Ah now.
Pádraic Fogarty writes:
What could be more Oirish than a colouredy little boat setting off to catch fish from a familiar west Cork town?
Fight!
Previously: What’s the Catch?
Author Archives: Nick Kelly
New Spotlight 1974 pic.twitter.com/WYHhFNd7lk
— Brand New Retro (@brandnewretro) March 27, 2022
1974.
More cowbell.
Professor Cliona Ní Cheallaigh said if people do not want to get Covid-19 they should wear a facemask because “it’s Covid soup out there” https://t.co/GdONyZJys1
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 27, 2022
Um.
‘Covid soup out there’ as expert says cases are vastly under-reported (RTE)
Meanwhile….
“it would be doubtful that introducing mandatory mask wearing in particular settings is going to have a significant impact on the overall wave.”- Paddy Mallon, Director of the UCD Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research (CEPHR) Professor
— FKA (@SaoMc2) March 27, 2022
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
THIS! pic.twitter.com/f0KGtwBq0h
— 21st Century Wire 🇾🇪 (@21stCenturyWire) March 27, 2022
Stop that.
Thank Fifi it’s Friday.
It’s been two long weeks since our last tango. How did you all cope?
This week, reader Verbatim suggested the theme for our voucherless music banter: what’s your favourite song with a number in the title/lyrics?
Here’s mine.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close on Saturday at Midnight.
Two weeks ago, I asked for your favourite song about or mentioning an animal. You answered in your tens.
Eamonn won my esteem with this entry:
Gil Scott-Heron – Delta Man
Eamonn writes:
“‘The hooded crows, make me smile with their waist coats and gnarly smiles…'”
Nick says: Congratulations Eamonn. Thanks to everyone who entered.
Previously: Win Nick’s Esteem
Pic: Steamboat Vinyl, Limerick
Niamh Regan – Late Nights
Falling for a dancer.
Galway songsmith Niamh Regan (top) enchants with the new single from her EP In The Meantime.
It was written while Niamh was living in the Galway village of Kilrickle during lockdown.
Niamh describes Late Nights as being about “navigating family guilt, growing up and leaving behind little bits of yourself as you enter a new chapter of thinking.”
The strikingly shot video was filmed and directed by Laura Sheeran with choreography and dance performed by Robyn Byrne.
Nick says: Come dance with me in Ireland.
Suddenly
at
This week on “died suddenly”:
Cédric Baekeland, 28, a promising Belgian amateur, died in his hotel room in Mallorca on Mar. 16…he suffered a heart attack and the doctors were unable to revive him.
DeJon Packer, 24, San Jose rookie officer, former football star, suddenly dies pic.twitter.com/1UlH88Qce9
— Dr. Lynn Fynn (Fan Account) (@fynn_fan) March 25, 2022
Meanwhile…
Cora Faith Walker, 37, a former state representative and top aide to St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, may have suffered a cardiac arrest.
David Hill, 30, was head of office for Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Greene. He died suddenly while playing rugby in Dublin on Sat.
— Dr. Lynn Fynn (Fan Account) (@fynn_fan) March 25, 2022
This morning.
The new normal.
Previously: Like A Needle All The Time
LOCKDOWN – This is the Chinese propaganda from 2 years ago, that led to the greatest abuse of civil liberties and government authoritarian in our lifetime.
Like many of us have said over and over again, they lied to you.#lockdownanniversary #COVID19
— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) March 23, 2022
Two years.
At least they’ve ratcheted down the fear since then…
Families in Northern Ireland ‘playing Russian roulette with young kids’ lives’ as 98% go unvaccinated against Covid https://t.co/a963hZoDKR pic.twitter.com/tEaJOwFGgj
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) March 23, 2022
Oh.
Skinner – The Slump
I’m a slacker, baby.
Introducing Skinner (top): “a 24-year-old DIY slouch rock musician based in Dublin, who writes, records and produces songs about growing up and overcoming a dirt-flecked 21st century existence.”
Skinner writes:
“The song channels a feeling of nothingness and attempts to see the humour in it. Everyone goes through periods where every day feels like a slap in the face so I wrote this weird disco song to distract myself from the monotony of it all. I was trying to escape everything and make something fun, something you could dance to.”
The Slump is out now on Faction Records and follows the Gunge EP on 12” vinyl, a collection of five singles released from 2019 to 2021.
Nick says: With added sax solo.
Doolin Time
at
This morning.
Just ‘dropped’.
The line-up for the 2022 Doolin Folkfest at Hotel Doolin, county Clare from June 10–12.
Louise Barker writes:
Over the years the Doolin Folk Festival has had it all, from Limerick rappers to Saharan Blues, from Clannad to King Kong Company, the festival takes the broadest definition of Folk Festival in that they believe that Folk Music is the music of the people, folk music needs to be able to touch our hearts, to capture the spirit of our times, to comment on what is wrong with the world. As Frank Harte says, ‘those in power write the history, those who suffer, write the songs.’
Fight!
Tread Softly
at
Was it fur this?
Apparently.
National Library of Ireland writes:
We recently acquired this letter from WB Yeats, sent from Nassau Hotel, Dublin, to Dorothy Reilly, wife of Sir Charles Herbert Reilly, regarding a fur rug…