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Nick Cave at Vicar Street, Dublin, on October 12
Rating: ***
It looked like a gig. Sometimes it even sounded like a gig. But mostly, what Nick Cave aimed to do in Vicar Street was to promote his first novel in 20 years, The Death of Bunny Munro: a bleak, occasionally witty and endlessly horny beast [...]

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Holiday reading

Just back from a fun, if very hectic holiday — over two weeks in Malaysia, we fitted in Taman Negara, KL, Penang, Langkawi and Tioman, amongst others, phew… I’ll write a travel piece about it soon, which I’ll post up. The pic on left was taken in the Perhentian islands, one of the most beautiful [...]

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Summer heating up for Booker hopefuls
Reviewed by Nadine O’Regan
Summertime by JM Coetzee (Harvill Secker, €20)
Love and Summer by William Trevor (Viking, €22)
The long-listing of William Trevor and JM Coetzee for the Booker Prize last month could hardly have come as a surprise to literary fiction fans. Though their novels hadn’t yet been published when the [...]

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Tweets in store

Yep, I’ve started tweeting: see here.
And in other random social networking news, The Kiosk now has its own Facebook group. Which is nice. See here.

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Michael Jackson

It’s hard to believe it could be true, but according to the website TMZ.com, Michael Jackson has passed away at the age of 50. The singer suffered a cardiac arrest at his home and paramedics were unable to revive him.
Whatever I’ve thought or wondered about Michael Jackson in recent years, nothing can take away from [...]

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It’s the 25th anniversary of the release of Prince’s Purple Rain album this week — and to mark the occasion, we have a Kiosk exclusive: brilliant Irish artists Joe Chester and Nick Kelly (ex Fat Lady Sings) have recorded their own versions of tracks from Purple Rain just for the Kiosk — and we’ll be [...]

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Believe the hype. The new album, Lungs, due July 3rd, really is as spell-bindingly good as everyone was promising it would be.
Rabbit Heart:

Cosmic Love:

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The Hour I First Believed
By Wally Lamb
HarperCollins, €18
Lamb’s brave, ambitious and for the most part brilliantly executed third novel melds fiction with fact, chronicling the real-life events that took place in Columbine High School in 1999, when two students killed 12 students and a teacher in a horrific gun rampage. Lamb uses the real names [...]

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Coming up on The Kiosk on Phantom 105.2, Dublin’s indie rock station, this weekend, I’ll have interviews with Sarah Waters — she’s got a new book called The Little Stranger just out — and Todd Phillips, the director of The Hangover, America’s No. 1 film. Also, we’ve got a great competition on the way for [...]

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Great bands, great songs

I know it’s a little old by now, but I still think it’s one of the best songs I’ve heard in ages and Future Kings are a fantastic band:

Also a big fan of Alphastates’ new song, Champagne Glass — no sign of it as yet on Youtube, but here’s an oldie:
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