Big Brother’s Middle Brother #4

Who goes, you decide. Except if you live in Ireland. Then you can’t vote at all. Which is a pity. “Get John James out”. Unfortunately one syllable names are much easier to chant. With Jo and Ben long gone, it could be Sam’s turn tonight so. Either way, four of the remaining housemates are to leave tonight, with the final of Big Brother 11 taking place on Tuesday night.

Ah, Validation. Johnny Flynn - Been Listening - Live

It’s Friday night! Well done, you’ve another week down (unless you work in the hospitality industry, in which case, Happy Monday!). You know what you should have? A big glass of red, a Wispa fresh from the fridge, and this. It’s the title track of his new album, and it’s live, and it’s all for you. No, I insist. You deserve it.

In Search of an old TV Friend

Claiming that you love TV and take it just as seriously as other people do their massive book collection is sometimes greeted with a reaction that you have just fallen out of a tree because you lost your balance by attempting to throw your own poo at a prospective mate, which is a little unfair. While this can be quite a rare thing, people being rather snobbish about TV is a hot button of mine along the same lines of constantly uploading photos of your own dinner on ‘Facebook’ and taxi drivers who take that turn up on Baggot Street when they think I am too drunk to notice just to get a few more cent out of my tiny tesco value cocktail sausage like hands, people saying ‘wow you have small hands’ may also be one actually. Chances are in fact if someone does say ‘Oh I don’t even … There’s more

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Awesome Live Music Next Week in Dublin

I almost went into a siesure a few weeks back when I found out that three of my current favourite bands are playing back-to-back gigs in Dublin’s Crawdaddy / Tripod venue next week. If there were three bands I had to conjure up for some desert island live set, these would be them, so to have all play one after the other at the beginning of a random week in August seemed like some kind of divine intervention. Anyways, I had to tell y’all about it, because it’s just not fair to keep music this good to oneself. Megafaun, Monday August 23rd, Crawdaddy I discovered Megafaun when watching a repeat of the RTE programme Other Voices one cold and stormy night and was completely enchanted by these beardy American folk singers. If you like Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, Band of Horses of any of that type of thing, you’ll love … There’s more