Festival Review: Oxigen ’09
Bulimic beauty Lady Gag on the Main Stage Sunday Howdy doody people! Well let’s not faff about with intros – weren’t the Killers of Leon the absolute, hands-down, completely and totally best band at Oxigen ’09? They truly are the kings of half-filled stadium rock these day, ain’t no doubt about it. Anyway, back to [...]
Movie Review: A Dark Knight’s Tale Had A Number Of Men Dressed Strangely …by Monsignor Flint Corrigan
I must confess I don’t recall the protagonist being lynched in the film but here’s a picture anyway. Ah well, back to the grindstone as it were. The Lord doth truly work in mysterious ways. Here I am at 98-years of age, reviewing newly released movie pictures for the first time in over 20 years! [...]
Gubuworld Travel Guide: Connemara, Co Galway
Connemara in Co Galway, located on the west coast of Ireland, is a place which is habitually, and deservedly, trashed and battered on a daily basis by the might of the Atlantic Ocean. If I, at this early stage of the review, come across as cynical and bitter, it is because I am. However, it [...]
Restaurant Review: Turkish Muck-House Leaves Customers Wishing They Were Dead
As myself and the wife left our home for a meal in the Turkish “food emporium” New Constantinople I had an awful premonition that I’d end up on the shitter at the end of the night, cursing the Ottomans to high heaven – well I wasn’t at all wrong let me tell you. When we [...]
Sex And The City Movie Review by Tabitha Spane
Carrie, the girls and token gay friend OMG! (that’s bitch talk for Oh My God!!) Girls, it’s finally here! It’s been four years since Sex And The City left our small screens, and now Carrie and Co are back with a bang where they truly belong – on the BIG screen. It’s a three-and-a-half hour [...]
Restaurant Review: ‘Great Wall’ Puke Hole Is A Step Back Behind The Bamboo Curtain
The Great Wall of Cabra is a horrid little dump located on the bloody Northside of Dublin. The moment I saw the restaurant’s address I had a horrible feeling I’d be spending the rest of night dumping my guts into the toilet. When myself and the wife entered the ‘The Great Wall’ we were met [...]
Book Review: The Generation Game’s Shift To The Right – From Larry Grayson To Jim Davidson
If the title and size and look of this book, Prof Theodore Guff’s The Generation Game’s Shift To The Right – From Larry Grayson To Jim Davidson, make it seem like it may be overly political, don’t be put off, it’s worth the effort of ploughing through every single one of its 3,543 pages. It’s [...]
Restaurant Review: Sub-Standard Italian Meatballs Served Up By Greasy, Unattractive Staff
Some of the muck served up by Mama Mia’s. This week I had the misfortune of reviewing Mama Mia’s Pizza Parlour in Ranelagh Village, South Dublin, a restaurant whose menu was about as imaginative as it’s name. The staff were stultifyingly ugly and had the manners you’d expect from a country that lost the last [...]
Restaurant Review: Japanese Noodle Bar Doesn’t Appreciate A-Bomb References, Food Weird
The Kabuki Japanese restaurant in Sackville Close is a humourless kip located in a particularly scruffy part of Dublin’s North inner city. The staff were a bunch of miserable looking sops and I had a sneaking suspicion that they were all actually Chinese people, a suspicion which caused the manager to ask me to leave [...]
Electric Picnic ‘07… One Week Later
Wow! Can it already be a whole seven days since Electric Picnic 2007 took place? How many rock festivals pass into music folklore a mere 168 hours after they occurred? Well, none as it happens – that is until now, when this article goes public! Even Woodstock took roughly ten days before those who were [...]
