A podcast from Bang Bang cafe in Phibsboro Dublin. A mixed bag of discussion, interviews and discussions on topics related to music, sport, culture and politics. Available wherever you get your podcasts…

In late 2015 brother and sister Daniel and Grace opened Bang Bang, named after the famous Dublin street character whose real name was Thomas Dudley.

Both had seen small independent stores whilst living in Australia and New York, and thought, “we can do that”.

We knew we wanted to have an off street location where people could relax and bring their kids and dogs, and we knew we wanted to have tasty food and top coffee. But we also wanted it to be different, it had to be fun and relaxed, and it had to have good tunes and feel like a nice place to be.

There was one thing that was more important than all. We had seen most stores, large and small, stock products from all over the world, products that could be found locally, and whilst globalisation has it benefits, we don’t believe shipping goods from one side of the world to the other is one of them. We wanted the products we put on our shelves to be the best products from as local as possible.

We wanted to concentrate on localisation over globalisation.

We source as many of our products from as local as possible – we think its both good for the planet and it’s good to support the little people in a time of ever growing inequality…