THE MANY GHOSTS OF PHILIP LYNOTT

For decades it was in childrens and youth programmes that many good young television producers and ambitious directors began their careers and where the more difficult, often older ones ended theirs when, deemed too unmanageable for the requirements of the prime-time schedules, they were consigned back to work with the glove puppets. In RTÉ -... Continue Reading →

JEFF LYNNE’S E.L.O., LIVE IN DUBLIN, 2016

The last time I sat in the 3 Arena in Dublin was for one of U2’s flatulent Innocence And Experience shows which proved, once again, that all of the smoke, mirrors and lighting tricks can’t definitively mask the inevitable: U2 have long had the drabs and have real difficulty writing new material. As far back... Continue Reading →

MAPPING POPULAR MUSIC IN DUBLIN :- A RESEARCH PROJECT

  Guest Post by Dr Áine Mangaoang, Research Fellow Dublin City University , Visiting Lecturer Iceland Academy of the Arts “To ask for a map is to say ‘tell me a story’” (Turchi, 2004:11).   Once known as the city of a thousand bands, Dublin’s reputation as a city of popular music-making is largely considered as one that consistently, even... Continue Reading →

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