The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and that of his enemy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The movie opens with an aerial shot over Gotham City that zooms in quickly onto the side of a large glass skyscraper. It feels like it is a [...]
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Daniel Johnston. Musician. Songwriter. Artist.
Daniel Johnston. A man who once threw the keys of his father’s plane out of the cockpit window. Whilst the plane was airborne.
Daniel Johnston. Unrequieted lover. Pained lover. Eternally hopeful lover.
Like most, my initial experiences of Daniel’s music were through the many artists that covered his songs - Beck, David Bowie, [...]
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There is a story doing the rounds of how U2 were playing a concert recently in Glasgow. At some stage, Bono asked the audience for total silence. After several seconds of quiet, he clapped once, waited a few seconds, then clapped again. This went on a few times. The audience, by now, were perfectly still in [...]
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Wow! This film is an exceptionally positive documentary of the travels of Irish traditional musicians Liam O’Maonlai and Paddy Keenan across Mali on their way to performing at the remote Festival au Desert. The film recounts their interaction through music with various Malian tribes, many of whom are nomadic, with their own language and cultural [...]
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Attention rockers! You is not actually rotting your… er… what-ya-may call it, dudes! Some scientists sed it n all, so it must be true n… um… whatever! What a relief! I think. Got any meths?
The majority of research into the emotional and behavioral effects of popular music has focused on heavy metal, though a [...]
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Yesterday, the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) approved an interim increase of 20% in the cost of natural gas supplied by Bord Gais Eireann to homes and small- to medium-sized businesses. This follows on foot of a similar decision with respect to electricity a couple of weeks ago. The effect of this change is that [...]
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Why do the movie makers always seem to have it in for New York? If it is not being blown up by hostile aliens, it is being attacked by giant lizards or demonic Marshmallow Men. It is a quiet day around town if it is just some mutant humans battling it out for supremacy inside [...]
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Yesterday proved to be a red letter one for reducing the “bands that I have yet to see live” list down a little with the appearance of Liars, Efterklang, and Tortoise on the same bill, as part of the weekend-long Analog Festival!
Liars were up first and put down a pulsating set. Front man Angus Andrew [...]
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Beguiling. Bewitching. Beautiful.
Jóhann Jóhannsson and his two accompanying musicians provided a spellbinding evening yesterday of cello and organ music, underlaid by the caveronous drone of the bass pedals and interlaced with a whole host of electronic snaps, crackles, and pops.
Jóhannsson, who hails from Iceland, devises and plays his own compositions. They tend to be beautiful, [...]
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Well the world continued to come to an end this week. What with ever more economic gloom and doom about, the bold Nicky Sarkozy telling us how to run our country, our elderly having to fork out more for health insurance because our failed Minister for Health cannot read, and, to top it all of, [...]
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The Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin will be showing Dambé - The Mali Project on a limited, exclusive basis beginning on Friday, July 25. The film is a documentary that follows well-known Irish musicians Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and Paddy Keenan (uilleann pipes) as they travel through Mali in search of musical inspiration. The journey [...]
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There can only be a few people out there who did not feel different, alienated, or inferior at some stage during their adolescence. Imagine, though, what it must be like when this is your life for almost every day that you can remember. This, alas, is the plight of Ben (Greg Timmermans), a Belgian teenager who [...]
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Special No Ordinary Fool reporter and Kaiser Chiefs fanatic Skanger McNally files this exclusive report following the Oxegen festival this weekend:
Im tellin’ yiz. It woz de wurst Oxegen evah! Takin’ da bleedin’ mick dey wer.
Shag all drugs goin’ for a start. So zero buzz. Woz wreckin’ me head all weekend long, it woz. Too many o’dem poshos not up [...]
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