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Alan Bennett was a stand-up comedian for a while and during that time he toured with David O'Doherty and Maeve Higgins and did well in some competitions and co-ran Schnitzel Comedy Club. Then he started writing fiction and it has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies including 30 Under 30 which Joseph O'Connor chose as one of his books of the year for The Irish Times. He received a Masters with first class honours in creative writing from UCD and a BA in fine art painting from LSAD. Now he's working on getting his novel on, and being in charge of HeadStuff.org.

Music Lists

New Music Friday | 4

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Featuring new music from: The Ghost Wolves | Kishi Bashi | Gang of Youths | Faded Paper Figures | Prawn | The Rural Alberta Advantage | Artist: The Ghost Wolves Song: Baby Fang Thang …

White Reaper EP | review

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Here's a very cool EP, ohh yeah, a funn sixteen minute blow-out that you should ask your girl to enjoy with you, I bet she wants to, trust me, it's not half bad and I'm no conspirator. I'm going to try write this review at the pace…
Literature Features

Ernest Hemingway

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The first thing I read by Ernest Hemingway was a short story called 'Hills Like White Elephants'. I had never read anything like it before. It kind of changed everything for me. I threw away my thesaurus that day. Okay, I lied; I didn't…
Music Review

Jack White, Goodnight.

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I might still be suffering from the affects of too-acute an excitement to write about this. But I feel like I had one of those experiences that they always try to make films about but fail to get the emotion across adequately. Jack White…