Monthly Archives: December 2009

DJ set from John Macs

By Ronan | Published: December 16, 2009

Here’s my DJ set from John Mac’s. One or two clangers as ever. You can have a lis­ten to it, or down­load it from Sound­cloud —  John Macs Decem­ber 12   http://soundcloud.com/paul-g-1/ronan-casey-guest-dj-set Lykke Li – ??? Hot Chip – Trans­mis­sion (Joy Divi­sion cover) Muddy Waters – Man­nish Boy The Shad­ows – Lit­tle B The Coasters – […]

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The Stables celebrates twenty years

By Ronan | Published: December 11, 2009

Twenty years of The Sta­bles Twenty years has been a long time in rock’n’roll. Bands have come and gone; gen­res have changed, rearranged, and enlight­ened us how; there’s been dif­fer­ent names, dif­fer­ent games, and man­i­festos that change; we’ve sang through the worst of times, the best of times and, once again, the worst of times. […]

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John Mac’s, Mullingar

By Ronan | Published: December 9, 2009

I’m DJ’ing in John Mac’s café-bar this Sat­ur­day night if any­one feels the need to embark on a krautrock, progrock, psy­chrock, postrock, block­rockin’ rock’n’pop odyssey.  Blind panic will ensue behind the, ahem, wheels of steel from 10pm until very late and I promise not to play any John Car­pen­ter sound­track stuff, Slow­dive, or all 19 glo­ri­ous minutes […]

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The Relics of St. Michael

By Ronan | Published: December 8, 2009

See­ing as we Irish were one of the few nations to actu­ally get a real up-close-and-personal look at his ‘relics’, it’s a lit­tle sad that the auc­tion of some of Michael Jackson’s per­sonal mem­o­ra­bilia has prac­ti­cally gone unre­ported in this coun­try. The Jack­son relics were part of a large-scale auc­tion of music mem­o­ra­bilia called ‘Music […]

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You can’t keep a good thing down

By Ronan | Published: December 7, 2009

Proof that you can­not keep a good thing down, Pink Floyd’s land­mark 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon” has re-entered the US Bill­board Hot 200 charts. It’s re-entry fol­lows a revamp of qual­i­fi­ca­tion rules. This week, the album slot­ted back in at num­ber 189. The last time the album was on the Billboard […]

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All for a good clause…

By Ronan | Published: December 7, 2009

Hav­ing wres­tled with dozens of ridicu­lous hat-related puns a sub edi­tor in The Sun would be proud of, my piece on the santa hat world record attempt in Mullingar on Sun­day was given the ‘All for a good clause’ treat­ment by the Indo. I was fond of ‘Hat’s magic’ and ‘hat’s the way to do […]

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Looking back at 2009

By Ronan | Published: December 1, 2009

WHAT’S ANOTHER YEAR? “Well, it’s about 3,000 words” I used to do a full-page album of the year guide for the West­meath Exam­iner group of news­pa­pers and it was a tremen­dous amount of fun to put together and then see the results on a full broad­sheet page every Christ­mas. The page used to be a nightmare […]

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