'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
Thirty years ago this weekend, Public Enemy played Trinity College, Dublin. Kieran Cunningham, Chief Sports Writer with the Irish Daily Star, and someone who once had musical notions of his own, has written this excellent guest post for us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Jeyif7bB4 Joe Brolly was lying on his back on the cobblestones. Staring at the stars, wired... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2cBnVx_F2w One of the more attractive and visceral away trips for many of those involved in Gaelic games in Dublin is the winding drive up to Johnny Fox’s pub in Glengullen, the short walk across the wild mountainside and over to Stars Of Erin, one of the smallest clubs in the county and one of... Continue Reading →
Regular subscribers to The Blackpool Sentinel – one of the advantages of digital media means that we have identified someone in West Cork and possibly another in Eastern Europe – will need no introduction to the magnificent Scottish band, Trashcan Sinatras, and their seductive, smart and soothing pop songs. They are in part the patron... Continue Reading →
There was a time when I’d see the writer and critic, George Byrne, at least three times a week, usually at concerts, ligs and anything with a free bar. I’d fallen out of regular contact with him – and indeed with most others – ever since I settled into family life in the suburbs, but... Continue Reading →
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