Romance & Cigarettes

Watching Splash with Tom Hanks on TG4 reminded me of this somewhat more impressive underwater scene from John Turturro's hugely underrated and ignored Romance & Cigarettes. Mind the crude content for ye of a sensitive disposition.

also, check this out for an insight into some of Turturro's most iconic role

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0W2crjd4bc

BPLO at HWCH, live on 2XM

Had a fantastic and busy weekend with The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra at this year's Hard Working Class Heroes festival. Really enjoyed our multiple sets (one of them below) and it was nice to meet some great peeps and check out a one or two decent bands along the way (not that there weren't more, just that's all I got to see). It really is a great festival, and I love the feel of the city with all the gigs going on. Even got to meet a few heads I haven't seen in a very long time. Of course, we also had an excuse for a few pints - on a school night can you believe it!

Pure Class

Feast your eyes on this:

Great hair
Great mustache
Fantastic suit.
Classy set.

Superb audience members.

It's got frigging everything this video.

What a legend.

this is becoming a nasty habit . . .

. . . apologies to all West Indie Hour listeners and indeed Play The F**king Note readers, both strands have been suffering lately due to a wide range of factors. There will be more news on both, and a lot more besides, but in the meantime here's a pleasant distraction:

West Indie Hour Playlist - 19th July

It's Yours - David Kitt

Nostalgia - Froud

Devil And Me - The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra

Devil & Me - Armoured Bear

Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan

Watching The World Go By - Autamata

Days Go By - RSAG

Reuben - Cathy Davey

Close To Me - The Cure

Everybody Knows - The Unseen Guest

Amelia - BellX1

Ease My Mind - 202s

Company In My Back (live) - Wilco

West Indie Hour Playlist - 12th July

Who Cares About Sunshine? - 202s

Foolish Love - Prenup

Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Turn The Magic On - Messiah J & The Expert

Happy Thoughts - Vyvienne Long

Seventeen - Saville

Mirage - size2shoes

Grace - Julie Feeney

Green Light GO - Walter Mitty & The Realists

Wait A While - Doug Sheridan

Grace Jones - The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra

Blindsided - Bon Iver

Wake Up - The Infomatics

Graveyard - Jape

West Indie Hour Playlist - Sun 5th July

Love Is A Tricky Thing - Julie Feeney

Good One - Fred

Blossoms In The Street - Wallis Bird

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Universal - Blur

Hands - Emmet Scanlan & What The Good Thought

Down, Under The Sea - Villagers

Your Protector - Fleet Foxes

Brittle Bones - Giveamanakick

Mister Petit - Headgear

Myth - Julie Feeney

Pariah Chimes - Peter Delaney

Frozen Still - Max Greenwood

West Indie Hour Playlist 21st June 09

Tenerife (Cruisin' Paradise) - Mundy

Each And Every One Of Us - Dark Room Notes

Who Cares About Sunshine - 202s

Straight To You - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Grounds For Divorce - Elbow

Golden Age - TV On The Radio

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

My Culture - 1 Giant Leap

Solar - Halfset

Lille - Lisa Hannigan

For A Long, Long Time I've Been In Pieces - Villagers

All I Want - The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra

strange . . .

. . . the other day I just remembered that I have a blog. How odd.

And I never post to it any more. Even stranger.

Sadly, being the reasonably impulsive and short-span attentioned young man I am, things tend to drift off. Honestly, sometimes my mind can just wander off right in the middle of sente . . ..

West Indie Hour Playlist - Sun 3rd May

Stop - Delorentos
Kiernan McMullan - Borderline
Down, Under The Sea - Villagers
Little Death - One Day International
Smile - Seneca
Is There No Freedom? - Garrett Wall Band
The Hole In The Boat - Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
Song To Be Over - The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
If You Want To - Armoured Bear
Alone Like That - David Kitt
The Wishing Seat - Adrian Crowley
What Happens When The Heart Just Stops - The Frames
Emer's Dream - Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Roscoe - Midlake

West Indie Hour Playlist 26th April

Move It On - David Kitt
Born and Blown Away - Roy Shiels
Waiting For The Night To Come - Mundy
Is There No Freedom? - Garrett Wall Band
You Know What You Want - Red Eskimo
Back To Before - Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
The Meaning Of The Ritual - Villagers
Mary - The Four Of Us
Mirage - size2shoes
The Bee Keepers Wife - Adrian Crowley
Ease My Mind - 202s
Phil Lynott - Jape
Pistachio - Lisa Hannigan

I Heart Huckabees

Great film, great end of bank holiday show for RTE. 

Kind of funny when you think about it, the Holy weekend that was in it, all about Jesus and whatnot, to be concluded by a funny and thoroughly existential movie such as I Heart Huckabees. No harm at all. The winning quality is in the little details in this movie, everything from the cutesy soundtrack to the imagination/dream animations, down to Wahlberg's brashness and Tomlin and Hoffman's idiosycracies. Jude Law is also excellent, a pretty different type of role for him. And as for the subject matter, right up my alley . . . one of my favourite movies of all time.

This gag reel is pretty good - check out Dustin Hoffman letting one rip. It belies a stranger working environment as witnessed in this video of director David O Russell going crazy at Lily Tomlin. Nasty.

West Indie Hour Playlist 12th April

Streetwise - Jape

Tenerife (Cruising Paradise) - Mundy

Fee Da Da Dee - The Guggenheim Grotto

14 Days - Arkitekt

Happy Thoughts - Vyvienne Long

It Over - R.S.A.G.

Mirrorball - Elbow

Ease My Mind - 202s

Down, Under The Sea - Villagers

Song 4 - Drumming Room

Salmon - Halfset

West Indie Hour Playlist 29th March

Don't forget, tickets to The Great Friday Festival to giveaway, email westindiehour@gmail.com quick!!

Let It Be Known - Shane Barry & The Distractions

Turn The Magic On - Messiah J & The Expert

Heads - Herm

You Know What I Want To Know - David Kitt

Red Is The Number - Walter Mitty & The Realists

Ivory Heart - Tadhg Cooke

Fear - Fred

Intro - The Infomatics

Wake Up - The Infomatics

Faces In The Water - Max Greenwood

Mirrorball - Elbow

Gold - Interference

West Indie Hour Playlist 22nd March

Days Go By - R.S.A.G.

Four Out Of Five - The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra

Stop - Delorentos

Stop - Shane Barry & The Distractions

Keep Me Clear - Fred

Solar - Halfset

The Turn - Stace Gill

(Intro) - Sigur Ros

Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros (ten min of Sigur Ros!)

Amelia - BellX1

Back Seat - David Geraghty

Estelle - Armoured Bear

Bless Our Tiny Hearts - Adrian Crowley

West Indie Hour Playlist 15th March

Little Death - One Day International
These Icy Waters - Adrian Crowley
Blossoms In The Street - Wallis Bird
14 Days - Arkitekt
Nostalgia - Froud
Alligator Farm - My Invention
Six Hours - Aine Duffy
The Turn - Stace Gill
I Don't Know - Lisa Hannigan
Rhodes/Bells/Vibes - Halfset
Evergreen - Fred
Ghost For You - Doug Sheridan
Roscoe - Midlake

Oh God Poor America

Okay, so Miley Cyrus wants to meet Radiohead backstage at the grammy's, 'cause they're like one of her like favourite bands like rock Gods and like she would just like cry and like stand out in the cold even if it was like zero degrees out just to meet them, but they said no thanks, "we don't do that". 

She says she's going to "tell everyone" and ruin them.

 

Radiohead spokesman criticizes her 'self of entitlement'.

She is, like, an idiot. Although I feel its not even all her fault.

Warning: following the link to the audio and listening to the radio piece may forever taint your opinion of the United States/the future of radio/humanity in general or at the very least Miley Cyrus.

http://johnjayandrich.1047kissfm.com/pages/main/

p.s. - she closes her eyes when singing not because it means a lot but because its awkward like looking at people while you sing. 

really don't listen to it.

West Indie Hour Playlist 8th March

The West Indie Hour was back this week after a brief interuption in service.

Playlist 8th March
I Was A Man - Jape
The Lights - Fred
Shuffle Your Feet - The Kinetiks
The Great Defector - Bellx1
Megaphone Man - Messiah J & The Expert
Good For What Ails You - Seneca
Sucker Punch - Walter Mitty & The Realists
Little Deaths - One Day International
Brittle Bones - Giveamanakick
At The Heart Of All Of This Strangeness - Jape
Walk On Part - Adrian Crowley
There Is A Time - Luka Bloom

RE: falling off the face of the earth

Hello,
I just wanted to leave a quick note here in case (God forbid) anyone might actually stumble across this once fine blog, and wonder

"Whatever happened to that young man who used to rant and rave and blog of a time? Such a nice young man."

Well, due to some logistal issues and computer related setbacks/developments, blogging has been postponed for a while.
I do hope to return to play the f**king note in the future, so please don't forget about us forever. Who knows, some day you might be thinking to yourself (in an English accent)

"I do wonder whether that nice young man has gotten up off his arse and posted any delightful blogs. Such a nice arse."

ah hello again

It's been an extremely long time since my last post, so there is a bit of news to catch up on. I suppose first and foremost is my new job as presenter of The Cinema Show on Spin South West. I'll be presenting an hour long look at the latest in cinema and DVD releases, news, reviews and interviews.
Started just before Christmas and most recently Alan Owens of The Limerick Leader joined me for a bit of a ram-shackle preview of 2009 movies (just can't get out of lazy Christmas mode!). Here's one I'm really looking forward to:

So be sure to tune into the Cinema Show on Spin South West 8.45 - 9.45pm Sundays!! I'll try to get my head around Podcasts and all that jazz too.
http://www.spinsouthwest.com/