I'M GOING TO THAILAND!!!!

see y'all in two weeks :)


Una

owweeee :(

I just hurt my foot :(

duke special @ Sugar Club

we went to the duke special gig. It was AWESOME. We drank rum. Yer man, Duke (aka Peter) is so nice. He thanked me for the nice review I gave him in the Tribune. I like when people are nice to me, so that was nice. After that . We went to Reynards and drank a bottle of champagne (Moet = cheap). Then we meant to go to the George, but ended up in Rick's Burgers. I walked home listening to Oppenheimer.

Oh, by the way, I'm going to Thailand (via Amsterdam, obviously on Sunday morning). Mightn't blog until then. See yiz i two weeks bitches!

Una

hulahoops

exactly

Joyriding FECKERS!

HOW many times do I have to ring Kevin Street garda station to alert them to joyriders trying to run people over and fucking keeping me awake awake with their screechy skids and crashing their fucking cars until these goddamn kids stop stealing wheels and wrecking them beside my gaff?

(secretly, I want to be in their gang)

Una

google is my boyfriend

Out of my little persistent disease 'ill do anything but actually sit down and write this goddamn article' (it's very similar to 'i don't want to study so I'll just clean my room and so some stupid and ineffective organisation') I googled UnaRocks. And loads of stuff came up, so thank you Las Vegas Weekly, Blog of the Day, and Blog of the Week for linking me in the past while. People read this, cwazy! Cwazy in wuv. Woot. etc.

I've got Peter Bjorn and John level Writer's Block at the moment, peeps. GIVE A SISTER A HAND! Ugh, and I've run out of wine :( Trying my best to get a 2,000 word article finished this evening, and it's six minutes to midnight. I fear I'll have to make empty promises to my deceited brain again. 'Oh, it's ok Una. You just go to bed now and then get up early and finish it.' I don't do early. The lies, THE LIES.

Ok, delerium. Must do some work :(

Una

NEWSFLASH

I don't like Kopparberg anymore.

Band (and song) of the week

Stagger Lee

'Misery River' song is: here

UnaRocks' top 5 boys who can wear make up #1

5. Jared Leto

4. Peter

3. Spider Webb

2. Toy

1. Neilo Thing

2000+

yay! I've made over 2000 friends on MySpace.

If you want to be my friend, go here: www.myspace.com/unarocksok

:)

Una

good gigs this week

Monday
The Black Keys @ Temple Bar Music Centre *
The Upgrades @ Voodoo
Drumfest Ireland 2006 @ Spirit

Tuesday
Maximo Park @ The Olympia *
Jay-Z @ The Point *
Vyvienne Long @ Temple Bar Music Centre
Babyshambles @ The Ambassador *

Wednesday
The Bluetones @ The Village

Thursday
747s @ Whelans
Papa Roach @ Temple Bar Music Centre
xBxRx @ The Hub *
Monkey Tennis @ Thomas House

Friday
Plan B @ Spirit
Duke Special @ Sugar Club *
The Butterfly Explosion @ Crawdaddy
The Cult @ The Ambassador

Saturday
Goldie @ Temple Bar Music Centre *
Philth + Seki (live) V's Digital Circus (live) @ Kennedy's
The Marshalls @ Village

Sunday
The Frames @ Vicar Street *
The Hidden Cameras @ Sugar Club *

* UnaRocks recommends

Article of the week

I'm going superficial on this one.

So here are the hottest NYC clubs this Autumn, as forecasted by Thomas Onorato, the "doorbitch" of Glen Belverio's Confessions From the Velvet Ropes

Una
listening to: The Bronx - 'The Bronx'
eating: bread and honey
drinking: blueberry juice, coffee
watching: C.R.A.Z.Y.
reading: 'America: Right Or Wrong', by Anatol Leiven

Holy Baby!

Yesterday, University Church on St Stephen's Green was the setting for my AWESOME niece's Christening.

action shot!

Possibly the coolest person in the universe, Fr 'LA' Brian was in charge of proceedings and Amelia was fantastic as she didn't cry AT ALL! What a rocker.

Back home to Dun Laoghaire, I think I ate my body weight in chicken a la king, pork mustard thingy, lasagne and 20,000 variations of choclate cake. Also Estimated Una Consumption (EUC) included a few bottles of champers and 'mixn it up' red and white wine relays. And too much coffee actually.

Aoife, Amelia and Rav

It was loads of fun, because I hadn't had a chillin day in ages and there were loads of people hanging around who I hadn't seen in a while, so fun by the tonne.

*applause*

Well, the extremely random stand up gig with Eabha in Ballymun in Irish went pretty well! Eabha and I racked our rains and our beer bottles for material before we went out and came up with jokes about the Ryder Cup and a song about the PDs. There are no photos from the stage coz Burco was taking videos (which are pretty funny), so here are just a couple of us hanging out.

Eabha and our beerinspiration

It was a bit of a powerhouse of literary families actually and a nice little reunion. Burco Sumpremo, Cunco is now the project manager of the Axis Centre in Ballymun, Cunco's Mum who used to teach us, Eabha Rosenstock of course and Aine Macken, whose grandad Walter wrote one of my favourite books when I was a kid - 'Flight Of The Doves'.

Aine and Burco

It was fun, nostalgic, we talked about school, and the ridiculous stuff that used to happen, and what has happened since.

Afterwards, we got a taxi in to town. Everyone else went to the Czech Inn, and I wet home, via Chicken Hut (fresh 'n' halal).

Una

Cluas gig

upstairs in Whelans

Cluas gig went off last night. It was bit of a dead night in town, so we didn't get as much people in as we would have liked to, but it was still loads of fun and the bands all played brilliantly.

Eabha aka Rosie

After hanging out with the boys from 66e and Lost, me and Eabha went home to write our material for my SECOND EVER STAND UP GIG (which is happening tonight, in Irish, in Ballymun. How do I get myself into these situations again?). But I was locked out (d'oh) so instead we went to the Tenters and then cut our losses and went to find Elaine (and keys) in the Front Lounge. Unfortunately, this turned into a few drinks and a wee bit o'dancing.

66e boys

Anywhoo, smart Rosey went home while Elaine and I walked home and then realised that we couldn't go any further without garlic cheese chips. Found a random (very late open) chipper on Clanbrassil Street and went home and ate and listened to Duke Special.

Yeah, so if any of you out there are around Ballymun tonight, I'll be throwing out the gags in the Axis (Access, Aksess? Who knows?) Centre. Wish me luck!

Una

Backstabber!

I think this is my favourite Dresden Dolls song:
www.myspace.com/dresdendolls

I think if Joan Collins was going to write a punk cabaret song, this would be it. The lyrics are so awesome!

here's the mp3

"the record goes from blue to gold
so thank you for all your help
I know you want to jump around
but try to contain yourself
you always struck me as the type to take it lightly
but now you’re gonna have to shut your mouth or fight me…

backstabber, backstabber….

you’re all alone you’re all over
the popular magazines will never care what do you care
you’re down with the japanese
but you’ve got no right to sit there saying I abuse it
when you only sleep with girls who say they like your music

backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber

backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
shit lover! off brusher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….

rotten to the core
rotten to the core

rotten like a crackwhore
backing out out the backdoor
show us what you’re good for
stick it to the noise board
come on join the bloodsport
show us some support, still
working at the drugstore
is it because you’re A FUCKING

backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
shit lover! off brusher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….

so don’t tell me what to write
and don’t tell me that I’m wrong……
and don’t tell me not to reference my songs within my songs

so here we go the open road
is covered with taco stands
and you can stop we’ll drop you off
and write to you when we land

backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber

backstabber! backstabber!backstabber! hope grabber!greedy fucking fit haver! BACKSTABBER!"


Una

Dirty Dozen: Vol 50 (!)

To celebrate the 50th Volume of Dirty Dozen, I'm going to take multiple poetic licenses with the word 'dozen', and actually post fifty tracks. You lucky mofukas. Keep reading and commenting \m/

1. The Field - 'Over The Ice'

2. Bell X1 - 'Flame' (Chicken Lips mix)

3. LOST - 'Archives'

4. The Album Leaf - 'Always For You'

5. The Grates - 'Feels Like Pain'

half a dozen. The Killers - 'When You Were Young' (Jacques Lu Cont remix)

7. Hot Chip - 'Just Like We Break Down' (DFA remix)

8. Some Action - 'Don't You Look For Me'

9. The Cloud Room - 'Hey Now Now'

10. Willy Mason - 'Oxygen'

11. Gemma Hayes - 'Time After Time'

dozen. The Hidden Cameras - 'Awoo'

13. Crazy Penis - 'Bum Cop'

14. JJ72 - 'Take From Me'

15. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

16. Tiga - 'Far From Home'

17. The Triffids - 'Seabirds'

18. Razorlight - 'America'

19. The Frames - 'Perfect Opening Line'

20. Page France - 'Junkyard'

21. Levy - 'Rotten Love'

22. Ben Kweller - 'Sundress'

23. Cat Power - 'Wonderwall'

two dozen. Laura Veirs - 'Magnetized'

25. TV On The Radio - 'Wolf Like Me'

26. Babyshambles - 'Fuck Forever'

27. Dresden Dolls - 'Backstabber'

29. The Libertines - 'Death On The Stairs'

30. The Bleedin Bleedins - 'Darkest Day' (remix)

31. The Decemberists - 'Shiny'

32. Band Of Horses - 'The Great Salt Lake'

34. The Horrors - 'Death At The Chapel'

35. Tapes N Tapes - 'Cowbell'

three dozen. Lily Allen - 'LDN'

37. Unbunny - 'X'

38. The Chalets - 'Sexy Mistake'

39. Junior Boys - 'In The Morning'

40. Damone - 'Out Here All Night'

41. Sufjan Stevens - 'John Wayne Gacy Jr.'

42. White Stripes - 'Hotel Yorba'

43. Bloc Party - 'Staying Fat'

44. Adem - 'Launch Yourself'

45. Goldfrapp - 'Fly Me Away'

46. Editors - 'Munich'

47. Neutral Milk Hotel - 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' (live)

four dozen. Cansei De Ser Sexy - 'Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above'

49. Final Fantasy - 'He Poos Clouds'

50. Cowboy X - 'Gabbi'

click click click click click

Sarah has some funny photos from the Globe the other night.

Una

listening to: Fionn Regan's new record, it's lovely :)
eating: Rolo yogurts
drinking: blueberry juice
wearing: Ralph Lauren wifebeaters. I am Ryan from the OC
watching: anything but the fucking Ryder Cup
reading: Rupert Everett's autobiog, still
wanting: my cold to go away :(


DONT FORGET THE CLUAS GIG IN WHELANS TOMORROW NIGHT - I'm gonna be donating a bunch of CDs for the raffle, but you have to be there to win! (www.cluas.com)

What Tunes Are They Playing During New York Fashion Week?

Agenda knows

In other news, I was meant to interview Mark E Smith from The Fall yesterday evening, but he never rang (not surprising). What was surprising was a very funny phone message from him when I got into work this morning. It's always funny to hear people with such distinctive voices talk about normal stuff.

I have a sore throat :(

Me and Laney stayed up late playing the best songs of all time on YouTube

Don Henley - 'Boys Of Summer'
Chris Isaak - 'Wicked Game'
Gin Blossoms - 'Till I Hear It From You'
Heather Nova - 'London Rain'
Cindy Lauper - 'I Drove All Night'
Roxette - 'It Must Have Been Love'
Heart - 'Alone'
Bruce Springsteen - 'Secret Garden'
Soul Asylum - 'Runaway Train'
Madonna - 'Like A Prayer'
Alphaville - 'Forever Young'
Tiffany - 'I Think We're Alone Now'
Aha - 'Take On Me'
Bryan Adams - 'Heaven'
Berlin - 'Take My Breath Away'
The Bangles - 'Eternal Flame'
Cutting Crew - 'I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight'
Murray Head - 'One Night In Bangkok'
Journey - 'Dont' Stop Believin'
Cindy Lauper - 'Time After Time'
Deacon Blue - 'Real Gone Kid'
Boy Meets Girl - 'Waiting For A Star To Fall'
Boston - 'More Than A Feeling'
The Police - 'Every Breath You Take'
Roxette - 'Listen To Your Heart'
Patrick Swayze - 'She's Like The Wind'
Tears For Fears - 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'
Wham! - 'Careless Whisper'
Toto - 'Africa'
Joshua Kadison - Jesse'

Make Johnny Logan number ONE!

you know you want to

what's another beer?

Una

Charity-tastic

The Cluas.com benefit gig for AWARE takes place THIS FRIDAY in Whelan's on Wexford Street.

It's an awesome line-up :

Coldspoon Conspiracy
Joe Chester
66e
LOST

It's only €12 and for a great cause, so head along.

more info is on www.cluas.com



Meanwhile, information on another great charity gig (October 12th, Vicar St) called Brainstock is available over on Rick's blog. The link is over there --------->

Crap!

Military coup in Thailand

This is not good considering me and ten mates are flying to Bangkok in 11 days time.

No violence yet, hopefully it'll all be sorted by the time we get there... *gulp*


Una

New Thai Prime Minister within 2 weeks

D'Radio

Tune in to Rick O'Shea's AWESOME show on 2fm this evening and you'll probably get to hear me at some stage - yay!

Una

Misery

I saw Stagger Lee and The Things tonight @ the Spiegeltent. Anyone who hasn't seen Stagger Lee should check them out. They have an AWESOME song called 'Misery'. Check it.

ps this is Quigo being drunk backstage at Dorfmeister

Friday Night

Can't spell Spiegeltent without Una (or something...)

Had mucho fun in the Spiegeltent in the IFSC (as part of Dublin's Fringe Festival) on Friday night. Big love to Anthony for the UnaRocks-shaped space on the guestlist. First off, I headed up to Chapter One where the Remedy crew were finishing dindins. Had a nice glass of wine and then headed back to Party Central before hitting IFSC territory. Corina and myself got dragged into some van where the festival people were filming stuff to project around the place. We told some pirate jokes and sung a rousing rendition of Corina's composition - 'Una, Why You Be So Mean To Me?'

After a drink in the Harbour Master, we headed in to the tent which was just splendid and then enjoyed Moodyman and Dorfmeister. The Quigo arrived with a very drunken Magoo who had to be sent home :(

Anyway, the night ended with me, Quigo, Corina, Anthony, MC Earl Zinger and Richard Dorfmeister eating kebabs in Zaytoons. I have some photees which I will upload later.

Today I am having my traditional Sunday chill out session. Waiting for the match to start (go on Mayo!) and me and Laney are gonna catch Little Miss Sunshine in the cinema later on.

Oh, by the way, there's loads of awesome stuff going on in the Spiegeltent - tonight The Immediate, Sack and The Walls are playing as part of the Sunday Roast and tomorrow, me and Burco are gonna check out The Things and Stagger Lee.

Have a good rest of the weekend folks.

Una

Listening to: Hole - 'Live Through This'
Reading: Rupert Everett - 'Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins'
Eating: cream cheese, caramel and chocolate marble brownies
Drinking: coffee
Watching: Made on MTV
Looking forward to: Amelia's christening next Sunday

Dirty Dozen: Vol 49

1. Stars of Track And Field - 'Movies Of Antartica'

2. Shiny Toy Guns - 'Le Disko'

3. The Rapture - 'Get Myself Into It' (Prince Language Disco Edit)

4. Brazilian Girls - 'Jique'

5. LOST - 'The Science of Silence'

half a dozen. Howling Bells - 'Low Happening'

7. Radiohead - 'Punch Up At The Wedding'

8. LOST - 'Long Division'

9. The National - 'Wasp Nest'

10. Grizzly Bear - 'Knife'

11. Postal Service - 'Such Great Heights'

dozen. Rafter - 'Bicycle'

YunaTube

Believe it or not, these are the first videos I've uploaded on YouTube. So behind the times.

Anyway, the first one happened in my apartment at aout 4am a month or two ago when the place was invaded by drunk frisbee players. I am screaming FILM THINGS loudly because I may or may not have had quite a bit of Green Island rum to drink.

The second one features Anthony djing in the VIP area at Hi:Fi and me attempting to show how nice the place was and Pierre doing a little dance.

Enjoy! And link your videos below.

Una

UnaRocks on the TV

RTE's TTV show have recruited me to be their Internet specialist person guest contributor thingy

According to them I'm a 'Net Nerd'. Awesome!

The first installment went out on RTE Two at 6pm today. They will run every two weeks - keep an eye out!

Una

The Bleedin Bleedins nominated for award

BIG UP! The Bleedin Bleedins have been nominated for Best Debut Album at the Boston Music Awards. You can vote for them here yay! Dresden Dolls and my one-time party mates The Click 5 have also been nominated for other awards, so get voting people.

The Bleedin's record 'Life Without Computers' is awesome, check it out, you can buy it on iTunes, CD Baby or in Tower Records and Newbury Comic stores.

Una

New records I have that I like:

Justin Timberlake
FutureSex/LoveSounds

The Rapture
Pieces Of The People We Love

Duke Special
Songs From The Deep Forest

Iain Archer
Magnetic North

This is my sister's dog Pico

we have a love hate relationship. He snorts.

My secret is out...

second day of the HWCH shoot

Photos I took when I got locked out of my apartment the other day

Hard Working Class SHOOT!

8 of Dublin's finest musicians (from The Things, SickBoy, Ham Sandwich, The Radio, Moth Complex, Eric Eckhart, Butterfly Explosion and Cowboy X) plus me, Lili, Corina plus 2 expert makeup artists and one awesome hair magician joined forces today for the first day of the Hard Working Class Heroes photoshoot for the festival's exhibition. It was a little stressful at the start, but everyone was really nice and it ended up being loads of fun.

It's always nice to meet new people, innit?

Una

Awesome jumpy photos!

Burco rocks


Una

Zip Up Your Mickey

A phone message from 'Twink' becomes a myspace hit

Una

Hard Working Class Heroes Festival Schedule

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH
MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
The Shakes
Boss Volenti
The Marshals
The Immediate
Special Guest

PRAVDA
Scott Maher
Edgar Heaton
Cormac o'Caoimh
Blair Harvey
A Band Called Wanda
Dave Couse

THE HUB
Alias Glee
Gordon Is A Mime
Angel Pier
Pugwash
Michael Night
The Last Post

ROCK ROOM @ SPIRIT LIVE
My Corduroy
Lotus Lullaby
Hope Is Noise
Story Of Hair
The Tides
The Beat Poets

TEMPLE BAR MUSIC CENTRE
Bill Coleman
Eric Eckhart
Ham Sandwhich
The Rags
Wintersleep
Fkos

SPIRIT MAIN ROOM
Alecko
The Urges
Twinkranes
The Things


SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH
MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
Saso
Betamax Format
Channel One
Special Guest

PRAVDA
The Red Rose Café
Una Healy
Nial Lawlor
Jill Barbour
Patrick Freyne
Bronagh Gallagher

THE HUB
Dae Kim
Myp et Jeep
Glenwash
Novastone
Pier Nineteen
The chakras

ROCK ROOM @ SPIRIT LIVE
Kill City Defectors
Queen Kong
DC Pakt
Sickboy
The Mighty Stef
Noise Control

TEMPLE BAR MUSIC CENTRE
{Lost}
Orphan Code
Cowboy X
Delorentos

SPIRIT MAIN ROOM
Pilotlight
Mark Bragg
The Ruby Tailights
8 Ball


SUNDAY OCTOBER 15TH
MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
The Chapters
Envelope
Pinky
In Flight Safety
Iain Archer

PRAVDA
Pat Barrett
Nigel Place
Tadgh Cooke
Matt McGinn
Chris Colepaugh
Valerie Francis
Declan De Barra

THE HUB
The Balduci Life
Ashley Sheenhan
Jenny Lindfors
Star Turtle
Ginosko
My Invention
The Star Department

ROCK ROOM @ SPIRIT LIVE
The Racket
Me In The Park
Berkeley
79 Cortinez
Moth Complex
The Heathens
Giveamanakick

TEMPLE BAR MUSIC CENTRE
Superjimez
Redkid
The Radio
Star Belgrade
A
Lazarus Soul

SPIRIT MAIN ROOM
Robotnick
Les Biens
Butterfly Explosion
Simple Kid

bye Aoibhinn :(

Met Aoibhinn on Wednesday night for a London farewell - she's off next week to study her masters in UCL (something to do with brainy physics, biology complexities or something). I'll miss her loads, but it also leaves the door open for plenty of fun weekends in Londingtown. Went to the Morgan where we had some pear Kopparberg. I was V jealous of her Rose of Tralee lighter (I want one, someone get me one please). Then we headed to meet her NASA buddies at the Porterhouse where there was a free bar for some reason (brainy people get free alcohol it seems).

In other news, I just got sent the new Juliette and the Licks record (Four On The Floor) and the new Veils one (Nux Vomica) both of which I am incredibly excited about.

If you want the real low down on Mary Harney resigning as leader, check out http://blogorrah.com - hilarious stuff.

HWCH photoshoot this weekend, yay!

Must dash, busy busy.

Una
PS shout out to Meadzer, Maco and Anthony - hope y'all are having a fun time in NYC, eat some Krispy Kremes for me please.

Electric Picnic: The Verdict

Eep! I've been so busy that I haven't even had the time to talk about Electric Picnic.

Anywhoo, got down on Saturday with Meadzer and Lili. Was running around the arena before it had opened trying to find the media room when a friendly face in a golf cart whizzed me over to the VIP area. Randomly, that friendly face turned out to be John Reynolds. Filed a news story in the morning, which was grand and then went about enjoying myself.

Caught Delorentos who put on an awesome set at the big tree. I'm informed their album is out early in the new year - can't wait! Everything after that is a bit of a blur really. Michael Franti was good, Bloc Party were AWESOME! It started raining and the lights came through the sheets of rain and they sung Modern Love and it was amazing. After that, um, I remember spending almost the entire New Order set queuing for the bathroom with Sarah and Stuart Clarke from Hotpress drinking a bottle of champers. Meadzer, Lili and I also drank FAR too much vodka and cranberry. Then we watched Groove Armada. Oh, and then we went to the Silent Disco which was fantastic. Got lost in the woods looking for our car (where we were sleeping) but due to my amazing navigation we eventually stumbled upon it.

The next morning was seriously sore, but still, we managed to catch Dublin Gospel Choir, Duke Special, Lisa Hannigan, Hot Chip some comedy tent stuff and of course YEAH YEAH YEAHS. I cried during Maps. It was unbelievable. Then ummmmmm, can't remember, oh, actually before that we saw a bit of Amadou & Mariam and a bit of Elbow too, but that night was so much fun because Basement Jaxx were amazing. I'd seen bits of their set before, but this was totally brilliant. There was a little raised platform in the VIP area at it was the first time EVER that I've seen people backstage at something not trying to just pose and look cool, everyone was just giving it loads so the atmosphere was excellent.

Other news from the weekend; Sarah's car not starting on Sunday morning - thank god for Monaghan boys with jump leads, Kelly Osbourne looking V pissed off backstage with her boyf from The Fields, me betting a random chick to stroke Jonathon Ryse-Myers' face (which she did), saying hey to loads of people - the lovely Susan, Deirdre, Lindsey from LHP, Dermot head honcho of the Loose, Joe O'Shea with his fantastic 'Pedro Lacks Political Experience' t-shirt, Dan from Friction, Julie Feeney, Kieran from Delorentos, Conor from Lakota, Michael from V2, Glenda, Tom Dunne, Larissa - actually managing to meet up with loads of people from the Tribune and plenty of other fun. Today is probably the first day I feel normal.

On a whole, the festival was way better than last year; more spread out, nice food, amazing vibe, no hassle, lovely security, loads of random stalls, secret woods fun, and generally smiley happy people. Roll on next year!

Una

Electric Picnic: Silent Disco

Electric Picnic: The Partying

sarah



bass buddies!




Lili & Meadzer


Sarah & Paddy



Sarah looking festival fit




the VIP tent



Meadzer looking shady