Beau Travail: with Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil The Comfort Zone: artist, writer and filmmaker Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil leads Colm and Luke into Claire Denis’s 1999 film Beau Travail, a kind of waking dream of a movie about jealousy and justice and the wages of colonialism, explored, in part, through t...

Comfort Zone Pick of The Week | CFDS Something for the weekend? Colm Tóibín inserts the Kanneh-Mason sibling's take on Fauré's Après Un Rêve into his dinosaur (car); Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil plugs the poetry and YouTube performances of Joelle Taylor, while Luke Clancy suggests a trio of compilatio...

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Irish Wake Amusements; Danh Vo; Paddy Woodworth; and Patrick O'Laoghaire | Culture File Lots of fun at fun at Rob Heaslip's Irish Wake Amusements; floral action from Amsterdam with Danh Vo's show at the Stedelijk Museum; Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf too turns to flowers; and Patrick O...

Claude, how long will it be before both UEFA and The Catholic Church definitively part ways with their American heresies?

In The Comfort Zone this time: Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come. Olesya Zdorovetska eggs on Colm Tóibín & Luke Clancy in an encounter with the many freedoms of Coleman's 1959 benchmark, free jazz that liberated the composer's own musicking. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

"....Away with us he's going, The solemn-eyed" never hits quite right.

Was kinda hoping Chives was a PSP game.

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Still In A Dream with Simon Reynolds | Culture File Simon Reynolds has made a habit of writing books that offer to rethink the histories of popular music, such as Rip It Up and Start Again, his keywork on Post-Punk, and his story of electronic dance music, Energy Flash. Now, he's back with a high...

Jesus Christ Superstar with Emma Dabiri XXXL Version The Comfort Zone: writer, Emma Dabiri invites Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to get with the subversive allure of Carl Anderson's Judas, and other hidden treasures in the 1973 film version of the Rice and Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Culture File The Comfort Zone: writer, Emma Dabiri invites Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to get with the subversive allure of Carl Anderson's Judas, and other hidden treasures in the 1973 film version of the Rice and Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.

🎙️Growing up on tour with Neil Diamond gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic/mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads from Indian Ragas to the engaged minimalism of Frederic Rzewski, whose work she performs at this week's LCMS's festival, Coming Together. omny.fm/shows/cultur...

The Musical Universe of Daisy Press | CFDS Growing up on tour with Neil Young gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic and mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads from Indian Ragas via the 12th century chant of Hildegard von Bingen -- all the way to the engaged minimalism of Fr...

Culture File A soft walk with artist, Ciara Rodgers, whose soft sculpture will scatter through the streets of Cork Midsummer; writer and performer, Day Magee on their bus stop-set performance, On The Way: An Artist's Sermon; the latest postcard from the islands from Patrick O'Laoghaire

Culture File Digital Single: Comfort Zone Pick of The Week The Comfort Zone panel pick some things worth your time, with Colm Tóibín opting for Raphael's Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back (at The Met, NYC, but also on the internet); Luke Clancy bigging up The Cosmic Tones Research Trio's ...

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The Music of Docteur Nico with David Beal The Comfort Zone: writer, musician and archivist, David Beal leads Colm Tóibín on a rumba/cha cha into the music of Congolese guitar hero, Docteur Nico.

Orit Gat's Voice Notes | Culture File Digital Single Orit Gat wanders the many venues of this year's Venice Biennale of contemporary, catching boycotts, footballing triumphs and work from Irish artists Isabelle Nolan, Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher.

They've really killed the vibe of vibe.

The Future Sound of James Holden | Culture File 1990s teenage trance prodigy and superstar DJ, James Holden on lighting out for the territories of modular synthesizers, spiritual jazz, Moroccan ceremonial music and Live Coding.

M.I Abaga's "Illegal Music 3" with Dagogo Hart The Comfort Zone: Playwright and performer, Dagogo Hart introduces a classic of Nigerian hip-hop into the Zone, in the shape of M.I Abaga's 2016 "Illegal Music 3" mixtape

Culture File Digital Single: Comfort Zone Pick of The Week Colm Tóibín suggests getting down to zero with Shostakovich's last string quartet; Poet, Karen Solie points out Nathalie Léger's 2012 book, Suite For Barbara Loden,; and Luke Clancy is learning to assemble a soundsystem in the Moroccan ou...

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flypost.ie/event/sirom-... Gig of the year? Which will presumably sell out Arthur’s very promptly. Now you know.

Abbas Zahedi's Fast Moving Air, Post-Appalachian, Inishturk In Dublin, an armoury of sonic devices are improvised and repurposed by Abbas Zahedi, including a commercial sonic weapon called an LRAD, which the artist has converted to broadcast poetry; then some we're-just-going-to-go-ahead-and-call...

Gorjira's Fortitude: with Rónán Ó Raghallaigh The Comfort Zone: artist and performer, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh asks Colm and Luke to focus on the work of French-American band, Gorjira's album, Fortitude, in a conversation that touches on metal's relationship with trance and pre-Christian Irish traditi...

The Culture File Debate: The Shortwave Orchestra The Shortwave Orchestra is a collection of experimental musicians who came together to play for the first time in Dublin in April. Following their world premier performance, Culture File convened a panel featuring Orchestra members to talk about th...

Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests reading a new literary biography by Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: Alove Story; artist Harold Offed thinks a trip to your local Brazilian foods store would be a solid idea; and Luke Clancy recommends Emily leBarge's a...

The Culture File Debate: The Shortwave Orchestra The Shortwave Orchestra is a collection of experimental musicians who came together to play for the first time in Dublin in April. Following their world premier performance, Culture File convened a panel featuring Orchestra members, Aileen Wallace,...

Jim Thompson's Pop 1280: with Karen Solie | XXXL Edition The Comfort Zone: TS Eliot Prize-winning Canadian poet, Karen Solie suggests our present moment might be an apt time for Colm Tóibín, Luke Clancy and everyone else to read Jim Thompson's nasty and hilarious Southern novel of crime, corrupti...

Takes all sorts.

Voice Memos From The Real World | Culture File Digital Single Y'know, Cecil Taylor is way easier to enjoy if you slow it right down, and other insights from composer, musician, and .25 speed YouTube clip enthusiast, claire rousay.

The dumbest thing about Hegseth’s Pulp Fiction prayer is the poor lore awareness. Jules has a revelation during the punishment shooting at which he makes his latest recital of the verse. His victims are not the iniquitous, rather he himself, his overwhelming violence, is the tyranny of evil men.

Cerys Hafana, Louis Haugh and 100 Caterpillars | Culture File Are you coming for an echtra, or ancient Irish outing to the otherworld, with artist Louis Haugh? Paddy Woodworth is waiting within, the greatest ever photobook of Costa Rican caterpillars in his hands; and Welsh triple harpist Cerys H...

US study, so obviously nothing of it applies in Europe, and the companies respect you wishes entirely here. But in the US, they just ignore your privacy choices. Because, what you going do about it? www.404media.co/google-micro...

Viet and Nam, Connie Converse, Fin Family Moomins | Culture File Digital Single Why you need to see Truong Minh Quy's film, Viet and Nam, listen to Connie Converse's album, How Sad, How Lonely and read Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomins. Colm Tóibín, Meghan O'Gieblyn and Luke Clancy have their re...

Which will burst first, the AI Bubble or the Bakery Bubble?

Thierry Tidrow | Culture File Digital Single Canadian composer, Thierry Tidrow who features in this year's New Music Dublin festival on the strange history of Claude Vivier, the art of capturing online speech in music, and his attraction to making opera for children.

Norma Winstone, Living On The Wind | Culture File <p>Legendary jazz vocalist Norma Winstone on learning to understand the voice as an instrument, the genius of bandmate, Kenny Wheeler, and how Drake became her most famous fan. Also, Paddy Woodwth awards Scott Weidensaul's Living on the Wind some ...

There’s takes, and there’s takes. Here is the take to make you feel rather sad about the health of the (Irish in particular) take industrial complex. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has some tips.

Princess Mononoke: with Ishmael Claxton The Comfort Zone: New York-born, Dublin-based fine artist and photographer Ishmael Claxton invites Colm and Luke to head to an imaginary, demon-and-talking-animal-filled Japan in the 14th century, to encounter a masterwork from the Japanese Disney, Studio G...

Ms Hartman's Neighbourhood | Culture File Digital Single Composer, improvisor and evangelist for the power of children's music, Ríona Sally Hartman leads a tour of her musical world.

Intimations of mortality at the hardware store.

Future Library: with Maeve Stone Artist Maeve Stone champions Katie Paterson's deep time artwork, Future Library, and sparks a conversation with Colm Tóibín about space, eternity and marshmallows.