1979.
Terenure College, Dublin.
Pelé gets mobbed by autograph-starved, foreign games-mad tykes and encounters Republic of Ireland players in training, including a young Liam Brady (top right).
Name the other players, anyone?
Author Archives: Nick Kelly
Micko Roche & Speckled Doves – Siog (Fagail)
Roche rumble.
Micko Roche (top) is a Waterford-based songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who delights in sumptuous ambient electronic grooves.
The new EP, ‘Sióg‘, is a collection of five tracks, which includes four reworks of the EP’s title track.
The concept comes from a piece of music entitled The Dance of the Fairy which Micko composed for a contemporary dance adaptation of a children’s book. Each piece on the EP represents a life stage of the mythical creature.
Micko has collaborated here with ace electro duo Marc and John aka Speckled Doves.
All in all, it’s an exciting new venture from the southeast.
Nick says: Go Micko.
Thank Fildelma it’s Friday.
With nightlife returning for some, let’s have a music competition open to all, whatever the medical status, shall we?
Sadly, we are still operating on our own esteem steam and without a voucher for the winner. One day soon.
This week, I would like to know, if you were a DJ tonight at a reopened club, what would be your first floor-filling choon?
Here’s mine.
Please include video link where possible.
Lines must close at Saturday MIDNIGHT.
Pic: Rollercoaster records, Kilkenny
Last week’s winner announced here shortly.
Devin Reardon – Take Me To The Coast
The other side of Devin.
Though reared on the east coast of Florida, Irish-American songsmith Devin Reardon (top) is now living in Wicklow.
This is a paean to the carefree charms of summer with a splash-tastic video to boot directed by Maurice Supple.
Nick says: Give my love to Devin.
The Danned
at
The constituency office of Australia’s Victorian Premier Dan Andrews
Strewth.
Last night.
Mulgrave, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Meanwhile…
Dan Andrews
Via MailOnline:
A ‘world-first’ study that Dan Andrews used to justify his mandatory mask mandate has been ridiculed by top experts.
The report was published by the Burnet Institute supporting the Victorian premier’s outdoor mask mandate during the 112-day lockdown in 2020.
The policy has since been widely criticised by Australian scientists and was labelled by an anonymous clinician as ‘crap’.
…Mr Andrews made the decision based on the report, which made the case for ‘the use of masks for controlling epidemics in the broader community.’
Despite no reported cases of outdoor transmission of coronavirus, Victorians were subjected to months of universal mask use.
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Tanoki featuring Tay Edwards – It Has Begun
Innovation once again.
Kilkenny songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and knob-twiddler supreme Paul Mahon (top right) aka Tanoki unveils his latest collaboration with rapper Tay Edwards (top left) as the third single from his forthcoming album File New. The result is a jazz-tronic/hip-hop narrative about the wonders and dangers of technology.
Paul says:
“Technology is beautiful. Stunning. Without it, two artists from across the world never would have made this song. But that same song is also a warning about that power.”
The video was created by Paul with assistance from David O’Reilly.
Nick says: Paul’s sonic boutique.
A family member with a chest infection (gets it yearly)was made have a PCR test yesterday before being allowed see their GP. Still no result. What if they’re too sick to go for PCR test or what if they “test positive.” Are they not treated?? Is this a thing in Ireland now 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
— 🌸🌸N.E.M.🌸🌸 (@Nic21121970) October 21, 2021
Anyone?
Alamy Stock
Yesterday.
Seanad Eireann,
During the order of business, Independent Senator Sharon Keogan, elected by the Industrial and Commerical panel, said:
I wish to express my grave reservations over our media and their coverage of the current state of Covid-19 in this country. Ever since the beginning of our vaccination programme, I have been constant in warning against the dangers of dividing society along the lines of vaccination status and opposed any legislation that encouraged it.
Imagine my disappointment then when I tuned into “The Pat Kenny Show” to hear the host demonising 17-year-old children for going to the cinema and referring to them as “vaccinatable”, as if a person’s worth is based on whether we can jab them and include them as a figure on the vaccine uptake tally.
Only a few weeks ago, we were all smugly patting ourselves on the back as articles about our great vaccine uptake flooded in. The unspoken message was that we were great, selfless and educated, unlike other countries, whose people were acting like savages. A fat lot of good that has done us as the Taoiseach has confirmed that our restrictions will once again live on past their supposed expiry date, while other countries with much lower vaccination uptakes are now more successful at suppressing the virus.
It is clear then that the current tone reflecting the position that the only reason we are having a problem with the virus is due to the individuals choosing not to get vaccinated is not only deeply insulting, discriminatory and harmful, it is also incorrect. This hunting around for some cohort of ordinary people to blame must stop and the responsibility for that lies with our media figures and outlets.
It was not even two weeks ago when we stood in this Chamber and were told that the continuation of Covid certificates past 22 October was unlikely.
At this stage, I cannot even muster any surprise that while the rest of Europe is up and running, the Government maintains its policy of fear and stifling caution, and rushes to move the goalposts once again.
The message after today’s announcement is very clear. People who are not vaccinated can and will be treated like second-class citizens. They will be dehumanised, labelled and cancelled unless they do what they are told. “Follow the science” means, “Shut up and do as we say.”
Earlier: No, You’re A Leper
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
Francie Conway – Peace, Love & Rock & Roll
What’s so wrong with peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll?
Absolutely nothing.
Acclaimed Irish rock musician, singer, songwriter Francie Conway (top) is joined by David Richards (producer with Queen and David Bowie among others), Vivienne Boucherat and Chris White (from Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Famers, The Zombies), for this special recording, put ‘down’ at legendary Mountain Studio, Montreux, Switzerland.
Francie discusses the track here.
Nick says: All you need.
Pete Kavanagh – Mercy
The sins of the fathers…
Pete Kavanagh (top) is a man on a mission. His new single is a powerful blues-driven narrative that is “a testament from an Irish working man in support of the victims and survivors of clerical and state abuse in Ireland, and indeed worldwide.”
Pete says:
“I attended primary school in Ireland in the late 1970s, a school with an obligatory Catholic ethos. I witnessed daily displays of physical and mental abuse. There was also sexual abuse. The Christian brothers, nuns, priests, teachers and community at large, collectively created an environment where this behaviour became the norm.
“By the mid-’90s, I was an angry young man with a guitar. I wrote songs to vent my anger and express my emotions. Music was a healing force, a form of therapy. It was during this period that I heard Christine Buckley (Dear Daughter) recount her horrific experience of life at St. Vincent’s Institutional School in Dublin (Goldenbridge). Her story moved me to tears and it inspired “Mercy”. I feel now is the right time for this song to be heard.”
Look out for his album Join Up The Dots on November 5.
Nick says: Clerical terror.