The College View’s music and entertainment supplement.
If you like songs about cigarettes and alcohol then Alt-J probably aren’t the band for you. The alternative indie pop four-piece from Cambridge are almost anti-Oasis in their musical approach, with songs about war photographers Read more…
Too early? Never. With Halloween out of the way, there’s no excuse for everything not to begin to look a lot like Christmas and as usual Dublin will be ringing in the festive season in Read more…
With his gravelly vocals, penchant for Springsteen covers and skill with a guitar, it was easy to see why every Voice of Ireland mentor wanted Pat Byrne on their team. The obvious winner from the Read more…
Vintage Cocktail Bar An establishment has to be pretty darn stellar for us to feel bad about smuggling a naggin/shoulder/ingeniously concealed bottle of wine in, and the shiny new VCC is one such establishment. Styled Read more…
It has been a memorable and meteoric 12 months for Lana Del Rey. She won Q Magazine’s Next Big Thing Award, received a much-coveted Ivor Novello Award and has since appeared on top shows across Read more…
Director Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires is a comedy drama set in 1968. It is inspired by the true story of writer Tony Briggs’ mother Laurel Robinson, and aunt, Lois Peeler, who travelled to Vietnam to Read more…
With The Abbey Road Sessions, pop diva Kylie Minogue has hung up her trademark gold hot-pants in favour of a more sophisticated sound The album has been released to mark the Australian singer’s twenty-fifth year Read more…
Ham Sandwich: that band with the silly name. Still, it’s definitely not forgettable. Formed in 2003, the band have worked considerably hard since then to ensure the name Ham Sandwich stays in our heads. Their Read more…
In his third film as director, Ben Affleck presents the incredible true story of the Set in Iran in 1979. As the US embassy in Iran falls to a mob of Ayatollah-supporting students, six officers Read more…
Mark Austin sounds a little bit worse for wear. The lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Minutes, a Dublin rock band that have been slowly making a name for themselves over the last six Read more…
So Girls Aloud are back together then? Sorry, correction, they never actually split up in the first place, did they? They were just “taking a break to focus on solo projects”. Cheryl Cole had her Read more…
The Dirty Epics are a band on the rise. Formed in 2007, The Dirty Epics consist of SJ Wai on vocals, Richie Power on bass, Darren McCoy on guitar and Gary Nethaway on drums. Their Read more…
Stephen King is an undisputed legend of horror literature. Many of his books have been adapted for the big screen. Here, in no particular order, are three of King’s scariest stories. The Shining “Here’s Johnny…” Read more…
9 Crow Street is Emma Fraser, Dean Ryan McDaid and Melissa McDermott. Started in December 2010, perched on the corner of their namesake, 9 Crow Street quickly developed a reputation for its deadly vintage clothes, Read more…
“Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girl can say anything”, to paraphrase Mean Girls (I’m dead original, me). Now, I’m a lady, Read more…
Luke Reilly and Eimear Shannon run down the things that have provided them with joy ‒maximum joy. Workmans does Karaoke The Workman’s Club has become Dublin’s own X Factor stage. We all get that feeling, Read more…
If there’s one thing that Halloween is incomplete without, it’s a good rip-roaring monsterfest. Today’s modern horror films tend to lean more towards the psychological and the symbolic and at worst lean towards the bare Read more…
The phrase “flogging a dead horse” is one that’s fairly often bandied about when it comes to movies these days. It certainly applies to the fourth addition to the Paranormal Activity franchise, which hit cinemas Read more…
Hype is a funny thing. It can make heroes of some, but for others it can be a fatal shot against their hopes of a sustainable career. However in the case of Jake Bugg, it Read more…
If there’s one thing that Halloween is incomplete without, it’s a good rip-roaring monsterfest. Today’s modern horror films tend to lean more towards the psychological and the symbolic and at worst lean towards the bare Read more…
Despite being dubbed the ‘unfilmable’ by auteurs and literary critics alike, the archetypal American road trip story has finally hit the silver screen. After five arduous years in the making, Walter Salles’s adaptation of the Read more…
In a niche heavily occupied by the likes of Adele and Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis’ highly-anticipated album Glassheart needed to make its mark. With a mixture of sounds, ranging from typical powerful ballads to sharper, Read more…
After the latest offering from the Bond series, one could be forgiven for disowning the franchise and pledging your allegiance to Bourne, or Jack Bauer, even Johnny English. After the gritty and punchy panache of Read more…
With the release of “Skyfall”, James Bond films will have graced our cinema screens for half a century, enduring several wars, the fall of Empires and countless similar cinematic contemporaries. Through five decades, Bond has Read more…
Three years ago, a new type of television programme was born. A Frankenstein’s monster composed of parts of Big Brother, The Apprentice and Boozed Up Irish Abroad, they called it Jersey Shore. The premise was fairly Read more…