Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Beers + Suburbia: 2ha Launch Party
Thursday 18 September | The Library Project | Free
Following on from the successful Fund:it campaign to enable the creation of the new issue of their magazine, 2ha are staging a launch party in the everyone’s favourite launching post, The Library Project. Along with the relatively popular topic of “suburbia” (on which the magazine’s creator Michael Hayes is something of an expert) is the similarly popular topic of beer, which will be provided by the good folks at Tiger on the evening. You may remember 2ha from when we talked to them last year about their magazine. Further details on the event are found here.
Hilary Woods- Night
Thu 18 – Sat 20 September | Smock Alley Theatre | €13, 8pm
Hilary Woods is no stranger to the Irish music scene. Having got a taste of the success while still a teenager in jj72, Woods stepped back from the limelight to focus on other artistic endeavours, studying painting, literature and film-making. Following the success of her debut EP last year under her nom de guerre The River Cry, Hilary is back, this time under her given name, and with a show inspired by experience in other fields and crafted with the the multi-disciplinary ethos of the fringe in mind. Night is not only the launch for Woods’ new LP of the same name but also an immersive, visceral experience pairing Woods’ yearning dream pop with hypnotic visuals of the artist’s own imaging and promises to make great use of the uniquely warm yet strangely industrial surrounds of the Smock Alley Boy’s School. These series of Fringe shows are poised to be a very special coming-out party for an emerging artist who is dead set on making us reconsider our pre-conceptions about the “Irish singer-songwriter” set.
Dip 3
Friday 19 September | Pacinos Downstairs | 10pm, €3/5
Dublin club scene starting to feel tad dry? Don’t worry Dip is here once again to lubricate those joints and spice things up a bit. Returning to the cosy surrounds of Pacino’s on Suffolk Street the Dippers will be serving up an evening of equal opportunities grooviness with sweet House, Disco, Funk and a dash of Soul keeping you moving into the wee small hours. Aside from the fact entry is a snip at 3 quid pre-midnight it’s advised to get down early as Dips have been known to overflow fast. Further details found here.
Cloud Castle Lake – Dandelion Launch Gig
Saturday 20 September | Whelans | €10
No, no you haven’t misread. It’s here, it’s finally here. For the last few years Cloud Castle Lake have been almost starting to seem like some sort of urban legend, popping up every now and then to blow people’s socks of with a phenomenal live show only to disappear for months at a time without a trace. Well, the wait is over and after much tweaking, reflection and boundless patience the fruits of the CCL boy’s labors, the Dandelion EP (about which we chatted to the boys in detail this month) is finally being released into the big bad world. With lead single Sync having already recieved glowing reviews from the likes of Pitchfork and Stereogum and a genuine air of anticipation surrounding the launch in Whelans this one is really taking on the shade of a “I was there” sort of proposition. Not to be missed. Support on the night comes from the hotly tipped Maria Somerville.
Hidden Agenda presents: Pantha du Prince
Saturday 20 September | Opium Rooms, €10 (Early Bird) / €12
Following unprecedented success with their Button Factory night’s over the last few year’s Dublin’s biggest electronic music night, Hidden Agenda, is moving their base of operations to the Opium Rooms on Wexford street. For their inaugural Opium Outing the Hidden Agenda brain trust have mange to wrangle themselves quite a booking in the shape of German minimal maestro Pantha du Prince. Few techno merchants have managed to take as great an advantage of the album format as Pantha du Prince who’s LPs The Bliss and Black Noise managed to tricky feat of crossing over into the listening habits of even the most two-left-footed of indie boys. With support in the main room from Hidden Agenda’s top drawer in-house DJs and new kids on the block SPACE CAMP launching their own monthly night in The Garden this is shaping up to be a big one.
Potion of Oblivion
Saturday 20 September | Block T | €5, BYOB, 8pm
Brainchild of Somadrone’s Neil O’Connor, Potion of Oblivion is now a monthly concern. More a listening club than a club night. each month’s gathering features guest DJ’s taking us on a voyage of discovery through the last 50 year’s rich history of synthy gurgling. Promising deep cuts from minimal wave, cosmic, disco, avant garde, krautrock and library music and innumerable other micro-genres O’Connor and cohorts (for this event Anthony Patterson of Twin Kranes and Cian Murphy of I Am The Cosmos) strive to illuminate listeners to the development of a modern musical landscape that’s heavy on both clicks and beeps. Swing by for a couple of beers, a bit of a chin stroke and a good old fashioned boogie. You can check out a sampler of the sounds you can expect at the Potion of Oblivion website. Further details for the night are found here.
