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Brian Ó Riagáin

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About Me

.............CAPITAL COMEDY CLUB JUNE 29........BATTLE OF THE AXE JULY 8TH....... THE INTERNATIONAL JULY 10............................Started doing stand-up in May 2006 and have played ( or am booked to play) the following venues : Battle of the Axe, The Neptune, The Ha'penny Inn, New Night at the Comedy Cellar, The House of Fun, The Kilkenny Fringe, The Capital Comedy Club, The Samurai Comedy Club (Doyles), Comedy Dublin at the Belvedere, The Bleu Note, The Woolshed, The International

My Interests

Comedy, music, films, theatre (Mark O'Rowe, Mark Ravenhill, Mark O'Rowe, Ibsen,Caryl Churchill, Tom Murphy,Conor McPherson,Ibsen, Strindberg, Max Frisch, Brian Friel, David Mamet, Trevor Griffiths,Frank McGuinness,Sophocles), boxing (watching it), politics,the occult, snooker and pinball (for professional reasons), most soap operas...although Dallas remains the king!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Mitch Hedberg, Machiavelli, Georg Buchner, Richard Pryor (the great),Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Alestair Crowley, Jesus,Hitler, robert johnson, a gideon, myself twenty years ago so I could tell myself to cop the fuck on!!! Seán Ó Riordáin (file 'Eireaball Spideoige) Dáibhí Ó Bruadair agus Aogán Ó Rathaille, dar ndóigh!!!!

Music:

Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones,OASIS,Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Slade, Robert Johnson, Mike Oldfield,Gary Glitter (just the music). Trad Irish, Mike Oldfield, Charlie Parker, Christy Moore, The Bothy Band,Nine Inch Nails, Babylon Zoo, Sweet, Plant and Page, Matt Molloy, James Taylor, Ennio Morricone, Bach, Chris Spedding, Roy Wood, Elvis, Eminem, Satie, David Bowie, Frank Harte, Clannad, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Django Reinhart, Charlie Christian, Memphis Minnie, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Louis Stewart, Louis Stewart and Louis Stewart.... and lots more

Movies:

Funny Games (Michael Haneke) The Lives of Others,London to Brighton, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, Barry Lyndon, Mephisto, King of Comedy, Black Robe, Jesus of Montreal, Rosemary's Baby, Scum and anything by Alan Clarke, David Mamet and lots more...and then of course there is THE REMAINS OF THE DAY a Merchant/Ivory production with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.....It is quite simply a MAJOR WORK OF ART!!!!!!!

Television:

current affairs, high brow stuff and low brow stuff and TG4 and of course The Sopranos. For comedy, I would and sometimes do, watch The Office over and over again!! Extras...the Christmas special was inspired

Books:

Books about power,politics and history. Ian Kershaw's 'Fateful Decisions', Brian Moore's Black Robe....had a huge impression on me as did the subsequent film. The Third Reich-A New History by Michael Burleigh..(essential reading for any student of the period)Most stuff by Herman Hesse,Jack Kerouac,The New English Library series on youth sub-cultures Cré na Cille, Tonn Tuille, Cursaí Thomáis agus Súil le Breith...aon rud le hAlan Titley atá ró-oillte ar fad ar fad!!......oh yeah, still a work of art...'Dubliners' by James Joyce....all males should read 'Counterparts' ...oh and Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha

Heroes:

Lots of peeople! Equally lots of people would not be heroes to me!!!!