Image from Shellshock Rock designed to blind you for the weekend.
Darklight is on right now folks as well as all the many highlights, pay particular attention to the events curated by Underground detailed here. Alongside the showing of rare music documentaries Last Night of The Funnel, The Stars Are Underground and Shellshock Rock, Underground are running an exhibition in the basement of Road on Fade street focusing on the changes of independent music over the last 15 years. Get down to the launch at 6.30pm for a STREET PARTY in Fade St with music from Mici Durnin (Maximum Joy) & David Beattie.
Also, MP3Hugger has tired of promoting unsigned artists and seeing them get no just monetary rewards so he decided to curate an indie compilation called Indiecater. The idea was “to gather 10 unreleased tracks from artists that weren’t getting the exposure their talent deserved“. The artists in question include Storkboy Choons, Michael Knight, Slushco and Cymbals Eat Guitars. Income from the sale of the album will go directly back to the artists involved. You can buy it here.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Nice-looking guide for the Road exhibition, but not a lot of content from where I stood. And I stood all over the place down there.
Darklight was mega fun. The vintage console room in Filmbase was a great place to relax; played an Atari Jaguar and a 2600! Sweet.
Also went to Crispin Glover’s first night. He did his slideshow performance (brilliant) and showed the first film in his trilogy. At the end, he showed the trailer for the second film, which looked incredible, and he screened that the next night. Did anyone go? Really nice guy too. I hear he stayed til after 1 to meet fans.
But the best bit was the great Paddy Considine. Dead Man’s Shoes on the big screen, Dog Altogether (the short film he directed and won a BAFTA for) and a Q+A to top it off. A true hero!