Saturday night at Latitude [UK festival]

On the Other Voices ‘church’-style stage,

Ed Sheeran along with Jonny Quinn and Nathan Connolly of Snow Patrol played an intimate surprise set which included Nina Simone’s Feelin’ Good, Chasing Cars, and a rendition of the Parting Glass.

However….

The OriginalRocker writes:

“With the exception of Angus [Young] I thought we had done away guitarists wearing shorts. This isn’t your back garden. Put some trousers on for pity’s sake….”

FIGHT!

Update:

The OriginalRocker adds:

I can see from your comments that you have no axe men/women among your readership. I’ll concede that bass players can go skimpy if they must but I would expect guitarists to observe some decorum. Think of BB King (RIP),  Jimmy Page, Hendrix. Now think of them in shorts….

Latitude Festival

Twang!

Thanks Cilian Murphy (no not him)

Pic: Tara Thomas

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This morning.

Fair City’s Maclean Burke playing Garth Brooks outside the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with unidentified  hoss to announce details of Fiona Looney’s new play ‘Are You There Garth? It’s Me Margaret’.

July marks the anniversary of the cancellation of the Garth Brooks Croke Park gigs brouhaha.  ‘Are You There, Garth? It’s Me, Margaret’ opens in the Gaiety  on October 14 for MORE than five shows. Giggle.

Uncanny likeness, in fairness.

  RollingNews.ie

 

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A bonkers POV video from Polygon UR Team downhill mountain biker Jamie Nicoll vying with (and trying to avoid colliding with) fellow competitors in the opening minutes of the 30km Megavalanche glacier descent in the French Alps.

The race starts at the 3,300m summit of the Pic Blanc and ends 2,500 meters below in the Allemont Valley.

Here’s another rider (Thibaut Ruffin’s) POV of the 2014 race in it’s full unexpurgated glory.

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Dublin Bus New Fleet 1

Friendly to strangers.

Polite.

Frisky.

In a survey of over 4,500 Dublin Bus users.

Questioned last month.

They discovered:

During the early morning commute, over 12% use that time to grab an extra ‘40 winks’. Otherwise 62% of us spend our time on the bus browsing the internet with 67% of sessions lasting between 20 and 60 minutes….

When scanning the faces of other bus passengers, 23% of us have said hello to someone we didn’t know…… and when we did see someone we knew, and didn’t want to talk to them, 21% of us have pretended to be on a phonecall

23% have admitted to having a crush on a fellow bus passenger and even 15% have gotten off at the wrong stop just to chat to somebody who is getting off. Elsewhere 31% of us have missed our stop because we fell asleep!

Nearly 70% (68%) of us remember our bus number from when we were a child and in what seems to be a unique attribute to Dublin, 90% of passengers always say thank you to their driver.

Fight!

Also: Name the new fleet model (top) anyone?

Thanks Nigel Goggin.

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