'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
Thirty years ago, tonight, long after the watershed, I was in a suite in the old Jury’s Hotel on Cork’s Western Road with a handful of colleagues from work. We’d been out that evening to mark the broadcast of the fruits of our recent labours, a music television clip show that was about to set... Continue Reading →
Eamonn Crudden features prominently in any credible history of the Irish underground during the 1990s and beyond. A man of many talents, he was one of those who founded the Dead Elvis label, home to several of Ireland’s more interesting, independent-spirited groups during this period. In this piece, Eamonn writes about the Dead Elvis label and, especially, his involvement... Continue Reading →
40 years ago today, U2 played a memorable live show at The Phoenix Park in Dublin. It was the band’s biggest ever Irish concert to date. In this guest post, Kieran Cunningham recalls that day – 14 August, 1983 – when U2, Eamon Coghlan and the Gaelic footballers of Donegal were all kicking for home... Continue Reading →
Every summer, one of the many public spaces in the area in which I live in South Dublin, is temporarily colonised by live music producers. Vast quantities of trussing and tarpaulin are off-loaded into what is normally a sprawling, sedate setting around Marlay Park, in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, and unsettle it for... Continue Reading →
Colm recently reviewed ‘The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1. 1969 – 1973’, written by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, for the literary section of The Irish Examiner. We’re glad to be able to re-publish the piece here. Ian MacDonald’s ‘Revolution in the Head’, published in 1994, and ‘Shout’, Philip Norman’s 1981 biography of The Beatles, are... Continue Reading →
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