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Kate Nicholson featuring Cormac Neeson – Wrong Side Of Town

An Americana dream.

Northern Irish singer/songwriter Kate Nicholson  (top left) teams up with Cormac Neeson (top right) for an atmospheric blues duet that can be found on her new album Fallen From Grace, due February 18.

Nick says: North by Deep South.

Kate Nicholson

Cormac Neeson

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream

We wanna be free to do what we wanna do.

What does that involve?

Via Belfast Telegraph:

Bobby said that he had earlier been “rolling about” in a forest “all day, naked” before pals dressed him and they headed into East Kilbride, near his native Glasgow.

He stated: “Through the heat haze of the late afternoon and my skewed, goggle-eyed acid vision I saw the sight of an Orange pipe and drum band marching slowly up the road towards where us acid-stragglers were stood on the pavement.

“I swear that the pipe band and Lodge members morphed into an enormous creature resembling a huge orange slug, leaving a trail of greasy orange slime behind them.”

Gulp.

Rocker on acid trip thought Orange band was giant slug (Belfast Telegraph)

In case you missed it.

Via Sunday Express:

More than thirty doctors, scientists and MP’s have signed a joint letter to the government’s vaccine watchdog urging it to “reassess” the Covid vaccine rollout for healthy 12-15-year-olds following new data showing potentially serious harms of the jab are likely to outweigh any potential benefits.

The letter urges the government to ‘reassess’ the Covid vaccine rollout for healthy 12-15 year olds.

The letter has been signed by 12 scientists, medical experts and 21 peers and MPs including the former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a former government vaccine advisor, paediatricians and experts in infectious disease as well as 21 politicians and peers.

It argues the risk benefit calculations made by the JCVI and the Chief Medical Officer were based on “less than complete data on both the harms and the benefits of vaccinating children compared to the evidence now available.”

It cites new evidence showing the risk of myocarditis in young men and boys is up to 14 times higher after vaccination than after infection.

And it states that given the high level of naturally acquired immunity from infection as well as the replacement of the Delta variant by milder Omicron, “it’s crucial that, if we are to proceed with the mass double vaccination of healthy children, we are absolutely certain this policy will do more good than harm.”

Signatory Professor Brent Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Community Child Health, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said:

“The latest CDC data reports elevated rates of post-vaccination myocarditis for boys aged 12-15, 2.5-24 times higher in the seven days after the first dose and 24-228 times higher in the seven days after the second dose.

“So, whilst the absolute risks are still low they cannot be described as trivial and the absolute risk from Covid-19 to healthy children is negligible. Additionally, the vaccines stop neither infection nor transmission and many children will have broad and robust natural immunity following infection.

“I’m afraid the mass vaccination of healthy children is not based on sound evidence. It is time for the JCVI, the CMO and the Government to reassess all the evidence now available and alter its recommendation accordingly.”

Doctors and scientists urge caution in giving Covid jabs to ‘low risk’ children (Sunday Express)

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Telefis & Jah Wobble – Falun Gong Dancer

Re-make/re-model.

We featured the original version of this wonderful song by Telefis (Cathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee) a few weeks ago. But now the legendary Jah Wobble has given it the mother of all makeovers in his own inimitable way.

The archive video is also a treat. Now where did I put my St Brigid’s Cross?

The album A hAon is out on March 4.

Nick says: Jah rules.

Telefis

“My view is to be radical, and I accept this is radical, you need 12 lessons to learn to drive a car, you need a licence to drive a car, you need a test. Do we need some sort of, almost qualifications, licensing, education for men to go out into the social sphere?

“People will say is that  is an impingement on our rights of free movement and obviously we’ve been all through this with covid but as we’ve just heard many women feel their freedom to movement is really restricted because of the danger, so I think we have to think of new ways of doing things, the same old same old won’t work.”

Professor Sam McConkey, of the Royal College of Surgeons, during the Newspaper Panel on the Brendan O’Connor show on RTE Radio 1.

Anyone?

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‘sup?

Take that, most depressing day of the year.

Arf.

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Alternatively.

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We got it.

Ta.

Thank Frodo it’s Friday.

To honour the passing of the legendary Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes, the theme for this weekend’s voucher-less free-for-all is: what’s your favourite song by a girl group?

Here’s mine.

Please include video links if possible.

Lines close on Saturday at MIDNIGHT.

Meanwhile…

Bon Iver- Blindsided

Last week, I asked you to name your favourite song about or mentioning snow. Point Of Order won my esteem with this entry:

“It brings me back to when I had my heart broken, while living in a bedsit in Portobello, listening to Bon Iver on a loop. ‘I crouch like a crow/ Contrasting the snow…’’. My heart has since healed.”

Nick says: Congrats Point Of Order and thanks a million to all the commenters for your kind comments last week.

Last week: Win Nick’s New Year Esteem

Pic: Spindizzy Records, Dublin