Monster Truck Video Screen

I’m as self-absorbed as I am lazy, or so it seems from my recent output. I thought I’d post to mention this little project I did recently. The fine people at Monster Truck Gallery in Temple Bar had my photography work screening on their front-window projection screen a couple of weeks back. The screen and high-end projector were purchased last year after a successful... Read More

2011 in Photos & Some Tunes

So, it’s been a year. I don’t owe you an apology. You’re not my mother! A considerable amount of time has passed since I last posted on my blog. A lot has happened since then, including an iffy year in music, tons of great gigs and the long overdue migration of this blog from wordpress.com to kDamo.com. Huzzah! There’s a zillion reasons why I wasn’t... Read More

Launch of StoryMap Dublin

  StoryMap   StoryMap is a new multimedia project that gives people an alternative tour of Dublin through the kind of bizarre stories you’d have to drink in Grogan’s for a few years to gather. In fairness, that’s quite possibly exactly what the people behind the site did, but they’ve gathered some quality tales from a cast of characters that are... Read More

Much More Van Etten

  Sharon Van Etten   I saw that The National are playing in Berlin when I’ll be there in a few weeks, but given that I caught them in the Olympia before Christmas, I wasn’t pushed about seeing them again. A good old-fashioned catch-up chat over a bottle of wine in an alleyway should suffice. But the other day I noticed that they have Sharon Van Etten supporting... Read More

Other Voices Series 9 – Broadcast Schedule

Jennifer Evans The 9th series of Other Voices kicks off on our screens in three weeks, which now feels like an eternity because the line-up just looks so, so good. In a particularly fine year for the long-standing favourite, a delicious bunch of bands were gathered down in Dingle while the rest of us were moaning about snow around the country in early December. The series has plenty... Read More

Tips: Whelan’s Ones Two Watch 2011

Ones Two Watch January is a bleak, harsh motherflipper of a month and heading into a year with a silly name like 2011 on the back of the constant barrage of bad news that was 2010 is even more miserable. Luckily, the good people at Whelan’s, State.ie, The Ticket and Tickets.ie have put their brains together in a blender and the juices that flowed out were the makings of a... Read More

Nominations for The Meteors 2011 Announced

Bono craves acceptance, idiots give it to him. Yesterday it was announced that there would be no Meteor Ireland Music Awards this year due to the people what normally do them not wanting to do them. The out-pouring of grief from dedicated music fans that followed this announcement brought a tear to my eye. What are the people of Ireland supposed to do without the highlight of their... Read More

My 25 Favourite Songs of 2010

My 20 Favourite Songs of 2010 Here I give to you my own personal selection of the 25 songs I enjoyed most in the last twelve months in no particular order other than the order I think they sound best in. I tried to keep it down to 20 songs, I tried really hard. Then I realised that I did 25 last year so there’s a legal precadent here. I’ve mostly steered clear of those... Read More

My 20 Favourite Albums of 2010

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy I love Kanye. I love his arrogance and unpredictability. I love his cartoon fun-fair hip-hop on his early albums. I love the sparse honesty of 808s & Heartbreaks. His habit of pissing people off is a testament to his insistence on telling it how he sees it. Whether... Read More

Janelle Monáe – Tripod – Photos

Janelle Monáe - Tripod I’ll by-pass all the unnecessary details about the snow-related chaos that potentially threatened the arrival of Janelle Monáe and her fans to Tripod on a Wednesday evening when Dublin once again fell to pieces. Despite all these issues, the venue was well-filled when I arrived in during support act Brian Deady. I found his style of music to be like a... Read More