Category: Culture
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Let it Happen
‘Let it Happen’ is a song by Tame Impala that you probably only like when you’re drunk. It must have been sung by a man who made a Faustian deal with the devil – or possibly some Hungarian club promoters – because it played at least four times in any…
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Field Notes from a Bathroom Stall
The pleasure of joining a queue that curves out the door, standing between tourist and classmate, is one familiar to the common victim of the Arts Block women’s bathrooms. There are only so many ‘ten minute’ breaks one can spend queuing for half an hour before realising it is quicker…
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An Club Deireanach ar Shráid Fhearchair
Dhún Club Chonradh na Gaeilge a ndoirse don uair deirneach sna huaireanta beaga ar maidin Dé Domhnaigh an 29ú Meán Fómhair an bhliain seo. An uair dheireaneach, sin ea, go dtí go dtagann na geallúintí doiléir chun críche go athosclóidh sí tar éis athchóirithe móra. Tá an foirgneamh iomlán ag…
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Industry Revolution
Last month, the third season of HBO’s Industry reached its finale. The show self-describes as “an insider’s view of the black box of high finance by following a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment and sex and drug-fueled blitz of international…
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Meme America Great Again
Scrolling on X, I find a picture of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ face, expertly photoshopped onto an outtake from Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life album cover shoot, while a reverbed version of her viral coconut tree soundbite plays over the intro to 13 Beaches. Following Joe Biden’s gaffes…
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Self-Conscious Self Care
The notion of true downtime while in college is an abstract and quite frankly absurd idea to most students. Between assignments, working at the weekends, pints at the Pav and maintaining both friendships and relationships, having a night devoted to ‘staying in’ is neither realistic nor imagined by the…
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Pop Culture, Translated
There has been a noticeable shift in what the cool kids are wearing and doing on our Emerald Isle. Where other trends have been fading in and out at a Shein-like speed, a fixation on cultúr Gaelach has been creeping in slowly but surely, indicating that it will be…
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Marketing a Moment
Album rollouts have become a relic of the past and the advent of digital streaming services is to blame. Think about the last time you listened to an album in its entirety. Or the last time an album release dented the cultural zeitgeist? Outside of a select few musical mammoths,…
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Painting Outside the Lines
I first learned the rules of art at an atelier while I worked as an au pair in Barcelona. Growing up, I would dream about the control I’d have once I was an adult, and I’d spent the years leading up to it knuckling down in school and getting…
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Fool Britannia
Forget about the £22 billion black hole in public finances that came to be during the Tories’ 14 years of Westminster rule – perhaps the most devastating blow to their legacy is the lack of Oasis tours throughout this era. Seriously: the Gallagher brothers could only seem to get…