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Unearthed in a second hand record shop in Cork and uploaded direct from vinyl to the internets only today – feast your ears on this ‘song’ recorded to mark the 5th birthday of 2FM in 1984.

‘Gram Blaster Flash’ featuring the vocal stylings of Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning, Peter Collins, Marty Whelan, Larry Gogan & BP Fallon.

Cover scans: Mek and Jeremy Murphy.

Ciaran Savage adds:

Found this (below) on a board in my childhood bedroom in De Blanch. Anyone know when Radio 2 became 2fm?

(Thanks Oisín)

The Sound Crowd Orchestra – arguably one of the best underground Irish dance music outfits of the early 90s – had their 20th Anniversary bash at a packed-out Button Factory on Saturday night.

On the decks: original members Tim ‘Mr Spring’ Hannigan (left) and Mark Kavanagh (right).

Sidebar: Tim used to refer to himself as “Mister Spring, the 303 King”, referring to that legendary workhorse of dance music, the Roland TB 303. Now you know.

But were you there?

(Pix: Oisín)

Last night, our Nat, who normally live-tweets the Late Late Show like a boss but is currently ‘off-Twitter’, found himself in a quandry. The following was found this morning, scrawled in purple ink on the back of a Weetabix box next to his unconscious, partially clothed body:

Man oh man. My first Friday night where I actually miss Twitter since it was the “Late Late 50th special”. Tubridy should get a payrise for sitting through what he did:

A prissy Gaybo (“Enough about me”, he blarts as Kenny and Tubridy start the show by recounting what a good job he did).

Twink (I don’t even want to think about her or her comments about zip-up-yer-mickey who played in tonight’s orchestra).

Dustin the Turkey and an incredibly badly-judged comment – describing Tubridy, Patrick Kielty, Pat Shortt and Twink as “Three men and a bike”.

An out-and-out pie-eyed Liam Neeson, who initially described an email from the Taoiseach as “snivelling” and departed with “Thanks Brian”.

Sinead O’Connor dressed as a priest in high heels, who sat down after an emotional “Nothing compares 2 u” and clasped hands with Gaybo for the rest of the interview.

Nell Jaysus McCafferty, who had to be placated with whiskey from Gaybo & guests and went on to slag Tubridy for being from the Twittery Text generation who wants to shorten the show and doesn’t believe in the ability of the good people of Ireland to sit doon and chat and by god how Tubridy didn’t reach for the guest-ejector-seat button is beyond me.

Pat Kenny was the most grounded individual of the evening.  So ner.

Surprising that some of the Annie Murphy clip was played at the start of the show but Gaybo got away without being pressed on it, the [highly colourful vitriolic rant redacted] toff-noodle (you won’t find that in his bio).

Needless to say, Drunk Mode was not enabled.

Missed it? Watch here.

(RTE)

Gawker: one of the first out of the blocks with their own irreverent 911 mega post – a defiant selection of the Big Apple’s finest snark for the day that’s in it. They’re New Yorkers. They’re allowed.

The September 11 attacks placed all kinds of characters—some sinister, some sympathetic—in the public eye, both making careers and ending others. It helped conspiracy theorists attract followings, terrorists earn life sentences, rescue dogs win medals, and patriotic country music stars gain crossover fans. Let’s check in with some of the folks (and dogs) for whom 9/11 became a watershed personal branding moment, whether they intended it to or not.

The Stars Of 9/11: Where Are They Now?

The New York Times has assembled and posted more than two hours of military, air traffic and airline radio communications – some of it never before heard in public. It is depressing and fascinating.

The 911 Tapes

In New York magazine’s 9/11 issue, Mark Lilla says, “The tragedy will be mourned, then trivialized, then commercialized, and then amnesia will set in.” There are some tchotchkes that mourn, trivialize, and commercialize that tragedy all at once.

Never Forget All The Tacky Memorabilia (SLIDESHOW)