Wow. See you in Dublin tomorrow!

They handed them out in Dublin but I missed them. My friend had a pair and we shared (was advised by a sound engineer to keep swapping them around). I mostly left them out, but it definitely felt like it got incrementally louder. They ended with You Made Me Realise, and it was face-meltingly loud.

Still thinking about last Saturday’s show. Unreal.

Good to hear. Some of best/noisiest gigs were in McGonagles. RIP.

Great to bump into you and M! Hope you regaled the dog with wall of sound anecdotes.

It’s one of the greatest Irish novels.

Horrendous. And the two young hares. He’s a master.

That’s a spot-on description. I was irked all week reading it.

Declan Kiberd has written about how long it once was. Serious editing…
In the time since I first read it, I spent a lot of time in Leitrim and many of the landmarks are so familiar (the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon for one). Have you seen this before? www.rte.ie/media-embed/...

I have to say no. A tyrannical narcissist who couldn’t help himself. Constantly chasing the ghosts of power he once had in his military past. But I can’t remember the last time a book got so physically under my skin when I wasn’t reading it (especially as a re-read).

Have been to a lot of loud gigs but this wiped the floor with them all. They were handing out earplugs at the door…

Please say hello if you do!

So true. If Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone had not gone to Paris to study with André Lhote and (particularly Albert Gleizes), they might not have become the Cubists they did. The influence is so clear.
L: Gleizes’s Composition, c 1932-1935
R: Lhote’s Rugby, 1917

He's a great photographer. You'll recognise lots of his shots of musicians for music magazines... www.pyke-eye.com/Music/1/capt...

Congrats to D, especially after the year he's had. Gutted to be away for the Dublin screening!

Edna looks regal...

A fluke of a find in a vintage shop!