Bad Ambassador Playlist – Friday September 16th

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Jay Z / Linkin Park – Jigga What / Faint Delorentos – Basis Of Everything Beck – Wow (Mexican Institute Of Sound Remix) Florence & The Machine – Hurricane Drunk Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue Royksopp – Eple Stevie Wonder – I Wish The Decemberists – Don’t Carry It All Divine Comedy – Funny Peculiar The Automatic – Monster Young MC – Know How The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again Seasick Steve – Gentle On My Mind The Velvet Underground – Rock And Roll They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Weezer – I Love The […]

Looking At The Stars

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Righty so. I am honoured to have contributed to this project along with Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Paul Durcan, Anne Enright, Tara Flynn, Sinéad Gleeson, John Kelly, Nick Laird, Belinda McKeon, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Dave Rudden, Donal Ryan… There are 1,000 copies only, it’s €15 with 100% of that going to the Dublin Simon Community. We’re hoping to raise 15 grand for them by Xmas. Grab one while you can… http://www.dubraybooks.ie/LOOKING-AT-THE-STARS-AN-ANTHOLOGY-IN-AID-OF-THE-SIMON-COMMUNITY_9781905002467

The 9 Books I Read On Holidays

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It genuinely says something about me that I think it’s a poor show I only finished 9 books when I was away for 2 weeks recently. Still… As has proven popular before I’m going to lump them all together in one post here with short(-ish) reviews as, if not, I’ll never get to them all with the work bearing down on me over the next while! Alexandra Kleeman – You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine I wasn’t sure what to expect from this and, even now, I’m not really sure what happened. Just that I liked it very, […]

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 […]