Miraculous Mule – Old Bones, New Fire (Lightning Archive/Juke Joint 500) – I guess the easiest thing for Miraculous Mule to do, almost the obvious thing surely? Would have been for the three of them to just get in a studio and bang out another garage album, the previous releases have all been rather well…
What do artists have on their bookshelves? Books (a companion exhibition) is just that. Book opened a couple of weeks ago, an art exhibition, artists painting books or responding to the title in some kind of way, Book was February’s Monthly Cultivate on-line art show, this is a smaller companion exhibition (the March show, Impart,…
We usually come up with somekind of smartarse editoria about alll the striving and the doing it, on we go, the Five music things thing yet again for whatever it still might be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five, cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there…
The self indulgent end of year best albums list thing, everyone loves a list don’t they? Do like to wait until the actual end of the year though, we’re almost there now and well, here it is. Of course we haven’t listened to everything, of course we haven’t, we certainly haven’t reviewed everything – we…
Organ Thing of the Day, yeah, I know, we already had a Thing of the Day (or two) today, buy hey, as Michael J Sheehy just said, “Holy Hell!” “Pentangle are the five points of light being Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox. This Belgian TV special from 1972 captures…
Yeah, I know, we should have done this a few weeks back, hey at least we waited until the year was over. Some music sites posted their lists way before that brilliant album from Le Grand Sbam came out! We at least waited until the year was over. And so these are the albums covered…
Michael J Sheehy, he of Miraculous Mule and in a previous life way before that, Dream City Film Club, has announced the release of a download-only stand-along single to benefit the Music Venue Trust. Michael has recently released the acclaimed album Distance is the Soul of Beauty, his first solo album in over a decade,…
ALBUM REVIEW: Michael J Sheehy – Distance Is The Soul Of Beauty (self release) You really can’t be mad at the world and raging against the machines and the bills and the government amd all other stuff that needs to be raged at, you can’t even stay that mad at the artists and musicians that…
Today’s Thing? A thing from sometime ago, a beautiful thing that Michael J Sheehy just reminded us of when he mentioned that he happened to be “thrilled to be taking part in this event and finally playing this Virgin Prunes classic live 20 years after recording it” , “We’re excited to announce Michael J Sheehy…
Organ Thing of the Day, for that is what we do here these days, cherry pick a thing, a piece of art, a slice of music, a gig, a painting, an exhibition, maybe a book, never a cup cake or a cat, certainly not a beard of a coffee shop, a thing of the day.…
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