Ireland is a difficult place to capture on film. It is a country of parallels and intricacies that go far beyond the often displayed drunken paddywhackery and council estate bleakness that usually perpetrate Irish based movies. It is due to this (and my own natural cynicism) that I tend to approach cinema from my homeland [...]
Henry Rollins just turned 50. This is something he references frequently throughout his spoken word set in the Black Box in Galway which ended just over an hour ago. There are, however, no evident signs of him slowing down, which is something that is a benefit to us all. Over two hours of frantic, entertaining, [...]
The world of bare knuckle boxing amongst the travelling communities is a long standing tradition which is still taking place to this day. This is a curious but fascinating subject for an international documentary. Filmed over the course of twelve years by Ian Palmer, it follows the ongoing brutal family feud between several traveller families, [...]
Sick Tonightdan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip | MySpace Music Videos Wow. As Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip draw to the end of their European tour (promoting new album Logic Of Chance and Scroobius Pip’s new book ‘Poetry In (e)Motion) They present to us, like benevolent viral video gods, a new promo for album [...]
After a nine year wait, I finally got to see Hank III perform live last Sunday night (13th Sept). I’ll cut to the chase by saying that it didn’t disappoint. In fact, it excelled any expectations that I may have had. I travelled (once again) from Galway, the bog’s arse of Ireland over to London [...]
We never got a summer in Galway. Days and weeks blended into each other, forming a dampened perpetual greyness that would depress even the most committed of ennui soaked teenager. It was with a gait somewhere in between reluctant vampire and startled mogwai that I emerged off the plane in Paris (or at least, Ryanair’s [...]
As I have mentioned here on several occasions, I am a ridiculously early riser. I am also not fond of going to bed early, but at least I have gotten part of the nursery rhyme correct. Usually between the hours of 6.30 and 8am, I allow myself to wallow in the coffee/internet wilderness stage of [...]
Regular visitors to this site may have read the recent article about Roger Corman’s production company which was set up in the West of Ireland in the late 1990’s and ran until the early 2000’s. I am making it my mission to seek out as many of these disastrous movies as possible, watch them and [...]
There are certain advantages to living in the bog arse of nowhere.