IT’S no easy feat to pack in the amount of talent that was on display last Thursday in the upstairs bar of the Rock, but somehow the Féile team manage it every year for the popular Scribes event. Tickets are always scarce for the literary event which draws hundreds of bookworms to park on a […]
Archive | August, 2013
City Hall opens for Féile
Féile keeps breaking new ground and this year has been no exception with the City Hall the newest Festival venue. On Saturday hundreds of people packed the grounds outside City Hall for the inaugural Trad On The Lawn, bringing together Damien O’Kane and Cara Dillon. Although the outdoor concert was interspersed with light showers, the […]
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Féile art no longer rare as Hen’s Teeth
There is usually so much on offer at Féile that it’s extremely difficult to tick off everything in the programme. This year, as the festival celebrates its 25th birthday, it’s no different so in a bid to see more, I chose a different approach. I worked my way through the hefty programme highlighting what is […]
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Capacity crowd keep the Faith in Féile
FÉILE25 kicked off in exuberant style on Friday evening as the Big Top Tent welcomed icons of dance Agnelli and Nelson, Chicane, and in a festival coup Faithless. The sounds of the Balearic islands were ringing out of the Falls Park from as early as 8pm as local DJ’s Jamsey Butler and Gareth Woods took […]
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Happy Sundays in the Big Top for Féile music fans
The Happy Mondays and The Charlatans played to a capacity Big Top tent on Sunday night at Féile. There was a real festival atmosphere in the Falls Park as hundreds mingled outside the tent before the main event, eagerly anticipating the night ahead. If the truth be told I came late to the Happy Mondays […]
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Sometimes even Dúlra can call it wrong
A bit like Ace Ventura, Dúlra often gets an emergency call when a bird or animal is in trouble. At this time of years it’s inevitably about a young bird. If only he had a pound for every time he heard someone say, “it can’t fly, I think it has a broken wing.” Truth is […]
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