One sign of a good festival is to see how enthused you are at the end for something new. Be that looking forward to next year or seeing something that happened that inspires you in some way. After Rebellion last year I vowed to take a different direction in my personal life. I left my … Continue reading Rebellion 2026 Day 4 the end or the beginning?
Rebellion 2026 The Day Before
Yeah, I can’t believe that you can’t believe the year has flown by. 12 months since our last weekend sojourn to Blackpool and it feels like no time since I was looking forward to the seagull filled decaying new town that Blackpool is. The flag of the rebellion festival flies from the Blackpool Tower This … Continue reading Rebellion 2026 The Day Before
Dublin Music book and Fanzine Festival
Hope Collective and Irish Pop Archive in conjunction with Volume Records and IADT, Dún Laoghaire present Irelands first event Music Book and Fanzine Festival. It is a completely independent / diy festival gathering a collection of authors, publishers, graphic designers, fanzine writers and musicians to Dun Laoghaire over 2 Saturdays in April.
Play of the day? Nuff Said
Heavy pop punk/hardcore newcomers Homebase may not be named after a DIY trading store but the band continue their momentum with the release of “Nuff Said,” a blistering and emotionally charged new single out today.
Hope *3 out now
New issue of Hope zine is out now. So we have done it again. We have written to people we admire and asked them a simple question. This time around we have compiled their answers into a 36 A4 page fanzine. Hope *3 asks the question what gave you the inspiration to start doing what you are doing and what inspires you to continue. We wanted positivity, hoping for something that will give you the urge to create, communicate positively and look for good in the world. There's a lot of corners we could turn around that wouldn't have this good there so let's
document 9 – the west is still very much awake
For document 9 we move to Galway and celebrate the rich history of its scene. In conjunction with Torann punk and metal weekend Hope Collective takes over the Rosin Dubh for a night of chats.
Punks Listen
The new book is a collection of pieces of writing from musicians, writers, actors and music fans. They were asked to write about a record (or a gig) that was significant to them and includes over 290 contributions
document 8 – we go again
There will be chats about the underground gigs and how people are still creating things along with some music being played. It’s not a re-union but more of a rekindling
The sentiment of the tourists
2 Dublin musicians with a strong pedigree rooted in the Dublin Underground scene of the late 1980's have come to this feels like open a door back to those times and let them come into the 21st Century
Visions of the past look to the future
Visions of the past look to the future. New documentary premiering about Paranoid Visions