TweetShare  So here’s the thing, I’ve been trying for the last six months to write something whacky and entertaining and what comes out is all this stuff about Income Tax and VAT and deductable expenses, blah, blah, blah. And though I assumed I was boring everyone senseless apparently not! Some of you are actually reading [...]

TweetShare  Some of my more eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that there was no arts administration blog last month to get you through the dreariness of early summer. I would love to report that I was busy partying on the beaches of Barcelona or powering my way through a series of intense meetings with operatic [...]

TweetShare  The last time I saw my friend Vicky before she died, we were both in our respective dole queues, throwing each other embarrassed looks and smiles. We hadn’t spoken in a while and I know she was, as I was, embarrassed to be meeting each other in such a circumstance. But as we left [...]

TweetShare  The 80’s are making a re-emergence. The recent return of shoulder pads and red lipstick to the spring catwalks is good news to me. The ethereally beautiful Daisy Lowe made a pair of stone washed denim mini shorts look shockingly good in pictures taken of her at the Coachella festival in California. Lowe herself [...]

TweetShare  We’re starting a poetry section this month so If you’re interested in submitting work just email me at admin@mutantspace.ie. This month we have work from Nicola Depuis  I wish I could top up your love   I wish I could top up your love like credit on my mobile phone; it might leave me constantly broke but [...]

TweetShare Novella Hermosa have only being playing together for five months and so are pretty much brand new and still getting to know each other musically. The five of them love what they do. Really want to leave a mark. As Luke Cosgrave says “We want to give listeners the feeling that they have just [...]

TweetShare  [image by Fiona Hallinan] Poorly timed perhaps, as the best of spring’s nettles will be behind us now.  They’ll not be going anywhere though, just toughening up a little. Late summer will see new growth, so in the meantime it’d be best to keep to the tender top leaves. Their primary significance is the [...]

TweetShare  I have heard of Dunboy through bits and pieces. I knew at first that it was the last dwelling place of Donal Cam O’Sullivan Bere, the last Chieftain of Beara, who had fled north to Leitrim as his castle burned. He was not even present when the English armies patiently positioned their artillery on [...]

TweetShare  Across the border Macondo was the first word that sprang to mind. Gabriel Garcia Marquez conjured a fictional place of magic in One Hundred Years of Solitude, of a time and place nobody could figure. But snaking through the vivid colours of southern Colombia, I could have sworn this was it. Marquez´s place of [...]

TweetShare  A busy bank holiday weekend leaves me with little time to write any sort of original article for The Mutation, but just enough time to use my Mutation space to promote this summer’s filmmaking event: Mutant Shorts! Aside from the annual Cork Film Festival, Cork has been left with little else to encourage short [...]

TweetShare  This is an Americana edition of CC CD, full of old time pedal steel, corn-cob crooners, and rockabilly wranglers. Saddle up for 60 minutes of… Yeah, that’s probably what the introduction would sound like if this were an American Routes show. But it’s not, though I guess the songs I’ve picked for CC CD [...]

TweetShare  Art is about being in a moment – where everything dissolves, anything can happen if you allow yourself to be enveloped by it. Form and context immaterial and then, gone. Fleeting. Too often we’re told what these moments are, where they are, why they are and how much they cost. Moments become objects, commodities [...]

TweetShare “We’re so busy trying to bag the interchangeable Next Big Indie things that the really special catch can easily slip through the net these days. Often simply because they don’t conform to the (increasingly conservative) prevailing trends. So it’s hugely refreshing to discover a performer like GAVIN RYAN kicking so gloriously against the pricks. [...]

TweetShare  www.seemen.org is the collaborative effort of Kal Spelletich and some forty odd art drop outs and extreme technology inventors who enjoy building extreme machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate. There is NO OTHER ART LIKE THIS IN THE WORLD! This is an art that is a mix of robots, machines, [...]

TweetShare  A personal report on Living in the moment, making live art, giving of the experience, feeling the heat. I feel myself being lifted up and forward as I am wheeled into the circle of an Audience. This bit was not rehearsed. I had to be ready to activate my art piece. A once off. Maybe  [...]

TweetShareAll the books reviewed can be bought directly from our bookshop at mutantspace.ie The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990: The Case of 7:84 by Maria DiCenzo This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to [...]

TweetShare The editor has been throwing around directions of late. He tells me that I must speak of summer things and so I shall. Perhaps my first love in life is the garden. I live alone in a windy, coastal village in the West of Ireland, where I have a patch around my house to [...]

TweetShare “THE REAL WAR ON TERROR, ‘Wasps Verses Humans’ they never give up do they? The bastards, no surrender for a wasp. If you leave them alone, they’ll sting you, if you try and swat them away, they’ll bring their mate round and kick your ass. An army of the buggers. It’ll be like Planet [...]