Sunday Times Soundsystem

Two years ago after just moving back from Galway, I went for a few beers in John Hennessey’s abode to discuss some important business. Of this I remember little as I woke the next morning in a non-too responsive state with an extremely vague recollection of what had gone on past the [...]

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As the end of May approaches we have not got the usual Sunday Times banter on the horizon, there is some important birthdays to celebrate though. Our friends up in East, the Mntothat crew, have put together something rather special to celebrate the post humous 97th (!) birthday of the man from the cosmos, Sun [...]

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Thats about all I can muster from 6 years of French, never really had a gift for the languages….
Anyways! Heads up on a busy weekend for us (and you hopefully). The French Film festival is in full swing at various venues around the city and county (well the Gate and Ballymaloe this far) but will [...]

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Last October bank holiday weekend we had two special guests down to our annual (can it be annual after 2 years?) Jazz weekend special. The jazz weekend is always a busy time, and we we’re glad to leave it the extremely capable hands of Eddie Reynolds and Dean Feeney to (who play rekkids together as [...]

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I was reminded of  Sun Ra’s  ‘Moonship Journey’ yesterday and subsequently broke out the reproduction issue of ‘Tribe’ magazine that was part of the Tribe re-issue on Soul Jazz last year. I meant to get some more of Sun Ra’s writings, whether I would be able to make any sense of them being another thing [...]

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Sunday Times returns! Actually does return as Johan went AWOL in Yurp (as the Yanks say) and we were wondering if he would ever return. Unfortunately he has so we’re g for go on this months affair. Christmas was a monster so shouts out to the heads who made it a lot [...]

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A lot of local folk will be familiar with debut release of Hun Choi (aka Hunee aka Hunch) from the summer of 2009, it being on Feel music, the label of John Daly and the One Eye. For most it was probably the re-work by John that caused the biggest waves but since then Hunee [...]

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Theres been a lot of talk of other parties in the news in the last few months, the few I want to mention here are a bit more fun than Enda Kenny and his bunch. I’ve been meaning to stick these up for too long, and to mention some on going ongoings for quite a [...]

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