'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
Delighted to host this guest post by David Heffernan. From Dublin, David is a vastly experienced and much-decorated music producer and director. Apart from ‘Curious … The Velvet Underground in Europe’, his credits also include international films on Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder and Fleetwood Mac. The interior walls of a former factory building on New... Continue Reading →
Lambo, Uaneen, Byrner and Strangey: names to conjure with for those of us who studied at The Rock Garden in Dublin, and graduated with dishonour, during its brief but colourful existence in the early 1990s. Just some of a wide-ranging cast of regulars, all of them lost over-board far too early, who sprinkled the magic... Continue Reading →
I was flattered and a little awed when I was asked to contribute a few words to accompany the re-issue of Whipping Boy’s magnificent 1995 album, ‘Heartworm’. I never intended the sleeve notes to take off like they did and I’m not sure if the band or the staff at Needle Mythology, the record label... Continue Reading →
The Underground Bar on Dublin’s Dame Street was a lap dancing club the last time I passed it by but, in its pomp, the downstairs dive was a centre of excellence for some of the best new bands to emerge in Ireland from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Sack, Power of Dreams and Into... Continue Reading →
On March 1st, 1980, the music writer Paul Morley fetched up in Cork on an assignment for the London-based music paper, New Musical Express. Accompanied by a young photographer, David Corio, Morley was on the road with an emerging group from Dublin, U2; his piece gave the band its first NME cover story when it... Continue Reading →
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