Monthly Archives: January 2010

When giants walked the earth

A meet­ing of the two most impor­tant men in the entire his­tory of country music.

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Ahh, memories of Hi:Fi

Whilst look­ing through some old fold­ers to find a pic of Belvedere House, Gar­dens and Park in all it’s fes­ti­val glory (and it is a glo­ri­ous site for a fes­ti­val) I unearthed some of golden pho­to­graphic mem­o­ries of the short-lived Hi:Fi Fes­ti­val, which was sup­posed to be an annual arty, eclec­tic answer to the bois­ter­ous Oxe­gen, but […]

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Ambitious Festival of the Fires confirmed

The Fes­ti­val of the Fires, Europe’s old­est recorded fes­ti­val, recounted in dozens of his­toric texts and ref­er­enced by such his­toric lumi­nar­ies as Cae­sar (yes, the other JC) is return­ing. The event, which his­tor­i­cally took place at the Hill of Uis­neach in Co. West­meath — the most sig­nif­i­cant and sacred hill on the island of Ire­land, the residence […]

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Belvedere back to Life as festival venue

The trav­el­ling dance music cir­cus that is the Life Fes­ti­val is once again mov­ing venue, and this year the three-day dance event is to take place at the his­toric Belvedere House, Gar­dens and Park, just out­side Mullingar. Promis­ing three days of music, love and light, the fes­ti­val will take place in Belvedere over the June […]

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Turning the tables on the wheels of steel

Female DJ’s will get a chance to turn the tables on their male coun­ter­parts through­out the month of Feb­ru­ary in Mullingar, when John Macs Café Bar hosts a month of all-girl DJ nights. Kick­ing off with a guest DJ appear­ance from Today FM’s Ali­son Cur­tis this Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 30th, the venue will play host to […]

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John Mac’s — Saturday Jan 9th

With all the Christ­mas money gone, and the pubs brac­ing them­selves for a chill, they need some­thing to get a few pun­ters in. Not sure if I’m it, but how-and-ever I’m delighted to anounce that due to (allegedly gen­uine) pub­lic demand, I’m back behind the wheels of steel at the mar­vel­lous John Mac’s Café Bar in […]

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Deep Purple and MOJO magazine

I recently wrote a mam­moth piece for a mag­a­zine in the UK on how tumul­tuous peri­ods in some mas­sive bands after the loss of a key mem­ber (or two) can often see the band pro­duce some of their best mate­r­ial. I’ll stick it up here soon, but it fea­tured a heavy empha­sis on Black Sabbath […]

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