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Joe Moran writes:
Kinda cuts across a couple of your regular threads (stocking filler and you may like this) but The Urges New LP is released and on the shelves and well worth a listen from the Broadsheet massive…
My thoughts on it here….
TL:DR? fabulous set from the Dublin rockers.
Vinyl and CD can be purchased here
Lovely cover, in fairness.
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’
This afternoon.
Mount Street, Dublin 82.
Gary Byrne writes:
Eerily empty….
This evening.
Royal Hospital grounds, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
Where’s everyone gone?
Rollingnews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6McJF–sc
Thud.
#SpiritCooking is the number one trending topic in the USA this morning.
Activist and journalist David Seaman explains why.
Tasty and nutritious.
Meanwhile…
Here is my full statement on the networks' blackout of the likely Clinton Foundation indictment. pic.twitter.com/ztcCBXdOdc
— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) November 3, 2016
A scarf for the lady.
A cravat for the gent.
Racy.
Charmaine Kenny, at the Irish Workshop, online home of Irish-made stuff, writes:
‘Twas far from silk we were reared, but we are a little giddy about a new silk scarf collection by Dúinn Designs. Inspired by heritage sites like the Giant’s Causeway, Skellig Islands and the old library at Trinity College Dublin, these scarves weave stories of Irish heritage in an exciting modern twist in 100% Silk Crepe De Chine. Fancy!
Fight!
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’
Hate that.
A compilation of unsatisfying things by Parisian animation studio Parallel Video – also a promo for their Unsatisfying Challenge in which they invite you to submit your own unfulfilling animations.
Ropemaker – playing Galway with Hope is Noise and The Magnapinna
What you may need to know…
01. Math-rock three-piece Ropemaker hail from the alternative-music capital of Ireland, Portarlington, Co. Laois.
02. Having gigged sporadically the last few years, they’ve already shared stages with Steve Strong, the dearly-departed Terriers (the real ones, not the Dublin-based pretenders), ZINC and others.
03. Streaming above is the band’s 2015 extended-player, Abyssinia, available for download via the band’s Bandcamp.
04. Catch them live next at the Roisín Dubh on the 19th, in support of FEAST’s Cork takeover of the Roisín Dubh, featuring Hope is Noise and The Magnapinna.
Verdict: Swaggering, striding math-rock in a Battles or Alpha Male Tea Party vein. Grand.
https://vimeo.com/190094414
Canadian artist Annette Labedski takes a break from abstract figurative painting to create pigment mixing videos, some of which (as above) use symmetrical mirroring, obscuring the palette knife to strangely mesmeric effect.
More at her Instagram account.
For the weekend that’s in it.
January 20th, 1973.
Snatching a draw from jaws of yet another defeat to the all-conquering All Blacks.
When some of the goys played twice a week such was the demands of the amateur game at the time.
Paul MacWeeney reported:
The All Blacks can kick themselves all the way back to New Zealand for allowing Ireland to snatch a draw, with two penalty goals and a try to a goal and a try, six minutes from the end at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.
Completley inflexable thinking cost Kirkpatrick and his team the glittering prize of becoming the first from their country to beat all four HOME countries on a single tour, and assuming that the captain is the final arbiter of policy once play has started,
Kirkpatrick, one of the greatest forwards of history, must shoulder much of the blame for not ending with a margain of at least 10 points.
Harsh.
Meanwhile..
Earlier that week,
The “good leg“.
