Connecting with Des Bishop
by Sarai Fernandez on February 4th, 2010
Yesterday our 10 contest winners, Conor and I went to see Des Bishop at The Button Factory, sponsored by ESB Customer Supply. The gig was excellent, where Des Bishop talked about many things, among others his father’s illness, with his unique style making hilarious things that other people could find uncomfortable to talk about.
After the gig we have the opportunity to do a short interview to Des, who told us some tips for young comedians on why they should engage in social media. The video of the interview is coming soon, but for the moment here are the photographs we took with him.
This event was the final point in the campaign Des Bishop and Jim have run to encourage people to save energy during the last 6 months. We want to thank Des for his time which we enjoyed, to ESB Customer Supply and McConnells for the tickets and Eleanor for a wonderful warm-up at the event.
And the Des Bishop tickets winners are …
by Sarai Fernandez on February 3rd, 2010
Tonight we’re going to ESB Des Bishop gig at The Button Factory with 5 funny guys, who posted a great comment on our blog, and their companions. And the winners are:
Cat Egan
Will Lynch
Alan Kennedy
Colin Egan
Mark Condron
Congratulations guys! See you at 7.oo at The Button Factory! And for the others, thank you very much for taking part in the contest.
After the gig, Conor will interview Des Bishop, so if there’s anything you want to know send us your questions!
Connector Weekly – 1st Feb 2010
by Sarai Fernandez on February 1st, 2010
This week at Connector … We are about to launch Connector Training Courses, to get more info click here.
Connector @ Events
Last week was great for Connector too! We had the Speed Connector, and we fundraised to support our pal Adrian Garry’s volunteering trip to Haiti. And now we’re looking for Tribes to parcitipate in our next event “Connector Tribal Love” on the 25th Feb at the Science Gallery
Conor was a guest for the Bootcamp at Stillorgan, the show run by the SFA which helps business to become more professional, more productive and more profitable, check their next venues on the website.We are going to the
ESB Des Bishop’s Gig at the Button Factory this Wednesday with 10 winners from Connector.
The second edition of the Dublín Web Summit will be on thursday, and besides high profile speakers, Connector will organise the networking party after the workshops.
Cool things are happening in Dublin the next days: The Irish Film Institute is having a free movies day on January 8th, the Postgrad Fair on the 16th and the Dublin Central Library will host a free workshop for jobseekers on the 25th.
Connector Links
Some links we like on the Internet… : Business Chamber, a free tool for local networking; Sagespark, a platform with lots of tools and services for small business; Bump Technologies an application for your mobile to share contact details, and 2night a website and a magazine to help you decide where the fun is going to start.
Social Media
And some news about the Social Media: A special report on Social Networking by The Economist, new data about time spent in social networking sites and a webinar run by the Irish Internet Association.
Have a look at the latest appearances on the media: On Thursday, The Irish Independent published an interview with Conor and The Sunday Times tackled Social Networking with the Conor highlighting the issue. Besides that , Conor wrote his regular column in The Digital Times and we have sent out the January eNews.
10 FREE tickets to ESB Customer Supply's Des Bishop Unplugged Gig!
by Sarai Fernandez on January 18th, 2010
DEADLINE EXTENDED !! NEW CLOSING DATE FRI 29TH JAN @ 6PM
We’re giving away 5 pairs of tickets to ESB Customer Supply’s exclusive Des Bishop gig at the Button Factory. Want to be one of our winners? Just add a comment to this post or the Connector Facebook Group with a funny link to a joke or a video and be in with a chance to win 2 tickets to enjoy a unique show, on Wednesday February 3rd.
Just find something funny on the the Internet and you could get one of the 5 pairs of tickets Connector has to give away!
After the gig, there will be a DJ on stage and you will have a good chance to connect with the other Connector guests … So what are you waiting for? Send us your links before 18.00 on January 29th.
Indeed this is the finale to the ESB Customer Supply’s Des Bishop Unplugged energy saving campaign. Since last August Des Bishop has been writing a blog when he shares energy saving tips he’s been learning during this time. Additional tickets can also be won on www.desbishopunplugged.ie.
Good luck!
Republic of Loose connects with Damien Dempsey
by connector on June 17th, 2008
If you live in Ireland and have nothing planned for the August Bank Holiday Weekend (July 29th – August 3rd) you should head to Oldcastle, Co, Meath. Famous for making beds & Pacheco, Oldcastle is now firmly & deservedly on the Irish musical map & festival calendar.
It is the 11th year of the fantastic Le Cheile annual music & arts festival and the great line up this year includes -
Friday 1st August
The Blizzards, The Flaws, Cowboy X,
Saturday 2nd August
Republic Of Loose, Damien Dempsey & Support, Robotnik, Simon Fagan,
Sunday 3rd August
Cathy Davey, The Aftermath, The Kinetiks, The Dolldrums
Tickets on sale in Crean & Caffreys, Oldcastle Co Meath & E2 Music in Navan. Congrats to all for the hard work to line up such great acts.
So what is my connection to le Cheile ? Well I am from Oldcastle and have been at quite a few Le Cheiles and they are always great craic. This year I have connected my friends in Robotnik (Chris & Martin) with Le Cheile’s music promoter Adrian Garry so that is kinda coool.
Robotnik is gonna kick ass in The OC !!
This is the 11th year of the festival – 1998 was the first year. Previous acts at the festival have included Republic of Loose, The Frames, Director, Delorentos, Des Bishop, The Blizzards, P.J Gallagher, Hothouse Flowers, Shane MacGowan, Mundy, Kila, The 4 of Us, The Flaws, Something Happens, The Immediate, Revelino, Blink, Turn, Ham Sandwich, The Walls, Altan, Sickboy, Straglers, SubZero, Picture House, Patrick McDonald, Roesy, Relish, Neosupervital, The Undertones, John Spillane, Jack L, Michael Mee, Tara Flynn, Naked Camera, Cowboy X, Neil Delamere, Barry Murphy, Reuben, Sack, Aslan, Dave McSavage, The ReVs, Stagger Lee, Little Palace, The Barleyshakes, Blew, Dara, Saw Doctors, Pierce Turner, Juliet Turner, The Weapons Inspectors, Money$hot, The VanWinkles, The McCluskeys, Jalopy, Little Sister Sage, Rebel, Obsolete, [LOST], Davy Dunne, Staccato, House of Mexico, Mary Coughlan, The Barleyshakes, Jacuzze Jungle, The Keds, Jupiter Scream, McBane, Innate, Waif, Surface, Naked Flame, etc….
