Via The Ireland Edition of The Times and The Sunday Times:
A new marketing campaign has been unveiled by The Ireland Edition of The Times, the digital newspaper, and The Sunday Times, Ireland’s leading quality Sunday newspaper, to let readers know that both products deliver a well-balanced and outward looking perspective on the national and international stories that matter.
The ‘Know your times’ brand campaign aims to demonstrate how The Ireland Edition of The Times and The Sunday Times ensure readers are not just informed, but well-informed, about the fast changing world we live in via an in-depth and authoritative mix of Irish and international news, business, politics and sport as well as insightful opinion and analysis.
Last Friday, with a voucher for TWENTY-FIVE *entire* euro for Golden Discs on the line, we boldly asked you to select your favourite instrumental pieces. The specific wording, in fact:
‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be__________________________________’
The competition, as ever, was stiff, but there can only be one (each week)…
…and Kolmo’s after earning it:
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be ‘An Ending’ by Brian Eno and I’ll tell you why if you care to listen –
when you put in your earphones and play this tune on repeat, every single thing you do will turn into a surreal music video in your own mind, from walking to the train station or even going for a pee, shopping in Lidl is a masterpiece in videography, going to pick up the dole doesn’t probably doesn’t seem so bad, wading through the many, many colourful characters on Talbot St is like a moving work of art of the Flemish School…
..watching the skrotai wheelying up the street on really, really lovely mountain bike fills one with a temporal joy at the nature of movement, strolling past the perennially arguing non self-aware shouties on O’Connell street combined with the gentle warm waft of doughnuts being fried there is like live theater, with the volume turned off and replaced with the goosepimple inducing sounds of ‘An Ending’ by Brian Eno, all is well in the world.
So there you have it, now.
Extended highlights (and these were hard to narrow down):
PJ Ryan: “The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be Ocean by John Butler, go ahead and give your ears a treat by giving this a listen (this is the short version, I don’t want to frighten you away).”
MysteryBeat: “Set Guitars to Kill by And So I Watch You From Afar. Set Guitars to Kill is the first track on the music memory stick in my car, so normally pops on as I leave the car park after work. It’s an exhilarating way to round off a day in the office!”
Improv Fest Ireland returns to Dublin in November with a sizzling line up of international acts from around the world. Showcasing a huge range of improvised theatre and comedy styles, the festival features acts from 13 different countries performing in 29 different shows
. The festival also features world-class workshops and master classes, international ‘mixer’ performances, as well as a nightly Festival Club. It’s a veritable feast of international talent, all under the same roof (in two theatre spaces) with all shows priced at an incredible €10.
An impressively stabilised GoPro helmetcam video from the noggin of mountain biker Steve Storey featuring a super smooth descent he’s perfected over two years.
The impressive work of 27 year old self taught candy sculptor Shinri Tezuka.
The ancient craft of amezaiku (the rolling, sculpting and painting of elaborate lollipops) is a disappearing art and Tezuka is one of two known practitioners in Tokyo.
