Street Lights – Theres No Place Like Homeless

A host of Irelands musicians have joined forces as Street Lights to create a single and album to generate funds for the most vulnerable, our homeless. The real heroes, The Peter McVerry Trust, Simon Community Ireland and Focus Ireland will be the recipients of ALL PROFITS of the single and album sales, which they have […]

If I Never Know You Like This Again

With their new album, If I Never Know You Like This Again, SOAK has finally shaken the hangover of their starry debut Before We Forgot How To Dream, and the pressures that came with it, hiding in the wings of their ambitious follow up album, Grim Town. Having come up through BBC introducing at the […]

Lunana – A Yak In The Classroom

Dzongkha-language drama written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji. In Bhutan, Ugyen (Sherab Dorji) has almost completed his teacher training when he is assigned to work in a school in the remote mountain village of Lunana. Harbouring dreams of moving to Australia and becoming a singer, Ugyen struggles to adjust to the villagers way of […]

True Meanings

To put it simply, the fourteenth Paul Weller solo album, the twenty sixth studio album of his entire career, is a record unlike any he has ever made before. It is not “a departure”, in the sense that soul baring, melancholic songs have always been an important part of what he does: from ‘English Rose’, […]

Windoms Way

On an island in the Far East, Dr Alec Windom (Peter Finch – Network, A Town Like Alice) cares for the population. He feels a great responsibility in general for the locals, who are exploited by rich plantation owners. Tensions are rising as his estranged wife (Mary Ure – Where Eagles Dare, Look Back in […]

I Would Not Live Always

Singer, guitarist, flautist (and practitioner of the double tin whistle), John is also a member of celebrated traditional group Skipper’s Alley and is joined here by bandmate Ultan O’Brien (also of Slow Moving Clouds). Also contributing to the record are singer Consuelo Breschi of the duo Varo, sean n s singer Saileog N Ceannabh in, […]

Frieda

1940s British war drama directed by Basil Dearden. Following the conclusion of the Second World War, RAF pilot Robert (David Farrar) returns to his Oxfordshire home with his German bride Frieda (Mai Zetterling), who helped him escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany. As the newly-wed couple contend with hostility from the villagers, their […]

Hell Of The Living Dead

Gory Italian horror directed by Bruno Mattei. When an industrial accident rocks a clandestine chemical plant in Papua New Guinea, many of the workers are killed by a cloud of toxic gas. But the newly dead refuse to remain in their graves and their zombie corpses soon return to prey on the living flesh of […]

Swirling Violets

1 The Holy Death 2 Righteous (Why Did I Feel Like That?) 3 501s 4 Rivers 5 I Did Good Today 6 Swirling Violets 7 Red House Parlour 8 Before Ten 9 Fawn 10 The Women In The War 11 Deadwood “I like surreal settings, but with tangible messages,” says Conchúr White. A singer-songwriter from […]