'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
I wrote a weekly music column in The Sunday Tribune newspaper for a number of years during the mid and late 1990s. Helen Callanan, the editor who hired me and Matt Cooper, who inherited me, had far more pressing matters to deal with on a weekly basis and so I was usually left alone and... Continue Reading →
The liner notes on Idle Race’s second album, ‘Idle Race’, released in 1969, are giddy with adjectives and end with a short biography of each of the fledgling Birmingham group’s four members. One of that number, Jeff Lynne, is described by the author, Ray Coleman, as ‘the chief songwriter’. ‘He rides a bicycle’, the piece... Continue Reading →
David Heffernan is a good friend and a regular confidante. I’ve written about our relationship in a previous post, and that’s available here. A one-time RTÉ presenter on radio and television, he’s also made some of the best and most celebrated music television in the country’s history. As one of the founding partners at Frontier Films, he’s... Continue Reading →
Donal O'Keeffe is an artist, writer and columnist with Journal.ie based in Fermoy, County Cork who, on the occasion of the death of Lou Reed, posted a wonderful piece to his blog A Hundred and forty characters is usually enough It's a terrific, personal piece and we're delighted to carry that piece here. Lou Reed is gone.... Continue Reading →
The summer of 1990 is fondly recalled in Ireland by those of a certain age, and especially so in Cork. We’ve already referenced these magical few months, on the playing fields and in the pubs and clubs, in several other posts and those are available here. That three month period was dominated, to a large extent, by Ireland’s... Continue Reading →
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