When British Sea Power brought out their third album Do You Like Rock Music earlier this year, the references to Arcade Fire were as hard to find as sand is on a beach. That comparison has taken a further step forward on this tour with the addition of a violinist and a trumpet player to [...]
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You go away for two weeks and the world goes into financial meltdown. Even this morning, Fortis, a European heavyweight, has been bailed out by the three Benelux governments, while the British government has stepped in once more into its country’s banking system to nationalise Bradford & Bingley. There is even a story unfolding as [...]
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Longman is back in the House of Oz and none the worse for the time spent away! It is good to see that you generally behaved yourselves during my absence, apart from the joker who pinched my bottle of vintage Babycham. Ho! Ho! Very funny!
Now give it back!
Running On Empty…
Of course, holidays are meant to [...]
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Stay away from the drinks cabinet, y’hear?
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone’s favourite copyright-protected music platform iTunes now comes with a whizz-bang gadget that is modestly entitled Genius. This wee gizmo hoovers up your music library (with your permission of course), runs it through some software chez Apple and then sends [...]
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Ahh, Foals!
They really do make the sort of music that I ought not to like. Sugary sweet, slickly melodious, and suspiciously happy, it really should add up to a record that an old codger like myself normally gives a wide beardth to without too much pause for thought.
Yet, the music is just so darn catchy!
Besides, [...]
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Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
- Morpheus
I watched The Matrix again last night. I must have seen it at least ten times before, but it has probably been four or five years since I watched it last. However, a number of recent movies have [...]
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The good, the great, and the simply hairy of the alternative music blogging scene have been pretty much “on message” today when it comes to saying that they don’t care for music awards (we don’t), it is good though to see Elbow win the Mercury Prize all the same (it is), even though it is [...]
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They called it the greatest artistic crime of the century. Two teams of men had to use all manner of subterfuge to bring the necessary heavy equipment to the top of both World Trade Centre towers. The preparation took daring, courage, discipline, and determination. Only then did Philippe Petit, a 24-year old Frenchman, step off [...]
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Leo Varadkar’s comments about migrants before a Dáil Committee are designed to create a climate of resentment against people who have come to Ireland to work.
Conor Lenihan, Fianna Fail
Quoted in The Irish Times
It takes a special strain of the mouths-bigger-than-brains politicans that this country somehow keeps producing to lead me to agree with Kebab Lenihan [...]
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Suddenly, as if by magic, Friday appeared!
Again!
J. Alfred Prufrock measured out his life with coffee spoons. I seem to be currently doing so with these TFF posts! Not to worry, as I always look forward to seeing what shiny bauble my magpie-like plundering of new music videos will produce each week!
Hopefully, Stereolab are not a [...]
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I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied ’round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime..
White Winter Hymal, Fleet Foxes
Now that the summer festival madness has more [...]
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Tom Dunne’s Pet Sounds radio show on Today FM had become essential listening for many Irish music lovers. He hosted the programme for nine whole years. Yet here is the thing. I never listened to it once. That is right – not even once. It was a phenonomem that passsed me by completely. There is [...]
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