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January 2009
The Archives
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01.31.09John Boyne on J the RJohn Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Mutiny on the Bounty, casts his eye over John the Revelator in today’s blog: “I also read a debut novel by an Irish writer, Peter Murphy, JOHN THE REVELATOR. An atmospheric tale of a young boy growing up in a small village whose life is altered by his friendship with a very free-spirited boy who he meets. It’s an interesting debut, filled with humour and energy, and a certain sense of mystery. Best of all is the old crone, Mrs Nagle, who takes up residence in John’s house whenever she ...
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01.31.09Bitters and BriarsA cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?' Not to feel exasperated or defeated or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human - however imperfectly - and fully embrace the pursuit you've embarked on. Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy ...
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01.30.09John Meagher on J the RJohn Meagher gives a shout out to John the Revelator in his column in today's Irish Independent. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/day-and-night/columnists/loaded-30012009-1620561.html
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01.30.09The waiting is the hardest part…John the Revelator is now in the shops. The official publication date is not 'til next Thursday, but our spies inform us that it's on the shelves as we speak. The promo trailer for the book is now a couple of dozen clicks away from being the most viewed clip on Faber's Youtube channel. http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7wjHrnqAY48&feature=channel_page Godspeed.
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01.28.09The Crying GameAstral Weeks, Music From Big Pink, Funhouse, Exile On Main Street, Berlin, Deserter’s Songs, Funeral: the most enduring records seem rooted in a palpable sense of place, even if it’s an imaginal one. The actual location evoked on Antony & the Johnsons’ third full length album The Crying Light might be unclear (and Antony Hegarty’s voice often evokes Van’s admission of feeling like “nothin’ but a stranger in this world”) but it’s no less powerful for all of that. Born in the southern English town of Chichester, of English-Irish parentage, Hegarty spent most of his childhood moving around California, but ...
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01.28.09Mekong Delta BluesDengue Fever’s Venus On Earth was one of the more extraordinary records of last year, a wanton blendering of garage psychedelia and Cambodian 60s pop with elements of surf, raga and space-rock. This six-piece ensemble was founded in 2001 by Californian-born brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, who had independently and synchronicitously stumbled upon a shared love of the sounds of the Mekong delta. The Holtzman boys decided it was crucial that they enlist the services of a Cambodian singer: enter the extraordinary Chhom Nimol (already something of a celebrity, having performed regularly for the King and Queen of Cambodia), whose ...
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01.26.09J the R Irish Independent ReviewNeil Donnelly's review of John the Revelator from Saturday's Irish Independent. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/revelations-and-rites-of-passage-in-an-irish-town-1613392.html
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01.25.09Rebel Ink: the Wild Life of Arthur RimbaudOur review of Edmund White's new Rimbaud biography. http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=BOOKS-qqqm=nav-qqqid=38778-qqqx=1.asp
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01.24.09J the R Irish Times reviewRead it here...
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01.24.09J the R – Irish Times Magazine InterviewCatherine Cleary's Irish Times magazine feature on Peter and John the Revelator is now online. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/0124/1232474676472.html