Just a quick note to remind my fellow Limerickians that the 10th annual Unfringed festival will run (in various places/spaces around the city) from the 31st Jan (i.e. tomorrow) – 10th Feb.

Details of the various treats on offer – …

Didn't Marcel Proust once suggest that "nostalgia" was:

…like an old dog chewing carpet slippers in a frenzy of self-loathing.

Well…actually, no…he didn't - and for good reason: it doesn't make any sense (or does it?).

Dogs and …

Just thought I'd remind local readers of the following (upcoming) dramatic/musical delights.

Tonight sees my chums in The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra lending very able support to the TomWaits-tastic Carnival Saloon. The venue is upstairs in Dolan's, and doors …

'Tis Riverfest weekend here in Limerick City, and World Championship Snooker Final weekend over in Sheffield. The latter event has yielded a pair of surprise finalists, with Graeme 'Pocket Dynamo' Dott …

The lads and lassie of The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra return, tomorrow night, to the intimate surrounds of Limerick Boat Club (where they will be ably supported by Vertigo Smyth).

Great venue…some delicious music…tickets …

Just a quick plug for my good chums in The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra whose marvellous (and cosy) "Fireside Chat" demo has now been let loose on an unsuspecting world.

Last night's gig in Toner's (Baggot Street, Dublin) …

Watched all 3-plus hours of Martin Scorcese's marvellous new Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, on DVD last night. The highlights were many, but the sequences that remain the most unforgettably pathetic involve the reaction of the absurdly …

Am suffering, somewhat, from 'bad head' syndrome this morning having drank too deeply of the 'devil's buttermilk' last night. The setting for the over-indulgence was the "Green Room" in the Granary, and the reason for being there was to …