This year’s Halloween has been particularly frustrating for me, not just caused by the general annoyance that is the holiday falling on a Sunday. But for me it was even worse; my day job requires my attendance at 8am on Sunday mornings, so Saturday is off-limits too. This left Friday as my only viable Halloween party night, the night no one [...]

Digitalism @ The Academy, Friday 29th October This weekend is All Hallows Eve, and due to the real date being on a poxy Sunday, most of you will plan to hit the decadent Dublin dance-floors on Friday or Saturday,  all decked out in the latest ghoulish garments. While most promotions are offering the simple Fancy Dress parties complete with DJ [...]

Review: Joe Satriani, 16th October 2010, Vicar Street, Dublin. It had not been long since the last time I wandered the streets on the way to the lovely surroundings of Vicar Street. I had never had a problem getting there 5 years ago on my first outing, nor the second, nor the third etc etc. However, for reasons only known [...]

beatyard Weekender @ The Bernard Shaw/The Twisted Pepper Wed-Sun The bank holiday is upon us, and it’s only a week or so until Halloween, which means there is a potential 2 week party frenzy on the horizon. While you continue you mull over your latest fancy dress invention you may as well wander into the many venues offering sweet bank holiday [...]

Review by: Joey Kavanagh Photos by: Abe Tarrush Wallis Bird @ The Academy Dublin – October 8th 2010 The first time I saw Wallis Bird play live was a little under two years ago at The Button Factory in Dublin. The gig was one of her first big Irish headliners and, visibly excited by this, Wallis bounded around the stage [...]

Transmission@ The Button Factory, Saturday October 16th With all the quality rock shows in Dublin recently, and with no end in sight, I have been getting my ear chewed off about the latest offerings of rock music about town. Now, I enjoy planning my next gig caper as much as the next guy, but what happened to all pre-planned mental [...]

O Emperor released their new album ‘Hither Thither’ this week, Vanessa Monaghan caught up with Phil and Alan from the band to find out about the album release and what’s its like being signed to a big label. “This is actually our first full on press day” says Alan, “Very stressful altogether” adds Phil, very hastily, before Alan corrects him. [...]

Strangeways Here We Come, Wednesdays @ Crawdaddy First off, apologies for the delay in this weeks guide and the short notice regarding this weeks feature -the party lifestyle does catch up on one every now and then doesn’t it? Either that or I’m going ‘Murtagh’ on this whoile scene by ‘getting too old for this sh**’. This week we bring [...]

NightFlight presents: tony Lionni @ The Button Factory You can all cool the proverbial jets, holster your metaphorical guns and bask in the glory that is the return of Goldenplec’s Dublin Clubbing Guide! Our little post EP hiatus has clearly caused a stir amongst those die hard readers. So relax Mam. This week is a tad hectic, with Arthur taking [...]

We sent down two reviewers to Electric Picnic 2010 to try cover events proceedings for the site and since both have submitted different reviews with differing acts and experiences I’ve decided that the best thing to do is break the reviews up into each person’s experience rather than try merge their writing. So here is the weekend of our reviewer [...]