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06.01.12Blog of Revelations 2008 – 2012Yep, it's about that time. Thanks to all who've visited the Revelatorium over the last four years, and to the HP staff for keeping the lights on. You can keep an eye on all further developments at www.facebook.com/mrpetermurphy Over and out. PM
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03.14.12The Gripes of WrathAnd completing a triptych of Bruce-related posts, here's our review of Wrecking Ball, published in the current HP: Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball (Columbia) Let us now praise angry old men. Bruce Springsteen’s 17th album Wrecking Ball might be broadly described as set of 21st century protest songs inflamed by white collar grand larceny. Its memories are long – Bruce has mined these subjects for almost 40 years, in songs like ‘Badlands’, ‘The River’, ‘Atlantic City’ and ‘Youngstown’ – and its sense of context wide: from dust bowl refugees to Mexican migrants, from the flood necropolis of New Orleans to Detroit’s autogeddon, from the Great ...
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03.12.12The Times looked at JonnyApologies for the wrong steer re Springsteen on the Works. The review should run in or around March 22nd. Meanwhile, here's the NY Times report on Bruce's Apollo show last Friday. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/bruce-springsteen-apollo-theater-new-york/ And while you're in the vicinity, here's a fine piece by Alex Pappademas on Jonny Greenwood's scoring and orchestral work. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/jonny-greenwood-radioheads-runaway-guitarist.html
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03.07.12Wrecking Ball: The WorksWe'll be on RTE's The Works tomorrow night (Thursday 8th) talking to John Kelly about Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball. Our full review will appear in tomorrow's issue of HP. Wrecking Ball live at Giant\'s Stadium
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03.05.12The Late William GayThe opening paragraph of the NY Times's obit report says it all: "William Gay, a self-taught novelist from rural Tennessee who emerged from obscurity in his late 50s with critically praised books in the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log cabin in Hohenwald, southwest of Nashville. He was 70." More than a few of the Murphy clan were saddened to hear of his passing.
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02.27.12Nelson’s ColumnsNot many music writers warrant a biography. Lester Bangs was one. Maybe Tosches or Kent. But Everything Is An Afterthought, by Kevin Avery, is a singular piece of work, a hybrid bio and anthology. Nelson was the Orson Welles of rock letterdom, a man whose profiles of Springsteen and Zevon were masterpieces of the form. A slow stone-cutter of a writer, a cinephile and a noir buff (and an inveterate deadline-misser), he shot himself in the foot many times, but Avery's book makes the reader misty-eyed for a time when music journalism was populated by hard-nosed evangelists, not suck-ups or ...
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02.10.12Regarding L. CohenThe Rev Murphy's piece on Leonard Cohen for The Works is now online. El Murphy and L. Cohen
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02.06.12Up for oxygen…...after four days of bed rest, liquids etc. Infirmities permitting, tomorrow we'll be in Kilmainham filming a short piece on L. Cohen's Old Ideas for RTE's The Works. Meanwhile, here's our review of William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor, which ran in Saturday's Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0204/1224311231471.html William Gibson reads from Distrust That Particular Flavor
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01.28.12Greetings from ComavilleBack from Belturbet for a three day breather before returning to work with Kevin McCann on Coma next week. Auditions very interesting. Writing for radio is a whole other thing. You're finding words for the larynx, not the page. Meanwhile, our review of Alex MacLeod's short story collection Light Lifting is in today's Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0128/1224310843914.html The loneliness of the long distance writer...
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01.22.12Belturbet here we comeOff to Beturbet for a week to work on Coma with Mr Kevin McCann. Rewrites and auditions. Keep her lit. Meanwhile... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/18/willpower-roy-baumeister-john-tierney-review Will Self on internet psychosis