Jim Carroll

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• May 29, 2011, 18:50

As reported yesterday, the great Gil Scott-Heron died in a New York hospital on Friday night at the age of 62. After the jump, you’ll find an interview I did with him when he was promoting the “I’m New Here” …

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• February 10, 2011, 10:09

There’s a great quote on the dust-jacket of Allan Brown’s new book “Nileism” about The Blue Nile which goes a little way to summing up this most perplexing of bands in a pithy line. No, not the quote from Chris …

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• January 11, 2010, 16:16

Willie Mitchell’s death last week prompted me to pull out this interview with the great Al Green from the Irish Times’ archives. This interview is from 2005 when Green was plugging his “Everything’s OK” album which Mitchell had produced. Indeed, …

• Archive Live music
• November 24, 2009, 10:00

Homelights ahoy! The Adrian Crowley and Foggy Notions-curated festival takes place at Dublin’s Whelan’s next weekend. For my money, the highlight should be the fantastic Vashti Bunyan on Sunday November 29 (with support from Andy Irvine, Minotaur Shock, Lord Cut-Glass …

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• October 13, 2009, 14:13

Those of you looking for a good read this weather should check out “Memoirs of a Geezer: The Autobiography of Jah Wobble” in which likable, chirpy bass warrior and Spurs fan Jah Wobble tells his life story in his own …