While you’re sweating the nights away on the dance floor there are a crew of folks working behind the scene to keep the whole thing afloat. Madison S. Pauly talks to Bodytonic’s Trevor O’Shea (known to many as Tayor…) about keeping Dublin clubbing through the recession. When Trevor O’Shea acquired a beat-up storefront on South Abbey Street, the deal was his company’s biggest venture to date. Trev had been … Read More
Illicit and Licensed Pleasures.
With Author’s Day hype reaching boiling point, many are quick to draw the line that corporations like Diageo are just legalised dope peddlers. That notion of illicit and licensed pleasures is explored in the work of Fiona Measham, a Professor of Criminology in Durham University and a pioneer of testing club chemicals in the UK. Measham sits on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs across the pond and … Read More
[Comp Time] Win Two Tickets to Outlook 2013
Our blagmaster general grabbed two tickets to Outlook festival for some lucky reader. You know the drill, fill out our survey and we’ll pull a name from the bag. This is Outlook’s 6th venture in sunny Croatia. It’s a chocker blocked incredible line-up from the worlds of bass, electronica, hip hop and reggae. Outlook Festival is a celebration of soundsystem culture, exploring the musical genealogy that connects Jamaican roots … Read More
rabble’s Sunday Sit Downs: More Turkey, An Unearthed Disco Gem, Runners and Delhi Belly…
Some online writing deserves more than a quick scan. Save these up for that next pensive poo – they’ll be more fulfilling than that Lidl special buys supplement. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. Producer Zoid was lovingly reunited with his boxes of records after years. For him they’re not reminders of flavours of the month, but the wage labour poured into affording them in a golden era of … Read More
#rabbleReels: The Godfather of Disco.
Staying in? Streaming sites in a state of stall? Stick this on. It’s about a man some call the Godfather of Disco. A real one of a time character and New York folk hero.
rabble Fund:it Update 6: Spot Prizes from Bodytonic and T-Shirt Design Underway! Our Deadline is May 27th!!!!
26 days to go and 45% of the way there. It’s far too early to call and we’re doing our best to get word out. All help getting word out to the parish is appreciated! Dara Lynch (creator of monstrous Session Pixies illustration…) has pared down his pencils and started sketching out designs for our tshirt rewards. You can see the work above. Expect a string of Youtube promotional videos featuring a … Read More
Crackles and crates. Vinyl watching.
Unless you’ve had your internet connection ripped out of the wall, there’s no way you could have escaped Record Store Day. Here we list a rake of flicks that look at the dusty art of crate digging, the balls to the wall commitment of stores that held out against digitalisation and whatever else falls between the grooves. Strange Wax This one has a dozen or so vinyl obsessives warbling … Read More
No Respect For God.
They’ve no respect for God or Good Friday dancing bans in Galway. Every Easter an unholy alliance of producers, DJs and turntablists gather in that far flung city and set up this annual showcase of talent. The Harmless Noise blog has a tonne of links and background detail on the event. Ya better get figuring out that Go Bus timetable so. Full deets and some videos to get you in … Read More
#rabbleReels: All Those Flashing Lights
Acid drug dance cult – does it affect the brain in some way? We investigate. Filmed by World In Action in 1988, it really captures some of the moral panic around the scene. Fascinating to hear how Top of The Pops banned all records that mentioned “acid.” D-Mob’s anthem ‘We Call It Acieed’ was also on the receiving end of censure. The person that made the video for the tune … Read More
They’ve Banned Dancing In Germany.
Oh! Those dastardly religious, how dare they stop me drinking. Think ye have it bad here? T’is far worse in parts of Germany. Yes, we’ve heard you all cluck on Facebook about what an invasion of personal autonomy and adulthood this dry Good Friday lark is. But spare a thought for our friends in Germany – where a centuries old dance ban called the Tanzverbot is still actively enforced by the police. … Read More