[COMPETITION] Win tickets and dinner for Brian Eno's spectacular APOLLO in November

Darragh

Hey all, a competition for you for one of the most interesting gigs of the year. You can win two tickets and a three course dinner beforehand.

On Tuesday 9 November 2010, 8pm pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of Brian Eno's album APOLLO: ATMOSPHERES AND SOUNDTRACKS with Nasa footage to Dublin.



This unique event, performed for the very first time in Ireland at The National Concert Hall. is also one of the key events of Science Week Ireland 2010.

Standard tickets are €25 and €30 and are available here.

We have two pairs of tickets to give away in this competition. You could win two, along with dinner at the Terrace Café for you and your guest before the concert.

To be in with a chance of winning a pair just post a comment below and tell us who you'd bring to the concert.

Widely regarded as Brian Eno's best and most influential ambient album, Apollo was written for Al Reinert's documentary on the Apollo space missions, 'For All Mankind'.

Music from the album also appeared in the films '28 Days Later', 'Traffic' and 'Trainspotting', whose soundtrack sold approximately four million copies.



This show returns the music to its original conception, as a non-narrative counterpart to NASA footage from the Apollo programme which is projected during the performance: matching the mesmerizing beauty and tranquil mystery of the moon and Earth; the dizzying scale and humbling feat of engineering involved in taking people to the moon; and capturing the banality and the humour of the astronauts as they skitter about the moon's surface.



The concert sees the studio bound album uniquely arranged by composer Jun Lee aka kayip (who was specially selected by Eno for this project) for modern classical group Icebreaker and pedal-steel guitarist BJ Cole. This unique multimedia experience is the final frontier for Eno's ambient music milestone.

Here's a short sample here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8SQH4rmR4Q

The performance will also feature a Philip Glass composition entitled 'Music with Changing Parts.'

This concert is presented by The National Concert Hall in association with Note Productions and supported by Today FM, The Camden Court Hotel and Science Week 2010.

We'll pick the winners on October 28th. No cash alternative and judge's decision is final. Thanks to the National Concert Hall.

mjquinno

would love to go. Would bring the girlfriend!!

ButtersSuki

I think I'm just about enough of a nerd to find this interesting....:)

Miguel_Sanchez

I'd bring Buzz "Second comes right after first" Aldrin. He loves that moon nonsense.

Or, failing that, my girlfriend.

Dublindave2

I would bring my Son, to go along with the Moon and of course the Stars.

If he isn't available, of course I would bring my wife.

up for anything

I'd bring a blind date. Of course, they wouldn't be really be blind because the visuals would be a waste but thinking about it, they would have to be blind to go with me. Feck, I don't know who I will bring now. Ok, I'll bring my niece. She doesn't get out much.

yknaa

Mmmmm David Byrne would tag along for a 'Once in a lifetime' gig.

RayCon

Id bring my wife ... she's a bit of a spacer.

00112984

I'd bring my mother- she's never been to the NCH.

Toast

I'd bring a representative from an Alien race. So that they realise there maybe a reason not to destroy us after all.

086dubdublin

I'd bring the boyfriend...hes from that other species living in Ireland "Boggers"

Raoul

Would love to go with my girlfriend

RJunior

I'd bring my girlfriend. She constantly takes the piss outta of me for being such a space geek. Brian Eno! The NCH! That'd show her!

mocmo

I'd bring my fella, would love to go!

rameire

would love to go to this.
I would bring the Wife, as she has only recently given birth to our beautiful child and deserves to be given something "so out of this world".

useded

Would most definitely go. I would bring my friend who loves Brian Eno so much he will most definitely wear some kind of space gear apparatus/spacesuit to the show. Come on!

magicray

I would bring my hubby - I've always said he is out of this world

RustySpoon

I would bring my wife.

id bring my son, he is fascinated with space and would never forget a night like this!

psycho-hope

I'd bring my boyfriend, he's never been to the NCH and he deserves a night out

lampsie

I'm in - and I'd bring a giant bag of that fizzy powder confectionary that bubbles on your tongue

Crash

I'd bring a man sized bag of astronaut Icecream, and eat every disgusting last bit of it

FledNanders

Eh...I'd bring Brain One, Brian Eno's slightly bodyless amagramatical younger evil twin, who is just a brain in a jar. He's never been to the NCH before.

overeager

Id definately bring my roomate, he's been real homesick lately and has been moping around all the time... I this'l probably help him get over it

Although i suspect he may just be lookin for some pitty/attention from my girlfriend...

Teferi

My girlfriends mother. We're both massive nerds and she would love this.

AnneElizabeth

I would bring my Best Friend. We went to a Crystal Swing concert and it was brilliant fun (even though we didn't even like them). Would love this!

Denalihighway

Hi. I would also like to go this.

I would bring one of the many children I have fostered from the small village of Kirchdorf on the Baltic Sea.

Failing that I would of course bring the love of my life. Actually, no scratch that, I better bring the wife, she might be cruising Boards and find out. Good comp...

deelite

I'd bring Angel01 (a board member) - because when she won the Fair City set trip she brought me and I'd love to return her kindness.

jimmycrackcorm

I'd bring Brian Cowen just to make the point of how we could have an Irish pub for him on the moon with €50bn.

froodie

I would bring my boyfriend, because I can't afford space tourism quite yet (i'm GOING to space some day) but this would be a nice start, and weirdy spacey stuff is one of the few places where our music taste collides.
Also, nerdgasming over space pictures is one of our many hobbies.
We'd behave though, I promise!

skelliser

I would bring all the members of the conspiracy theories forum especially the guys who reckon the moon landing was faked!!!

St._Andalou

I'd bring my sister. I think she's actually adopted from some alien race, so it would be nice for her to see her homeland in a cultural setting.

snuggles09

I'd have to bring himself with me...he entered the Guinness competition a load of times, convinced he was going to win a flight to space and about 4 years ago he set up a website called "sendmetoouterspace" and was on the local radio trying to get everyone to give him a euro so that he could fund a trip to Nasa:eek:

This would be right up his street..I'd love to go as well just for the food:pac:

Postit

If I were lucky enough to win I'd bring Brian Eno. I'd say he'd be into that kind of thing!

XxMCRxBabyxX

Can I enter on behalf of my parents and send them instead?

My dad loves any kind of orchestra and is always talking about how he's like to see one in the National Concert Hall. And both my parents are both interested in the moon landings and apollo story. I remember when we went to Florida a few years ago and visit the NASA centre they both loved looking at everything! The Science was fascinating for my mother and my dad is a complete history buff and then there's the fact that both my parents remember watching the space landings!

dak

450 Million people listened to Neill Armstrongs quote on walking on the moon "That's one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind" on the 20th July 1969.

That was music to the ears of many people but nothing like the ambience of a Brian Eno Production. I'd bring my wife who would jump over the moon ( but not as in Hey Diddle Diddle ) so we could have a bit of a Moon Dance and listen to Moon River .

I'd also bring a copy of Slim Whitmans song, Indian Love Call just in case the Martians attacked . Anyone who has seen "Mars attacks" will know what I mean !

YeAh!

I'd bring my friend who just moved to Dublin, would be a nice treat for her!

Bambi2

I'd bring my boyfriend, he loves all things spacey - he loves nothing more than to sit and read Bill Bryson's - A short history of Almost Everything.....very often. And I love the concert hall so we'd be happy out!!

Jesus Wept

I'd bring my girlfriend because she is a space cadet.

L1m1tless

I would bring my friend from chess club who invited me to some lectures and viewings at dunsink observatory.

psydereyes

would bring my token nerd friend

PeteEd

I'd have to bring the OH, shes been nagging me to bring her to the NCH and this is the first gig I've seen that i'd have any interest in.

cunninsu

Would love to treat my husband to this fab event. As a young boy he read physics and science books. Loves the outer atmosphere, galaxies, planets, astronomy you name it......He's a self identified TREKKIE!

gills2

It would have to be Patrick Moore - astronomer, composer and lover of a good after show curry - what more could a gal ask for?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23380963-details/Why+Patrick+Moore+is+married+to+the+moon/article.do

foolelle

oh cool, i like this. id bring tin foil to wrap the other meal up for after the concert

kingofslaves

Damn ! gills2 beat me to it ! I asked for Patrick Moore's encyclopedia of astronomy for my birthday when I was 7 years old. I also used to sneak downstairs to watch the sky at night ! I still remember watching the moon landing even though I was only 3 ! But my second choice would be Brian May from Queen who is a qualified astrophysicist !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May

Carl Sagan

My girlfriend. I drag her along to so many things she thinks she won't like and usually ends up loving them.

p15574

My son - he/we'd be fascinated by it

powerfade

My girlfriend, who I do adore but to be fair is a bit of a space cadet so much so in fact that lately I have started callling 'Sputnik', it is a term of endearment I keep telling her!!!!

lyncher17

I'd bring my dad,he'd love it!

ciaglen

I would bring my BF he would love this, its been so long since we've had a nice dinner and gig together