Category: Music
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Moves
Some of you will ‘get’ this… What you see (part of) has been our teenage childrens’ den, a home to a huge flowing cast of their very welcome friends and my ‘study’ where I sweat buckets for a Master’s Degree. It’s almost 25 years since we moved and we’re on the move out soon. A…
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Mancini – Ghosts Of Stanford Green
Mancini have fashioned a collection of fine music here, a fecund memory vault, a soundtrack to a reverie, dark with a hint of sky, nudging at the fringes of memory. The songs hit hard, or simmer, layers underpinning the vocal, washes of instruments bringing forth strong lyrics, some breathing, taking their time, some a short…
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Pillow Queens – Set Theatre – 09/03/2022
Pillow Queens came to Kilkenny to fulfil a previously postponed gig. Thanks to a good friend and a change in both of our plans, I managed to get along. I’ve been a fan of their work for some time and have played each of their releases in the past number of years. I’d enjoyed their…
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A Lazarus Soul – Cleere’s Theatre : 17/2/2022
I don’t write much these days (a long story for another time), but on occasion during a type of block, I find I need a ‘push’. The more I search for one, the harder it is to find it. It starts like an itch, persistent and then unless I scratch it, it will continue to…
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Gaeltacht Kilkenny at the Set Theatre: 31/1/2020
You know me, I love music in all its forms, in all its beauty. One of the things I love most about it is the unexpected, joyful and uplifting twists and turns it can take in your heart and, if you’re lucky, you get them frequently. Another thing is the way that a time and…
Martin Bridgeman 