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The Elected
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Sub Pop Records, once home to congenitally noisy rock the calibre of Mudhoney, Nirvana and Dwarves, has consistently diversified its catalogue over the last decade to include stellar acts likeThe Album Leaf, Low and Wolf Parade. One of the label’s brightest hopes are The Elected, a four-piece fronted by sometime Rilo […]

I think the bloggers are on fire with ideas this week. First Damien’s blog debate, then Richard Delevan’s podcasts and now Fiona’s sociological meme. Fiona came up with the idea after Richard Waghorne posing the question Who Is the Irish Blogosphere?
In view of the upcoming blog awards, I think it might be an interesting […]

I intended to flag this yesterday but I’m currently snowed under. I’d like to point people in the direction of Richard Delevan’s new podcast, Sunday Brunch. This is the show’s second week and it’s a 30 minute magazine broadcast featuring politics, the arts and general debate with bloggers. Last Sunday featured a discussion between Trinity’s […]

Damien tells us that voting is finally open in the inaugural Irish Blog Awards. I’ve been nominated in the Best Blog/Blogger, Best Arts and Culture blog and I’m surprised and honoured to be nominated twice for two individual posts: the much-debated Women in the bloggersphere and my post on Infertility.
Based on the longlist […]

I never thought I’d hear The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds on daytime RTE Radio One. Thanks Steve Reich, who is currently being interviewed about his music and compositions on Rattlebag. He will be in Dublin on February 17th, 18th and 19th as part of RTE’s Living Music Festival. He has made some stunning music in […]

Damien has come up with the excellent idea of having bloggers meet up to debate topical issues in person. He suggests topics like Gay Marriage, Feminism, Iraq and Bush, Google in China and Open Source Vs Microsoft. Sounds like we might have to get Winds and Colm to debate the Women & current affairs […]

Colm Bracken thinks that women are less interested in current affairs than men. He believes that in post-Sex and the City Ireland, the Irish female is more concerned with shopping than politics.
I agree with him about Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City was an amusing diversion on metropolitan life. After a couple […]