Despite promising myself a weekend off to fully get over the CnH2n+1OH-fest that was Mutek I ended up being lured out of Fairview Strand (via a bottle of red wine and four cans of Amstel) to Bodkins Bar where Ice9 are controlling each and every Friday night. This Friday I arrived just in time to catch most of Simon F’s set, he’s starting buying minimal techno records (welcome to 2004 Simon!) but he still delivered the R.D.A. of breaks and finished off with Odd Job by Phoenecia, one of my favourite electro tracks ever! Apparently he was sighted losing multiple games of chess in Sin E the next afternoon.

Fancy a sonic wall of analogue drones to gaze at your shoes to? Well you should check out Sonic Boom at Crawdaddy this Wednesday. Known to his mother as Pete Kember, he was one third of the Experimental Audio Research band (along with Kevin Shields and Kevin Martin and probably some other people) and also one third of the slightly more well known Spacemen 3 group, which also included J Spaceman who you might remember as the lead singer (well, lead everything really) of Spiritualized. Anyway, even without all these connections to other well known people, our Sonic Boom is a dab hand at the aural landscapes, this gig rates high on my chin scratch-o-meter but I think it’ll be an interesting night out, so if you’re free you should go check it out. Tickets on the door are 12 Euroblings.

I’m not sure who controls the horizontal and vertical nowadays, Newscorp I suppose? Anyway the Darklight Film Festival launches this Thursday afternoon at Filmbase (opposite the TBMC) at 6:30pm. There’ll be exclusive exhibitions of some kooky film stuff (check their website for more info) and a DJ set from D1’s Eamonn Doyle and a live set from D1’s Rob Rowland! I think you have to email the Darklight people for an invitation though, uh, go visit their website!

This Thursday night sees another one of those “uh oh, better take Friday off work” nights because the original don of pretty much every genre he turns his hands to, Andrew Weatherall, is headlining downstairs in Traffic for Electric City while upstairs Alexander Robotnick will be putting his English lessons to good use as he sings along to a special 80s Ableton Live set (hopefully it’ll be a repeat of the first time he played in Dublin way back in 2003, that was all kinds of deadly!). Here’s the full lineup:

Electric City in Traffic

• Club:
• Andrew Weatherall
• Americhord (live)
• Alan Carbery
• Bar:
• Alexander Robotnick
• Barry Donovan
• Funboi

Doors open promptly at 9pm and it’ll cost you 15 blips to get in.

How could I forget, it’s Seamus “The Ladies Man” Harte’s 30th Birthday Party Bash this Friday at Ice9 in Bodkins bar. DJing this Friday night will be Seamus and all his electro and techno loving friends:

• Seamus Harte
• Simon F (F.O.O.D.)
• Ronan Dunne
• Nic James (Old skool Electro set) (Pogo)
• Shaun Mac (Ice9)
• Ciarain Mullen (Raidió na Life)
• Daire Delmar (Ice9)
• skkatter
• Ferghal Mullen (Raidió na Life)
• Plus very special guest (wooooo!)

It’s always free to get into Ice9 at Bodkins, so see you down there this Friday!