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Michael McDermott IS IT ENOUGH? IN A PARK BRIGHTL
Y One might have good reason for gripes against DCC but one area where they are upping their game is in the delivery of new public parks. Hot on the heels of Bridgefoot comes a new Skate & BMX facility and Play Park at Le Fanu Park, Ballyfermot. It is the outcome of input by over 360 local people who “participated at picnics, play days, building design workshops and public meetings to inform plans for the park and to contribute suggestions, concerns and aspirations for this innovative community facility.” An international design competition facilitated by The Irish Architecture Foundation resulted in Relational Urbanism, a team of urban design architects based in London winning the contract. Le Fanu Rd, Kylemore, Dublin Another Love Story is always enough and then some. Bringing over Alabaster DePlume is a sublime pairing even by their exalting standards. The Mancunian singer, poet, songwriter and saxophonist has an ethereal flow exquisitely in tune with the festival – mixing joy and whimsy. Gold - Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love, his latest double LP, was cut over two weeks with different unrehearsed musicians turning up each day, laying it down and walking on. Expect some delirious jamming in Killyon Manor. alabasterdeplume.bandcamp.com anotherlovestory.ie CREAMCAKE… Berlin is never far from our mind and yes, we are the sort who found ourselves on Berghain’s website wondering what’s coming up there. What caught our attention though is the work of Tea Stražičić aka Flufflord for CreamCake at the end of the month. Fresh and fantastical. @blushh.fka.flufflord HAVE YOU GOT THE GOO? DUBLIN’S NEW FREE MUSIC SCENE MAGAZINE - IN PRINT JULY-AUG ISSUE OUT NOW! PICK IT UP IN MUSIC VENUES , BARS, CAFES, RECORD STORES AND MORE.