July 17th, 2008 Justin
Great bit of old-skool goss from the My Little Piebald newsletter:
::: Old raver news: Asylum reunion busted by pigs :::
An improptu reunion rave was held recently in the building on Sackville
Place where the Asylum nightclub used to be in the early 1990s. The
Asylum only lasted a few brief years before being closed down, but it
was easily Dublin’s maddest club at the time. Old ravers speak with
a mixture of awe and terror about the goings on at the club:
The manager of the Asylum and three bouncers were jailed for selling drugs at the door of the club. Pills cost £25 each at the time, but one doorman called Stabber Doyle would helpfully bite off a half for you if that’s all you could afford.
A 17-year-old was shot in the stomach just outside the club after getting in a row with someone inside. There were also persistent rumours about a gun being fired in the air from the middle of the dancefloor one night.
There was an upstairs room known as ‘the shooting gallery’ where junkies used to inject gear into themselves
The recent reunion, or The Awakening, as the organisers called it,
featured many of the DJs who used to play in the Asylum. However,
it was sadly raided by the pigs before the ageing ravers could get up a
proper head of steam. Hundreds of people were expected to attend,
but the over-excited swine set up road blocks all over sackville
place, killing the thing off pretty much entirely.
Here’s some footage
of the rave being busted by the pigs. Also - hilarious Prime Time feature on Ecstasy use in Ireland from around the same period, featuring interviews with some of Ireland’s first rave mongrels.
Ah, brings me back — I went there a few times raving back in the 90s, including one memorable Trainspotting-style trip to the jacks. What a fucking dodgy kip!
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July 17th, 2008 Justin
(flyer via Unarocks)
This sounds pretty osm. Luggala is a really beautiful part of the world. Good comments over on Jim Carroll’s blog, although the poor old Jimmy Cake come into some stick… but nuggets like this are gold:
‘Kraftwerk - they used to spend weeks cycling around Ireland, believe it or not. Theres a whole album of unreleased tunes in the Kling Klang vaults about the glories of cycling around the Glen of Aherlow on a sunny day.’
riiiight.
Update: just bought me tix. Kraftwerk’s only European gig this year — looking forward to this!
The name of the night, btw, strikes me as a little morbid; here’s the scoop from the POD site:
Guinness heir Gareth Brown resides at Luggala. Founder of Claddagh Records record label in 1959 which recorded many of the classic traditional music albums of the last five decades, he also discovered The Chieftains, the first band to make Irish traditional music popular around the world. Slightly more compelling is the story behind Gareth’s brother, Tara Brown. Socialite and enthusiast of London Counterculture [sic], Tara was a good friend of the Beatles. Paul McCartney met Tara for the first time in the same club where he would eventually meet Linda. In 1966 at the age of 21, and rumoured to be on mind expanding drugs at the time, Tara drove his sports car at high speed through red lights in South Kensington, smashing into a van and killing himself. It was this that inspired John Lennon to write the lines “I heard the news today oh boy” and “he blew his mind out in a car” from the Beatles song ‘A Day in the Life’. Tara Brown is buried at Luggala.
Been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto 4, listening to The Journey’s robot DJ and her humanity-hating comments:
GTA4 Soundtrack - The Journey sampler
“It’s all an illusion. You’ll be dead soon.
And turn into dust. Enjoy your day.”
“Time is growing faster. Increasing. You want it to slow down.
Blink. You missed it.”
“You are listening to The Journey. A computerised look at mankind.
From inside the motherlode. Things do not look good.”
“I am your DJ. Are you hallucinating? Probably.
It’s OK to hope it’s all a dream.”
“What does this all mean?
Who knows. You’re too stupid to understand.
The Journey.”
Love it. All set, aptly, to Koyaanisqatsi’s:
Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe
I understand he’s playing Dundalk tonight, anyone going?
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July 3rd, 2008 Justin
Jim Carroll writes that influential percussion post-punkers Liquid Liquid will be arriving in Dublin on October 5th.
Sounds intriguing! I think reports were that they rocked Glasgae’s Optimo when they played there, although of course that club was named after one of their tunes, so that may not be too surprising.
30 squids for Tripod, though…
Liquid Liquid - Bellhead
Liquid Liquid - Flextone (JD Twitch Optimo Edit)
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