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Yearly Archives: 2016
An accomplished short by Tom Teller in which a wistful robotic kitchen porter is promised a release from his drudgery.
The Irish Youth Music Awards are back, and Volume 9 of their annual series of compilations, featuring winners and nominees, is available now for pre-order from iTunes.
The programme, which engages with musicians aged 12-19 via Youth Work Ireland, provides training, education, and first-contact work experience in music for young people, with help from IMRO, IRMA and Irish music media.
Release date is this Friday, and the IYMAs and producers are pushing for chart placement for the young bands, artists and producers featured
You know what to do.
Launch show happens this Sunday afternoon, at the Roisín Dubh in Galway.
Jill On Hill
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV1mRC4jCFA
Gulp.
Lentil-groper and US Presidential candidate Jill Stein, of the Green Party discusses the prospect of a Hillary Clinton White House in the wake of the recent Wikileaks revelations.
Armageddon out of here.
Thanks Paudge
Lifted from The Smiths Smithposting, weird Facebook’s leading repository of Morrissey memes purposely identified as having anything to do with The Cure.
Possibly not true, but entirely feasible, and incredibly funny.
FIGHT!
The late guitarist Rory Gallagher is to be honoured with a new statue outside the Ulster Hall in Belfast, where he performed many times over the years and where there’s already a plaque in his honour.
Gallagher’s birthplace of Ballyshannon in Donegal has a life-sized bronze statue, while Cork where he was raised, named Rory Gallagher Place after him in 1997. There have also been several commissioned street-art tributes, plaques and a bid by citizens to rename the airport after him.
Rory Gallagher to be honoured with statue outside Belfast’s Ulster Hall (Planet Rock)
Graham Norton
Norton!
Bublé!
Dolan!
Gareth Naughten writes:
Michael Bublé brought the house down when he visited The Late Late Show studio recently. On Friday night, viewers will get to see the Canadian troubadour in action as he performs a recent hit and one of his classics; and he chats to Ryan Tubridy about life on the road now that he’s a father of two.
Chatshow host and comedian-turned-crime novelist Graham Norton will discuss life as one of the UK’s most beloved TV presenters….
Four-time All-Ireland winning Kerry footballer Kieran Donaghy will discuss his stunning career on the pitch and how he achieved those feats while dealing with a turbulent home life.
Donal Skehan pops in to talk about building his ever expanding empire
We celebrate the legendary Joe Dolan with a very special performance by country star of the moment, Nathan Carter, as he duets – via the magic of archive footage – with the late Mullingar crooner on his classic hit ‘Make Me an Island’.
*Kicks telly*
Late Late Show, this Friday, RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
Pic: Daily Telegraph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrFnf3Oa0Ko
Korean film-maker Kojer has juxtaposed some of the all-time classics from the Studio Ghibli catalogue against real-life scenes and backgrounds.
And it works. In fairness.
Previously: Rest Well
Fair Lankum
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Contemporary folk/trad outfit Lynched have today announced that they will no longer be going under the name, for reasons stated above.
Having used it for over a decade, in fairness, they have far outgrown its original use, when the brothers Lynch were a punk performance-art duo.
Lankum, as they will henceforth be known, is a name that draws from Irish Traveller culture, and rather suits their socially-conscious attitudes and output.
Fight!
This afternoon.
Dublin city centre.
The Union of Students (USI) in Ireland estimate 5,000 students joined their national demonstration today to warn the government of the impact of income-contingent loans on students and young people.
The march headed towards the Department of the Taoiseach for a performance by the Rubberbandits and a call on the Government and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills to choose the publicly-funded third level education model as outlined in the Cassells Report.
FIGHT!
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