There’s nothing for him here. He’ll have a better chance in London. It’s all changed with Skype. Not like the old days, etc., etc., etc.
Dublin Gorilla All Set For Swinging London. (Irish Independent)
Category Archives: Music
More hammer-blow subtlety from the visual metaphor-wizards at USI (Union of Students in Ireland).
We see what you did there. What with the inappropriate Famine reference and the giant Batt O’Keefe head. You people are at university, right?
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Meet Wanted, Ireland’s latest boy band sensation. OK, one of them is Irish. His name’s Siva Kaneswaren and we think he’s the dude with the teeth. Now, which is the gay one?
Most enjoyable music thing on Twitter is this account.
Their latest dispatch is a succinct run down of Van Morrison’s solo albums:
“Van Morrison: 1 hit+filler; 2,6,8 timeless classics; 3,4,19
crowd-pleasers; 5,7,9-18,20-34 beloved by dads, Mojo subscribers and
luddites.”
Here’s their U2 critique…
U2: 1-2 “Nice guy…”; 3-6 “…but what a windbag!”; 7-8 “He babbled
about art…”; 9 “…danced badly…”; 10-12 “…and repeated
himself.
Photo: Larry Ryan and Van Morrison (L.Ryan Collection)
Taken about an hour ago at the famine figures next to the IFSC. The people are students (USI take a bow) dressed up as professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) to highlight the ‘brain drain’ which is harming the Irish economy.
It is, is it not, the photographic equivalent of being lectured to by a first year arts student in The Stag’s Head? Still, the famine did have a resonance with our youth in that some days, and I’m not ashamed to admit it, we survived on little more than grass. Ker-tish.
(Photo by Photocall)
We are hearing of a Barbra Streisand’s-Dublin-Concert/Mudbath-style nightmare for Len-oids leaving the Sligo site last night (Saturday). Even the Buddhists wanted blood, Chompsky gathers.
Well it’s all kicking off on Liveline.
‘Human flag’ Dominic Lacasse.
Michael Jackson couldn’t do this. Largely because he’s dead.