Finally.
Hopeless Surfer tweetz:
Help keep your Xmas consumption to sensible levels with this handy guide…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Current and former employees of Independent News and Media (INM) and their supporters demonstrating against significant pension cuts at INM in Dublin on Monday
As a great-granddaughter of William Martin Murphy – founder of Independent News & Media (INM) – I and many of his relatives are shocked and disgusted at the behaviour of the board of INM in reference to the pension debacle.
Murphy was a fair and honest man and would never have taken away his workers’ pension rights. As a country we seem to have lost decency in a lot of business behaviour.
Ann Young,
Newcastle,
Co Wicklow.
INM pension scandal (The Irish Times letters page)
Previously: A Curtain Fall
Rollingnews
Flock That
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBcIRXMKaI
The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s theme) by John Williams, doinked out on a table edge with a coffee stirring stick by Russian YouTuber Истории Рабиновича.
Impressive.
Locked Out?
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Ruth McDonagh tweetz:
Found this key last week around Tivoli Terrace area of Dun Laoghaire. Would like to get it back to its owner.
Anyone?
…a holistic candle from the Candle Cottage is your only man.
‘Chandler’ Ingé writes:
I am a Kildare-based chandler, and create Holistic Soyabean Candles. My business is called Candle Cottage and my range includes Hot Oil Massage Candles (You actually pour these on your skin and come in seasonal blends), and Aromatherapy Candles (these you burn like any other candle with each one designed to stimulate a Chakra point)…
You had us at soyabean, in fairness.
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee
Grafton Street, Dublin 2
Weezer writes;
If you can watch this without getting upset, you are a stronger person than me. #LostGirls
Free Friday?
Ash writes;
Warriors of The Light is an evening of music, poetry and storytelling organised by Dublin GAA star Kevin McManamon and his best friend Mark Swaine.
The event is a forum where people share stories about mental health, and their tools for maintaining wellbeing.
All proceeds from the gig will go to SOAR, an organisation which runs wellness programmes for young people.
The inaugural event in May included performances from Danny O’Reilly (The Coronas), Róisín Ó, Cry Monster Cry and Stephen James Smith, and this Friday, more of the country’s finest talent will take to the stage. All will be revealed on the night!
Warriors Of The Light takes place in Café Blás (The Chocolate Factory), 26 King’s Inns St, Dublin 1 on Friday, December 9, with doors opening at 7pm and the show starting at 7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased at link below. Thank you.
Thwack!
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Last week, we offered you the chance to win a fluttering €25 voucher for Golden Discs, usable at any of music giant’s 14 locations around the country.
We asked you to complete this sentence:
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be_______________________especially during_____________________________’
It was another hard one to call…
But ‘Yer Man There’ has it.
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be James Jamerson especially during the Motown era of Marvin Gaye. His playing is the stuff of legend, and not something that they teach in no fancy music schools. Listen to the way he carves out his own space by shifting ahead of the beat or behind it, or sitting on a note unexpectedly, while never sacrificing the groove or taking away from Marvin Gaye’s vocal (as if that was possible). An extremely influential musician who unfortunately never got the recognition he deserved and lived a poor, hard life.
Hard to argue, that.
Some more highlights from the going:
Yep: “The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Victor Wooten, of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones especially during Amazing Grace. Showing mastery of technique while transforming the song from sonic bliss to infectious grove and everywhere between.”
Martin: “The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Jaco Pastorius, especially during his life.”
Royal M: “The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Geddy Lee of Rush especially during Digital Man from the Signals album.”
Birneybau2: “Stephen Morris, amazing. Bernard Sumner, terrible lyricist, amazing guitarist. Ian Curtis, one of the greatest. Peter Hook; ’nuff said.”
Serval: “The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Andy Rourke, especially during This Charming Man.”
Thanks all
Bassists (above) clockwise from top left: James Jamerson; Andy Rourke; Victor Wooton; Jaco Pastorius; Geddy Lee; Peter Hook.
No Mark King?
Thumb denial.
Last week: All our Bass Are Belong To Us