Author Archives: Nick Kelly

Luan Parle – The Ghost Of Martha

If you enjoy spooky ghost stories, you’ll love Wicklow singer Luan Parle’s new single.

Told with aplomb over a gorgeous Gretsch twang, this is a supernatural born thriller.

The album Never Say Goodbye is available on 180mg white vinyl from Luan’s website.

Nick says: I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

Luan Parle

Last night,

Newcastle, England.

Essential or absurd?

YOU decide.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

This afternoon.

Via Mail Online:

For three months, New Zealanders enjoyed the return of usual freedoms after an autumn lockdown proved effective in eliminating the deadly virus.

But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern scheduled an unexpected press conference for 9.15pm on Tuesday night and announced those freedoms would be put on hold.

Stay-at-home orders will be implemented throughout Auckland for 72 hours from midday on Wednesday after the four new cases were identified in the city.

More than 1.6million people won’t be allowed to leave their homes except for essential reasons.

The rest of the nation will enter a level two lockdown – mandating social distancing and placing caps on gathering sizes.

More sheep than people, they say.

FIGHT!

Jacinda Ardern plunges New Zealand BACK into lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak with 1.6million Kiwis told they can’t leave home after nation recorded just FOUR new cases

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The Natural History Museum, Dublin

A train ticket found ‘tucked into an elephant skull’.

Tusk tusk.

Anyone?

Meanwhile….

“sup?

Mad Max: Furry Road.

Name the year and chopper, anyone?

Via Photos Of Dublin

Miles Graham – Give It Up Now

Fancy a slow-motion jog around Dublin?

Then Peter Cooney‘s video for Miles Graham’s new single will be right up your street.

The song, from his new EP All The Right Things, was chosen by Bank of Ireland to feature in their TV and radio ads.

Miles (top) says:

“Give It Up Now is about being free of the turmoil that comes with antagonism. It has conversational lyrics that give a fly-on-the-wall insight to break-up.”

Nick says: Take it to the bank.

Miles Graham

Together Animals – Kings And Queens

“We were kings and queens; we were idols.”

The second single from the forthcoming debut EP by Together Animals (comprising Dave, Chris, Hank and Paul) is an amped-up rocker that has an important message about melancholy and redemption.

The thought-provoking video features “a King and Queen leaving their castle behind them as they wander through a dangerous wilderness, plagued by dark forces and lost souls”.

Nick says: Animals magnetism.

Together Animals.

Dublin-born Elizabeth Anne Dwyer and her son Morrissey

At the weekend.

“With this broken voice I beseech you, my friends, to offer prayers of hope and prayers of intercession for the recovery of Elizabeth Anne Dwyer [born in Holles Street Hospital, Dublin] who is my mother, who is in trouble, and who is the sole reason for all the good and motivational things in my life.

I ask particularly my friends in Chile, Mexico, Italy, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, the United States, Ecuador, Israel and Ireland to offer their prayers for Elizabeth – for she is all I have, and our collective pleas of petition might wake the sleeping gods.

She is me, and without her vahaan koee kal hal … there is no tomorrow. I ask no more of you… for there could be no more to ask.”

Steven Patrick Francis Morrissey. August 8.

Elizabeth Ann Dwyer (Messages From Morrissey)

It’s Friday so that means competition time.

This week I’m asking: What’s your favourite music video by an Irish artist?

Here’s mine.

Answer below and you could win a prestigious €25 Golden Discs voucher.

The winner will be chosen by my life coach.

Lines MUST close at 6am [Saturday].

Please include video links if possible.

Nick says: Good luck!

Last week’s no-hit wonder here