Eurovision 2008

Threatening Europe with the No vote to the Lisbon Treaty
was a was good idea, but no joy. Ireland's entry is/was
a Turkey, I'm not joking and we didn't get into the final.
For some reason I thought Dustin was a shoe in but it
wasn't to be. So all my hope and dreams now rest in the
hands of Sebastien Tellier.

Night And Day Mixtape

Cover photo taken somewhere in Cavan.
So the summer is finally here. To celebrate my new found love of drinking
outside in the warm weather again, here's a mixtape to get me going in the
morning after the night before, part organic electronica, part 60's psychedelic
and couple of other things in between.

Side A
01 Sowiesoso (So Not So So) - Cluster
I always thought this sounded like the tune in "The
subway scene" in Crocadile Dundee. Take from my
favourite Cluster album 'Sowiesoso' from 1976.
02 Sun Arise - Rolf Harris
For a live vid from a couple of years ago go HERE.
03 Somnambulist - Small Sails

04 The Villagers - Ellis Island Sound

05 Nautical By Nature - Coney Island Sound
Taken from a wonderful compilation "Catch Of The Day 3"
on Kipper Records.
06 What Do You Think Will Happen Next - Final Fantasy
Off his contribution to Tomlab's Excellent alphabet 7" Series.
07 Look, I Wore A Tie! - Patrick Kelleher

More Patrick Kelleher tunes HERE
08 Simple X - Andrew Bird

Reworking of an old Dosh song of his Naoise EP.
09 Um, Circles And Squares - Dosh
10 Day - Bill Callahan

Side B
11 The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-
Stalinist Regime) - Scott Walker
One of his finest of Scott 4.
12 Old ManWillow - Elephant's Memory
Wonderful psychedelic from 1969, similar vein as the Scott
Walker song. Broadcast have a song that sounds exactly like
is.
13 2080 - Yeasayer

14 Hurry On Sundown - Hawkwind
First song, first album, great stuff.
15 You'Re Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

16 Batidode Limão - Aroldo Santos
A nice 60s bralizan jive tune.
17 Brazil - The Arcade Fire
Wonderful cover from the title tune from Terry Gilliam's
"Brazil".
18 Superstar - Carpenters

19 I Can't Stand It - Telepathe
They are supporting Ruby Suns in Crawdaddy on 30 May.
Can't wait.

That it, hope you likey.

Download Night And Day Mixtape (Side A)
Download Night And Day Mixtape (Side B)

Au - Boute (Duffy's Ditties No.11)

Au - Boute MP3
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Photo Of The Day

The last four photos in that roll of film
first used my big sister back in 97, when
she was 17 and then accidental re-exposured
early this year my twin brother.




To see the first four from this album go HERE,
and the next four photos goHERE.

The Booklovers - And Then He Kissed Me (Duffy's Ditties No. 10)

Two Minutes and twenty two seconds of lo-fi shambolic
twee pop brilliance from Dublin three piece covering the
classic The Crystals song.

The Booklovers - And Then He Kissed Me MP3

Myspace

Philip Glass and Sesame Street

Patrick Kelleher's Hangover Mixtape

Photo By Patrick Kelleher (Me looking worse for wears)

To celebrate Patrick Kelleher 1st Ep and tour, here is a sweet
mixtape he originally made for our friends over a Egoeccentric,
but was kind enought to throw it my way to. The tunes should
ease our heads after a hopefully fruitful weekend.
Here is what he has to say about it.
"This is a nice collection of dronage tuned exactly to the
frequency of your headache, massaging you with sweet
sweet sound waves. Proggy for the first half, poppy in the
middle and a nice bit of Ivor Cutler to finish off."

01 This is Far From a Belle Epoque - A Faulty Chromosome
02 Dr. Glass - Deerhunter
03 Sailing To Byzantium - Liars
04 The Misfit - Oneida
05 Coming Down - The United States Of America
06 Within You, Without You - Sonic Youth
07 A Man Humming - Children Under Hoof
08 Fantasy - Mariah Carey
09 I Want Your Love - Chromatics
10 What's Happening in the City? - Zombie Zombie
11 Ghosts - Japan
12 The Winter Arcade - Chequerboard

13 Esame - Joanna Newsom

14 Do I Worry? - Frank Sinatra
15 Go and Sit Upon the Grass - Ivor Cutler

Download Patrick Kelleher's Hangover Mixtape

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Tourdates.
9 May Tonight 21:00 The New Boom Boom Room, Murrays (Formally Fraisers), Dublin
10 May 2008 20:00 Baker Place Limerick

And You can download Patrick Kelleher's "He Has To Sleep Some Time" (Virtual 7") HERE .

HEALTH TONIGHT

They Are playing tonight supporting Deerhunter in whelans. Apologies in advance if I
headbutt you. I have a tendency to get in trouble at the heavier gigs amoungst the
indie chin wank kids.

HEALTH - Glitter Pills MP3
HEALTH - Perfect Skin MP3
Myspace

Scarlett Johansson - "Fannin' Street" & "Song For Jo" (Duffy's Ditties No. 8 & No.9)

As yr one says "Fuck all you hates". Miss Johansson new album
is pretty great. Ok it's got a couple of well ropey songs on it.
The title track "Anywhere I Lay My Head" being the worse
of the bunch and it was the first to be leaked for some reason.
But the majority of the tracks are great, two of which are
top notch.One, being the only song that's not a Waits Cover
"Song For Jo" is one of the best song on here. Johansson co-wrote
it with TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek, the album's
producer. It sounds like a long lost Red House Painters track.
The other being Johansson's cover of "Fannin' Street" which is
just as spell bounding with David Bowie adding backing yells to
the proceedings. Originally "Fannin' Street" reared its head on
Waits "Orphans" release, the 3cd rarities album that came out
last year. With the help of her talented friends Johansson has
made an album thats much better than it should ever be.
Scarlett Johansson - Fannin' Street MP3
Scarlett Johansson - Song For Jo MP3
&
Tom Waits - Fannin' Street MP3

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Jorge Regula

Will Oldham and Sheila Scullin performing The Moldy Peaches's "Jorge Regula".

An nice animation for the original song.

The Moldy Peaches - Jorge Regula MP3