Listening to an interesting programme on Radio 4, featuring Terence Blacker, and it led me to this video of one of the songs featured. Far too close for comfort!
Tag: music
Greatly amused by this, by the Corrigan Brothers: http://youtu.be/HplZ_taHXLM “O’Leary, O’Reilly, O’Hare and O’Hara, There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama. From the old Blarney Stone, to the green hills of Tara, There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama.” Apparently, the song has…
This got linked to in the BBQ forum I read, and I loved it! [Note: the most unlike group of tags I ever thought I would use]
I am a bit poorly at the moment, with a bad cold, but the moment I am better, I plan to find a cinema showing this film. I mean, Andy Serkis playing Ian Dury, what could be better? (And apparently Serkis does his own vocals,…
I am not sure how I first came across Julia Nunes, probably via her YouTube channel. Idiosyncratic isn’t the word, her music videos are uniquely hers, and an utter delight. While perhaps not always the most polished of musicians (she is having far too much…
Got back from Bradford last night, and I am off to Liverpool today, so I’ve no time to post in much detail. I have to say that LX2009 is the best Eastercon I have been to for many years – and that is a comment…
Following my recent posts about Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece “Hallelujah”, someone emailed me with this link, which is an MP3 of probably one of the best versions I’ve heard. On the Sad Kermit website, there is also a YouTube video of Kermit singing “Hurt” as originally…
Some Say I Got Devil – Melanie Safka Came across this today on last.fm, as a semi-random connection to the Janis Ian songs I was listening to. I remember hearing this when it first came out as the B-side to Melanie’s “Brand New Key” and…