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Bob Log III
Thursday, 18 September 2008

What is there to say about that enigma that is body-suit wearing, motor-cycle helmet attired, four-bar-blues rocking Bob Log III? Well, you could say he likes his scotch stirred, not shaken…you could go further and say he likes something 'pink in his drink'…you could even call it a 'boob scotch' (well, that's what he calls it anyway). He may even ask you to 'boob' his scotch! You could say he's the bastard offspring of some boozed up biker and a grizzled old Delta blues howler, conceived in the baking Arizona desert to the sounds of Bo Diddley and AC/DC.

 
Fujiya & Miyagi
Thursday, 18 September 2008

First things first, lets get that name out of the way - Fujiya's a turntable company, and Miyagi's the filmic Okinawan played by Pat Morita who instructs sullen white kids how to kick ass, get the girls and wax on/wax off. But while Fujiya & Miyagi presumably relish urban Japan's cultural they are in actual fact three guys from Brighton who met warming the subs benches for their respective Sunday League football teams.

 
Islands
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Stalwarts of the vibrant Montreal music scene, Islands, led by a former member of respected lo-fi poppers Unicorns, and featuring a bass playing prodigy and ex-Prince sidekick as well as associates of, among others, epic indie rockers Arcade Fire and Wolf Eyes and experimental hip-hoppers Bus Driver and Subtitle, this year released their second album, the sprawling, playful, occasionally humorous and frequently dark opus Arm’s Way.
 
John Abercrombie
Thursday, 11 September 2008
He may not have anything approaching the same profile as fellow jazz fusion six stringers John McLaughlin, Bill Frisell or Pat Metheny, but US guitarist John Abercrombie has nevertheless earned himself a reputation as a veritable powerhouse and dexterous talent on the jazz circuit through a series of ever evolving projects that have spanned the genre.
 
My Space and I
Thursday, 11 September 2008
My Space and I, an exhibition of selected works from the University College Cork collection, opened this past week at the West Cork Arts Centre.
 
Everyman opens the gates to Godot
Thursday, 04 September 2008

The Everyman Palace Theatre reopens its doors to the public after refurbishments with the highly acclaimed Gate Theatre Production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot. New seating in the auditorium will undoubtedly provide a luxurious quantity of padding for the buttocks and particularly at the edges. For Godot, however, the stark stage setting and the giddy prostrations of the protagonoists will undoubtedly sweep thoughts connected to the extremities clean out of the audience members' mind.

 
I'll Eat Your Lamp
Thursday, 04 September 2008

It's a musical four-way…a face off of potentially deadly proportions...the kind of show your mother warned you about…a slap in the face of decency, morals, good taste and musical refinement. It's the skid marks on your underpants, it's that translucent sticky goo hanging from your nose and dripping slowly onto your lower lip after a particularly violent vomiting session, and it's the delirious feeling one experiences right after said vomiting session. It's I'll Eat Your Face VS Lamp in Now That's What I Call Manual Strangulation.

 
Northern Soul
Thursday, 04 September 2008

This Saturday, September 6, a new club night with a decidedly old-school slant gets underway at the Imperial Hotel. Northern Soul takes it's name from the timeless form of music which successfully crossed audiences, gender, race and the oceans waters long before the age of internet downloading and music television. The artists that toiled for Northern Soul back in the day are today regarded as legends and enduring influences on many forms of contemporary music, from eclectic indie outfits to big-beat superstar DJ's.

 
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Described as ‘Seinfield set to music’, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, the longest running off-Broadway musical ever, is returning to Cork after the Cork Musical Theatre Company’s sell out run at the Cork Arts Theatre back in June. Having run for over 12 years, and with more than 4,500 performances to date, this musical comedy, which celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game, has become the most proposal-friendly show in theatre history. There has already been forty-eight different occasions when surprise proposals have taken place at performances – you have been warned!

 
Top Girls
Thursday, 28 August 2008

Caryl Churchill’s iconic play, Top Girls, mixes fantasy and reality, history and heresy to bring you the story of Marlene. A bit too old to be a ‘girl’, with a healthy taste for whisky, Marlene has just been promoted at work. In a world where men are the employers, where do children and warmth and vulnerability have a place? And if you must give them up, what are the consequences? Top Girls is said to be a deeply human and moving examination of feminist values in the home, in the workplace, and in our past and the contrast between a celebration of capitalism and the individual and socialism and the collective. It is sometimes political, sometimes hilarious, but always painfully true.

 
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