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  • District 9 Review

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    Continuing my movie catch up.. Last night I watched District 9.

    Directed by Neill Blomkamp, District 9 is an area in South Africa where Aliens or Prawns as they are known, have been living for 20 years. Their ship has been just hovering over the Jo’burg skyline for that length of time, without motion.

    The movie follows Wilkus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) who is asked my his father in law to head an eviction programme for District 9. When he is infected by alien DNA, Wilkus learns what he father in law is really like and has to go on the run following a breakout from government agency MNU.

    The film immediately grabs your attention. (more…)

  • Tommy and Hector’s Craic House

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    RTE have finally caved in and given Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin not only a new national weekend radio show but a TV show too.

    Tommy and Hector’s Craic House first aired on Sunday 27th December and is trying to be a comical entertainment and chat show, Alan Carr’s Chatty Man it’s not.

    Being from originally from Kells and having lived and worked in Navan I find the interaction between the pair quite hilarious but because of their familiarity  with each other  some of their interaction can alienate viewers not from the area,

    Guests on the show included Kerry footballer Paul Galvin, journalist Kevin Meyers and musician/actress Maria Doyle Kennedy. The pair made their first show even more parochial by bringing their old schoolmates on. Music was provided by And So I Watch You From Afar, Maria Doyle Kennedy and a girl from Galway/Arran Islands who’s name is in Irish and I can’t spell. I was surprised Meyers agreed to go on the show, it would have been nice to hear him talk instead of Tiernan going on a rant about how crap or great Ireland is. (more…)

  • The Skin We’re In EP Review

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    I wrote this for MusicReviewUnsigned when I get a direct link I will update.

    Criky Markey is the man behind The Skin Were In. Based in Newry, Co. Down, Markey has just released his debut EP.

    The EP kicks off with Something To Prove, a mid tempo radio friendly track in the pop rock vein. It’s not bad, I just waiting for something else to happen. It has a nice build up to the chorus but I would have liked it to have more kick when it got there.

    Christine is a piano/vocal led track, reminiscent of something Train would do. (more…)

  • Last Christmas : Literal Version

    This is the last Christmassy post I swear… This is bloody funny though!

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