Pat Dam Smyth – Doesn’t Matter Now
And now for the sound of the Deep North.
Belfast Americana may sound like an oxymoron but that’s precisely what Pat Dam Smyth (top) serves up on the third single from his album The Last King, which was Nominated for a Northern Ireland Music Award.
Produced by Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos, the song has a light, floaty feel and would fit perfectly on a show like True Detective.
Pat does a lot of walking in the video.
Nick says: A ballad of Belfast.
We are humbly honoured with the news that our final album “In the End” has been nominated for a 2020 Grammy in the category of Best Rock Album.
It’s a fitting tribute to Dolores and her truly amazing talents. She would be immensely proud.@RecordingAcad pic.twitter.com/AyYQfJxbFX— The Cranberries (@The_Cranberries) November 20, 2019
Last night.
The Cranberries’ Grammy-nominated In The End features vocals recorded by Dolores O’Riordan before she died, and the surviving members – top from left: bassist Mike Hogan guitarist Noel Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler – finished the record with the support of the lead singer’s family.
Dolores’ mother, Eileen, also released a statement:
“Dolores would be so happy with this, she put her heart and soul into her songs and music. For us as her family it’s kind of bittersweet, we’re immensely proud yet saddened that she isn’t here to witness and enjoy this, although I feel that she is in spirit.”
The Cranberries React to First Grammy Nomination: ‘Dolores Would Be Delighted’ (Billboard)
Pic: The Cranberries
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This evening.
Grand Canal, Dublin 2.
Pic by Nick
Monster, monster!
Shimmering pop duo Frankenstein Bolts play the first of two shows in Mackens Bar in their home town of Wexford this evening.
Justin Cullen (centre pic left) and Dan Comerford right) have mastered a smooth chilled-out sound that is just begging to be played on the radio.
Tonight the Bolts play their first album Slow Season right through and tomorrow night they perform their 2017 album Aglow & Spark right through.
Go South-East, young man.
Nick says: There’s a thriller on the loose.
Peter Hooton (left and) Simon Hughes in Dublin This morning: Peter’s book There She Goes (top)
Free TONIGHT?
‘There She Goes’
At BelloBar, 1 Portobello Harbour Dublin 8.
Simon Conway writes:
Join us for this intimate evening of conversation where award-winning writer and Liverpudlian Simon Hughes talks to Peter Hooton (The Farm) about his latest book, There She Goes, a history of Liverpool between 1979 and 1993.
Doors are at 7pm, tickets available at door as well as online and the conversation starts at 7.30pm
We have a PAIR (yes, two) free tickets for a Broadsheet reader in a scousestanding giveaway.
To enter, answer this question (first out of the hat wins):
What Liverpudlian group had a hit with a song of the same title as Peter’s Book?
Lines MUST close at 2.30pm 3pm 4pm.
An intimate evening with Simon Hughes & Peter Hooton (EventBrite)
Yikes!
Collywobble writes:
Was in the Sound Shop Drogheda yesterday looking for a music book for my daughter and look who popped up to say hello!
Barry McCormack – Lived Through This Before
The fix is in.
Dublin singer/songwriter Barry McCormack has enlisted actor Aidan Gillen (top) to star as a conspiracy vlogger in the video to the lead single from his new album Mean Time which is released this Friday.
It’s an intriguing tale of coleslaw and chemtrails delivered with Dylanesque panache. The video was edited by Colm McCarthy.
Barry says:
“I’m an observer rather than an activist. I feel passionate about the abandonment and dereliction that is everywhere. Are we going to end up in the same situation as San Francisco, where it’s three grand for a bedsit and around the corner everyone is homeless and it’s a really nasty, violent atmosphere?“
Barry plays the Workman’s Club, Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 on Friday November 30.
Nick says: It’s the Mean season.
Splutter!
Sarah McInerney writes:
I just got charged €5.50 for a cup of tea. Five. Euro. Fifty.
That’ll teach me to leave the house…
Fountains of Wayne – Valley Winter Song
Have you the blues/The Fear/The Mondays/unspecified dread?
As temperatures plunge and the daylight shrinks, so does our collective mood.
And to make matters worse, the working week looms large as we trudge to our proverbial cubicle.
To soften the blow, let me introduce a new weekly series where I choose a song that may ease your Monday and invite readers to chime in with YOUR own suggestions through the night.
To start, above is a wonderful song by American power-pop quartet Fountains Of Wayne that acts a musical comfort blanket against the winter chill.
Nick says: Enjoy.
Illustration: Worldhaspostrock
Soda Blonde – Terrible Hands
Welcome to the strange new world of Soda Blonde.
Born out if the ashes of Little Green Cars, the Dublin alt.pop stylists return with an enigmatic video directed by the band’s own Adam O’Regan.
Front and centre is Faye O’Rourke (top) who stars as a glamorous lounge singer.
The band play Galway Roisin Dubh on November 23; Limerick Dolan’s, 29; Belfast Black Box, December 6; and Dublin Whelan’s, December 15 and 16.
Nick says: Delicious Soda pop.
