I have uncovered a terrifying prophesy of the ancient ones concerning the last days.And there shall come a monster with two heads and two bodies.And though they shall be two, they shall have one name.They shall invoke the name of God, yet they shall not be of God.Wheresoever they shall go, there shall be heard the wailing of maidens. image sourceAn inuit panda...
“Whatever you do don’t funk with my groove…”‘QueenS’ is psychedelic swagged out funk soul song from Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White more commonly known as THEESatisfaction.Recommended if you like the kind of futuristic soul that Erykah Badu has been bringing of late.These ladies are hitting Twisted Pepper on May 18th on the same night as close friends Shabazz Palaces (they feature on their album Black Up) so there may be a chance of a Cork date too. They also hit mainland Europe in April. A full length record is coming on Subpop entitled awE NaturalE in March....
[Editor's Note: When the text of what became this book was found in the author's papers after his death, the manuscript was in an incomplete state. It was possible to reconstruct the rest of it by cross-referencing with small sections that had been given to friends or agents to read, but the entirety of Chapters 28 and 29 remain missing. Thus it is that we are unaware of how it was that the two Irish agents were able to not merely escape from their imprisonment but to take control of the Unremitting Doom airship, now mysteriously abandoned by its crew. Nor is it clear how the Zeppelin Confederacy operatives in Norway were prevented from radioing their fellows in London that the airship had been hijacked. A friend of the author recorded in his own memoirs some years later that he recalled...
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France has made the Colombian singer Shakira a Chevalier de L'Order des Arts et des Lettres, an honour previously bestowed on TS Eliot, Clint Eastwood, and George Clooney. Shakira reports that she is honoured to have had this award bestowed on her by a country like France that has contributed so much to world culture.MoreAn inuit panda...
Claire and Lexa embark on a terrible journey.The van had not gone far when they heard a voice speak."Take their hoods off".The hoods came off. Claire and Lexa could see again. They were lying on the floor of a van. Three men with moustaches grinned down at them, casually pointing pistols in their general direction."Alright girls", said one of the guards, "I know you're both tough customers, so don't try any funny stuff. Mr Grieg wants you delivered unharmed, but I wouldn't get in too much trouble if you had to be shot while trying to escape. So don't even think of it". "Where's Ryan?" asked Claire."He's a good boy, so he gets to sit in the front". There was nothing really for Claire and Lexa to say.The van rolled on. The guards kept a general eye on their captives but gradually became a...
Kaleidoscope Night, Dublin, 2nd NovemberAnd now we have a special treat for all readers – a guest post from the mysterious lady who goes only by the name "Irene", talking about an event back in November that I also attended but failed to write about."Transformation, musical alchemy – this is my theme, as Kaleidoscope dips in and out of time commemorating and celebrating all the living and the dead, the new and the old, old-new and new-old-invoked, empowered, charged: a kind of sonorous hexing. Yes, hex: to bewitch. German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the late 17th century spoke a dialect of German known as Pennsylvania Dutch. In this dialect hexe was the equivalent of the German verb hexen, "to practice sorcery." The English verb hex, first recorded in the sense...
The shocking truth is revealed.The Zeppelin Confederacy! Grieg's revelation that he was in league with that sinister power shocked Claire and Lexa to the core of their beings. A few short years ago the Zeppelin Confederacy had not even existed, but now its power stretched from Vladivostok to the heart of Western Europe. No country seemed able to resist the implacable advance of the aerial dictators. And as each country fell to the sinister dirigibles, they provided new slaves and resources for further conquest."You're insane!" said Lexa. "You can't do a deal with those maniacs. They'll chew you up and spit you out. Once you've outlived your usefulness to them you're a dead man"."So you say, Ms Hackett, but you reckon without one thing. You see, in a very real sense, I am the Zeppelin...
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Dublin-based band Funeral Suits kicked off their year of activity at Eurosonic and here we get a taste of what’s ahead with a stream of their new single ‘All Those Friendly People’, an anthemic sounding song produced by Stephen Street which gets a release on April 19th through Tri-tone/PIAS. It’s the most direct the band have sounded so far. They are on a UK tour from later this month. 2012 could be a big year for Brian James, Mik McKeogh, Greg McCarthy and Dar Grant....
Coming across like a Beach House tune conceived in the Antipodes with the gender roles reversed, ‘Rhodesia’ is a beautiful lilting song from Adelaide duo Manors, Nathaniel Morse and Caitlin Duff. It’s their first single and an album is out this year.I wrote this post last night and since then another song ‘Elysian Fields’ has been revealed which is a bit more of a twinkling relaxed number. One to watch? Elysian Fields by wearemanor...
Chairlift’s 2008 debut album Does You Inspire You? was an impressive if somewhat muddled first release. Swaying from from bubblegum electro-pop to moodier synth cuts, the overall impression of the Brooklyn band’s debut was “interesting” and perhaps most notable for ‘Bruises’, a cute song that featured in an iPod commercial that year. Chairlift founding member Aaron Pfenning left in 2010 to pursue his solo project Rewards. Meanwhile vocalist Caroline Polachek strengthened her vocal chops in appearances with Girl Crisis, Guards, Holy Ghost! and Washed Out while Patrick Wimberly produced some Das Racist tracks. Four years on, the duo return with Something, an infinitely superior album. Gone are the playful genre tryouts; in their place, Polachek and...
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The four paintings below are by Korean born artist Rimi Yang. Yang studied in both the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative and The Otis College of Art and Design. Later she also studied in Italy in the Florence Academy of Art. Yang’s work is celebrated for its vibrant use of colour, and her paintings are said to be intuitive, instinctive balancing acts of contrasts. Yang is not afraid to borrow images from both Eastern and Western artistic masters. The influence of Japanese artist Eizan and the classical Ingres are paramount.While drawing inspiration from the past Yang also looks to create her own individual voice by mixing various techniques from different styles. Her work is said to "Celebrate the creative duality that exists in life....she revels in the confusion mankind creates in...
The annual Red Bull Music Academy has become one of the best signifiers of new electronic talent in the last five years. While this year’s Academy is taking place in New York in October and November and applications are being taken from this week, big time rap producer Just Blaze and house producer Kerri Chandler will be in Dublin and Belfast in early March to tell you why you should be there (if you’re a hot young producer).Closer to home Red Bull are also looking for talent with the Red Bull Bedroom Jam, which is aiming to raise the profile of Irish bands through a competition. Bands can apply by uploading a video of themselves to redbullbedroomjam.ie. Six of the top voted, viewed and talked about on social media bands will be filmed performing in their bedrooms and...
Claire and Lexa meet an old acquaintance, but find him much changed."Will you join us, Mr Ryan?" said Sigismund Grieg."I would love to, Mr Grieg". Barry Ryan sat down at the table's empty seat and poured himself a cup of coffee. Then he also helped himself to a pain au chocolat. "Mmmm, these are very good, Mr Grieg"."So Ryan, you've turned?" said Claire."Turned?" said Ryan."You’re not one of us anymore, I can see that. "What did they do to you? How long did you hold out?""They didn't really do anything to me", answered Ryan. "Mr Grieg found the time to have a few chats with me, and the more I talked to him, well the more I found myself thinking that he was the man with the answers. I looked back on the work we do for the Organisation, and I could see how pointless and futile it was. But...
Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen has a solo EP coming out on Warp in March called Silent Hour/Golden Mile. ‘Silent Single’ is the first single from the EP, a gently rolling arrangement set to Rossen’s distinctive vocal and harmonies.Last week, the more atmospheric piano number ‘Saint Nothing’ was revealed from the release. Tracklisting1. Up On High 2. Silent Song 3. Return To Form 4. Saint Nothing 5. Golden Mile...
A short film about wingsuit designer Robert Pecnik and the BASE proximity flying team – Need 4 Speed. These guys are......
Promising producer Evian Christ has signed to Tri Angle Records and they’ve put out a mixtape of his featuring eight tracks so far entitled Kings & Them. Pretty excited about more music from this project....
You can’t have a democracy without a free press. The biggest danger to Irish sovereignty isn’t the bailout; it’s the absence of a free and functioning press.Why do you need a free press? You need a free press to hold the powerful to account. To tell people what their leaders are doing and saying on their behalf, to interpret it, to encourage discussion and to ensure that, when the people go to the polls, they are as informed as they can possibly be.The Irish media are failing badly in this regard. Because the country is so small, it’s always been difficult to have a fully impartial media. Unfortunately, the past year has seen such a calamitous fall in standards that it is now at a stage where the main check to governance of the country is hors de combat, and that is a crisis in...
CELEBRITY hotelier John Brennan faces an anxious wait before learning if his dream of developing a luxury holiday complex near Kenmare, Co Kerry, will be allowed to proceed by planning officials.It has emerged that his ambition to redevelop a hotel property he bought last year, for an estimated cut-price €2 million, has been stalled as the project would materially contravene the county development plan. Mr Brennan and his wife, Gwen, purchased Dromquinna Manor in south Kerry with a view to developing a top-class conference and wedding facility, separate from the five-star Park Hotel in Kenmare which he operates with his brother Francis. He plans to remove outbuildings and extensions to construct spacious ground floor function facilities, 12 bedroom suites and a modern reception area in...
PLANS HAVE been announced to extend the famous west Clare railway into the market town of Kilrush within the next two years. Jackie Whelan, originally of the committee for the Restoration of the West Clare Railway, said yesterday that after Kilrush, he was planning to extend the line to Kilkee and to provide a rail-link to the €150 million Doonbeg Golf Club resort on the Clare coast.Read the article @ The Irish...
UCC are set a develop a new centre of excellence for sport in the third-level institution on a 100 acre site on the western outskirts of Cork city.The acquisition of the land at Curraheen, to the south of the N25 Ballincollig bypass, is a joint venture with the Munster Agricultural Society. The land will be divided between the two organisations, with UCC planning to use the development to cater for the needs of the university’s 60 sports clubs. It will augment their existing facilities at nearby The Farm in Curraheen and the major €12m investment programme which is close to completion in the Mardyke Arena and Pavilion, near the college campus. World-class grass and all-weather pitches, along with modern changing-rooms and indoor support facilities, are all in the pipeline to be...
backgroundThe former Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot Street has been making the news for five decades.The purpose-built offices were constructed between 1968 and 1978 in an uncompromising "modernist" style that was controversial. It can still shock first-time visitors to Dublin's mostly Georgian-era Baggot Street.The distinctive green-brown facade's exposed steel and tinted glass reportedly used so much bronze manganese that global markets for the commodity were affected during construction. It was designed for the bank by Donald Tallon of Dublin architects Scott Tallon Walker.ReactionsPublic reactions to the building have always been mixed but it served as a home to Bank of Ireland for 40 years before it was sold to the Derek Quinlan investor consortium in 2006.The three-block...
Telecommunications masts dominating the skyline of north Kerry will remain in place.An Bord Pleanála has again reversed a decision by Kerry County Council and allowed Towercom Ltd to retain a 35-metre mast on Knockanore mountain, near Ballybunion. The council has been refusing planning permission for the retention of masts under its policy not to allow such masts within 1km of houses and residential buildings due to health concerns. The Knockanore mast is about 600 metres from the nearest house. Hugh Mannion, an inspector with the planning board, dismissed the council’s reservations about possible dangers of non-ionising radiation and said their stance is contrary to national policy on telecommunications. Towercom submitted that it was strategically important to retain the mast for...
Just two out of the 31 Fine Gael and Labour councillors on Cork County Council are outwardly opposed to the planned septic tank charge and inspection regime, which has generated massive resistance across the county.The 31 councillors were all contacted by the Irish Examiner by telephone this week. Goleen-based county councillor, Dermot Sheehan was the most vociferous in his opposition. "I am not happy with the charge. I have written to Minister Hogan and Fine Gael headquarters repeatedly about this". He says the Department of the Environment has told him, however, that "there is no question of people having to upgrade their tanks to comply with the EPA’s 2009 code of practice". His belief is that any septic tank built before that date will just have "to function properly" as was...
THE WESTERN Rail Corridor project has stalled again as Iarnród Éireann continues to negotiate with a third-party developer, it has emerged. Planning permission was granted for the new station at Crusheen along the Ennis to Athenry route last June, but work has yet to commence.Read the article @ The Irish...
THE NATIONAL Asset Management Agency is planning to set up funds backed by properties acquired from receivers it has appointed, to sell on to investors. The State loans agency has issued a tender seeking proposals from investment managers to set up the property funds, known as qualifying investor funds.Read the article @ The Irish...
A disagreement has erupted between rival community groups over proposals to build a commemorative centre on the Moore Street site where the 1916 rebels surrendered.The increasing tensions have led to growing concern in local and government circles that a split within the original 'Save 1916 Moore Street' committee may thwart ambitious plans to have the centre and historic trail put in place in time for the centennial anniversary of the 1916 Rising.In spite of its derelict appearance, when it comes to the sequence of events that led to the creation of the Irish Republic, the trading area of Moore Street is of major historic significance.It was on this street that the rebels, having broken out of the GPO, finally surrendered. The passage of time means that only four of the houses on Moore...
SHELL Ireland has received a fresh cash injection of €90m from its parent to deal with the spiralling costs of the Corrib gas field project.Documents filed with the Companies Office confirm the additional monies as Shell Ireland revealed that the 5km on-shore gas pipeline will not be completed before the second half of 2104.Corrib partners Shell, Statoil and Canadian-owned Vermillion are nine years behind the initial target to start generating revenue from the field.The initial estimate for developing the field was €800m; the final bill is now expected to be more than three times that, at near €3bn.The company documents show that Shell E&P Ireland's Ltd's authorised capital now tops €704m."The €90m is to support our ongoing activities on Corrib," a spokeswoman said.The project...