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Sillk – String-laden alt-folk from Cork
What you may need to know…
01. Sillk are a Leeside three-piece, and while at their heart a folk band, exhibit noirish/chamber-pop tendencies in places, due mainly to a dense undercarriage of cello and violin in their tunes.
02. The band’s debut E.P. Time is a Clock, recorded by Elastic Sleep/African Fiction man Chris Somers, releases this week on CD and digital download.
03. Streaming above is the video new single Switchblades Don’t Sleep, taken from the extended-player, directed by Eadaoin O’Donoghue and shot by Enrique Carcinero.
04. Launching tomorrow night at the Village Hall venue on Patrick’s Quay, Cork at 8.30. More info here.
Thoughts: A dichotomy of light-hearted play and heavy subject matter, balanced, bearing a wide, irreverent grin.
Would you like to see freshly nominated movies?
For NOTHING?
Read on.
Christina Torsney writes:
Film fans can see the hottest picks for this year’s Awards Season for less at ODEON Cinemas – with film fans that watch three movies getting to see a fourth for free!
From January 1st until March 31st 2017, guests can pick up an Awards Ticket Wallet in ODEON lobbies, and collect tickets from showings of any of the top 17 Awards Season films showing at ODEON:
A Monster Calls (released January 1st)
Silence (released January 1st)
La La Land (released January 13th)
Manchester By Sea (released January 13th)
Lion (released January 20th)
Jackie (released January 20th)
Hacksaw Ridge (released January 27th)
Loving (released February 3rd)
Gold (released February 3rd)
Toni Erdmann (released February 3rd)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (released February 10th)
20th Century Women (released February 10th)
Hidden Figures (released February 17th)
The Founder (released February 17)
Fences (released February 17th)
Moonlight (released February 17th)
Miss Sloane (released February 24th)Tickets for screenings can be purchased online – with no booking fees – via the ODEON website [at link below]
We have three pairs of adult passes to any ODEON cinema to give away to THREE Broadsheet readers
To enter, please complete this sentence:
“…And the award for least-deserving Academy Award ever goes to_____________________________________[name of movie, actor/actress, etc]’
Lines MUST close at 2.45pm 4.15pm
From top: Artist and activist Will St Leger’s art exhibition in from top: Donegal, Sligo and Mayo this week
Out Of The Shadows.
Is a six-day travelling exhibition by Will St Leger to highlight the number of women who travel out of the country for an abortion.
The exhibition, involving life-size silhouettes of women being place at bus stops, is being supported by the Abortion Rights Campaign and Amnesty International Ireland.
It will finish in Dublin this weekend – to coincide with the next meeting of the Citizens’ Assembly.
Will St Leger sez:
“Many women who travel to the UK for an abortion describe the journey as traumatic and upsetting. The Irish state and health service effectively turns its back on them, forcing them to bear the psychological, physical and financial burden alone. Women forced to travel feel sense of exclusion from their health care system, the stigma of traveling, and the burden of secrecy, shame and fear that comes with knowing they are doing something that is a criminal offence at home.
This project is designed to bring these women out of the shadows so that we can stand in solidarity with them.”
Travelling art exhibition highlights urgent need for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws (Amnesty)
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Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ & ‘JohnnyBS’ watch/try Guinness World Records!!
Writer Nick Pell
So, yeah… I’m in the Irish Times explaining your secret language to the masses. Enjoy. https://t.co/dNKmin9ccU
— Nicholas Pell (@NicholasPell) January 4, 2017
Gulp.
Part of a glossary of terms compiled by Ireland-based, America-born writer Nick Pell for the Irish Times prompting a violent Twitter backlash.
The alt-right movement: everything you need to know (Nick Pell, Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
Meanwhile…
Someone in the Irish Times is claiming all of the Twitter anger as a “win” right now. That’s why this piece is only online.
— Paul Hosford (@PTHosford) January 5, 2017
Yesterday.
Caragh Lake [County Kerry] stretching towards Glencarse with the McGillycuddy Reeks in the background.
(Thanks Aoife Kane Thomas)
The wax continued to rule all in 2016, as 3.2m LPs were sold last year in Britain, outstripping the number of downloads and matching streaming revenue.
This is the format’s best year since its initial decline became apparent in 1991, and a 52% increase on 2015’s total UK LP sales, according to the BPI.
Why? Apparently, it’s down to two things: the migration of older former enthusiasts and ‘young people’ driven to own the physical record after discovering music on streaming services.
From top: Brendan Howlin; from left Former Irish Water head of PR Elizabeth Arnett, Labour TD and former Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly and Pat Tierney, CEO of Irish Water in December 2014
It’s all free water under the bridge.
“We were under the cosh to build a huge utility like Irish Water. To get a national metering programme in place and charge for water in the space of three years, which we just should have said no to. I’m sorry we didn’t.
“Within Government, we certainly had that battle with Fine Gael. At a critical point, the decision we made was to stick with it as opposed to pulling down the Government at that stage.
“Because we were afraid of the consequences for our country if we pulled the Government down. But we paid too high a price for that and we should certainly have stood our ground in relation to Irish Water.
“This was one of the things we had to make progress on. Because they were signing off monthly on the paycheck for the nation, in order for us to pay pensions and pay the cost of wages and so on.
“Under normal circumstances, that should have been a ten year project. I certainly think it was handled badly.”
Brendan Howlin, Labour Party Leader in today’s Irish Mirror
Lest we forget…
Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin has said that there cannot be a situation where people decide to not pay their water bill.
It follows on from Environment Minister Alan Kelly’s comments on Monday night, in which he refused to rule out measures that could mean unpaid charges are recouped from peoples’ wages and social welfare payments.
Outside the Dáil fellow Labour politician, Minister Brendan Howlin told UTV Ireland
“There can’t be a situation where anyone of us decide not to pay our bills. If you come to a supermarket checkout and decide “Nah, I’m not paying the bill” and walk off – that’s just not the way the system works.”
Minister Howlin: People cannot decide to not pay water bill (UTV March 24, 2015)
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