[Thanks to Dave Kelly for the demos.]
According to Irish Punk and New Wake Discography, the Outpatients were:
[a] Finglas area quartet who recorded some demo tapes in 1987-88 described as ‘infectious’ by Hot Press. They appeared on Danceline’s Swimming Out of the Pool compilation in 1988, had a single on Danceline in 1989, and split in […]
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Here is a short seven-minute clip of Thomas Mac Giolla speaking at the Desmond Greaves School last September. I was there to record Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan for an audio podcast, but when Thomás got up to speak I grabbed my digital camera and filmed as much as I could before the memory card […]
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Posted in The Wire, TV on Feb 6th, 2010 No Comments »
There is a theory that all TV takes place within the mind of Tommy Westphall.
The idea is that characters (as opposed to simply actors) cross-over from different shows, reappearing and disappearing as thoughts in Tommy’s head.
There is a map of this universe, available here.
For my own small part, here’s a video showing the […]
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Posted in Idle Thoughts on Feb 4th, 2010 6 Comments »
My choice for album of the year for 2009, Merriweather Post Pavilion from Animal Collective, was released fairly early in the proceedings; January, in fact. I had thought that the music industry wisdom was not to make new offerings in that month, as nobody is buying after Christmas. Perhaps that memo was rescinded and now, […]
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Posted in dublin on Feb 4th, 2010 8 Comments »
[ Vikus Van de Merwe under the Muddership from IMDB Gallery ]
According to one of those pub myths (of the type The Brother might pass on to you) - no other than yer man Lenin spoke English with a pronounced Dublin accent. It could even be narrowed down to a Rathmines accent, due […]
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Every so often the question comes up: why doesn’t Labour drop its links with the unions?
To which I usually reply: it should, as long as Fianna Fáil promises to do the same.
So much of Irish labour history is assumed, with the theories of what happened influenced by the British template of how organised labour functions […]
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Posted in dublin, music on Feb 1st, 2010 No Comments »
[ Photo from Dave Murphy & Friends MySpace ]
Dave Murphy is one of those Dublin institutions who has never really been on the media’s radar - and most likely prefers it that way. I was reminded of him during January when Kevin Courtney paid a nice tribute to him in the Irish […]
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