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July (already?) 2009
June 2009
June 2009
Lookey...
Patrick Mullen, of Patrick Mullen Design designed a cool new flyer for soundcheck! Thanks Paddy!!
June 2009
May 2009
Birthday Celebrations!!
SoundCheck's 1st Birthday Party - Thursday May 28th
UnaRocks and Sarah Fox, the evil genii behind SOUNDCHECK, Dublin's best indie night, are delighted to be celebrating the club night's first birthday party this Thursday.
SoundCheck, which began as an evening soiree and an alternative to some of the grimier indie nights around town, has been running in Spy on South William Street for a year. After it's initial incarnation, SoundCheck morphed into a late night club, eventually joining forces with our sister club Le Cirque.
Offering a consistently quality and fun approach to indie music, SoundCheck is typified by an eclectic crowd and huge arsenal of DJs. In fact, the bulk of a new crop of Dublin DJs now gigging around town got their first start at SoundCheck.
Over the past year, SoundCheck has seen bands, journalists, bloggers, DJs and general randomers take to the decks, making it the most diverse indie night around, with the sound changing on an hourly basis before descending into an all out crazy party. Guest DJs in the last 12 months include Fight Like Apes, Heathers, Nialler9, Jim Carroll, Rick O'Shea, The Vinny Club, Adrian Crowley, Ham Sandwich, Super Extra Bonus Party, Philth, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Halves, Delorentos, Codes, You're Only Massive, Sweet Jane, Dark Room Notes, Messiah J & The Expert, Le Galaxie, Skinny Wolves, Bitches With Wolves, New Amusement, Will St Leger, Dublin Streets and too many more to mention!
We've also hosted after-parties for Vampire Weekend, Death Cab For Cutie, Urban Outfitters, and more. SoundCheck has become a magnet for visiting bands, with everyone from Sigur Ros to Ladyhawke popping in to check out the vibe.
Featuring our free cupcake buffet which often descends into a food fight, two-for-one cocktails every night, and the freshest tunes and most chilled crowd you're likely to find, SoundCheck has pushed the boundaries of what an indie night should be, with its influence now felt in club nights and bars around the city.
For our party, we're hardly going to celebrate quietly! An almost endless array of DJs featuring our favourite special guests from throughout the year, some new faces and other surprises will rock down to South William Street to play their hearts out. As ever, our French Fancies will be served, but this time by some very hawt people (we like hawt people!). We'll be giving our regulars some boozy freebies, and other goodies. FionnTimes will don his Father Fionn identity and whizz around in a limousine taking SoundCheck confessions, and an awesome magician will be on hand to screw with your mind! There will also be Twister, food fights, DJ battles and the trademark rowdiness that makes SoundCheck what it is. Photographers will also be there on the night to capture the moments for our popular SoundCheck blog (http://soundcheckdublin.wordpress.com)
Our friends at Ben & Jerry's will also be supplying some yummy ice cream for you all to gobble on the night.
So head down to our 1st Birthday Party this Thursday (28th) to celebrate with us. It kicks off at 7pm, and rocks until late. Free in before 11pm, just a fiver after.
Una and Sarah would like to sincerely thank all of our friends at Spy, our dedicated SoundCheck regulars, all the acts who have played over the past year, and anyone who has ever dropped in and had a blast. We are loving it. One year down, a bajillion to go!
SoundCheck loves you. X.
May 2009
Beware: Fun Times Ahead....
Cool new blog...
MyOwnLittlePlayground by Turlough Fortune
Trinity Ball 2009
How much fun was it?? Fionn Kidney's photos captured it well...
May 2009
May 2009
I love these Photos Fionn Kidney took of Una and Miss Lili....
April 2009
Sorry about the typo Loreana Rushe!!
and the Bolshevik Boys are back hourrah!!!!
Hee hee
April 2009
Post easter fun...
April 2009
Killiney Hill In A Cloud
I wish I had brought my good camera....
March/April 2009
I love Soundcheck....
More fab photos by Fionn Times from the Porfolio party....
March 2009
Freedom is looming. I've been in college the past year doing a design portfolio and the end is near (tuesday 9am to be precise) I'm so excited! For the first time ever I feel prepared, slightly confident and am not rushing around like a mad fool last minute!? Have I turned over a new leaf? Am I now a fully functioning human being? Well, lets now get ahead of ourselves...there were more than a few meltdowns along the way. All that aside, my return to the land of a social life is imminent. I will celerbrate away all my new good habits!! See you at Soundcheck Yo!!!
March 2009
Yes I've been a blog slacker of late....
This last one is by Soundcheck golden boy, Fionn Times... (aka Honey, aka Fionn Kidney) and these are his Thingcheck photos....gorgeous.x
(yes folks, James is recreating 'Heathers' quite wonderfully...)
February 2009
I hope no-body gave up Soundcheck for lent....
February 2009
Can your hard-drive handle it?
February 2009
Ben Mullen from Team YES* is showing at the Stone Gallery on Pearse St in Dublin.
Bing Bang Bong. Oisin Byrne, Ben Mullen, Emma Roche and Liam Ryan. 19 February - 21 March.
Fear gets in my way, Ben Mullen, mixed media, 2008
bing bang bong is an exhibition from four Irish artists: Oisin Byrne, Emma Roche, Liam Ryan and
Ben Mullen. This synergy has been brought together as a celebration of the artists' diversity and unity as creative practitioners. The artists shown have a relationship creatively and personally, working together on a variety of projects as individuals and as a group. In this respect the work is intriguingly parallel and linked, yet widely diverse and varied.
All four artists work within the obsessive realm of the handmade. The often lengthy and laborious processes that they use - through repetition of simple methods, patterns or fractals - are one of the strongest grounds to connect them. Through their exploration of such traditional conventions and materials the work often appears child-like, but is certainly not childish.
The work is intentionally and unashamedly playful in its nature, bringing together various references, points of view or traditions in new and often humorous combinations. These combinations are subversive, comedic, insightful, and various: they leave their meanings open to a viewer to interact with them on a variety of levels.
The title of the show 'bing bang bong' is aptly expressive of the playful 'meaninglessness' or music of such work, which, refusing to be pinned down to a particular or singular meaning, becomes a rich combination of pure sensation, and of a plethora of attached (intended or unintended) meanings and references. The title is onomatopoeic: which suits this work as sensual overload.
The work is just this: decadently sensuous, overtly present; be this in the richness and depth of Liam Ryan's glazed canvases, the musicality, colour and immediacy of Oisin Byrne's painted and installation work, the delicious and tactile interwoven paint of Emma Roche's creations, or the interactive and involved bodily enjoyment of Ben Mullen's multimedia explorations.
February 2009
See you thursday yo!
February 2009
The 15th Dublin Fringe Festival is now inviting submissions for its annually anticipated, culture jamming line-up of contemporary arts this September.
This year, we want to present works which confront, embrace and defy this period of remarkable change and challenges. From celebrating the fresh re-emergence of DIY culture, reclaiming more of our city's empty spaces, experimenting with theatre and performance and delving into experiential arts on a grand and minute scale, to encountering home grown and international arts on the street and in even more unexpected places, the Fringe's 2009 programme will not shy away from exploration of where we are and how we got here; as a city, nation and international community or makers, doers, seers and thinkers. To do this, we need you, artists and thinkers, to make it happen. We want to hear your ideas whether you work in theatre, music, dance, visual art, street-art, film, multi-media or beyond.
Dublin Fringe Festival has long served as a spring-board for fresh new Irish and international artistic voices, as well as a home for risk-taking and cutting edge performance. This year we are looking for artists across all disciplines to imagine Dublin with a new vision for the time we live in; to be brave, bold and uncompromising in their engagement with the cultural, social and physical landscape of the city and to once again invigorate, investigate, challenge, defy, excite and inspire its audience with work that rises above the status quo.
As a year round organisation which aims to promote, nurture and engage Irish artists, this year the Fringe will once again present a series of pre-application talks open to all interested parties on Tuesday 17 February. Topics that will be covered include: Online application process, supporting material requirements, financial deals offered by the festival and fundraising.
Closing Deadline for applications is Friday 3 April at 6pm.
More information and the link to our online application system can be found at fringefest.com or directly from our blog: dublinfringefestival.blogspot.com
February 2009
Ladyhawke get their Soundchecked!
February 2009
More bloody snow!! Jeepers!
February 2009
Happy Snow Day!! It feels like Canadia today!
January 2009
Is january finally ending??
January 2009
Soundcheck Rocked Yet Again
Very dark images, but quite fitting for the old Monkey bar!
January 2009
Soundcheck Rocks
With the ever wonderful Ed Mackey and our newbie Killian Coyle. Rawk!
2009
My Christmas Jumper
Packed away for another year, but imortalised on the Le Cirque blog Hourrah!!
2009!!!
CALL FOR DJ's
Yo! New year, new vibes, and we here at SoundCheck are always on the look out for new heads with new sounds.
If you DJ the kind of stuff SoundCheck likes, or have a rocking music collection and want to show us the tunes, then get in touch.
Email jacksgraff@hotmail.com and we'll take it from thurrrr.
NYE 08
Don't forget the party in Spy on South William St tonight; access all areas throughout Spy & Wax. In the Monkey and Lobby bar, it's Gossip Vs SoundCheck. In the Black and White it's Le Cirque, and in Wax it's Rubberband. So you have a choice of pop, disco, indie, electro, house and techno.
It kicks off at 9pm and is only a tenner in.
You can book your tickets at tickets.ie/spy in advance, and check this out, if you buy 6 tickets in advance, and get to Spy before 10pm you get a free bottle of bubbly. Rocking.
Christmas 08
To all my Frends. I hope you have a rockin Christmas!!
December 18th
Come celebrate Crimbo in style with Soundcheck's Christmas Spectacular. It can only rock.
(oh wow it's)December!!
Check out the new website action for Brian Rideout!.
November 20th
A great cartoon of the Kidneys rocking Soundcheck by Mark Flood!
November 27th
Can you believe it's less than a month till Crimbo?? Eep!
November 20th
Last night's Soundcheck was GREAT FUN!! Lots of dancing, lots of fancy dress (why??? why not!!!)
I took so many wonderful photos but, alas, no camera. So a (karma laden) message to the lovely cad who stole my snapper, I'm not mad at you, I'm just very very disappointed. (the classic guilt trip)
But lets not dwell on the negative! It was cool to see some pals from the Noggin out last night! Big up the art+design portfolio course! Also the wonderful artist Adrian Gallagher was getting his sound checked. Best known for these...
He also takes a gorgous photo...
Thanks to Ed Mackey, Conor the Shark and the gorgeous YoCo who played ALL the tunes to get us dancing, and of course to the Kidneys who kicked it off in style. Gold spandex - YES!!
November 20th
November 13th
YoYoYO get yo 90's on.....
November 6th
October 30th
October 30th
For my birthday party and halloween celebration at Soundcheck tonight, I selflessly slaved away in the kitchen all day yesterday for what? The most awful looking (but divine tasting) cupcakes of all time. Two terrifying flavours to torture your tastebuds. Black Heart Horror cupcakes and Pirate Rum Blood cupcakes (both with sprinkles of course.) Try if you dare Mmwwah Ha Ha Ha!!!
Before
After
What happened here???
Don't forget, besides the culinary catastrophe, there will be tunes a plenty from the wonderful guest Dj's.
SuperExtraBonusParty
Adrian Crowley
Goodtime John!
Corina (wreck da) Gaffey (AKA YO-CO!!)
Sarah vs. Paddy
October 30th- November 22nd
Patrick Graham and Micheal Warren are showing at the Hillsboro Gallery on Parnell Square West. It promises to be a powerful show and a perfect pairing of two important Irish artists.
Halloween
Horrorthon at the IFI
It's the last night of the Horrorthon so go get your scare on in the IFI!!
October 26th
So this is what I do in my spare time.... This is Paddy and I at the Clare Glens this past weekend. I'm in Boaty, my blue boat, throwing myself off a beautiful waterfall. So much fun.
October 30th
Well, happy Birthday to me! How much fun is having your very own club night to celebrate your birthday in!! Please come down for the bash, halloween goodness, yummy treats and cocktails and some damn fine music. Adrian Crowley, Super Extra Bonus Party and Goodtime John are all doing DJ sets. Also gorgeous Paddy and the ever stylish Corina will be rocking your sox off. Sweet. Dress fancy if you like. We Like.
October 23rd
from the Soundcheck blog....
SoundCheck faves Vampire Weekend are hitting the Ambassador this Thursday, so rock into SoundCheck before the gig, where we'll be blasting out some Vamp tunes, and other great stuff. Grab some cakes and rock it! If you want to head into SoundCheck///AfterParty after 11 from the gig, show your ticket stub at the door and get in for a recession-busting 3yoyo instead of 5.
As usual, SoundCheck runs from 7pm - 2.30am. Before 11pm, it's free in and we've got some SAVAGE cocktails going at 2-for-1. That's just a tenner for two yumsies cocktails. After 11pm, it's a fiver in, and we've got cheap and cheerful beer, cider, vodka+dash for just 4yoyo. Howdjalikethemapples?
This Thursday, the line-up is the bomb. It's the debut SoundCheck appearance of Rapture Ponies, whose blog was singled out by the Guardian recently as one of their favourite Irish online reads.
Bluebirds Are So Natural under their moniker Songs For Swinging Children make their return after a banging set a while ago. Expect swinging tunes for swinging kids, some durrrty pop, and your favourite indie buzz.
It's also the SoundCheck debut of Conor The Shark, an elusive character who listens to bands that don't even exist yet.
Our homeboy Quigo is back from Africa and will be picking up the tempo with his favourite tunes, and your SoundCheck residents Sarah Fox and UnaRocks will also be there playing the latest cuts. And upstairs, Le Cirque will be combining their deadly mix of electro, fashion, art, dressing up, and dancing.
So, one two, one two, are you ready to SoundCheck?
October 16th
October 16th
the ever so fabulous DUBLIN STREETS have been added to the Soundcheck/Urban Outfitters lockdown. Catch them at SPY while munching on cakes and cocktails!!
October 16th
URBAN OUTFITTERS GETS THEIR SOUND CHECKED....
A night to showcase some of the talented young artists coming up in Dublin.
With art installations from NCAD in sculpture, textiles and fashion.
6pm til 9pm at Urban Outfitters
Music provided by Dandelion and Unarocks.
This event is sponsored by Coors light.
15% discount on all Urban Outfitters lovely-ness.
October 9th
[R]OCTOBER LISTINGS
Oct 08
new flyer.....
OCT.2nd-Update
OhMyGoodness it's almost OCTOBER!
Turns out we've done something right in SPY. They're letting us stay up past our bedtime. Soundcheck, as of October the second, goes late night! I can't wait!! So for those of you fine folks who love Soundcheck, fear not, we're keeping it the same...then AFTERPARTY-after 11, will kick it up a notch.
In other OCTOBER news
Le Cirque, Dublin's newest weekly club night, launches Thursday 2nd October at Wax, South William Street. The club will focus on the theatrical side of going out; it will fuse fun and debauchery with a cutting edge fashion and music policy. The idea behind the night stemmed from a lack of forward thinking nights around Dublin. Taking inspiration from underground club nights such as Boombox, Smash n Grab and Favela Chic in London, Le Cirque has four ingredients-music, fashion, art and fun. Our gorgeous friend Lady Jane (boysmakebetterdjs) will be launching her new night on October the second.... Pay a mere fiver in to the WHOLE OF SPY and you'll get the best of both worlds... Soundcheck//Afterparty and Le Cirque.
Sept 08
Well check out the sexy new site, created by Patrick Mullen Design. I love the graph paper background, a tribute to the fantastic Mr. Fox who wont write on anything else!
I know the communication on the old website has been sporatic at best, the bulk of natter was over on wordpress.
Sept 08 The twentyfifth....
did rock. yes. it did.
le galexie? genius.
psychic kids? mohito madness and rocky four
alan feeney? well he finished off with GNR... nuff said.
amayonnaising.
(unarocks and I snuck off to Andrews Lane after Soundcheck to check out Grand Pocket Orchestra..... They were wonderful. Highlights included lolypop glockenspeil and the best drumming I've seen in yonks....)
Sept 08 on the radio....
I just heard the cool-ass new radio ad for Spy. Now, why hadn't I ever noticed the lovely way that "sarah fox" and "Unarocks" rhymes?? Sweet!
Sept 08 The twentyfifth....
promises to be a rocker....
Sept 08 Soundcheck!
CLICKY!
It's just getting better and better isn't it?? (although I overindulged on the sweeties....)
Sept 08 Soundcheck lineup
Last thursday rocked....Bluebirds are so natural kicked it off with some really sweet tunes and even sweeter cupcakes! I heard the Violent Femmes for the first time in yonks and it sent me straight back to all the fun times in high school (yes we call it high school in Canadia...) Then the Grand Pocket Orchestra traded off on the decks with some lovely lovely tunes. Quigo, As USUAL, was fab fab fab but the treat of the night was Jim Carroll who pulled some stompers out of the bag. Every tune was bigger and better than the last. 11 oh clock? Forgetaboutit!!! oh I love soundcheck.xx
Sept 08 Soundcheck lineup version 2
Sept 08 Team YES join Fringe...
Aug 08 Fringe Festival
Download the excellent 2008 Fringe Festival programme
here! The Fringe folks were sweet to ask me to review the visual arts compliment of this years event...
Summer 08 Soundcheck...
June 08
Blog Blog Blog Blog!
May 08
Following on from all the fun and frolics at the album launch party, ASAK will be hosting a monthly club night in the ever so sexy SPY (south william st) with her fabulous pals, ms gaffey and ms mullaly. Launching May 29th at 8pm, it'll be all the fun in the world. please email me on info@angelshesakiller.com asap for limited guest list spaces. And get your dancing shoes on. Our pals, the Delorentos will be manning the decks, and a YET TO BE ANOUNCED musical act will rock you (gently)
March 08
For all of the wonderful people who preordered the album, rest assured it will be in the post ASAP. I have been assured that the UPS fiasco is drawing to a close....
March 08
New Angel Blog!
March 08
I'm watching the rugby (sortof) and recovering from the fabulous launch party which was last night in SPY. It was so much fun! Ok, so there were a few glitches, but in the true spirit of things, everyone pulled together and helped to make the night amazing. I'm so happy with the way the book turned out. When the boxes first arrived it took me quite a while to muster up the courage to peek inside. I was over the moon though when I finally did. The printers, IMPRESS printing, did a wonderful job. The paper is 100% recycled and lends perfectly to the artwork. It's a beut! Now I wait with baited breath for the vinyl, on it's way from France...
Feb 08
New News! I have, at long last, sent the tunes off to be turned into vinyl by VINYLE PRESSE INDUSTRIES in France. (oui oui!!) I have gorgeous songs from Adrian Crowley, Goodtime John, an asskicker from MeNoFemBo and (the newest addition) a brilliant
song from More Tiny Giants.
Happy days!
Jan 08
These are the humble beginnings of what I know is going to bloom and flourish into an amazing collection.
I had the tiniest hint of an idea for this project a while back and for what seemed like ages it existed only in my thoughts and dreams and wine induced yipyap. Now it is finally coming to fruition, thanks to the support (and kicks up the bum) from my nearest and dearest. The first album will be out in the beginning of March, on vinyl. All editions will be accompanied by a beautiful book of artwork produced by some wonderfully talented people. And the album will have some damn fine tunes as well. I can't wait
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