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Pubs: The Bank Bar, The White House, The Cuckoo

Box, The Old Quarter, The Stables, Java’s, Au Bars,

The Roundhouse, Smyths, Mickey Martin’s, The Still

House, Charlie Chaplin’s, The Clubhouse, The Locke

Bar, Baker Place, The Wicked Chicken, Molly Malone’s,

Nancy Blakes, Riddler’s, Clohessy’s, Clem Smith’s,

Dolan’s, Fennessy’s, Flannery’s, The Bailey. Clubs:

Trinity Rooms, The Club @ Au Bars, The Icon, The

Warehouse, The Sin Bin, The Tatler Club, Bentley

Barkers Restaurants: Azur, Bella Italia,Copper & Spice,

Eastern Tandoori, The Wild Onion, The Jasmine Palace,

La Piccola Pizzeria, La Piccola Italia, Milano’s, Moll

Darby’s, Texas Steakout, The Market Square Brasserie,

The Yellow Lemon, Apache Pizza, La Casa Nova, The

Mogul Emperor, The George Bar & Kitchen, Hamptons,

The Cornstore. Eddie Rockets, Enzo’s, La Cucina,

Subway, Bruschetta Café, Chocolat, Turkuaz, Authentic

Kebabs Café’s: French’s, Greene’s Café, The Sage Café,

Carlton Coffee, Mari’s Cheese Shop, Relihan’s, Café

Noir, Delish, Cappucino’s, Loretta’s Sandwich Shop,

The Sanwich Shop, Hotels: The Old Quarter Lodge,

Jury’s Inn, The Southcourt Hotel, The George Hotel,

The Savoy Hotel, The Strand Hotel, Pery’s Hotel, The

Absolute Hotel, Castletroy Carlton Hotel, The Radisson

Hotel, The Clarion Hotel, The Clarion Hotel & Suites,

Kilmurray Lodge, Punches Hotel Clothing & Shoes: Sequoia Lane, Remix, Solo, Tubes, Wacky Shoes, The

Edge, Imasa Lifestyle, Diesel, Schuh, City Central

Shoes, Tippe Canoe. Venues: The Belltable Arts Centre,

Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Printmakers,

Limerick Ceramic Works, Daghdha Dance Company,

University Concert Hall, The Hunt Museum, Thinkk

Creative Gallery & Printers. Other Retail: Bullman’s

Tattoo, Living Art Tattoo, All Star Ink Tattoo, Toni &

Guy, Niall Colgan Hairdressing, Rossini the Barber, Zero

Barbers, Bellissimo, Cahill’s Tobacconist, The Growing

Company, InStore, Visage, The Sanctuary, The Office

Centre, Silke’s Stationary, The Wine Buff, Gleeson’s,

Headmasters, Halo, Celtic Pzazz, The Hub, Arthurs

Quay, Moviedrome, Ink Depot, HMV, Savin’s Music,

Steamboat Music, Topaz Garage. Other Outlets: Live

95fm, Lyric FM, Limerick Tourist Office, University of

Limerick Students Union / Library / Language Centre,

Limerick City Library, Colbert Station, Red Ribbon

Project, Fitzpatrick’s Casino, LSAD Clare Street, Mary

Immaculate College, Storm Cinema.

06Nu Killa Beats10 years of subtle sounds

08Neil DelamereMarking time with Val Gunning

10Boxcutter Tweaking outside the Box

09DORIANLimerick Youth Theatre at play

14The Little Gem Sparkling Irish Play

19On the Way Great gigs on the horizon

04 5 Minutes with Eilish Tuite05 5 Best Buys / Ticketmistress06 Nu Killa Beats08 Neil Delamere09 LYT presents DORIAN

10 Tweak parties! present Boxcutter12 OPEN/INVITED ev+a 201014 The Little Gem15 In Limbo16 The Short L.E.G

17 Records18 At the Movies19 On the Way20 Listings22 Barcode

Welcome to March, Spring sprung last week for a bit but if you missed it fret not, there’s March Madness in the air to lift your spirits. Munster Rugby Team may kick Good Friday’s closing laws to touch this year. Seen as an antiquated throw back, the only official barman’s holiday or a quirk of Irish society that makes us, well, so Irish, Good Friday traditionally means an at-home-hooley. Whatever your take, hosting a home game on a day when you can hardly buy a meal in town let alone go on the rampage seems a short shrift for fans and Limerick businesses alike, so L.E.G is all for exempting the exemption, if only for a few hours. This government’s over-regulation of Irish society needs some monitoring of it’s own. As an independent State, Ireland is pretty young. The excesses and abandon of the Celtic Tiger era can be seen as a sort of wild adolescence; when bankers speculated like teenagers, teenagers lived like twenty-somethings and the government lived as plan free as a pre-pubescent boy. So, have we reached a wiser age? I hope so. Like most grownups, you appreciate some advice and input from your parents but you don’t expect them to still dictate what goes on your wall as happened in the case of a Limerick garage owner who has been ordered by the Health and Safety Authority to take down his topless Pirelli calendar from the wall of his workshop where he works alone or face closure. Which brings us to the quote of the month from T.D Michael Noonan, “We now have a situation in Limerick, where we have no minister, no bishop, no hurling team and you can’t even hang a Pirelli calendar on your wall,” Indeed. sarah

L.E.G-acy Volume 01 Issue 05 December 18 2001 – January 14 2002 Our first month long issue covered the festive season with a sunny looking Judge Jules in what looks like a magic teacup rocking the cover before he popped a Christmas cracker in Doc’s (now Trinity Rooms) Eightball brought Kerri Chandler to Dolan’s for a New Year’s Eve Eve delight with profiles of The Hitchers, Dermot C and Orbital rounding out L.E.G’s inaugural Christmas presence.

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Eilish Tuite

5 minutes with…

Favorite Sound: the sound of a poring tea pot Real or fake, Bigfoot: fake What would you be if you weren't an artist: maybe a product designer Favorite Sport? rowing is number one and rugby is number two Most relaxing activity: rowing or knitting What makes you laugh? Hanover talk Guiltiest pleasure: America Next Top Model What are you really good at? Talking

If you could have any superpower, what would it be? slowing down time Introvert or Extrovert? Extrovert In a fight between 50 kangaroos with baseball bats and the Munster Rugby Team who would win? Munster Rugby Team Food, if you could you would live on: Reasons chocolates One thing I’ll never understand: Time Travel Something no-one knows about me: I would love to be a Bella Dancer

What would your Mobster name be? Sparkle What was your mother right about? Leaving U.L and going to the Limerick School of Art and Design. A movie that makes you cry: 'The Road' A movie that makes you laugh out loud: 'He Just Not That In To You' Four people you’d invite to dinner: the people I am working with in Vodafone, I have not met all of them in person. Favorite quote or joke? 'feel the Rhythm fill the Rhyme come on kid it is bobsleigh time'

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Eilish, who is studying sculpture in

L.S.A.D, has created a project called

URBAN KNIT which aims to cover an

empty retail space in Limerick in a warm

knitted blanket. Eilish is asking for

Limerick’s communities to get involved

and knit their own part of this tapestry,

with the only requirements being that

your patch be knitted and A4 size.

Vodafone have come on board to sponsor

the project and Eilish has secured

a building on Bedford row, through

Creative Limerick, to ‘wear’ the finished

project. It’ll take 3,000 patches so get

out your needles, get creative and send

your A4 Patch to Urban Knit, LSAD, Clare

Street, Limerick or email urbanknit@

gmail.com

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5MAR 2010 LIMERICKEVENTGUIDE

01 8gb iPod Touch | Compu-b, 17 O’ Connell St | €189 Stay connected with the latest iPod Touch available from Compu-b on O’ Connell Street. Stocking the widest range of Apple hardware, software and accessories in Limerick, Compu-b’s friendly and knowledgeable team can hook you up with the latest in the iPod range keeping you in touch; with your music and with built in Wi-Fi you can surf the web, send email, check out gig listings and get directions from anywhere.

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02 Speakeasyjazz welcomes Niwel Tsumbu | Shannon Rowing Club | Thurs March 25th | €12/€10 Congolese born, Cork based Niwel Tsumbu’s love for playing guitar bloomed in his teens while experimenting with the music of his homeland and blossomed when he learned jazz. Tsumbu’s elegant and fluent style draws from African rhythms, rumba, jazz, classical, flamenco and more. Playing electric and acoustic guitars and singing mostly in his native Lingala, Niwel commands a range of music from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music to modern Jazz. His love of the Spanish style of guitar playing beautifully exposes Rumba's Latin roots and his live shows are a spellbinding musical journey, infused with optimism and joy.

03 Roots Factory meets Rootical Sound System, Dixie Peach & Jonah Dan | Underground | Tues March 16 | €7 With a wall of speakers rolling into The Underground for this very special return of the Rootical Sound System expect belly wobbling, leg trembling bass as Limerick’s most skillful purveyors of all things roots and reggae meet one of Ireland’s pioneer Sound System crews. Joining the bill for this special pre Paddy’s party are two heavyweights of the UK roots scene, Dixie Peach & Jonah Dan from the Disciples. Rooty Fantooty. Get down early.

04 Limerick Jazz Society pres. Arguelles, Guilfoyle & Black | Dolans Upstairs | March 10 | €13/ €10Arguelles, Guilfoyle & Black are an international trio, featuring three leading contemporary jazz musicians of their generation and respective countries - British saxophonist Julian Arguelles, the Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle, and the American drummer Jim Black – their new recording ‘Live in Dublin’ captures the excitement and ‘in the moment’ feel of live saxophone trio playing. Mixing original compositions and standards, creating a free-wheeling spontaneity and powerful rhythmic drive, with each member showing an almost telepathic response to the playing of the others - the music unfolds seamlessly with a great sense of swing and much rhythmic intrigue.

05 Supermodel Twins Single Launch | Baker Place | Fri March 19 | €5 Limerick five piece Supemodel Twins launch their lush, layered and power-poptastic single Bruises in Baker Place on Friday the 19th. Blending gentle vocals, big guitars and perfectly placed percussion Bruises begins gently leading to a big finish, further displaying their prowess as purveyors of tight, right and bright three minute bangers. As a taste of their debut album now in production Bruises bodes well for the record due for release soon and has L.E.G looking forward to the launch in Bakers where they will be ably supported by Remma and Dead Red Light

Spend your time and money well, L.E.G style

Neil Delamere | University Concert Hall | Friday March 5th Neil Delamere performs his hilarious new show Bookmarks on Friday March 5th in the University Concert Hall. Read Valerie Gunning’s interview with Neil on pg 08. Email [email protected] with Neil Delamere as your header to win a pair of tickets

Ticketmistress • Bag yourself a pair of tickets to

the best shows in town this month

Guna Nuá Theatre present The Little

Gem | Belltable | March 8th – 13th

Limerick actor / director Paul Meade

directs a stellar cast in this runaway

hit play charting the laughs, love, trials

and tribulations of three generations of

Irish women. Email [email protected]

with Little Gem as the subject to win

a pair of tickets to see this great new

Irish play

Stone in His Pockets | L.I.T Millenium Theatre | Thursday March 25th The award-winning, hilarious and moving tale of a quiet Irish community turned upside by the arrival of a Hollywood movie shoot, Stones In His Pockets is brought to life by two highly talented actors who play 15 characters between them - from the two cheeky lads intent on stardom to a Hollywood Goddess. Email [email protected] with Stones in his Pockets as the subject for a pair of tickets

CWB present Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

| Dolan’s Warehouse | Friday April 23

The return of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip is a way

off yet, but it’s not too early to start getting excited

as the tickets are already moving fast and if their

recently released single, Get Better, is any indicator

the duo will be filling the dancefloor from the miute

the doors open ably supported by the Cheebah

crew. Email [email protected] with Dan v Pip as

your subject line for a pair of tickets


GIGS Last Ever Nu Killa Beats Gig & 10th Birthday | The Underground @ Baker Place | Saturday March 6th

Architects of Limerick’s longest running independent club night; Nu Killa Beats, pioneers of local, national and international electronic music and artists, instrumental instigators of today’s vibrant scene and founders of an independent label; Subtle Audio Recordings. This month marks a celebration of much more than 10 years of bang-up drum n’ bass parties.

Éanna Byrt meets the Nu Killa Kru for a remarkable review of a decade of club culture in Limerick.

For thoughtful lovers of electronic dance music, Limerick is a vibrant hub of dark sweaty downstairs sub bass nights, parties and clubs, pushed by dedicated and interested people. The Nu Killa Kru have shaped perceptions of electronic dance music and opened doors, windows and the odd fire escape to a sonic reality that few of us could have imagined ten years ago. It wasn’t until I ventured down a dark stairs that I fell in love not only with a style of music but the way in which it was delivered. I caught up with some of the original Nu Killa Kru at a recording session for Spin south west celebrating ten years of this seminal night, Nu Killa Beats.

In 1997 ‘Skint’ in Costelloes was the only portal to an eclectic musical program providing an escape for punters with more experimental taste. Run by Limerick DJ Skinny Boy Jazz, it provided an open space for alternative music not available through the mainstream. Here the fledgling Kru first found out the Limerick crowd had a taste for a sound found in the darker recesses of your record shop. The Temple of Sound was at the time Limerick’s home to the touring mainstream dance of Dave Clarke who returns to Limerick this month, evidence of the fact that he is still well regarded as a musicologist who pushes the possibilities of his sound.

After the much-mourned demise of Skint, Limerick's break-beat protagonists were left without a home. However, it was a blessing in disguise as it forced the trio into forming a collective and putting on dedicated D&B night's instead of guesting for an hour every few weeks.

It is in the bar below the Catherine street venue that Limerick’s underground was born. DJs Code (Conor O’Dwyer) and Bee (Kevin Beegan) played as the Nu Killa Kru for the first time in Strictly Zoo Bar in December ’09. Roller T was also a founding member, but they wanted to

offer something a little more relaxed for their first full DnB gig and as Code puts it “Tony doesn’t do chilled.”

However the night we know as Nu Killa Beats wasn’t born until December of that year. In collaboration with Dublin's Bassbin they brought DJ Fierce to both cities. Don Rosco of the Dublin crew and the NKKs own Roller T made up the Roster for this first installment in the basement of the now defunct Globe nightclub.

This vagrancy would be ended in a dark basement known as the Dog House on Thomas Street where it would find its first home in February of 2000, running a weekly show for more than two years. The night would however return to the sight of its inception, to what would become known and loved as the infamous High Stool Bar, but only after a series of brief associations with the Globe, the Savoy and even a stint back in Costelloes, the only venue of all of these still packing them in.

Redroom which has undergone a name change (to the Clubhouse at Trinity Rooms) hosted some memorable nights.

“I think it speaks volumes that both Equinox and Macc have played three

times in Limerick over the years” says Code. One energetic display of Maccs 180bpm drumming was to be experienced during this period as he would again wow crowds in a packed Dolan’s Warehouse. This nomadic lifestyle was to be ended in Dolan’s and marked a new departure for NKB with the launch of Codes own Subtle Audio label in 2005. Limerick not only had its own drum n bass night it now had its own sound and imprint.

Before all this, was however, arguably the best atmosphere a club night has ever seen in this town, the Dog House. Who could even conceive today of a packed room of ravers in full swing at 9 pm? Many came and early. Nosebleed darkstep and liquid funk infused drum and bass tunes for all oldskool fans. Floor stompers and winding growling bass lines, this was jungle music. This was not a typical night out, these guys brought some real meat to the party scene, injecting it with vitality and infectious energy.

As DJ Cain (Colm Cross) puts it. “What helped NKB last was that although the people involved took the music seriously, they didn't take themselves seriously. Nobody cared about the whole "look at me, I'm a DJ" thing. It was just come down,

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enjoy the music and a bit of craic.”Maybe a familiar sentiment today at many of Limerick’s independent club nights but it was at the time somewhat unknown and seemed to achieve a sense of comfort through music. It was dark and a little dingy but with a surprisingly good sound system. A mesh of drum breaks and dank atmosphere yet with a familiar appeal, friendly and unassuming.

This frantic pace wasn’t to last and in order to avoid a burn out after two years moved to a monthly program and a new venue, upstairs in the Globe. The downstairs had subsequently been converted into the town’s first lap dancing club providing a space to unwind after a hard night on the decks. The Kru didn’t find themselves welcome here as they were “upsetting the regulars”. I presume this referred to their unwillingness to pay for a dance as well as their boisterous behavior.

Here they would celebrate three birthdays, each of which was held over two venues. It wasn’t the first time using this format but easily the most memorable. The Dog House saw Leon, Eggz and Exhibit A rockin’ the hip-hop while ‘Hush’ promoter The Evil Grin gave a taste of the Oldskool. All this until twelve o’clock when everyone packed bags and headed for the Globe to get down to the real business. The original trio were now regularly joined by DJs Deepcut , Hi-Tek, and local producer Lepton (Dr. John Ryan) who would play live sets from a sequencer and midi controllers. Ah, the days before every gomey had a laptop and live electronica meant something.

Never loosing the thirst for new sonic territory and always keeping an open door policy, later years saw the inclusion of DJs Mecca (Marcel Morecroft) who has just released

his debut single on Subtle Audio and Lymer (Andy Samsworth) who now also runs his own label Fior Recordings. Mecca recalls of these days “I was big into Dom & Roland and Ed Rush at the time- before they went crap” NKB offered straight up music for straight up people.

In Codes own words.“I try to play D&B that's true to the origins of the music. As in, it has an emphasis on break-beats and bass-lines. A lot of modern D&B seems afraid to engage with the rhythmic side of things. For me, it was the inventive breakbeat patterns that defined D&B in the first place, so without this aspect, is it really D&B or something else?

Were we really in Limerick or someplace else, someplace magical? For three hours once a week in a dank basement bar it certainly seemed so.

The Last Ever Nu Killa Beats night & 10th Birthday Bash takes over The Underground at Baker Place from 10pm on Saturday March 6th with Code, Bee, Roller T, Mecca, Deep Cut, Lymer, Cain, Leon and Iree Mc who returns after a 4 year absence. For more visit myspace.com/nukillabeats

Lovers of dubstep, electronica, deep and experimental techno and dn’b will find continued solace and aural provocation with Code, Bee & Guests at their Electronique night in Bentleys, visit www.myspace.com/electroniquebeats for info on what’s upcoming.

Subtle Audio Recordings continues to gain worldwide recognition for releasing expressive drum n’ bass that moves people’s hearts and feet while challenging preconceptions about what d n’ b is. Hear for yourself at www.subtleaudiorecordings.com


ROCKCLIFFETREVOR

Niall Power (Electric Circus)

Bad Boy Blast (Strutt)

Frawl (wtfth, Strutt)

Saturday 27th MarchThe Underground Baker Place

Doors: 09.30€10 All Night

Best known as the star of RTE’s The Panel, BBC’s Blame Game and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Offaly’s most famous comedian, Neil is “looking forward to the show. It’s great craic to play UCH, there’s always a good response. Any time in Ireland when I play they know you’re having the craic and that it’s not going to be nasty or mean or anything like that, they always just get involved.” Do you enjoy a bit of banter with the audience?It makes each gig different. There are a couple of parts of the show in particular that allow me to talk to the audience. There’s a point in the show which involves a medical exam where I ask questions. Sometimes you’ve got to put people on the spot, but it makes the answers that they give off the top of their head really interesting. Do people need to watch out if they’re in the front row?Ah no, it’s more for a bit of craic. The longer you do stand up the more

instinct you get if somebody wants to be spoken to or not. You can tell in their body language. I’ve no interest in making people feel awkward or uncomfortable, I just want to talk to them! Do you find hecklers more of a challenge or a hindrance?I think that’s not mutually exclusive, they can be a challenge and a hindrance. It depends on the tenor of the heckle. When I started I took every heckler as a challenge, and then you slam them for being quite encouraging! The longer you do this the more you realise you have to take every single one on its merit.

There’ll be plenty of students attending anyway so I’m sure you’ll get a good bit of banter going.Absolutely, students are good craic to talk to. People who have proper jobs are even better craic though. Just by the nature of your age, if you’re a student, you’re probably max 23 or 24, but if you get some guy who is 45 or 50 he may have done all sorts of weird stuff. Sometimes young people can be a bit less forthcoming than somebody who’s 40 or 50 who’s very confident in themselves, but I’ll talk to anybody who wants to talk to me! How did you come up with the name of the show, ‘Bookmarks’?It’s a very loosely themed show. I spotted my photograph on a bookmark in DCU with pictures of graduates who went on to do high profile things. It was me, Matt Cooper from Today FM, Jamie Heixlip the rugby player, and Brian Cullen the GAA player. I started thinking about bookmarks and the jump was that your life is a series of bookmarks and milestones where you look forward and look back, almost like a marker in a book. It’s a collection of those. It can be any milestone in your existence. It could be your wedding, the time you crashed your car, when you got your driver’s licence, everyone will have their own ones. I have six or seven of those experiences, they make up the show. Like leaving my home town, going to college, the loss of your delicate little flower, doing a bit of travelling, turning 30. It must have been strange experience seeing your face on the bookmark?Very odd yeah, I don’t even remember them taking the picture but they must have because I have a sign saying alumni in it. I don’t mind that bookmark being used in very academic books, and books that further the human search for advanced knowledge but you don’t want to be reading hot and heavy scenes in a ‘Mills and Boon’ book and turn over and then see my smiley dopey face. I shudder to think what books it actually has been used in. You must have a fairly hectic schedule with the live shows and television and your DVDs?I’m touring at the moment and doing the Republic of Telly. Then back on the merry go round again. Hopefully I’ll find another picture of myself in a college library for inspiration for the next show. Basically you can expect to see me doing mental things in search of something to talk about. If I turn up in your bikram yoga class I’m not looking to actually exercise, I’m looking for inspiration. Neil Delamere brings his new show Bookmarks to the University Concert Hall on Friday March 5th. To book your tickets log onto www.uch.ie or call the box-office on 061 331 549

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Catching sight of yourself on your university’s ‘celebrity alumni’ bookmark is food for thought or in the case of Neil Delamere great fodder for a new stand up comedy show. Valerie Gunning caught up with Neil before he brings “Bookmarks” to UCH for one night on

Friday March 5th


THEATRE

Lisa Ledger, Danielle Sheahan, Jamie Walters and Myles Breens are rehearsing in Halla Ide in Conradh na Gaeilge on Thomas Street, on very tiny chairs. They’re not for dramatic effect and won’t be part of the set, this space is normally a classroom for kids and the tiny people furniture doesn’t hinder their lively reading of the script, it just adds to the buoyant atmosphere in the room. LYT’s artistic director Angie Smalis sits just outside the reading circle and Bud, who I met on the way into the building is readying his camera to take some pictures, while I pull up a tiny chair of my own.

The Youth Theatre players are animated about their latest production, DORIAN, which sees five actors playing the character of Dorian Gray at various stages of his life. This approach allows for an deeper exploration of Dorian’s journey without getting bogged down in telling the tale step by step, as director Myles adds, “It gives everyone a chance to shine and explore a different facet of the character. This interpretation is a little bit mad and experimental but the story will be quite clear. People are familiar with the story-ish, the general arc of the story, about the portrait in the attic but the whole part about falling in love with Sybill and how he kills the painter, a lot of people won’t know the details of his life.” Jamie Walters adds, “This is our first day with the script. I was reading for Dorian in Love, Lisa is reading for Evil Dorian the Murderer and Danielle is the Dancing Dorian who does all the physical dances. So it is good to see how each person has a different take.” Two members who couldn’t

make this rehearsal will be playing Dorian’s Wish and Dorian’s Death bookending the story.

Limerick Youth Theatre has five members in second year and a group of thirteen first years. Members learn about directing, scriptwriting, lighting and sound aswell as participating in classes and workshops in acting, dance and song making the Youth Theatre a self reliant full service company in and of itself. The principal five actors in DORIAN will be joined on stage by extras from the first year class with other members filling the roles backstage.

I ask Myles what prompted him to take on The Picture of Dorian Gray, “It’s one of my favorite books and the LYT were looking for proposals to work with the second years and I, sillily, put in a proposal to do an adaptation of The picture of Dorian Gray. Not so much a dramatisation, but taking some of the themes and scenes from the novel and exploring them theatrically. So we’ve been working for four weeks taking bits of the texts and messing around with them and talking about the themes from the novel; the idea that if you could not age, if you could anything you wanted and it would never affect you morally what kind of consequences does that have? In Oscar Wilde’s day, as it is today youth is adored and since this is Youth Theatre what does that mean?”

Lisa Ledger says, “ The language of Dorian Gray was very racy at the time, and still is today.” The beauty and the energy of the language lends

itself to dramatic interpretation and Myles Breen sees as his job maintaining that brilliant sense of drama. “The book is a modern fairytale, Oscar Wilde wrote this novel which we all sort of think is an ancient story but no, he came up with this completely new idea of this picture in the attic as an image growing old and more decrepit and diseased and yet Dorian the man stays perfect. With this, the Youth Theatre get to dip their toes into everything, it’s like dipping your toes into a classic but we will play it with a twist staging it as a sequence of dramatic scenes with physical interpretaion of Wilde’s language, which is just fabulous.”

Costume Designer Ella Daly has dropped down some garb for the press shots that Bud is here to take. As a former member Bud returns as LYT’s photographer underlining members, past and present, loyalty and input into the ongoing success of LYT. Within a couple of minutes the trio are working with a very large picture frame and the laughter that accompanied pulling on their livery dissipates as Myles sets up the shots. Tiny chairs and youth aside, Lisa, Danielle and Jamie segue into character for beautifully composed images. No fuss, no drama, all action.

Limerick Youth Theatre present DORIAN - an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Belltable, 36 Cecil Street on Friday 19th & Saturday 20th March. For more info visit www.lyt.ie or www.belltable.ie

Limerick Youth Theatre breathe new life into Oscar Wilde’s Classic story, The Picture

of Dorian Gray, exploring themes of youth, actions and consequence through dance, dialogue, film and music in this innovative adaptation by director Myles Breen | Sarah met LYT in rehearsals

LYT pres. DORIAN – an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” | Belltable | Fri 19 & Sat 20 March

CHILD’S PLAY

One night about three years ago, I found myself at the Irish kick-boxing championships in Clare watching two girls wallop the shite out of each other. This was a new experience for me although ultimately not a very rewarding one, so I decided to slip out mid-fight and walk the five miles or so home along a quiet rural road. Taxis were out of my financial bracket at the time. The trek turned out to be a far more interesting experience than the kick-boxing as I blasted Boxcutter's 'Glyphic' album through my ear canals for the first time and surveyed the clear sky and shining stars above. I'd heard a lot about this young electronic producer from the North and knew he was making seismic waves across the bass community in the UK with labels such as Hot Flush and Planet Mu picking up on his monstrous sound. Here was music brimming with intelligence and a profound sense of wonder only enhanced that night by gazing into space and letting one's imagination

run asunder. Sound and vision intermingled into shapes under the grand theme of space. Either that or I was trippin' balls in the Clare countryside.

Turns out I wasn't too far off the mark, as I discovered when we started chatting for this interview. Space – be it the spatial quality of music or the cosmos itself – plays an essential role in the arrangement of Boxcutter's work. Now with four albums under his belt (three as Boxcutter and one under his own name of Barry Lynn), he's extensively explored the realms of sonic environments using the techniques of electronica and dub culture. Barry explains more, “One of the things your ear is constantly doing is helping the brain build up a picture of the area it's in, it's really sensitive to acoustics. So I like messing with sound so that it confuses the part of your brain that deals with spatial information. Originally got the idea from dub reggae, which I've been heavily into for a long time. I think electronic music has been tangled up with ideas about space (as in astronomy) for as long as it's been about, and I'm into both, so it's cool, and pretty easy, to get one to evoke the other.”

There's no point in trying to pin down Boxcutter's music, because it doesn't really sound like anything else. He's spent most of his years consuming music from various eras and crates, so much so that his approach to production is one informed by the medium of sound itself, not just the stylistic trends associated with certain genres. He tells of how a life spent listening

has blurred the lines along which he treads. “My parents are into music so we always had a decent stereo at home when I was growing up. My Dad had a sizeable record collection so I heard a lot of jazz rock and fusion from the 1970s, with less interesting stuff from the same era mixed in, nearly always with a heavy slant on lead guitar. But he was always into Brian Eno too, and some Kraftwerk. I never went out much in my teens so I heard everything in isolation mostly, did a lot of digging and taught myself about different music. I have spent a lot of time in clubs since then though, and would definitely agree that proper bass isn't something you're gonna get at home. Northern Ireland isn't exactly a hotspot for soundsystem culture. I've been heavily influenced by producers like Aphex and Squarepusher, and they opened the door to a lot of other stuff for me too, older acid house, electro, electroacoustic music, the Radiophonic Workshop, jazz funk, loads of stuff. But dubstep, grime and 2-step are very important too. I think the confusion about what genre I'm in comes about because I've made both DJ friendly tracks, and stuff for playing at home, and then presented it all together. I leave it to the listener to decide what fits where.”

One of the most exciting electronic musicians on the live circuit, Boxcutter will bring his low-end frequencies and cavernous echoes to the Rowing Club in Limerick on March 26th, courtesy of the good people at Tweak. Now in its final year, the interactive-media promotors will be hosting three events over the coming months in the run-up to the annual festival in September. Lovely stuff. For more make friends with Tweak Festival on facebook or visit www.tweak.ie

Thinking Outside theBox

John Lillis talks to the Barry Lynn a.k.a Boxcutter before he brings his music made of space, time and something heavenly to the first of a trio of parties presented by Tweak.


GIGS Tweak parties! presents Boxcutter with support from Code & Brigadier JC | Shannon Rowing Club | Friday March 26th


GIGSIRELAND’S PRE-EMINENT ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART,

NOW IN ITS 34TH YEAR

OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2010MATTERS

CURATOR:ELIZABETH HATZ [SWEDEN]

FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2010 - SUNDAY 23 MAY 2010

UPDATES ON OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2010 at www.eva.ie

INVITED e v+ a 2010 – Artists

Peter Carroll & John Gerrard (IRL)Tom de Paor & Peter Maybury (IRL)Sin Egashira (Japan/UK)Eva Hild (Sweden)Rebecca Ivatts (UK)Hans Josephsohn (Switzerland)Michael Kane (IRL)Peter Märkli (Switzerland)Staffan Nihlén (Sweden)John Pickering (UK)Stephen Rothschild (IRL)Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore/UK)Janna Syvänoja (Finland)Wang Ruobing (China/Singapore/UK)

OPEN e v+ a 2010 – Artists

Kaspar Aus (Estonia)Matthew Beattie (IRL)Javier Burón & Eleanor Moloney (Spain/IRL)Lorretto Cooney (IRL)Aoife Desmond (IRL)Simon English (IRL)Tom Fitzgerald (IRL)Leo Fitzmaurice (UK)Christina Gangos-Klien (Greece/IRL)Stephen Hall (UK)Johanna Hällsten (Sweden/UK)Fionnuala Hanahoe (IRL)Karen Hendy (IRL)Sandy Kennedy (IRL)Kirsty Kilbane (IRL)Caoimhe Kilfeather (IRL)Christopher Leach (IRL)David Lilburn (IRL)Sarah Lincoln (IRL)Liu Wei (China)

Jacob Maendel (USA)Francis Matthews (IRL)Maria McKinney (IRL)Ben Mullen (IRL)Oonagh O'Brien (IRL)Robin Parmar (IRL)Patricia Reed (Canada/Germany)Fiona Reilly (IRL)Christopher Roland Mahon (IRL)Tia Schmidt (Germany)Lytle Shaw & Jimbo Blachly (USA)Myles Shelly (IRL)Sunghoon Son (South Korea/UK)Spiritstore (IRL)Christine Tauber (Austria/Switzerland)David Theobald (UK)Allard van Hoorn (Netherlands)Tara Whelan (IRL)Xia Peng (China)

LIMERICK CITY CENTRE VENUES


ARTS OPEN/INVITED ev+a | Thomas Street HUB & various city venues & spaces | Friday March 12th – Sunday May 23rd

As a collaboration among artists, curators, sponsors, workers and committee members, e v+ a annually presents to its audiences in Limerick the best of contemporary art for assessment, to promote understanding and engender celebration of the contemporary culture that surrounds us. The artists exhibiting and participating in ev+a are selected through two forums:OPEN ev+a is the yearly submission exhibition, open to all artists working through any materials, mediums, styles, genres, practices and concepts. This year’s curator, Elizabeth Bonde Hatz of Sweden, has selected artwork from the submissions received and has designed and placed these pieces within the formal and off site spaces for ev+a in Limerick city centre. Bonde Hatz also determines the ev+a awards and contributes to the exhibition catalogue essay. INVITED e v+a occurs every other year when the curator personally invites artists of international standing to participate and includes their work as a counterpoint to OPEN ev+a. 2010 is one such year. This year’s CuratorElizabeth Bonde Hatz / SWEDENHatz is an architect and Professor of Architecture at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. She has taught at SAUL School of Architecture, University of Limerick since the school was established in 2006. She adds, “I practice architecture and was born with art. The two are from the beginning inter-twined and mutually fertilising. I divide my time-space between Sweden and Ireland, between Stockholm and Limerick.”

As head of the Swedish Association of Architects in 93-94, Hatz is a co-founder of Fargfabriken, the internationally renowned polestar for Art and Architecture in Stockholm with a new satellite venue in Östersund, in the north of Sweden. She has been an active member of the board since 1995 staging exhibitions of work from Maurizio Cattelan, Carsten Höller, Jan Håfström, Moment Ginza, Gunilla Leander, Mike & Doug Starn: Gravity of Light, Brion Gysin: INFLUENCE, The Expanded Book, Bo I. Cavefors, as well as events like Stockholm at Large. Hatz leads a project within the Government funded “Artistic Research within Architecture” at KTH, within the AKAD, the Academy of practice-based research in Architecture and Design. Her work was exhibited at Fargfabriken in 2004, at the Art & Science Festival 2005 and at Lund Art Hall in 2006, with the AKAD event “Beginnings”. She has evaluated Practice based research at Aarhus, Denmark. Her writings such as Architecture Ireland; Love Letter to the Island of Desire have been published in Sweden, UK and Ireland. Performances include “Dark Light – Architectural Wanderings”, a video performance at Lund City Hall at the Culture Night 1994 and at the symposium “Form Follows Anything,” Fargfabriken 1996. Hatz curated the exhibition “The Dream Museum” at the National Museum in Stockholm and designed the international exhibition “Traces of Congo” which toured the four Scandinavian capitals from the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm to the National Museum of Copenhagen 2002-2007. Hatz was on the board of Eva Bonnier Art Fund

and headed the jury for the Kalmar Stortorg competition in 2004, won by artist Eva Löfdahl Stockholm and architects Caruso & St John London. She is currently on the Strategic Board of The National Museum in Stockholm. She was elected member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry of Sweden as a result of her work for LRF Culture Board and the exhibition “Geometry of Milk” in 2003. What Matters to the Curator for ev+a 2010?“Limerick has grown on me – I have become attached to it, because I cannot make it out. It is not charming – it is irresistible. It’s a city of contradictions and conflicts, the most segregated of places in Ireland, physically and mentally. It is rough and gentle in the weirdest mix. Planned for the car, fragmented and smashed apart and left with a truly lovable – neglected and dying – city centre, truffled with great little butcher shops. It defies 21st century idea of urbanity and urban living by the persistent and perplexing presence of animals; sheep and cows, rare birds, horses pulling sulkies in the middle of the streets or grazing impediments within the road spaghetti. Both invisible and highly physical walls cut across the city, pulling neighbourhoods far apart. Remnants of crashed Celtic Tiger Dreams stand like monuments with their halted cranes and half finished towers. In many ways, Limerick is like a miniature image of current conditions, displaying in a single glimpse the passionate absurdities and restraining certitudes. Limerick is longing to be seen.” For the OPEN / INVITED e v+ a mapping work done during past summer by The Intelligence Unit at SAUL, University of Limerick will be made available and offered as factual material on the

WHATMATTERS?


ARTS

city and its region for those who wish to find out more about the place in which e v+ a 2010 will take place. The annual ev+a bus tour leaves Thomas Street / Catherine Street corner on Saturday March 13th at 12pm visiting all 11 ev+a sites. SpiritStore CAT DIG at ev+a 2010A weekend of events on Catherine StreetFriday May 7th – Sunday 9th 2010The Spiritstore returns as part of ev+a 2010. This working art group presents The Catherine Street Culture Dig, a project positioning the street as an artform. The street’s residents and traders are participating with The SpiritStore as instigators of a series of cultural events. To realise this, SpiritStore and the Catherine Street traders and residents have held weekly meetings in various street venues to broker links between creative practitioners and the spaces offered by Catherine Street. The result of this process will be a weekend of events - CAT DIG. The programme will include elements of experimental music, dance, theatre performances, workshops, film projections, writing, drawing clubs, a twitter treasure hunt as well as many other events to be announced. The weekend will begin on Friday May 7th at 5.30 and finish at 5.30 on Sunday 9th. To introduce SpiritStore’s’ Catherine Street Cultural Dig we will be serving the traditional Limerick dish Packet and Tripe as part of ev+a’s tour from the corner of Thomas St and Catherine Street on Saturday March 13 at 6pm. It will be served free and accompanied by excerpts read from Mike Finn’s Limerick play,

‘Pigtown’. A film of tales and times associated with the dish from a generation of Limerick women who prepared, and still prepare, the meal for themselves and their families will be screened in the space during the event. The inspiration to present this unique Limerick recipe in this manner was reference to the continuous presence in the city centre of family butchers, the social history of Limerick as Pigtown and of course the ever present meat processing tales of Catherine Street. To keep up to date with ongoing details on this collaborative project visit www.spiritstorelimerick.blogspot.com or keep an eye on the noticeboard outside French’s café on the corner of Catherine Street and Roches Street. Packet & Tripe recipePacket and Tripe is a real Limerick city dish. The whitish part, Tripe, is the lining of the cow's stomach and the blue-balckish packet is a varietal of pigs blood pudding. It is very easily digested. They say packet and tripe should only be eaten if the letter "r" appears in the spelling of the month.

Ingredients * 1lb tripe * ½lb packet * 2-3 onions, diced * 1 pint water * 3/4 pint of full-fat milk * large knob of butter * salt and pepper

Preparation• Rinse the tripe in running water, and cut

into small 1cm-2cm squares.• Add the tripe to a pint of boiling water, and

simmer for ½ hour to 1 hour, until the tripe is tender.

• Drain the tripe, add to the pot with the milk, and the diced onions. Bring to the boil.

• Remove the skin from the packet. Dice it into small cubes and add it to the pot. Simmer for 30 minutes, then spoon into a bowl.

Serve with a large knob of butter, salt & pepper and enjoy. Limerick historian and scholar Jim Kemmy Jim Kemmy wrote, "Packet and tripe, washed down with strong sweet tea has been found to be easily digestable and rests gently on the stomach, especially one ravaged by an excess of alcohol. For this reason the dish is very much in demand after a weekend "feed of porter" has rendered the stomach hostile to other forms of nourishment Packet and tripe is reputed to give a "lining" to the stomach so the dish has been traditionally been a weekend treat, a distintive Saturday night/Sunday morning ritual." The opening of the ev+a will take place on the evening of 12th March at the LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street. This year’s exhibition will feature the work of over 42 OPEN artists and 16 INVITED artists installed in more than 11 venues throughout Limerick City. For details on the artists, OPEN & INVITED, participating in ev+a 2010 please visit www.eva.ie

WHATMATTERS?

ev+a returns this year with a new preoccupation and theme MATTERS: spaces, places, old, new, derilect and reclaimed, form, function and folklore. As Ireland’s preeminent art exhibition prepares for opening on March 12 L.E.G looks forward to ev+a returning to the heart of the city centre with a new hub on Thomas Street / Catherine Street.

THEATRE Gúna Nua Theatre & Civic Theatre present Little Gem | Belltable, 36 Cecil Street | Monday March 08 – Saturday March 13

When Gúna Nua Theatre’s Artistic Director, Limerick man Paul Meade, read an unsolicited play from an unknown scriptwriter, Elaine Murphy, which arrived in the post he was immediately taken with the idea of producing it because the story was so great. He had no inkling that Little Gem would become the runaway success of theatrical dreams, “It was an unsolicited script we received here at Guná Nua and I thought immediately we have to do it because it is so good, you know. So we talked to Elaine the scriptwriter, I think she sent it to every theatre in Ireland but no one had picked up on it, we were very lucky in that regard. Then we cast it, with a brilliant cast and we performed it in the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008 originally. It got a great reception and a really popular reception too, it wasn’t a show that only theatre people went to. The production then went to Civic Theatre and we got loads of women’s groups from Tallaght and around the area to come and see it and they loved it and told all their friends to go and see it so it has kind of developed it’s own momentum that way, you know.”

Little Gem won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award which brought the play to New York for a two week showcase where it was critical and popular hit. The play continues to traverse the globe hitting Paris and London after their run in the Belltable this month. The critics love it because it is a sensitively crafted, perfectly cast and poignantly directed piece of new Irish theatre; the audiences love it because it is an hilarious, cheeky, irreverant, touching story everyone can relate to. Paul explains the simple premise behind this wonderful play, “It’s about a family in the northside of Dublin, a sort of year in the life of a grandmother, mother and daughter, and alot happens in that year; everything from birth, death, new releationships. It’s a beautifully crafted play because each of them starts off in the beginning with a dilemna and the events that happen are big and affect them but the central dilemna is resolved alongside that. It is a beautifully written play and just really very funny, real salt of the earth humour and everyone can recognise these women, it could be your grandmother or sister or mother. Everyone comes out of the play crying or laughing. I think that is why it has been so successful. But that is not to say it is a total weepy, people do cry but it is a very very funny play.” The impact of Little Gem is immediate and down in no small part to the magnificent cast of Anita Reeves, Hilda Fay and Aoife Duffin who, in a special judges decision, were granted Best Female Performance of the Dublin Fringe Festival in ’08, recognising their spectacular ensemble effort. Elaine Murphy won the Fishamble Award for Best New Irish Writing but before the awards came flooding in the piece had to be produced, how did the production begin? “Well it was funny, I had to convince an awful lot of people to get involved at the start. Luckily Anita Reeves who plays the Grandmother loved the script from the beginning and her being on board made people believe in it more because it is really difficult to get new theatre on in Ireland, it can be really

really hard. Then Hilda Faye, who you might know from Fair City, auditioned and she was great so we cast her. It’s funny if we had more money we might have got more P.R out of Hilda and Anita but we didn’t even have the money to be able to capitalise on that so we were lucky that the play was quite strong and it built on that, from small theatres and the audience reaction. The play itself is a celecbration of ordinary people and how they cope with what life throws at them, and it focuses on the idea of families and things that happen in families are universal.” Awards, accolades, critics praise and wild fire word of mouth recommendations from delighted audiences means there’s no stopping this Little Gem. Book your tickets fast. To book your tickets for Little Gem visit www.belltable.ie or call the Box-Office on061 319 866

Gúna Nua Theatre is renowned for producing vibrant new work. Their latest production Little Gem is a touching, hilarious and brilliantly performed piece of theatre which has proved so successful that the story of it’s making and phenomenal success would make a fine play in itself | Sarah talks to Director Paul Meade

Diamond in the Rough



FashioNation ExhibitIon opened @ AllOutDesign on

Sarsfield Street. Photographer: Darren Ryan

Nu Killa Beats 101 How to dance to D&BPictures courtesy of darc hives

FashioNation ExhibitIon opened @ AllOutDesign on Sarsfield Street

Nu Killa Beats, serious music for not very serious people

Pictures courtesy of darc hivesOnstage Banter @ Love Haiti in Bentley's.

Photographer: Darren Ryan

... and continues until March 11th on L.S.A.D

Campus, Clare Street


the short L.E.G.

---------------------------------------SpeakeasyJazz Limerick invite you to enjoy the sounds of Blue Noise with Steve Hanks, Joe O Callaghan, Fiach O Brien and Barry O Donoghue on Thursday March 11th at Shannon Rowing Club. Having graduated from Leeds College of Music Steve Hanks picked up sticks (flute, sax and any other pipe he could get his hands on!) and settled in Ireland bringing his music. He has been teaching music over at The Limerick Jazz Workshops for around two years now and he can be seen jamming with his students in Bentleys on a Tuesday night after workshops. Returning on the night will be Joe O Callaghan trained on guitar with Ronan Guilfoyle and is a member of the Limerick Jazz house trio and is also a teacher at The Limerick Jazz Workshops, his nimble talent is well known to Jazzer's in Limerick. Fiach O Brien on Drums and Barry O Donoghue on Bass, both hail from the Newpark music center in Dublin and introduce original music by the next generation of Irish Jazz muso's at Newpark nights, Tuesdays at The Twisted Pepper in Dublin until March 20th. This fearless bunch of Jazz cats will be performing original and improvised compositions and will be joined later in the evening by DJ Leon, a master of scratch who will add an interesting element to the fusion created by the band. This one promises to be a hard-boppin, swingin and funky show!For info and booking contact [email protected]/fabcebook.ie

---------------------------------------What the F&*k is Tech House? welcomes Lerosa Live in The Underground @ Baker Place on Saturday March 13th from 10pm with support from Jack Buckley and Jim Plug’d. Born in Rome, Leo aka Lerosa’s love of electronic music was began with the Italian pop music of the 1980s via his discovery of hip hop and acid house. He began djing in the early 90s and in 1995 moved to Dublin where he immersed himself in darker, deeper electronica and electro by the likes of Autechre, Drexciya and the extended Detroit- inspired musical underworld. Leo began producing his own music in 2000, concentrating initially on electro but broadening his range into unconventional house and techno styles. His debut release was the Maike ep on Dublin’s D1 Recordings in 2005. He followed this up with a critically acclaimed Ruski released on Real Soon following up with the equally outstanding Seeker E.P on Enclave Recordings. More recently he has released on the seminal Millions Of Moments imprint as well as the ace new label Quintessentials. Lerosa continues to produce original music and is increasingly in demand as a remixer. This is going to be fun night of house and techno sounds.For more info & sounds visit www.myspace.com/lerosa or http://www.myspace.com/whatthefuckistechhouse

---------------------------------------Dane Bowers, fresh from the Big Brother house comes for a exclusive DJ Set on March 16th at Trinity Rooms. The Big Brother star started his career with Another Level and had seven Top 10 singles in two years in the UK, including 1998's UK Number one "Freak Me"; and a platinum selling, self-titled debut album. 1999's gold selling Nexus followed, along with BRIT Awards nominations and the opening slot on Janet Jackson's European tour. After the group split, Bowers wrote and fronted two UK Top 10 hits, for the UK garage act Truesteppers in 2000, "Buggin'" and "Out Of Your Mind". The latter featured the first solo outing of Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham.

In 2001, two solo singles released under the moniker of 'Dane', "Shut Up And Forget About It" (allegedly written about his relationship with Jordan) and "Another Lover", both stalled at number nine on the UK Singles Chart; and an album, Facing The Crowd remained unreleased. Bowers subsequently went on to focus on behind the scenes work, writing and producing, including a collaboration for Victoria Beckham's debut solo album, in the autumn of that year. He also ventured into presenting in 2002, co-hosting Popstars: The Rivals "Extra" show with the former Pop Idol contestant, Hayley Evetts. In 2004, Bowers wrote and starred in a sitcom pilot called "Bow to the Bowers." It was a satirical look at the music industry, casting Bowers as an egotistical, vain version of himself. Bowers appeared in the follow up TV show to Totally Scott-Lee,

called Totally Boyband, in which five boy band members from past groups were modeled into a new singing act. January 2010, Bowers entered Channel Four's Celebrity Big Brother and won the hearts of the nation to finish 2nd! Dane was underdog in the contest but his likable and honest personality really made a impression on people helping him stay in the BB house till the last night. Now he comes to Trinity Rooms on March 16th for our Paddy's Eve Big Bash. For more info logo onto www.trinityrooms.ie---------------------------------------Floyd Soul & The Wolf return to Limerick on the second spell of the band their now legendary Full Moon Shows for 2010. Word is that they'll be playing renegade shows in such far flung places as an abandoned castle, a forest, and to top it off, a graveyard. Floyd Soul & The Wolf roll into Baker Place on Saturday March 20th for a free show which promises to deliver another night of action bordering on the primal driven by the catchy, the shocking and delectable. This Waterford four-piece have found a distinct sound, equal parts modern and classic. It’s only a matter of time before they bring their sound to back to the States after their recent return from recording their debut album in Nashville, Tennessee with Nanci Griffith producer Thomm Jutz, it is set for release in 2010. A full moon won't be necessary though, as the four-piece are an acclaimed live act, described as 'playing as if our very lives depend on it.' For more info and howling sounds visit www.myspace.com/floydsoul


records

Tourist History Kitsuné / Glassnote Label On Release Now

EP

Free E.P DownloadLA Pink Filth I had an accident records

Shadows of the EmpireEMI On release now

Fionn Regan Two Door Cinema Club

The Superblondes

Walter Gross *****

*****

Hailed as one of the most exciting bands to come out of Ireland this year (they were longlisted in the BBC Sound of 2010 Poll), Two Door Cinema Club certainly live up to the hype with "Tourist History". The album is saturated with gripping hooks, breezy rhythms and all round feel good vibes. The songs amass to between three and four minutes in length resulting in a wonderfully punchy directness.

"I Can Talk" is a guaranteed dancefloor killer with its driving rhythm and soaring melody. Alot of the time you would think you are listening to a less serious-Foals.The guitar work is frenetic but never overbearing.

Some may say their sound is quite similar to the many indie guitar bands to dominate the UK in recent years (e.g Bloc part, Futureheads etc.) but it appears they have fused those bands sound into an indie pop engine of their own. The indie scene in Ireland needs its own heroes to admire and maybe,just maybe Two Door Cinema Club are those heroes. Adventurous it ain't, but "Tousist History" is godammn infectious.A warm and zesty debut that most certainly lives up to the hype.

ENTERTAINMENTSend your vinyl, digital or cd to L.E.G , Hogan’s Store, Foxes Bow, Limerick | [email protected]

Right, I’m gonna tell the truth from the off here. Fionn Regan’s ‘Shadow of an Empire’ got handed to me, I put it in the computer, did the itunes thing and pressed play. Did some quick flicking through the tracks and then pressed stop. Mainly cause I, ahem, didn’t really like it. Now, I’ve been asked to write some words on it, so I said fine, and pressed play again, and within 8 bars I realized I’d slipped up the first time. Not sure what was wrong with me, maybe I was expecting something totally different when I went at it the first time, something along the lines of the good old Irish singer songwriter favourites we’re used to from the good old Irish singer songwriters. But, and as much as I love the good olds, gladly this is very, very different. When I came at it cold for listen two, the first thing I heard was a healthy slice of Grant Lee Buffalo. And I love Grant Lee Buffalo. Flanked either side by Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Regan wears his influences on his forehead, and the result is a great, country/folk/rock-tinged upbeat and only positive record. One track after another plays like a gentle, young Kings of Leon, ‘Coat Hook’ trips along with punchy Camden guitar & yelps, ‘Violent Demeanour’ like a modern Christy Moore/acoustic Supergrass bastard, ‘Little Nancy’ harmonicas its way into the record

and waltzes perfectly and morosely for the next 3 minutes before the title track closes an expertly crafted 35 minutes. A more than accomplished follow up to Regan’s acclaimed debut ‘The End of History’, ‘Shadow of an Empire’ sounds like a tenth record, not a second one.

-jody

*****

The Superblondes offer a debut EP laced with throbbing basslines and lush vocal work. The duo of Eoin and Lory adopt a retro electro sound akin to that of LCD Soundsystem in tandem with an underlying slice of indie rock. There is a soothing tone inherent in the Superblondes material that puts the listener in a placid mindset. "Traffic Flow" is a real standout here with its pulsating beat and twinkling synths. This EP does what a good EP should do; offering the listener a taste and leave them with an appetite for more. Superblondes play Baker Place on Monday March 15th / www.myspace.com/superblondes

-David Morrissey

Distortion. Crunch. Static. General dissonance. These are the spheresthat Mr. Gross operates within. Tearing up the hip hop template with genuine aplomb LA Pink Filth makes deathcore trash metal seem positively tame, the Gaslamp Killer seem like Funkmaster Flex and will, in all likelihood, give you a savage pain in your head. The music is visceral, horrific and wildly imaginative, snatches of grunged up breaks juxtaposed across the spectrum of experimental art music, musique concrete thrown in the blender with Kool G Rap. The intro "In America" sets the tone for what is to follow, a 400 second assault on the cerebrum, the LP reaches somewhat of a zenith with "Allie McRaw", the "straightest" track on LA Pink Filth yet still a mindfuck of boombap beats and vomiting distortion before settling into drone terror-tory for the final third of the release. Lest I'm not making myself clear, these are all good things.A cacophony perhaps, but a glorious cacophony nonetheless. www.myspace.com/waltergross

-Andy Connolly


at the movies

ENTERTAINMENT

ONDINERelease Date: 5th March 2010Director: Neil JordanStarring: Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Alison Barry, Dervla Kirwin, Stephen ReaDetails: Ireland/111mins 12A

LEAP YEARRelease Date: 12 February 2010Director: Anand TuckerStarring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, John Lithgow, Adam ScottDetails: US/100mins PG

THE LOVELY BONESRelease Date: 19 February 2010Director: Peter JacksonStarring: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Michael Imperioli. Details: US/124mins (12A)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…which one Did Neil Jordan take with Ondine? The answer is both as myth, legend and fairytale mix with harsh reality and tough social issues in his latest Irish offering since the decidedly more …well decisive Breakfast on Pluto. A simple fisherman, Syracuse (Farrell) catches a beautiful and mysterious woman (Bachleda) in his nets. Apparently dead she, miraculously, comes back to life before his eyes. She calls herself Ondine, insists that she be seen by no-one but him so he hides her in his mother’s old home. Soon his ailing and imaginative young daughter Alice (Barry) becomes intrigued by the secret he has hidden by the coast and sets about determining exactly what she is and where she came from.Casting Farrell as Syracuse was a good move for ticket sales, he never seems comfortable in the role of a broody Corkman. His accent gets less distracting as the film progresses only to be replaced by a complete lack of personality. Alison Barry as Alice is less on the Abigail Breslin side of cute precocity and more on the desperately annoying side with a performance that is entirely too affected. Bachleda is vaguely interesting to watch but the scenes are stolen by the stunning landscape which cinematographer Chris Doyle captures beautifully. An overstuffed story with very little to say.

There is no two ways of saying this: Leap Year is a tedious, stereotyping piece of crap that is an insult to the intelligence of even the most undemanding romantic comedy lover. Adams is a successful woman from Boston, with a successful boyfriend. She has a quirky, but obtainable job dressing apartments like they're nicer than they are when a real estate agent can't shift them. She's very good at it and has nice clobber and the like; but what she really wants is a marriage proposal from her surgeon boyfriend. Thinking he'll ask her over dinner one night, he doesn't, and must rush off to Dublin for a conference before she can react. She decides to come to Ireland to propose herself. But when her flight diverts to Wales, she must find her own way to Dublin by way of Dingle; via lots of pissed old men making inane observations, and Matthew Goode being all sexy and brooding in an Aran sweater. The story plods along, hopelessly devoid of charm and wit, giving its cast absolutely nothing to work with. Tucker does manage some lovely visuals but he had precious little to work with and ended up making a film that plays like National Lampoons Irish Vacation. The tourism board will be delighted after seeing this, but they'll probably be the only ones.

Peter Jackson doesn’t make a perfect film in The Lovely Bones, some ropey casting and serious issues with pacing aside, the essence of Sebold's wonderful book is certainly visible. Despite. Ronan is Susie Salmon, a girl we learn will soon be murdered from her opening narration. Stuck in the "in-between," she watches the effect her death had on those closest to her. Her parents (Weisz and Wahlberg) handle the loss with polarising emotions- her father in denial and obsessed with finding her killer, while her mother can't deal with his lack of support. Meanwhile, her sister and those she shared the briefest of connections with mourn her death, but can't seem to let her go. There are undoubted flaws scattered all over Jackson's adaptation. Wahlberg doesn't really have the vulnerability for such a role, while Weisz is given a lot less to do, her story being one of the many subplots that became victim to the time constraints of film. Ronan fills every frame with a unique glow and it's a testament to her wonderful work that the film suffers whenever she is not around. Tucci's killer may be too sinister aesthetically for the part, but the always reliable actor does a stellar job of making you hate him regardless. If you connect with the material and buy the world that Susie finds herself in then The Lovely Bones will break your heart. - courtesy of entertainment.ie


on the way A little taste of what’s in the post for Limerick

---------------------------The WarehouseFriday April 23 ---------------------------Dan Le Sac V Scroobius Pip are live in Limerick on Friday April 23 at The Warehouse having delivered their new single in the shape of the Italo-tinged anthem Get Better released on Sunday Best which premiered by Zane Lowe on Radio 1, Get Better is an appeal for positivity, responsibility and self-education, and should more than launch the second wave of the Dan V Scroobius tidal as they release their brand new album The Logic Of Chance a beat heavy lit-pop tour de force on release from March 15th on Sunday Best. With the free-flowing rhyme'n'bass opener Sick Tonight, old school dancefloor hip-hop of The Beat, rants about government statistics, teenage pregnancy and music snobbery, le sac Vs Pip have delivered a second album of beat led polemics. Instantly danceable, yet increasingly vital, The Logic Of Chance is a great leap forward for alternative conscious pop. Since the launch of their first album, ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ the duo have toured Europe and the US to a growing live following, kicking off a new UK & Ireland tour in March, Dan V Scoorbius land at Streetlife in Dolan's Warehouse on Friday 23rd April with tickets on sale now from Empire Records.

----------------------------University Concert Hall Saturday June 12th----------------------------After a barely explainable 2009 The Priests return to Limerick in June for a show at the University Concert Hall. Few pundits would have predicted that an unkown vocal group of practising priests from Northern Ireland would sell a million records. Their debut album "The Priests" and their second, "Harmony" have sold over 2 million copies in more that 40 countries and topped the charts all over the world from New Zealand to Norway. At St. MacNissi’s College near Carnlough in Co Antrim, Father Eugene O’Hagan, Father Martin O’Hagan and Father David Delargy met for the first time and realised their musical prowess as a singing trio. After 20 years of being parish priests, Eugene, Martin and David’s talent was recognised by Sony Music after a scout sent a demo to Sony’s head office. They signed a contract on the steps of Westminster Abbey in April 2008. The Priests will perform songs including Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Amazing Grace and You'll Never Walk Alone at the UCH on June 12. Tickets from UCH box office on 061-331549 or www.uch.ie.

----------------------------LIT Millennium Theatre Thursday April 29th ---------------------------The country’s favourite, Mick Lally, will be stepping on stage at the Millennium Theatre in April in his new role as a rogued football fan in ‘God’s Official’. This madcap comedy sees Mick joined on stage by George McMahon who plays Mondo in Fair City and rising star Edwin Mullane. Playing a kidnapped referee is not what the bould Mick would be best known for, but this is the premise of his new show where two football fans have just seen their side relegated after said referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score! Trying to force him into changing his mind on the all-important goal sets up the rest of this comedy. To some people football is a matter of life and death, to others it is far more important that that.God’s Official runs at the LIT Millenium Theatre on April 29. Contact the box office on 061-322322 or log on to www.litmt.ie for tickets

----------------------------Secret location Friday April 2nd----------------------------The third incarnation of Limerick’s home-grown music festival, Great Friday, is coming up thick & fast. On Friday April 02, Limerick’s music players & lovers will once again line up at Arthurs Quay bus stop and be shuttled away to a big field to stand & love the likes of Jamie Behan, Kevin Blake, Dan Sykes, Ruan Flood, Andy Mooney, Benoit, Acoustra, Brad Pitt Light Orchestra, Funzo & Heirs to Nothing. Great Friday 2010 was launched, jelly shots and all in Baker Place on February 27th and if the huge crowd the rocked the house are any indicator of form this years festival will be another riotous romp in the county, come mud rain or shine. Five years of very serious partying by the people of Limerick caused the Great Friday House Party to burst at the seams and in 2008 the move came from house to field. The cream of Limerick’s music scene came out to entertain and the legendary atmosphere of Great Friday survived the transition. The Great Friday Festival runs April 2 at a secret location. Check www.greatfriday.ie or www.myspace.com/greatfriday for tickets & more details.

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip The Priests God's OfficialGreat Friday

COMING MONTH’S


MondayCostello’s: IndieIcon: Chart

TuesdayIcon: ChartBentley Barker’s ChartTrinity Rooms: Euro Tuesday

WednesdayBentley Barker’s: ChartIcon: ChartNancy Blake’s: Indie/ChartSin Bin: Chart

ThursdayAngel Lane: HipHop/RnB/ChartBentley Barker’s Varies Icon: Ladies NightNancy Blake’s: Indie/ChartSin Bin: ChartTrinity Rooms: Unplugged / Chart

FridayAngel Lane: HipHop/RnB/ChartAu Bars: The Release PartyBentley Barker’s Dj EamonnCostello’s: IndieNancy Blake’s: Indie/ChartIcon: chartSin Bin: chartThe Underground: see listings Trinity Rooms: Ravin’ & Misbehavin

SaturdayAngel Lane: HipHop/RnB/ChartBentley Barker’s ChartCostello’s: IndieIcon: ChartNancy Blake’s: Indie/ChartSin Bin: ChartThe Underground: see listingsTrinity Rooms: Access All Areas SundayAngel Lane: HipHop/RnB/ChartIcon: chartNancy Blake’s: Indie/ChartSin Bin: chart

MondayClubhouse: DJDolans: TradNancy Blakes: TradTom Collins: Live SessionWicked Chicken: HipHopSoulFunk

TuesdayClubhouse: DjDolans: Trad

weekly pub nights

listings

comedy dance dj/club exhibition film live music poetry theatre on the street reading lecture

Nancy Blakes: DJThe Bank Bar: Trad & BalladsThe Locke Bar: Trad with Tomas O’Dalaigh

Monday March 01DJ/CLUB The Icon DjLIVE MUSIC Tom Collins Live SessionTHEATRE Belltable Kevin’s Bed Tuesday March 02DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins TunesdayTrinity Rooms Euro TuesdayLIVE MUSIC Dolans Upstairs Two Door Cinema ClubTHEATRE Belltable Kevin’s Bed

Wednesday March 03DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins The Elbow RoomTrinity Rooms The Oscars BallLIVE MUSIC Dolans Upstairs James Vincent McMorrowTom Collins Live SessionThe Locke Bar Ballad & Folk SessionTHEATRE Belltable Kevin’s Bed Thursday March 04DJ/CLUBMickey Martins Tokin’ WhiteboyTrinity Rooms Johnny & Mac 3COMEDY Dolans Warehouse David O’ DohertyFILM Belltable Limerick Film Forum 2010 SeriesLIVE MUSIC Baker Place Simon FaganJavas University of Limerick NeosupervitalREADING The Locke Bar ‘On The Nail’ w/Bob BurkeTHEATRE Belltable Kevin’s BedFriars Gate Don’t Dress for Dinner Friday March 05COMEDY UCH Neil Delamere ‘Bookmarks’DJ/CLUB Dolans Upstairs Paul Webb’s Balance RadioDolans Warehouse Streetlife pres. Dave ClarkeMickey Martins Paul Tarpey The Club @ Au Bars The Release Party

Trinity Rooms Meltdown w/BonoLIVE MUSICBaker Place 80’s nite for Red RibbonBentleys Courtyard SunstoneClohessys Bon Jovi Tribute BandDolans Warehouse The JD Set Limerick HeatThe Locke Bar The Piano Man Nick CarswellTHEATREBelltable Kevin’s BedFriars Gate Don’t Dress for Dinner Saturday March 06DJ/CLUBDolans Upstairs La BoutiqueMickey Martins a2dfThe Underground Nu Kill Kru 10th BirthdayTrinity Rooms Euphoria SaturdaysLIVE MUSICBaker Place Built for ComfortDolans Upstairs Gerry O’ ConnorDolans Warehouse Fionn ReganThe Locke Bar Piano Man Dermot BowdenUCH Tommy FlemingTHEATREBelltable Kevin’s BedFriars Gate Don’t Dress for Dinner Sunday March 07DJ/CLUBBentleys Bar Dj EamonnMickey Martins Les Dimanches du MondeLIVE MUSICBaker Place Giora & BefouledTHEATRE Belltable Kevin’s BedFriars Gate Don’t Dress for DinnerIsaac Taylors Kevin McCarthy Monday March 08LIVE MUSIC Tom Collins Live Session THEATRE Belltable Little Gem Tuesday March 09DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins TunesdayTrinity Rooms Euro TuesdayTHEATRE Belltable Little Gem Wednesday March 10DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins The Elbow RoomLIVE MUSICDolans Upstairs LJSoc pres. Arguelles/ Guilfoyle / BlackDolans Warehouse Tom McCraeTom Collins Live Session

Locke Bar: Trad & BalladsMickey Martins: DjNancy Blakes: TradWhite House: Songwriter’s open micWicked Chicken: HipHipSoulFunk

WednesdayClubhouse: DJDolans: TradMickey Martins: DJNancy Blakes: Trad / Late barThe Bank Bar: Trad & BalladsTom Collins: Live SessionThe Locke Bar: Ballad SessionWhite House: Poetry Revival Wicked Chicken: HipHopSoulFunk

ThursdayBentley’s The Venue: Dj EamonnClubhouse: DJCostelloes: AlternativeDolans: TradFennessy’s: Trad SessionMickey Martins: DJNancy Blakes: Late BarThe Bank Bar: Trad & BalladsThe Cuckoo Box: Live MusicThe Sinbin @ Clohessy’s: Salsa in the CityWicked Chicken: DJ / Late Bar

FridayBentley’s The Venue: Dj EamonnClubhouse: DJ Costelloes: AlternativeDolans: TradMickey Martins: DJNancy Blakes: DJThe Bank Bar: Trad & BalladsThe Cuckoo Box: Live MusicThe Locke Bar: The Piano Man Nick CarswellWicked Chicken: DJ

SaturdayBentley’s The Venue: Dj EamonnClubhouse: DJ Costelloes: AlternativeDolans: TradMickey Martins: DJNancy Blakes: DJThe Bank Bar: Trad & BalladsThe Cuckoo Box: DjThe Locke Bar: Piano Man Dermot BowdenWicked Chicken: DJ /Late Bar

SundayBentley’s The Venue: w/Kevin McCarthyClubhouse: DJDolans: TradFennessy’s: Trad SessionMickey Martins: DJ

LISTINGS

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The Locke Bar Ballad & Folk SessionTHEATRE Belltable Little Gem

Thursday March 11DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins LeonTrinity Rooms Johnny & Mac 3COMEDY Dolans Warehouse Rich HallLIVE MUSIC Baker Place My Evil Ex & Chucky’s RiverClohessys Live MusicDolans Upstairs Richmond Fontaine DupThe Locke Bar Songwriter SessionsShannon Rowing Club Speakeasyjazz pres. Blue NoiseMUSICAL UCH Limerick Musical Soc. Pres. Fiddler on the RoofTHEATRE Belltable Little Gem Friday March 12DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins EggzThe Club @ Au Bars The Release Party Trinity Rooms Meltdown w/Mac 3LIVE MUSIC Baker Place I’ll Eat Your Face & Los LangerosDolans Upstairs Eugene DoneganDolans Warehouse Sharon Shannon Big Band & Jerry FishThe Locke Bar The Piano Man Nick CarswellMUSICAL UCH Limerick Musical Soc. Pres. Fiddler on the RoofTHEATRE Belltable Little GemFriars Gate Torch Players pres. Kevin’s Bed

Saturday March 13DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Paul TarpeyThe Underground WTFITH? pres. Lerosa LiveTrinity Rooms Euphoria SaturdaysLIVE MUSICBaker Place The Bull MunroDolans Warehouse Concern Action Haiti FundraiserThe Locke Bar Skyfest Party w/Nick CarswellMUSICAL UCH Limerick Musical Soc. Pres. Fiddler on the RoofTHEATRE Belltable Little Gem Sunday March 14DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Les Dimanches du MondeLIVE MUSIC Baker Place Hellfire pres. Merciless Terror + Guests

Monday March 15Tom Collins Live Session

Sunday March 28DJ/CLUBMickey Martins Les Dimanches du MondeLIVE MUSICBaker Place Metal After Mass

Monday March 29LIVE MUSIC Tom Collins Live Session

Tuesday March 30DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Tunesday Trinity Rooms Euro Tuesday

Wednesday March 31DJ/CLUBMickey Martins The Elbow RoomLIVE MUSICDolans Upstairs LJSoc pres. Pete Robbins Trans-Atlantic QuartetThe Locke Bar Ballad & Folk Sessions

Paperplane continues to show at Occupy-Space on Catherine Street until Sunday March 21st. Occupy-Space opens Wed – Fri 12-6 and Saturdays 12-5

FashioNation opened in All Out Design on Sarsfield Street on February 25th and continues for two weeks at the LSAD Clare Street Campus.

Cirque du Céramique; an exhibition of work by 3rd & 4th year ceramic design students runs in the Church Gallery of Limerick School of Art & Design until Friday March 5th.

OPEN/INVITED e+va launches in LSAD Clare Street on March 12th and continues from the ev+a HUB on Thomas Street and in venues around the city until Sunday May 23rd. FREE BUS TOUR of the ev+a sites leaves Thomas Street at 12pm on Saturday March 13th. See www.eva.ie for more.

Tuesday March 16DJ/CLUB Dolans Warehouse Termight KlubMickey Martins TunesdayThe Underground Roots Factory meets The Rootical SoundsystemTrinity Rooms Dane Bowers & Johnny HammondLIVE MUSICThe Locke Bar Trad Music Session

Wednesday March 17LIVE MUSICBaker Place Paddy’s Day PartyMickey Martins a2dfThe Locke Bar Paddy’s Day Hooley w/Tomas O’DalaighDJ/CLUB Dolan’s Warehouse & Terrace Paddys Day Beat Down

Thursday March 18DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Phil WadeTrinity Rooms €2 ThursdayLIVE MUSICBaker Place Burn Us Both & The ZerosDolans Upstairs Crooked StillThe Locke Bar Songwriters SessionsUCH Kodo ‘One Earth Tour’

Friday March 19DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Tokin’ WhiteboyThe Club @ Au Bars The Release Party Trinity Rooms Meltdown w/ Mac 3LIVE MUSICBaker Place Supermodel Twins & RemmaClohessys CuisleDolans Warehouse FREDThe Locke Bar The Piano Man Nick CarswellFriars Gate Geraldine O’Grady, Oonagh Kelly & Margaret O’SullivanTHEATRE Belltable LYT pres. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Saturday March 20DJ/CLUB Dolans Upstairs La BoutiqueMickey Martins LeonThe Underground Fried Egg pres. Spectra SoulTrinity Rooms Euphoria SaturdaysLIVE MUSIC Baker Place Floyd Soul & The WolfThe Locke Bar Piano Man Dermot BowdenTHEATRE Belltable LYT pres. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sunday March 21DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Les Dimanches du MondeTrinity Rooms U.L Charity Week PartyLIVE MUSIC Baker Place Metal After MassUCH The High Kings

Monday March 22DJ/CLUB Trinity Rooms Mauro Picotto (U.L Charity Week)FILMBelltable Fresh Film Festival 2010LIVE MUSICBaker Place LSAD RaG WeekTom Collins Live Session

Tuesday March 23DJ/CLUB Mickey Martins TunesdayTrinity Rooms €1 MondayFILM Belltable Dance on ScreenLIVE MUSIC Baker Place Music Soc pres. SanzkritsUCH Gilbert O’ Sullivan

Wednesday March 24DANCE Belltable Open NicheMickey Martins The Elbow Rooms LIVE MUSIC Dolans Upstairs LJSoc pres. David Lyttle TrioTom Collins Live SessionThe Locke Bar Ballad & Folk SessionUCH RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Thursday March 25COMEDY THEATREL.I.T.M.T Stones in His PocketsDJ/CLUB Mickey Martins a2df Trinity Rooms €2 ThursdayLIVE MUSIC Dolans Upstairs Supermodel Twins & Laminate Reno The Locke Bar Songwriters SessionsUCH Irish Chamber Orchestra w/Anthony Marwood

Friday March 26COMEDY THEATREL.I.T.M.T Stones in His PocketsDJ/CLUB Dolans Warehouse Out in U.L pres. QueerbashMickey Martins Eggz The Club @ Au Bars The Release Party Trinity Rooms Meltdown w/Mac 3LIVE MUSIC Clohessys Celtic WhisperThe Locke Bar Piano Man Dermot Bowden

Saturday March 27COMEDY THEATREL.I.T.M.T Stones in His PocketsDJ/CLUB Mickey Martins Peter Curtin The Underground Strutt pres. Claude Young Trinity Rooms Euphoria SaturdaysLIVE MUSICThe Locke Bar The Piano Man Nick CarswellTHEATRE Friars Gate St Patricks Players pres. The Plough & The Stars

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Pubs Au Bars Thomas St f5The Bitter End Bedford Row e4Bentley Barker’s e5Castle Lane Nicholas St g1Charlie Chaplin’s Cruise’s St g4Clohessy’s Bishop’s Quay d5Costello’s Tait Square f6Dolan’s Bar Dock Road a7Fennessy’s Pub 1 New StreetFlannery’s Catherine St f6Flannery’s Denmark St g4 Flannerys Denmark St Upr h4 Foley’s Lwr Shannon St e5Marriott Savoy Bar Henry St e4Mickey Martin’s Thomas St f5The Bailey Patrick St g4Molly Malone’s Ellen St h4Nancy Blake’s Denmark St h4Old Quarter Little Ellen St g4O Riarda’s Catherine St f5Baker Place Bar Tait Square f6Riddler’s Sarsfield St e4Sexton’s Henry St d6 Smyth’s Denmark St Upr h4The Bank O Connell St e6The Cuckoo Box Denmark St g4The Clubhouse The Granary h3The George Hotel O Connell St e5The Locke Bar George’s Quay h2The Whitehouse O Connell St e6Tom Collins Cecil St f6The Still House Thomas St f5The Wicked Chicken Tait Sq f6Clubs Angel Lane Robert St h4The Club @ Au Bars Catherine St f5Costello’s Tait Sq f6Icon Denmark St Upr h4Isaac Taylors f6The Tatler Club Club f6The Sin Bin Bishop’s Quay d5The Underground Tait Square f6The Warehouse Dock Road a7Trinity Rooms The Granary h3

Restaurants Azur O Connell St e5Bambu O Connell St f5Bella Italia Thomas St g5Bruschetta Bar Mount Kennet c6Brulee’s Henry St d6Copper & Spice Cornmarket Row h4Eastern Tandoori Steamboat Quay b6Hamptons Henry St e4Jasmine Palace O Connell St e5La Piccola Italia O Connell St e6La Piccola Pizzeria O Connel St e6Marriott Savoy Henry St e4Marriott Liszt Lounge Henry St e4Milano’s Harvey’s Quay e4Moll Darby’s George’s Quay h2O’ Connor’s Thomas St f5Poppadom Cornmarket Row h4Rogue Trader’s O Connell St e6Texas Steakout O Connell St f5The Cornstore Thomas St g5 The George Bar & Kitchen O’Connell St e5The French Table Steamboat Quay b6The Locke Bistro George’s Quay h2The Market Square O Connell St d7Turkuaz Authentic Kebab House h4Yellow Lemon High St h5Z We Ton Little Ellen St g4

Cafes Bruschetta Café Denmark St g4Café Noir Denmark St Upr g5Carlton Coffee Thomas St g5Coffee 4 Two Catherine St e6French’s Catherine St f5J&C Coffee, Unit 5, Chapel Court h4La Tavola Calda Mallow St e6Greene’s William St g4Mari’s Cheese Shop Milk Market h4Delish Thomas St f5The Bagel Factory Thomas St g5The Sage Café Catherine St f5The Wild Onion High St h5Hotels Absolute Hotel Sir Harry’s Mall f2Clarion Steamboat Quay a6Jury’s Inn Shannon Bridge c6Pery’s Hotel Glentworth St f6Marriott Hotel Henry St e4Radisson SAS Ennis RoadSarsfield Bridge Sarsfield St e4South Court Raheen (off map)The George Hotel O’ Connell St e5The Strand Hotel Clancy Strand d3South Court Hotel RaheenClothing and Shoes Brown Thomas O’ Connell St f4Christopher O’ Donnell’s Catherine St f5

Dorothy Perkins Cruises St g4Imasa Lifestyle O’ Connell St e5Japan Cruises St G4Monsoon Cruises St g4Mothercare Cruises St g4Melie B Roches St f5 New Look Cruises St g4Paper Dolls Little Catherine St g5Penney’s O’ Connell St f4Remix Williamscourt Mall g4River Island Cruises St g4Sequoia Lane O’ Connell St f5 Shoe Rack Cruises St g4Solo Ellen St h4South Central LK O’ Connell St e6 Tippe Canoe Shannon St e5Tubes Lwr Cecil St e5Wacky Shoes O Connell St f5Wallis Cruises St g4 Other Retailers All Star Ink Tattoo Wickham St h5 Bullman’s Tattoo Thomas St g5 Cahill’s Tobacconist Wickham St h5 Cash Convenience, Parnell St g5Living Art Tattoo Wickham St h5 Moviedrome Henry St c7Munchies Foxe’s Bow g5Niall Colgan Hairdressing O’

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Omniplex Cinema Crescent S.C Silverwood William St h5The Hub Printers High St h5 Cats Hair Salon Arthur’s Quay f4Marble’s Hair & Beauty g4Melo Yelo Hair 7 Shannon St e5The River Hair Salon Dock Road c6Venues Belltable Arts Centre St d6Daghdha Space St John’s Sq j4Limerick Ceramic Works e4Limerick Printmakers Robert St h4Fitzpatrick’s Casino Tait Square f6Thinkk Creative Gallery f6University Concert Hall U.L.(off map)Other Live 95fm Dock Road c6Adapt House RossbrienColbert Station Parnell St g7City Gallery Pery St e7City Skatepark Steamboat Quay b6Family Planning Mallow St e6Hunt Museum Patrick St g3People’s Park Mallow St f7Red Ribbon Cecil St f6Samaritans Barrington St d7Tourist Office Arthur’s Quay Park f4

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