Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Busking, Corn Market, Hooligans, Music, Northern Ireland, Ricky McQuillan, Singing, Teenagers, Victoria Square, X Factor
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Common Grounds, Czech Republic, Interview, Music
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Acting, Adventures, Age, Ambition, Architecture, Artists, Australia, Being Fine, Belfast, Car Parks, Catoan, Change, Characters, Children's Books, Cities, Comedy, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Communication, Conservativism, Construction Work, Credit Cards, Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Digital Technology, Directors, Documentaries, Dr Seuss, Duke Special, East Belfast, Education, Ethnic Minorities, Failure, Family, Feature Films, Film, Filmmakers, Gigs, Graphic Novels, Guitar, I Wanted to Talk to You Last Night, Identity, Immigration, Indie Films, Intimacy, Ireland, Irish-Americans, Jared Longlands, Jobs, Joyful Subjects, Julia Atkinson, Jumping Fish, Land, London, Magic Rats, Michael MacBroom, Mischief, Models, Money, Music, New York, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Accent, Nutsy The Office Squirrel, Office Work, Paddy McKeown, Parties, Paul McParland, People Who Sit in Rooms and Talk, Philosophy, Photography, Poland, Polish Architects, Presents, Property Development, Protestants, QFT, Record Contracts, Religion, Rent, Risk-taking, Screenplays, Selling Out, Serious Literature, Sinead O'Connor, Singer Songwriters, Skeleton Boss, Skill, Space, Squirrels, Subcultures, The Empire, Thespians, Titanic Quarter, Travel, Urban Alienation, Vulgarity, Work, Writing, Young People
Jared Longlands (for more: smartturkey@hotmail.com)
Julia Atkinson
Paddy McKeown (for more: http://www.myspace.com/patrickmckeown)
Michael MacBroom
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Actions, Alice in Wonderland, Ambition, Annoying People, Anonymity, Apocalypse, Applied Amnesia of Difference, Architecture, Art, Artists, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Attitude Change, Bands, BeBeyond, Belfast, Belfast Blitz, Belfast Courthouse, Berlin, Bland Centralism, Boats, Bottle tops, Braids, Bread, Brooklyn, Buff Club, Businessmen, Caff/Flick, Call Centre, Cameraman, Cameras, Car Parks, Catalyst Arts, Cathedral Quarter, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Catholics, City Centre, City Planning, Civil Service, Cliques, Clothing, Coffee, Collectives, Cologne, Compromise, Condescension, Conservativism, Conversation, Corporation, Counterweight, Craft, Cranes, Crap, Creative Unplanned Situations, Creativity, Crescent Arts Centre, Cutting-Edge, David Timlin, Dead Bumblebees, Death, Deformity, Diversity, Documentaries, Doll Corpses, Doll-making, Dolls, Editor, Elephants, Europa, Experiment, Festival of Fools, Filmmaking, Films, Freestyle, Germany, Hilton, Hollywood, Hotels, Housing Crisis, Indie Films, Insularity, Internet, Interventions, Irish Bread, Jonathan Lesbian Seagull, Keyboard, Knitting, Laganside Corporation, London, Making A Stand, Margaret Hagan, Mariachi, Masters Degrees, Mediocrity, Mishapen Eyes, Money, Monsters, Movies, Music, MySpace, Neil Brogan, Non-space, Normal People in a Complex Modern World, Northern Ireland, Obsession, Older Female Relatives, Ormeau Road Bakery, Outsiders, Performance Art, Play, Politics, Pretentiousness, Property Developers, Protestants, Public Art, Public Space, Puddles, Queen's University Belfast, Record Label, Recycling, Redevelopment, Religion, River Lagan, Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffalo, Sampler, Sand, Sandcastles, Scissors, Self-Sacrifice, Serious Points, Sewing, Sewing machines, Shopping, Sinead Breathnach-Cashell, Skyline, Soda Bread, Sound Man, Space, Starvation, Stuart Sloan, Success, Survival, Tea, The Best Kind of Music, The Kids, The News, The Past, The Troubles, Tourism, Umbrella, Up the Buff, Victoria Square, War, Wellingtons, Wheaten Bread, Work, Yarn, Zombies
Sinead Breathnach-Cashell … (for more: http://www.myspace.com/draw_in)
Neil Brogan … (for more: http://caff-flick.com)
Margaret Hagan … (for more: http://penelopebox.etsy.com)
David Timlin … (for more: http://www.creativematch.co.uk/portfolio/david_timlin/ or d_timlin@mac.com)
Stuart Sloan … (for more: http://www.youtube.com/user/sloanowski)
Filed under: Radio | Tags: 30 Years Old, Analog, Art, AU, Barcelona, Belfast, Bright Kids, Brooklyn, Buff Club, Buffaloes, Caff/Flick, Careers, Cathedral Quarter, CDs, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light, Collectives, Comfort Zone, Communists, Compilations, Creativity, Czech Republic, David Horvitz, Dublin, Feminists, Five Year Plan, Freestyle, French Death Metal, Grandiose Teenage Dreams, GZ Vinyl, Hand-eating, Hipsters, Internet Relationships, John Peel, LA, Lasers, London, Mediocrity, Menial labor, Money, Mount Eerie, Music, Music Copyright, Music Industry, MySpace, Neil Brogan, No Kids, Northern Ireland, NVTV, Office Jobs, Old Men, Oregon, Outsourcing, Photography, Picture Discs, Podcasts, Portland, Pseudonyms, Radio, Radio One, Records, Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffaloes, Rubbish, Shabbiness, Sweden, The Dirty Projectors, The High Places, Thrill Jockey, Up the Buff, US, Useless University Degrees, Vinyl
A Caff-Flick Release from Neil
Neil Brogan tells of his professional hobby, running the small record label Caff/Flick out of Belfast. The label (http://caff-flick.com/) is a niche one, releasing vinyl 12″ and 7” records & picture discs of bands from all over Europe + North America, including Mount Eerie, The High Places, No Kids, and Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light (from whom some songs feature on this episode).
Neil tells of how he got into the niche in London and expanded it from Belfast – constructing a snowballing virtual world of music, art & business – run via multiple online personas he’s cultivated. He also comments on the lifestyle that comes with running a small label: whether Belfast is (or could be) a decent place for his ambitions, bank account, and sensibilities; if he’ll ever cash himself in for a suit and an office job; and how hipsters can induce sensations of inadequacy and nausea.
Neil also performs (in a weird, self-effacing way, as he puts it). This Sunday the 17th he helps put on ‘Up The Buff’ at the Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffaloes club, in the Cathedral Quarter, on Writer’s Square, at. It is free in + goes from 7pm.
Above, a High Places Picture Disc in Action, courtesy of David Horvitz
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Ascali, Dance, Family, Hillbillies, Ida Rizzo, Immigrants, Italy, Music, Pittsburgh, Tarantella
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Art, Burn Out, Chicago, Cuba, Dance, Death, Drugs, Facial Hair, Farming, Flamenco, Guitar, Gypsy, Hippie, Mexico City, Music, Naval Doctor, New England, New Hampshire, Overdose, PhD, Plane Crash, Puritan, Puritanical Lemon, Sociology, Statistics, Stress, Travel, Work
Dan Parish
Dan Parish grew up in New England and was set on a successful path, but by the end of his 20s he had dropped out of his PhD program and found his way to Mexico City playing flamenco guitar. In this week’s episode, he tells of burning out and growing facial hair in the 1960s, of the attractions and dangers of flamenco life, and of figuring out how to be happy writing music and living the New Hampshire life as — he puts it — a ‘worker in the arms of nature rather than a struggler in the flow of man’s idea of work’.
Some Flamenco Tracks from Dan:
