August 20th, 1991 – three days after they record the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana play a pub venue in Cork. Certain concerts in Ireland have become so famous that they almost take on a mythic and cult-status that lasts for years and years. Springsteen at Slane in ’85, Arcade Fire at Electric Picnic […]
10 years ago
Mastenbroek. As far I know, which is not very far at all, there’s no word in either English or Irish for the feeling that one will never be happy. Mastenbroek, a word which looks Dutch because it is Dutch, is not a word for this feeling either. It is a polder in Zwolle. That is, […]
10 years ago
Roy Keane led us to the promised land. It been confirmed that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will take place in November and December and that it’s possible that the World Cup Final itself will be played on December 18. With that in mind, we decided to look into our crystal ball and envision […]
10 years ago
The Force is strong with this one… Jealous? Us? Of John Boyega? Wise up. OK… so maybe we are jealous, just a little bit. The London-born actor and Attack The Block star has bagged himself the role of a lifetime playing Finn, a conflicted stormtrooper with the sinister First Order, in Star Wars: The Force […]
11 years ago
How would you feel if you had just been told that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had been gunned down in cold blood as they were preparing their latest episode? by Derek Fennell Or if you learned that Chris Morris had, ten minutes ago, been decapitated on Leicester Square by militant psychopaths? You […]
11 years ago
It’s been some journey
11 years ago