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College Tribune | October 14th 2008
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on Wexford Street. The range of choice is staggering; from the beautiful guitar and visual show of Chequerboard (highly recommended), to the majestic rage that is Fuck Buttons, from the amazing dubstep provided from the Wobble DJs to the techno supergroup that is Model 500. This event is being held in the main Whelans venue, upstairs in Whelans and the Village. With over 20 acts plus DJs and then visuals, this will definitely be the highlight of the year in terms of gigs
in Dublin. It will be particularly exciting to see how the Dublin acts, such as Chequerboard, Rollers/Sparkers and Legion of Two, hold up against the giants of electronica, like Laurent Garnier. To highlight one act; Model 500 are another of the acts playing who truly deserve the tag of ‘legends’. Their mission: to bring live techno to the masses and rediscover the soul of this seminal sound. It’s the first time Atkins has performed live to an audience and the show comes with a “no fuck-ups not guaranteed” caveat, but as Banks argues, that’s what makes it interesting for the audience; the fact that you’ll hear the tracks as you’ve never heard them before, even if they don’t always get it just right. This is a rare opportunity to see a genuine techno supergroup, so we would advise you to get your Closing Party ticket and start practising your chinstroking now. Again there are so many things happening that we don’t have space for them all here but one thing to mention are the free workshops being organised throughout the city BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Totally Wired film/Q+A, FAW workshop are both happening in the Digital hub, and the Kaboogie DJs will hosting an workshop on production and DJ-ing for free from 3pm upstairs in Anseo on the Sunday.
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A sideways look at... Insipid Anodyne Shitrock Everybody hold on to your carefully groomed stubble, Chinos, and loose fitting shirts. That’s right; Coldplay will be back with a new release, this year! Anybody hoping that it will merely be a mediocre Christmas single is in for a big disappointment as the band have apparently managed to concoct a whole new mediocre album! That Christmas release slot for albums is so mightily profitable that the lads must have been sweating blood to have it done in time. That or they’re just slapping together the leftovers of Viva La Vida. You’re forced to wonder how it all came to this; a band of such banality, led by a man made of plywood who somehow contrives to end up marrying a Hollywood actress (admittedly an equally boring one), selling out stadiums. Well, obviously the blame goes towards wh at ev e r gormless sods buy their shite. More importantly, they’ve only gone and encouraged more of this Ryvita brand of rock. As we may have all gleefully forgotten,
this year has been immense for narcolepsy-inducing rock. Kaiser “Ahahahahah” Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Keane, the aforementioned Kings of Sleep-rock Coldplay... They will all have released new albums by the end of this year, and all will have been forcibly shoved down the public’s collective gullet. These bands are generally the most likely thing you will hear while handing over that 50 quid for a pair of socks in BT2, or whilst finishing that bottle of Heino as quickly as possible in order to escape those business types you were conned into going to a party with. More to the point, all this tripe only serves to feed perhaps the biggest shit-peddlers of the past decade with more publicity. That’s right, every time one of these bands stain the planet with their work, Noel or Liam will inevitably pop up and say something insightfully clever; “Keane? Shit!”. It may be true, but replace the word ‘Keane’ in that statement with the word ‘Oasis’ and it doesn’t get any less true. However, all is not lost in today’s world of overly standard rock; Pete Doherty recently offered to climb into a coffin with live rats. True.
Wednesday 15th October: Enter Shikari, Ambassador, €29, doors at 7.30pm Mongrel, Academy, €18.50, doors at 7pm
Wednesday 22nd October Pivot, Whelan’s, €12.50, doors at 8pm
Friday 17th October Times New Viking feat. No Age and Los Campesinos!, Whelan’s, €15.50, doors at 8pm Saturday 18th October Cyndi Lauper, Tripod, €40, doors at 7.30pm Fall Out Boy, RDS, €37.50, doors at 7.30pm Messiah J & The Expert, Andrew’s Lane, €15, doors at 8pm Carly Sings, Sugar Club, €10, doors at 7.30pm Sunday 19th October Jenny Lewis, Button Factory, €17, doors at 7.30pm Monday 20th October Holy Fuck, Academy, €17.50, doors at 7pm Nizlopi, Whelan’s, €15, doors at 8.30pm Tuesday 21st October Black Kids, Academy, €17.50, doors at 8pm
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Thursday 23rd October Vampire Weekend, Ambassador, €28, doors at 7.30pm Nurse With Wound, Andrew’s Lane, €22.50, doors at 8pm The Flaws, Whelan’s, €14, doors at 8pm Friday 24th October M83, Vicar Street, €23, doors at 7.30pm Trans AM, The Village, €20, doors at 7.30pm Sunday 26th October DEAF Closing Party, Whelan’s & The Village, €35, doors at 7.30pm Justice, Ambassador, €28, doors at 10.30pm Steve Reid Ensemble feat. Four Tet, Button Factory, €21.50, doors at 7.30pm Monday 27th October Elbow, Ambassador, €34, doors at 7.30pm Throw Me The Statue, Whelan’s, €14, doors at 8pm Seb’s Pick: Jenny Lewis plays the Button Factory this Sunday