Throw Away - Dublin Nightclub Flyers - 1990-1999

Text - Ciarán Nugent
Design - Peter Maybury

Editors - Ciarán Nugent & Peter Maybury

Club flyers were an integral part of dance music culture and they played a central role in the promotion of Dublin’s dance music scene in the 1990s. Throw Away is not a comprehensive social or musical history of that period, instead, it provides insights into Dublin city’s dance music scene. Across 304 pages, with over 1,100 reproductions, the book reflects the scene’s progression from initial rave phenomenon to mainstream acceptance. Throw Away documents a changing Dublin city, where the dance music scene took hold with a generation of ambitious promoters and venue owners. Almost all of the venues have since been demolished, or have changed use. The flyers contained in this book reflect a Dublin that has largely disappeared.

  • Limited Edition of 400 copies

  • Published by Image text sound editions, Dublin - ISBN 978-0-9559421-2-9

  • Printed by SYL L’Art Gràfic, Barcelona

  • Book printed on 100% recycled Cyclus Offset, Cover printed on Munken Lynx.

Biographies

 

Ciarán Nugent

Ciarán Nugent (aka The Golden Maverick) has been deejaying on PowerFM for 25 years. He has deejayed in many of the venues featured in this book, including The Ormond Multimedia Centre, Columbia Mills, The Mean Fiddler, The Funnel, Switch, The POD, and Andrew’s Lane Theatre. An intermittent writer, he has previously contributed articles to In Dublin magazine, Noise magazine, the Dublin Event Guide, the DEAF 2003 event programme and the Underground book. Between 2006 to 2008 he produced the Matt Vinyl blog.

Ciarán is grateful to Peter for physically recreating the idea of the Throw Away book. The idea had existed in Ciarán’s head for several years until the collaboration with Peter made the magic happen.

Peter Maybury

Peter Maybury’s practice-based research sees him operating at the interstices of disciplines. An artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, publisher, writer, editor, curator, musician, and educator, his output spans more than 25 years during which he has collaborated extensively with artists and institutions, editors, and curators, on more than 200 publications.

His film work includes Landfall (2020), an hour-long dual-screen film installation work, originally commissioned by Thisispopbaby, and several films with Tom dePaor including A Study (2015) made for exhibition at ETH Zurich, and These Islands, Slievemore, Dooagh, Keel East, Co. Mayo (2013); first shown at The Everyday Experience, Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Peter is the author of Make Ready (Gall Editions, 2015), and co-author with dePaor of Reservoir (Gall Editions, 2010) and Of (Gall Editions, 2012). With Dennis McNulty he co-curated and edited the Underground exhibition and book (Image text sound editions, 2008). His music projects include Hard Sleeper, Rainfear, Thread Pulls, and releases under his own name for labels such as Emigré Music (US), Sub Rosa (BEL), Fällt (NI); Osaka (IRL); and C/F (NI).

Peter lectures in Visual Communication at TU Dublin School of Creative Arts.

We’d like to thank the following for their support and advice in bringing Throw Away to the masses:

  • Totally Dublin Magazine, Leeson St Lower, Dublin 2

  • Hen’s Teeth Store, Cafe & Gallery, Blackpitts, Dublin 8

  • The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

  • Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

  • Vanessa at The Complex, Arran St East, Dublin 7

  • Richard at The Tenth Man, 68 Pleasants Place, Dublin 8

  • Dave Fanning & Cormac Burke at RTE Radio 2FM