The Rubberbandits: Totally uncut and unhinged

The Rubberbandits haven't quite gone about things in the Leonard Cohen order of business by taking Manhattan before Berlin, but they're set to storm the Big Apple tonight.

Everyone's favourite Limerick gangster-rap-gone-bonkers duo plays the Dominion Theatre in New York this very evening by invitation of MTV . The context is certainly intriguing, as they're probably Ireland 's most popular export of the YouTube era.

Blind Boy Boat Club (Dave Chambers) and Mr Chrome (Bob McGlynn) have a habit of finishing each other's sentences like some kind of deranged married couple. "If New York is a man's genitals in a state of arousal, then Limerick city is..." Blind Boy begins. "A man's genitals after an icy dip in the sea," concludes Mr Chrome with a flourish.

Backstage at the UCD Ball, as Katy B is doing her level best to be a 21st-century dubstep pop goddess, The Rubberbandits are dreaming of their ideal festival line-up. " UB40 and Neil Diamond doing Red Red Wine," begins Blind Boy. " Pete Best and George Best doing the songs of ABBA with the drummer from Def Leppard playing the violin. Nirvana and Wet Wet Wet doing a DJ set." Mr Chrome suddenly interjects. " Enya singing into a whelk seashell and holding it up to your ear. She sounds like the sea. A depressed sea." "I'd say she knows how to get her hands on some good acid though," remarks Blind Boy. Goodness .

If Lloyd George said negotiating with Eamon DeValera is like picking up mercury with a fork, then interviewing the Rubberbandits is like trying to bottle it. Incidentally, they have a song called Double Dropping Yokes With Eamon DeValera, but more of that later.

In April, The Rubberbandits were unanimously hailed as the major hit of the Trinity Ball. While they were the belles of the ball, English pop sensation Jessie J didn't apparently have such a great night. "Just came offstage at the Trinity Ball," she tweeted. "Probably one of the hardest gigs to date. To see so many people so drunk they couldn't even stand. Girls unconscious and literally trampling on each other."

The Rubberbandits posted a clip on YouTube before the queen's visit, offering some advice to her majesty. "I hope she saw it," says Blind Boy. "It'll be silly not to show it to her. If I was visiting a country and I knew that someone was going to chase me with dogshit at the end of a golf club (a claim they made in Up the Ra if the queen ever visited this country) then I'd want to know about it. Whenever Oscar Wilde is referred to as gay, he's Irish and whenever he's referred to as a genius, he's English. He was a bent Irish genius. End of story.

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All I can say is, "Thank God." Near term I get rid of tons of cables -- I have seven attached to my MBP on my desktop right now (external monitor, FW800 for external drive, Ethernet, FW400 for scanner, USB for keyboard, USB for printer, and audio out to external speakers). Long-term it is possible Thunderbolt will enable changes we can't envision right now.

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