Gypsies On The Autobahn – Rubicon
Not talking to each other?
That’s the theme of the third single from the album Suspended by Dublin combo Gypsies On The Autobahn.
Communication difficulties abound too in the cryptic video written and directed by lead singer James Smith and starring Laura Brady and Tadhg O Rourke.
Turns out it’s good to talk after all.
Nick says: May the Autobahn rise with you.
May Irish prog be with you.
This morning.
Via The Olympia Theatre, Dublin 2:
Just announced! Horslip will toast St Patrick at The Olympia Theatre next Paddy’s Day!
Don’t miss Johnny Fean, Jim Lockhart, Barry Devlin and Ray Fean – the touring Horslips line up – taking to The Olympia stage again
Tickets on sale on sale 9am this Friday.
Any excuse.
As the days get shorter, one is reminded of the title track of U2’s second album ‘October’, … called, of course, ‘October’.
Which got me thinking: what is your favourite song which is also the name of the album on which it appears?
Tell me below and you will have the chance to win a €25 (count ’em) Golden Discs voucher to warm these late Autumn nights.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my pet Rottweiler.
(please include videos where possible)
Lines MUST close 6am Saturday.
Nick says: Good luck!
Joey Gavin – Home Sweet Home
Home thoughts from abroad.
Introducing the new single by Berlin-based Dubliner Joey Gavin (top) who explores the concept of place over a chilled-out indie guitar jangle.
The video animation by Joshua DeLanoit is visually striking and effortlessly inventive.
Joey plays Cork Roundy, Castle Street, Cork tomorrow night.
Nick says: Home is a question mark…
A Lazarus Soul – Cruelty Man
Anger is an energy.
The latest cut from A Lazarus Soul’s essential album The D They Put Between The R & L deals with the evil of institutional and clerical child abuse.
The cold fury in singer Brian Barrigan’s lyrics over the Tuam babies scandal is tempered by an optimism that the “parish is rising” and a new era of defiance is upon us.
The band have also just released a new single called Funeral Sessions.
You can catch them play a rare headline Dublin gig in Whelan’s on October 30.
Nick says: Soul food.
Last night.
Róisín Dubh, Upper Dominick Street, Galway.
Sinéad O’Connor performs Nothing Compares To U to an intimate, but sold out crowd (the best kind, in fairness)
Dem pipes, in fairness.
Thanks Bebe
Meanwhile…
Via Sinead O’Copnnor
This afternoon.
Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Pic by Nick
Lankum – The Young People
By their feet shall ye know them…
Already causing a stir, this quirky new video directed by Bob Gallagher goes toe to toe with Lankum. The Dublin folk quartet are set to release their third album The Livelong Day on the legendary Rough Trade label on October 26.
The four-part harmonies of Ian, Daragh, Cormac and Radie combine to great effect on The Young People.
Surely a foot-tapping shoo-in for a folk award next year?
Nick says: People power.
Custom House Harbour, IFSC, Dublin 1 apartment property ad, unidentified source, 1994
‘Riverdance? Never catch on.’
Via Brand New Retro tweetz::
1994 advert. Custom House Harbour Dublin 1 apartments for sale. From £49k to £89k…
Paul McDermott adds:
One sold for 445k in June!
Good times.
The votes are in.
Last week, with a soil-enriching voucher worth 25 crisp ones for Golden Discs on offer, I asked YOU to name your favorite song which mentions a specific colour.
You answered in your brightest, if seasonally appropriate, garb.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Spandau Ballet – Gold
Slightly Bemused (always the bridesmaid) writes:
Gold by Spandau Ballet: Not my personal favourite, but the favourite of a very good friend of mine. I remember at the time buying the CD for her here when I was on a break, and giving it to her when I returned. Where I was working (and where she lived) was at the time a little removed from standard trade and was basically a war zone. Her delight when she took the CD out of the envelope I had creatively wrapped it in (ok, I just put it in a standard Manila envelope) was wonderful. If I recall correctly it cost me about IR£15, but it was worth every penny to see her smile.
Runner up:
Simon and Garfunkel – For Emily Wherever I May Find Her
MIilly Vanilly Strikes Again writes
Winner:
Joni Mitchell – Little Green
ItWasChaosBilly writes:
“Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children who’ve made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer.”
About the loss felt giving a child up for adoption, it’s autobiographical, brave, beautiful and incredibly sad. Mitchell’s writing on Blue (more colours!) is flawless, but the naming of the child ‘Green’ in this song tells us all we need to know about the narrator and their lost, imagined child.
Thanks all.
