Author Archives: Nick Kelly

In fairness.

Needs more Catch.

Last week with a cool Golden Discs voucher worth €25 on offer, I asked YOU to name your favourite song featuring snow.

You answered in your tens.

But there could be only one winner.

Third Place:

Last of the Melting Snow by The Leisure Society

Leopold Gloom writes:

OOOh, I got this, I have to have this. Favouite (and best) song featuring snow is this simply beautiful song by The Leisure Society – Last of the Melting Snow. Shearwater’s Snow Leopard gets an honorable mention, but this one is just lovely in every way.

Runner up:

The Snows They Melt The Soonest by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Ger O Donnell

F_lawless writes:

There’s so many versions of this traditional English folk song that dates back to at least the early 1800s but this one is as good as any I’ve heard. Recorded two months ago – just two people in a living room with a guitar and a shruti box.

Winner:

Snowing On Raton by Townes Van Zandt

Specific Gravity writes:

Shall I cast my dreams upon your love, babe?

Thanks all.

Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher

Golden Discs

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Jerry Fish featuring Wallis Bird – True Love Will Find You In The End

Now this is just beautiful.

A stunning duet between the former An Emotional Fish frontman (top right) and Wexford-born songstress Wallis Bird (top left) in honour of the late, great Daniel Johnston who died earlier this year.

Nick says: Cover of the year?

Jerry Fish

Wallis Bird

In fairness.

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Niall McCormack tweetz:

Santa goes rogue on this super book cover [translated: Christmas Adventure] by Máirtín de Fuireastail. Published by Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta [FNT}. in 1960. De Fuireastail created a handful of lively covers for FNT in the early sixties but I can find no further details of this elusive artist…

Anyone?

 

Paddy Mulcahy – Sunset Connoiseur

Limerick based producer and composer Paddy Mulcahy (top) has just released his sophomore LP How To Disappear via Phases Records.

In the first of three visual collaborations with Irish film makers who have chosen tracks off the LP to put their artistic spin on, David Fox directs the promo for the new single Sunset Connoisseur.

David says:

“The song instantly struck a nostalgic chord with me. There’s a texture within Paddy’s music that has grit and grain and I thought that shooting on film would be the perfect way to compliment that sound.

“I recently inherited a Super-8 camera that had shot a lot of films around Dublin in the ’80s so it felt right to re-shoot Dublin in its beautiful, brutal modern-day; focusing on a generation that is lost between progress and regression.”

Paddy plays the Unitarian Church, Dublin 2, on March 28. Tickets via EventBrite.

Nick says:  I remember that Summer in Dublin.

Paddy Mulcahy

From top: Leo Diarmuid Grey; Tower Records, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

This morning.

Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Leo Diarmuid Grey tweetz:

Myself and my boyfriend were victims [this morning] to a homophobic incident on Nassau/Dawson street [Dublin 2]

Some chap got really aggressive in passing with us and call us faggots etc.

We didn’t react, and kept on to Dawson Luas trying to go home.

When we got to the stop , we turned around and saw the guy had got some of his friends with him and were following us.

I am very much used to these types of incidents, but seeing a group of them really startled us.

We quickly went into Tower Records on Dawson Street but were afraid they were going to come in after us, so we asked a member of staff could she check for us.

She politely obliged, and soon the security guard was helping us too.

He told us when it was safe to go outside And how to report this incident. He was extremely helpful and reassuring.  It’s really hard to feel safe immediately after an incident like this, but he really tried his best.

I would love it if we showed some appreciation to the staff there. God knows what could’ve happened

We’ve all seen from the news articles and from friends of friends that homophobic abuse has been increasing lately, with a lack of interference from An Garda Síochána,. So I really want to spread love and gratitude to Tower Records Dublin…

In fairness.

Tower Records

Leo Diarmuid Grey

Hudson Taylor – That’s How I Know It’s Christmas

In the bleak midwinter why not warm yourself with this hale and hearty festive knees-up in Kilkenny Castle.

Dublin folk siblings Alfie and Harry Hudson-Taylor join forces with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and a local choir to add bells and whistles to the proceedings.

The duo play the first of three nights in Whelan’s, Dublin, tonight and release their debut album Loving Everywhere I Go in February.

Nick says: Sibling revelry.

Hudson Taylor