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  • Model Society: Follow Your Dreams Review

    modelsocietyModel Society are a London based four piece electro indie band. Follow Your Dreams is their debut release.

    Recorded and Produced by Michael Boddy (The Fall, Alphabeat) the band draw on images from everyday life in their lyrics, making them gritty and relevant. The tracks’ upbeat rhythm plays against the lyrics starting with ‘A Generations Disappointments….‘. These along with the vocal prowess of Danny Clare make ‘Model Society’ an interesting band to watch.

    Influences from past bands including The Stranglers can be heard in their music and throwbacks to music of the eighties recession seem to make this more relevant than ever, the chorus offering the advice to ‘Follow Your Dreams’. Decent interesting debut release with good musicianship and arrangement.

  • Jass Foley Needs You For Photoshoot

    Like it says on tin, all round good guy Jass Foley is attempting his biggest largescale photoshoot yet and he needs your help.  He needs 200 people to come and lie on the grass at the library in DCU this Wednesday in order to create the outline of a Cherry Blossom. The image will be used for a fundraising concert for Japan.

  • Raindance: Christopher Nolan Scripts

    mementoIf you’re into movies then you should be on the Raindance mailing list. You should like their Facebook Page and you should follow them on Twitter.

    Every now and then they come along with gems like these. Until tomorrow they are offering scripts and production notes from Christopher Nolan for download on their site.

    You can read the scripts for Momento, Inception, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight amongst others as well as some analysis and production notes.

    Grab them while you can!

  • Star Wars Invasion at RDS

    stormtroopersWhat is Invasion ? It’s a Star Wars fan event being run this weekend by the Emerald Garrison which is as far as I can figure out, the Irish Star Wars fanclub as such (correct me if I’m wrong). On Friday afternoon I was lucky enough to get a Press Pass to see what was going to take place over the weekend.

    First thing that was noticeable as I walked down the footpath to the RDS was the fact that I had to walk through a bunch of stormtroopers which was quite surreal. Here’s where I have to be honest. I’m not the hugest of Star Wars fan, I always preferred the Marvel characters and stories or the work of Joss Whedon.

    Walking in, you have the usual merch stands with tshirts, mugs, pens and light sabres. You have the comic books, or graphic novels if you prefer, ranging in price from 6 euro to well over 100 euro for two specific numbers. (more…)