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May 2010
The Archives
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05.31.10JK rolling…John Kelly will be conducting interviews with Neil Hannon and Paul Brady as part of the Dublin Writers Festival. Neil Hannon - On Songwriting In conversation with John Kelly Venue Liberty Hall Date June 4th Time 8:00pm Paul Brady - On Songwriting In conversation with John Kelly Venue Liberty Hall Date June 3rd Time 8pm [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/YeWITeExEy4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.27.10The Rough South of Harry Crews"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." – Harry Crews [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/3BRKZkY63vk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.27.10The bells of hell"I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer." – Brendan Behan [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/aa7birRBmNM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.27.10Hellbilly DeluxeThere's a fine interview with Hank Williams III in the current issue of Mojo, conducted by none other than guest editor Tom Waits, who says of his subject: "Hank III has that high and lonesome voice with a crack in it. He has the righteous fury of the deeply wounded and there's blood in his eyes." Here's a blast of Hank's thrash-country outfit Assjack doing 'Redneck Ride'. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AvTrOGSJlWY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.26.10The second coming... of Grinderman. Here's the missive: "Grinderman will release their new studio album Grinderman 2 through Mute on September 10th. Grinderman 2 was recorded in 2009 at London’s RAK, State of The Ark and Assault and Battery studios. Co-produced by Grinderman and Nick Launay, the album was mixed by Launay at London’s British Grove in August 2009 and LA’s Seedy Underbelly in April 2010." Here's our review of the debut. http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/grinderman.html [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/pfLol92MD_8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.23.10The Gospel According to Richard M. Nixon"In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose." Hunter Thompson's Rolling Stone eulogy: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/GKKCXE9xtBk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.21.10Love In VainIt may be the greatest music film that never got made. Love In Vain, the life and times of blues avatar Robert Johnson, written by Alan Greenberg, was the first unproduced screenplay to be published as literature by a major house, Doubleday, back in 1990. Your correspondant picked up a copy of it some years ago and was knocked out by the rich, lyrical language, the pictures it painted of an occult southern nocturama, and the poetic resonance of the subject. Martin Scorsese, who at one time was mooted to direct the film for Warner Bros, wrote in the preface ...
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05.19.10Wexford Book Festival ReadingThe Rev Murphy will be reading from J the R and maybe road testing some new yarn at Wexford Library, 10.45 tomorrow morning (Thursday May 20th) as part of the Wexford Book Festival. http://www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Library/WhatsOn/WexfordBookFestival2010/ [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7wjHrnqAY48" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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05.19.10No Country for Young Men…Or Children of Men? Urban development scholar and Chapman University fellow Joel Kotkin speculates on the shape and fate of America 2050 in his book The Next Hundred Million. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/books/26book.html Check out his recent interview on www.charlierose.com
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05.18.10Careful with that axe, EugeneGogol Bordello Trans-Continental Hustle (American Recordings) There's a grand moment halfway through 'Pala Tute' – Gogol Bordello's roadworn live anthem finally recorded for posterity here – where they do a 'Twist & Shout' style four-part ascending aaaaah harmony with a twist of gypsy blue note. A moment to unite the festival rabble and the bespectacled musicologists – or set them further at odds. We've been here before. Gogol Bordello are to this decade what the Pogues were to the '80s: shitkicking mongrels playing gonzo roots music in a time when mainstream rock music is overproduced and asinine. Eugene Hutz's mob might offend the purists, ...