Anto Kelly. You know him as the guy who’s been booking Ents gigs and arranging the UCD Ball since September. But those of you who’ve ever cast glance upon him will also be aware that Anto Kelly has some of the most illustrious hair known to mankind. No kidding – its shine cannot be underestimated. […]
Despite repeated warnings in cinemas, some people just love to talk says Gav Reilly It doesn’t seem like five years now since the heyday of Trigger Happy TV but it really has been half a decade since Dom Joly was on our screens with his inimitable oversized Nokia phone, screaming a protracted ‘Hell-low!’ from various, […]
Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan spoke to O2′s Gav Reilly about the UCD Ball, his Trinity days and how he still cycles to gigs… Paul Noonan is tired. It’s the afternoon of the final day of the three-week UK Tour de Flock, and the soundcheck for the final Leeds gig has overrun. He’s exhausted to […]
Although a little bizarrely titled for a non-‘Best Of’ album, The Greatest is already being hailed by the mainstream press as one of the better works of 2006. And having listened to it, I’m not sure which I find more confusing: the fact that these publications can seemingly predict 2006’s musical future, or that they […]
Steal a phone and ring Adreeeen Kennedeeeee and threaten to shove a banger into his letterbox if he doesn’t say “I love ye, Teena, will ye marry me, ye will?” Neck a few cans, find a karaoke bar and sing ‘Mambo No. 5′ replacing every girl’s name in the song with Teena. “A liddel bit […]
Gav Reilly remembers the sweets that we munched when watching children’s television… Anybody hwo was ambling around the Freshers’ Marquee last September will remember the multitude of sugary freebies being offered by different cliques present – but anyone would splurged and spent €3 joining NetSoc (and thereby helping to break down the invisible nerd-divide between […]
Gav Reilly preview Ireland’s answer to the Mercurys… This month marks the beginning of a new era (okay, that’s a little too emphatic but it’s certainly a sign of consolidation) for the Irish music scene with the announcement of the first winner of the brand spanking new Choice Music Prize for the best Irish album […]
It surely isn’t much of an understatement to say that the debut from this young Sheffield foursome was one of hte most eagerly awaited offerings of 2005 – it almost seems that the album appeared in January out of spite. Most of the songs on the contradictorily titled Whatever People Say I Am… have been […]
When it was first revealed that Steven Spielberg was mooting an adaptation of George Vonas’ patchy novel Vengeance, the cinematic world wasn’t quite sure how to react; either cinemagoers would be treated to another Jewish-based epic like Schindler’s List or the offering would instead be a continuation of Mel Gibson’s Passion genre of ‘spinach cinema’ […]
Book review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress by Paul Howard How do you begin to describe Ross O’Carroll-Kelly to a foreigner? It’s a problem that’s shown itself more than once in the online life of yourrs truly. When asked to explain your favourite series of books (I can hear the Potterphiles […]
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