I’ve been a bit slow on updating this blog of late. I’ve been in headless chicken mode for the past few weeks. Anyways to start the ball rolling here is a bit of a gig review type thing.
I was asked by Red of Ursus Crew to make some visuals happen at the st Redrum clubnight in McGruders back on the 16th. So I moseyed on down with my ever expanding VJ kit to McGruders on Thomas Street a few hours before kick off. I had forgotten how cool this venue was for running nights in. There was three areas set up for the music as well as a very nice covered beer garden with heaters that work when you stand in the right place!
Continue reading ‘Redrum # 1 (inc 2 x livesets on mp3)’
Ok, here are my two cents on Nialler9 post and the comments it has ensued.
Firstly I wasn’t at the gig but I have talked briefly to people who were at it and in particular the blog author and yer man with the ponytail! I met both Niall and Tim at Seomra Spraoi on Friday night and the subject of a blog spat came up. I had a look at the post yesterday. I will talk about my overall feeling to this and deal with the spat in the bullet points at the end. I things it’s fitting to do so as such!
Continue reading ‘Go-Team gig. Bouncers, Visuals, Teamwork etc’
The Sliabh an Iarainn Music & Arts Festival, or Leechrum as it’s other wise known, took place last weekend in the beautiful location of Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim overlooking Lough Allen and it certainly took place. It took its place as one of the best festivals I have ever been to in this country and probably the best independently run festival here so far.
see these photos on flickr here (hint: use slideshow)
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Continue reading ‘SAI / Leechrum 2007′
Mashthenet is a new night running in Dublin brought to you by The Streamlounge & IT:IS:ON, whereby the internet is remixed live for your eyes on the big screen (and some small screens). The first one was held last Thursday night (26/07/07) in the Hop-House on Parnell St. The event was put on by Eoghan Kidney and myself as a reaction to the YouTube Saloon, which Eoghan had organised as part of this years Darklight Symposium. So we got together to make this a regular fixture, put it in a bar environment and ask people to come along and present their favourite videos, mash them up, remix them and generally have some fun with them. Audience interaction is encouraged and welcomed and requests are based on the flow of the themes from the videos. You get the idea.
Well the night was a great laugh and went down very well. We had guest sets from Sophie Merry and Simon Doyle who both showed us some fantastic videos. We didn’t have as many screen going as we would have liked, but it all worked quite well. As it was the first night it was good to give it a test run to see how we can set it up better for the next time.
Unfortunatley I didn’t get any video footage at this one, but if you want to get and idea of what it was like, have a look at the YouTube Saloon at Darklight from the Bubble podcast.
Big thanks to Lee, Joe, Kim and all the staff at the Hop House and to Sophie, Simon and everyone who came down for the night. The next one should be sometime at the end of August. Stay tuned.
