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Archive for March, 2006

Viva Las Vegas

Without properly thinking it through, someone accidentally let us hire Bru, a 90 bed city centre hostel, colonised for the night by renegade archaeologists dressed to the nines and hell-bent on personal destruction.

The occasion? Several hundred European archaeologists landing in town as Cork played host to the EAA conference. The idea? Viva Las Vegas! We transformed the hostel for one night into a glitzy casino, seedy Vegas motel and soul food kitchen, all sound-tracked by three rooms of music playing the best of soul, funk, groove, hip-hop, disco, breaks, electro and whatever else is cool but unclassifiable. An army of Djs too numerous to mention, and how many parties have you been to recently who can boast their own resident chef? Read more

Casino Monte Carlo

Yes, it’s the one the chattering classes are still chattering about: Casino Monte Carlo! An end of site party to end end of site parties.

Just picture the scene: a bachelor sized Scalectrix, a free bar, a poker table, a roulette wheel, all soundtracked to a live jazz band and polished off with a heavy slice of dance floor funk. Read more

Beach Party

No information on this one. The Feds are still hot on the scent. You aint seen me… Right!?! Read more

The Nasty in the Pasty

In olden days, if you wanted the latest statistical assessment based on predictive medical science as to how long you’d got left to live, there wasn’t any point logging on to http//:www.deathclock.com. A blank screen would have just flashed the obvious:

Nasty, Short and Brutish. Read more