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When I was trying to arrange an interview with music video director Bob Gallagher, he had one request; we were to go somewhere that serves Fat Frogs. Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, we never made it to a pub but Bob upheld the…

The following is dedicated to Graham Coxon, David Crosby and Keith Richards.  As announced on our recent, joyous 'Straight Outta Kanye' podcast, we're proud to present our highly scientific Kanye West Listening Guide, or, as she says…

“When you’re a minority, you know what it feels like to be a minority. And the majority will always see you that way. Somewhere like (The George) changes that. It gives us the space that we need to be the majority.” That’s what Declan…

Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who can be best described as an odd auld creature. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, it is hard to figure out why he has not yet been a winner - in lieu of the likes of recent…

An oft repeated quote from Quentin Tarantino is that he never went to film school, he just went to films. Watching his films, it becomes incredibly evident how this is. Though he might lack virtuoso technique, Tarantino’s movies are clear…

The doe-eyed Hozier (25) takes to the stage, clad all in black, and before he begins the chart-burning ‘Take Me To Church’, that he wrote himself, he peers out under his mane of luscious, beach hair to take in the crowd and smiles quietly…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, came into the world at the heels of Halley’s Comet in 1835 and left it the same way in 1910. In his own words, “The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they…

I've had several, what you might call, “meta” moments recently (in the cinematic mode). “Meta”, of course, is a term used when a situation approaches the limit of its ontological reality through some linguistic utterance (whether in form…

They leave the hotel ballroom soon after midnight, last out into the night except for the band. Two couples in their best clothes, elderly, exhausted but content, drunk with laughter; the men, James and Charlie, wearing tuxedos that have…

Young Irelanders, the name of this new anthology of short stories, is well titled with its echoes of the 1848 rebellion in famine-ravaged Ireland. In this year, a group of romantic nationalists and intellectuals heavily influenced by events…