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It’s a frankly unbelievable 25 years since the late, great Jeff Buckley released his debut album Grace.
In fact, on the day it came out Jeff played an unforgettable show (top) in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, Dublin 2.
To mark the occasion there will be a special tribute show in the same venue featuring the same house band who recently played a blinder at the Elliott Smith tribute gig.
To be in with a chance of winning my free TWO tickets to I Heart Jeff Buckley on Friday August 23, simply tell me below what your favourite Jeff Buckley song or memory is.
The winner will be chosen by my talking rabbit.
Lines close at 5.15pm EXTENDED until 10.45pm.
Nick says: Good luck!
‘The Railrodder’ (1965) directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, was Buster Keaton’s last silent movie. The comedian, writer, producer and stunt performer died at the age of 70 the following year.
As “the railrodder”, Keaton crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton’s genre, the film is full of sight gags as our protagonist putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout, and Keaton is as spry and ingenious at fetching laughs as he was in the old days of the silent slapsticks.
In the documentary ‘Buster Keaton Rides Again’ (above), Keaton – resting in the specially appointed railway coach where he and his wife Eleanor lived during filming – talks (yes, talks) about the movie.
Real Nazi or provocateur?
Further to Hitlerian shenanigans at Google’s Dublin HQ last weekend.
Whose side was he on?
Via Gearóid Murphy:
A Hitler salute was given ostensibly on the Nationalist side. But was it actually a Nazi, or an agent provocateur plant put there to discredit the growing anti-censorship Nationalist movement in Ireland?
I go through what happened that day and hopefully make a reasonable and convincing case for the latter. Let me know what you think….
Previously: Roll Out The Barrow
Dillon Marshall DMPC, offers a ‘studio’ in Clondalkin €1,200pm. Photos suggest No bedroom window & non-compliance A.7 Min Standard 2017. No evidence of planning ‘Human Habitation’. Ber C3?! How many gardens have residents? #HomesNotSheds #DubRentWatch https://t.co/RzwiEdGkU9 pic.twitter.com/evouYHwdEV
— Dublin Rental Watch (@DubRentWatch) August 15, 2019
Oh.
From top: UK prime Minister Boris Johnson; British Labour Party Leader jeremy Corbyn; Former British Labour Party minister Harriet Harman and former conservative, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke
The Liberal Democrats have no “principled objection” to supporting Jeremy Corbyn as an interim prime minister, party sources have told The Independent.
It follows criticism over party leader Jo Swinson’s rejection of Mr Corbyn’s plan to lead a caretaker government to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Senior Tory Ken Clarke and former deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman are both prepared to lead an emergency government to avoid a no-deal Brexit, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said.
Senior Tory rebel Dominic Grieve, meanwhile, said he would “not facilitate” having the Labour leader at No 10 temporarily.
Meanwhile…
Germany expects Britain to crash out of the European Union without a deal, a leaked document has reportedly revealed.
The leaked finance ministry memo said officials believe a disorderly Brexit is now “highly likely”, according to Handelsblatt Today.
The publication revealed on Thursday that the government believes the UK will crash out without a deal on October 31, given Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demands that the Irish backstop be dropped from Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.
Pics: PA/Getty
A short by Emma Ehrling in which a man tries out one of those expanding capsule toys and gets more than he bargained for.