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Trocaire Live -This Saturday!

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This is for a great cause, on this Saturday in The Grand Social, and thanks to DHR Communications we have a pair of tickets to give-away too. Simply comment on this piece or tweet us at @welovetown

See below for all the details

Nigerian drummers, Ugandan dancers and a Filipino guitar group will perform alongside some of Ireland’s best-known indie and alternative music acts later this month at a special gig organised by the charity, Trócaire.

TrócaireLive will take place at The Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1 on Saturday, 28th April (doors: 7.30pm). The gig will showcase Irish and world music, and place a spotlight on Trócaire’s campaigning work. 

Fred, The Hot Sprockets and Katie Kim will headline TrócaireLive and will be joined by the Dembe Troupe dancers from Uganda; Talking Drums, a Nigerian drumming duo; and Manila Rhythm, a Filipino acoustic band.  Up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Daniel Scannell, will also perform; Groovement Soul will close the gig with a DJ set; and the event will be MCed by Today FM’s Paul McLoone, himself a well-known musician and lead singer with The Undertones. 

Announcing details of TrócaireLive today (10.04.12), Joanne McGarry, Campaigns Officer with Trócaire, said: “Trócaire works in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.  This gig will reflect the global nature of our work.  It will give people a chance to sample elements of different cultures, while enjoying top-class Irish acts. 

“The night will kick off with Nigerian folk drummers performing outside the venue. Inside, people can enjoy Middle Eastern food and soak up the atmosphere in the rooftop garden as they listen to the laidback surfer sounds of Daniel Scannell. 

“Anyone who likes dancing will find it impossible to resist the mariachi-inspired music of Manila Rhythm and the awe-inspiring moves of the Dembe dance troupe. And, on top of all this, we’re offering the chance to see three of the most exciting contemporary acts on the Irish music scene: Fred, The Hot Sprockets and Katie Kim.  This truly promises to be a gig with a difference.”

Further information about all of the acts performing at TrócaireLive is available at: www.trocaire.org/trocairelive.  Tickets for the gig cost €10.  They are available now from Entertainment.ie, and will also be available – on a ‘first come, first served’ basis – at the door on the night. 

 

 

 

 

Record Store Day – Events Today & Tomorrow

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Record Store Day is a worldwide event taking place tomorrow and is a great chance to visit our now ever dwindling record stores in Dublin to see live acts and pick up special Record Store Day singles released for the day.

Tower Records and Elastic Witch are both running live events all day, or you could head to the Outhouse for ‘Record Store Gay’.  Tieranniesaur are kicking of proceedings in Tower Records today at 3pm, and one of my favourite bands of the moment Dark Room Notes playing tomorrow along with HAL, Sweet Jane and Special Guests, click here for more details. 

Elastic Witch have Simon Bird, Last Days of 1984, Girls Names, Adult Rock and more. Click here for more details

The Outhouse on Capel St have a very impressive line up for their ‘Record Store Gay’ including Gaz Le Rock, Hello Moon, I ♥ The Monster Hero, Drunken Boat, Lamont Bailey Wall, School Tour, Lovesea & T, Seeping into Cinemas, Soil Creep, You Kiss by the Book, who have put together an album of covers which have an LGBT theme and will be available to buy on the day Nialler9 posted a link to the album stream during the week, you can listen to it here

Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin – Day by Day Line Up Announced

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Although this news came out last week (I am blaming the lurgy) this festival is looking better and better, and is coming up pretty soon! On May 11th and 12th the acts hit Dublin city centre for our version of Camden Crawl and surprise acts may show at any venue so expect the twitter machine to go into overdrive that weekend!

 

Here is the PR blurb on the day by day acts:

FRIDAY’S CRAWL will see performances from Meteor Choice Music Prize double winner Jape, as well as fellow Choice 2012 nominees And So I Watch You From Afar. Prodigious New Yorker’s We Are Scientists and Limerick’s finest masked duo Rubberbandits will be entertaining the Friday Crawlers, while some of the UK contingent on the bill will include indie-pop merchants Bastille, hip-hopper DELS, new-wavers Dutch Uncles, the wistful pop of Let’s Buy Happiness, Trophy Wife, the infectious Clock Opera, D/R/U/G/S, first wave grimester Becoming Real, Blacklisters, Polarbear and the very wonderful Alpines plus Scotland’s Dam Mantle. Amongst those from Northern Ireland: the dark vaudevillian talents of Duke Special, lo-fi noise-niks Girls Names plus Morning Claws and SertOne. Experimental guitarist/vocalist Verse Corus Verse (previously of ASIWYFA) will also perform on Friday. Danish punk band Iceage will be in town, along with two of Galway’s hottest new talents Daithi and Elaine Mai. Hometown action on Friday will come in the shape of the ghostly electronica of Angkorwat, Come On Live Long, Funeral Suits, post-hardcore trio Jogging, Last Day’s Of 1984, the ever joyous Le Galaxie, as well as rapper Lethal Dialect, Little xs for Eye’s, Logikparty, The Ambience Affair and Wounds. A few more Friday heads are yet to be announced.

 

SATURDAY’S CRAWL will feature the sprightly tunes of Supergrass gent Gaz Coombes and Choice 2012 nominees Tieranniesaur and Cashier No. 9. All-singing, all-breakdancing, all-kitchen utensil-banging Mystery Jets will be on a Dublin Crawl as well as much talked about UK MC Ghost Poet. Saturday will also see performances from New York indie outfit My Best Fiend, UK multi-instrumentalist Kwes, Waterford buzz-acts Deaf Joe and Katie Kim, electro Corkonians Bantum and from the North, Axis Of. Dublin artists on the Saturday Crawl include Alarmist, punk purveyors Girl Band, We Are Losers, Sleep Thieves, Toby Kaar, the much lauded Laura Sheeran, Melodica Deathship, Hands Up Who Wants To Die and alt-rockers La Faro. Also giving it a second twirl on Saturday will be Alpines, Dutch Uncles, Let’s Buy Happiness, Trophy Wife, Clock Opera, D/R/U/G/S, Dam Mantle, Becoming Real, DELS, Polarbear, Blacklisters and Iceage. More names are in the pipeline for Saturdays music marathon.

Weekend tickets are exchanged for a wristband which allows unlimited access to all venues, stages and after show parties. Crawlers will also receive a complimentary programme and album. Individual venue line ups and timings remain a mystery until show-day to enhance the exploratory vibe of the festival. Crawlers are advised to arrive early as surprise guests may appear at any time or in any venue. For those who want to attend on one day only, that’s cool too, the day to day line-up of artists is announced now and day tickets cost €25. Weekend tickets cost €40 and are still available on ticketmaster.ie

 

Forbidden Fruit Festival 2012 – June 2nd, 3rd, 4th

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Wow….the first few acts have been announced for this years Forbidden Fruit Festival and it looks really really good. It will take place over the June Bank holiday weekend in IMMA in Dublin 8. Although there were a few kinks last year on the first day things really got going on the Sunday. Early Bird tickets go on sale tomorrow, and going  by the reaction on twitter to the line up, you might want to be online nice and early!


Saturday 2nd June
Leftfield
The Bloody Beetroots
Booka Shade
The Field
Factory Floor
Bear In Heaven
Le Galaxie
Toby Kaar

Sunday 3rd June
New Order
Death Cab For Cutie
Death In Vegas
Mode Selektor
Austra
Atlas Sound
Grimes
Rarely Seen Above Ground
Kool Thing

Monday 4th June
Wilco
James Vincent McMorrow
Beirut
Mazzy Star
Andrew Bird
Field Music
Julia Holter
Windings

 

 

2012 – What’s in Store

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We are looking forward to the next 6 or so months, and there is a whole lot going on in Dublin in this time. Things seem to reach a head in June with the Olympic torch coming to Dublin, Formula1 racers and Euro 2012!

 

Re-opening of The Lighthouse Cinema

This news was met with a lot of positivity on the internet this week when it was announced Element Pictures are re-opening The Lighthouse Cinema. Hopefully this will translate into real sales as the Lighthouse had been hit with dwindling sales before it closed. It re-opens with week showing W.E. The Artist, J.Edgar and Shame.

No website set up as yet, but like their page on facebook for updates. http://www.facebook.com/LightHouseD7

 

The Meteor Choice Music Prize 2012 8th March 2012

This year the Choice prize has teamed up with Meteor which means a lot more coverage and a move into the Olympia Theatre. Always an excellent night, more details on the website www.choicemusicprize.com

 

Dublin City of Science 2012

Dublin has been chosen to host Europe’s largest science conference, ESOF 2012 (Euroscience Open Forum), from 11-15 July, 2012.

To celebrate this prestigious, international event in Dublin, the City of Science 2012, a programme of science-related events and activities, will run throughout the year across the island of Ireland. http://www.dublinscience2012.ie/

 

Forbidden Fruit June Bank Holiday

One of our favourite festivals from last year returns to Kilmainham, and this time for 3 days of fun. Line-up is still be to be announced and early bird tickets will be on sale soon. http://forbiddenfruit.ie/home

 

Euro 2012 June

Whether you are making the trip to Poland, or staying at home, Euro 2012 is going to be a fun 10 days. Ireland have their work cut out for them, but hopefully we can have at least one win or draw which keeps spirits high. Ireland’s first match is on Sunday 10th June against Croatia. We will post various events nearer the time. Now where did I put my inflatable shamrock?

 

Formula 1 Racing Dublin June

On the 3rd of June this year, Dubliners will have a unique opportunity to see up close Formula 1 racers driving on the streets of Dublin. Tickets are sale for grandstand seats but there are areas to see the action for free. http://www.bavariacityracingdublin.ie/

 

Olympic Torch Run

The Olympic torch relay hits Northern Ireland on June 3rd and will travel to Dublin on June 6th. We will post more details as they become available

‘All The Pieces Matter’ A night of The Wire lectures

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Taking place on Friday 25th November in Block T is ‘All the Pieces Matter’ a night celebrating The Wire.

There will be four discussion topics:

Francis Halsall, NCAD: “Social Systems in the Wire”
Niall Heffernan, UCC: “It’s all in the Game: Game Theory in The Wire”
Barry Shanahan, UCD: “Authenticity and Representation in the Wire”
Daniel Fitzpatrick, NUIG: “The City as Body in Deadwood and The Wire”

Also a screening of a Mystery Episode, and then a night of music inspired by The Wire

As always with Block T, its BYOB and admission is 5 euros.

Facebook event here https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104493862998007

5 on a Friday October 21st 2011

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This weeks 5 on a Friday features a lot of art and culture happenings around the city. Innovation Dublin is also running through to November, with a number of events happening every week, check their website for more detail. Dublin Contemporary is nearly getting to the end of their run, make sure you visit it before it closes on October 31st

Here is this weeks recommendations:

1. Darklight Festival 2011- Strictly Roots

This year’s Darklight Festival will take place Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 October in The Factory, 35A Barrow St. Grand Canal Dock. Visit darklight.ie for more info:

This year’s festival theme is Strictly Roots and we’ll be celebrating the spirit of grassroots filmmaking; how friends and communities come together, and against the crazy backdrop of global financial meltdown still manage to make moving, hilarious, challenging and kick-ass films.

Through our programme strands at this year’s festival; New Indie Voices, Spotlight on Docs, SFX Unplugged, 3-D.I.Y. and Artist in Focus, we’ll be featuring all aspects of grassroots filmmaking including; crowd funding, distribution, homemade digital and special FX. And it’s all taking place in our new HQ, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock.

2.The Little Museum of Dublin Launch

The Little Museum of Dublin is located at 15 St.Stephens Green, and although had a soft opening for Culture Night back in September, this weekend is its’ official launch.

Tickets are 5 euro from their website, children under 10 go for free. They recommend you join one of the guided tours, more information on this on their website here. More details below:

The Little Museum of Dublin tells the story of Ireland’s capital city in the 20th Century.

For the last few months people have been submitting objects for the museum, and the collection now boasts over 400 artefacts, reflecting the generosity of ordinary Dubliners, as well as many cultural institutions and local luminaries.

The social, cultural and political history of Dublin is chronicled in the Little Museum. Our hope is that the collection will appeal to locals as well as tourists. There are simple artefacts that encourage contemplation of the past, alongside items related to famous visitors such as President John F Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich and Muhammad Ali.

3. Visit – Dublins Art Studios Sat 22nd

Over 250 visual artists living and working in the city will open the doors of their professional practice studios for VISIT 2011. 18 studios are taking part including Block T, Black Church Print Studio, Monster Truck Studios and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.

More information is available at the site here http://visitstudios.com/

4. State v’s Young Hearts Run Free

State Magazine are running their free music events again the Mercantile starting this Friday.This months event is also a fundraiser for the Simon Community.

Taking to the stage on the night are: Melodica Deathship, Rory Grubb and Hello Moon

5. Paris Bakery, Moore St

Having read a lot about this place, I found myself on Henry St last Saturday feeling a little bit cold and a little bit peckish so dropped into the Paris Bakery on Moore St. I had French Onion Soup served with freshly baked bread for 5 euro. The soup was delicious and the bread even more so. The pastries looked absolutely divine but I will save that as a treat for another visit.

State v’s Young Hearts Run Free – Mercantile Oct 12th

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Returning again after a small absence are the State magazine monthly free gigs which take place in The Mercantile on Dame St. This month’s gig is also a fundraiser for the Simon Community in conjunction with arts and music collective Young Hearts Run Free.

Taking to the stage on the night are: Melodica Deathship, Rory Grubb and Hello Moon (who played a stellar set at Shebeen Chic last week for Hard Working Class Hero’s)

As ever this is a free event but patrons are asked to dig deep for this worthy cause.

Electric Picnic 2011 Links and Resources

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There is a lot of information floating around at the moment regarding Electric Picnic but here are a selection of links we find really useful:

Will be posting more links as we find them – feel free to comment with suggestions of your own