Some Serious Joking Around

========= About Us =========

We're the Blastbeat MMC from De La Salle College, Northern Ireland. Our name is Joker Records and our game is jokin around, but when it come down to gigs we know how to throw a party.

We have been gigin for a while now, but not as Joker Records, for "Illicit", who take up most of our members.

We recently had a gig in Laverys bunker, with a show of over 300 people, and were really happy with that.

We are set on creating bigger and better gigs in the future, and its something we can see oursleves doing for Blastspace for a while.

Hope you all check out our gigs, there worthwhile ;)

========= The Core Team =========

-Frankie Carmichael - BLASTSPACE.COM/FRANKIE
Media Manager and CEO

-Jay Lynch - BLASTSPACE.COM/JAYDIZZLE
Assistant CEO and Advertising

-Bradley Lynch - WWW.BLASTSPACE.COM/BRADLEY
Finance Manager and Company secretary

-Jonny Collins - BLASTSPACE.COM/JONNYC
Finance and PR


========= The Gig =========
========= Congradulations =========

Heeeyyy!!

The gig went really well. We had a show of over 300 people and the party was pumping untill the death.

All the bands played really really well but overall The Audiables and Illicit came out on top!!

They now go threw to the NI Finals in the Limelight to battle it out for a place in the Regional finals.

Good luck to them both.

(NOTE: The limelight gig has now passed an sadly neither The Audiables or Illicit made it threw to the finals.)

========= The Audiables Biography ==========

We are a young indie rock four piece based in northern Ireland. We have an array of songs that capture the audience with catchy tunes and heart felt lyrics that will live in the audiences mind, of course that is for you the public to decide.

We bring originality to the Belfast music scene and we just simply love to create our own music that we enjoy and that many of our fans enjoy.

And remember, 'It's Good To Be Free'

***Influences***

Music from all decades and vast ranges of genres. We have our own unique sound that we feel makes us one of the most entertaining, exciting and unique bands in Belfast. artists such as 'The Who', 'The Beatles', 'Oasis' are just a few of the bands that have influenced us.
========= The Audiables Biography ==========

========= Illicit Biography ==========

Content

========= TOP TEN PEOPLE =========
========= WHO CHANGED OUR WORLD =========
For many reasons these guys have changed our world for the better. We live by the same thing. Making things better for others, The De La Salle Ethiopian Fund.

1. George Washington

2. Abraham Lincolnty

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4. Winston Churchill

5. Ronald Reagan

6. Alexander the Great

7. Christopher Columbus

8. Martin Luther

9. Samuel Adams

10. Napoleon Bonaparte

========= ALBUM REVIEW =========
** The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely **

Who'd have thought it? We already know that Jack White and his pals' 'side project' amounted to far more than a spot of indie dilettantism when Broken Boy Soldiers turned out to be such an ace proposition.

But would you have bet money that the follow up - sprung on critic and public simultaneously - would better it? Because it does.

Oh yes. Jack's back. And Brendan too..

Forged in the heat of Summer 2005 in Detroit, the mixture of White's blues rock and Brendan Benson's more lush Beatlisms was intriguing from the off.

But while the rushed quality of the first album was tempered by the democracy of giving both writers equal space, Consolers...is more considered and balanced fare.

Witness a song like Old Enough. It's a jugband romp, full of fiddle 'n' fuzz that resurrects the ghost of clever '70s pop rock and still finds room for White's lo-fi squeal.

And whereas Broken Boy Soldiers ultimately belonged to White, Benson's superb You Don't Understand Me may well be the best thing on offer here.

The production also benefits from the proper studio setting of Nashville's Blackbird studio. Some songs cover so many bases they leave you dizzy.

These Stones Will Shout goes from folk rock to Yardbirds stomp while barely pausing to draw breath.

More often thsn not it can recall the vertiginous rush of The Small Faces' finest moments.

There's still a mighty gulf between White and Benson, but here they seem to have pulled off the near-alchemical trick of combining the two strands into a coherent whole.

The Switch And The Spur vacillates between Mariachi fever dream and '60s slink.

And lest we forget, this isn't just some vanity project, the Raconteurs, at all times, come across as a very tight BAND.

Patrick Keeler's drums' swagger and precision makes quite a contrast to the garage thrash of Meg White, that's for sure.

Consolers... oozes confidence. Hardcore Stripes fans may bemoan the 'uncool' sheen of professionalism that coats this album, but this beats Icky Thump by a country mile.

And they still find time for the dirty romp of tracks like Hold Up or the almost Thin Lizzy-ish Attention (both of which which boast the same weird wiggy keyboard).

It has 'classic' stamped all over it. If the 'parent' bands represented here split tomorrow, who'd care if we still have this? It stands on its own, and then some...

========= Frankie =========


========= Film Review =========
========= IN BRUGES =========

Two Irish hitmen are lying low in Bruges, Belgium, after the less-than-successful results of Ray's (Colin Farrell) first assignment. Ken (Brendan Gleason), the more experienced assassin, must keep his exuberant charge sane and calm in a town that Ray describes as, "If I grew up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me."

Complications arise when a call comes through from disgruntled boss, Harry (Ralph Fiennes), that will fundamentally change their lives.


A study of fish-out-of-water, or maybe Irishmen-out-of-Guinness, this comedic and profane tale of not-so-cold-blooded killers seems to be the fusion of two movies, a very funny buddy comedy and a ruthless gangster thriller. In fact, one is disappointed when the serious stuff kicks in, because we know horrible things will transpire.

Aside from the idyllic Bruges scenery, a parade of esoteric characters interacts with our boys. Jordan Prentice is part of a movie crew making a surreal dream sequence and his lack of stature draws the attention of Ray who then makes the acquaintance of crew member, Chloe (Clemence Poesy).

Also deposited in this very Irish stew are a number of American tourists, Chloe's bitter ex-boyfriend, a church custodian with no sense of humour, a weapons supplier with a penchant for alcoves and the odd prostitute.

The core of the movie is the relationship between the two men, beautifully realized by Gleeson and Farrell, with dead-on dialogue from writer/director Martin McDonagh that is funny and offensive at the same time. A three week rehearsal period obviously paid off for the onscreen chemistry and one hopes that another project might be found for them.

The film is delightfully free of the frenetic camera work and digital colour enhancement that is annoyingly in vogue at the moment and will be embraced by fans of Snatch and Sexy Beast as a worthy addition to the genre.


Frankie, CEO Joker Records

========= Film Review =========
========= WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS =========

All the goofy, mismatched romcom pairings that Hollywood has willed to work over the last few years may now be forgiven as Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher unite to form what seems like a natural comedy dreamteam.

Joy (Diaz) and Jack (Kutcher) both arrive in Vegas in a rather fragile state - she newly boyfriendless, he freshly jobless - and proceed first to get royally drunk, and second to get married, unintentionally.

When Jack then wins big on the slot machines (using money lent to him by Joy) the two of them separately embark on a sequence of cunning plans and contortions in an effort to lay individual claim to the loot.

Not altogether shockingly, this whole fandango leads them circuitously into one another's arms. It's froth, of course - pure sugar-whipped confection - but the plot has an appealing simplicity, Vegas is suitably bonkers, and Diaz and Kutcher really do bring a certain zing to the screen.