Maurice Sweeney’s elegent portrait of the quiet one from The Dubliners reminded you of the musician’s evergreen skill and grace
Since 2002, Other Voices has been bringing musicians, pundits, punters and hangers-on to Co Kerry in the depths of an Irish winter to record a TV show in the tiny Church of St James in the heart of the town. …
Recently, we had Leagues writing about TV on OTR (he caught a premiere of the so-hot-right-now Girls at SXSW) so, on the back of some nights spent channel-hopping with the Yanks and catching up on some DVDs, here are some …
To judge by the domestic TV schedules, Irish hip-hop is having a bit of a moment. A few weeks ago, the first edition of RTE’s new arts show The Works featured a short report on some of those involved in …
In last Friday’s paper, I had a piece about Spike Lee’s brace of New Orleans’ documentaries, which reminded me that it’s been a while since OTR has written about the telly so it’s time to make amends. Actually, if you …
It was 1976 all over again last weekend as BBC4 began repeating Top of the Pops from that year. The Beeb plan to repeat the seminal music show in chronological order, starting with April 1976 (the date from which the …
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in Dublin in 1999. Memories of that Ronan Keating-hosted shindig from 12 years ago were revived on Wednesday with the …
There’s only going to be one winner in the forthcoming general election and that’s the grumpy Limerickman with the weird eyebrows who locks up the TV3 studio most nights of the week and leaves the key under the mat for …
