You're Doing It Wrong
Gareth Stack is a writer, radio producer and the mind behind a dozen comedy series you've never heard of. This is a story of his kampf. A podcast journal of the creative life.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2015
Meeting Jesus at the Movies – Culture File
Every few years hollywood is shocked by an utterly predictable success. Some startling maverick producer actually markets a m…
Death Cafe – Culture File
The ‘Death Cafe‘ movement invites us to discuss death over tea and cakes. For Culture File, I visited the death cafe at The Iri…
Immersive VR Education – Culture File
A few months ago, Irish company Immersive VR education ran a successful kickstarter to create a virtual reality simulation of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon. Put like that it sound kind unbeliev…
Artist Led Archive – Culture File
Megs Moorley at IMMA, image copyright Catalyst Arts Gallery.
Meg’s Moorley’s ‘artist led archive‘ is a wonderful storehouse of the wisdom and work of numerous art collectives over the last four deca…
Sightless Cinema – Culture File
‘White Cane Audio Theatre is a group of blind and visually impaired participants (aged 20’s to 80’s) led by theatre director Ciarán Taylor of Carpet Theatre with radio programme maker and composer …
William Morris in Dublin – Culture File
Download: ‘William Morris in Dublin’
William Morris, considered the founder of the late Victorian Arts & Crafts move…
Pigtown Scratchings – Culture File
Pigtown Scratchings is an occasional multidisciplinary event in Limerick, created by science and music collaboration Softday. Last week I headed down for Lyric’s Culture File, to speak …
Notes From a Performance Art Piece – Culture File
Download: ‘Notes from a performance art piece’
Notes from a performance piece
Phase 1 – Destroyed by Lif…
Ed Devane’s Dodeca Cycle – Culture File
Ed Devane, featured in part six of ‘Mad Scientists of Music‘, is one of Ireland’s most innovative musicians. Having moved away from producing rigid programatic electronic music, Ed is at the…
Culture File Interview – Craig Stuart Garfinkle
Last week saw the first ever iDig music festival arrive at Dublin’s Convention Centre. I spoke to videogame composer and festival organiser, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, about videogame music and his wo…
Canaliculus Purgamentorum – Culture File
The tradition of artists creating provocative performance dinners, extends back at least to Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook. The Futurists delighted in inedible meals, celebrating th…
Little Gem – Culture File
I caught up with the crew of Little Gem Records, a new record shop – yes you read that right, a new record shop – beneath Dublin’s Cavendish Row. Little Gem are a tryptic: A record store, re…
Paraudiolia 1 on Hibernation Radio
Spoken word nights in Dublin follow a predictable recipe: an unpalatable mishmash of weepy bildungsroman, irate slam and colouring book political commentary. Bluebottle Collective‘s events are diffe…
2014 A Year in Review – You’re Doing It Wrong (EP2)
A look back on what I’ve been up to in 2014.
This is the year I wrote my first stage plays, finished an award winning documentary series ‘Mad Scientists of Music‘, and released my latest radio sitc…
You’re Doing it Wrong – An Introduction
A podcast journal, questioning the creative life. I delayed posting this for a long time. It was recorded at a moment when I felt very emotionally vulnerable. A time when I was questioning the assu…
The Laugh laughing at the laugh – Tim & Eric – Culture File
From the primitivist pederasty of Henry Darger’s ‘Realms of the Unreal‘, to Mark Hogancamp’s theraputic Marwencol dioramas, recent years have seen an ironic mainstreaming of ‘outsider art’. In a cu…
Amanda Coogan on Silence – Culture File
My final piece for Culture File’s series on ‘Silence‘, is an interview with performance artist Amanda Coogan. I don’t want to preempt the piece by writing too much about it. I will say that of all …