Month: August 2016

Bad Ambassador Playlist – Friday August 26th

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Ben Folds – In Between Days Weezer – Beverly Hills P.I.L. – Rise Rilo Kiley – Breakin’ Up Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – Home Buck 65 – Roses & Bluejays Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi feat. Jack White – Two Against One Beastie Boys – Egg Man Catatonia – Road Rage Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Fountains Of Wayne – Hey Julie Death In Vegas – Aisha The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So Massive Attack – Protection Johnny Cash – Hurt Coldplay – God Put A […]

Kilkenny, Portumna, Webs, Live Poetry, Kildare, Donal Ryan, and then I collapse…

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Right, I’ll be on and offline for the next few weeks on holiday (finally!) so a few things I’m involved in over the next while you might fancy coming to… August 26th – Graiguenamanagh Town Of Books: On the opening day of the festival I’ll be in the library chatting about book clubs, new books and people I’ve interviewed. It’s at 10am, just show up and their FB event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1345590805468267/ August 27th – First Poetry Programme of the Autumn: Less a thing to come to and more a thing to listen to. We’ll be back at 7.30, as usual, […]

The Liz Nugent Interview – Galway

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I have to admit, I was nervous. It’s the first time that a Book Club event has been done outside of Dublin and you just never know if anyone is going to show. Little did I need to worry… Thanks to Dubray for putting us literally in the front window (I talked to an elderly American tourist afterwards who had just head the speakers and popped in, staying for the whole event! She wanted to know if I was from the TV…) Thanks to Liz for being such a warm and giving interviewee (and I mean that genuinely – some […]

Bad Ambassador Playlist – Friday August 5th

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Brendan Benson – Cold Hands (Warm Heart) Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em Messiah J & The Expert – Bloodrush Cut Chemist – Motivational Speaker Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum Langhorne Slim – The Way We Move Aimee Mann – Wise Up Fatboy Slim (feat. Damon Albarn) – Put It Back Together Bjork – Hyperballad LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger The Bees – Chicken Payback The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In L.A. Lisa Hannigan & Damien […]

Sorry, Suicide Squad…

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Right, here’s me fully preparing myself for the shots to come and it pains me to write this but, sadly, but I think I have to. Suicide Squad is a mess. The plot (such as it is) rambles all over the joint, Jared Leto is a loud, damp squib as The Joker (or maybe it’s just that he’s little more than a plot device) and, overall, it’s bitterly disappointing. There is, as with so many other big budget blockbusters in the last few years, nothing new to see here. It’s redeemed only by Margot Robbie being the best thing about […]