The Loafing Heroes – Stairs

The first single and video from multi-national, Lisbon, Portugal-based band led by Irishman Bartholomew Ryan (top) .

From debut album ‘Meandertales’ which is launching this Saturday in the Bello Bar, Portobello, Dublin 2 at 9pm

Sez Frank:

The Loafing Heroes are a cosmopolitan, morphing, dream-folk band. The project conveys a subversive idea of ‘loafing’ (in slowness, wandering, and perhaps even as an art of living and seeing).

The band’s vision of entanglement, transformation and subversive joy responds to the technological overload and ecological catastrophe of our troubled times….

The Loafing Heroes

Album launch

From the Preachers ’n’ Sneakers Instagram account, which calls out supposedly ‘humble men of God’ sporting outrageously expensive footwear and leggings.

Someone had to take a stand.

MORE: Greedy Preachers (Eat Liver)

From top: The Tate Modern, South Bank London; Classical composer Gavin Bryars’ powerful  ‘Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet’, a piece centred upon an unknown homeless man’s vocal refrain

Free tomorrow?

In London?

Via The Big Issue:

Homeless people have been encouraged to attend the Tate Modern’s most accessible concert yet. The free 12-hour concert will take place at the venue on London’s South Bank at 8pm.

The show will feature British composer Gavin Bryars’ 1975 piece Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.

People who have been affected by homelessness will perform alongside professional musicians from the chamber orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

The Academy has been working with homeless people for roughly 20 years, but have never before orchestrated an event which involves those affected by homelessness so closely.

In fairness.

Free overnight concert at Tate Modern welcomes homeless (The Big Issue)

London orchestra Plays Through The Night (Slippedisc)

Thanks Ultan Mashup

The Public Accounts Committee wants immediate clarity over any possible conflict of interest over firm PwC which not only advised health chiefs on the children’s hospital, but also completed a review of the project.

The committee heard this morning that PwC was involved in advising over the second phase of the massive children’s hospital project last November.

A review by PwC of cost overruns for the €1.7bn project was only released this week after that was separately commissioned by the government.

Come on.

Clarity sought on potential conflict of interest over hospital review (June McEnroe, Irish Examiner)

Previously: Read It And Weep

 

This morning.

FIGHT!

Update:

Update:

Yesterday: The Nation Holds Its Breath

This morning.

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange (top) arrested after seven years in Ecuador’s embassy in London..

More as we get it.

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange arrested (BBC)

Pic: Getty

Update:

This morning.

A Wikleaks press conference to discuss the arrest.

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny (centre) with Kieran McLoughlin (left) and John Fitzpatrick of the Ireland Funds at a gala in Washington DC in 2017

Enda Kenny will be the chairman of an advisory council for a private equity group that will invest in Ireland.

The announcement was made in recent days by Kieran McLoughlin, who was previously president and chief executive of The Ireland Funds, a philanthropic organisation

Enda Kenny to be adviser to private equity group that will invest in Ireland (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Last year, Mr McLoughlin left the €569,573-a-year post after an audit prompted by the alleged embezzlement of up to $1 million in the Ireland Funds’ Dallas offfice was critical of his governance of the funds.  Mr McLoughlin said a review of the matter “crystallised” his decision to leave.

Good times.

Previously: WTAIF?

Pic: Ireland Funds

The intricate and ingenious folded paper art of Ekaterina Lukasheva – matt and iridescent paperworks that expand and contract, encapsulating two different forms in one.

colossal

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister of State for European Affairs Helen McEntee in brussels yesterday

Brexit: Trick or treat? 31 October Halloween deadline is both (BBC)

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