Archive for December, 2010

Well, it’s nearly Christmas and most of us will be thinking of spending the next few days with our friends, families & loved ones. So, with that in mind, please have a look at the photo above, and the video footage here, and think if you recognise this woman. Her name’s Blathnaid Timothy, she’s 33 & [...]

The National – Fake Empire

As a true muso, I pride myself on being bang up to date, and so ahead of the curve that I’m positively bleeding edge. And so, in order to keep up that appearance with the outside world, I thought I’d write a quick post about my new favourite band The National, and their album Boxer: [...]

The Rubberbandits – Horse Outside

Winston Churchill once famously said of the relationship between the UK & US that they were: Two nations, divided by a common language Frankly, after a few moths in Dublin, I think he could just as easily have been talking about the UK & Ireland. The first piece of evidence for the prosecution? The new single by [...]

So, it’s a lazy Saturday and I’m trying to use up my last remaining credits on emusic as, after many years of using the service I’ve decided to cancel my subscription: not because there’s anything wrong with it, just because I need to get rid of direct debits to my UK bank account. Rock & [...]


Obviously everything on this site is the opinion of me, Ciarán Norris, and no-one else, including my employers and anyone else I know. I guess that it's probably obvious, but thought I should probably make it explicit. Anyway, enjoy!