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Live Reviews: Cellotronicum
Andrzej Bauer (cello), Roger Doyle (keyboard), Keith O’Brien (guitar, laptop), Brian Ó hUiginn (uilleann pipes) / Liberty Hall, Dublin / 19 September 2008
Live Reviews: Kraftwerk
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin13 September 2008There’s a 1982 interview between John Cage and the then young Belgian composer Wim Mertens on UbuWeb. The soft-voiced Cage talks of a Glenn Branca performance the night before:‘I didn't...
Live Reviews: John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie (guitar), Michael Buckley (saxophone), Ronan Guilfoyle (bass), Joey Baron (drums) / Whelan’s, Dublin / 14 September 2008
Live Reviews: The West Awake
Cora Smyth (fiddle, low whistle), Breda Smyth (fiddle, whistles, low whistle), Pauline Scanlon (voice), Donogh Hennessy (guitar)Ballina Arts Centre, Co. Mayo17 September 2008It was ten minutes before showtime when I arrived at the Ballina Arts Centre to find...
Live Reviews: Sligo New Music
Amstel Saxophone Quartet, Maria McGarry (piano), Cathal Roche (saxophone). Various venues, Sligo. 20 September 2008
Monster Repeal Meeting
The Irish harp as national symbol at Daniel O’Connell’s Monster Repeal Meeting on Tara Hill, Co. Meath, 15 August 1843: engraving from The Illustrated London News (26 August 1843)
Too Much Culture?
In Belfast, culture has been ditched for something much easier to handle: events. But the tenth Open House Festival was able to do both.
Togetherness
Kevin Stevens meets two new collectives in the Irish jazz scene.