Clappingour hands and saying yeah to Hysterical, the new album from the Brooklyn five-piece, um, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. They played a great set at this year's Electric Picnic, for anyone who could tear themselves away from Pulp.
Quotingthe ever-charming Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh on Newstalk, responding to Tom Dunne's amazement at his get-up-and-go. Ó Muircheartaigh said: "It's a small country; you don't need that much energy to go from one end of it to the other"
Movedto tears and to joy by Rebirth, a documentary by Jim Whitaker that, over the course of the past decade, has followed five people whose lives were altered by 9/11. Touching, sensitive, real: it stands out among the conveyor belt of programmes churned out for the 10th anniversary of the attack, and stands out as a wonderful film in its own right, its subject matter aside.
Excitedout of our tiny minds at news that the American stand-up comedian Demetri Martin is coming to Vicar Street, in Dublin, on October 18th. Tickets went on sale yesterday.
Watching Tinker Tailor Solider Spy: Gary Oldman's glasses, cold-war spies, Colin Firth. What's not to love?
Streamingthe live performance by Fight Like Apes on the rooftop of Facebook HQ in Dublin on Friday evening. Check it out on the band's Facebook page. Like.
Impressedby the ingenuity of Lindsay and John from Westbury Estate in Cork, whose "four-person tent in secluded garden", at €10 per night, is getting rave reviews on airbnb.com, a website connecting "people who have space to spare with those who are looking for a place to stay".
Listeningto the debut single, Health, from the Irish four-piece The Funeral Suits. Look it up on on YouTube. They play Whelans, in Dublin, with Handsome Furs on Thursday.
