Lisa Hannigan

Eventful week, i started it by missing my plane to France, sinking rock-bottom a planned week-end of diving in Marseille.
Anyway, i use the time to move house, I am now living in the city center of limerick... we'll see how it turns out.

On the bright side, I went last wednesday to the Univeristy of Limerick see Lisa Hannigan in concert, you probably heard her already on Damien Rice album ( 9 crimes for example ), she had a wonderful new solo album: Sea Sew.


This is taken from the RTE show Other Voices.


Songs of the week:

• I don't know - Lisa Hannigan
• Lille - Lisa Hannigan
• The Steady Song - Republic of Loose

Radiodead Bis Repetita

Friday Night (6th June 2008), near Dublin, in Malahide Castle park.
I went to see Radiohead in concert in Dublin, again. The atmosphere was quite different.
Probably due to the tone of the last album, or the fact that i've been travelling the country up and down over the week end.

We had a bit of rain, but a good sign appeared in the form of a double rainbow, just as Radiohead went on stage:


And we were started by a lovely evening on the east coast of Ireland

Songs Played:
01 All I Need (In Rainbows)
02 There There (Hail to the Thief )
03 Lucky (Ok Computer)
04 Bangers & Mash (In Rainbows - bonus)
05 15 Step (In Rainbows)
06 Nude (In Rainbows)
07 Pyramid Song (Amnesiac)
08 Optimistic (Kid A)
09 Arpeggi (In Rainbows)
10 The National Anthem (Kid A)
11 Idioteque (kid A)
12 Reckoner (In Rainbows)
13 House Of Cards (House of cards)
14 Everything In Its Right Place (Kid A)
15 Faust Arp (In Rainbows)
16 Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows)
17 Videotape (In Rainbows)

Encore 1:
18 The Gloaming (hail to the Thief)
19 You and Whose Army ? (Amnesiac)
20 Myxomatosis (Hail to the thief)
21 My Iron Lung (The Bends)
22 How To Disappear Completely (Kid A)
Encore 2:
23 New Song (Thom on piano, ‘Super Collider’)
24 Just (The Bends)
25 Paranoid Android (OK Computer)

Source www.ateaseweb.com
.

Don't know why, but Thome spoke a bit of french ( "un deux trois quatre", "merci beaucoup" ) maybe in prevision of the next concert in Paris, or more simply due to the important numbers of french people present at the concert.

And soon too soon it was finished...

40 years of Sgt Pepper

Today 1st june, we are celebrating the 40 years anniversary of the mythic album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. And on this occasion Tom Dunne on the radio Today FM, play during 3 hours the full album with some pieces it was influenced from (Pet Sounds) and it has influenced. Elected by the Rolling stone magazine, as the best album of all times, here the list of the 5 first (out of 500, the full list you can find on Rolling Stone website):
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

Which bring us to my personal list of favourites album:

1. Tostaky - Noir Désir
   
2. Amnesiac - Radiohead
   
3. Néon Bible - Arcade Fire
   
4. If I could only remember my name - David Crosby
   
5. No Quartr - Page and Plant
   
6. CCR Live in Europe - Creedence Clearwater Revival
   
7. Whaterver the weather - Dionysos
   
8. Strange Days - The Doors
   
9. Hells freeze over - Eagles
   
10. Baduizm - Erykha Badhu
    
11. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
    
12. Pearl - Janis Joplin
    
13. Burtsing Out - Jethro Tull
    
14. Live from Mars - Ben Harper
    
15. Grace - Jeff Buckley
    
16. Daemon Days - Gorillaz
    
17. Début -Björk
    
18. The cover records - Cat Power
    
19. Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
    
20. Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher
    
21. Stoosh - Skunk Anansie
    
22. Since I left you - Avalanches
    
23. Rhum, sodomy, & the lash - The Pogues
    
24. Who's next - The Who
    
25. Express Way - Troublemakers
    
26. The best band... - Franck Zappa
    

Limerick some place of interest:

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Just seen Maria Doyle Kennedy in Dolans. Excellent... I am probably gonna buy the album, you can listen to some of her song on her space on mySpace.

And if you are in Limerick this saturday night, another DJ battle is organised in the Underground (Baker-Place / Wicked Chicken).

The Rocky Road to Dublin (2)

I've just finished uploading the pics from my mobile phone, of the Marley Park gig, so it's time to post a bit more about this fantastic Radiohead concert.
Ok first, I am useless, I did not bring my camera for some stupid reason.

Absolutely gorgeous day in Dublin, look at this blue sky. Perfect day to lay on a grass in a park... but soon enough a massive crowd is going to invade the ground.


I arrive with 2 french lads (Guyguy et manu) at Marlay Park with the first bus around 5pm... so we could enjoy the 3 group. The first group was BeerHoof ( I am not sure of teh syntx ) interestting and strange, something i would call in french: "déjanté"

Then Beck came, with a great scenery, all what happened on the scene was duplicated with Marionette... the puppetmasters were fantasctic reproducing the perfomance of the band on stage... and so fun...



It took them a long time to install the set for Radiohead but then they come... and the magic begun...




I am so sorry, I had'nt my camera. The concert was fantastic !!!...
Thought I spent some time, wondering, about my morning vision... In fact in the morning, I was in Temple Bar Square, and I cross somebody who looked exactly like Thom Yorke, even though I thought at the moment he was really small... so I spend a long moment trying to estimate the height of TY, and if I had seen him earlier dring the day.

Radiohead fan website: http://www.ateaseweb.com/.And I encourage to take a look at the links page on the radiohead website.

Edit to add the set of the concert:
airbag
2+2=5
the national anthem
my iron lung
morning bell
videotape
nude
there there
the gloaming
paranoid android
all i need
pyramid song
climbing up the walls
how to dissapear completely
just
lucky
idioteque

like spinning plates
bangers n' mash
karma police
everything in it's right place (no intro)

creep

Other website of interests
http://www.cafebabel.com/fr/

The Rocky Road to Dublin

Activities: Radiohead concert, Pub, Dublin, Temple Bar....

Yeaaaahhh just came back from Dublin, where I've attended the Radiohead Concert in Marlay Park...
That was fantastic ! Beck was there just before, and the performance was great too ( specially the puppets ;-P )


So two days in Dublin, most of the time in Temple Bar Square:

Wandering about the statues in the street of Dublin....

Watching the lovely women in Dublin:

Trinity College, (thought I did not manage to see teh Book of Kells yet):

In Dublin Castle, I've found some sculpture done with compressed sand:

I've spend a lot of time wandering about the Spire in O'Connell Street.... build to replace Nelson Pillar ( oh a famous english warrior on O'Connel street shock ) in 1999... but only achieved in 2003 [The Spire]!

Especially questionning the way it had been erected:

Some random pics:
Dublin busy place, full of tourist

And Dubliners... or leprechaun ??