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Ghostking‘post-mortem’ from Cork

What you may need to know…

01. Last we saw of young Corkman Matt Corrigan’s solo ‘post-mortem’ project Ghostking, he’d just released his second E.P.

02. Latest extended-player Leaf sees Corrigan move away from guitars and reverb, and into more structured, keys-and-beats territory, for the main.

03. It’s streaming above, rolled out quietly over Spotify last weekend, and released last night on Bandcamp, etc on a free/donations.

04. No word yet on more live appearances – the lad is three extended-players into his body of work and hasn’t even done his Leaving Cert, in fairness.

Verdict: As technically accomplished as you’d expect from a musical prodigy, with a bone-dry sense of humour to boot. Grand.

Ghostking

Liam Geraghty writes:

Thought you might be interested to hear an interview with the Jax Banksy aka Dublin-based artist Mick Minogue that was on Culture File on RTÉ Lyric fm yesterday. In it, Mick talks about giving physical form to memes including his deadly Nyan Cat piece for Gallery 1988 in LA (above) And I’m pretty confident it was the first (and probably last!) time the Nyan Cat theme was played on Lyric!

Listen here.

Above: Kilroy Was Here (pre-WW2), Frodo Lives (1960s), Mad Magazine’s Alfred E Neuman (likely derived from 19th century anti-Irish caricatures) and the Sator Square (created at the time of the Roman Empire).

…you already know what a “meme” is. But you may not realize that the concept — a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all — predates the Internet generation by a long shot. Although it was more difficult for a phrase or image to “go viral” before all this technology, pointless memes still found their way to every corner of the globe.

7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed (Cracked)