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Are you ready? 24-hour live DCUTV
DCU shall take over Aer TV.ie tomorrow as they attempt to host a 24 Hour Live Broadcast, at 8pm tomorrow evening. All shows to be aired throughout the marathon have been made by DCU students and will include DCU’s own Apprentice, Babestation and The Late Late Show. Last year the 24-Hour Broadcast raised over €2000, but this year’s team are planning to at least double that figure, all in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital. Throughout the broadcast there will be various ways to donate via text and the internet. Spar on [...]
Balcony TV: Cali
Cali, ‘Outta My Mind’ Many Irish musicians have gone to America over the years and ‘Made it Big’, as they say; Mick Maloney in the 70s, The Clancy Brothers in the 60s, and even as far back as the fiddler Michael Coleman in the 1920s and Patsy Touhey in the late 1800s with his uilleann pipes. They all made that journey across the Atlantic and found success in places like Boston, New York, and Philidelphia, popularising traditional Irish folk music. But music is an exchange, and Cali has made the [...]
Balcony TV: John Spillane
John Spillane, A Rock To Cling To “Everybody needs a rock to cling to,” croons John Spillane in his distinctive Cork tones. A song with John Spillane is like going into another, much nicer, world for all too brief a time. A singer, songwriter, poet and dreamer, John weaves beautiful soundscapes for his listeners to escape into. A Rock To Cling To is the title track of his seventh solo album. John is a passionate advocate of the Irish language, and he jokes that some people think that A Rock To Cling To [...]
Are you wishing your life was an Adventureland?
Adventureland is a comedy starring Jessie Eisenberg, Kirsten Steward and Ryan Reynolds. The movie is set in the summer of 1987 centred around an aspiring journalist, who has recently graduated a degree in literature. During the summer months, like the entire student population he tries to find an appealing part time job but is forced to take a ‘nowhere’ job at the local amusement park to fund a journalism course. While working at the amusement park he finds that his life is actually more like a roller coaster than he [...]
Neil Delamere: The Republic Of Hilarious
What is about us Irish that makes us so ridiculously funny? Is it our self-deprecating demeanour? Our seeming lack of shame and embarrassment? Or is it just our love of the craic? If so, then Neil Delamere is probably one of the funniest Irish comedians around at the moment. On Friday March 9th, Delamere had an audience crying with tears of laughter as he brought his ‘Reconstructing’ show to Vicar Street. With a strong supporting act from the equally witty Gearoid Farrelly (he knows how to have the banter), the crowd were well [...]
Balcony TV: The Mandolas
Mark Roche revisits Cork folk/pop foursome The Mandolas as they perform on Balcony TV in the heart of Cork City. With bouzoukis, mandolas, banjos, violas, mandolins and guitars galore, they are the sultans of string. If I told you to listen to a 4-piece boy band, you’d probably tell me to get lost (or worse), but this pop/folk group from Cork are certainly nothing like you would expect to hear on a regular circuit of the local scene. Originally formed under the Nelson Mandola moniker, the band, a group of friends from Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, have recently opted [...]
The Unstoppable Machine – Florence at the 02, 2nd March.
On Friday night last, Florence and her ever-present Machine dropped in to the O2 Dublin to kick off her spanking new “Ceremonials” tour. The choice of Dublin to begin her stint on the road was no doubt an effort to take a decent run-up to her UK and US dates, but this is not to say the performance felt half-hearted, or indeed half-lunged. Quite the opposite. UK band The Horrors, militant champions of the skinny jeans/leather jacket combo, gave a lacklustre and lifeless opening performance (unfortunate for them after a [...]
The Grave Series: A riveting read
I am addressing all my fellow bookworms out there. For those bookworms out there who are still suffering from post- Harry Potter traumatic stress, this four-part book series from True Blood author, Charlaine Harris, should fill the void. For those who still enjoy a bit of magic but have outgrown wizards, now more concerned with abrakebabra than abracadabra, The Grave Series is an authentic and genuine read. Aimed at a student readership, both male and female, the books can be sexual, but not overtly, they can be gruesome with a little [...]
Album review: Lana del Rey’s “Born To Die”
I was obsessed with del Rey’s voice from the moment I first heard “Video Games” on the radio. Pop music, a genre I had pretty much given up on, suddenly became interesting again. The video for “Born To Die” confirmed this: it accompanied the music perfectly without overshadowing it, and was shocking without being in-your-face. Along with the rest of the world, I awaited the album release date with baited breath. Now Born To Die is here, and I’m not exactly sure what to make of it. One thing’s for [...]
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