The biggest home competition in rugby, the AIB All Ireland League has just got under way and this Saturday Terenure travel to Lansdowne Road. The 1999/2000 season has some interesting new innovations, including a bonus points system and prize money totaling IEP128,500. Neither team is tipped for the top at this early stage, but both will be chasing those all-too-precious four points to avoid relegation talk, now that there is a promotion/relegation system. With two Dublin teams playing at the International Grounds, this match should be a big draw.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Perejaume
Perejaume, a brilliant local artist who first achieved international fame in the 1980s, is getting the retrospective treatment dedicated to the last 20 years of his career. Perejaume combines different disciplines – such as theatre, installations, literature and photography – to create his unique works of art. He has also invented a few new disciplines of his own, such as ‘pessebrisme’ (the making of nativity-like scenes) or ‘oïsme’ (the division of sound and vision using glass screens). If you haven’t heard of him yet, this is the perfect opportunity to check him out.
Soulride with Photek and Peshay
Trippy drum’n'bass maestros Photek and Peshay are both alumni of Goldie’s Metalheadz, so this will be loud and proudly diverse. The DJs have also collaborated on many other projects, so one can safely expect some duo-ing behind the decks. Local boys Chaos and KC the Funkaholic are slated to open.
The White Horse
The White Horse was one of those famous early houses in Dublin where, at ungodly hours of the day, you’d find taxi drivers and dockers finishing their night shifts or party-goers finishing theirs. Not so now in ‘Celtic Tiger’ Dublin. The White House has been revamped, rebuilt and repackaged as an airy modern bar with bright and friendly staff. Big, light and overlooking the quays, the White Horse is enough off the beaten track to let you esacep the crowds. And while it hasn’t retained any of the soul of its previous incarnation, it is quickly creating some of its own.
King Crimson
Going back more than 30 years, guitarist Robert Fripp’s King Crimson were for many years progressive rock’s definitive exponents having débuted with ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ and over 30 albums to their credit. KC has fallen apart and come back together again on more than one occasion, changing its line-up several times over before it finally reconvened in its present form in 1994. ‘The ConstruKtion of Light’, the latest project, is the motive behind this tour that brings them to Madrid this week.
Sylvie Guillem and Tokyo Ballet
The world’s most celebrated classical dancer comes to Tokyo for a short residency at the ominously named Ueno Culture Hall. Ably assisted by the Tokyo Ballet, French ballerina Guillem will dance ‘Sissi’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘La Bayadere’, no doubt to packed houses. For once, tickets are reasonably priced, starting at just 3,000.
