October 13th, 2005
Timely win for Pinter
Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. This is quite timely for us living on the island of Ireland as tomorrow, his new play, The Betrayal opens at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.
I’ll never forget the production of The Homecoming I saw at The Gate starring Ian Holm, Ian Hart and Lia Williams. It was one of the most affecting and memorable plays I’ve ever seen.
This week Banville wins the Booker, Pinter wins the Nobel Prize and tomorrow night I’ll get to see Sufjan Stevens, the man responsible for what is probably my album of the year.
If only Ireland had qualified for the World Cup…
October 14th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Off topic, but I see you have a review of the new Depeche Mode album in today’s Ticket. I’ve never seen them live but have a chance to see them in Atlantic City in December. Would they be worth it? (flight, accom etc.)…
October 14th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Absolutely. Anyone I know who has seen them live say they put on a great show, and they’ve always had an expansive and loyal US following, even since their early days. I think the new album is great and I reckon a lot of fans would agree that Exciter and Ultra weren’t great (pariticularly the latter).
Hope all is going well in the US.
October 16th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
The football team’s non-qualification was, like Pinter’s and Banville’s successes, fully deserved: they have that much in common.
And wouldn’t that sentence make a good Sufjan Stevens song title?
October 17th, 2005 at 6:47 am
Hey there, how was the Sufjan gig? Didn’t manage to make it myself, which makes me cry inside.
October 17th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Joe,
Damien Mulley has asked if there’s any chance of a review so if I get time later I’ll write one. I mostly enjoyed it though.
Crocodile
Judging by some of the song titles on Come on Feel the lllnoise, that sentence is too short by far.