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WE’VE LOST DANCING The lights, the beats, the des
cent of the stairs, the bump on the floor, the familiar face, the flirtatious stranger…the pang for a dance is a heavy ache we endure this summer. Whilst we await the return of the glitterball and laser beams, photographer Ruth Guest is comforting us with her photobook, We’ve Lost Dancing. “For the last 10 years or so I’ve been taking photographs in clubs, working for nights like Mother & Bedlam. Because of lockdown and the lack of clubs, I thought it would be nice to create an interactive experience for people to remember how clubs were pre-pandemic.” The book will be an interactive experience, where people can listen to a curated dance playlist while browsing over 50 photographs of DJs, buzzy smoking areas, packed clubs, that remind us of what went before and lies ahead. 25% of the profit made from the book will go to TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland). Pre-orders from ruthguest.com/store/wevelostdancing HINDSIGHT… is most welcome, even as the rear view mirror we may cringe about. Now Jenny Wren, from the Body & Soul parish, has started smart chats with some fine folk who are in a reflective gaze, including Mairtín Mac an Bhaird, Harriet JW and Tonie Walsh in early editions of the podcast. play.acast.com/s/hindsight-podcast ROADMAP Michael McDermott THIS PLACE Castle Market crew Fresh Cuts have launched This Place, a limited edition collaboration, with photographer Aidan Kelly who says, “Since 1999 I’ve been working in photography and digitised handwriting, I wanted to sum up the changes over the last twenty years or even more, of both Dublin’s life and my own, in the process of getting older, Feeling dislocated sometimes, I personalised the city as men or ships or rivers and imagined a woman who co-incidentally didn’t love or want to talk to me anymore. Not unlike say a government representative that cares only for your concern if it’s election season.” The capsule will include five pieces, including unisex tees and jumpers and be made from 100% organic cotton. 86 INLETS… that’s the number Lux Alma visited in the making of To The Sea. “Every hit of a snare drum is a crashing wave in Rossbeigh, each kick drum is a thundering roll of the ocean at Coumeenole and every synthesiser has a different sample of the Atlantic at its core.” You may recognise her look also, a coral-red tulle number that was custom-made for Alma, by fellow musician Constance Keane (aka Fears). luxalmamusic.com freshcutsclothing.com aidanwilliamkelly.ie 6