Looks like a full dance card for Saturday.
First thing in the am, Friar Murphy will be on the blower to The Kiosk on Phantom FM reviewing Barney Hoskyns new Tom Waits biography. Then it’s a hop on the bus to Wexford town to give a reading and public interview with Mr Tom Mooney of The Echo at the Arts Centre, kick off 3pm. One mug of tea later and it’s down the road to the Book Centre for a signing at 5pm. And just to push the boat out, there’s a late reading the Cáca Milis Cabaret, again in the Arts Centre. The Friar will be plying his wares between a short film, jazz band, assorted Egyptian belly dancers and seven different kinds of necromancy. Sounds like a hoot. Adm 5 Euro.

Here’s Peter’s interview on yesterday’s edition of Arts Extra on BBC Radio Ulster. It’s up for about a week.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ht684

And here’s the interview for Ireland AM on TV3.

 http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=6029&…

Many thanks to everyone at the Belfast Book Festival and the Oh Yeah centre for making the Paperback Rioters night such a hoot.

Friar Murphy will be reading from John the Revelator for the Paperback Rioters shindig alongside Terri Hooley and Stuart Bailie at the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast tomorrow night, in conjunction with the Belfast Book Festival. Kick off 7.30.
 http://www.ohyeahbelfast.com/news.php?ne…
He’ll also be appearing on Ireland AM tomorrow morning at 7.35 am. Now that’ll be a sight for sore eyes.

“He stands in the doorway of his house
A ragged sculpture of the wind,
October creaks the rotted mattress,
The bedposts fall. No hope. No lust.
The hungry fiend
Screams the apocalypse of clay
In every corner of this land.”

from ‘The Great Hunger’, Patrick Kavanagh

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

… to Enniscorthy public library this evening at 7.30. The book will be launched by playwright, novelist and Wexford legend Billy Roche. Friar Murphy will read and participate in a Q&A.
The View panel’s review of the book is now online:
 http://www.rte.ie/tv/theview/

The latest Mogwai album The Hawk Is Howling is a one-eyed, razorbacked, terrible-beautied m/f from hell. Just thought I’d say that.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMDCM5OAO…

Apologies for perfunctory blogging of late. The oppositional horses of the journalistic practice, book promo, travel, parenting etc have put spare time at a premium. Off to do an interview for South East Radio this morning, then a bus up to Dublin to interview Amanda Palmer.
Gratifying reviews of J the R in the Sunday Times yesterday (can’t find it online) and also the Sunday Business Post.
 http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story….
Enniscorthy launch on Thursday - no sleep ’til the public library!
Keep well all. Gotta run.

Many thanks to everyone at the Triskel Arts Centre who made the Cork launch such a pleasure.
Here’s the latest: a Book Trust review of J the R.

 http://www.booktrust.org.uk/show/review/…

A thousand thanks to everyone who came out for the Dublin launch on Tuesday night. One of the best hootenannies we’ve had in many moons. What a lovely bunch of people.
Friar Murphy will be doing it all over again tonight at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork. Kick off is 8pm. Come on down.