Author: the blackpool sentinel (incorporating Voices from The Glen)

The Blackpool Sentinel [incorporating Voices From The Glen] is a music blog by Martin O'Connor and Colm O’Callaghan. We deal mostly with alternative music from the 1980s and 1990s, much of it Irish and much of it long lost. And with good reason.

THANKS FOR THE USE OF THE HALL

                                   Looking back at the mixed history of Sir Henry’s, Cork’s best known live music venue, only re-enforced that which I’d long thought: the scruffy old hall was, in reality, nothing more than that. And while folk of course... Continue Reading →

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EPIC SOUNDTRACKS, KEVIN JUNIOR and NIKKI SUDDEN

  You may not recognise all of the characters but you’ll almost certainly recognise the story, or at least the darker parts of it. At its core are three men with a love of the same kind of music in common, liberated from time to time, I suppose, by the magic they heard around them,... Continue Reading →

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TOASTED SPECIAL

https://youtu.be/7BxIvxUvfIE During the late 1980s and early 1990s, some of the smartest and freshest new bands in Ireland emerged far from the Dublin archdiocese and, in many cases, in direct defiance of it’s strictures. Zesty acts like Therapy ?, The Frank And Walters, The Cranberries, Engine Alley, They Do It With Mirrors, The I.R.S. and The Sultans Of... Continue Reading →

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I WAS GEORGE MARTIN’S PRODUCER

  I worked as Pat Kenny’s television producer during the late 1990s and, alongside my colleague Noel Curran, over-saw the presenter’s first ever Late Late Show as host, which was broadcast live on RTÉ One on September 10th, 1999.   I’d produced Pat on his Saturday night chat-show, ‘Kenny Live’, the previous season and found... Continue Reading →

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FRANKED

Now that 'We Are The Young Men', the new Frank And Walters single and the first cut lifted from the group's forthcoming album, Songs For The Walking Wounded, has been sent out into the wider world, I’m going back over twenty-five years to a cracking live show of theirs in The College Bar in U.C.C. in late 1990.... Continue Reading →

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