War. Huh. Yeah.

What is it good for? Embedded journalists engaging in a spot of career-boosting I’m-hard-as-fook, one-upmanship,it appears. And making documentaries. Shot between May 2007 and July 2008 by American journalist Sebastien Junger (he of The Perfect Storm fame) and British warzone photographer Tim Hetherington in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan – the Korangal [...]

Phone publishing grainy fox pic

Tester

Film catch-up

Somehow, events have conspired to allow me to have actually seen a lot of films so far this year – some new, some from last year – and here is what I thought. The Road Has been a little divisive. Ultimately, this is a story about humanity and the way a father’s humanity is slightly [...]

People like snowtographs, right?

Poifecto

How was the Christmas? The weather’s fierce hah? Jesus, these runners are shite in the snow and ice. More importantly though, did you have that moment during Christmas where everyone else was in the other room; there’s a gentle murmur of conversation seeping under the door and you were sat in front of the fire [...]

24 albums I enjoyed and a list that excludes a good few other albums I’ve enjoyed too. Exciting.

Difficult to do these things when you have listened to (and missed) such a huge wealth of music this year. But, just to throw my hat in the ring, here are some albums I enjoyed alot this year. Enter your disgust at my exclusion of Dirty Projectors at the bottom. For the record, I like [...]

Mistletoe and a whine

May aswell nail my red & white colours to the mast here: I love Christmas. It’s just that time of year where things just seem to slow up – not in the shopping sense but… My mother instilled the Christmas appreciation in me. At the moment, the house in Galway most likely has a million [...]

Return of the Redeye? Jed-eye? I’m back?

Thanks to events in the real world, I have been seriously lacking in effort with regard to these pages. Interviews, busy days, weddings, funerals. It’s all been going down. I suppose all bloggers are constantly looking at life as ‘content’ for their little online diary and for those who blog specifically on music or film, [...]

Alien vs Predator

It’s odd to come home and find everything exactly the way it was when I left. The other half has been gone to the US since Sunday and so I have a 3-bedroom house all to myself for a few weeks. This leads to all sorts of problems, of course, but there are advantages. Looking [...]

If it ain’t broke, then BREAK it and record a 7″ single, bitch

If the whole no-fi/lo-fi thing is a bit too ‘P4k‘ for you then look away now. I’m a big fan. All the bad recording, tinny sound, hard-to-decipher vocals and homemade t-shirts/album covers/everything makes me feel like I’m back in school listening to Bleach again. There seems to be very few bands from the Captured Tracks/ [...]