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a quare pancake altogether

My Interests

Music:

Currently on the stereo: Paddy McAloon, Dirty Three, Easy Star All Stars, The Flaming Lips, Bjork, The Notwist, The Knife, Leonard Cohen, The Gun Club, Cabaret Voltaire, Morrissey, Galaxie 500, That Petrol Emotion, Nick Drake, The Sleeping Years, Yo La Tengo, Nina Simone.

Movies:

Snatch, A fistful of dynamite, Harvey, Brother

Television:

Marquee Moon. Rocket, Sky Rocket!

Books:

The Third Policeman, Tarry Flynn, How Late it was, How Late

Heroes:

Flann O'Brien, Paddy Kavanagh, Lou Reed

My Blog

Head In the Dustbin on the way to Negativland

Nice to see Therapy back with a new album and gigging. Had forgotten that the boys were still around, picked up Troublegum in the trusty 2nd hand cd store the other day, never being a metal fan it jus...
Posted by ro on Sun, 28 May 2006 07:12:00 PST

the light 3000

Some cover versions just shouldn't work - schneider TM's The Light 3000 is one of them - but it does, electronifying The Smith's There is a Light and It Never Goes Out. What surprised me is that this ...
Posted by ro on Sun, 28 May 2006 07:02:00 PST

Tanya oh Tanya

I remember seeing Belly playing around 1993 or 1994. Being a male mammal of the formative years, I went head over heals for Tanya Donnelly. Cue twleve years later and I pick up the Sweet Ride Compilat...
Posted by ro on Sun, 28 May 2006 06:56:00 PST

Hands Off Cuba eating out

Picked up a lovely little EP today - CoLAB, one song very much Lambchop with a small smattering of electronica behind it, and three songs getting a serious once over by the Hands Off Cuba lads. Works ...
Posted by ro on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:51:00 PST

Love gets around

The Silver Apples vocal sound always reminded me of Love's Arthur Lee, especially on tracks like Lovefingers. Picked up the double CD today, really full music considering there was only two of them (w...
Posted by ro on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:32:00 PST

Alone Again Or

Listening to Love's forever changes. Cracking album. I'm not sure how I managed to go through the whole late 60's thing without picking up this CD before. Arthur Lee's voice is just mesmerising, ...
Posted by ro on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:21:00 PST

Couse from A House

nice to see Dave Couse is out and about again. It's people like Couse that make me miss Dublin, the acerbic wit, the bit of craic, and the ability to tell the world to fuck off in style. You'd never g...
Posted by ro on Mon, 01 May 2006 07:31:00 PST

Colbert destroys Bush over dinner

The Crawford lad is only raging I'd imagine. Dumbstruck faces all around in the audiencePart 1 on YoutubePart 2Part 3...
Posted by ro on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:48:00 PST

Is there miiiiiiiiiiice on mars?

Was always a fan of the Clangers, so the Mouse on Mars naturally jump my rocket ship. Just listening to their collaboration with Mark. E. Smith "Wipe That Sound, Cut The Gain"on their myspace page. Go...
Posted by ro on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:26:00 PST

Let him in, he's cold, all messed up but nowhere to go

Just came across a video knocking around on YouTube for Afgahn Whigs Gentlemen. Having never seen any visuals on the Whigs before, have to say Dulli looks exactly like I always imagined him. Great son...
Posted by ro on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:55:00 PST