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Loaded: 18/12/2009
Friday December 18 2009
Last week, I offered my top 20 Irish albums of the decade -- deeming David Kitt's 2001 album, The Big Romance to be the best -- and now, buoyed by the enthusiastic response from readers, I throw 20 international suggestions your way.
fagan aiming for home run Latest Irish distance star may be living American dream -- but he's relishing the chance to boost team's medal ambitions
Saturday December 12 2009
SO MUCH for the best laid plans of mice, men...and distance runners. The local climate, as well as the 7,000 feet altitude and local network of running trails that make it an idyllic training centre, are the reasons that Mullingar Harrier's Martin Fagan lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
ESSENTIAL SOUNDS ... DVD TIME ...
Wednesday September 02 2009
Honestly, if someone instructs you to listen to a band fronted by a gay Icelandic dude who plays the guitar with a cello bow and sings in his own made-up language of Hopelandic, you'd be excused for running a mile.
Loaded: 21/08/2009
Friday August 21 2009
David Byrne played one of the year's finest concerts when he entertained Dublin's National Concert Hall back in April. For a 57-year-old he looked remarkably svelte, with a lean body that a man half his age would have been proud of.
Music: Riceboy Sleeps * * * *
Friday July 17 2009
Famed for his ethereal falsetto and other-worldly presence as the frontman of Iceland's Sigur Ros, Jonsi Birgisson has -- together with his boyfriend, Alex Somers -- been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for the past three years.
Boldly going where no fiddler has gone before
Saturday May 23 2009
I was sitting on the hard pews of the Unitarian Church on Dublin's Stephen's Green when I first heard Caoimhin O Raghallaigh play live. Playing in near darkness -- he was bathed only in the faintest blue light -- the fiddler wrung the most extraordinarily haunting sounds from his five-string viola.
Loaded: 06/03/2009
Friday March 06 2009
Neil Jordan has enlisted Sigur Ros's keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson to compose part of the soundtrack for his forthcoming film, Ondine. Selected songs from the Sigur Ros catalogue will also feature.
U2: the verdict
Friday February 13 2009
They took their time, didn't they? It's been four years and three months since the last U2 studio album -- the longest gap in the band's history. At times, this -- their 12th -- could have been called No Finish On The Horizon, such were the apparent difficulties and insecurities they faced when making it.
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