I missed this great article when it was published in SPIN in November when that self-titled EP was about to turn 20. I thought I’d share the article here because it’s really great, and I LOVE ORAL HISTORIES. They’re laborious …

• photography
• January 29, 2013, 18:09

Peter Yang, a bloke who shoots primarily for Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine, has become one of my favourite portrait photographers of late. He’s so good at just nailing a particular mood or bringing out an …

• Dublin video
• January 29, 2013, 17:21

Via @StillFilms

• Daily Digest
• January 29, 2013, 14:33

The making of ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ For all the doubters who don’t believe in shiny things at the end of the rainbow. Ker-ching. Really bad reasons a guy called Jerry Boykin has given for banning women from combat missions …

• books celebrity comedy
• January 29, 2013, 14:33

AP reports that Amy Poehler has signed a deal with It Books (HarperCollins) for an “illustrated, non-linear diary”. So far, the book is untitled and the publication date is 2014. It Books says it’s an original twist on the conventional …

• PopLives
• January 29, 2013, 08:47

Over the next few weeks on PopLives, the Q&A that concerns itself with the media consumption of interesting people, the nominees of this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize will be answering the questions. The Choice takes place in the Olympia on March …

• music TV
• January 28, 2013, 15:45

Tomorrow (Tues) on Ceol ar an Imeall (11pm, TG4), we’ve got live studio performances from Last Days of 1984 and Dott, and an interview with the awesome Honningbarna. Here’s a clip of Dott from the show:

• Daily Digest
• January 28, 2013, 15:42

The SAG Awards list of winners. Great column from Shane Hegarty on Irish stereotypes. Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear curating ATP event in London. How the personal finance industry patronises women. The gendering of personal finances by talking heads …

• film
• January 28, 2013, 15:34

Fruitvale, the first film from 26-year-old Ryan Cooglar won the Grand Jury and Audience awards at Sundance. The based-on-a-true-story feature is about Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old who was shot and killed in Oakland, where Cooglar is from. Blood Brother, about …

• music
• January 28, 2013, 14:23

Here’s the debut single and great new video from Nanu Nanu.

• film
• January 28, 2013, 13:51

This 2005 24-minute film by Conor Horgan has popped up online over the past week (I saw it over on Panti’s blog), where people answer the question what is happiness or what makes them happy. Horgan, of course, went on to …

• celebrity
• January 28, 2013, 12:50

TMZ has the details of an alleged brawl that occurred between RnB’s most and least favourite artists, Frank Ocean and Chris Brown.

• music
• January 25, 2013, 12:10

You can download and stream I Am The Cosmos’ new album over on Noisey here. It’s a delightful collection of nostalgic and melancholic electronic music, tunes that refuses to lapse into a downtempo mode, but instead manage to sustain a …

• photography
• January 25, 2013, 10:54

On Tuesday night, one third of all Chicago firefighters were sent to a massive blaze on the South Side of a city, as a warehouse went up in smoke. The additional problem? It was freezing, and as the firefighters doused …

• comedy journalism
• January 25, 2013, 10:14

I interviewed Sean Hughes for this piece in the paper today. Hughes brings his new show ‘Life Becomes Noises’ at Vicar Street on February 21st. (Photo by Alan Betson) “What age are you?” Sean Hughes is talking about getting older …

• brands celebrity fashion
• January 24, 2013, 15:35

I thought this article in the New York Times about Taylor Swift’s new campaign for Keds was interesting, because you rarely read people in articles identifying specific Q scores of celebrities. The Q Score was a metric developed in the …

• celebrity video
• January 24, 2013, 14:57

• PopLives
• January 24, 2013, 13:31

Over the next few weeks on PopLives, the Q&A that concerns itself with the media consumption of interesting people, the nominees of this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize will be answering the questions. The Choice takes place in the Olympia …

• festivals
• January 23, 2013, 15:17

Take a bow Barclaycard British Summer Time, your promotional ‘photograph’ just screams Summer Of Love. I can’t wait to prop up the counter at your Festival Gruel Dispensary Unit with a cool refreshing pint of gravel, while checking out some …

• gigs music video
• January 23, 2013, 14:26

Little Green Cars play the Button Factory in Temple Bar on March 8th. Tickets are €12.50 (that’s good value) and go on sale Friday morning and in a shock development, you can purchase them on websites that sell gig tickets. …

• music video
• January 23, 2013, 13:46

For Kodaline again, and this time the song is ‘High Hopes’. Kodaline’s SnowPlay style seems to fit Russell’s narratives – man-meets-woman landscapes with a twist that he paints with finesse. And Liam Cunningham is awesome, in general.

• journalism LGBT society
• January 23, 2013, 11:07

I wrote this article about the word ‘queer’ in the paper today. A Liveline debate over the use of ‘queer’ in a pantomime review  highlighted the evolution of the word and its power to divide What’s in a word? On …

• film
• January 23, 2013, 11:01

Via IFTN and @AnnaRodgersDocs, Irish co-production ‘The Summit’, a doc about what happened to 11 of 22 climbers who vanished while attempting to teach the top of K2 in 2008, has secured a US distribution deal with Sundance Selects. Here’s …

• music
• January 23, 2013, 09:50

• music politics
• January 22, 2013, 10:28

Beyoncé delivers an amazing performance of the American national anthem at President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday. But… did she lip-sync? Say it ain’t so Beyonce. Some mouthy Marine band member has been blabbing about Beyonce’s ability to rawk it …

• society video
• January 21, 2013, 12:19

*UPDATE: the Iona Institute video has been removed from YouTube* I didn’t think you’d need to build a case for man / woman marriage considering it already exists, but the Iona Institute did, and made this video: Then, Tara Flynn …

• Daily Digest
• January 21, 2013, 12:14

A lot has been written about the death of Aaron Swartz. I interviewed him last year for an article about the then mooted Facebook IPO. Peter Crawley reviews The Theatre Machine Turns You On Vol.3. The new Nialler9 podcast is …

• music TV
• January 21, 2013, 11:35

Tomorrow on Ceol ar an Imeall (Tuesday, TG4, 11pm), there are live performances from Late Fragments, Temper-Mental MissElayneous and an interview with Boys Noize. Here’s a little preview of the third programme in the series:

• tech
• January 21, 2013, 10:57

Happened across this Tumblr today (hat tip: @PlatinumJones), which adds some watercolour artistry to Grindr – the gay men’s dating / sex geolocation app – profile pics. Check it out here. As an aside, I find Grindr and the idea …

• music
• January 21, 2013, 09:57

Kitty Empire reviewed the London show in the Observer at the weekend.

• music
• January 18, 2013, 11:13

The earworm that just won’t quit.

• feminism
• January 17, 2013, 16:23

The Y-Factor Project is an initiative by the National Women’s Council of Ireland set up to empower and support young women and young men to become leaders for women’s equality. The project launches on February 1st at Woodquay in Dublin. …

• art
• January 17, 2013, 15:53

Like most people, Quentin Blake’s drawings in Roald Dahl’s books were the illustrations of my youth, as essential to the telling of Dahl’s stories as Ralph Steadman’s were to Hunter S Thompson’s surreal journalism. Over on the Guardian there’s a …

• film
• January 17, 2013, 15:23

If there’s one actor to expect the unexpected from, it’s Franco. First up, the sinister-funny bikini-fest that is Spring Breakers which also features Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. In the trailer, which keeps getting yanked off YouTube as far …

• PopLives
• January 17, 2013, 13:22

Rick O’Shea is an Irish radio presenter who has presented on RTE’s 2fm since 2001. Last year, he won the Irish edition of Celebrity Mastermind. What are you reading? Lee Child’s first Jack Reacher book Killing Floor. I find it reallty …

• celebrity journalism
• January 16, 2013, 15:53

Esquire published a ridiculous interview with Megan Fox along with what on first glance appears to be a badly photoshopped cover shot. Whatever about the “where am I?” pout, hair extensions, and barely-there bra, check out the legs! VICE thinks …

• awards
• January 16, 2013, 12:51

The Twitter Oscars index (via @ConwayComms) may or may not give some indication as to who will be taking away the gold statues in a few weeks time, but here’s how you really win an Oscar.

• competition theatre
• January 16, 2013, 12:33

*COMPETITION NOW CLOSED* MADONNA is a new play by Meadhbh Haiceid, in which she is beginning to realise that Madonna may in fact be her soulmate. The performance is showing as part of THEATREclub’s THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON …

• Daily Digest
• January 16, 2013, 12:14

A group for military spouses in North Carolina has allegedly denied a lesbian wife of a servicewoman membership. Cool photos of identical twins. The most insightful piece you’ll read about HMV. And it was written last August. Rob Kelly has …

• Dublin journalism magazines
• January 16, 2013, 10:42

As part of their 100th issue, the excellent Totally Dublin magazine has a feature this month titled ’100 Ways Dublin Will Look In The Future’. 100 Dubliners gaze into a crystal ball and try to figure out what the future …

• music
• January 16, 2013, 10:28

Dublin DJ Chewy has just put this mix online for all your boarderline cheesy, but still fantastic 90s RnB needs.  

• music
• January 14, 2013, 15:27

A while ago I blogged about what we knew RE: the upcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. Today, more information has emerged. The NME reports that the new album is ‘reggae-influenced’.The band’s fourth studio record is titled ‘Mosquito’ and will be …

• TV
• January 14, 2013, 11:54

Little Xs For Eyes and Jinx Lennon perform live on Ceol ar an Imeall tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11pm on TG4. Check out this preview of there performance.

• awards celebrity film TV
• January 14, 2013, 11:49

The full list of winners is here. 1. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler should be hosting the Oscars. Their ceremony intro sparkled and every gag hit its mark. They were smart, confident, relaxed, and did what all good hosts are …

• celebrity film journalism
• January 11, 2013, 14:39

There’s a fascinating, explosive, long, detailed and very damaging piece by Stephen Rodrick on Lindsay Lohan’s stint filming The Canyons in the New York Times today. You can read the whole thing here. Here’s some WTF footage of the movie …

• PopLives
• January 11, 2013, 11:39

Grace Dyas is an award-winning theatre-maker and one third of THEATREclub whose festival THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON: Vol. 3 is currently running in the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar, Dublin until January 19th. (THEATREclub: Grace Dyas, Shane …

• film
• January 10, 2013, 14:46

Award season – which runs 12 months of the year – is a triple threat this week with the parochial IFTAs, local BAFTAs and global Oscars drawing the attention of statue hoggers. I’ll get to the BAFTAs and Oscars in …

• music
• January 10, 2013, 13:54

Rejjie Snow is a bit of a favourite around these parts, and his new video for ‘Lost In Empathy’ has seen him kick up a gear, with the Jamie Delaney-directed vid drawing inspiration from the persecution of albinos in Tanzania. …

• video
• January 8, 2013, 14:37

The girl-group equivalent of Trigger from Only Fools and Horse’s council sweeping brush are back – EVEN SIOBHAN – and they have a little ditty to sing for y’all.    

• music
• January 8, 2013, 10:09

What fantastic news to wake up to this morning! On his 66th birthday, David Bowie has released a new single and video, with an album ready to go for March. The new track, ‘Where Are We Now?’ is a woozy …

• music TV video
• January 7, 2013, 17:07

The alternative music show I do for TG4 kicks off its fourth series tomorrow (Tuesday 8th) at 11pm, and the first act on the programme is one of my favourite Irish bands, Kool Thing. Here’s a preview vid of their …

• TV
• January 7, 2013, 16:11

No, not the Wright Venue, silly billies, you get this, a new reality TV show. Forget about the rumoured and subsequently scrapped Simon Cowell X-Factor-crossed-with-DJing format, because what the world really needs is more Pauly Ds, who, by the way …

• Daily Digest
• January 7, 2013, 10:41

Beware Of Mr. Baker! Interview with Ginger Baker here. Fascinating portraits of Albanian women who have lived their lives as men. (via @PantiBliss) Good blog post on India’s rape and sexual assault laws. Panda blood! Katie Taylor to defend European …

• awards music
• January 4, 2013, 12:42

Whatever you think about the BBC Sound Of list and how it’s compiled or how relevant it is, it still holds a certain kind of sway, and although occasionally misfiring does attempt to try and gather how a year in …

• film
• January 4, 2013, 11:45

There’s a great interview in the Guardian by Ryan Gilbey with Lenny Abrahamson (hat tip @shanehegarty) about ‘What Richard Did’. I love the way Abrahamson talks about the complexity of ‘the good guy’ and how much easier it is to …

• music video
• January 4, 2013, 11:15

• music
• January 4, 2013, 11:12

It’s four years since their last album, so what can we expect in 2013 from a band that’s damn good at keeping things under wraps? For me, their fourth studio album is one of the most exciting releases due this …

• theatre
• January 3, 2013, 18:10

Fancy a different kind of theatre experience this January? Unexpected, random, full of actors, writers and directors? The 24 Hour Plays has returned to Dublin, this time at the Abbey Theatre for one night, where a team will create six …

• journalism
• January 3, 2013, 17:47

When John Cage came up with the line, “I have nothing to say and I’m saying it,” it was a commentary about minimalism. Repeated in his book ‘Silence’, Cage believed that emptiness could often speak just as loudly as that …

• art
• January 3, 2013, 10:31

THEATREclub’s now annual festival at the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar starts next Tuesday, and there’s a bunch of deadly stuff to check out which you can see here. I’m looking forward to checking out Writer/Performer/Salesman by PETTYCASH and …

• media music TV video
• January 2, 2013, 14:59

The alternative music show I present for TG4 is back for a fourth series, starting next Tuesday (8th) at 11pm. The new series has a load of brilliant Irish acts performing live in studio, and you can check out who …

• art
• January 2, 2013, 11:33

I saw this in Dublin 8 on New Year’s Day.