'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
I worked for a couple of years with my friend, Jeff Brennan, in The Rock Garden, the live music venue and sometime restaurant that opened in Crown Alley, in Temple Bar, Dublin, almost 25 years ago. It was the late Aiden Lambert, Blink’s manager, who brokered that job for me and I’ve written about our... Continue Reading →
I was one of the many who adored Aiden Lambert and he never once gave me a reason to do otherwise. He was a hugely impressive man but it was his generosity and his humility, I think, that defined him. This was certainly the case with our relationship as it was, I suspect, with many of his other friendships.... Continue Reading →
Mick Lynch, the Cork-born musician, singer, actor and performer who passed away yesterday after a long illness, will be familiar to those of us who served our time around the margins of left-field Irish music during the 1980s, and especially those who preferred their indie with an absurdist bent. I first encountered his name on... Continue Reading →
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 →
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