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Podcast Pop Quiz #1 John E Capcom

Pop Quiz, hotshot – you’re John E Capcom, co-host of Sidecast, and suddenly a member of the Arcade’s elite writing team asks you 10 questions about your show and why their readers should find it and listen to it. WHAT DO YOU DO?! 1. What inspired you to create a podcast? 1. I’ve never actually […]

REVIEW – RIOT AKKT “SUN COMING UP”

Summer time is, typically, a time for parties, getting together with friends, getting away, and in the case of Irish folk, getting plenty of exercise running away from the roving rainclouds that seem to follow us everywhere like that crow from the Looney Tunes. It’s also a time for the kind of floor-filling dance numbers […]

Birthday Wishes – Liam

The Arcade is four years old this year. Hard to believe they grow up so fast, isn’t it? I came aboard this particular ship fairly late in the game (and probably won’t win any prizes for attendance) but ever since Declan and the other Arcadians allowed me into the fold, I’ve felt accepted as a […]

The Indestructible Ultimate Warrior

In memory of the man whom this article centres round, I’ll try to be brief and entertaining. You will have to imagine me shaking my laptop like a madman for the full effect. As you may have read either online or in print (it made the top of the front page in The Irish Sun) […]

Metallica Debut New Song "The Lords Of Summer"

When Metallica put out new material, the music world takes notice. According to Metal Hammer, the internet has blown up with this video of the thrash titans debuting a new cut from the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Death Magnetic during a gig in Colombia over the weekend. Liam Kavanagh

Metallica Debut New Song “The Lords Of Summer”

When Metallica put out new material, the music world takes notice. According to Metal Hammer, the internet has blown up with this video of the thrash titans debuting a new cut from the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Death Magnetic during a gig in Colombia over the weekend. Liam Kavanagh

Magic Seasons – Unforgettable TV

There’s no disputing that one of the most magical things there is - I’m talking a double-10 on the Gandalf Scale - is watching that one season of a television show that is truly, unequivocally, unimpeachably perfect.

REVIEW: VIOLINS IS NOT THE ANSWER – CLASSIC, DEAD (2013)

The search tags on the Violins Is Not The Answer BandCamp page are as follows: punk hardcore punk punk punk hardcore punk rock punkrock ska ska punk Ireland. They’re also a handy concise review of their latest (and possibly last, according to Facebook) album, Classic, Dead. You know what you’re getting; Blistering riffage, boisterous gang […]

Review: Leap #0

Up to now, Uproar Comics’ stock in trade has been gory zombie-horror books, and the first issue of this “space-faring neo-science fiction epic” series marks their first foray into “proper” sci-fi in the space ships-and-E.T.s vein. It’s also part of a larger transmedia project that will include an animated version of this story, mini-games, and […]

Fantasy Casting – The Dark Tower

With news that the so-hot-right-now Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul was approached/Tweeted his desire to play the role of reformed junkie Eddie Dean in the Warner Bros. movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series (aka The Good, The Bad and the Lord Of The Rings), internet interest in the stalled adap – last […]
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