This is going to be epic
While I was at the kino watching Rocky Balboa they showed a trailer for Danny Boyle’s new film; Sunshine[1] which looks fairly interesting. But what struck me is how music can...
30 January 2007
They have begun to shake the dirt Wiping their shoulders from the earth
Well childers, tis December now. So no more talk of christmas is allowed until a lot closer to the big day. I decided on my ten songs for the auld mix-type...
1 December 2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston dir. by Jeff Feuerzeig
Starring (as themselves) Daniel Johnston, Bill Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Louis Black This is a documentary based on the life of musician, song-writer, and artist Daniel Johnston. Throughout his life he had...
14 May 2006
American Dreamz dir. by Paul Weitz
The things you’ll do for family. Yes, I took my little sister and my cousin to see this horrible excuse for a film while I was in Sligo this weekend. It...
23 April 2006
I don’t have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
I was going to blog about this little, but very irritating, cut I have on my lip. But it is my own fault as I have a habit of biting my...
13 February 2006
Walk The Line dir. by James Mangold
Almost everyone has heard of Johnny Cash. The “Man in Black” is famous for songs like Ring of Fire, Walk The Line, Don’t take your guns to town, I could go...
10 February 2006
I heard her voice come crashing in the waves that broke all round for miles and miles
So you might be aware that I recently bought Declan O’Rourke’s album Since Kyabram, and there is one song in particular that I really like. It is called Marrying the Sea....
20 January 2006
There’s a ghost on the horizon
When I heard that Antony and the Johnsons won the mercury I didn’t recognise the name. But their song (Hope There’s Someone) was on the radio this morning, with many many...
7 September 2005
It’ll not be said in this country I slayed a naked man!
You don’t get lyrics like that very often, now do you? It is from the song Little Musgrave. You know when I was a kid listening to trad. music was very...
28 January 2005
Mic Christopher
Lately I have been mainly listening to Mic Christopher. I first heard of him on Glen hansard’s show of Other Voices: songs from a room, but I wasn’t really paying too...
13 April 2004
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Recently was given a copy of Even Better Than the Real Thing (scroll down a little). This album is a compliation of various cover versions performed “live and acoustic”. All proceeds...
19 December 2003
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