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Yay, my band SuckerPunch are playing DeBarra's Folk Club Clonakilty tomorrow night, Saturday 10th of March at 10:30pm with No Cover Charge. Gonna be an awesome gig.

We play a mixture of 80's synth rock, 90's guitar rock, modern chart hits with a rock twist, all with 4 part vocal harmonies and plenty of on stage energy.

Our facebook page is here, and we'd love if a few Boardsies could become fans, the more the merrier!

Saturday March 24th...

Talibam! and Sam Kulik (New York, USA) with support from The Bridges of Madison County (Dublin) and Percolator (Waterford). Playing Triskel Auditorium, located on Tobin St. (just off Grand Parade). €10 entry or €8 with concession (students, unwaged etc.) and doors at 8:30pm. Also the launch of Talkcha compilation vol. 2 featuring a load of tracks from some of Ireland's best underground bands. More info on the event page...

http://www.facebook.com/events/184429491668437/

Join us this Thursday April 5th , 8pm, in Solidarity Books for a screening of
Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011). Film description below.

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011)
"
This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late 60's. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted with Devlin McAliskey, director Lelia Doolan encapsulates the idiosyncrasies and rebelliousness which has fuelled her subject’s pivotal role at the heart of civil rights, feminism and socialism in Northern Ireland. The film equally offers a window into the everyday living conditions in Northern Ireland in the mid-20th Century through to the late 60's and the mass popular struggles that emerged in this context –a crucial history for anyone pushing for radical alternatives today.
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Producer/Director Lelia Doolan will introduce the film. A discussion will follow the screening.

Entry Free/ Donations Welcome

Below is a link to Lelia Doolan discussing the background to the film at the BFI Film Festival, London

http://www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/780

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/cinema-night-bernadette

Easter Saturday April 7th in Plugd Records, Triskel Arts Centre. 8:30pm, €4 entry

Bouts w/ Terriers + Adultrock
FB Event :: http://www.facebook.com/events/250932748327909/



BOUTS are a new indie-rock four-piece from Dublin. This tour marks their first physical release, a double A-side 7" single "Get Sick/Turn Away". The single will be released on hand-numbered 7″ vinyl. It can be downloaded now from http://gimmebouts.com/ for only €2 or can be bought at the gig.

++ Interesting things people say ++

"Urge you to check them out, 'We Tried' is a brilliant track" Lauren Laverne, BBC 6Music, Nov 2011

"Bold and brash angular indie with oodles of sweet-as melodies" Jim Carroll, Jan 2011

"Although they’re harmonious pop in places and definite rock in others, the vocals are incredibly catchy in that summer-singalong way" Harmless Noise

Support on the night is from new Cork band TERRIERS. Driven by indie-pop sensibilities and a healthy dose of guitar-based melody, this will mark their very first gig together.

Following the gig, ADULTROCK (also known as Gavin Elsted, frontman of Dublin indie-popsters We Are Losers) will be playing downstairs in Gulpd Café. Just this week he’s released his debut nine track EP ‘Loves’ for name your price/free download on Bandcamp; check it out here.

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MUSIC ::

Bouts 'Get Sick/Turn Away' :: http://gimmebouts.com/
Terriers 'Get Over Here' :: http://terriersireland.bandcamp.com
Adultrock 'Loves' EP:: http://longlostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loves

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PRESS ::

Evening Echo (Interview) | Cork Independent (Feature) | The Corkman (Feature) |

Harmless Noise Top 10 |G-Man Recommended Gigs | New Music: Terriers | WeAreNoise.com |
Drop-D | The Point of Everything | 2 U I Bestow | Hot Press 'Track of the Fortnight' |

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VIDEOS ::

Playing tonight in Marakibo Mallow if anyones about!

Anyone planning on heading to Cypress Avenue Friday for the fantastic "Mandolas"?

It's their official EP launch

Join us this Friday April 20th in Solidarity Books for a special extra showing (in collaboration with Cork Feminista) of 'We Want Roses Too ( Vogliamo Anche le Rose )' Director Alina Marazzi, Italy. Film description below.
Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated.

"'We Want Roses Too' portrays the deep change brought on by the 'Sexual Revolution' and Feminist movement in Italy during the 1960's and 1970's. The film looks at recent events in Italy through referencing the real life diaries of three women and uses a variety of archival footage ( public, military and private ).The true stories told through the diaries reveal the personal intimate events and issues that drove the social and political revolution and challenged the culture of male supremacy,and Church and State control over women's lives and bodies in Italy."

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjDIt3C7pq4related links:
http://www.vogliamoanchelerose.it/index_en.php

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/cinema-night-we-want-roses-too

Tonight at 8pm at the Crawford Art Gallery (beside the Opera House in the city centre), the Cork Cine-club is showing ''A Separation''.

This has won an Oscar and Golden Globe for best foreign language film.

It's in Arabic but is sub-titled.

Tickets are 8.50 euro or 7.50 euro with a concession.

Here's a trailer of the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTkXGRhy9w

And a review of it from the Irish Times (4 stars) :

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0701/1224299817008.html

Cork Cine-club on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cork-CineClub/341741734950

Cork Opera House throws open its door and rips its seats out (how very rock and roll) this Saturday 21st April at 8pm for the ultimate of rock fests with some of the finest of Corks upcoming and renowned bands storming the stage for a ‘rock-tastic’ standing gig.

The full line-up includes:
Headline: Slow Motion Heroes
Jodavino
Time Is A Thief
Rob The Nation
The Billy Kennedy Band
The David Nelligan Thing
Jack O’Rourke & Band
Dimitry Datus
Tomás McCarthy & Eric Doherty
OVER 18's only.

Dates: Sat Apr 21
Time: 8.00pm
Tickets: €15

Cinema Night – "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Director Adam Curtis" Thursday 26th April 8pm,

Join us this Thursday April 26th in Solidarity Books for a screening of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Director Adam Curtis" . The latest documentary from Adam Curtis.

We will show all three parts with a short interval for tea and cake !

Film description below.
Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated.

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: How we have been colonised by the machines we have built, Director Adam Curtis

Part 1 Love and Power
Explores the dream that evolved in the 60's that computers could create a new kind of stable world. The film tells the story of two attempts, one a small group of disciples of novelist / philosopher Ayn Rand in the 1950's who elevated the ideal of totally selfish desire, the second the Utopian vision attempted by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley many influenced by Ayn Rand. Ultimately it shows how these ideas lead ruthless capitalists like Alan Greenspan to take control of the financial world and result in our present situation.

Part 2 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
This film examines how the idea of self regulating eco systems held dear by modern science is actually a machine fantasy based on cybernetic ideas projected onto nature in the 1950s, and taken up by hippy communities and counter culture computer scientists in the 1960's and 1970's.

Part 3 The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
The final film looks at why we find this machine vision so beguiling by telling the story of Bill Hamilton who pioneered the idea that human beings are machines programmed to pass on genes. In typical Adam Curtis style it weaves together many seemingly disparate characters and elements set against the background of political upheaval in the Congo to show how our disillusionment and loss of hope in political change has lead to choosing to believe we have no control over our destiny.  "

If you have not seen the work of Adam Curtis before you are in for a treat !

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/cinema-night-machines-of-loving-grace
trailer:
http://vimeo.com/27393748
related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)

Gigging in Treacys Ballincollig tonight if anyone's about.

Join us in Solidarity Books Douglas street, this Saturday 19th from 10am for a day of talks and workshops organised by Mutant Space and DIY Cork Festival.

Talks and workshops are on understanding, building and sustaining social resistance (see details below). Food will be provided by Veg Out.

Entry is free, donations welcome!


http://www.facebook.com/DIYcork
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/saturday-day-of-talks-workshops



10am: John Eder
Time Banking

Time Banking is a means of exchange where your time spent helping your neighbors and building a strong community is turned into a cashless currency.
It’s an indirect bartering system as opposed to direct bartering between people which requires a coincidence of wants. A Time Bank uses units of time as currency. Everyone’s time and talent is considered equal - your time is exactly equivelent to another's. Softwear is used to track transactions within an online directory.
We'll talk about Time Banking as an alternative currency that is sustainable, inclusive and supports strong, autonomous community as well as discussing tools and next steps for actually organising a Time Bank for Cork.


12pm: Mick Byrne
Autonomy and the financial system
From the forty-hour week to state pensions, people have always sought to liberate their time and creativity from capital. Today, however, when the financial system forms such a central part of capitalism, it can feel like there is no way to escape the private and national debt that is central to financial capitalism. This talk will ask what autonomy means in this new context and what the implications are for social movements.


2pm: Patrick Bresnihan
Counter-culture and counter-power in the 18th century
In the latter half of the eighteenth century, secret agrarian organisations surfaced in different parts of Ireland. Their grievances included the enclosure of common lands, inflated rent and the payment of tithes to the established church.
These popular movements are not easily understood within the familiar historical frameworks of nationalism or religion. At the same time they are often considered 'cultural' or 'social' because their struggles were not framed in a 'political' discourse. While their localism has obvious weaknesses these autonomous movements effectively undermined the power of the state. They challenged the unjust effects of the governing logic by appealing to and living by a different logic rooted in alternative practices and understandings of the common good.



3.30pm: Amber O'Sullivan & St.John O'Donnabhain
Get Collectively Organising and Avoid Burnout!
A short introductory workshop about building a personally and collectively more sustainable resistance. It will be geared towards those interested in effecting social change, particularly those involved with political or community work - but all who are interested are welcome to come along.
We want to move beyond the idea that collective work and work on the self are separate areas and instead move towards an integrated approach. During the workshop we will aim to introduce various techniques, tools and ideas for dealing with group or individual burnout within community or political organising.

poster of events



http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/saturday-day-of-talks-workshops

Talk and photographs from Palestine
At Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street
Sunday 20th May, 5.00pm


Resistance to the Israeli Occupation –nonviolent solidarity among Palestinians and Israelis.
What has been happening, why, what have activists been doing -analysis and update from Palestine and the Global March on Jerusalem.

Maxine Kaufmann-Lacousta: Canadian and Israeli, activist and writer, Maxine has been involved in activism for justice in Palestine and Israel, either part-time or fulltime most of her life. She has visited the area regularly for extended periods since the 60’s and lived in Jerusalem in the 80’s and 90’s, working with the Alternative Information Center. She saw the error of Zionism after her first visit to Israel as a teenager with a Zionist youth organization in 1960. She was instrumental in bringing about international support for the Jahalin Bedouin, fighting their cause in the courts and practically by staying with them, as protector and witness to threats from Israeli bulldozers.

This is a great opportunity to meet and discuss the issues with Maxine, and hear a presentation based on her book –that presents the story from 100 Palestinian and Israeli activists and their analysis -as well as an up-to-date report from last month. Though Maxine in realistic, her presentation is inspiring.

Copies of Maxine’s recent book Refusing to be Enemies - Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation published by Ithaca Press (2011) will be available for sale.
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/talk-and-photographs-from-palestine

Join us this Thursday 31st May at 8pm for a showing of "The Viking Way" (2012) ( 50mins )

In 2008, Iceland was confronted with an unprecedented economic disaster. The country's three banks collapsed, dragging to ruin the country's whole social, economic and political life. “The Viking Way”, is a documentary about how Iceland responded very differently to the crisis of the market and capitalism.

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated.

related links:
http://www.smallplanet.gr/en/documentaries/chronologically/2011-2012/305-the-viking-way
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/cinema-night-the-viking-way