In the mood for exquisite chamber pop?

Then you are in luck as Stars – one of the best Canadian indie bands of their generation – return to perform their stunning 2004 masterpiece Set Yourself On Fire.

The Montreal collective led by Torquil and Amy have added a second late show at 11pm in Dublin’s Workmans Club on Friday September 27 after the earlier one sold out.

I have 2 free tickets to give to a reader to the late show.

Simply tell me below what is your favourite song referencing stars?

My astrologer Fergus will choose the winner.

Lines MUST close at 5.15pm EXTENDED until 10.15pm 3am.

Nick says: Good luck!

For your consideration.

Seventeenth Century Irish/Hibernian map porn.

Via HeritageMaps:

Four maps depicting Ireland in very different shapes – all from the 1690s – by, from top:  Visscher, Nolin, Coronelli and Rossi and published in Amsterdam, Paris, Venetia and Roma.

The Nicolaes Visscher map’s short title is ‘Regnum Hiberniae’ and appears courtesy of [David] Rumsey Maps – hi-res available here.

The Vincenzo Coronelli map’s title is ‘Composite: Parte settentrionale dell’Irlanda. Parte settentrionale dell’Irlanda’. Via Rumsey. Full res here.

The 1690 Jean-Baptiste Nolin map is called ‘Le Royaume D’Irlande Divise en Provinces subivisees en Compte et en Baronies selon les Memoires du Sr. Petty . . . ‘ and appears courtesy of Raremaps. Full version here.

And 1699’s Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi map is called ‘L’Irlanda o vero Hibernia’ in short. Also via Rumsey. Hi-res version here.

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Shrug Life – Strangers

Ever felt crippling social anxiety?

That’s the theme of Dublin indie rock trio Shrug Life’s current single. Singer Danny Carroll (top right) tackles the subject with great candour and insight over a punchy guitar groove.

The video animation by Robbie Strickland is also a feast for the eyes.

Nick says: Love is the Shrug.

Shrug Life

This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Update:

Frank Ormsby?

That’ll learn you.

Boobies

Katherine May

Meanwhile…

A petition by [Dublin City] Councillor Chris Andrews calling on the Irish government and Irish Water/Ervia to stop breaching the European Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD), to fix the problems which are causing wastewater overflows, and give us a safe, clean and healthy Dublin Bay.

Sign here

Previously: The Brown Water Is Back

This morning.

Malahide Castle. Malahide, County Dublin

Petrolheaded ‘revellers’, including ‘US President Donald Trump’, at the launch of Cannonball 2019, the largest organised road trip in Europe which has raised €1,016,000 for Irish charities.

Name those jammers, anyone?

Any excuse

Cannonball 2019

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An adorable short by Emily Brundige in which a giant girl (voiced by Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colourful little town, only to realise she takes up just the right amount of space.

Soon to be an animated series.

shortoftheweek

Sea Fishing Ireland writes:

That’s decades of fish life gone. This is disgusting. Good work IFI.

Note:The majority of bass anglers practice catch and release.

29 bass and angling rods seized by Inland Fisheries Ireland on the south east coast (Inland Fisheries ireland)

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