Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
Damien and Jason have been working like lunatics and finally the 2007 Irish Blog Awards longlist has been announced. The Sigla Blog is delighted to be long-listed for Best Arts & Culture Blog and Best Music Blog (which Niall should deservedly win).
If you’d like to see Sigla on the shortlist, head on over […]
Apparently The Vagina Monologues has had to be renamed for a production run in Florida. One of the play’s aims is to embrace the various words for vagina and encourage women not feel shame when talking about their bodies - a point lost on a local Florida woman who complained (after seeing the play’s […]
Seeing as I’ve been writing about female guitarists all morning and have just met the three lovely ladies from UK band Wet Dog, it seems good and proper to point you in the direction of their Irish debut tonight at Maximum Joy. The trio describe their music as “stripped-down clatter plus tunes and catchy vocal […]
After Ireland’s neck was just about saved last night in their weedy 2-1 win over part-timers San Marino, I find out this morning that I’ve got tickets (through the FAI lottery thingy I applied for) for two of the next Euro 2008 qualifiers. Which two? Wales and Slovakia.
For €105.
Not even Germany - although […]
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing, until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.”
This is one of my favourite opening lines […]
It seems fitting that I’m listening to the new Lisa Gerrard ‘Best Of’ on a Monday. If you want to be transported elsewhere and dispel Monday gloom, Ms. Gerrard does the trick. Like Mary Margaret O’Hara and Diamanda Galas, Lisa Gerrard is one of those challenging singers who have the power to bewitch and beguile. […]
Back in the days of Sigla Magazine, we received a series of very fine poems by a writer called Patry Francis. The poems, inspired by a stint working as a waitress, were some of the best poetry we ever published on the site. I’ve kept track of Patry’s writing via her excellent blog, which is […]
A: Thousands, perhaps. At least according to a new initiative by Penguin called A Million Penguins.
“Penguin is launching its first wiki and in a project called A Million Penguins we’ve created a space where anyone can contribute to the writing of a novel and anyone can edit anyone else’s writing. Over the next six […]
Above is the Camberwick Green-style new teaser trailer for BBC’s Life on Mars which a good place to start in terms of talking about catch-up TV. You know, when everyone you know is talking about a brilliant new series that you’ve managed to miss. This is usually hampered by the fact that I refuse to […]