Look at the tripe @rte are brainwashing small children with.
🤮🤮🤮 pic.twitter.com/8wi6ybgF5K— Claire Murphy (@clairem80500720) November 29, 2021
Um.
This afternoon.
Get ’em young.
Author Archives: Nick Kelly
Paul Callan – Falling
Better call Paul.
Louth’s finest purveyor of indie guitar tunesmithery is back with the latest in his monthly series.
Paul writes:
“This is a short documentary on some of the many ways in which you can crash land on love’s dirt road from falling in love to falling flat on your backside.
“It is truly an indie song as it is packed with melody and is also short and sweet. The sound is a result of all of the beautiful guitars and vocal melodies that have poured into me. The very essence of a pop song with the most beautiful raw edge!
“This year I have been putting out one song every month. These can now be found wherever you like to listen to music. All of these songs will be released early next year as an album.
“All work emanates from my one-roomed cabin in the deepest darkest woods of Ireland’s north east.”
Nick says: Play very Louth.
St Patrick Park, Dublin 8
This morning.
Via The Irish Times:
Dubliners are to be “paid” for a walk in the park with “Civic Dollars” they can cash in for coffee and cake and other goods and services, in an effort to encourage outdoor exercise.
Visitors to five parks in the Dublin 8 area can earn the community currency if they sign up for a new smart phone app to allow Dublin City Council to track their park use.
The scheme is being piloted in the area from the Liberties to Inchicore, following research by the council’s Smart D8 team which found just 40 per cent of local residents took regular exercise, but 92 per cent said they would use a park for exercise if it was available to them.
Visitors to St Audoen’s Park, St Patrick’s Park, Weaver Park and Oscar Square in the Liberties, and Grattan Park in Inchicore who use the app will be rewarded with Civic Dollars for every 30 minutes they spend in the park up to a limit of 5 dollars a day.
Hmm.
It’s a walk in the park: Dubs get exercised over digital dollars (Irish Times)
An @allianceparty MLA told Belfast Telegraph we are “putting the lives of shop workers at risk” by campaigning against Covid passports. This is inflammatory nonsense that ought to be condemned by the party – which claims to stand for democratic values.https://t.co/BJlZU1VEaa
— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) November 28, 2021
We ran a four day ad campaign, ending this evening. We timed this so that the campaign would not run when Covid passports are introduced (though not enforced) tomorrow.
A vote is expected on 6/7th December – email your MLA now! ⬇️https://t.co/OUaNy3jVWV
— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) November 28, 2021
Last night/This morning.
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Further to anti covid response measures appearing on advertising screens at Belfast’s Castlecourt shopping centre and Newtownabbey’s Abbey Centre over the weekend…
via Belfast Telegraph:
Alliance councillor Danny Donnelly criticised the billboards. He condemned reports of “anti-vaccine passport messages being promoted on multiple screens in [the Abbey Centre].” He continued: “This is undermining public health response to Covid and should be turned off ASAP.”
He said reports of similar messaging in Castlecourt was “Very concerning“. “It would appear that these ad spaces have been booked by a lobby group that is bent on undermining public health messages on Covid,” he said.
Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said the messages were “absolutely shocking“. He said they were “putting the lives of shop workers and others at risk by encouraging this message”.
Castlecourt Shopping Centre has been contacted for a response, as has Big Brother Watch.
Anti-vaccine passport messaging in NI shopping centres ‘very concerning’ (Belfast Telegraph)
Pics Big Brother Watch
Unjabbed?
A directory of Irish Pubs and Restaurants publicly against vaccine passes.
Business Directory (ourChoices.ie)
Via David O’Riordan
Turn off your mind and float downstream.
Now, fancy another voucherless music kickabout?
That’s what I thought.
This week, with Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary making waves, I want to know: what’s your favourite Fab Four song?
Here’s mine.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines MUST close at 10.46pm Saturday Midday.
Nick says: Good luck!
Meanwhile…
Last week, I asked for your favourite song sung in German. Papi won my esteem with this entry.
“A beautiful version of Ave Maria auf Deutsch by Shubert. This is definitely my favourite. It’ll put the hairs up on your neck.”
Nick says: Danke Papi and to everyone who entered.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
EMI
Von Liz – Officially Bored
The tedium is the message.
A topical cut off Von Liz’s upcoming Our Extinction LP which will be out early next year, vinyl delays having pushed back the release date.
Von Liz writes:
“It’s basically just myself, running around an abandoned Cold War airfield like a twat.”
Nick says: Snap.
‘Mná na bPíob’
The Irish female pipers wiped from history.
Until now.
Linda Ni Ghriofa writes:
A trawl through the annals of Irish traditional music will quickly demonstrate that the Uilleann Pipes, one of our two national instruments, was almost completely dominated by players of the male sex throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
In this feature-length documentary film, we will follow renowned musician Louise Mulcahy (at top playing pipes owned by uilleann virtuoso Liam Óg O’Flynn) on an exciting journey to uncover the neglected stories of a group of incredible female pipers that were airbrushed out of our cultural history.
This vibrant and entertaining documentary is decorated with some incredible musical performances from Louise, Michelle and Mick Mulcahy, Máire Ní Ghráda, Molly Ní Ghrada, Mary Mitchell-Ingoldsby, Rosaleen O’Leary, Heather Clarke, Marion McCarthy, Síle Friel, Jane Walls, The Rowsome family, Paddy Moloney and many more.
Mná na bPíob on Sunday, December 19 at 9.30pm on TG4.
Pic: Victor Tzelepis
I Draw Slow – Bring Out Your Dead
For alt.folk’s sake.
Dublin roots quintet I Draw Slow (top) return after four years with a new single and a fifth album in the pipeline.
Led by songwriting siblings Dave and Louise Holden, the group explain the theme of Bring Out Your Dead.
“It’s about about the challenge of meaningful communication and how we all look for ways to be heard. The defining symbol of this song is the house. Samuel Beckett used a building to personify the body in his play Endgame. If the house is a body, a person can wander from room to room and become trapped, revisiting old hurts, old pathways back to pain. Getting in from the outside takes a lot of persistence and a lot of love. Coaching someone out is even harder.”
Nick says: Slowly does it.
Ham Sandwich – Electro-Wave
“Do you still feel like your life’s a Saturday night?”
Welcome back Ham Sandwich. Three years after their last single, Niamh (top), Podge and Brian return with a killer synth confection that beams us straight back to circa 1982. I’m not complaining!
Podge writes:
“Our main objective with Electro~Wave is to really explore unfamiliar territory vocally for us making our regular sound almost robotic in its delivery. Another was to try out out a punchier approach to our writing which we felt really suited us live with our previous single Bodies.”
And not forgetting the state-of-the-art video animation by Barry Chapman and Philip Donegan. Also, Niamh’s nifty face paint is by make-up artist Yvonne McDonald.
Look for a new album next year.
Nick says: Friends are indeed electric.