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Motorcycle Display Team: A Taste (Video)

Motorcycle Display Team have unleashed a new video on the world. ‘A Taste’ features some clever animation techniques where the story is played out by passport photo representations of the characters. It’s taken from the London based band’s album ‘Captatio Benevolentiae’ which also features the single ‘Betweenager’.

They’ve been doing rather well for themselves of late, they’ve been featured on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, BBC’s Off The Hook and Absolute Radio in the Uk made them Unsigned Band of the Month.

Here’s the vid:

May 2, 2013
Dead Man Down: Film Review

Dead Man Down is Niels Arden Oplev‘s first shot at directing a Hollywood movie. He’s best known for his work in the original ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo’. It’s not surprising then, when Noomi Rapace, who played Lisbeth Salander in the trilogy turns up as the female lead here. In Dead Man Down, she plays Beatrice, a scarred car crash survivor, who lives in the apartment block opposite Victor (Colin Farrell).

Victor is part of a gang, a modern day mob and along with Darcy (Dominic Cooper) goes investigating into who or why a gang member ended up in the boss’ Alphonse’s freezer. Beatrice sees something she shouldn’t have through Victor’s window and it all kicks off.

From the trailers released for this film, you get the impression that it’s a more high speed ‘Blow em up’ movie, but there was a lot more depth to it than that. It’s a spiraling maze of planning, plotting and revenge which brings out the best in Colin Farrell’s acting skills as he reveals the depth of his character, Victor. This isn’t Die Hard, even if Noomi Rapace’s character ‘Beatrice’, is at times, a tad too much of whinging damsel in distress.

Overall, it’s an enjoyable two hours which keeps the viewer engaged, decent story, well shot and a great car chase. Standout was Colin Farrell, it’s a long way from Ballykissangel, but he really deserves to be getting the roles Brad Pitt and George Clooney just saunter into, immense talent.

May 2, 2013
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 93: May 1 2013

Episode 93 on RTE 2XM, where does the time go? So what should I do for episode 100, any ideas? Let me know! nessy @ nessymon.com

Thanks to my guests on this week’s show Joan Burney Keatings MBE from Cinemagic Film Festival, Lindsay Rountree from Gospel Rising and Cathal MacGabhann from The Altered Hours

Here’s what happened:
1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Eye Emma Jedi: Places
3. Must: Just Wait
4. Chat with Joan Burney Keatings MBE, Festival Director, Cinemagic Film Festival
5. Les Mistons: Overcoming Fear
6. Swords: All The Boys
7. Chat with Lindsay Rountree from Gospel Rising
8. Little Green Cars: My Love Took Me Down To The River To Silence Me
9. Cat Dowling: Cruel
10. Cathal MacGabhann from The Altered Hours
11. The Altered Hours: Sweet Jelly Roll
12. The 1975: The City

Thanks to all my guests and thanks to you for listening. Don’t forget you can listen to the full show again on the RTE Player. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 GMT and is repeated every Sunday at 2100 GMT. You can also subscribe to the Culture Cafe podcast on iTunes.

May 2, 2013
Kodaline: Love Like This (Video)

So the lads from Kodaline have finally put themselves in front of the camera for the vid for their forthcoming single, ‘Love Like This’. The track is a bit more uptempo than ‘All I Want’ or ‘High Hopes’.

I spoke to Kodaline in December when they played the DCU Christmas Ball, somewhere along the way the album release for “In A Perfect World’ was pushed back from March to June. When I spoke to them about their EP releases and how prolific they were, they joked about recording a brand new EP over Christmas and releasing an extra EP in June. That obviously won’t be happening as the album has a June release date but it’s great to know that we won’t have to wait for a difficult second album if they are writing like that.

Kodaline are hitting the festival highway, here are some upcoming dates.

Thursday 16th May The Great Escape (Brighton)
Friday 14th June Pinkpop Festival (Holland)
Sunday 16th June Isle of Wight Festival
Friday 21st June Hurricane Festival (Germany)
Saturday 22nd June Southside Festival (Germany)
Friday 28th June Glastonbury Festival
Saturday 29th June Hard Rock Calling (London)
Saturday 20th July Longitude Festival (Ireland)
Saturday 27th July Stockton Weekender
Saturday 10th August Summersonic Festival (Japan)
Saturday 17th August Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium)

Here’s the video:

You can hear my interview with Kodaline here:

Kodaline Interview: Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM by Nessy on Mixcloud

May 1, 2013