Good Times

• Paul Tarpey has an excellent overview of 80s underground club culture in Ireland posted over on the On the Record blog.
• Norman Jay is just one of many attractions playing the end of summer carnival in Limerick next weekend. Jay will be playing two different sets a house set in trinity rooms on the Friday and a carnival set in Mickey Martins on the Saturday. Lots more going on check the poster.
• Also coming up is the event filled tweak festival. We have more coming up on this later but in the meantime Ciaran has a detailed overview here.
• Influential irish Music bloggers rate Lisa Hannigan highly and she returns to Limerick for a second visit in 2008 next Wednesday in UL. Full details here.
• Limerick writer Kevin Barrys book 'there are little kingdoms' was featured here before. An adaption of the book for the stage gets its premier in Cork this week as part of the inaugral Blood and Bandages Festival.

Comments

[Jaw-knee Do-biz]

Fair play to Paul, thats one of the most succint and interesting reads in a long long time. Brilliant stuff.

[Paul (Broken Funk)]

Great stuff Mr. T - a book is surely to follow....

[a2df]

brilliant article paul ,really enjoyed it

[Matt Vinyl]

The other two might be influential, still it's nice to be mentioned in such exalted company.

That article is great. It was only after I read it that I thought about Dave Hales as someone you might want to talk to.

[paul tarpey]

Thanks everybody for the feedback. Any info however minute is much appriciated and ill contact anybody via my email.. (some great stories all ready from the sticks!). I am compiling a chapter stategy at the moment and have no idea of a timescale for the project as a whole. I Just read Darragh o Hallorans book 'The Green Beat' which made me realise how much needs to be organised in my own project!