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MORE NEWS AND A SUSTAINED EFFORT TO WARD OFF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SALAMANDERS OF SLANDER
NEXT SHOW
NEXT SHOW WILL BE IN MC HUGHS IN DROGHEDA ON FRIDAY 16TH MAY,9 30 PM SPECIAL GUEST CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT
'MAKE IT HAPPEN' RALLY TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT CLUSTER BOMBS
ON SUNDAY 25TH MAY THERE WILL BE A MARCH FROM MEMORIAL GARDENS IN DUBLIN AT 12 NOON TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE DEVESTATING MODERN PHENOMENON
KNOWN AS 'CLUSTER BOMBS'.FOLLOWING THIS EVENT THERE WILL BE A MINI FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND POETRY AROUND 2 PM ONWARDS AT SMITHFIELD SQUARE WHICH WE WILL PERFORM AT ALSO .IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS CAUSE CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW
ELECTRIC PICNIC AND CHRISTY MOORE SHOWS
JINX AND PAULA WILL BE PERFORMING AT THIS YEAR'S ELECTRIC PICNIC AGAIN THIS YEAR IN THE LEVIATHAN TENT ON FRIDAY 29TH ,30TH AND 31ST AUGUST AND THEY WILL BE JOINED THIS YEAR BY BY CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT.
ON THURSDAY 19TH AND FRIDAY 20TH JUNE JINX AND MISS PAULA WILL BE PERFORMING AT THE TRIPOD IN DUBLIN AS SPECIAL GUESTS OF CHRISTY MOORE,DAMIEN DEMPSEY WILL ALSO BE DOING LIVE SETS ON THE NIGHTS.
GO TO THIS LINK TO CHRISTY MOORE'S WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO
RTE RADIO ONE DRAMA
JINX AND MISS PAULA FLYNN HAVE JUST RECORDED A PLAY WRITTEN BY JINX AND MIKEL MURFI AND PRODUCED BY EITHNE HAND CALLED ''KNOW YOUR STATION'' WHICH WILL BE BROADCAST ON RTE RADIO 1 ON SUNDAY MAY 25TH AT 9 PM ,MORE INFO BELOW FROM WEBSITE WWW.SUPERANNRTE.IE
PARLOUR PLAYS ON RTE 1
Parlour Plays is the generic name for an original RTÉ Radio drama series consisting of four half hour plays recorded live for subsequent broadcast in four living rooms in different locations around the country in front of an invited local/community audience.
Kevin Reynolds, Series producer, RTÉ Radio Drama said:
“The concept derives from the belief that all over the country there are people who have never had the opportunity to go to the theatre and who have no experience of audio drama. Parlour Plays comes from the fervent desire to give our audience access to an area of the radio listening experience from which they feel excluded for a variety of reasons: social class, race, ethnicity, religion, and place.”
The form of each of the four programmes will be a half hour single play recorded as live with actors in a private living room. Dermot Bolger has written a play called Moving In Day, directed by Bairbre Ni Chaoimh and recorded in Eileen Casey’s living room in Old Bawn, Tallaght. North Nua is produced in a Belfast living room in Andersonstown by Vincent Higgins and directed by his wife, former Artistic Director of The Lyric Theatre, Paula McFetridge.
Mikel Murfi and Jinx Lennon devised a play at Annamakerrig called Know Your Station performed in a living room in Sligo. This play is directed by Mikel’s wife, Eithne Hand, former Head of RTÉ Radio 1.
Yemi Adenuga’s play No Handouts In Europe was recorded in front of a multi racial gathering in a Navan living room. The director was Veronica Coburn.
Each conversation will be facilitated by the guest director who will also lead a Q&A session between the cast, the writer and director after the recordings. Both the plays and the Q&A sessions will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1.
The aim of the Parlour Plays series is to bring "the living room" and its occupants to a wider audience, to break down artificial boundaries between these private spaces and to carry forth the message that art is for everybody - though hopefully in a less grandiose way!
About the Parlour Plays:
1) No handouts In Europe by Yemi Adenuga and directed by Veronica Coburn in Navan, Co. Meath. This play explores the nature of the emigrant experience in Ireland today. This will be broadcast on 4 May on RTÉ Radio 1 at 8 pm.
2) Moving In Day by Dermot Bolger directed by Báirbre Ni Chaoimh in Tallaght, Dublin will be broadcast on 11 May. Moving In Day explores the lives lived by five women over five generations in a house in Tallaght. These women range from the returning emigrant in the 1970s to the recent immigrant of today. The cast includes Deirdre Donnelly, Jasmine Russell, Marie Murray and Yemi Adenuga
3) North Nua by Vincent Higgins directed by Paula McFetteridge in Belfast (former Artistic Director of The Lyric Theatre in Belfast) Vincent Higgins' play is a viciously funny and sarcastic post peace process take on Northern Ireland. To attract foreign investment and capitalise on the peace dividend, Northern Ireland is to be transformed into a theme park. The post play discussion will feature contributions from the Nationalist and Unionist Communities and will be broadcast on 18 May at 8pm.
4) Know your Station by Jinx Lennon and Mikel Murfi and directed by Eithne Hand.
This production is being devised as we speak. The cast will include Louis Lovett. Jinx is a balladeer, rapper-troubadour who is a fresh and original vocal satirist on Modern Ireland. This play will be broadcast at 8pm on 25 May.
Miss Paula Flynn and Pat Mc Cabe at Monkey Chews show,Camden,march 08
FOLLOW UP TO ''KNOW YOUR STATION............
WORK IS BEING DONE ON TRACKS FOR THE NEW ALBUM .A FEW THINGS WERE INITIALLY RECORDED WITH JINX AND STEVE LYNCH THIS TIME LAST YEAR ,AND NOW MARC AUBELE (WHO ALSO PLAYS WITH THE WALLS,JACK L )HAS RECORDED SEVERAL NEW THINGS WITH JINX ,ALSO ONE TRACK HAS BEEN DONE IN CORK UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF STANLEY SUPER 800 HEAD STAN O SULLIVAN AND A LOAD OF CORK MUSICIANS FROM SEVERAL BANDS.GUESTS ON THE NEW ALBUM INCLUDE SOME OF THE GUYS OUT OF THE BLAZING HOT RHYTHM AND BLUES OUTFIT ALI AND THE DTS WHO APPEAR ON SEVERAL NEW SONGS .ITS STILL EARLY DAYS YET AND AS ONE RECENT AND PROMINENT EX GOVERNMENT MAN ONCE SAID ''THERE'S A LOT MORE TO DO''
RHYS CHATHAM-GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE
WE GOT THIS ALBUM IN THE POST THIS MORNING ITS BASICALLY A 3 HOUR BOX SET WITH 12 LIVE PERFORMANCES OF THIS ONE CHORD GUITAR PIECE CHATHAM RECORDED IN 1977 .HERE THE PERFORMANCES HAVE UP TO TEN GUITARISTS PLAYING THE SAME CHORD WITH DRUMS AND BASS AND LIKE GLENN BRANCA'S GUITAR ORCHESTRA STUFF HAS A SIMILAR DYNAMIC TO IT EXCEPT THAT THIS IS TRULY THE BEST EXAMPLE OF 'ONE CHORD IS ALL YOU NEED'.THIS RELEASE GOT GOT A BAD RAP FROM DUSTED MAGAZINE (THE WRITER SAID IT WAS MAKING HIM FEEL PHYSICALLY SICK AS HE DROVE HIS CAR)BUT WE HAD IT BLASTING OUT THE WINDOWS ON THE WAY TO ALDI.CHATHAM'S OTHER RECENT RELEASES LIKE 'AN ANGEL MOVES TOO FAST TO SEE' AND 'A CRIMSON GRAIL'CAN BE BOUGHT ON AMAZON .
BEATING THE INVISIBLE SPRING TERMITES IN GALWAY CITY(THOUGHTS ON THE LAST SHOW THERE IN FEB)
FINALLY THERE IS SOME SORT OF COHESION GOING ON AND THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE BEST TOUR YET .THERE
HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD SPECIAL GUESTS IN GALWAY BUT THIS WAS MORE LIKE IT IN THE LAST SHOW IN THE ROISIN DUBHROISIN DUBH ON ,SLAM POET MARTY MULLIGAN STARTED PROCEEDINGS AND WAS LIKE A MULLINGAR VERSION OF ALAN VEGA AS HE THREW SHAPES AROUND THE STAGE AS HE MOVED TO MINIMAL NEO SUICIDE BEATS FROM HIS LAPTOP ,THE PERFORMANCE WAS AWKWARD BUT REAL ,HUMAN AS FUCK, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO AN ALBUM OF THIS STUFF.ACOUSTIC DAN GETS BETTER EVERY TIME ,HE WAS GOING ON ABOUT SHANE MC GOWAN BUT TO BE HONEST I THINK THIS IS BETTER ,THE WOODY GUTHRIE CHORDS BEHIND A RAW BELFAST ACCENT PICKING THE SCABS AND LAUGHING WITH IT ,THE SONGS ARE FULL OF LOST SOULS ,COLOURFUL CHARACTERS,''NOTHING GOING ON''IMMEDIATELY GRABBED THE AUDIENCE AND THE SHOW NEVER LET UP AFTER THAT .BY THE WAY THE SOUND IS ALWAYS SUPERB IN THE ROISIN .JINX STARTED PUTTING THE GOSPEL BACK INTO THE SET'GLAZED I CLUB'AND 'CIRCLE OF S**T',PULLED SOME JAMES BROWN SHAPES INSTEAD OF THE NEOSUPERVITAL TYPE WALK AROUND THAT WAS BECOMING A CLICHE IN HIS SHOWS.THERE WERE A FEW GOBSHYTES YAPPING OVER TO THE LEFT OF THE VENUE BUT THEY SOON
GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE PERFORMANCE.JINX AND MISS PAULA LEFT THEM WITH 'ORANGE CRANES OF GREENORE'AND LEFT THE
AUDIENCE WITH A BIT OF RHUBARD COLOURED SUNSET AFTER
HYPING THEM UP FOR 55 MINS.
JINX LENNON BEST OF LISTS FOR 2007
ALBUMS
1.ORPHANS -TOM WAITS(YEAH ITS 2006 BUT ONLY GOT IT ,ALL GREAT ESPECIALLY DISC 2)
2.CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT -AGROCULTURE PT 2 RETURN OF THE BARNSTORMERS(PATHOS,ANGER,AND HILARITY)
3.EL- P -I'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD(A TACITUS FOR THE CURRENT WESTERN EMPIRE)
4.GHOSTFACE KILLAH-MORE FISH (2006 AGAIN BUT IT WAS RELEASED XMAS LAST YEAR BUT ONLY BOUGHT THIS YEAR,THE FIRST SOUL MAN OF HIP HOP)
5.STANLEY SUPER 800-LOUDER AND CLEARER(A FINE SOUNDTRACK FOR A 2 AM N8 RETURN JOURNEY NORTH FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC)
BOOKS
1.THE SHOCK DOCTRINE-NAOMI KLEIN(SCARY SHIT ,THE WORLD BANK AND THE DISCIPLES OF FRIEDMAN)
2.THE WHISPERERS-ORLANDO FIGES(DEPRESSING,DISTURBING AND FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF LIFE UNDER STALIN)
3.GOGOL-DEAD SOULS(ITS AN OLD CLASSIC BUT A GREAT READ)
4.JG BALLARD -THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOL 1 AND 2(EVEN THE STUFF WRITTEN IN THE 60'S SEEMS TO HAVE THE FINGER ON THE ZEITGEIST OF THESE CURRENT TIMES)
5. THE BIBLE(NOT EXACTLY FOR THE RELIGION THERE ARE SOME GREAT STORIES AND A LOT OF WISDOM AND NONSENSE MIXED IN)
2000 and h8te
WE HAVE TO ADMIT WE ARE CO-WRONG RAP MUSIC IS NOT FUCKED THE CURRENT GHOSTFACE ALBUM''BIG DOE REHAB''IS GREAT IT'S A TWISTED MASTERPIECE IN DISGUISE BENEATH THE GLOSSY SHEEN ,BUT BESIDES THAT,TERRIBLE TWOS FROM DETROIT AND A FEW GOOD THINGS IN SPIRELAND/EARTH HERE COME MORE 4 PIECE BAND CLONES WITH JILTED JOHN ACCENTS AND 1980 U2/''KIDS IN AMERICA''RIFFS DESTINED FOR THE SEAGULL RUBBISH TIPS,AND EVEN MORE WARBLY UBER POP FEMALE SCORPIONS WHO SOUND LIKE THEY'D LIKE TO EXTRACT EVERY DROP OF MARROW OUT OF MALE BONES AND REDUCE THEM TO SQUEAKING GERBILS.
PLEASE GET YOURSELF A COPY OF ART ROSENBAUM'S RECENT ''ART OF FIELD RECORDING VOLUME 1''FROM THE GREAT DUST TO DIGITAL IMPRINT AND BEHOLD THE TREASURES WITHIN OR SOME OF KRS 1's BACK CATALOGUE PRE 1996
VIDEO FOR GUITAR=MAGIC WAND
PHILIP EVANS HAS DIRECTED A VIDEO FOR THIS VIDEO SEE THE LINK BELOW
NOISEMAKER
THERE WAS A GREAT RESPONSE TO THE DOCUMENTARY 'NOISEMAKER' WHICH WAS TELEVISED ON RTE 1 ON TUESDAY 29TH MAY.THE DOCUMENTARY WAS DIRECTED BY DARA MC CLOSKEY AND EDITED BY MARCIN SWITALSKI FOR MIDAS PRODUCTIONS.
VIDEOS FOR 'FLESH TAXI'AND 'BALACLAVA BOYS' FROM
THE DOCUMENTARY 'NOISEMAKER' CAN NOW BE SEEN ON' YOU TUBE'.TYPE IN jinx lennon AND YOU WILL SEE A SELECTION OF
VIDEOS INCLUDING 'FORGIVE THE C**NTS' FROM THE
'BALCONY TV' PEOPLE .THEY CAN ALSO BE SEEN ON MY SPACE SITE
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT MISS PAULA FLYNN GO TO .WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MISSPAULAFLYNN 
photograph by Dara Mc Cluskey
PAULA FLYNN
Paula is Jinx Lennon's stage partner at all his shows and can be heard to great effecton "Know Your Station Gouger Nation!!!".Paula is also a songwriter and poet and will soon be recording her own album in the near future .She is currently studying for a degree in Radio at Dublin City University.Paula is also featured singing a version of David Bowie's 'Lets Dance'on the latest TV ad for Ballygowan mineral water and other advertisements including the one for Cadbury's chocolate.''Let's Dance''is also available as a single which isavailable for download from i-tunes.More info www.myspace.com/misspaulaflynn
KNOW YOUR STATION GOUGER NATION!!!
Jinx launched his latest Album last year.A travelogue through the dark heart ofthe so called "Celtic Tiger "phenomenon with plenty of dark humour and pathos.English underground bible Plan B said:"Know Your Station is brimming over with
words,intellegence,humour,protest,badly sampled beats and scary proselytising".The best Irish music mag Foggy Notions gave it five stars.Acclaimed novelist PatMc Cabe said of Jinx Lennon"Jinx Lennon is the most singular and original music talent i have come across in years full of integrity,moral courage,and a sometimes astonishing verbal dexterity".