Bull Island Haiku, documentary
(North) Bull Island, Dublin is the source and inspiration for my book Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku, which in turn provided the source for Claire Cunningham’s radio documentary, broadcast on Ireland’s Lyric FM on Sunday 4th October 2020. The documentary features the majority of the text of the book, and includes recordings made in situ on […]
Audio: The Pre-Electric Picnic
THE CANCELLATION of this year’s Electric Picnic means the highlight of many people’s autumn calendar – and a huge source of income for so many in Stradbally, Co. Laois, and beyond – has been lost for another year. Perhaps it’s been online all the time, but by an odd coincidence I was directed just now […]
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cabra, 1980
Punk rockers Siouxsie and the Banshees’ legendary gig in a local cinema in Cabra, north Dublin in 1980 is the subject – or part of it, at least – of my contribution to Sunday Miscellany’s 50th, a half-centenary celebration of the radio show that has long been an Irish institution. The recording made at Dublin’s […]