THE PUNC REPORT

As you probably know, the PUNC Report is a radio programme (Thursdays at 6pm on Near FM) as well as an occasional fanzine. There’s also a website (punc.neocities.org), a Mastodon account (https://mastodon.ie/@punc) and an Instagram account.

📻 SHOW NOTES | AN CHLÁR SEO CHUGAINN

• A few weeks ago, I interviewed Rita Hynes (Drogheda Zine Fair, Underground Zine Archive) about Guttersnipe, a one-day festival she’d organized in Drogheda. That episode was intended for broadcast on the 18th of July. Unfortunately, I made a silly mistake and sent a corrupted file to the station that they couldn’t air. I couldn’t fix the mistake because I’d gone on holiday without my laptop. As such, that interview with Rita H. will be broadcast on August the 1st (that’s this Thursday/today!) at the usual time. The PUNC Report regrets the delay.

• In June, I participated in Dublin Digital Radio’s Queering The Airwaves block with a programme called “Aiteach Aerach Puncach”. A recording of this programme is now available on DDR’s mixcloud.

📡 PUNC NEWS | NUACHT PHUNCACH

The PUNC Report salutes all attendees of the July Punk Picnic. Congratulations are due in particular to Gavin, who won the jacket competition. Another Punk Picnic is expected before the end of the summer.

💃 Gigeanna

AUGUST

Aug 3^rd: Post Punk Podge and the Technohíppiés play at All Together Now.

Aug 3^rd: Deerhoof play Whelan’s in Dublin with Spit on support. See foggynotions.ie for further details.

Aug 6^th: Some Remain, Peer Pleasure, Burglar, all play Anseo. 8 euro on the door.

Aug 10^th: SKATE RIOT in Drogheda Skate Park. “Jams ~ Best Trick ~ Death Race ~ Raffles ~ Local Market Stalls ~ Live Music All Day”. & zines (from the Underground Zine Archive). Afterparty in The Watchtower, McHugh’s – “entry = a non-perishable food item”.

Aug 17^th: Problem Patterns play Belsonic supporting SLF

Aug 18^th: Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies play Electric Picnic.

Aug 25^th: The The play Collins Barracks in Dublin. Tickets 65.70.

Aug 26^th: Blink-182 play the SSE Arena in Belfast.

Aug 27^th: Blink-182 play the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham, Dublin. Tickets are 89.90 and up (!).

Aug 27^th: Pixies play at Galway Airport (?).

Aug 29^th: Pixies play at the RDS (Simmonscourt). Tickets from 59.90.

Aug 31^st: Problem Patterns play Newry Pride (also: Janet Devlin, Sexy Tadhg)

📨 Zines

• As part of the Frustrated Writer’s Group Artist Talk series: The Art of the Zine with Michelle “Rising Damp” Doyle and Cóilín “Brass Neck” O’Connell ! August 14th ! The Drogheda Zine Fair will be there! Zine mania! Tickets a tenner. All happening in Mono’s Bar in Boh’s. Find out what a zine actually is and whether they’re important or not.

• Aug 18^th is the deadline for submissions to Trans Limerick’s forthcoming zine. You CAN get paid for submissions. “Trans, non-binary & GNC people based along the west coast of Ireland are welcome to apply”.

💿 New Releases

I have been on holiday and have no idea what the new releases are. I do know what tiramisú-flavoured gelato tastes like (terrifyingly similar to actual tiramisú).

🎊 Forthcoming Fests

• Aug 1^st-5^th: GAZE, the Irish International LGBTQIA Film Festival. See gaze.ie for details of the festival programme.

• Aug 2^nd-8^th: Neuro Pride Festival, with Neuro Pride Day on the 8^th.

• Aug 14^th: Cultúr 8.0, a one-day festival in Dublin’s Sound House. Music by Mickey Chaos, Circa, nova Dream, Kathryn Stewart, Joseph O’Sullivan, Peter Richardson, Miranda Palomi, Dillon Doyle, & Callum Wall. DJing by Ciarán Farrell, art by EYO, Estenio, Keelin Sutcliffe, Kate Maloney, Glen McMahon, Merve, Ayşe, Hugh.

• Aug 17^th: United Bottles, Takers & Users, An Slua, Easy Company & Crackhead Control play the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast, in celebration of Colin McQuillan (Runnin’ Riot) whose 10^th anniversary is this year.

• Aug 24^th: Cramond Isle of Punk. Leashed, The Hate, Scundered, Fit To Work, The Restarts, Thrown Away, Fatal Collision and the Bucky Bombs play on a tiny island in Scotland (near Edinburgh). Bands start at noon.

• September 7^th-8^th: Ex Fest, a DIY punk festival in Annesley House, Dublin. The lineup for the festival is currently unknown after it was forced to reschedule an earlier planned summer date.

🪧 Notes

• The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign will mark 300 days of the genocide in Gaza with a vigil in Dublin this August the 2nd. The vigil will begin with a silent march from the Dáil to O’Connell Street at 5pm, with the vigil commencing opposite the GPO at 6pm. For further details of this and other Palestinian solidarity demonstrations, see ipsc.ie.

• Dublin Anti Fascist Assembly hold their first “public assembly” on August the 4^th. DAFA may or may not be connected to Fronta Nua. They say this meeting is a public assembly about the growing menace of the far right and how we as a community should stand up to them. If you want to attend, contact them via instagram (@dublinantifascistassembly) for the address.

• The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will hold a commemoration ceremony in Dublin on the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the 6th of August. The ceremony will take place in Merrion Square at 10 past 1.

• This year’s Climate Camp runs from the 7^th to the 11^th of August. The camp site is adjacent to Lough Neagh in Ardboe, Co. Tyrone, and the camp’s events and workshops will focus on the lake, its importance to the people of the region, and its ongoing destruction due to public neglect and private exploitation. For more info, see ClimateCampIreland.ie

📝 Dates For Your Diary:

AUGUST

1^st-7^th: International Clown Week. Watch out!

1^st: Happy birthday Mother Jones, born in Cork in 1837!

2^nd: International Beer Day

5^th: RIP Helen Thomas, who was killed on this day at Greenham Common after she was struck by a West Midlands Police car.

6^th: Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, 1945.

8^th: International Cat Day

9^th: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

13^th: International Left-handers Day

24^th: International Strange Music Day

29^th: International Day Against Nuclear Testing

31^st: Happy birthday, Hatsune Miku, “born” this day in 2007!

…That about wraps it up for this month, folks. Further updates as the mood strikes me. Thanks for reading. For more Irish punk news, views & nonsense, visit punc.neocities.org.