Do: Make sweet sweet triple chocolate cookies after a frustrating day with a glass of wine and the lovely Fleet Foxes in the background.
Don’t: Insist upon dessimating the cookie dough supply by eating it by the spoonful straight from the mixing bowl. You will feel like a complete sow when you wake up in the morning. I learnt this. I feel richer for the experience, but that is probably just a temporary richness brought on my so much chocolate.
They are delicious cookies though…
I just wanted to share my thoughts on how much I love the new wave of electro pop that is taking over music. I don’t know about Ireland, but in London I’m very excited about new acts such as Little Boots and Ladyhawke. there’s just something so pretty, fun and enjoyable about it. It’s an addictive sound, with some lovely lyrics to boot. the tunes I’ve heard so far from these too have left me in anticipation of what else is going to come our way in 2009. (In particular check out the extended version of Stuck on Repeat by Little Boots, and Meddle, my personal favourite. Also, my Delerium and Paris is Burning by Ladyhawke.)
In this vein of thought, I have allowed myself to become entirely swept up by the pop electronic revolution and have come up with a name for my (hypothetical) electro pop outfit. Are you ready: The GinandTronics! Don’t you want to go to see them already? The only thing missing form the mix (geddit? it just gets more perfect!) is another member (to justify the plural) and some talent/ability to make decent electro music. but I have decided that the latter is superfluous to requirements these days. If Peaches Geldof can forge a career on being a talentless poser, so can I. and I’ll even be nice to people.
It’s that torturous crawl to the end of the month for me again. Koka Noodles and Lidl Shampoo are keeping me alive. It’s those few days before the monthly pay packet hits my bank account when I go to the pub and leave with a giant roll of pub toilet-roll in my bag. I’m one of these paupers who can’t seem to adjust to the
lifestyle that accompanies poverty. I still want to do things. I want to go out. I want music. I want to dress nice. I want fun. So if I do get a windfall of a few 2 euro coins behind the couch or a twenty euro note in the pocket of my jeans, I don’t spend it on groceries and washing powder. No No, I live on bread and noodles and find something cheap and fun to do to pass the days until I can skip gaily to the buttered side of the breadline once again.
Until that day though, I am pleased to report that I have been finding plenty of fun things to do in and around Cork that cost little to no money. all it will take is a little imagination, car-pooling, money pooling and creative accounting.
Dead Cool
First up on Tuesday at the Pavillion, Carey’s Lane, there is a really great idea for a slightly different night of fun and music with every wordplay and music lover’s dream ‘Let’s Get Quizzical’ followed by ‘Dead Cool.’ Dead Cool is just that, very cool. All the tracks on the night are by dead people. And every week, just to mix things up,. there is one track by a living person who everyone thinks is dead. This is a lovely venue and a night I think is worth checking out. All this and, it’s FREE. Ah the word just gives me a little glimmer of excitement when I type it. FREE…mmmmm.
Doubletime
If you’re not sick of the Pavillion by Friday, then I seriously recommend checking out Doubletime, upstairs from 8pm Friday 25th July. On the last Friday of every month for the last 5 years, the sax-playing-swing-loving-bebraced legend himself, DJ Gary has been satisfying the needs of the romp-lovinf, swing-dancing, jazz-hungry masses. Playing the best jazz fromt he 1930s and 1940s, Gary has the gift of actually making you forget what year it is. With the usual venue being the Spailpin Fanach, the decor usually plays a part in that as well. But there is something about a room full of people stomping and swinging to 1930s jazz in low-light and high-heat that really makes you feel like you shouls be hearing a war siren at any minute. It really is a fantastic night out. This week is extra special because it is Doubletime’s 5th birthday. So for just €10 you can enjoy a rip-roaring night of fun, and possibly (if you’re quick and lucky) leave at the end of the night with one of Doubletime’s famously aesthetically pleasing posters.
When it seems like all is lost, and you’ve spent the last of you earnings on a ticket to see the Dark Knight in Cork’s most over-priced cinema, and you feel like you need your next cheap dirty fix of entertainment, along comes an absolute glowing-white knight on a majestic steed in the form of Cork’s most exciting new festival: Indie-Pendence.
Indie-Pendence
Indie-Pendence is running over the course of the August bank holiday weekend in Mitchelstown. The line-up includes acts such as Gemma Hayes, Fight Like Apes, FRED, Dirty Epics, Hope is Noise, the Blizzards…. I could go on but the excitement might make my fingers grab the keyboard against my will and throw it out the window. And as already pointed out, I’m a little bit poor to avaoid such setbacks in my carefully reginmented budget. The festival takes place throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the absolute best thing about it is it is completely FREE (that beautiful word again. After hearing reports from Oxygen on Fight Like Apes, and great feedback on Dirty Epics and considering the speed at which the stars of the Blizzards and Gemma Hayes and of course
So, I’ve given you at least 2 weeks worth of free music, alternative club nights, fun and games and adventure there for the bargain price of €10 + petrol money. But remember : faint heart never won free lift!
Enjoy your week.
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