Isaac Jones – Not To Be Demanding
Fancy a living room workout?
Then check out the new video by Dublin soul-jazz boffin Isaac Jones (top centre).
Produced and directed by Conor Ryan, it’s a whimsical tale that complements the song’s smooth groove.
Joining Isaac on this track are Morgan Beausang (drums), Diarmuid O’Connor (lead guitar) and Henry Earnest (bass).
Nick says: Keeping up with Mr Jones.
The votes are in.
Last week, with a Golden Discs voucher worth a blooming €25 on offer, I asked for your favourite song about or mentioning Spring.
You entered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer
Glat1 writes:
When I think of Spring, my mind turns to Tom Lehrer’s song about the delightful pastimes that Spring affords us all. This makes me smile every time I hear it. I’m sad that he gave up performing back in the 70’s, claiming that satire was dead once Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. On the other hand, he is still alive (aged 91), so there is still hope that he’ll do a retirement World Tour in the near future. I’ll be at the front of the line for tickets…
Runner up:
The Rain Song By Led Zeppelin
Rosette of Sirius writes:
I love the folksy ballad like feel to the start of the song that builds with intensity as Plant’s pitch and volume increases as does Page’s orchestral melody. A gorgeous and powerful song.
Winner:
Go Down Easy by John Martyn
Eamonn writes:
‘Curl around me like a fern in spring…..’
All I can say is , what an image…. oh my love. I know people judge the man – fair enough. But could he pen a tune?
Nick says: Thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher
On the Eve of the General Election.
who else would you go see but…
…The Unelectables
In The Wild Duck, beside The Olympia, Dame Street, Dublin 2 tomorrow Friday, February 7 at 8pm.
Barry Hartigan writes
Taking full advantage of the 24-hour pre-poll moratorium, Ireland’s finest down and going band present their own radical manifesto of mayhem to a noise-deprived and tune-hungry electorate.
Crowned Best Dressed Performers at The Electric Picnic (Irish Times), The Unelectables are an unlikely collection of former future rock stars, united only in their belief that punk is wasted on the young….
Check out the band’s debut single, Hair Trigger here
Includes Nick Kelly (not me).
D Cullen – The Rising Tide
O he does like to be beside the seaside…
Dubliner Darragh Cullen (top) is a 25-year-old singer/songwriter who is adept at crafting epic windswept ballads tailor-made for radio playlists.
The Rising Tide is the title track of Darragh’s new EP, which was produced by Boo Hewerdine. The video was directed by Ian Whelan.
Darragh says:
“I live near a lovely little beach in Shankill, Dublin, and The Rising Tide’s lyrics came from an evening walk down there when the sea was particularly wild. I wrote the lyrics then and there and quickly ran home to put some music to it.
“We ended up filming the music video on that very same beach, about 2 and a half years after writing the song, so we got a lovely full circle moment out of it!”
D Cullen plays Upstairs at Whelan’s, Dublin, on March 28.
Nick says: A shore thing.
Am I the only person who sees a rabbit giving Ireland a shoulder massage? pic.twitter.com/mUNw8OZs21
— Angry People in Local Newspapers (@angrypiln) February 6, 2020
Stop that.
Only after one thing, that fella.
Moon Looks On – Friends Keep Dropping
Dublin city at night.
The new video by Moon Looks On – Sligo’s Stephen Gormley (top) and friends – captures the capital in all its nocturnal splendour.
Stephen is a graduate of the BIMM music school and has joined forces with fellow musicians Aisling Bridgeman, Jack Hussey, Jack Bird, Laura Ryder and Matilda O’Mahony for this project.
Having played at last year’s Glastonbury Festival, Moon Looks On release their debut album later this year.
Nick says: Making (lunar) waves.
First Class & Coach – 2014
Who dares to speak of 2014?
Not this indie quartet who suavely walk the line between The Velvet Underground and The Fall.
Based in Ballydehob, County Cork, the band comprises Reuben Maher, Geraldine Thomas, Jonathan Parson and Andrew McNeilage.
The video is by Jonathan Parson and the song features on their new album The Truth About Honey which is released on vinyl on February 14 and digitally on March 13.
Catch First Class & Coach live in-store at Tower Records, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 on February 14 and later that evening in The Thomas House basement on Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
Nick says: It was a very good year.
Panorama from the ‘Panograph Photo Co’, showing ‘the Guards’ at Beggar’s Bush barracks #OTD 1922; this had been the first barracks to be handed over to the Irish Free State Army on 31 January pic.twitter.com/0yU2n1tFUz
— National Library of Ireland (@NLIreland) February 4, 2020
Captions reads:
“The Guards – Beggars Bush – Irish Republican Army – February – 4th 1922 – The men who fought for the freedom of Ireland (the first unit of IRA in uniform)”.
Amazing how almost 3 years after Irene’s passing she still gets a vote #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/eJD1hda0YR
— (@Stephenteap) February 3, 2020
Same happened to us last Friday received my late Dads card, despite requesting to have him taken off the register, presuming it was okay when we didn’t get one for local elections last May and by-election for Cork North Central in Nov! Very hard to take!
— Brid McHugh (@BridMcHugh) February 4, 2020
Unfortunately there is no national register of electorate (there should be). And, each local authority has their own protocols for removing a name form the register. You may have to write to the ‘franchise office’ in the relavent local authority(ies). But I’d call them first.
— Aidan Moyles-Gray (@AidanMoyles) February 3, 2020
Anyone?
