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Music Musings Ireland: February 2011
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Monday, February 7, 2011. Where's the Irish in Johnny Cash? Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash. London: Harper, 1997). Johnny Cash lived one of the most fascinating lives of the early innovators of rock and roll. His autobiography is written with the serious tone that characterised his late recordings. It is readable and moves swiftly along with time for remorse as well as illumination on his youth and musings as he appraoched the end of his life. When I was through, she...
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Music Musings Ireland: July 2011
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Monday, July 4, 2011. Behind the SCENES with Green Day. The great DIY Vs Major Label debate is generally presented in black and white. There is so much talk about 'selling out' that we sometimes forget that some people live in both worlds simultaneously. Niall Hope got me the latest issue of Cometbus fanzine and it is fascinating. It also gives a great insider prespective on what happens when a band moves from DIY to major label. This is a very rare piece of rock and roll writing. It lives in the gre...
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Music Musings Ireland: behind the SCENES with Green Day
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Monday, July 4, 2011. Behind the SCENES with Green Day. The great DIY Vs Major Label debate is generally presented in black and white. There is so much talk about 'selling out' that we sometimes forget that some people live in both worlds simultaneously. Niall Hope got me the latest issue of Cometbus fanzine and it is fascinating. It also gives a great insider prespective on what happens when a band moves from DIY to major label. This is a very rare piece of rock and roll writing. It lives in the gre...
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Music Musings Ireland: Blackpool Rebellion Day 1 2012
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Monday, August 6, 2012. Blackpool Rebellion Day 1 2012. It is not a cider sprint it is a liquid marathon. I got to see them in London twenty years ago. To be honest I had reservation about going to see them because they were 'not of the moment'. They were exceptional. The gig reminded me of how many quality pop songs they had. And here I was again, over twenty years on from that gig. Tomorrow I get to see some of the Irish contestants on Blackpool Rebellion Festival 2012. I suspect they will give a d...
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Music Musings Ireland: June 2011
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Monday, June 27, 2011. The Threat: short lived pioneering Dublin punk band. This interview from Riot77 fanzine gives a great insight into the realities of seminal Dublin punk group The Threat. They were more Public Image Limited than Sex Pistols which at the time meant alienating a large chunk of the Dublin punk crowd. Again the question is what would have happened them if they came from a city with better opportunities for daring artists. The Wild Hearted Outsider. Teenage Kicks" October 1978. Jimmy Jim...
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Music Musings Ireland: July 2012
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Friday, July 20, 2012. MTV ends a career. While MTV is credited with many things: some good, a few great, and lots awful. Yet it was only while reading I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (New York: Dutton, 2011). That I realised it brought to a premature end the career of one Billy Squier. And what was the concept? The title of the chapter on his video is called: "A Whopping, Steaming Turd." While that is rude language it is also very true. Squier toured with Queen. If you ...
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Music Musings Ireland: MTV ends a career
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Friday, July 20, 2012. MTV ends a career. While MTV is credited with many things: some good, a few great, and lots awful. Yet it was only while reading I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (New York: Dutton, 2011). That I realised it brought to a premature end the career of one Billy Squier. And what was the concept? The title of the chapter on his video is called: "A Whopping, Steaming Turd." While that is rude language it is also very true. Squier toured with Queen. If you ...
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Music Musings Ireland: January 2011
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Thursday, January 27, 2011. This book was formerly released under the catchy title: 'I was Bono's Doppleganger'. Now it is ready to be a major motion picture. I didn't expect to enjoy this book. I assumed it was the work of someone who loved Bono and wanted to be him. It turns out that's just what it is.yet it also gives a clear insight into the day-ot-day realities of being an aspiring rock star. Neil McCormick Killing Bono: A True Story. New York: Pocket Books, 2004). An index in the back would have ma...
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Music Musings Ireland
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Monday, August 6, 2012. Altered Images had a really enjoyable and buoyant brand of pop music when they emerged from Scotland. They cancelled a scheduled appearance in Dublin at some ball or other in Trinity at the height of their appeal. Thankfully for us pop fans Teardrop Explodes who played in McGonagles that week were persuaded to stay a few extra days to entertain the students. This may be a gig attended by Courtney Love. This sentiment and moment in time was loudly and passionately evoked by Ireland...
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Music Musings Ireland: Blackpool Rebellion 2012 Day 2
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Monday, August 6, 2012. Blackpool Rebellion 2012 Day 2. Day 2 Create. Community. One of the most interesting things about punk is its invitation to create. Sure, like any other popular music genre, it is associated with tonnes of consumption: how many Ramones t-shirts have sprung from cotton plants around the world? How many bottles of dye have been sold to embellish punk heads? How many patches, zips, studs, leather jackets have been snapped up by eager punk consumers? She spoke of the demeaning invitat...
