Following on from our Fringe Highlights piece last week I caught up with Emma Hannon, Programme Manager with the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, to talk about their extensive music programme this year and get a bit of behind the scenes news from the festival! Firstly give us a bit of background about how long you’ve been […]

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This years Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival has a lot to roar about, they have a new title sponsor (the well fitted Tiger Beer), a new artistic director – Canadian Kris Nelson – and a mountain of new shows from theatre to spoken word to spectacles, performance art, music gigs and comedy. There are more than […]

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Marc Atkinson is director of the Dublin theatre company Sugarglass Theatre, a company who in their short existence have performed a mammoth production of Tender Napalm by Philip Ridley, have been nominated for Spirit of the Fringe for All Hell Lay Beneath, designed the Illusion Exhibition at the Science Gallery and performed a production of Beckett short […]

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Overhead, The Albatross have been causing a stir amongst the Irish music scene for quite awhile now with a string of sold out gigs across an array of Dublin venues, packed out tents at festivals and fans eagerly awaiting their debut album which is due for release early next year. This Friday they play a […]

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‘Make and Do’ describes itself as “New Adventures in the World of Art and Technology” with a mission to promote adult game playing in Ireland. In April ‘Make and Do’ presented an epic game of chase through the streets of Dublin as part of the Darklight Festival called ‘Journey to the End of the Night’. For […]

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Theatre Upstairs is a 44 seater theatre above Lanigans bar on Eden Quay right beside the new Rosie Hackett bridge. The theatre is only 2 years old and in that time has built a reputation for giving a platform to young up and coming actors, writers and companies. The theatre was recently renovated and now boasts beautiful raked […]

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For listeners of Phantom FM you’ll no doubt already be familiar with Claire Beck who was one of the DJ’s with them and now hosts the daytime programme on TXFM, it’s new incarnation. Claire Beck and Ros Madigan both work with GoldenPlec, a music website and “labour of love” that was founded in 2002 to give more […]

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This is only the second year of The Festival Curiosity, Dublin’s annual festival of science and culture, and after a sell out first festival in 2013 it looks like it will only continue to grow. The festival has a large number of family events at it’s core and aims to weed out peoples stigma attached to […]

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THISISPOPBABY, Phillip McMahon and Jennifer Jennings, are “seven years young” with 14 shows, numerous productions for other artists, a tent at Electric Picnic (2008-2010) and Queer Notions- a mini festival of queer ideas and performance- under their belt. This Friday they bring their performance art club night WERK to IMMA for a once off art […]

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Shane Gillen moved to Dublin for college when he was 18 and got into magic when he was 19 when he got a job in San Francisco during his J1 in a magic shop. He now works full-time as a mentalist and illusionist. So how does one get into magic and is there an existing […]

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