S|R ::: CALENDAR
Thurs 19th-Sat 21st Sept ::: Live Performance Programme
TRADIATOR Events
Thursday 19th :::
TRADIATORS: The Try-Outs & Training Camp
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-23:00
[Performance, live music and DJs] - Ticketed
Meet reigning TRADIATORS and learn the traditional fighting styles of the Irish drinking man! Test your metal in entry challenges and train to become a TRADIATOR in Saturday’s TRADIATORS: The Tournament!
A sports-themed evening of absurdist performance on a wrestling show format, with live music intervals and DJ accompaniment. The night will showcase current Heros and Heels, enlist fans and cede the floor to any daring audience contenders wishing to compete
[Interactive]
TRADIATORS: The DIY Sportswear Sweatshop
HOLD 1 ::: 15:00-18:00
[Workshop] - Ticketed
Contenders, fans and supporters create DIY sportswear in our post-consumerist sweatshop! Bring spare T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies, and come away with your own custom merch, that bigs up your fave TRADIATOR, your Sports Club and your SELF!
[Interactive]
Friday 20th :::
Saturday 21st :::
TRADIATORS: The Supporters-Club
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-20:00
[Themed space hosted by TRADIATORS] - Ticketed
Reigning TRADIATORS welcomes fans and Tournament contenders in the ‘Supporters-Club’ and dressing room as they prepare for the night’s BIG Tournament.
DIY Sportswear from Friday’s Sweatshop can be picked up!
[Interactive]
Jinxing the Rave: Trad, Porn & Fighting…
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Top 10 Hits Der Woche: The DIY Balade Hit-Parade (19:30-20:30) Showcasing new songs and collaborations from the Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Balad Workshop.
TRADIATORS: The Tournament (21:00-22:00). The Heros and Heels of Trad-Fighting, with their fans and followers in tow, battle it out with fresh Hamburg faces for the title of reigning TRADIATOR!
Irish artists and musicians explore, expand and satirise folk forms (22:00-04:00). With The Goblinz, Branwen Kavanagh, ‘Punk Urban Poet’ Jinx Lennon*, The Ruskavellas, Trad Porn: Cowboys and Hoors [The Musical!], The Four-Horsemen of The Apocalypse Derby (Death, Famine or War?! Place your bets and win BIG!) with storytelling and céilí-calling by Hugh Cooney, for The Ultimate Trad Wife: Competition and Céilí, spilling into a Trad Rave finale!
* “Ireland's premier punk-poet” The Irish Times