Month: December 2017

G’luck 2017…

Posted Rick O'Shea

I’ll keep my end of year post simple. Like for everyone it’s been a year with good and bad stuff in it (shock, horror!) so I’m not going to pretend as so many others do that everything that happens in my shiny, wonderful online life is amazing. I just choose to concentrate on the positive, as always. I started a new job doing something I love with people I like in a place I love working. You have no idea how liberating it is for the first time in *years* to have complete control over the music I play – […]

My Best Books Of 2017

Posted Rick O'Shea

     It’s been a while, sorry all. I’ve been cheating on this blog with social media, and reading, and a new job… Glad to finally put together the books from 2017 that I think you should read, and a short review of each. Ready? Barry McKinley – A Ton Of Malice What a surprise this was. Set in late 70s grimy London with an Irish expat narrator winding his way through drink, drugs, friends, loneliness and all that come with it. Gorgeously, really beautifully written in places, deserves to have a much bigger audience that it’s already had. Roddy Doyle […]