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Shonen Knife – power-trio pop from Japan
Here’s what you may need to know…
01. “When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert”, said Kurt Cobain of this veteran outfit, currently celebrating their 35th (!) anniversary.
02. The band came together in 1981 after founder member Naoko Yamano fell in love with the music of the Ramones. A deal with pop tastemakers K Records happened in 1985, which saw career album Burning Farm released Stateside.
03. The following three decades saw them tour with Nirvana on their Nevermind launch jaunt, as well as with Sonic Youth and the Breeders. They’ve played Lollapalooza and Reading, recorded sessions for the late, great John Peel, and even cut a tune for The Powerpuff Girls.
04. They’re hitting Ireland as part of their European tour next month. See them at Whelan’s in Dubland on the 30th, at Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Fest on May 1st, and in Cork’s Crane Lane Theatre on May 2nd (in a free show!).
Verdict: Broadsheet caught them in 2014 when they were on tour. Nirvana connection and their history aside, they are a savage live proposition. Get to ’em if you can.
Photo: Akira Shibata
This afternoon.
A damn close run thing it wasn’t.
Micheál Martin’s vote to follow.
UPDATE:
The result for Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.
The result for Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
The result for AAA-PBP’s Richard Boyd Barrett.
Hare We Go
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From left: Hares On The March committee member Tony Strickland and artist Frank O’Dea, with his hare entitled Hare Spray
‘Sup.
Some 110 artists from all over Ireland have each designed three-foot fiber glass hares with the results scattered around Dublin city centre – all in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation.
Of the Hares On The March initiative, Frank O’Dea writes:
“Twenty-five of the hares will be sold in a live auction on March 15, at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland [RCPI], Kildare Street, while the remaining 85 are currently available in an online auction here (closing for bids is March 21). These affordable unique pieces of art will help provide home nursing care to approximately 300 families nationwide with very sick children.”
Mark Orford tweetz:
…not sure if this is the kind of thing you’re interested in. But here’s a lady with a tap on her head.
Previously: Meanwhile, Outside The Dáil
New Order’s Blue Monday was released 33 years ago this week. Orkestra Obsolete examine how it would have sounded had it been made 50 years earlier using instruments from the 1930s including dulcimer, musical saw and harmonium.
Because why the hell not.
Independent TD Mick Wallace and BBC One’s Mark Carruthers
Yes.
Independent TD Mick Wallace will be speaking to Mark Carruthers about Stormont’s report on the sale of Nama’s Northern Ireland property loan portfolio.
At 10.45pm on BBC One.
UPDATE: Newstalk’s George Hook, Una Mullally, of the Irish Times, and Claire McGing, of Maynooth University, will also feature.
Previously: Contradictions And Refusals
Bunny How?
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Glenda Gilson with personalised Lindt Gold Bunny
The votes are in
To celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and with FOUR personalised Lindt Gold Bunnies to giveaway we asked you: if you could give a chocolate bunny to a fellow ‘sheet commenter who would that be.
You nominated people in your dozens.
Happy Molloy: “Please give a personalised Lindt Gold Bunny to Broadsheet commenter ‘Clampers Outside’ because he/she is happy, friendly and an example on how to be civil to those we disagree with.”
Dόn ‘The Unstoppable Force’ Pídgéόní: “If we are going to be saps, then I think Meadowlark should get it. She is always lovely and funny even in the face of complete stupidity and is touchingly honest about the state of her winter legs.”
Janet, I Ate My Avatar: “Please give broadsheet occasional commentator Janet, I Ate My Avatar the lindt bunny because my Mam once cooked my real bunny Nibbles when I was a kid ( he was digging up the garden and she’d from the country ) and I think it would help with the trauma to eat another bunny but this time with knowledge and purpose…”
The Old Boy: “Please give a personalised Lindt Gold Bunny to Broadsheet commenter Sarah Murphy because she may find herself in need of an emergency sugar intake more than most.”
We will contact all winners via email.
Previously: A Bunny To Call Your Own
Drone-B-Gone
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This afternoon
Mattress Mick’s store on Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Mmf.
Thanks Mattress Mick