Guess its time to update this list again, after the weekend's activities. This is the updated list of all the bands/artists I have ever seen, or at least remember that I have seen (ignoring bands I only saw a couple of tracks from, such as Pink, Franz Ferdinand etc):
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Due to exhaustion from Saturday, we were a good deal later getting out to the festival on Sunday. We arrived around 4pm. As we arrived, Pink was on the main stage doing her thing, but we didn't take much notice of her. We instead decided to go up to the hospitality area to get some food and drink, and escape yet another heavy shower. In the ( Read more... )

So the big Oxegen (note I think their official website is down at the moment) weekend has come and gone, and despite the poor weather, music-wise it was as good as last year's Witnness.


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From this morning's Irish Times"presumptive US Democratic presidential candidate Mr John Kerry has formally endorsed the pro-Israel positions adopted by President Bush in mid-April. In a paper sent to US Jewish leaders Mr Kerry calls for the "total isolation" of Mr Arafat; defends the security barrier as a "self defence" measure in the face of ( Read more... )

Read this fantastic take on Coleman's interview with Bush from last week (thanks to glitzfrau). The real interview is here.

(Isn't the bit where Bush stresses he was the first president to call for the establishment of a Palestinian state infuriating?).

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I'm thinking of buying the Clinton book, "My Life". I am very curious to read what he says about the bombing of the pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (info about it here and here ). I have recently finished reading Richard Clarke's (senior Clinton counterterrorism advisor) book, and in it he gives one paragraph to it, saying incredibly little about ( Read more... )

On Friday evening George Bush came to visit Ireland for an EU-US summit. The summit was held in Dromoland Castle, in Clare.

However, the evening before, Bush gave an interview to RTE's Carol Coleman, RTE's Washington correspondent. Coleman's interview was quite impressive (although the timing was bad...over on Network Two England were in extra ( Read more... )

The President of the European Council
Mr. Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach
The Vice-President of the European Commission
Mrs. Loyola de Palacio
The High Representative for the CFSP
Mr. Javier Solana
Brussels - Dublin 24 June 2004
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EU-US Summit 25-26 JuneDear Madam, dear Sirs ( Read more... )