Showing posts with label Carnew Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnew Street. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 April 2019

'Dancing Bug' in Oxmantown


Yet another music vid shot in Stoneybatter's back streets. It's for the single "Dancing Bug", a collaboration between Aoife McCann aka Æ Mak on vocals and Le Boom - electronic duo Aimie Mallon and Chris Leech.

Prominent from the start is Carnew Street, also used by the Spice Girls two decades ago for their "Stop" video. Watch out for the fleeting but excellent drone shots of the grid of terraced streets of Oxmantown.

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

When the Spice Girls did Stoneybatter



The Spice Girls came to Stoneybatter on 27 January 1998. They were in town anyway to rehearse for their world domination tour, which kicked off a month later in Dublin's Point Theatre, but they needed a quiet and quaint backstreet location to shoot their video for "Stop". They found Carnew Street.