Flat Lake Line-up 2010

I couldn't make it to the Flat Lake festival this year as I was to work on a project with my great friend, Tanya Harris, for the Royal College of Art in London. As it turns out (and for various reasons) I'm not able to make this gig either! So I'm now just knuckling down to final drafts of my new play, BELFAST GIRLS, an all-female piece set on a ship. Meanwhile I'm posting details of the festival here in case any of you can make it to Monaghan this weekend.

2010 PROGRAMME

FRIDAY NIGHT
- 4th June

THE BUTTY BARN


6.00 pm - Ben Reel
7.00 pm - Pat Quinn
8.00 pm - Ana Go
9.00 pm - Marie Doyle Kennedy
10.00 pm - Nial Toner & Johnny Rowan
11.00 pm - DJ Julian Lloyd

SCANBITZ STAGE


5.00 pm - Aidan Coleman
7.00 pm - TBA
8.00 pm - TBA
9.00 pm - Slowfoot
10.00 pm - Og & The Uglies
11.00 pm - Clara Rose

THE GONZO THEATRE MARQUEE

The Theatre Tent will be hosted all weekend by the resident band - The Gonzo Minstrels

6.30- 7.30- Gonzo Launch from The Gonzo Club (storytelling/poetry/music)
                  -‘Sean Quintet’ (a free-style, beatnik jazz protest for the Quinn Group),
                  -Cormac McCann (music/rapping),
                  -Kevin O’Connor (poetry),
                  -Ray Fitzsimmons (music)
7.30-8- ‘Raindrops in Dublin’ by Philip Doherty (The Gonzo Theatre, Cavan)
8-9.30- TBC
9.30-10- Wordgasm (stories to funky music)



THE HURL 'Soft Knowledge exchange' PAVILLION

Hosted by the HOME UNIVERSITY OF ROSCOMMON AND LEITRIM
Lecturers:
Professor Natalia Beylis -Professor Carol-Anne Connolly
Professor William Stewert - Professor Dominic Stevens
Professor Stephen Rennicks - Professor Vaari Claffey
Professor Michael Cleary - Professor Colin McKeown
Professor Alice Lyons - Professor Marguerite Connolly
Professor Will O’Hara - Professor Clare Butler
18.00 – 21.00 - Orientation
21.00 – 24.00 - Freshers Ball

CLONES FILM FESTIVAL MARQUEE

9.00pm -
Opening of Film Festival Tent with
'140 Characters' - a series of short film clips shot in Dublin City featuring 140 people answering the same question... (2009 Areaman Productions approx. 30 minutes)

10.00pm -
You Think You Know. You Don’t Know: A Film About Two Door Cinema Club. Documentary about the ascending Co. Down indie/electro sensation
(2010 Gregg Houston approx. 55 minutes)

THE GOOD ROOM ( IN A TENT)

If the door is open pop in for a chat and a cup of cocoa and a knit a few lines of Captain Butty’s Christmas gaensai. If the nets are pulled it means that Kate is in her curlers and you’ll have to come back in the morning.

SATURDAY - 5th June

 

BUTTY BARN


12.00pm - Darach McDonald / Eoin McNamee
1.00 pm - Rowan Somerville
2.00 pm - Claudia Carroll
2.45 pm - Ed O’Loughlin/Brian Mc Gillowray/Declan Burke/Liam Flaterhey "Pulp Genius" debate.)
3.45 pm - Siofra O’Donovan/Tiffany Murray
4.30 pm - Timothy O’Grady
5.15 pm - Anne Enright
6.00 pm - The Dubliner Debate
with Special guests TBA
7.30. pm - Alexei Sayle
8.30. pm - Captain Hot-Knives
9.15. pm - Little John Nee
10.00. pm - Suzy Almond
11.00 pm - Larry Beau
11.45 pm - DJ TBA

SCANBITZ STAGE

12.00 pm – Frankie Dean
1.00 pm – Scottish Dancers
2.00 pm – The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
3.00 pm – The Gombeens
4.00 pm – The Cavan Singers
5.00 pm - Seven Days
6.00 pm - Scottish Feral Choir
7.00 pm - Peter McCaul
8.00 pm - Churchhill Silver Band

9.00 pm – Late - Saturday Nite Showband Spectacular with Crystal Swing ( and special guest, Lily Allen )

THE GONZO THEATRE MARQUEE

11.00am - Multi-denominational Church service, hosted by Father Seamus Quinn & The Reverend Helen Steed

12-1- ‘The Zoo Story’- by Edward Albee (reading)
1-2- ‘Cirque de Imaginaire’ by Trinity Graduate Students
         ‘Dickless Chix’ by Molly Heckard & Sarah Joyce
2-3- ‘The Wagon Finger’ by Seamus O’Rourke (Corn Mill Theatre)
3-4- ‘Mercury Memory’ by Orlaith Rafter, Directed by Charlie Bonner (World Premiere)
4-5 – ‘Mac’ by Harold Pinter (Fintan McKeown)
5-6 – ‘The Dublin Diaries’ by Trevor White
6-7 – ‘What’s Left of the Flag’ a new play by Jimmy Murphy
7-8 – ‘Stories from a Yellow Town’ by The Gombeens
8-8.30- ‘The Wake’ by Sinead O’Loughlin.
8.30 –10‘Flaying of Marsyas’- by Joe O’Byrne (World Premiere)
10-10.30- ‘Sounds Like Work’ Joey Burns and Robbie Perry- (Performance combining live wood sculpture, chain-sawing, and multi-media, to the music of the blind folded Gonzo Minstrels)
10.30- 11 Brouhaha (Muisc from Daragh Slacke and Peter Sheirdan)
(Sally O’Dowd- performance art piece with fire outside the theatre… at night fall.)

MONDO RANCHO TIFFIN TENT

HOSTED BY ' NIGHTHAWKS ' - DUBLIN

  1.00pm – Enda Reilly (Folk Music – with a punch)
  1.20pm – Colm Keegan (Poetry)
  1.30pm – Lennon v McCartney (Short Play)
  1.40pm – Trevor Browne (Comedy)
  1.55pm – Enda Muldoon (Comedy)
  2.10pm – Elder Roche (Smoky Piano Songs)
  2.40pm – Colm Liddy (Prose)
  2.45pm – David Lordan (Poetry)
  3.00pm – Shane Browne (Comedy)
  3.15pm – Kevin McGahern and Giles Brody (Sketch Comedy)
  3.30pm – Eva Queen (An eclectic blend of jazzy bluesy pop!)
  4.00pm – Lennon v McCartney (Short Play)
  4.10pm – Catherina Behan (Poetry)
  4.25pm – Emilie Conway and Robson Rocha (Brazilian Music)
  5.10pm – Brazilian Dance Performance
  5.30pm – Colm Liddy (Prose)
  5.45pm – Kalle Ryan (Poetry)
  6.00pm – Enda Reilly (Folk Music – with a punch)
  6.30pm – Stephen James Smith (Poetry)
  6.45pm – Kevin McGahern and Giles Brody (Sketch Comedy)
  7.00pm – Shane Browne (Comedy)
  7.15pm – Colm Keegan (Poetry)
  7.30pm – Jades Strings and Helene Hutchinson ( soprano / harp / cello)
  8.15pm – Elder Roche (Smoky Piano Songs)
  8.45pm – Trevor Browne (Comedy)
  9.00pm – Enda Muldoon (Comedy)
  9.15pm – The Ambience Affair (indie Music)
10.00pm – The Flaws (Indie Music)

'McENTEES' CAMPFIRE STAGE

All sorts of lovely acoustic stuff where the campfire will be smouldering away all weekend. The virtuoso Feile Oriel traditional players will be on late on Sat and Sun along with some fantasic guests such as TWOLIPS and David McKervey, THE HUMAN JUKE BOX, SUE GOGAN, KARINA CHARLES,PADDY Mc ENTEE ( no relation to the off-licence )...AND MORE

THE GOOD ROOM ( IN A TENT)

Back by popular demand - Kate Kerrigan will be hosting her Good Room at the Flat Lake accompanied by her co-hort fragrant Father Tony. With the ladies of Scone Central providing refreshments - The Good Room provides a bit of civilized respite from the mayhem of Flat Lake Fever.

12am – Angelus followed by Good Room Games. Silent Scrabble with the Child Who Can be Seen and Not Heard, Speed Knitting and Getting The Messages for Mammy. Refreshments available from the lovely ladies of Scone Central.

1pm – Boxty with special guest bestselling author Claudia Carroll - she’s really Nicola from Fair City – and she’s bringing her love rival Niamh with her!

1-2 – Bring Your Girlfriend to Meet My Mother. Good Marriage Material certificates and medals for all successful candidates. Clean under your nails lads – you have been warned!

Lunch: Hang Sangwiches and tea on sale from Scone Central as fundraiser for local Scotshouse community centre parish church.

3-4 – Entertainer extraordinare Little John Nee hosts our party pieces. How fast can you say the Our Father in Irish? Can you speed knit? Dance a jig? Sing a nice song? Or simply wiggle your ears or bend your fingers in an unnatural fashion? No matter how big or small, professionally learned, gifted or just plain infantile-but-very-funny- your party piece is – bring it along to The Good Room and add it to our Good Room YouTube Gift List.

6pm – 7pm Afternoon Tea with Mick McCormack and Anne Enright – well just who knows what these two literary heavyweights might end up talking about! Bukes we hope.

7-8pm – Supper and Bedtime Stories hosted by Kate and The Child Who Can Be Seen and Not Heard.



THE HURL 'Soft Knowledge Exchange' PAVILLION

Hosted by the HOME UNIVERSITY OF ROSCOMMON AND LEITRIM

11.00 – 13.00  - Elevenziz - treats from the HURL audio archive
13.00 – 18.00  - 20 lectures, starting every 15 minutes
18.00 – 19.00  - Open Mike knowledge exchange
20.00 – 22.00  - Speed Exchange

LECTURES include - Deeper into Nothing - How to Build a House for €25,000
Edward Gorey – Man or Myth? Soft Knowledge
The Essential Beauty and Secret Power of Limitations
Stendhal Syndrome and the Contemporary Cultural Tourist
A Short Treatise on Early Maps - fluidcity – The Mobile Rural Landscape - From Redskins to Red Necks – the Subcultures of New Orleans - Dance and Movement - Political Dances Past and Present - The History of the Free University – Progressions and Alternatives - Copyright – Freedom or Theft? - Flashback to the Future – The Role of Time in Film - When I was in Berlin …The Emotional Geography of The City - From Red Ink to Inkspot – The role of the bookseller in communities urban and rural.

Plus.....

SPEED EXCHANGE - Using a speed dating format, strangers exchange knowledge on assigned topics and get to know each other a little bit better …

EXAMINATION QUIZ - How much did you learn at the festival? A table style fiendish culture quiz with hugish cash prizes allows you to graduate with dignity and style.

ORIENTATION - What is this Home University thing anyway? - HURL members share their experiences and talk about knowledge exchange - Followed by a Freshers Ball and all that entails.

CLONES FILM FESTIVAL NON-PLASTIC FULL BLACK-OUT MARQUEE

11.00am
'Kid’s club'
Children’s films

2.00pm
'Short Film Programme'
...Selection of recent shorts from Ireland and around the globe

4.00pm
'Bogside Artists'
...Documentary introduced by one of the artists

6.00pm
'Dylan Tighe: A Journey To The End Of The Night'
...Theatre/multi-media performance reconstructing a journey from Beijing to Moscow

7.00pm
'Mik Artistik Documentary' A documentary fim about a favourite Flat Lake performer called 'Who is Mik Artistik?
11.00am
...Premiere of the new film about the Flat Lake regular by Irish filmmaker Jackie Jarvis
2010 Jackie Jarvis approx. 35 minutes

8.00pm
'Diabhal Ag An Damhsa'
...Irish-language drama-documentary about one fateful night in 1958, when the devil vistited a Co. Mayo dancehall
2009 Paddy Hayes approx. 30 minutes

9.00pm
'Only Human'
... Experimental feature by Iranian avantgardist Rouzbeh Rashidi
2009 Rouzbeh Rashidi approx. 75 minutes

SUNDAY - 6th June

BUTTY BARN

1.00pm - Malcolm Bennett / Ray Roughler-Jones

2.00 pm  - Dermot Healy
3.00 pm  - Louis De Paor
4.00 pm  - Viv Albertine
5.00 pm  - Raven
6.00 pm  - Todd Zuniga & The Literary Death Match
7.00 pm  - Mike McCormack

7.45 pm - 'MADAM' Sukie Smith

8.30 pm -  Judith Mok
9.15 pm  - Mundy & Shane McGowan
10.00 pm - Jack L
11.00 pm - DJ - TBA

SCANBITZ STAGE

12.00 pm – TBA
  1.00 pm – TBA

  2.00 pm - Mr T & The Biscuits

  3.00 pm – Humbuzzer
  4.00 pm – Simon Fagin

  5.00 pm - Shouting at Planes
  6.00 pm -  The Barry McGuigan Band

  7.00 pm – Frankie McDonald
  8.00 pm – Late

Sunday Nite Country & Western Ho Down with Frankie McBride,Cathy Durkin, Sean Loughrey & Guests

GONZO THEATRE MARQUEE

11- 11.30 ‘Sunday Mass’ An Alternative take on the traditional ceremony
12- 12.30 ‘Attempts On Her Life’ by Martin Crimp (Red Queen Theatre, Dublin)
12.30-1 ‘It Won’t be Great When I’m Not Here’ by Christian O’Reilly (TYGER, Galway)
1-2‘Short Stage’ by NUI Galway (3 one-act plays)
     -‘The Tree Experiement’ by Ciara O’Dowd,
     -‘Loves Me’ by Maeve Gormley, Sinead O’Loughlin, Shane McDermott (World Premiere)
     -‘Yeah, I wrote it, burned it, now go to hell!’ By Colm Byrne (World Premiere)
2-4 -The Open Flat Lakes Poetry Slam (MCs - The Gombeens)
4-5.30- ‘Emerald Germs of Ireland’ by Pat McCabe – (Livin Dred Theatre Co.)
5.30- 7- Jinx Lennon and Paula Flynn
7- 7.30- ‘Murder on Main St’ by Philip Doherty (The Gonzo Theatre- World Premiere)
7.30-8 - ‘Lauren’ by Clodagh Downing
8-9-– ‘Skullduggerry’ by Gerard O’Shea (Devise and Conquer, Naas- World Premiere)
9-10 –The Gonzo Club wrap up! … With The Glorious Basturds, Cormac McCann, The Arabian Spice Bellydancers and String Theory.

Over the weekend inside and outside the tent will be-
The Incredible Gonzo Zoo, Bingo, The Amazing Gonzo Botanical Gardens , A Graffiti Wall, Tarot card reading, A bake-off, The kids egg and spoon race, Kids space-hopper race, pony rides, adult three legged blind-folded egg and spoon race, The Flat Lakes Chocolate Nibbling Contest, Gonzo TV, performance art pieces, and much more!



THE MONDO RANCHO TIFFIN TENT

Hosted by  Blue Valentines Cafe Sessions - CAVAN 

2.00pm – Ciaran O'Neill - Music
2.45pm – Stephen James Smith – Performance poet
3.00pm – Robert Herbert – Performance poet
3.15pm – Connor Kelly – Performance poet (Music)
3.35pm – Riona Hartman - Music
4.20pm – Kate Tempest – Performance poet
4.35pm – Frank Rafferty – Performance poet
4.50pm – Poetry Chicks – Performance poets
5.10pm – The Amazing Few – Music
5.55pm – Stephen James Smith – Performance poet
6.10pm – Frank Rafferty – Performance poet
6.25pm – Robert Herbert – Performance poet
6.40pm – Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies - Music
7.25pm – Kate Tempest – Performance poet
7.40pm – Poetry Chicks – Performance poets
8.00pm – Stephen James Smith – Performance poet
8.15pm – Tucan - Music
9.00pm – Connor Kelly – Performance poet (Music)
9.20pm- Kate Tempest – Performance poet
9.35pm – Blind Yackety – Music

THE GOOD ROOM ( in a TENT)

12 Midday: The Angelus followed by mass and Good Room Games.

2-4pm: Sunday acoustic lunchtime jam with The Poetry Chicks, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Clara Rose, Mundy, Lily Allen, Shane McG – and whoever else is nice enough to get down with the “ordinary” people for a parlor sing-song in exchange for a slice of home-made tart and lots, and lots, and lots and lots of love.

5-6pm Priests Tea Party
Including: Folk Hymns with half-a-Toblerone, Johnny Ferguson.
Competitions: Guess The Saint and Spot The Real Priest PLUS Respectable Slow Dancing – Father Tony gets his ruler out and ladies, this is your chance to get up close and personal as the priests once-and-for-all ascertain the official “safe” dancing distance for a sin-free samba.

6-7pm – Supper Storytime with Kate Kerrigan. Kate will read from her latest novel Ellis Island and you can sit back and knit and chill in silence and stock up on Good Room piety before the last night of the Flat Lake goes mad altogether and you make a holy disgrace of yourself.

THE HURL 'Soft Knowledge Exchange' PAVILLION

HOSTED by the HOME UNIVERSITY OF ROSCOMMON & LEITRIM

11.00 – 13.00 - Sunday service from the audio archive
13.00 -  18.00 - 20 lectures, starting every 15 minutes
18.00 – 19.00 - Open Mike knowledge exchange
19.00 – 22.00 - Examination Quiz
22.00 – 24.00 - Graduation Ball

CLONES FILM FESTIVAL MARQUEE

10.45am - 'Kid’s club'
Children’s film TBA

12.15pm - 'Circus Born'
Feature documentary. A year in the life of the Irish national circus family, the Fossetts
2009 Matt Skinner - 85 minutes.

2.00pm - 'Le Pettit Ballon Blanc ' Live Coverage of the big GAA county match between Monaghan and Armagh... that Monaghan will win quite easily before going on to win the ALL IRELAND ...introduced by Eammon Dumpy.

( 2010 - Danny & Packo Fitzpatrick -  French Subtitles - 2 hrs )

4.00pm
'Eugene McCabe in conversation with John Maher '
An afternoon based around the work of writer Eugene McCabe. Including live performances, readings and extracts from the television plays.

5.30pm

'Death in the Fields'
Excellent recent Arts Lives documentary about Eugene McCabe
(2010 Dara McCluskey approx. 55 minutes)

7.00pm
'One Hundred Mornings'

Just back from Cannes. Exclusive screening of this new Irish apocalyptic drama starring Ciarán McMenamin and Alex Reid - introduced by the filmmakers.
(2009 Conor Horgan 83 minutes)

OUT & ABOUT - ALL WEEKEND

Apart from the scheduled venues there'll be tons going on all over the site.


VISUAL ART - Supervised by Monaghan's own internationally renowned artist HELEN STEELE - expect to see all kinds of wonderful things dotted around the site - includuing installatioins by Australian sculptor JONATHON LEAHEY, HELEN STEELE, DOREEN KENNEDY, AISHLING McGOVERN, graffiti artists SELF TAUT - a piece by THE BOGSIDE ARTISTS and a DVD installation by none other than the Queen of Irish Conceptual art herself - DOROTHY CROSS....
.....and JOE MALLON is putting together an auction in the same area where a host of Monaghan artists will havetheir work up for auction at very reasonable reserves.


THE CLASSIC ART CAR BOOT SALE - MARGO QUINN puts together a car boot sale full of arty goodies - and all knocked out at reasonable prices from the boots ( ' trunks ' if your American ) of 10 gorgeous classic motors supplied by the one and only St Eammon McKenna at SCANBITZ.


POETRY ON HORSBACK - OLIVER DIRKIN returns with his trusty nag, Ulysses, and an endless stream of crusty poems. Please don't feed the horse.

SPORTS DAY - DARREN ROONEY will be puting together tons of fun & games on the sports track... plus chucking the sheaf, mother-in-law, pig, cat or boyfriend....


KARAOKE WITH SHEEP - Don't be shy - the sheep aren't. Get a pint from the Baaaa - Get up and serenade your favourite wooly boy... enjoy yourself on the mic .... but strictly no touching.

JOKE - ' Whaddya' call three Cavan Sheep tied to a lamp post ? ' ... A LEASURE CENTRE !!!!!


KIDS STUFF - PAT FERRIN returns with a big bag of tricks for the pups - last year's drainpipe 'n ball will never be forgotten... not to mentio the coconut shy ....plus lots of interesting creative activities for the lille' ones.


GREAT FOOD - FRED MADDEN will be arranging the most spectacular display of incredible food from some of the best festival caterers in the country - pigs on spits, the double decker bus gang, Redmond from Mayo, Lisa McCabe and the Beattie Chipper... and a lovely coule from Ennisskillen who roast non-nuclear wholea nimals ..... you won't starve at the Flat Lake and you won't pay and arm and a leg either ! Pass the sauce.


GREAT PINTS   News just came through that JUDGE McBRIDE this very morning granted our drinks licence - so it's a big slán, cheers, down the hatch, ouch ai, iach dda to him and the Clones Courthouse Posse - the best draught pints at any festival will be on tap C/o Connollys bar in Scothouse - and Oi! Remember to get your late night campfire cans before the bar closes!