Nylophone – Last Summer

“Last summer wind was in your hair. Loving laughter filled the air”

Introducing a great new talent: Niall Woods (top) aka Nylophone beguiles with this dream-pop masterpiece that sounds like the love child of Alvvays and The Beach Boys.

To quote the press blurb:

“The phrase ‘Last Summer’ is playfully used to mean both the summer that passed and the final summer that will ever be.”

ROMY (Ruth O’Mahony Brady) adds gorgeous backing vocals and drums/mixing is by Rian Trench.

The video by Lucy Nuzum is also a bit special.

Nylophone plans to release an album in January.

Nick says: Dunes and tunes.

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CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan

On The Late Late Show (in front of a live audience).

Linda Pototzki writes:

The Script will be performing their new single ‘I Want It All’ from their forthcoming greatest hits collection ‘Tales From The Script’ and tell us why they’re so excited to get back on the road with a new tour.

Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s son, Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud, will talk about the impact his mother’s brutal murder has had on his life…

We meet Ireland’s Olympic heroes including Kellie Harrington, Paul O’Donovan, Fintan McCarthy, Aidan Walsh, Afric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty who did the country so proud and created history over the summer.

Culture Club icon Boy George will be live in-studio to talk about his incredible career…

Eileen O’Riordan remembers her beloved daughter Dolores on what would have been her 50th birthday. Eileen will also be joined by Fergal Lawler from The Cranberries…

We catch up with CNN journalist and Cahirciveen man Donie O Sullivan to chat about his adventures in America’s hinterland…

The Late Late Show on Friday at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.

Pic: RTE

This morning.

Via Reuters:

Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the country’s sputtering inoculation campaign.

Kanagawa prefecture said several black particles in one Moderna vaccine vial were found upon checking for foreign substances before its use, and it has put the rest of the lot on hold.

Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna shots last week after being notified of contamination in some of the supply. Moderna and Spanish pharma company Rovi (ROVI.MC), which bottles Moderna vaccines, have said the cause could be a manufacturing issue, and European safety regulators have launched an investigation.

Moderna has said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified from the issue.

Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance (Reuters)

Yesterday: Teen Spirit

Meanwhile…

Good times.

Meanwhile…



Yesterday.

Connemara, County Galway.

‘Mirror Pavilion, Leaf’, by John Gerrard, in the 4,000 year old Derrigimlagh Bog, is a response by the artist to climate change, using digital technology and brushed reflective metal on three sides and a digital image display on the other .

The installation is part of the Galway International Arts Festival which runs from August 28-September 18.

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The Quadroin is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to mimic a penguin

Now boffins admit they do not
Know what happens at sea so they’ve got
A new plastic bird
Which seems quite absurd
A new-fangled self-propelled bot

John Moynes

Hereon/Florian Büttner

Bridging the gap between land and sea on the Chilean coast, Casa Izuga, aka 5 Beams House features, as advertised, five concrete beams supported by walls to the east and west.

The structure – built in 2015 and designed by Gubbins Poldura architects – offers privacy from the neighbours (such as they are), creating concealed spaces on the lower level, half submerged into the hillside, capped with a wall of sea-facing glass.

Public areas on the upper level are likewise encased in glazing with spectacular views of the landscape, expanding  via sliding panels into a pool and terrace overlooking the incoming South Pacific waves.

It’s a hard oul’ station, right enough.

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Above from left: Osaro Azams, Stefan Fae, Viola Gayvis, Lago Lima and Caoimhe Lavelle

This afternoon.

Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Actors and Performers arrive at the Irish Film Institure (IFI)  to announce the GAZE International Film Festival’s return to in-cinema screenings this Autumn, for the festival’s 29th edition as an all-inclusive celebration of Irish and international LGBTQ+ film.

Bring spare stockings.

GAZE 2021

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Fancy a natter?

Pure Daycent Chats with Paddy O’Brien and Noelle Ní Ríagáin.

The opening event of this year’s Pitch’d Circus & Street Arts Festival in Cork

Jean Kearney writes:

Paddy and Noelle are two Master Storytellers and Listeners, who are inviting the public to join them at the Douglas Street Parklet by the Cork Flower Studio for a cuppa and a chat from September 2nd to 5th and 9th to 12th.

How do you feel about where you live, what you love or hate about it, and how do you see it in 100 years? Tell them what the funniest thing that’s happened to you on the streets of Cork, or what’s your favourite Cork expression? Pure Daycent Chats want to know!

Paddy is a writer, poet and archaeologist, everything within the realms of literature and culture floats his boat, and Noelle performs and collaborates with people across many different art forms and is a lover of mythology, folklore, and people’s personal stories and she knows the importance of “putting the kettle on and having the chat.”

Register for a free chat here

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