Posted in music on May 10th, 2010 5 Comments »
I knew very little about Hope Sandoval, or the Warm Inventions apart from a few stray things when I went along to the gig in Whelan’s last Friday.
Basically, I knew she was the singer with Mazzy Star whose album Among My Swan I have had for years but which I haven’t listened to that […]
Posted in music on Apr 14th, 2010 6 Comments »
Woke up this morning feeling like Vincent Hanley… hence this meandering post containing five or so promo vids with tenuous connections. My starting point was that recent Erykah Badu vid where she goes all Sinéad O’Connor. In what is apparently a protest against the invasion of her privacy - she proceeds to conduct Operation effin’ […]
Posted in music on Mar 29th, 2010 9 Comments »
Another piece of frivolity, this -from Italian graphist Alberto Antoniazzi via that excellent French music blog La Blogotheque
The map is available in various sizes on this flickr page. Should be of interest to trainspotters and rock bores alike. I see comments on the various absentees approaching in my crystal […]
Posted in music on Mar 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
Shellshock Rock Pt 1
A chance find on YouTube - appears to have turned up not long after I did this post on Belfast / Norn Iron punk. Somebody FedEx a case of vintage Buckfast to saintly Japanese person heyohkubo3 and put it on DO Tower’s tab please.
Links to the other 5 parts of the […]
Posted in music on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
[ De Jemser that time he didn’t go down too well Upstairs in The International / Photo Ottacaro WEISS pinched from www.istrianet.org ]
Conventional as Joyce’s poetry is, we have to at least give the man credit for its musicality. Syd Barrett spotted this and gave us his wonderful version of ‘Golden Hair’ […]
Posted in obituary, music on Mar 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
Posted in music on Feb 25th, 2010 15 Comments »
I swear to youse - I didn’t go looking for this. After I’d finished puking up behind a flower pot during the cocktail reception, Graham Linehan’s site pointed me in the direction of fellow comedy writer, Robert Popper where these 4 or so minutes were lurking. I had foolishly believed Ireland had evolved […]
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 […]
Posted in music on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Here’s a streamed version of the soon to be released Four Tet album There Is Love In You
According to the Domino site “There Is Love In You is Kieran Hebden’s first full length album in over four years and is his fifth LP to date”.
That would explain why I haven’t heard much of […]
Posted in music on Jan 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
FOOTNOTE FOR THE FREE PRESBYTERIAN DOOR TO DOOR SQUADS : No particular gloating comment on the Robinson household… but word of the whole mess has even gotten down to the French media… I just happened to come across this gem from amid the detritus of 90s latenight telly up on YouTube :
