Guitarist for Paranoid Visions and a multitude of others has just reprinted his TooOl To Die Young memoir. An autobiography and history lesson of sorts spanning 4 decades of punk rock.
Visions of the past look to the future
Visions of the past look to the future. New documentary premiering about Paranoid Visions
Rebellion 2025 – Day 3
Day 3 and it is starting to get emotional. As I walk back to my accommodation I chat to the seagulls about how Rebellion is nostalgia but it also helps pave a way for the future. They think I’m mad and don’t talk back but I finish the day with a smile on my face. I guess you needed to be here.
No Future NKaos with Hope Collective
It was great to chat to an old friend on his No Future radio show. We chatted about some Hope Stuff and about putting on diy gigs in Mayo and a nice few songs along the way.
Punks Listen – the line-up
The project was undertaken by two people from Dublin, who were inspired by punk’s D.I.Y. passion. And its sense of wonder. The ‘zine, designed by Russ Bestley (author of The Art of Punk) is filled with the writing of some of their favourite musicians, writers, DJs, thinkers and friends.
Rebellion 2024 Day 4
I can’t explain how much punk rock means to me. The words on the page don’t do it justice but it became a way of living. Not thinking what would the punks do just what feels like the right thing to do. This weekend epitomises it. It’s a huge family and like any family gathering there are some you like more than others.
Rebellion 2024 Day 3
As I prepare for the onslaught of steps and sounds on day 3 I contemplate my 48 hours so far in Blackpool. The punks have taken over, touts are the only ones selling tickets and this punk rock party is in fine form. There’s a haunting spectre of a match from the EDL later as we hope that attendees of the festival will be out in protest of the hate and division that the edl espouse.
This weeks Dublin Gigs Dec 4 – 10
It's clashes galore as you are spoiled for choice this week with the Christmas party season of gigs about to kick in
Play of the day is a live Vision
While the record doesn't quite convey the anarchic mess that sometimes their gigs can be and it doesn't capture Deko at its rawest spitting venom at the audience and throwing caustic remarks at professions and politicians. It does capture the melody in many of their songs and has Aoife and Deko's voice at a level that isn't competing with the instruments.
Coming to Kildare – Arcadian Nights
Upcoming diy punk festival hits Kildare for a day highlighting some of the vast irish punk scene