For fans of David Eugene Edwards: open.substack.com/pub/grungeincl…

I was privileged to be involved in Laura Hyland's Sounding Seams project back in 2018. Crannog Media's documentary is just up. Take a look, it's fascinating. youtu.be/5NOycaFMbQM?si…

I was born in 1968. I'm a Cold War geek. I'm going to this: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi…

I'll be here.

Boycott these avaricious jerks. Support your local bookshop, at all costs. Don't let them screw writers the way Spotify and the streaming platforms screwed musicians.

I'm calling on the Irish government to back the Freedom Flotilla trying to get essential food and supplies to Gaza. They urgently need a flag to fly under. Can you sign? my.uplift.ie/petitions/allo… via Uplift

Ten years ago my old compadre Acko played me what I considered the best song he'd ever written. It inspired at least two Cursed Murphy tunes. I wrote some verses and threw some voice on it and was thrilled when they made the cut. Here's the video. youtu.be/ehcDWz4PyGY?si…

Spent a fine day last summer hanging out with the lovely Arte crew, talking about the landscape and social backdrop of Claire Keegan's work. arte.tv/fr/videos/1186…

Lovely buzz at the Glor theatre, 📚 Ennis Book Club Festival | March 7-9 2025 📚 with Lauren Mackenzie and Colin Anawaty

Show day! On the train, heading west. See you here in at 2pm.

Look forward to refereeing this title fight at Ennis Book Club Festival tomorrow. Michael Magee Lauren Mackenzie Colin Barrett.

See you here on Saturday.

Hear the author of a 'must-read' Colin Barrett at #EBCF2024 this Sat alongside Lauren Mackenzie
Michael Magee Cursed Murphy

🎟 065 6843103 &
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Entering final rehearsals for Polina Cosgrave's play Borscht. The producers seek a tech operator, standard rate. DM if interested. Tech rehearsal 1.15pm to 3.15 pm Tues 27 Feb. Showtimes Tues 27 at 8.15pm and Thurs 29 at 6.45pm. The venue is the Boys' School, Smock Alley, Dublin.

From The Nuremberg Trials, the 1947 documentary film directed by Elizaveta Svilova.

Thrilled to be in this. Borscht: urban violence meets culinary arts, written Polina Cosgrave . Directed by Maud Hendricks @outlandishtheatre, produced by Oonagh Wall.
Tue 27 at 8:15pm + Thu 29 Feb at 6:45pm | Boys' School, Smock Alley, Dublin.
Book here: smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticket.../show…

So many tuna cheese sandwiches, cups of coffee, Hot Press lunch breaks, dates with mates. Godspeed, you legends. It's the end of an institution.

Tonight on RTÉ Radio 1 from 7pm:

Chris Wasser and Tara Brady review What Happens Later, I Like Movies and over two decades after the original stop animation hit Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

Cursed Murphy and @swenchand give us their Music Books of the Year.

Legend.

Remembering the first time I interviewed Shane, around this time of year in 1997. I repeated something Bono said about him in the documentary film The Great Hunger: ‘Words are where he lives.’
‘Naw,’ he responded. ‘Music is where I live.’
The cover of today's Irish Independent: