Author Archives: Nick Kelly

A colourised blemish-free look at 1890s Gweedore, County Donegal, the largest Irish-speaking parish in Ireland.

Go hálainn.

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A Young Ron Jeremy Fontaines D. C guitarist Carlos O’Connell (top) with the Dublin band’s new long player, A Hero’s Death’, available in all formats at Midnight.

Meanwhile…

Fontaines DC: A Hero’s Death review – all the joy and despair of youth is here (The Guardian)

Ireland welcomes the electric kettle.

It shaved literally seconds off previous tea making times.

Life would go rapidly downhill from this point on.

Meanwhile…

44 degrees!

In a mask!

Any excuse.

Update:

Sizzle.

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Alan Newman X DecO featuring Rapthor – Wait

Grand Theft Auto goes hip-hop.

Check out the ingenious promo for rapper Alan Newman‘s new track which was co-written with Dean Byrne and produced by Deco McGlade.

Alan (top right with Rapthor) says:

“The tune is about the frustration in waiting to unveil a creation and the effects of the anticipation. More often than not, the frustration kicks in early before the piece is even half finished which leads to a perspective struggle. A wreck-the-head labour of love.”

The video is credited to amilachamara and Yassine.

Nick says: A clean set of wheels.

Alan Newman


Last night/this morning.

The first official teaser is released for The Comey Rule starring Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump.

The Comey Rule writer-director Billy Ray says:

“There was a lot of conversation with the hair team and the makeup team and the costume team: How do we accurately depict Donald Trump without making him a cartoon? Because so many people feel that he is one.

And everywhere that we could, we dialed it down. We made the contrast between the bags under his eyes and the orange skin softer than it actually is.

We made the hair a little less cartoonish than it actually is. We made the suits fit a little bit better. We went out of our way to play fair because we felt we owed that to the public.”

First Look at The Comey Rule: The TV Drama That Will Enrage Trump (Vanity Fair)

Pic: Showtime

The votes are in.

Last week, with a €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked you for your favourite opening line to a song?

You answered in your tens.

But there could be only one winner

Third Place:

Into My Arms by Nick Cave

Bertie Blenkinsop writes:

‘I don’t believe in an interventionist god, but I know darling that you do.’

Runner-up:

Desire As by Prefab Sprout

Daisy Chainsaw writes:

‘I’ve got 6 things on my mind. You’re no longer one of them’

Winner:

Up The Junction by Squeeze

Scottser writes:

‘i never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham’

Nick says: Thanks all.

Golden Discs

Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher

Jape – Instrumental For The Lonely

Magic and loss.

Jape aka Richie Egan unfurls the latest chapter in his Sentinel video project.

Ais Brady directs this absorbing film in gorgeous monochrome.

Richie says:

“Ais  and the crew made something so beautiful and intimate – a meditation on the privacy of loss and how love can transcend physical presence.

“The idea really made sense when she described it to me and the wonderful video stayed with me long after watching.”

Nick says: Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Jape