Author Archives: Nick Kelly

The Next New Low – The Next New Low

Brian Mooney‘s new 5-track EP And As For Loss…, recorded under the moniker of The Next New Low, is his heartbreaking musical eulogy to his late wife Aoife.

“Written over an 18 month period from cancer diagnosis to its end,” Brian writes on his bandcamp page.

It’s an astonishing record that hits you right in your gut, and honours a life lived in love.

Conor O’Brien of Villagers plays flugelhorn.

Nick says: Magic and loss.

The Next New Low

Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, co-owners of a California-based chain of Accelerated Urgent Care facilities. have conducting more than 5,000 coronavirus tests.

They say they  have ‘come to the conclusion that COVID-19 is no more dangerous than a normal seasonal flu and quarantines are not making any difference in preventing its spread’.

At a press conference (full link below) Dr Erickson said:

“Do we need to still shelter in place? Our answer is emphatically no. Do we need businesses to be shut down? Emphatically no. Do we need to test them and get them back to work? Absolutely.”

Doctor: After Doing 5,000 Coronavirus Tests, It’s Similar To The Flu And Quarantine Should End (Real Clear Politics)

Full press conference here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU

FIGHT!

Rollingnews

Um.

This afternoon.

Thanks, Ursula.

Meanwhile…

FIGHT!

Sorcha Richardson – Honey

Sorcha is in a field of her own for the new video from her Choice Prize-nominated debut album First Prize Bravery.

Sorcha says:

“The video for Honey was shot and directed by my friend Ross Andrew Stewart. We made it, kind of on a whim, on one of Ross’s last days in Dublin before he was going back to New York, some time before the current crisis kicked off, when you could still buy a piano on adverts for €50 and drag it through a field with your friends.

That piano now lives at my rehearsal space, and is far more out of tune than when we picked it up that morning, with a couple souvenir blades of grass still stuck in the wheels.”

Sorcha plays an empty Whelan’s next Tuesday as part of the Other Voices ‘Courage’ series of online gigs streaming via Facebook, YouTube and RTE.ie.

Nick says: The grass is singing.

Sorcha Richardson

Joe Chester – The Heart Of St Laurence O’Toole

There’s no show like a Joe show.

Having wowed us with his stellar contributions to A Lazarus Soul and The Hedge Schools, Joe Chester (top) is back with an epic solo double album, Jupiter’s Wife, due on May 1.

Here’s a video of Joe playing a song from the album live in the woods of Aquataine in France.

Nick says: A new Jupiter symphony.

Joe Chester

Landing A1.

Via MIT Technology Review:

A workplace monitoring tool issues an alert when anyone is less than six feet apart.  Amazon is also using similar software to monitor the distances between their warehouse staff.

Good  times.

Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work (MIT Technology Review)