Tag: Martin Bridgeman
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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 Scarf…
I came across a Facebook post recently, written by Billy Ó’Hanluain… It was about how grief never allows you to make plans, in a way. It was a truly great comment and post. It set me off and this flowed out over the next thirty minutes. Here’s what I scribbled: first thought, best thought…. Usually,…
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Record Store Day 2018
20/4/2018 (some small edits from original Facebook post) As you probably know, it’s Record Store Day on April 21st and much as I love the idea of it the event is deeply affected to my mind with the knowledge of loss this year…. The main man won’t be there in Rollercoaster and it hit me hard…
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David Bowie and me?
(First reaction on 11/1/2016, around 8:00 a.m., edited to correct some grammar) It’s hard to know where to start…David Bowie was the definitive soundtrack to my life. I looked up to him and the possibilities that he voiced. I first heard Space Oddity, Changes, (Oh You) Pretty Things and Kooks when they first came out…
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Prelude
I stand often on the embankment of Slievebloom Avenue, the edge of my physical horizon, watching the rasping, futtering buses seek out the Walkinstown Road to new town Tallaght. Pitch and putt, Sunday walks, mass, the missing cuckoo in the Cuckoo’s Nest, pub crisps and passing friends bonded by the bar. A new town, new mistakes,…
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