'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
Crystal were one of Alan Murphy’s outfits, in essence a more formed and focused version of his previous band, The How And Why Insects, with his girlfriend, Lisa, added on vocals and Kieran Curtin replacing Anthony Murray on guitar. They were one of a number of bands from the Turner’s Cross/Capwell/Glasheen Road side of... Continue Reading →
I know the riversides around Morrison’s Island, The South Terrace and George’s Quay very well and, over the years, burned many an idle hour on them. My father spent his entire adult life working from The City Hall, I started primary school in The Model on Anglesea Street and spent years in and out of... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxiOmRxZ14 Guest post from Mick O'Dwyer, a former Teenage Punk, who now works as a librarian in the European Parliamentary Research Service in Brussels, and is one of the dedicated team behind the Forgotten Zine Archive in Dublin Certain bands are inevitably linked with certain times of your life, and for me the noughties were knotted... Continue Reading →
I worked as Pat Kenny’s television producer during the late 1990s and, alongside my colleague Noel Curran, over-saw the presenter’s first ever Late Late Show as host, which was broadcast live on RTÉ One on September 10th, 1999. I’d produced Pat on his Saturday night chat-show, ‘Kenny Live’, the previous season and found... Continue Reading →
Now that 'We Are The Young Men', the new Frank And Walters single and the first cut lifted from the group's forthcoming album, Songs For The Walking Wounded, has been sent out into the wider world, I’m going back over twenty-five years to a cracking live show of theirs in The College Bar in U.C.C. in late 1990.... Continue Reading →
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