Category archives: Music
Become an Ace with Hohner…
In terms of desperate, ham-fisted attempts to ollie aboard the trend-wagon of the zeitgeist and incongruously link one’s product (in the sceptical public imagination) with a fad du jour, this advertisement, from a 1978 Whizzer and Chips, takes the piss-biscuit.… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Nikita
You hipster musos might like to pretend that the first record you bought, with your own precious pocket money, was Music for the Masses. Or Purple Rain. Or Rain Dogs. But it wasn’t. Like me, the first record you bought… continue reading »
8-Bit Agonies: Vigilantes and Ms. Ciccone
I’ve written here before about context (or lack thereof) and back-story (or lack thereof) in vintage arcade games. The relative complexity of contemporary gaming may necessitate lengthy in-game tutorials, 100 page instruction manuals, online walkthroughs/FAQs etc., but back in the… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: We’re Going out the Same Way we Came in
A twiddled knob? A pair of headphones loosely clasped to a pair of ears? A graphic equalizer being slyly manipulated by a finger? Standing around in a cardigan? The classic hallmarks of no-budget, guerrilla music-video-making. Big Tom (one of Ireland’s… continue reading »
Fucking the Man
Does rock no longer concern itself with bothering “The Man”? With frying The Man’s tiny little square brain? I mean, it used to be a war. A war we thought would rage for ever. Rawwwk VS The Man. Good VS… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: 1970s Vinyl and the Pornification of all things
Listen, for any length of time, to the likes of Joe Duffy (Ireland’s patron saint of reactionary hand-wringers) and you’ll come away a) outraged and dismayed, and, b) hopelessly misinformed about absolutely everything. One misapprehension you might end up suffering… continue reading »
All will love me and despair!
As I stood in line (vino bottle in hand) at our local booze merchants on Thursday evening, my wandering eyes alighted on the following Evening Herald headline: ENYA STALKER DISAPPEARS Now while the real story behind said headline may well… continue reading »
Fat Man Can’t Musical
Since Willow can’t/won’t sleep without some level of constant background noise, we’ve had to press the tinny bedroom wireless into 24/7 service. Inoffensive station of choice is currently Lyric FM – home to a reasonably eclectic mix of “World Music”,… continue reading »
