I got a roll of film developed last week but wasn’t too happy with the results unfortunately.
Still, there were a few ones I liked, including this unintentional triptych. Sometimes with half-frame toy cameras the film gets stuck or during processing something occurs and you end up some triptychs rather than diptychs – the results can be kind of sweet.
These were all taken out of car or train windows so it’s somewhat miraculous they turned out ok!
March 20, 2012
Threevening
January 15, 2012
Beach
December 7, 2011
The Small Hours
July 3, 2011
Focus on Galway: Tony Higgins & Jimmy Monaghan
For part four of my Focus on Galway series, (following the article in the Ticket about the Galway music scene), I have an extended interview with Tony Higgins, a musician who has put on gigs in the city under the name Stress!! with his friends Jonny White and Garret Collins.
I also have some input from Jimmy Monaghan, who moved to Galway a few years ago and provides his own perspective on the city.
What I thought was really interesting about chatting with Tony Higgins was his honesty about how tough it can be to put on gigs and get full houses or find bands to play.
He’s someone who is truly passionate about the music he makes, and plays under the name Junior 85 as well as with others in projects such as Hogan Grip alongside Declan Q Kelly. Hogan Grip, actually, is an example of how things go up in Galway: two friends jam together, then one finds a 50-year-old copy of book on golfing grips in a local charity shop – and a musical project is born. Declan, a talented photographer, makes the poster, they book a gig and put the album online for free download. Bada bing, bada boom. We did it ourselves.
May 19, 2011
The Last Sound – new release, live gig
I really like these new tracks from The Last Sound – they’re wonderfully dreamy and gothic, and sound like they’re on a dusty 7″ from the late ’80s that you found in your grumpy Bauhaus-obsessed older sibling’s bedroom.
Dubliner Barry Murphy is the guy behind The Last Sound, and his new 7″ release, ‘Only the Lonely Know the Glow is Failing’/'Turbochant’, is released on the excellent Osaka record label.
Barry has a long and varied musical career which includes performing with ex-Can vocalist Damo Suzuki’s tour band, and on his 2009 live album One More Universe, as well as being a member of Whirling Hall Of Knives.
If you’d like to catch The Last Sound live, head to The Joinery in Stoneybatter, Dublin on Saturday 21 May at 8pm, where the official launch for this new release will take place.
Support comes from the fantastic Legion of Two and Thread Pulls. Tickets are €10 and it’s BYOB.
February 15, 2011
C’mon, listen to Low
I’ve probably mentioned a million times that Low are one of my all-time favourite bands. To my ears, they’re perfection. And yet I found their last full-length, Drums & Guns just a little too dark to handle at times.
So perhaps it was inevitable that I’d be a tad nervous about their next album, C’mon, which is released on 12 April. It has been three years since the drum machine-heavy Drums & Guns – would their latest work be even darker?
But all my fears dissipated when I heard the opening few bars of Try to Sleep, the first track from C’mon. It’s beautiful.
It’s vintage Low – sugar sweet harmonies, just the right amount of pathos, and a xylophone that makes my heart bleed.
Listen, then sign up to Chairkickers, their official website, to get a free download of the track.
February 15, 2011
Gorgeous Colours free album download
Dublin band The Gorgeous Colours play at Crawdaddy in Dublin tomorrow – tickets are €7 and they’re supported by Cork band Together We Are Nobody.
The Gorgeous Colours have kindly put their latest album up for free download on their bandcamp site – have an ‘ol listen here:
February 1, 2011
Toro Y Moi – discotastic fever
Can’t describe how excited I am about the new Toro Y Moi album, Underneath the Pine. It’s due out this month on Carpark records, and everything that’s dropped from it so far is stellar.
Get your funky boots on, now.
