Yearly Archives: 2017

Lords-Of-Strut City Spectacular

We’re out of punny headlines featuring the word “Quarter”, so we’ll get straight to it: acrobats/performance messers Lords of Strut have been added to Quarter Block Party in Cork, the weekend after next.

And will perform in a bistro!

Famous Séamus (above holding Seantastic) will back in town on Saturday February 4 at 7pm, and are cooking up a storm. To wit:

What if Lords of Strut were not the dancing acrobatic legends we know today, but were two unknown brothers working for their uncle Tony, in his Bistro on North Main Street? The brothers spend each day of their week serving Tony’s customers, while they dream of becoming the greatest dancers that ever lived…

The fantastic comedy duo Lords of Strut have devised a site-specific show set in Tony’s Bistro, North Main Street. Lords of Strut will be serving a high energy, spandex fueled, comedic soap opera. Heavily peppered with hilarious dance routines and spicy melodrama; take a seat and have a full helping of Strut!

QBP info and tickets

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We interrupt our regularly-scheduled posting for some reader-generated content, this time from Copenhagen-based Irishman Richard Farrell.

Ploughing a furrow in blues, soul and other musical traditions, he’s doing some of his faves inbetween the serious business of assembling his band’s second record.

He writes:

Currently I’m writing and organising music for my next album in an awe inspiring artist residency in the south of France outside of Carcassonne called La Muse.

Each week I am recording some of my favourite songs in an acapella style. Above is a version of an old blues and gospel song,’Angels Singin’, by The Reverend Gary Davis recorded in the cavernous hallways at La Muse….

Richard Farrell and the Last Tribe

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Behold: the Kreisel Electric G-Class – a rebranded, former V8 diesel Mercedes G-Wagon refitted with an all-electric powerplant. Capable of 0-100km/h in under 6 seconds and with a 300km range, the vehicle loses none of its heavyweight SUV chops.

For now, just a Schwarzenegger-approved prototype, but moving toward inevitable mass production.

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This morning.

Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Families affected by the 1981 Stardust tragedy prepare to meet Minister of State Finian McGrath on the Government’s response to a private members motion, which calls for a commission of investigation to be set up into the  fire.

Forty eight people died at the Stardust nightclub in Artane in north Dublin on Valentine’s night 1981. The families say they have significant new evidence into the cause of the fire. Some Fine Gael cabinet members want this evidence independently verified before agreeing to a statutory inquiry and complain about the cost of an inquiry.

Top from left: Maurice Frazer who lost his sister Thelma (20), Antoinette with her mother Christine Keegan with a picture of Martina and Mary who died in the Stardust, Eugene Kelly who lost his brother Robert Kelly (17) , Patricia Kennedy who lost her daughter Mary (Maire) (17) , Louise and her mother Bridget who lost William (22), Marcela (16) and George (18).

‘We just want the truth’: Stardust families seek inquiry (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

“Had this happened back in September it would have been different,” said one Fine Gael minister. “We recognise Finian’s difficulty and we don’t object to an inquiry in principle. But we can’t have an inquiry just for the sake of it, given how much it would cost.”

Compassionate.

Finian McGrath ‘not for turning’ on Stardust (Irish Examiner)

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