Music
Sussed: Paddy’s Day Club Guide
As everyone knows, it’s our national duty to go out and have fun on March 17th. Avoidance of this sacred tradition is tantamount to high treason. Yet maybe wading through a sea of puke Read more…
Articles by CVArts
Film
Review: T2 Trainspotting
Choose regret, denial and rekindling old friendships. Twenty years later, Mark Renton (Ewan Mcgregor) returns to Edinburgh following the death of his mother; Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) Read more…
Film
Sussed: The Oscars’ best pictures
After last year’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy sparked outrage on Twitter as well as from the actors themselves, the academy have made an explicit effort to recognise diversity in this year’s films. This can be seen in Read more…
Features
IMMA programme launch
The Freud Project at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) will be expanded this year, director of IMMA Sarah Glennie revealed as part of the launch for the 2017 programme. The programme also hosts Read more…
Television
Emotional significance made The Simpsons great
‘Mother Simpson’ is not the greatest episode of The Simpsons, but it is my favourite. It presents the defining feature of what made its first ten seasons the greatest animated show and sitcom in television history: Read more…
Music
Sussed: Albums of 2017
Despite being a year that most people would prefer to forget, when it comes to music releases, 2016 was lit. Kanye’s Life of Pablo, Queen B’s Lemonade, Bowie’s Blackstar, Frank Ocean’s Blonde, The Rolling Stones’ Read more…
Film
Review: La La Land
Every year, there’s a film that is soaked in nothing but hype. 2016 saw Suicide Squad, which critics loved to hate and 2015 gave all its Oscars to The Revenant. Admittedly, sometimes the hype is Read more…
Music
Sussed: Afrobeat
The birth of Afrobeat happened almost a decade after West African countries such as Nigeria and Ghana gained their independence from British rule in the 60’s. During a time where freedom and hope for future Read more…
Television
Review: Striking Out
If you know anything about Irish television it is either a masterpiece or garbage. Rarely, however is it both. RTE’s latest endeavour into original drama has split the nation, with either rave reviews or dismissive Read more…
Music
The power of pop as protest
The protest song is exciting, irreverent, and powerful, putting into words our frustration with inequalities of all description. For as long as pop has existed, there has been a subsection of righteous, rage-fuelled songwriters who Read more…
Television
Was Gilmore Girls worth revisiting?
After years of long-term fans patiently awaiting an update from our beloved Stars Hollow, Netflix brought us a six part mini-series, Gilmore Girls: A Year in The Life, to revisit the Connecticut town. If you’re Read more…
Television
A series of fortunate adaptations
The new adaptation of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ on Netflix brings a whole new interpretation of Lemony Snicket’s dark and depressing tale of the Baudelaire orphans to the streaming platform. The story begins small Read more…
The Hype
Get to know Chaps Eye
Chaps Eye is a comedy YouTube channel run by three Irish IADT graduates Oisin, Eoin and Niall. This YouTube channel focuses on making hilarious skits about anything from having a few cans to parodies of Read more…
The Hype
Sussed: Amsterdam
Amsterdam is well known as a city in love with art. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Why does it have such an appeal? Most people will say ‘weed Read more…
Music
What now after What.CD?
Last week saw the closure of the infamous music and file sharing site What.CD making them part of the club of fallen piracy giants like Napster, Kickass Torrents and the original Pirate Bay. In a Read more…
Music
“The End” for Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath. The words are like a hunting horn for any seasoned heavy metal fan. A 50-year-career marked by legendary music, solid friendship and innumerable vices is finally drawing to a close. After spending almost half Read more…
Film
Review: Crash and Burn
Tommy Byrne could have been the biggest name in Formula 1. There was no doubting his talent and speed as he climbed through the ranks of Irish and British racing in the early 1980’s. The Read more…
Music
Sussed: Christmas club guide
As another festive season rolls around, and people dust off their decorations, excitement mounts for two very different groups of people. While children everywhere refine and redraft their letters to Santa, Dublin’s revellers and clubbers are Read more…
The Hype
How Hamilton has taken theatre by storm
When most people think of musicals, they straightaway imagine classic, cult shows such as Grease or Hairspray, or really old-fashioned jazz dancing set in a 1920’s speakeasy. What they do not realise, however, is that Read more…
Music
Do you know Fangclub?
Appropriately for a band fronted by a man called Steven King, I catch up with Fangclub at Universal Ireland head offices just before Halloween. They’re on a short break between two legs of their UK Read more…
Television
The Crown of Netflix dramas
As an audience, we’re used to seeing Queen Elizabeth II as an elderly lady in colourful suits surrounded by corgis – but who was she before the big hats? Netflix explores the Queen’s rise to Read more…
Music
Review: Metropolis 2016
There it sits, under a crescent moon, Leinster blue spotlights glinting off each individual mirror – the world’s largest disco ball, in the courtyard of the RDS – a signifier of the weekend to come. Read more…
Television
How the world of Black Mirror has become terrifyingly realistic
Netflix’s season three release of ‘Black Mirror’ welcomed old and new audiences to its glossy yet twisted dystopian world of technological advancements. As our world keeps excelling in inventions that keep us plugged into our Read more…
Music
Scenery – Japan’s greatest contribution to Jazz
Grandiose statements require grandiose substantiation, and as such it’s a rare day that I would take such a concept to task. Though it is of little debate as to whether Mr. Ryo Fukui’s 1976 debut Read more…
Music
Review: Sleaford Mods at Vicar Street
Close to 1,000 spent their Thursday night at Vicar Street being hypnotised by a 45 year old ex-social welfare adviser repeatedly slapping his own head and unloading half a century of inequality, class division and Read more…