• Exhibition: Heart and Soul @ The Copper House

    October 5, 2017 - By 

    This evening sees a new exhibition featuring the work of Irish artist Claire Guinan open in The Copper House on Dublin’s Synge Street. Titled Heart and Soul, the show features portraits of Irish musicians captured in paint. Gunian is due to present her works as large form oil paintings, and has worked with a veritable who’s who of the Irish music scene with images of Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Aslan’s Christy Dignam, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Dempsey and more on show. The exhibition is an cross section of two of Ireland’s most treasured mediums and is set to continue until October 11th. Full details are available online…

  • Exhibition: The Way Things Go: An Homage @ Butler Gallery

    September 26, 2017 - By 

    2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Swiss duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss’ The Way Things Go. The hugely influential video piece serves as the departure point for the latest exhibition in Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery. At it’s core The Way Things Go saw everyday items pushed outside their comfort zone to perform roles and tasks not suited for their original creation, and tasks it should be noted that they were able to fully complete, querying the limitations we impose on materials we formulate. While in full-colour and sound, the piece drew on the almost slapstick era of silent films from the vaudeville era of…

  • Any Joy – Cycles

    September 13, 2017 - By 

    Following its digital release earlier in the year, Cork psych-tinted post-punk outfit Any Joy release their debut album, Cycles on vinyl. The five piece, formed at the start of this year by Oisin Dineen, self-released the album earlier in 2017 digitally, Cycles. With all the hallmarks of a great post-punk indie rock record – glistening guitars, anxiety-fuelled lyrics centred around the cyclical nature of thought – its psychedelic hue, peppered with documentary samples & unexpected instrumentation while maintaining a healthy minimalism that avoids any air of pomposity, à la Parquet Courts; you can add Any Joy to the list of essential post-punk & psychedelic bands from a city…

  • Fugue: Radio On @ Black Box, Belfast

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    Taking place as part of its Fugue Festival, Glass Eye Cine Club will present a screening of Christopher Petit’s seminal 1979 British road movie, Radio On, at Belfast’s Black Box on September 17. Bolstered by an exceptional soundtrack featuring the likes of Bowie, Devo and Kraftwerk, the film – shot in black and white by Wim Wenders’ assistant cameraman Martin Schäfer – is a trip through the late 70s by way of a road trip from London to Bristol, with Robert a DJ (played by David Beames) attempting to investigate the suicide of his brother. Following the screening, DJ Jon…

  • Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2017

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    Returning for its fourth outing, Dublin Feminist Film Festival is a volunteer-run, non-profit event that will take over The New Theatre in Dubin’s Temple Bar across November 16-18. With its central aim of helping counteract the mis/under-representation of women in film, the theme for this year’s festival is “FeministFutures”. Organisers said, “Our programme this year will foreground topics such as: science, the avant-garde, technology and the digital world, contemporary feminist issues and movements, sci-fi, occult, modernity, dystopia, utopia, the future female, aspirations, visionary a/v, globalisation. This blurb is purposefully broad, and not exhaustive. But we have given ourselves the challenge…

  • I Heart Elliott Smith @ Whelan’s, Dublin

    September 13, 2017 - By 

    With organisers having hosted the likes of I Heart Prince and I Heart Bowie in the Dublin venue before, the frankly essential I Heart Elliott Smith will take place at Whelan’s on Wednesday, October 25. Taking place 20 years on from the release of his seminal third album, Either/Or (and a just over a week removed from the fourteenth anniversary of his passing in 2003) the event will be a celebration of the Nebraskan indie rock artist’s life and music, with various Irish artists performing the aforementioned 1997 album in its entirety and other songs with a house band comprised of Mark…

  • Dear Constant Reader: Stephen King Season @ Light House Cinema, Dublin

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    From Kubrick and Lynch to Tarantino and Bill Murray, Dublin’s Light House Cinema aren’t exactly known for skiving on special seasons. Their latest, Dear Constant Reader will celebrate the stories of horror fiction master Stephen King with a range of one-off screenings of Misery, The Mist, Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary, Christine, Carrie, The Shining, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me across October 13-November 18. Charlene Lydon, programmed of Light House said, “For five decades, Stephen King has been the untouchable master of horror fiction and his books have been revered by millions all around the world. The…

  • Exhibition: Something Momentous Germinating @ Galway Arts Centre

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    There are a few more days to catch Aoife Desmond’s solo show Something Momentous Germinating in Galway Arts Centre. The work was inspired by Desmond recent return to her family home and the process of reverting the space while also trying to preserve and capture the essence of the building and memory associated of the space. The show also looks at the function of a domestic space and the qualities it emits in line with more traditional artistic spaces – the light falling through a window, the sculptural qualities of the everyday object. Something Momentous Germinating continues until Tuesday October 10th, with…

  • Exhibition: Portraits: Women of Cork and the U.S. Navy 1917-1919 @ Sirius Arts Centre

    September 15, 2017 - By 

    Today and tomorrow are the last to see a fascinating new body of work by Damian Shiels in Cobh’s Sirius Arts Centre. Titled Portraits: Women of Cork and the U.S. Navy 1917-1919, the exhibition looks at the social outcomes of America’s entry into the First World War. Their participation in the war saw thousands of US soldiers emerge into the communities around Cork. This influx of soldiers, and their subsequent socialising in the city, saw many Cork natives become ‘war brides’. While these relationships were generally greeted with celebration in America, on this side of the Atlantic hostilities arose, which then turned to violence. Ultimately the US Navy banned…

  • Exhibition: Double Movement @ TBG+S

    September 19, 2017 - By 

    Gavin Murphy’s new show, titled Double Movement, in currently on show in Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. The exhibition is a look into the role and functions of the now defunct Eblana Theatre, which was located in the basement of Dublin’s Busáras building. While the main building opened in 1953, the subterranean space, which was due to be a newsreel cinema, lay dormant until 1959. It was then that Phyllis Ryan and her Gemini theatre company opened the aforementioned Elbana. Here they showcased the works of Irish artists, including John B. Keane and Brian Friel, whilst also bringing the work of…