Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
First James Frey is outted as fabricating some of his drugs+booze=rehab memoir A Million Little Pieces and duping Oprah into the bargain. Contrary to some newspaper reports, his publisher Random House have denied that they’ll offering refunds on copies of the book.
Then over at the Bibliofemme boards AlexD points to two articles about JT […]
Speaking of Jim Carroll, he also gives the fantastic Cougar album the thumbs up in today’s Ticket.
I promise I’ll stop talking about them now.
Well, now that the new Coldcut album has arrived today…
A couple of days ago I blogged about The Choice Music Award and I just wanted to make a couple of clarifications. I’ve been chatting on the phone to Jim Carroll about the award and I’d like to pass on some of the background to the award.
Jim tells me: “There is only one act on […]
The IFI are screening a Mike Leigh season this month. Instead of showing his more well known work such as Secrets and Lies, Naked or Vera Drake, the season will focus on his TV work. Leigh’s trademark examination of class was honed in television drama and between 1973 and 1985, he was responsible for […]
Pre-Christmas I had the best of intentions of reviewing King Kong, but with all the usual Christmas distractions, it ebbed away in to the ether. The junket in London was good fun, but then film junkets are so misconstrued. You tell a friend you’re off to interview X actor about Y film and they have […]
My brother recently told me about a blog that I’d like. “Great music site” he said. “You’ll love it” he said. When I eventually got around to checking it out, I discovered that it’s no less than the musical equivalent of porn for my sound engineer/musician other half. I think he actually looks at […]
Today is Epiphany, Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas. As Gaeilge that’s Nollaig na mBan or Nollaig Bheag, celebrated mainly in Ireland and Italy. According to Wikipedia:
It is so called because of the tradition (still strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all […]
When it comes to admirers, Woody Allen appears to have no grey areas. People love him or hate him, but a new film of his always inspires a certain amount of curiosity. What might tempt many back to see Match Point after the disappointing trio of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Celebrity and Anything […]
Damien has finally announced the categories for the Irish Blog Awards and anyone wishing to vote for their favourite blogs can find out how to do so here.
The categories are as follows:
* Best Blogger
* Best Blog Post
* Most Humorous Post
* Best Photo Blog
* Best Fictional Piece in a Blog
* Best Arts and Culture Blog
* Best […]
I’m currently moving some of the author interviews, music interviews and album, book and film reviews from sigla which can be found here in the relevant categories on the right. Anything that predates the blog will be moved to the March 2005 archives, when the blog began.
I came across something which is older than the […]
Originally published on Sigla, November 2004
John Peel, veteran BBC dj, died last month. Sinéad Gleeson recalls what it was that made the man so special to so many.
Like most people who are borderline obsessive/compulsive about music, I owe a huge debt to the size and shape of my music collection to John Peel. NME, Melody […]
I didn’t make any new year resolutions apart from trying to be more creative but I have sworn off getting sucked in, vortex-style, to Reality TV shows. The daddy of them of all, Big Brother is the worst culprit so when I heard they were flogging its mangy flanks once more in the form of […]