Great, thanks.

Is there any support? What are the stage times?

One for the Fugazi fans

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Outside does take a bit of getting used to - but what doesn't?? So damp.

The real moment of truth is the bottom of the ballot: would you rather be represented by the independent racist or a party of racists? Pro-life Sinners, or a delusional paranoiac?

I am quite, quite excited to be bringing these guys back to Dublin and literally everyone should go because everyone should experience a Necks show at least several times. Thursday 15th May in The Sugar Club!

Tickets: billetto.ie/e/the-necks-...

Second EE post, second to next EE show, last second post, I don't want to see a ghost, that's the thing I fear the most, Id rather have a piece of toast

Zoh Amba Trio with Chris Corsano & Nick Dunston at Arthur's Blues & Jazz on Thursday 6th March 2025. Tix via link in bio.

‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’état’ Sixty years ago Archie Shepp wrote a provocative column for Down Beat magazine in which, if memory serves, he compared his tenor saxophone to a machine gun in the hands of a Vietcong fighter. In th…

Glowing review from Richard Williams at The Blue Moment.

This looks excellent. Playing until next Wednesday, Dubliners.

(Red), by Califone from the album Quicksand / Cradlesnakes (Deluxe Reissue)

At Grand Social on Saturday night, Califone opened with a spellbinding version of "(Red)"...stretched-out, dubbed, like a country-blues Can. Just stunning.

Free Man in Paris YouTube video by Joni Mitchell - Topic

It seems that everyone Joni Mitchell knew in the seventies spoke in perfect flow and rhythm.

Square Ride distance: 115km Beverage: double espresso, with a flapjack on the side A few days of cold, bright weather before storm Babet rolls through. Everything looks uncannily sharp and clear through t…

A day at the races...Coffeeneuring 2023, week 2:

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Professional Oaths

As so often, @xkcd.com saves the best gag for the tooltip.

xkcd.com/2843

I imagine it closely tracks the growth of the B format paperback...you could look at when imprints like Picador were launched (1972, it appears).

Reminds me of the invention of the equally meaningless term "world music" as a way of staking out space in record shops, although that one literally was the work of four people in a (doubtless) smoke-filled room.

I was born in 1972 and spent a lot of the years since working in the book trade — interesting to learn that a concept which seemed part of the furniture only popped into the world around the same time I did.

It ran for about thirty issues, I think. Some of the later ones ran to book length, sort of similar to Re/Search

Vague Fanzines Book – Volume 1 – 1979 – 1984 Issues 1 – 15 Official PC-Press Shop shop. Buy Vague Fanzines Book – Volume 1 – 1979 – 1984 Issues 1 – 15 and other music from PC-Press Shop in MP3, Vinyl and CD.

Damn, this looks essential. First 15 issues of Vague in a single volume:

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Roundwood Stores Ride distance: 87km Beverage: one espresso, accompanied by an excellent sandwich The weather was still absurdly warm as I headed out the following day on my second coffeenée (is that a word? it is ��...

Weird shots in Roundwood...

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Coffeeneuring (1 + 1)

Beer & Bike Tours — Flanders Adventure Ride between classic Flanders cities sampling amazing beer along the way.

Mmmm...tempting.

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Not to mention Le Guess Who coming up fast in November…

Tad and Whipping Boy for sure, don’t remember who else I saw there. Pains me every time I walk past that building to see it in that state.

“Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
― Clarice Lispector,

Five Points Ride distance: 46km. Beverage: 1 espresso (doppio) Fittingly, the Coffeeneuring Challenge 2023 begins in the same place that every day begins for me, Five Points on the Harold’s Cross Road. O…

And we're off...first Coffeeneuring Challenge ride in the 2023 season:

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Want to feel old?
Here's what the karate kid looks like now

Film Show 038: Hal Hartley An interview with the New York filmmaker about Irish ballads, the musicality of language, hating opera, and the influence of Joni Mitchell on his works

For years I've been wondering whatever happened to Hal Hartley, and here comes Tone Glow with a long interview that...doesn't really leave me much the wiser but it seems like I've missed a lot since Amateur.

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Vicar Street is about as large a venue as I'd be bothered going to, and I don't foresee ever crossing the threshold of this proposed 2,000 capacity barn. Like the sound of the 250 seat venue around the corner though.

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Catching Up With Rudy Tambala of A.R. Kane, the Best ’80s Dream-Pop Band You’ve Never Heard With a new box set that makes the duo’s classic albums more readily available, Tambala is hoping for an A.R. Kane reappraisal.

Lovely to chat with Rudy Tambala of A.R. Kane about the wonderful A.R.Kive box set of their core creation circa 88/89. 3 hr memory-dive distilled into this Pitchfork Q+A. pitchfork.com/thepitch/ar-...

Coffeeneuring Challenge 2023: Lucky 13 Hello readers, randonneurs, bike riders, members of the Always Be Coffeeneuring Club, and everyone else who finds themselves reading this post. Have you given any thought to your fall plans? I have. I...

Been a few years since I coffeeneured, time to get back up on that horse.

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Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense 2023 Official Trailer Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense will return to theaters in 2023 with a newly restored 4K version via A24. A Deluxe Edition of the legendary concert film so...

Even the trailer is gold.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwuQ...