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Saibh Skelly featuring Jacob Koopman – Is Your Bedroom Ceiling Bored

“I stay up late and talk to the moon.”

Dublin teenage newcomer Saibh Skelly (top) makes a remarkable first impression on this duet from her 5-song covers EP Undercover Heartbreak, due on April 8 on the Rubyworks label.

The original is by Sody featuring Cavetown. Saibh is joined here by Jacob Koopman.

Nick says: Lunar tunes.

Saibh Skelly

Gulp.

Last night.

Never trust a hippy.

Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over ‘False Information About Vaccines’ (Rolling Stone)

Last night.

Claire Byrne Live. on RTÉ One.

Meanwhile…

Thanks, Sam

Previously: Say It Again, Sam

This afternoon.

The Nitelink is back!

Dublin City Councillor, Cllr Colm O’Rourke, who has been campaigning for the service to return, said:

“The return of the Nitelink is great news. In December of last year, when it was announced that the service would be curtailed, in line with restrictions to close hospitality at 8pm, I was disappointed as the Nitelink isn’t just for clubbers. It is an important service to workers and anyone looking for a low-cost option to get home safe. The confirmation from Dublin Bus today is a big relief to many people.

‘”Well done to Dublin Bus for all the fantastic services that they provide. Their staff have been fantastic during the pandemic as someone myself who doesn’t drive – they have been a great help to me getting me around. Fair play Dublin Bus.”

In fairness.

Hic.

Fight!

This afternoon.

Actavo HQ, Westland House, New Nangor Road, Dublin

Campaigners are staging protests at four Actavo (formerly Siteserv) sites across Ireland, England and Scotland to demand the Denis O’Brien-owned company pay scaffolders the ‘rate for the job’.

The scaffolders, employed by Actavo at British Steel in Scunthorpe, England say they are being paid up to 15 per cent below the agreed rate under the UK’s National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI) and will begin continuous strike action this Wednesday. The workers. Unite is calling on both British Steel and Actavo to enter into tripartite negotiations with Unite.

Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews

Van Morrison (left) and Eric Clapton perform at the O2 Arena, London England  on March 3, 2020

Over the weekend.

Vaccine injured guitarist Eric Clapton appeared on the YouTube channel Real Music Observer (above) to talk about his anti-vaccine stand and collaboration with Van Morrison.

Clapton said:

“Whatever the memo was, it hadn’t reached me. Then I started to realise there was really a memo, and a guy, Mattias Desmet [professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium], talked about it.

‘And it’s great. The theory of mass formation hypnosis. And I could see it then. Once I kind of started to look for it, I saw it everywhere.

‘Then I remembered seeing little things on YouTube which were like subliminal advertising. It had been going on for a long time: that thing about “you will own nothing and you will be happy.”

‘And I thought, “What’s that mean?” And bit by bit, I put a rough kind of jigsaw puzzle together. And that made me even more resolute.’

“I joined forces with Van and I got the tip Van was standing up to the measures and I thought, “why is nobody else doing this” so I contacted him.

‘He said “I’m just objecting really. But it seems like we’re not even allowed to do that. And nobody else is doing it.”

‘He sent me Stand and Deliver, which he’d already recorded. And it was during the process of talking about that with another musician, getting excited and sharing the news I found that nobody wanted to hear that.

‘I was mystified, I seemed to be the only person that found it exciting or even appropriate. I’m cut from a cloth where if you tell me I can’t do something, I really want to know why.

He added:

‘My family and friends got scared, and I think they were scared on my behalf.’

‘Over the last year, there’s been a lot of disappearing – a lot of dust around, with people moving away quite quickly.

‘It has, for me, refined the kind of friendship I have. And it’s dwindled down to the people that I obviously really need and love.

‘Inside my family, that became quite pivotal… I’ve got teenage girls, and an older girl who’s in he thirties – and they’ve all had to kind of give me leeway because I haven’t been able to convince any of them.’

‘I would try to reach out to fellow musicians and sometimes I just don’t hear from them.

‘My phone doesn’t ring very often. I don’t get that many texts and emails anymore.’

Eric Clapton claims people who have had the Covid vaccine are victims of ‘mass formation hypnosis’ (MailOnline)

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