'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
I spent many, many hours with the excellent Dublin band, Into Paradise, devising numerous schemes and strategies intended to bring them in from the cold but that only ultimately moved them further out into the margins. Through the madness, I remember fondly the time I spent as the band’s butler, a bit like Scooter from... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJO6-oaPEsY There were a few of them, back in the dark ages, that you’d think twice about looking crooked at. Declan Jones from Blue In Heaven, all seven foot odd of him in his leather keks and his Chelsea boots, was one. Half of Whipping Boy, a couple of The Gorehounds, Dave Lavelle from The... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkC8W_-a-8 Our latest post is another guest post. This is the second piece we have posted from Mick O'Dwyer. Mick lives in Brussels and works as a librarian in the European Council. His first guest post for The Blackpool Sentinel was a great, widely read, piece on The Sultans of Ping This time round he writes... Continue Reading →
This, our latest guest post came about on the back of a Twitter exchange after Colm's most recent post, The Smiths in Cork, 1984 That exchange included contributions from Denis Carroll, a massive fan of The Smiths and Morrissey, who posted some great pictures and told a great story in the form of a number of... Continue Reading →
It was shortly after midnight, early on Wednesday morning, July 29th, 1987, and it was Mark Cagney, host of ‘The Night Train’ on RTÉ Radio 2FM who, as serenely as ever, broke the news. Home alone, and with the rest of my family off on holidays, I’d been in the habit of keeping the radio on longer... Continue Reading →
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