{"id":338,"date":"2012-09-06T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:19:40","slug":"the-summer-of-the-swedish-house-mafia-035-sep-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-summer-of-the-swedish-house-mafia-035-sep-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The summer of the Swedish House Mafia (035, Sep 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>\u00a0is coming home. After a summer spent yakking up and down the country \u2013 thanks to everyone who was involved in our sessions at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/2012\/07\/04\/make-a-move-time-in-limerick\/\">Limerick\u2019s Make A Move festival<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/2012\/07\/10\/hit-the-northwest-banter-and-the-earagail-arts-festival\/\">Donegal\u2019s Earagail Arts Festival<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/2012\/05\/25\/banter-presents-a-conversation-with-nile-rodgers\/\">Galway Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/2012\/08\/22\/banter-at-the-electric-picnic-did-the-media-fail-ireland\/\">Electric Picnic<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 we\u2019re heading back to base for the autumn\/winter season.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off an action-packed couple of months, we start with one of the news stories of the summer.\u00a0<strong>The summer of the Swedish House Mafia\u00a0<\/strong>will look at how what should have been a lively, enjoyable day out in the Phoenix Park for 45,000 people became, to judge by some post-event coverage and commentary, a threat to the very fabric of society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/files\/295037_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/blogs\/ontherecord\/files\/295037_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Swedish House Mafia onstage in Dublin\u2019s Phoenix Park in July<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Along the way, dance music found itself once again in the dock. We\u2019ve been here before and we\u2019ll probably be here again, but it was quite incredible and startling to see electronic music getting a rap on the knuckles on this occasion. From op-ed pieces to the authorities keen to pin the blame on someone for their lack of preperation, dance music found itself once again to be public enemy number one.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll examine the fallout from this event and what it means for dance music and club culture in the future with panelists\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/platinumjones\">Conor Behan<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/spin1038.com\/\">Spin 1038<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcn.ie\/\">GCN<\/a>, DJ),\u00a0<strong>Brian Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/opinion\/2012\/0710\/1224319720403.html\">The Irish Times<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/djmarkkavanagh\">Mark Kavanagh<\/a>\u00a0(assistant editor<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.ie\/\">Irish Daily Star<\/a>, DJ) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brianspollen\">Brian Spollen<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/mcd.ie\/\">MCD Concerts<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The details:\u00a0<strong>the summer of the Swedish House Mafia<\/strong>\u00a0takes place at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) on Wednesday September 26. Doors open at 7.30pm-ish, the Banter gets underway at 8pm and will consist of a panel discussion followed by an audience Q&amp;A. Admission is free (you need to be signed up to our mailing list which you will find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/embeddedform?formkey=dDNoY0xLRW9OQ2I0bGduTml0R0N2VUE6MA\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And keep\u00a0<strong>October 24<\/strong>\u00a0free in your diary for a very special Banter event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banter\u00a0is coming home. After a summer spent yakking up and down the country \u2013 thanks to everyone who was involved in our sessions at\u00a0Limerick\u2019s Make A Move festival,\u00a0Donegal\u2019s Earagail Arts Festival, the\u00a0Galway Arts Festival\u00a0and the\u00a0Electric Picnic\u00a0\u2013 we\u2019re heading back to base for the autumn\/winter season. Kicking off an action-packed couple of months, we start with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-summer-of-the-swedish-house-mafia-035-sep-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The summer of the Swedish House Mafia (035, Sep 2012)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}