S|R ::: CALENDAR
Thurs 19th-Sat 21st Sept ::: Live Performance Programme
Friday 20th :::
Ultimate Trad-Wife Events
Ultimate Trad-Wife Pageant School
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-20:00
[Themed space hosted by Trad-Wife Competition characters] - Ticketed
The Ultimate Trad-Wife Competition, a headline event of our Saturday late-night programme, invites lovely ladies of the public (all genders) to enrol in their Pageant School for Trad-Wife training, make-overs and stage-trial coaching
Saturday’s Competition event offers a riotous send-up of Trad-Wife styles and postures, a Rose of Tralee, Reality-TV car-crash Alt-Wrong WTF! Think hair-raising backstories, catfights, and songs. - A quintessentially Irish exploration of (Trad-) modern loving…
[Interactive]
Trad Wives, Techno & Banjos - in Space!
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Trad-Wife Pageant School: The Stage Trials (19:30-20:30). Hopeful lovely ladies pass a series of dress-up and interview challenges to test their readiness for Saturday’s headlining Ultimate Trad-Wife Competition.
Space-themed acts and bands spanning high camp to black comedy (20:30-03:00) With Spacers, Spudgun, Rare Witch: Rocket-Science, Hugh Cooney: Folklord, and The Fist - a parody ‘BDSM-Sex-Party’ techno-punk stage show and band, with short, absurdist variety interludes, followed by…
Gamified live DJ sets from Stoopid Request Line and Time Capsule Roulette: Elyas Khan (03:00-4:00)
Saturday 21st :::
Jinxing the Rave: Trad, Porn & Fighting…
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Top 10 Hits Der Woche: The DIY Balade Hit-Parade (19:30-20:30) Showcasing new songs and collaborations from the Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Balad Workshop.
TRADIATORS: The Tournament (21:00-22:00). The Heros and Heels of Trad-Fighting, with their fans and followers in tow, battle it out with fresh Hamburg faces for the title of reigning TRADIATOR!
Irish artists and musicians explore, expand and satirise folk forms (22:00-04:00). With The Goblinz, Branwen Kavanagh, ‘Punk Urban Poet’ Jinx Lennon*, The Ruskavellas, Trad Porn: Cowboys and Hoors [The Musical!], The Four-Horsemen of The Apocalypse Derby (Death, Famine or War?! Place your bets and win BIG!) with storytelling and céilí-calling by Hugh Cooney, for The Ultimate Trad Wife: Competition and Céilí, spilling into a Trad Rave finale!
* “Ireland's premier punk-poet” The Irish Times