Foals suck part 8

http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/album/foals-suck-8eme-e...

Foals suck part 7

http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/album/foals-suck-7eme-e...

 

i told you so

http://porlacarretera.hautetfort.com/archive/2008/07/21/n...

October 23rd, the Ambassador.

theatre

http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com

if you like theatre, it is the festival to go to, the production are always very good. tickets might be a bit pricey but it's ireland as usual...

 

and i just realised i was lx in three shows for this

Hedda Gabler, The Gate Theatre

Circus, Samuel Beckett Centre

Rank, The Helix

not a fan

but still shit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/...

so american

here is to Jen who bought this bag

may all the american voters follow her and her bag

 

http://store.barackobama.com/product_p/tb24430.htm

Change Is Awesome Tote Bag

Culture Night

negative points:

Dublin has good museums but the two best ones are far from the centre so you won't really bother going on a friday night.

the fact to help kids promote culture is great but you don't make them play (well they didnt really know how to play) on a big square in the city where everyone is passing by and saying it represents the irish culture. you make them play and say their poems in an art gallery, or a theatre and you use the main stage for local bands etc to represent the music culture for example... everyone stopping seems ashamed of what was happening...

not enough coverage and promotion? more posters to announce next year please.

 

so my night was:

-capoeira in Trinity

-following the Batucada (Brasilian percussions ensemble) through Temple Bar

-exhibition on the knowledge and breaking the established tradition in the Project Art Centre

-stop for a pint in the Gogarty (traditional irish pub with live session) and watching Colin Farrel's sosie playing the fiddle

-trying to understand what was happening in Meeting House Square (and oh my god the presenter was awful, not funny, ridiculous... the kids on stage didn't seem to appreciate him either)

 

next year i'll do the workshops in the acting schools and more exhibitions in the art galleries.

summer

is back in Dublin today

it's so warm! and sunny!

i'm on balcony :-)

then work at 8.30 for David Holmes album launch

 

 

then the Gate until 8am tomorrow morning

Henrik Ibsen's
Hedda Gabler
in a new version by Brian Friel

World Premiere Tuesday 30th September
Low Price Previews from Thursday 25th September

“There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses”
The Times

Eighty years after the Gate’s inaugural production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, it celebrates its birthday with a wonderful new version, by Brian Friel, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Idealistic heroine or manipulative villain, the character of Hedda is one of the great dramatic roles in theatre and has become known as the ‘female Hamlet’.

As she struggles to come to terms with a marriage to a man she finds numbingly dull and a pregnancy that threatens to seize hold of her body and future, Hedda quickly realises that the roots of convention run deep and, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, begins to indulge in evil games, manipulating the fate of all who enter her orbit.

Hedda Gabler	Justine Mitchell
Julianna Tesman	Susan Fitzgerald
George Tesman	Peter Hanly
Thea Elvsted	Andrea Irvine
Eilert Loevborg	John Light
Bertha	Billie Traynor
Judge Brack	Andrew Woodall

Director: Anna Mackmin
Designer: Lez Brotherston
Lighting Designer: Oliver Fenwick
Composer: Denis Clohessy

a second album

for the Spinto Band

to listen here http://www.iwelcom.tv/thespintoband.htm

tonight

culture for free

http://www.culturenight.ie

 

speciale clermont

a tous ceux qui lisent ce blog et qui ont un jour vecu a Clermont:

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12931072990

quand tu croises Jean Louis Murat complètement pété en terrasse du Café des Beaux Art et que tu crains soudainement pour ta vie

quand tu sors en boite t'es content de voir boudu car t'es heureux de lui faire un smack

quand on t'as déjà dit: "mais chez toi c'est tout moche, les batiments sont noirs" et que t'as répondu: " c'est de la pierre volcanique"

Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited by Walt Disney

release at the end of the month

1. DeVotchKa - Overture
2. Danny Elfman - Opening
3. Marilyn Manson - This Is Halloween
4. All-American Rejects - Jack's Lament
5. Amiina - Doctor Finkelstein/In the Forest
6. Flyleaf - What's This?
7. The Polyphonic Spree - Town Meeting Song
8. The Vitamin String Quartet - Jack and Sally Montage
9. Sparklehorse - Jack's Obsession
10. Korn - Kidnap the Sandy Claws
11. Rise Against - Making Christmas
12. Yoshida Brothers - Nabbed
13. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Oogie Boogie's Song
14. Amy Lee - Sally's Song
15. RJD2 - Christmas Eve Montage
16. Plain White T's - Poor Jack
17. Datarock - To the Rescue
18. Shiny Toy Guns - Finale/Reprise
19. Danny Elfman - Closing
20. The Album Leaf - End Title

 

and this song that won't be on the final CD

Fall Out Boy, What's This?

 

a new KC

Kaiser Chiefs, Never Miss a Beat

 

free stuff

THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE - "The Human Body EP"
Cold World
Kick In The Teeth

THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE - "No Need To Be Downhearted"
If That's The Case, Then I Don't Know

and more here...  http://www.betterlookingrecords.com/downloads.php

HWCH-the good the bad and the "ok"

the good (bands i want to see again)

Heartbreak Cartel

Grand Pocket Orchestra

Crayonsmith

Followers Of Otis

Hooray For Humans

 

the bad (bands with no interest or that need to work on their live shows)

Kill Krinkle Club

The Ambience Affair

 

the "ok" (not really good but not bad)

Tiger Empire

Vodkopter

Chequerboard

Pocket Promise

The Holy Roman Army

Exit: Pursued by a Bear

 

previous hwch reviews:

http://porlacarretera.hautetfort.com/archive/2008/09/15/h...

http://porlacarretera.hautetfort.com/archive/2008/09/16/h...

http://porlacarretera.hautetfort.com/archive/2008/09/17/h...

a come back

TV On The Radio are playing Tripod on the 15th of November.

 

i remembered the last time i saw them i was working, work experience to be exact and i was just starting,

here is the post i wrote in november 2006.

http://porlacarretera.hautetfort.com/archive/2006/11/17/b...

Peace

from Lauren

 

http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

 

21st of september, get involved, spread the word.

cooking again

a rhubarb tart

yummm

 

recipe in english/ recette en francais

http://www.latartinegourmande.com/2007/05/10/rhubarb-tart...

 

HWCH-Irish favourites

Side project

http://www.myspace.com/sideprojectrock

i had a great time doing their lights, i was just feeling it... mostly instrumental. great experimental guitar rhythms. just different from every acts i saw this weekend. a really good surprise.

 

The Vinny Club

http://www.myspace.com/thevinnyclub

always an experience. always a new costume. always a laugh.

Foals suck part 6

http://www.lesinrocks.com/?id=59&tx_news%5Bnotule%5D=...

Foals suck part 5 (and 3 and 4)

http://www.lesinrocks.com/?id=59&tx_article%5Bnotule%...

HWCH-Scotland in ALT

Foxface: nice and fresh pop

Frightened Rabbit: a guitar band as people said with a live rage and good lyrics.

We Are Physics: they rock the place but the audience was so not into them... proper punk mixed with moves ala metronomy, great rhythm and if i wasn't doing the lights i would have been jumping around at the front

Sons and Daughters: i really like them, amazing female voice, going from pop ballads to catchy rock, a new song i really enjoyed because i understood from the very start what was the verse/chorus parts and rhythm which makes it easier to do lights.

so happy to hear at 8.30 on sunday that Sons and Daughters got moved because i was afraid i'll miss them as we had to load out the backline in ALT after our gigs...  the venue production manager and the hwch production assistant came to me and were like "sons and daughters are moved here, are you happy? we arranged that especially for you so you could see them and even do the lights for them..." lol, yes for once i was happy that it was pissing rain outside... and it made me discover We Are Physics which i totally heart now.

cooking

i just made cheese empanadas... yummm

 

the recipe in spanish

http://www.chile.com/tpl/articulo/detalle/ver.tpl?cod_art...

Chilean empanada

The Chilean empanadas have a wide range of fillings, but there are two basic types; one is baked and usually filled with "pino", and the other is fried and usually filled with cheese. The fillings for the empanadas usually contain cheese and/or different types of seafood, for example; mussel, crab, or locos (abalone). The most popular empanada filling is pino, the most traditional Chilean filling, it consists of beef, onions, shortening, raisins, black olives, hardboiled eggs and ají (hot pepper).

a feast of words

http://noisforwimps.blogspot.com/

hard working class heroes

was absolutely brilliant

the best festival by far, so well organised (i'm not talking as a punter but as a person who worked at the festival)

our stage manager steve was excellent and sarah his assistant, and susanna the production assistant, and the organisers, and the folder with all the detailed specifications for each band, and the schedule, and the after club in ALT with loads of artists showing up.

and i love scotland. and sons and daughters. and we are physics. and frightened rabbit. and foxface.

you'll have a quick review of all bands who played ALT tomorrow. 19 bands. plus the djs.

i'm too tired to think today. i went to the hwch afterparty in dorans and then i was working early this morning for the fringe festival...

going to bed now.

Foals suck part 3 and 4

http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/album/foals-suck-3eme-e...

you don't do that

i like Fight Like Apes as a band but i have to say what they did last night was not cool. at all.

now i didn't see the gig, i just know from technicians what they did.

they trashed the stage. fair enough it's cool and rock n roll to trash your own instruments. but they also trashed the backline the festival was renting and audio gear.

they have to test every single piece of gear today to make sure it's working.

i hope FLA have money. for example some of the microphones are worth 900 euros each...

HWCH in ALT

these are the bands playing in ALT at the weekend, for more venues and bands check out www.hwch.net

 

friday

Heartbreak Cartel

Tiger Empire

Vodkopter

Chequerboard

Kill Krinkle Club

Pocket Promise

HWCH late club

FRIDAY NIGHT: HWCH LATE CLUB (11.40 - 2AM)
ANDREWS LANE: SLUTS ON STEEL & SUPER EXTRA BONUS PARTY DJ SET

 

saturday

The Holy Roman Army

Grand Pocket Orchestra

The Vinny Club

Foxface

Crayonsmith

Frightened Rabbit

HWCH late club

SATURDAY NIGHT: HWCH LATE CLUB (11.40-2AM)
ANDREWS LANE: VINCE MACK MAHON & DJ TUKI

 

sunday

Followers Of Otis

Sideproject

The Ambience Affair

Exit: Pursued by a Bear

Hooray For Humans

 

 

Foals suck part 2

http://www.lesinrocks.com/?id=59&tx_article%5Bnotule%...

Foals suck part 1

http://www.lesinrocks.com/?id=59&tx_article%5Bnotule%...