Archie Bronson Outfit return with their much anticipated new album, Coconut, on March 1st 2010. Coconut is the London based three-piece's first LP in almost four years and their third album for Domino. Switching between full on deep-end rock and more reflective, beat-driven numbers, Coconut is a modern psychedelic testament delivering a visceral shot of pleasure. With recording sessions in London and Benton Harbour, Michigan, with production from DFA's Tim Goldsworthy (LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Hercules & Love Affair) - Coconut is an album bursting with warped inventiveness and sonic intent.

 

Their audiences have included the late Pope John Paul, President of Ireland Mary McAleese and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stated that his favourite peace song of all time is the Fureys "Green Fields of France". There is nothing we can say about these legends of Irish Music that people don't already know so don't miss this opportunity when you can hear them sing all their hits including ‘When you were sweet 16', ‘The green fields of France', ‘The old man', ‘Red rose café', ‘From Clare to here', ‘Her father didn't like me anyway', ‘Leaving Nancy', ‘Steal away'. Don't miss The Fureys and Davey Arthur live @ Vicar St. March 27th.

 

QualiT, with a capital "T".

 

‘The Story of the Little Old Man’ is the latest show from Galway based children’s theatre company Branar. It tells the delicate tale of friendship between a lonely old man and a stray dog that no one wanted, with the help of enchanting puppets (made by Suse Reibisch) and live music (by Morgan Cooke). This heart-warming story is told with grace and amazing attention to detail and can be understood in any language. Adapted for stage by Marc Mac Lochlainn. Artistic advisor Bjarne Sandborg, Teater Refleksion, Denmark.

 

 

MCD's blurb: "This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff upper lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women. Irish audiences will have their own opportunity to see the West End’s longest-running comedy "

 

 

 

Artist’s Proof is an exhibition by 24 Irish and international fine art printmaking artists. Visitors will be able to see the creative methodology of the printmaker showing the development of the idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print, requiring great technical skill. The prints will be displayed alongside two working proofs to provide a glimpse of how it was made.

 

Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

 

Belfast Drummer David Lyttle swings hard, and is on a mission to be Ireland's busiest collaborator, and now follows up recent projects involving US saxophonists Greg Osby and Jean Toussaint with an invitation to one of its finest trumpet exponents. With a bright swaggering tone and lines that dig deep into the jazz tradition, Philadelphian Terrell Stafford evokes the spirit of trumpet icons, adding his own distinctive accent to the assertive style of players across the years from Freddie Hubbard to Wynton Marsalis. From the early 90s onward, he has kept prestigious bandstand company, working with pianists McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron and Cedar Walton, performing with the Mingus Big Band and Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, and appearing on countless CDs, four as leader. On Monday nights in his New York stomping ground, you can find him among the horns of the legendary Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In Dublin of a Saturday, he appears alongside Lyttle's regular trio with guitarist Mark McKnight and bassist Damian Evans.

 

 

 

The blurb: "M.G.B is an indie/alternative rock band, who started writing and performing their own material in 2007. Their success thus far has been exceptional and 2009 has proven to be the start for M.G.B, who have become extremely popular in the music industry with a huge fan base that continues to thrive. They have supported such bands as Republic of Loose, award winning CODES and New York band MRNORTH at venues across the country. They have also played such venues like The Village, The Academy, The Guinness Storehouse, and even had their own headlined show in Whelan’s which got great feedback and was a complete success."

 

Over a seven week period well known artist and sculptor Cris Neumann will facilitate the creation of 3D works by Coolmine and Hartstown Community School students in a project that will be a fun reflection of Vodafone Ireland’s Green Agenda Policy. This educational and environmentally innovative visual arts project will explore the concepts of communication, mobility and technology and how these concepts can work in the reduction and recycling of waste. For more information and photos of the works in progress check out the website: www.makeartnotrubbish.com

 

 

Following their sell out musicals, ‘Scrooge’ and ‘Oliver!’ Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society are proud to present ‘My Fair Lady’, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady. He does, and young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy.

 

Following their sell out musicals, ‘Scrooge’ and ‘Oliver!’ Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society are proud to present ‘My Fair Lady’, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady. He does, and young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy.

 

 

This play established Brian Friel's reputation as a world-class writer in 1964, and became the toast of Broadway in 1966. A timeless study of youth, old age and the chasm that divides them, the play is that rare thing: a popular masterpiece.

 

This play established Brian Friel's reputation as a world-class writer in 1964, and became the toast of Broadway in 1966. A timeless study of youth, old age and the chasm that divides them, the play is that rare thing: a popular masterpiece.

 

 

Freelance photographer Hazel’s first solo show, specially commissioned by The Mill. From live music to fashion shoots, Hazel’s energetic work captures the essence of the moment, creating scenes of high drama juxtaposed with her stylized compositions and settings.

 

 

Includes light lunch. Emer O'Kelly of the Sunday Independent wrote: "a heart-searing, heart-searching piece of work, provoking tears and haunting the soul. If it doesn't live in dramatic memory, we have neither folk memory nor capacity for pity..... Harding's performance is nothing short of glorious -- a piece of sustained dramatic economy that is performance art of soaring, incandescent strength. Every gesture tells, every step is measured, every pause significant, every subtle change of tone adding to a threnody for a dying soul.....If audiences are not hanging out of the rafters in future venues, there is no soul for drama in Ireland."

 

 

This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition. A list of these potential works will not be disclosed in advance.

 

 

Dave Rooney is a multi instrumentalist, singer/songwriter hailing from Dublin. A passionate musician, he has gigged across Europe for 15 years.

 

Ladlane formed in 2004 in Dublin. The band features Eugene Quinn from Templeogue, Dublin on guitar/banjo/vocals, Ray Dempsey from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford on accordion and Colm Keane from somewhere in north county Dublin on fiddle/vocals.

 

You may think that you know all there is to know about Gilbert O'Sullivan. That he was a huge star in the 70's and that he fought two massively important music industry legal cases. All this, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. Born in Waterford, Ireland raised in England, O'Sullivan signed to CBS Records in 1967 but was to find initial success elusive, although he with the help of people like the late Kenny Everett and John Peel almost made the breakthrough with a song called “Mr. Moody's Garden”, now considered a G.O'S classic. However, having teamed up with Tom Jones' manager Gordon Mills he reached the top ten in 1970 with 'Nothing Rhymed'. There followed over ten years a run of success, including fifteen hit singles and five top ten albums. Of all these it was 'Alone Again (Naturally)' that struck the greatest chord, spending six weeks at no. 1 in the US. The follow up “Clair” (UK's most popular O'Sullivan song) only failing to reach no.1 by Carly Simon's “You're So Vain”.

 

Weaving The Cry is based on Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

 

Willie White: He may have been in the special class in school but he is a genius on the comedy stage! John Moloney: Hilarious and unique comedy genius at its best! Chris Kent: Winner of the Bulmers Comedy Festival 2009 - Cork Steve Cummins: Limerick’s blond ambition with some brilliant ideas for chat lines