This morning.
Turin, Italy.
Ted writes:
The Eurovision 2022 Semi-Final running orders are revealed! Ireland [Brooke’s That’s Rich, @5 mins above) opens the second half of Semi-Final Two. This isn’t a bad position in my opinion as the first half (here) has weaker songs. Brooke should leave a memorable bang after the commercial break.
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Semi-Final running orders revealed! (Eurovision.TV)
‘After 12 days from the first vaccination of the AstraZeneca vaccine, you are 100% effective against hospitalisation and death’@sara_kayat shares this amazing statistic with us, which you may not have heard yet. pic.twitter.com/jW5uElTk2F
— This Morning (@thismorning) January 4, 2021
January 4, 2021.
ITV’s This Morning.
Meanwhile…
‘It’s important we remind parents the JCVI have looked into all of the data… The risks are extremely low.’
GP Dr Sara Kayat discusses Covid jabs being offered to children aged between 5 and 11 from next week.
🖥 GB News on YouTube: https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/1I7kfus8i4
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 30, 2022
This morning.
GB News.
Good times.
Penney’s ad 1990. pic.twitter.com/NBSHUrL42J
— Brand New Retro (@brandnewretro) March 29, 2022
1990.
Timeless style.
Air compressors in the ear cups drive purified air to the wearer’s mouth and nose via a clip-on visor
Um.
This morning.
Via The Guardian:
Dyson has announced its first wearable product that builds the firm’s air purification expertise into a set of Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones aimed at city dwellers wanting to avoid polluted air.
Quite unlike anything the company has made before, the Dyson Zone is sure to draw quizzical looks. It is a set of large, plush headphones with a plastic mask-type contraption that connects from ear-to-ear across the wearer’s mouth and looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
It delivers purified air to the mouth and nose while simultaneously tackling noise pollution through its active noise cancelling technology.
Dyson launches Zone air purifying Bluetooth headphones with visor (The Guardian)
Dyson
I mean, just look at this. Salah sails his penalty over… and surely anybody would, given the lasers.
Mane scores, Senegal wins the shootout, Egypt out of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/tgHmCmW8uu
— Henry Bushnell (@HenryBushnell) March 29, 2022
Aw Ref!
Last night.
Any excuse
Padjo Dolan – Rings Of Saturn
Another girl, another planet.
Clare tunesmith Padjo Dolan (top) goes interstellar on his slow-building, anthemic new single.
Padjo writes:
“I had bought this Japanese import. Totally illegal on the road. I tore up the road, day and night. My girlfriend in the car beside me – it was a moment of magic. As for the name, about Saturn – I felt so free I could have been in outer space.
“Life is short, and those moments of magic are what make it worth living.”
Ain’t that the truth.
Dolan teamed up with Cian Boylan (Sinéad O’Connor), Conor Brady (The Blades, The Drays), Robbie Malone (David Gray) and Dave Hingerty (The Frames) to deliver a ‘feeling of discovery’ across its arrangement.
Nick says: Some things hurt more than cars and girls.
Graham Coe – Right By My Side
At the end of a storm…
A songsmith from Blessington, County Wicklow, Graham Coe (top) finds a light in the darkness of the past 2 years on his new single.
To quote the press blurb:
“The song tells of a musician’s lament about the loneliness, uncertainty and numbness of long days during the pandemic and the realisation of having a strong partner and family by your side can help you through these tough times.”
Chris O’Brien and Graham Murphy from The Production Suite, Dublin, were behind the controls.
Nick says: A Wicklow lullaby.
2010
2017
Are you a woman?
Working in music?
Read on.
The Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast writes:
Calling all women in music to participate in the ‘Women’s Work’ photocall at Oh Yeah Music Centre [15-21 Gordon St, Belfast] on April 8 at 4:30pm.
Whatever your contribution to our music community we want you in on this, so we are calling all musicians, bands, producers, programmers, curators, djs, promoters, managers, engineers, educators, marketing, pr and media, facilitators, mentors, festival teams and more.
We need 100+ attendees to better our 2017 attempt, which was a lot of fun and a proud endorsement of all the incredible women blazing a trail in our scene.
Details here
Paul Woodfull – But I Like You
“A curmudgeon’s love song.”
A legendary figure in the Irish entertainment world for many years, the one and only Paul Woodfull (top) has provided us with many a belly laugh thanks to his glittering cast of comedic alter egos, from The Joshua Trio to Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly & The Hairy Bowsies as well as his work on the musicals I, Keano and Copperface Jacks: The Musical.
Now Paul is back with a new video that is charm itself.
Paul writes:
“This is a new venture for me. This song and video will be the first of many, I hope – I have quite a few songs written. People are probably expecting this stuff to be going for big laughs but it’s not. These songs and videos will be humourous but other things besides.
“I know I’ll lose some of you but I’m hoping a few of you will stick with me. ‘But I Like You’ is a love song, albeit a love song for cranky gits. We cranky gits have a need for love too. Hope you like it.”
Musicians include Mark Flynn (piano), Cormac Moore (bass) and Brian Moylett (drums).
Nick says: Welcome back!
Missed a bit.
This morning.
Wittgenstein tweetz:
Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World [via The New York Times]. More than 5.06 billion people worldwide have received a Covid-19 vaccine, equal to about 65.9 percent of the world population.
Let’s round it up it to…66.
FIGHT!
Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World (New York Times)
