Posted in obituary, music on Jan 30th, 2009 12 Comments »
I don’t mean to pre-empt Seán Báite on this one, especially as he’s the master of music obits around here, and not especially wanting Dublin Opinion to only publish posts about the recently deceased but I couldn’t let the passing of John Martyn to go by unnoticed here.
I’ll admit that my appreciation for Martyn […]
Posted in obituary, Zaragoza, Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History, Spain on Jan 24th, 2009 12 Comments »
I will not yield
I will not fall
I will eat dynamite
and one day I will explode like a volcano”
Posted in Ireland on Jan 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Due to my kids having gotten a taste for watching dodgy on-line versions of it, I’ve been hearing the theme music of Futurama a lot recently. As the weekend’s upon us - that time when, like Bender, those of us normally constituted require grammes and grammes of alcohol to maintain normal system functions, I felt […]
Posted in dublin, music on Jan 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
‘Fitzpatricio’ we might call him - played by Klaus Kinski - and just as magnificently obsessed with building a Grand Ol’ Opry House on the banks of the Liffey. He has already featured on Dublin Opinion, one Gary Fitzpatrick - through the 90s incarnation of his quest to bring decent country / oldtime tunes to […]
Posted in music on Jan 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Our Welsh cousins seem to have a knack for making agreeable noises with electric guitars. What’s better still, they even manage to sing over the din in their own language on occasion. I have long looked with envy at the wealth of dacent music made in the Welsh language since a combination of the Tube […]
Posted in music on Jan 17th, 2009 6 Comments »
Hot Press is carrying a report on the imminent closure of Road Records. This is indeed a sad day. The mainstay of Road Record’s drive was the shameless promotion of Irish artists. Its demise will be our collective loss. There’s a message from Dave and Julie over on Thumped.
To pick a song to play in […]
Posted in Bastards, music on Jan 16th, 2009 No Comments »
In the week that multi-national Texan philantropist Michael Dell managed to bludgeon the whole town of Limerick around the head big time by means of a video link, I thought he was deserving of a special request track from the Dublin Opinion under the counter VHS archive.
I’ve opted for Mr. Dell’s fellow Texan extreme sports […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Banks, Crime, music on Jan 16th, 2009 4 Comments »
Thou shalt always kill instead.
Enjoy.
Posted in music on Jan 15th, 2009 No Comments »
As the resident carrion crow here in the charred ruins of the FitzBáite stately home - I feel duty bound to post on the passing away last week of Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton For a man who was centrally involved in some of the most influential and raw popular music […]
Posted in Economy on Jan 14th, 2009 8 Comments »
The most popular article on the Irish Times site at the moment is a report about last Monday’s economic conference, organised by the Department of Economic in UCD and dedicated to our current economic crisis.
It is probably the most popular not because of our continuing cultish fascination with economists – cue the nunnish fawning […]
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