When our Obersturmführer for property developers, Simon Coveney designated the former Glass Bottle plant a Strategic Development Zone, there was plenty of celebratory hoo ha in the media for the 3,000 homes promised as part of the scheme. However far from being an answer to the capital’s housing problem, a little digging leads Rashers Tierney to find this SDZ represents a brewing triumvirate of social exclusion, vulture funds and tech … Read More
Something For The Weekend.
Decided not to listen to Renton and head to Mullingar this weekend? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
Due to Sweeney’s closing down soon it’s the second last FREE TECHNO party in the basement tonight, we highly recommend heading along. However, if Tengu is your destination tonight you are in for a treat, former Sides resident Pat Hyland is on the decks all night long.
Go East.
Above: Some amazing photos here by Oliver Wia. They all feature in the book. The top one is Dr Motte, who produced the track Der Klang Der Familie. An early anthem that gave the book its title. The first Tressor club features in the rest. The folklore of English and US dancefloors is a well trodden path of familiar origin myths and falls from grace. Unfortunately there’s very little on the … Read More
Eat Sleep Plough Repeat.
We slipped Rashers Tierney into a pair of wellies back in September and sent him off to report from the muck on how the country cousins were faring at one of Europe’s largest agricultural events. There’s a few gatherings in Irish society that send our media into full on bombastic broadcasting mode. Events where each and every outlet competes to bay with excitement about excruciatingly irrelevant competitions, hashtags and en … Read More
Divide and Conquer.
The Great Wall is a studied meditation on the nature of borders in the 21st Century. On one side we have the towering urban powerhouses of capital and on the other the wretched of the earth. Throw in a chilling soundtrack, stunning cinematics, a riff on Franz Kafka and you’ve a work that puts a dose of dystopian shits right up ya. Rashers Tierney had a tick for tack with the … Read More
#spareChange: Help London’s Novara Media Build A War Chest.
Novara Media is an ambitious London based collective of upstarts seeking to break the mould and limitations of left wing media. Today they set out on a marathon fundraising mission to assemble a 10k war chest. Rashers Tierney caught up with Aaron Bastani to get the lowdown on UK alternative media and what makes Novara different. There’s a healthy renaissance of alternative media in the UK. I can think of Strike Magazine, … Read More
Where Everybody Owns A Share.
The media vaunts tech gurus and metric driven social entrepreneurs as elevated beings with cures for all our ills but cooperatives have been answering our needs for a lot longer. Rashers Tierney sets out, dictaphone in hand, and finds a form of community led organisation that brought life to derelict parts of the city, wades in against rural isolation and keeps boozers open in Britain. Most of us have some … Read More
May The First Be With You.
In the early 2000’s, activist Joe Carolan cut an unmistakable figure at demonstrations in our dirty old town. For the last decade however he’s been working in New Zealand with the Unite union which, on May 1st of all days, won a victory in the struggle for McDonald’s workers’ rights. Rashers Tierney picked his brains on how they did it. How did an Irish “red” with a fondness for Johnny … Read More
Put A Limerick Spring In Your Step.
Festivals aren’t all about sleeping in a damp tent while young lads bludgeon the nearest wheelie bin to the rhythm of their own crazed coke bender. You could be talking citizenship and activism, looking at documentaries and arguing over the politics of food. Rashers Tierney caught up with Jennifer Moroney Ward about one such buzz down in Limerick next weekend. So, tell me about the Limerick Spring, what’s it all about, where did … Read More
Skratch That Itch.
The annual Easter Weekend Community Skratch Games are just around the corner. Rashers Tierney caught up with Deviant for a chinwag on the state of the scratch scene and updates on their crowdfunding campaign to produce a skipless vinyl record. My word, it’s the future. You heads are nine years into the games now. Tell us about the first one, where did the idea come from and how did it go? As … Read More