The G-Request show is a new and stylish Irish music multicultural Entertainment talk show and is a growing fast within the entertainment industry. They provide entertainment opportunity to upcoming artists and creatives.The show has supported various showcases around the country. Theyhave developed public awareness of gifted and creatives individuals and groups that reside within Ireland.
They have members from different nationalities,groups and communities within the country.They provide creative entertainment,and bring forward many undiscovered talents.The show employs live stage performance and interview and behind the scenes stories to bring these artists to the public. This provides a forum for those who are looking or waiting to get their talent discovered.
The G Request show will play as part of Fresh at Mon 1900, Tues 1230 and Sat 1230 and as part of the entertainment block at Mon 1400, Tues 2300, Weds 1400, Sun 2030
Crew TV is finally online for your viewing pleasure. This show was completely put together by a group of young people working in the DCTV studio last summer. Read more about it here.
With DIY culture and alternative social spaces opening up in the crooks and crannies of the recession, the Collective looks at one group of artists and friends that gathered regularly to tease out their creative processes.
Originally a video installation that ran in the Project Arts Centre, this recreation of the planning hearing for the Corrib Gas Project looks at the 10 year struggle between two cultures in the West of Ireland. On one side, a small community defends the safety of its people and rights of its farmers and fishermen, On the other the consortium of Shell Oil, the Norwegian state company Statoil and Marathon, plan to bring to market the valuable gas deposit of the Corrib gas field, off the North-West coast of Ireland. To achieve this, a production pipeline is being laid to carry the high pressure gas inland, to a processing plant in Mayo, exiting the Atlantic Ocean and reaching the Irish Coast at Glengad and Rossport.
You can read an interview with the artist that made the piece, Seamas Nolan over here.
We’re going to be showing a version of Seamus Nolan’s Corrib Project that exhibited in the project last month through out November. We’ll fill you in more when it’s closer to a broadcast date, but expect it to play out as part of our Independent Media block. You can read about the exhibition in Totally Dublin over here.
Irish artist and activist, Ian Clotworthy, has also completed a documentary about the first ever Irish Climate Camp that we’ll be playing out on the station at some stage too.
The Larkin Hedge School is a celebration of music, song and poetry run by the Clé Club. Founded in 2009, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ITGWU by Jim Larkin, the Larkin Hedge School will now be an annual event which, like the Clé Club seeks to promote the principle that a good trade-union movement exists for the cultural enrichment of its members as well as the protection of their rights. Paula Geraghty captured the event for DCTV.
The Stars Are Underground is a 24-minute film documenting the underground music scene in Dublin, Ireland, in 1996. The film was first shown in the same year, 1996, and a VHS was released by Folkrum Records. Directed by Daragh McCarthy, the film documents a generation of Irish bands who took their inspiration from American hardcore punk bands who, rather than pursuing major label deals, made their own self-financed records and released their own material.
The bands featured and interviewed include Female Hercules, The Mexican Pets, and The Jubilee Allstars. The Stars are Underground also features interviews with Andy Cairns from Therapy? and Dischord Records’ Ian McKaye from the group Fugazi.
The film inspired Academy Award winning singer/songwriter Glen Hansard of The Frames to write a song of the same name after he played on a tour of the film’s screenings in rock venues in rural Ireland. The Frames “The Stars Are Underground” appeared on their Dance the Devil album in 1999.
An investigative documentary exploring the lack of government support, and obstacles for young bands in the Irish music scene. It features many of Dublin’s current crop of underground artists and musicians.
