With Day Two fully under way and fuzzy heads steadily subsiding, check out Alan Maguire’s photos from Day One of Electric Picnic 2014, featuring Tune-Yards, Pet Shop Boys, Foals, The Altered Hours, Blondie, The Strypes, Sleep Thieves, Tvvins and more.
Nineties America saw a wider embrace of skateboarding by mainstream culture and exciting innovations in vertical ramp (‘vert’) skating technique, developments that were captured by the expanded availability of affordable video recording and playing equipment. New skaters and tricks were documented and distributed via series’ of home-edited compilation videos with colourful titles like Super Conductor, Super Collider (1993), Welcome to Hell (1996) or Tim and Henry’s Pack of Lies (1992). Skateboarding’s instinctive habit for showing off means that any documentarian of the sport has ample footage to furnish their narratives. In All This Mayhem, director Eddie Martin mines homemade and…
Carlos Daly Aurenty shoots San Francisco Bay Area metal band Mordred and British heavy metal revivalists Kaine at Dublin’s Voodoo Lounge. Check out his photo set from the show below.
From September 19-25, Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will showcase a slice of the nigh on incomparable oeuvre of a truly singular and independent figure in cinema, Jim Jarmusch. Marking the 30th anniversary of his cult breakthrough film, Stranger Than Paradise, the mini-season will see six of Jarmusch’s finest films screening across six days. They are: Dead Man, a majestic revisionist Western featuring Johnny Depp, considered by many as Jarmusch’s masterpiece. Down By Law, an exceptional and eccentric prison movie featuring Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni. Mystery Train, a film “following a small group of strangers in a strange land…
With the heady success of last year still lingering fondly in the memory, the programme for this year’s Culture Night Belfast has been launched. Set to transform Belfast city centre into bustling and kaleidoscopic cultural celebration of arts, music, craft, theatre, spoken word, poetry, dance and much more, this year’s showcase will take place on Friday, September 19. Next week we will present our Must-See events at this year’s Culture Night but at a first look, Rhinos (pictured), Cruising and Go Wolf at the Oh Yeah Centre, Culture Night Radio IMPRINT at Sort Design and live theatre shorts at the Sunflower Public…
Easily one of the finest record companies on the planet, Sargent House held a label showcase at Dublin’s Button Factory last night, featuring And So I Watch You From Afar, Russian Circles, No Spill Blood, Emma Ruth Rundle and more. Check out Shaun Neary’s photos from the show below.
After honey-voiced hardware in Her, a blank-faced alien stalker in Under Her Skin and a lycra-skinned super spy in Captain America: Winter Soldier, Scarlett Johansson continues her trend of playing characters who are Not Like Us. In Lucy she is the titular miniskirt-hugging party girl, who gets kidnapped by scowling Koreans and ingests a super-drug that transforms her into a reality-bending superwoman. It’s also another in a long line of unconventional and unstable heroines from Parisian writer-director Buc Lesson, who gained success with the memorably offbeat action of Nikita, Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, as well as spearheading the Liam Neeson renaissance with the gruff, workmanlike Taken series. Lucy is a jumbled…
Our photographer Liam Kielt was in attendance for Safe Ships‘ Belfast farewell show at Voodoo recently. Support on the night came from the equally vehement Lantern For A Gale, Small Hawk Orchestral and Spittin’ Teeth.
Post-hardcore trio Reuben are set to release a tenth anniversary edition of their debut album Racecar Is Racecar Backwards on November 3 as a double cd and limited edition white vinyl, which includes a download for the bonus disc, which has the following tracklist: 01. No One Wins the War (Live at the BBC)02. Horrorshow (Live at XFM)03. Stuck In My Throat (Racecar demo)04. Oh the Shame (Live at Echo FM)05. Fall of the Bastille (Live at XFM)06. Freddy Kreugar (Stakeout demo)07. Tonight My Wife Is Your Wife (Single version)08. Eating Only Apples (Live at the BBC)09. Our Song (Racecar demo)10. Let’s…
Following last year’s successful Northern Irish Music Prize ceremony, it has been announced that the second annual event will take place in the Mandela Hall in the Queen’s University Students’ Union on November 15. The ceremony awards a prize to the best Northern Irish album of the last year as voted for by a number of local media and industry professionals. Last year, Foy Vance won the album of the year prize with his excellent Joy Of Nothing, a strong album among many worthy contenders. Alt. metal trio Therapy? play their million-selling, Mercury Prize-shortlisted 1994 classic Troublegum LP in its entirety at the awards show on…