I was over in JJ Hough’s Pub in Banagher on Sunday for my cousin Ger’s 40th Birthday Party.
It’s an amazing place to spend a night, but I felt guilty today that I didn’t get a gift to mark the occasion.
As a late gift here is the never seen before footage of the unofficial, official video for my 2018 hit, ‘The measure’
in fairness we went to great lenghts to make it. So here he is in his beloved JJ Hough’s, along with his mum sheila and friend Brendan. All playing The King, Elvis Presley!!
For the video to her new single, Dublin singer/songwriter Laura Elizabeth Hughes (top) has rummaged through the cupboard and found some old home videos from her childhood.
Director Peadar Gill has then expertly spliced these with brooding cinematic shots of present day Laura that match the intensity and emotion of the music.
Teachers at Delfin Language School on their 3rd day of protest outside their building looking for union recognition of their choice. Unite presumably.
Pics: Nick
Kick up your feet and get a load of this gorgeous minimalist piano piece.
Dubliner Una Keane (top) combines the ebony and ivory with found sounds and percussion courtesy of a battered old typewriter.
Though her music inhabits a constellation all of her own making, it orbits close to those of Michael Nyman and Chopin.
Following the quiet masterpiece that was 2017’s As I Wake, Still I Dream comes her new album In The Deep on December 5 which was recorded in an old Victorian railway worker’s cottage in the capital.
The spellbinding Delicate is the first taste of the new record and the archive video revolves around the themes of “communication, connection and flow”.
With Extinction Rebellion eco-warriors rolling through Dublin and the Green wave making a splash at the ballot box, it seems everything’s gone, well, green.
But what about the other colours?
To win this week’s Golden Discs voucher worth a plant-watering €25, simply tell me below what your favourite song is which mentions a specific colour.
Greenshine are a Cork-based, modern folk ensemble comprised of Mary Greene (top right), her husband Noel Shine (top left )and their daughter Ellie (top centre).
Tonight they will be joined by percussionist Martin Leahy for their show in the Dublin Conservative Club (DC Club) at 20 Camden Row, Dublin 2 at 9pm.
Above is a single taken from their highly recommended album Family which also contains faithful covers of classics by John Prine and Townes Van Zandt.
The video, with its lovingly shot vistas of sun-kissed cacti, was directed by Dean Maywood.
Classy.
Nick says: Do you want yer oul’ lobby washed down, Greenshine?
From top: Ranelagh village; Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan during pre-Budget 2020 submissions last week
This morning/afternoon.
Further to the ongoing immense brouhaha over Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan’s proposal that one car could service 10 villagers in rural Ireland.
Of Mr Ryan , whose parliamentary constituency includes Ranelagh, Dublin 6, Journalist and columnist Philip Nolan tweetz:
‘Eamon Ryan wouldn’t dare tell his cosy D6 constituents they shouldn’t have at least one family car to drive Jemima to crèche, or he’d be toast.
So piss off telling rural ireland, where we actually have no public transport, that we somehow should organise a rota.’.
Alternatively…
Green Party Councillor for Swords, County Dublin, Ian Carey respondz:
Philip, he didn’t suggest restricting car ownership for anyone. He was proposing something additional to increase mobility. He has been totally misrepresented on this. There are lots of young ppl locked out of car ownership because of insurance costs and need cheaper options.
‘One car per 10 families? Wolves in the wild? Tree planting?
Don’t for one minute think that Eamon here has the creativity to come up with any of this nonsense by himself – it’s all taken from Agenda 2030, the UN blueprint for global control…’
That’s Sorcha Richardson’s new single, which clocks in at just over two minutes. But space and time dissolve when experiencing the emotions described here.
Sorcha says:
“It’s my attempt to articulate how it feels when somebody new comes into your life, very unecpectedly, flips your world on its head. And you’re trying to make sense of it all.”
The Dublin-born New York-based singer releases her debut album First Prize Bravery on November 8 on Faction Records.
She headlines Dublin Whelan’s on November 20; Cork Winthrop Avenue, 21; and Galway Roisin Dubh, 22.
Last week, in the ‘eye’ of ‘Hurricane’ Lorenzo and with a stunning €25 voucher to spend at Golden Discs on offer, I asked YOU to name your favourite song mentioning storms or rain or wind.
My mother’s favourite song! I recently heard Judy Garland’s version, and it moved me to tears as that was her favourite version….
Runner up:
The Blue Nile – Tinseltown In The Rain.
Seamus Keane writes:
A stone cold classic…:
Winner:
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Didnt It Rain.
Liam Deliverance writes:
The “Godmother of Rock and Roll” , this wonderful performance comes from an American Folk Blues Tour in England in 1964, this recording comes from Manchester. A five decades long career starting in 1919 inspired many more greats that followed in her footsteps. V
Voice, showmanship and guitar playing, she had it all. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 as an “early influence”, and what an influence, she inspired Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more that followed in their footsteps. [Today] October 9, is the 46th anniversary of her passing in 1973….
