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Olivia Interviews Ilenkus 

Lough Weekend, Waterville, Co. Kerry Part III

 

It is a far, far better thing to hang out in a room that’s too warm than too cold. The heating has been on since last night from what I can tell and the room is nice and toasty on this Sunday morning. I’ve dropped down here for a few moments to myself, having earned the Nobel Prize for Sessioning, along with some of my cohorts and close friends on the second floor. Simon, my roommate for the weekend, has returned from one of his excursions around the hotel with a slice of toast. Breakfast is going on at the moment, I’m informed, although at this stage in the weekend I’ve little interest in eating.

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Lough Weekend 2012, Waterville, Co. Kerry Part II

It’s a cold morning in this wing of the hotel. The kind of morning where it’s so cold you know that throwing off the bed covers is tantamount to committing suicide. The throbbing headache that has chosen to rack my ailing brain justifies the hyperbolic tendencies of my previous statement… Christ, it’s probably too early in the morning for so many big words in one sentence… and looking at the time on my watch, I find it’s still just 10:30AM. Lying there and in no mood to get out of the bed just yet, I recall last night’s events.

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Lough Weekend 2012, Waterville, Co. Kerry


To Shiv,

Without whose consideration this would not have been possible


The road threads through the coarse and beautiful terrain of south-west Kerry, ditches and stubby bridges over babbling brooks amid a crown of steep and brooding foothills. With each twist we are travelling into some place away from itself and with a yawning bend, we find ourselves skating along the rim of that coastline here at the end of the world. The Dingle peninsula juts into the north Atlantic and with each revolution, the coast opens its gaping maw even wider; the horizon bending around the water’s edge.

We are beyond Time here having reached this splendid little Berghof, nestled between the sea and a dream. Getting out of the bus, which has been travelling now for a lifetime, the first thing one notices is the harbour; giving way to a headland several kilometres away. The hotel itself is a three storey affair the colour of Thousand Island dressing and presides out over this especially pleasant view.

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Ali Daly talks to Rest 

Northern Structures @ Dolans, Sunday May 6th

It was a bank holiday.

I went dancing.

On the previous Friday, Nathan Fake launched any amount of sophisticated remixes out of the Pavilion’s sound system.

On Saturday I recovered.

Now, having spent a particularly enjoyable Sunday evening throwing Techno out of a nice, reliable pair of KRK’s, I find myself back in the rather salubrious surroundings of Dolan’s warehouse.  Niki’s grinding out some especially pleasant Techno (insofar as Techno can be pleasant!) and I find myself embedded right in the heart of another night of daring escapades, this time with things presided over by Danish Drum&Bass duo-turn- Industrial Techno whizz kids Northern Structures.

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99 Reasons to Visit Limerick

Woman Crossing O'Connell St, Limerick taken by Ryan Nickel


Image by Ryan Nickel  

Last week, while riffling through the Internet, as I normally do, I came across and article by Totally Dublin titled, 200 Reasons Not to Leave Dublin. I began to read it with mild interest but slowly and surely it began to irk me; I only got as far as number 30 before I was actually annoyed.

The article named various things and places about Dublin that it wanted to promote but seemed to fail to realize that the only things truly unique to Dublin, that it had listed, were physical landmarks.

Things like Guinness, Chippers, Viking Settlements, Deli Counters, Rugby are examples of reasons to stay in Ireland, not just Dublin, and I’m sorry but The Rubberbandits and Vincent Browne are from Limerick!

A mate of mine attempted to talk me down, she said informed me that the article was simply an update from an earlier 1980’s article on immigration but it got me thinking. Many Dublin natives generally disregard the rest of the country, seeing as they are natives of the capital, they have most of everything at their fingertips.

They fail to realize that Ireland, in all her glory is a remarkable place. I, a Limerick man, know my city well and am proud to be associated with her, I decided to write up my own piece on my city in hopes that people, the world over, would see that Ireland is not just Dublin, but a vast nation filled with many wonderful places, features, landmarks and people.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Dublin and have lived there in the past and chances are if I decide to settle in Ireland, Dublin will be my future permanent home and this isn’t a depressing idea at all but I implore the rest of the country to travel within its boundaries. Ireland is a vibrant place and places like Limerick have so much to offer, so here I’ve decided to list my 99 Reasons to Visit Limerick. Enjoy.

 

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Interview with Crayonsmith

Cabin in the Woods Review

Cabin in the Woods written by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon couldn’t wholly be classified as a horror film, which is what I thought it was initially, instead, in true Whedon style, it blends elements of horror, comedy and the supernatural into a completely unique and imaginative solid script which unfortunately cant be discussed in too much detail without giving away the main premise of the movie, all I can say its that it’s pretty meta. Think comedy television show Community mixed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer seamlessly blended with Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead or Drag Me to Hell.

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Fuck The Clique!

           

           Being crammed behind a desk with my fellow Flip It TV presenter Ali Daly, we were barely hanging onto to our laptops and mixer (we were Djing at the first ever DIE night), as the crowd swelled to an enormous amount in the smaller upstairs room of Dolans Pub. I wish I could say we were playing such great tunes that they were delirious with dance but no…they were in fact there to see the raucous Hip-Neck Blues Collective. This was my first introduction of the footstompin, high energy, and riotous band who hail from (that’s right) Limerick.

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Liam talks to SquareHead 

Fuck The Clique!

         

            A little funk in your life is never a bad thing and while it’s usually left to an older generation of artists to give us some funk, Jericho are breaking with tradition and bringing funk back to an audience who think of funk as a mood rather than a genre of music. Let me just say funk one more time, because I like the funking sound of it!

             Jericho’s debut EP entitled Tantra, landed on my desk just last week and I had no expectations or idea’s of how it was going to sound. Saying that, the minute I uploaded it to my laptop and gave it a listen, I was surprised by the music. The only way I can describe it is Prince mixed with Michael Jackson but performed by pasty Irish men & women. The songs themselves are nostalgic but without ripping off any other artist. And all this from a young band based in Cork.

  

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Macronite presents Sunil Sharpe, Sat 7th of April, Dolans Limerick

It’s the Saturday night of the Easter weekend and with dreams of chocolate eggs and Techno in my head, I get into Dolans warehouse where Dan Sykes opens proceedings with a statement of intent. The Techno is sharp, precise and presses along molto vivance. The set has that little extra oomph this time around compared to some of the previous sets I’ve heard from this chap, most likely due to the fact that tonight will be Sykes’ final set for the time being as a resident. Going out with a bang appears to be the order of the night; proper order it is too.

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Elaine Mai - Dots

   

As one of State magazine’s Faces of 2012 Galway’s Elaine Mai is clearly one to watch. Praise has been heaped on her from all corners of the Irish music press and yet it’s next to impossible not to heap more of said praise upon her, especially when you listen to her debut EP entitled Dots which was released last week. Her music comprising of intelligiently layered and looped accoustic melodies mixed with with wistful vocals and at times electro beats, speaks to the listener in a way that few artists do in todays musical climate.  

   Opening track Guarded is like a synopsis of Elaine’s style, looped vocals and beats abound and it is impossibly catchy meriting numerous plays before I even explored the rest of the EP.

   The following three tracks stick to the standard set by the opener. Tainted’s electro snare drums and repetitive vocals prompt a kind of laidback head bopping that few accoustic sounding artists can aim to coax from the listener.

   The EP is available to listen to and buy right now from Elaine Mai’s bandcamp page and at a mere five bob you’d be silly not to.

    Luckily for us here in Limerick she plays Bourkes Live this thursday night with the exceptional So Cow also on the bill. Having seen both of these before I can assure it will be well worth a gander.

Listen to Elaine Mai here

http://elainemai.bandcamp.com/

Liam

A Dangerous Method


 

I didn’t know much about this film going into it, I believed it involved the life long work of analytical psychologist Carl Jung, as played by Michael Fassbender, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen, and their relationship to one another. Not being a psychologist in any sense of the term, more an admirer of the human condition, I thought I would get an entertaining ride and a bit of an education on the father of both processes and with it being a David Cronenberg film, I felt in relatively safe hands. How wrong I was.

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