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{Clubbing} Stop, I’m Hungry for Italo.

In #rabble2, Print Editionby Kenny Hanlon1 Comment

Since it’s inception over 5 years ago Lunar Disko, a monthly club night ran by Andy Doyle and Barry Donovan, has placed Italo Disco as one of the main reference points in their music policy. So how has this quirky European off-shoot of late 70s Disco come to find a home in the Irish capital? Kenny Hanlon’s our tour guide through it’s history.

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{Movements} Process Not Protest – rabble Looks at #OccupyDameStreet and The Spectacle of Defiance

In #rabble2, Interviews, Politics, Print Editionby Julian Brophy3 Comments

Drums beat deeply all around me as people congregate for The Spectacle of Defiance and Hope. Face-painted and costume-clad performers run through carefully crafted renditions, eager children hold large replica tombstones above their heads bearing the names of the community projects they are defending. Julian Brophy reports from The Spectacle of Defiance.

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It’s a Dublin Thing.

In #rabble2, Culture, Highlights, Interviews, Politics, Print Editionby James Redmond3 Comments

A gritty, urban poetry shines through Products of the Environment, a compilation album on Working Class Records. Track after track documents growing up with little in the way of options and realities dominated by drug abuse, crime and paranoia. Accompanying videos capture blighted estates full of hooded youth, pushed to the margins by the city’s economic apartheid. The sort of places the rest of us just cycle through.

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{Flash Fiction} Our Leading Poet

In #rabble2, Culture, Humour, Illustration, Politics, Print Editionby Dave Lordan1 Comment

He was number one of ten thousand and had been tormented by unspeakable lusts all his life. His cock was like a black hole in his trousers. All of his thoughts got sucked down into it. Given the chance he’d have been a fulltime fucker, leaping from body to grasping body, composing verses on the hop. If the world had been logical from his point of view, he would have … Read More