Blog: State Magazine

"Is this the in place to be? What am I doing here? Watching the girls go by..." Saturday night in Dublin and a lot has changed since The Specials were last in town. Despite our economic woes there are still plenty of people out for a night on the tiles, no doubt helped by the occasion of a reasonably important football match. Inside the historic confines of the Olympia, however, time has not progressed so radically. The place is awash with slightly portly men with short hair and Fred Berry shirts, pork pie hats and an air [...]