The Sigla Blog

The good news:
Aiken have just announced that Roxy Music will play Dublin this Summer. They play Vicar Street on July 5th and Cork on July 6th.
The bad news:
- No Brian Eno.
- The tickets (which go on sale this Saturday) are 70 euro for seating, 65 for standing.

For anyone at a loose end tonight and game enough to brave the intermittent snow and Arctic wind chill, the winner of the The Choice Music Prize will be announced at a ceremony in Vicar Street. Nine of the 10 nominated acts will be playing live, including Sigla’s personal favourite Julie Feeney who made the […]

So far, blame for last Saturday’s riots has been apportioned to Republicans, Loyalists, Scumbags, Mary McAleese and the police.
What about those Imperial Forces AT-ATs from Star Wars?

Upon hearing that the book assigned to the panel of The View last week was called The Emigrant’s Farewell, my heart sank. The title, and the fact that it’s set in Derry, steeled me for another tale of Irish gloom. Despite its central theme of grief, it is far from an addition to the […]

Right, the hosting company reckon that Mallow has a bug that just doesn’t like comments so I’ve had to ditch it. Any comments left since Friday haven’t come through so feel free to repost.
For the moment, I’ve had to revert back to Ocadia until I find another skin that doesn’t mess up the […]

If like me, your tickets for the surprise film on the last day of the Dublin Film Festival have fallen through, you could do a lot worse than head along to Whelan’s to see UK band The Guillemots tomorrow night.
Johnnie Craig in this week’s Ticket reckons they could be this year’s Arcade Fire […]

One of things we discussed on The View last Tuesday was an important figure in the Art world who I knew very little about. All I had heard about Joseph Beuys was that he scribbled his work frantically on blackboards and spent a lot of time in Ireland. The Goethe Institute is currently showing photographs […]

Just when I’d fixed all the other stuff, the comments have inexplicably stopped working. The good folks at Blacknight are checking it out for me, but all suggestions as to how to fix WordPress comments gratefully received (by email.)

Ok, I think Mallow might be the one, but the comments are slightly difficult to distinguish.
I’ll fiddle around with it for a while and see what happens.
God, I hate this stuff…
EDIT: Fixed top links, now can’t create any new link category. I’ve set up the old ones (Musical Distractions, Currently reading) but they’re not showing […]

EDIT 12.35pm - Kind of like this one (it’s called Rin) but when I go in to the ‘About’ page, there’s nowhere to edit the text from what I can see. The blue dot one I also like but don’t know.
Apparently the skin on this blog looks very like another blog (something that never occured […]

Now, this may or may not be true, but there are murmurings over at thumped that this year’s Electric Picnic line-up will feature the following:

Gary Numan - Massive Attack - DJ Shadow - Anthony & The Johnsons - Groove Armada - Stereolab - Nurse With Wound - Morrissey - Pet Shop Boys - Basement […]

Did Shakespeare die of cancer? A German academic seems to think so and has claimed, based on portraits of the playwright, that swellings over his left eye indicate that he was suffering from lymph cancer. Prof Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel claims the writer endured the illness for approximately 15 painful years, which eventually led to his death.