[From my other blogsite]

The feeling you get when your ears catch hold of the opening bars of a great song is one of immense pleasure. In fact, this happened to me today. Seconds after I inserted the new released debut Cloud Control self-tilted EP into my laptop’s compact disc drive a new chapter of my life opened up. Now I can divide my life into ( Read more... )

Well, if you are bored tonight, come down and see my band geeban! play at the troubadour with Black&Blue and the Villians of Wilhelm.

( Gig poster )

[From my other blog siteYears ago in an undergraduate history class I undertook a study into one of the many dark patches of the 20th Century, and wrote a small essay regarding the 'denial of the Armenian genocide' with a particular focus on Turkey. I was amazed that such a mass relocation and slaughter of an ethnic group could go unnoticed by the ( Read more... )

Apart from waching Arsenal's win over Sunderland last night and perhaps rehersal for my new musical project, my entire weekend was fairly fucking shit.

[republished from darraghmurray.comMy mother recently travelled back to her home town - Carndonagh, County Donegal, Ireland - for an extended three month visit to visit family and friends. While she was there, she attended a local school reunion, andthe local rag happened to interview her regarding her diaspora to Australia 25 or so years ago ( Read more... )

If you're bored tomorrow night, come see my band play....

( GEEBAN )

I might have said this before, but I have decided ( Read more... )

I wrote a little thought peice over at my 'more serious' blog....

"Considering being a historian"

Looks like I have finally gotten over the killer flu which floored me for the best part of a week. Thank christ. I woke up the morning with a clear head. However, looks like Geri has caught it.

In other news, author Robert Jordan has died, presumably of the taint. They describe him as dying from a 'rare blood disease' but we all know its the taint ( Read more... )