A plug for myself this time. I’ve been playing these Mixed Salad events for years now. They used to run all day on bank holiday sundays in McGruders on Thomas Street, and were pretty much the closest you could get to a no-frills, back-in-the-day rave in Dublin and were always fun to play at. I’m …
Posted: February, 2009
Mixed Salad At The Legal Eagle
1 CommentsJust a quick update today – the Dashboard boys and girls are back in 4 Dame Lane this Thursday with: The Thousandaires Romanovs Goodbye Dino GavXmas Hystereo Doors @8p.m. €5 before 10p.m/ €8 after. More info on their Facebook event page or from dashboard.4dl@gmail.com
Dashboard #2 At 4 Dame Lane
0 CommentsIt’s a long held belief of mine that the party poliical system as it exists now doesn’t serve the people. It serves the parties themselves first, the politicians second, their cronies third, and the rest of us if we’re lucky. I understand how hard it would be to get a majority on difficult decisions if …
Time To End Party Politics
2 CommentsI had a chance to play the short demo of Halo Wars yesterday afternoon. Having never played or been into games like Command and Conquer or Civilization I did wonder if I’d enjoy it at all. In short, I did, but it seems like it would get very repetitive in a very short space of …
Halo Wars Demo
0 CommentsIs there nothing this man won’t do to get some free press? The marketeer in me tips my hat! [Via Gizmodo]
Micahael O’Leary
0 CommentsI quite like this new single from the Pet Shop Boys but the video is a bit of a let down. The graphics used in it appeared briefly in their Brit Awards performance and, for me at least, were a real weak point of what was such an arresting visual performance. Unfortunately in the context …
Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc Video
0 CommentsEverything, Everything by Underworld is one of my favourite DVD’s of all time. Painstakingly put together over the course of a year, sliced together from lots of different performances around the world, the band constructed what they thought was the best possible re-creation of one of their live gigs for home watching and listening. They …
Underworld Live In Sydney NYE
0 CommentsThe Pet Shop Boys do their greatest hits in 10 minutes at the Brit Awards 2009, along with Lady Gaga and Brandon Flowers! [Update 22/02/09] Apparently this medley was produced by Stuart Price aka Jacques Lu Cont, but I need to verify that somewhere. You will get the audio of this a bonus track if …
Pet Shop Boys at the Brits 09
1 Comments… or this could be hell. The Irish blogosphere jumps out of the screen and gets all 3D for one night only when a fury of bloggers gets together to play music at Soundcheck in Spy on Thursday (i.e. tomorrow or tonight depending on when you read this). Here’s the line-up: Nialler9 Jim Carroll Rick …
This Could Be Heaven…
2 CommentsDinosaurs Fucking Robots. It does exactly what it says on the tin. [Thanks to EgoEccentric]