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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Nick Cave — my SBP gig review
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holiday reading
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
JM Coetzee and William Trevor: new books review in SBP
Posted in Sunday Business Post, Uncategorized on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Tweets in store
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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.
Michael Jackson
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Florence and the Machine
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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:
A few recommended summer reads
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
The Kiosk this weekend
Posted in The Kiosk this week, Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Great bands, great songs
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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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