MADE IT: How to make it in the Irish Music Business
Thursday 29 January | Twisted Pepper (Basement) | €12, 6.45pm
The enterprising young women behind the Made It Series are back and this time they’re shifting their focus to the Irish music industry. Discussing our thriving native music scene on the evening, as well as forecasting what lies ahead for an industry in flux will be a panel of some of the country’s premier musical string pullers and pluckers. Delivering talks on the evening will be Bodytonic impresario Eoin Cregan, the first lady of Reekus records, Elvera Butler and Fight Like Apes frontwoman, MayKay Geraghty.
Following of talks there is a (sure to be lively) panel scheduled featuring Angela Dorgan of First Music Contact, Irish times journalist Una Mullaly, JP Canning of IMRO and co-founder of the much talked about new management and promotion company, Ensemble Music, Rob Farhat. Finally, rounding off the evening’s festivities will be a performance form up-and-coming folk duo Carry On Troubadors.
We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away here.
BLUEPRINT – A SERIES OF TALKS FOR THE CREATIVELY CURIOUS
Thursday 29 January | Indigo & Cloth, Essex St, Temple Bar | 7pm, €5
Blueprint is a series of talks surrounding creativity brought to us by making space in conjunction with Indigo & Cloth as party of the Inaugural Irish Year of Design. The talks unifying theme is the notion of DIY entrepreneurship and it’s place in contemporary creative culture.
The talks will be running on a monthly basis in the charmingly intimate surrounds of indigo and cloth, with one event taking place on the last Thursday of each month.The series aims to offer tantalizing insight into the innovative processes and approaches utilized by leading industry figures that make up it’s panels while cultivate a lively atmosphere of debate and discussion. The series kicks off on the Thursday 29th January, and its first panel, entitled ‘Makers’, will feature Makers & Brothers, Notion and Loft Trading.
INHERENT VICE (35MM SCREENING)
Friday 30 January – Sunday 1 February | Light House Cinema | Various, €9/7.50
One of the most hotly anticipated cinema events of the year has finally arrived, PT Anderson’s adaption of Thomas Pynchon’s stoned surf-noir Inherent Vice. Dublin’s home of cinema with a capital C, Smithfield’s Lighthouse, are hosting a series of extremely special 35mm screenings of the film, as it was intended to be viewed, a luxury that in this age of digital filmmaking is sure to become all the more rare in coming years. Anderson as a filmmaker cultivates a level of fervent fandom beyond that of the vast majority of his contemporaries, justifiably so considering the collection of modern classics (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, The Master) that bear his signature.
Anderson’s directorial pedigree, Pynchon’s work’s notorious resistance to adaption, a krautrock-inspired Johnny Greenwood soundtrack, the rarity of 35mm showings and the promised goofy, screwball sensibility that apparently permeates the film makes for a near perfect storm of circumstance as to why this trip to the pictures an absolute necessity for celluloid fanciers the breadth of the city. Book in advance as it surely won’t be long until this one sells out.
POPICAL ISLAND 5TH BIRTHDAY
Saturday 31 January | Upstairs at Whelans | €5, 3.30pm
Believe it or not Ireland’s foremost jangle-pop stable, Popical Island, are turning five this year. To celebrate, the kindly popsters and popettes are throwing one their now (in)famous all day celebrations on Saturday night. It’s safe to say there’s no finer way to draw a line under these January blues than in the company of perhaps the most enticing all-Irish line ups we’ve ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on. Setting up shop upstairs in Whelans from 3.30pm will be the likes of Paddy Hanna, Ginnels, Me and My Dog, Skelocrats, Squarehead, the star studded Popical Island Showband and many many more.
These all-dayers are invariably an absolute must attend for anyone with even the most passing of interests in the domestic music scene and at the meager price of a fiver, it’s truly not one to pass up. Tip down early, take in some bands, maybe potter up the road for some (weather-permitting) canal cans and above all else, as the Popical Island credo says, be sound and be around.
THE R & B CLUB
Saturday 31 January | The Sugar Club | €6/8/12, 9pm
The masterminds behind the much loved discotekken celebrations of all things sequined and day-glo have further solidified their position as some of the finest promoters de jouer with the unveiling of their latest project, the utilitarianly titled, R&B club.
Specialising in ’90s RnB, Hip Hop, Neo-Soul & G-Funk the R&B club is a members only affair but fear not, one simply has to purchase a ticket from their event page, fill in your details and then the job’s oxo. Hop to it, this is only the first of a planned 4 events throughout the year so if you’re tastes lean towards the smooth and sensual end of the spectrum you’d be missing out not getting in at the ground floor now.
The promised Letterpress printed membership cards, free white feather boas on arrival, free hip hop caricature drawings, free screen printed t-shirts from BLOQ, gin & juice, Al Mac’s Beefeater burgers and the much much more apparently to be announced indicate that this might just be the start of something beautiful.
SUPERBOWL XLIX
Sunday 1 February | Glendale Arizona / Sky Sports | All Night
Oh yeah I won’t be in on Monday morning #deflategate #punkassreceivers #LOB
