Month: June 2016

Quick Book Reviews – June 2016

Posted Rick O'Shea

Right. There’s been a problem for a while and I need to address it if I’m going to continue to review books here. It’s simple enough. I’m fairly overwhelmed at the moment with RTE work, other work, running the book club, reading for upcoming interviews I’m doing, writing myself (and just having a normal life outside of all that!) so, as a result, my reviews here have fallen way behind. Just as an example – I’ve written 18 reviews this year so far but the book I’m reading at the moment is book 36… See my problem? Thus – the […]

Bad Ambassador Playlist – Friday June 17th

Posted Rick O'Shea

And week one is over 🙂 We sounded like this… *** The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip Do You Karate? – Fight Like Apes Bad Ambassador – Divine Comedy No Surprises – Amanda Palmer Come Back Around – Feeder Sure Shot – Beastie Boys Ladyflash – The Go! Team Train In Vain – The Clash Sex And Candy – Marcy Playground Setting Son – The Chemical Brothers Heart Attack & Vine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Planet Telex – Radiohead Fight Test – The Flaming Lips Wicked & Weird – Buck 65 Your Missus […]

Craft Beer For The Summer

Posted Rick O'Shea

Well, I don’t know about you but the moment the sun pops out for its annual 6 day pilgrimage to Ireland I feel the need to grab beers I like and sup them preferably in an outdoor setting… As usual, some thing I’ve had recently I think you might like include… Look, I know it’s fairly hard to come by at this stage but I sensibly squirrelled a case of it away when it came out and this is number three. It is SPECTACULAR… The baby above is Solemn Black, the new Black IPA also from Galway Bay and their […]

Humans Of Dublin

Posted Rick O'Shea

I genuinely couldn’t feel more honoured today at my inclusion as one of the long-running Humans Of Dublin page. They then made the mistake of talking to me afterwards for an hour too… 🙂

It’s Been One Week…

Posted Rick O'Shea

So yeah. Now that I look back on it that was seven days that were… busy at best. I could blab on about it but the pictures come together quite nicely 🙂 Coming soon? THIS and THIS.