The Slate – selected issues for your reading pleasure
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“It’s getting harder to find something that isn’t part of the mainstream…” Dublin’s club scene at the turn of the Millennium [February 2000]
While the recent closure of the Tivoli, Hangar and the Bernard Shaw (in its Portobello incarnation, anyway) has left many…
“Oggie, Oggie, Oggie! Oi, Oi, Oi!” Maniac 2000 was released 20 years ago this week…
Few singles encapsulated the exuberance of the early part of the millennium than Maniac 2000, released on 11 February 2000…
“The bottom line is, the tune has to be good…” Kerry’s 4th Dimension talk homegrown techno [July 1994]
Killarney, Co. Kerry isn’t the first place you think of in terms of cutting-edge electronica, but for a short period…
Dublin’s RedBox opened on this day in 1996…
Some three-and-a-half years after the opening of The Pod nightclub, on Dublin’s Harcourt Street, the late entrepreneur John Reynolds unveiled…
Ahead of their performances at Dublin’s District 8 this weekend, here are more Sasha & Digweed sets than you could ever possibly need…
Morecambe and Wise. Laurel and Hardy. Bert and Ernie. History is awash with great double acts, but in the world…
Some of the biggest names in Irish dance music are coming together TONIGHT to pay tribute to the late Scott Macnaughton
On September 15 last, the Irish dance music industry was a sadder place with the news of the passing of…
Fancy owning a piece of Bernard Shaw history…?
The Shaw is dead, long live the Shaw! While Bodytonic may have closed the iconic Bernard Shaw venue on Dublin’s…
The Bernard Shaw is closing… but we’ll always remember the EPIC nights we had there
Dublin’s cultural heart skipped a beat or two earlier this week with the sad news that The Bernard Shaw, the…
Big Fish Little Fish comes to Ireland – 909originals meets the team behind it
Big Fish Little Fish (BFLF), which has organised family raves across the UK and Australia since 2013, hits Dublin today…