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