Dónal

Wow, what a wonderful read and beautiful tribute, Arno. Your Dad sounds like such a fascinating character. I hope you and your family are doing good, despite the diminishing luminescence your Dad is experiencing. You’re all lucky to have each other. Te mando un abrazo desde Irlanda. Dónal

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
- Isaac Asimov,1980

What with Israel's genocide restarting & Labour's tectonic drift to the right surging on, it feels a bit silly advertising this, but plough on we must; we're greasing the wheels of our next album campaign tonight with a session on Wirral Wave, chatting and playing songs from 7pm..

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whoever is doing this poster campaign in London well bloody done 🙌

Ray and the lads at MusicZone are awful sound too. What’s not to love?

Careful now…

While we wait for the sun. From beautiful Lofoten in northern Norway

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20

This year my music got 96,000 streams on Spotify and had 46,000 listeners and I made… $185.61. Total.

This is indefensible. Truly an evil company. I totally get why people enjoy using Spotify, but if you want to support musicians, please consider buying our stuff on Bandcamp once in awhile. 💚

Trump has already nominated one cabinet member accused of sleeping with a minor, another accused of sexual assault, another accused of being a Russian asset & another whose brain has been eaten by a worm and who cuts the head off of bears for laughs. America, you're getting what you voted for.

Huge solidarity with everyone on the #StopTommyRobinson marches today.

It's up to us all to do our bit; this is us lot trying to do ours - a Shipwrecked Special with all profits going to Love Music, Hate Racism & The Runnymede Trust

Three weeks today..
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@theshipbuilders.bsky.social - Loving this cover by Emmylou.

#OtD 31 Aug 1913 police attacked a crowd in O'Connell Street, in a drunken rampage that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. During the Dublin lockout of tram workers, 300 officers attacked… https://stories.work...

Class!

Can people PLEASE just cancel your shitty Spotify subscriptions and move to Apple or Tidal