Reviews
Album: David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
The last time David Byrne and Brian Eno linked up, the resulting album —
1981's My Life In the Bush of Ghosts — changed the course of pop music,
although it would take the industry the best part of a decade to catch up
with their collaging techniques, which in effect invented sampling.
Comment: 1
CD of the week: The Academy is, Fast Times At Barrington High
Don’t be fooled by the clever-sounding name … there’s nothing
academic about The Academy Is.
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Inside Reviews
Oasis, Liverpool Echo Arena (Rated 3/ 5 )
Thursday, 9 October 2008
There's a storm brewing in Liverpool that seems set to tear the roof off this
arena. Inside, at the start of their UK tour, Oasis are attempting to prove
their fire has not been snuffed out.
Comment: 1
Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 3 October 2008
The eighth instalment of Dylan's Bootleg Series covers the years spanning his
1989 return to form with Oh Mercy up to the present day.
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Sir Paul McCartney, Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 26 September 2008
The Hebrew was on the basic side but no less appreciated for that by the crowd
of 45,000 in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park last night. "Shalom Tel Aviv,
shana tova," ("happy new year"), Sir Paul McCartney told them
before wheeling into "Hello Goodbye".
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Mogwai, The Hawk Is Howling (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 19 September 2008
Album number six for Glasgow's finest purveyors of post-rock; and for fans
real (Ian Rankin) and fictional (Inspector Rebus), more majestic
instrumentals with intriguing and irreverent names to investigate.
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Kings of Leon, Only By The Night (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 19 September 2008
The fourth Kings Of Leon album sees them abandon their country-rock roots for
an Eighties-influenced alt-rock sound.
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CD of the week: Little Jackie, The Stoop (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 12 September 2008
If at first you don’t succeed …You could imagine Imani Coppola
using this well-worn proverb as the foundation for a musical masterclass
when her career eventually bites the dust.
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Gloria Estefan’s rhythms get the fans going
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Odyssey Arena, Belfast
Comments: 5
Electric Picnic: Sex Pistols misfire but our friends electric dish up a feast
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Yet again, the Electric Picnic weekend was blessed with fine, settled weather.
Now in its fifth year, the music and arts festival has never turned into a
mudbath, making one genuinely suspect that the organisers must have made
some murky Faustian pact.
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Album: Juan Garcia Esquivel, More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds (Reprise Archives)
Friday, 22 August 2008
Album: The Real Tuesday Weld, The London Book of the Dead (Antique Beat) (Rated 5/ 5 )
Friday, 22 August 2008
Album: Damon Albarn, Monkey: Journey to the West (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 15 August 2008
A series of songs written using the Chinese pentatonic scale and sung in
Mandarin might be considered a hard sell, but with Jamie Hewlett's
animations of Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy now on TV rotation in trailers for the
BBC's Olympics coverage, Journey to the West appears to be in the process of
becoming a cultural benchmark. Rightly so: there can't be many multimedia
projects that are quite as satisfying and entertaining as this
phantasmagoria of myth, music and mummery.
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Album: Kasai Allstars, In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of his Enemy by Magic (Crammed Discs) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 8 August 2008
Album: The Baseball Project, Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Blue Rose) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 8 August 2008
Album: Various Artists, The Essential Guide to New Orleans (Union Square) (Rated 5/ 5 )
Friday, 8 August 2008
Album: Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Ten Thousand (Balling the Jack/Bronzerat) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 8 August 2008
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Financial Crisis
Is the UK already in a recession?
Castration for Sex Offenders
Should the UK follow Poland's lead and force sex offenders to be chemically castrated?
Cancer treatment
Should cancer drugs be free for all patients?
Next US president?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
| John McCain |
 44% |
| Barack Obama |
 42% |
| It won't make a difference |
11% |
| I'm still holding out for Ron Paul |
3% |
Sport legends
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
| George Best |
31% |
| Tony McCoy |
2% |
| Darren Clarke |
3% |
| Barry McGuigan |
4% |
| Mary Peters |
4% |
| Willie John McBride |
3% |
| Peter Canavan |
6% |
| Joey Dunlop |
39% |
| David Healy |
5% |
| Alex Higgins |
2% |
Poll: Tasers and the police
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
| Yes, it is better than using firearms |
56% |
| Yes, but only in exceptional circumstances |
22% |
| No, I'm genuinely concerned about the safety of Tasers |
8% |
| No, the police should not have these weapons |
14% |