Nuala Carey tweetz:

I’m still spreading the word & will be there on Friday. No pressure but any & all RTs or mentions would be greatly appreciated.

Related: No ordinary Joe: The story of forgotten Irish emigrant Joseph Tuohy (The Irish Times)

Behold: the Great Seahorse Of Doom western edge of the Veil Nebula, filaments of shocked, glowing gas draped across 1,470 light years of the sky in the direction of the Cygnus Constellation. To wit:

 The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Blasted out in the cataclysmic event, the interstellar shock wave plows through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar material. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into atomic hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue-green) gas. Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. While that translates to over 70 light-years at its estimated distance of 1,500 light-years, this telescopic image of the western portion spans about half that distance. Brighter parts of the western Veil are recognised as separate nebulae, including The Witch’s Broom (NGC 6960) along the top of this view and Pickering’s Triangle (NGC 6979) below and left.

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Scott Kannberg aka Spiral Stairs

Last Friday, with TWO tickets to Thursday’s gig in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, Dublin by Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg (above) aka Spiral Stairs on offer, I asked you to name your favourite Pavement or Spiral Stairs song and why.

You answered in your low numbers (this being a niche act) and, sadly, there could be only one winner….

Winner:

Pavement – Here

Otis Blue writes:

Was thinking about Box Elder but I’m going to go with Here. Not only for the gloriously downbeat opening lines – ‘I was dressed for success but success it never comes’, but also because it references ‘mavens’ as songs so seldom do.

Also Tindersticks do a great cover version. On which point, I recommend Pavement’s cover of the Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon…

Thanks all.

Spiral Stair at Whelan’s

Last week: Win Nick’s Other Tix

NibZz – Dog With A Bone

Ready for some block rockin beats?

Then put your headphones on for NibZz (top), a Somali-born Dublin-forged rapper who is here to jazz up the neighbourhood.

The video for his debut single was directed by David Williams with cool animation by Ryan Emmett.

Nick says: Dogtastic.

NibZz

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