'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
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 →
The Blackpool Sentinel was delighted to be asked to contribute to The Irish Independent’s recent attempt to name the fifty best Irish albums of all time. Ambitious projects about music and records are food-and-drink to those of us in the anorak classes, even if lists of this kind inevitably raise more questions than they answer.... Continue Reading →
Thirty-nine years ago today, The Smiths fetched up in Cork for the first time and played a storming, head-bending set at the old Savoy complex on Patrick Street. The band’s history with the city, and the impact of that show, are covered in detail elsewhere on this site. So its especially disconcerting that this weekend... Continue Reading →
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