Well, I’ve been lazy and haven’t updated the site in a while.  Although I’m updating it now, I’m still gonna be lazy and just copy and paste in Yan’s recent long and informative email.  More details on everything he’s mentioned here to come very soon!

“Hey everyone!
Here is a proper long email to let you all know what we’re up to.

First of all, our highly exciting news that I mentioned earlier is that Bomb The Music Industry! a hugely fun ska-punk band from New York are giving a talk and playing a gig for us on Monday the second of February. The talk will be in Regent’s House (a very cool room above Front Arch), and the gig will be in Eamonn Doran’s. Bored With Cereal will be playing too, and we’re looking for at least one other band. Is anyone out there in a a band that they think would work well for this kind of gig? Let us know!

Bomb The Music Industry! is an uber-DIY band centred on Jeff Rosenstock. They/he make all their albums available for free (or a suggested donation of $5) on their website, http://www.bombthemusicindustry.com. So we were very interested in seeing what Jeff might have to say about why he does that, why he Does It Himself in general, and maybe a little about what he thinks the future of the music industry is, with the influence of the internet. So, even if you don’t like them, it should be an interesting guest lecture! If nothing else, it will definitely be 100% more punx than anything the Hist or the Phil are going to do. Ever.

Also, as far as I know, Jeff encourages audience members to bring along instruments and play too, but I’m not sure exactly how that works, I’ll have to check.

In other news, partly inspired by all the talking about Bomb The Music Industry! we’ve been doing, I’ve made a thread on the forums about free music you can legally get on the internet. As well as BTMI! there’s some awesome stuff I know of already there (like Girl Talk, Defiance Ohio, Explosions In The Sky and more) and maybe by the time you read this some other people will have added some. So check it out if you want to get some music for free (or sometimes a suggested donation), or if you know of some you’d like to share with others! Here is a link to the thread: http://durns.myfreeforum.org/sutra14241.php#14241

DURNS’s rehearsal space is available again, there are two slots every Monday, from 7:00 to 8:30 and from 8:30 to 10:00  (pm, of course). The first slot is booked, and we promised the second to someone but we can’t remember who (we’ll probably take your word for it if it’s you!), but there will be many more Monday nights throughout the year, so get in touch if you’d like to use it!

Finally, between now and the BTMI! gig, we have a few events we are planning:
Next Week: A screening of a concert film by The Pixies, preceded by (or, if you will, opened for by) a short tour diary by Los Campesinos!. (There are a lot of bands with punctuation in their names in this email. Even Defiance Ohio should have been Defiance, Ohio, but that makes lists confusing)
The Week After: CD swap in the Eliz rooms, House 6. Bring along old CDs you don’t want and swap them for better ones that misguided people didn’t like!

And as will hopefully become usual, the room will be open on Thursday from 6pm for hanging out, listening to music and possibly jamming.

Hopefully see a lot of you at the various events!
Yan

ps Jamie is booking rooms for the film and the CD swap tomorrow, we’ll let you know the days/times then. Also, we will let you know what the price for the BTMI! gig will be soon”

Hey guys, this Thursday we’re having a table quiz upstairs in Chaplains (map). The cost is €20 per team with a max of 5 per team. And here is the poster for it:

You’ve probably read this already, but I’m just going to copy and paste Yan’s emails here, since it has all the necessary details.

“It took a long time to work out, but we finally have a time and place for this!
Amazingly awesome American genre-crossing band Why? will be giving a very short performance (like, three songs) for the benefit of DURNS members, Literary Society members and free music magazine Analogue in The Twisted Pepper on Sunday at 3pm. It should be great! There will also be an interview with Analogue, but I don’t know if that will be set up for an audience, so don’t get your hopes up.

Sorry it took such a long time to send out details about this, it was very difficult finding a place with a piano to do it (and, in the end, we actually didn’t), especially if it means anyone who wanted to come will miss it.

This has been mainly Literary Society’s thing, so credit belongs mostly to them, and Analogue, who as far as I know are the ones who saved us by finding a venue. Yay Literary Society and Analogue! You should pick up a copy of Analogue if you see it around, it’s a great magazine that started off being published by TFM last year and then escaped outside of Trinity.

Why? can be checked out here, if you are so inclined: http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon

There may still be some small chance of this not working out at the last minute (although maybe I’m just being pesimistic), but it’s well worth coming into town for. I can’t stress enough how awesome the band are, and how excited I am to be able to help out with this!

Hopefully see lots of you there tomorrow!

Yan

PS.
The Twisted Pepper is on Abbey Street, next to the Academy, just in case anyone emails back asking and I don’t see it in time. Also, looking at the text message again, if you are coming, make sure you are there at 3!”

Hey guys, and welcome to the new DURNS website.

Here’s a roundup of what’s new with DURNS this week.

Firsty, this week’s meeting will be on at the same time and in the same place as last time. That is on Tuesday(tomorrow!) at 6pm in Arts Block room 5052.

Several new officers were elected at the meeting last week, they are:

• Jimmy Cleary - Webmaster (that’s me!)
• Aislinn Deng - A+R Officer
• Conor Sneyd - Officer in charge of helping people to find others to attend gigs with (apparently, we are seeking suggestions as to a better title for Conor, though personally I think it’s rather apt and fitting)
• Harry McEvansoneya - Communications Officer

On Thursday, as I’m sure you’re all aware, we’re having a Halloween gig in the Boom Boom Room on O’Connell’s St., which you can see the details of in the image of the poster which is in the post below this. If you come in fancy dress, we’ll even knock a whopping €2 off the entrance fee. If you do not, you will have to pay the full €5 to enter and face disapproving and puzzled looks from almost everyone else who will, naturally, be in elaborate, flamboyant costume and have to endure a feeling of being entirely out of place, spiralling you into a pit of utmost despair and….. yeah, just wear a costume.

Finally, we’re trying to start up a Library in DURNS, and as part of this we’re asking our members to please donate any CDs or music related books (sheet music, books of tabs, rockstar autobiographies etc.) that they don’t want anymore.

That’s all for now, hopefully will be back to update very soon,
Jimmeh