Has Dublin lost its edge? (1 Viewer)

[washingcattle]

Some great music has at least come out of New Jersey, most of them did have to go to NYC though.

They have Yo La Tengo, Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra

We have My Bloody Valentine, The Dubliners and Thin Lizzy


They have Bon Fucking Jovi, My Chemical Romance and the fucking Vivian girls

We have U2, Boyzone and a million shite versions of the fucking Vivian Girls. Who were fucking shite to begin with.

 

[pete]

Some great music has at least come out of New Jersey, most of them did have to go to NYC though.

hmmm

 

[pete]

bah

 

[rettucs]

yeah dublin is shite

 

[rettucs]

the good thing about being in dublin though is that when you go somewhere else you'll always have a deadly time cos dublin is so shite

 

[sleepy]

Has he moved away for tax reasons?

Goddammit, I wanted to say that

 

[sleepy]

Risk-free Dublin losing its mojo

well there's part A anywhoo.

I'm not really sure because I'm in my 30s with kids and never get out but isn't there loads of after hours clubs running around dublin every weekend in whatever spaces they can find. There's even the breakfast club if you want to keep things going really late. And isn't there BYOB events advertised on thumped nearly every day of the week. Maybe the writer of the 2nd article is right. Maybe they just haven't invited Una. Because potentially she's probably a bit of a pain in the hole on a night out

 

[EGE YURTUM]

...there's always plenty of interesting stuff going on under the radar in Dublin but looking for it under the rock that's labelled "culture" won't yield many results...
..."culture" is for yogurt and weekend supplements whereas the people creating it are most likely too immersed in what they're doing to fret about whether others will classify it as "edgy" or whatever...

 

[MacDara]

Things started going shite here when they cancelled the weeknight Nitelinks, and then later cut back the weekend ones. I'd love to see a comparison of Dublin to other similarly sized cities internationally in terms of 24-hour public transport. I mean feck it, I was stuck at Connolly the other evening at 7pm - peak time! - for half an hour waiting for a northbound Dart that wasn't going non-stop to Howth Junction. That's just symptomatic of this place's deep-seated brokenness.

And in terms of culture: for sure licensing issues are a major burden. Why, for instance, are there no 24-hour movie marathons of the kind they used to run at the Scala in London and still do at the Prince Charles? Because they won't license them: that's what the Screen said a while ago, anyway.

 

[rettucs]

the only reason dublin has lost its edge is because there are too many foreigners working in irish pubs

I'm only drinking in charlie chawke pubs from now on

BRITS OUT

 

[therealjohnny]

Has Dublin lost its edge?

Yes...he moved his business interests to Holland to avoid tax

 

[Lili Marlene]

Winner for the image as much as the pun.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Winner for the image as much as the pun.

GO FUCK YOURSELF "JOHN"

 

[therealjohnny]

I said sorry (not sorry)

 

[rettucs]

you're like this thread's version of me and @jonah

 

[Lili Marlene]

ANYWAY, I'm with @washingcattle, what 'edge' did Dublin ever have, or want to have?

All I can see is Mullally missing her precious warehouse raves and vague reference to 'creatives' like she's making some presentation for a grant.

I do think Dublin is going the way of London though, in that no one can afford to live in the city centre except the mega rich and otherwise it's just a tourist zone where visitors stay in rented apartments and marvel at old buildings.

 

[therealjohnny]

go fuck yourself "scutter"

 

[therealjohnny]

sorry...

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm only joking @scutter...really

 

[jonah]

I've been in Toulouse it was a great time. Thinking about the size of London make's me not want to go there.
There is probably more than a 150 km difference in the distances tough.

Yeah I lived in London for a while, and I was kind of unhappy there. Just wasn't for me, too big and lonely and unconquerable.
Brighton was a much better size, easier to navigate and to make a nest in, though scarily homogeneous.