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While have always prided myself on being open to new things, I long ago passed the point where most “new” music* holds zero appeal for me. My get-out is that I’m a firm believer that all “old” music you previously knew nothing about is effectively “new: music if you’re never heard it before.

What with the cost of trains, dinner, drinks, taxis hotel, CD/LP/T-shirt) and tickets, traveling up to gigs in Dublin from Roscommon is hellish expensive – about E400 per gigs. All of which means I can probably afford about 12 shows a year. Try to balance this out with a mix of old favorites and acts of whose music I’ve heard know very little but who get good word of mouth.

Sometimes said gigs are shit, but I’ve been very fortunate to have gone to gigs where I’ve discovered acts/artists who are now big musical faves.

Aside from Sparks (reviewed here in 2022), my best ones to date are Grant Lee Phillips who I saw on a double bill with Josh Rouse in (IIRC) 2018. While was thinking of heading back to my hotel early (had a flight first thing the next morning), I stuck » Continue Reading.

As mentored in its title, this is a local thread for local people = in this case, those who have areldy seen IN(:SF

Elon Musk stands down/gets fired from DOGE role in White House

Dickens’ Oliver Twist would be a good example.

Anyone got any more/better ideas

Dates (not yet official but looks kosher) in post. 3850 near the very bottom of the page

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058337558/2025-irish-gigs-confirmed-rumoured-events/p77

Mods, please delete as Dai has already posted something similar

Him out of Ken Russell’s The Devils

Carrie Underhand, the Pillage People and a bunch of rappers no one has ever heard of are already boiled on.

Any last minute suggestions The Donald might approach?

Sounds innaresting

Amazing the bite that he and the boys have packed into just under three minutes.

Wish he’d hurry up and announce his European tour

Ordered a copy of Jason Isbell’s 10th anniversary Southland box from Amazon UK yesterday evening at 5 pm

Delivered to my door here in Roscommon at 1030 am this morning.

Didn’t even know he was booked to appear.

He and his new band the chrome Hearts will apparently be doing other outdoor gigs around the UK and Europe. this summer.

While hope he comes to Ireland, pray it isn’t Croke Park

Follow on to the “Best TV from the first Half of 2024” thread from earlier in the year so have done my best – probably not always successfully – to minimize duplication.

As in previous years, there’s no poll (feel free to start a dedicated TV vote if you wish) – just a overview of what I – and hopefully you – thought was worthwhile watching.

BEST OF THE BEST

An excellent year for TV in general and for Netflix which began the year on a high with the Aussie series BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, a captivating twist on dysfunctional family dramas. With RIPLEY and BABY REINDEER continuing to keep the standard high, the streamer ended the year with the one-two punch of a couple of very more-ish thrillers, THE MADNESS and BLACK DOVES.

ITV also had a pretty good year starting off with MR BATES AND THE POST OFFICE and climaxing with Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, Line of Duty) as the off-kilter female protagonist of UNTIL I KILL YOU.

With the channel having emerged more or less unscathed from its attempted euthanasing by Mad Nad, C4 delivered more than its fair share of bangers, too. Chief » Continue Reading.

Joe Biden pardons Hunter and skedaddles to Africa leaving his aides to handle the flak

struck by an overwhelming desire to hear Joan Osborne and the Funk Brothers’ jaw-dropping cover of Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Broien Hearted, I was amazed to find the whole concert is now up on YT

If you’ve not seen it, make yourself a pot of tea, take the phone off the proverbial hook and enjoy two hours of 13 of the finest musicians getting together to play some of the finest songs ever written one last time