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Tom Waits live in Paris

2008-07-25T10:22:10Z

I saw Tom Waits last night here in Paris in the Grand Rex an old style theatre (not unlike the Olympia) and he was just incredible, it really was a show of a lifetime. For what it's worth my video of Raindogs taken from the cheap seats. If you've got tickets for Dublin next week you won't be disappointed, it'll be worth every penny.

My Bloody Valentine live in Paris

2008-07-21T11:14:08Z

The extended noise-fest finale of My Bloody Valentine's Paris Zenith concert. More here

South Central live in Paris

2008-07-17T14:27:49Z

Great new (to me) and going places band South Central I saw at the bal on the 13th in the Place de la Bastille in Paris. One to watch.

Yayoï Kusama's Dots Obsession

2008-07-13T11:19:27Z

Yayoï Kusama's Dots Obsession being installed at the Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette Paris. More photos here

My Bloody Valentine

2008-07-11T10:09:28Z

My Bloody Valentine live at Zenith Paris on their reunion tour, I don't normally bother with reunion tours but made an exception in this case. They pretty much delivered what you'd expect including an extended noise-fest finale that would of made John Cale proud and a spinal tap-esque arguement with the venue about turning down the amps and of course it being France everyone was given earplugs on the way in (rock n roll!). More pictures here

1000 Joyce Walks

2008-07-02T17:48:15Z

1000 Joyce Walks : Bloomsday in Berlin A late follow up on 1000 Joyce Walks, as I mentioned earlier the project was a great success the final tally is we had walks in 39 cities (multiple walks in many cities) throughout the world. I'll be adding more walks to the gallery over the next while. Thanks to everyone who participated and if you took part please don't forget to document your walk. The map above is one of my Bloomsday walks in Berlin click here for the full size mashup

Get lost in Manchester

2008-06-18T23:21:14Z

I'll be in Manchester tomorrow doing a psychogeographical walk - The Manchester Freedom Trail as part of the Loiterers Resistance Movement Get Lost festival and attending the TRIP conference. If you're in Manchester please join me. A quick word about Bloomsday, it all went really well with a lot of walks created all over the world, I owe a big thank you to all the people who took part and made it such a big success. I'll write about it in more detail when I get all the information about what happened where. I was fortunate enough to spend Bloomsday in Berlin where I did a fantastic Joycewalk full of improbable coincidence - I'll upload the documentation as soon as I can on my return.

Bloomsday

2008-06-16T01:04:08Z

It's Bloomsday and 1000 Joyce Walks the project which lets you re-enact Bloomsday where-ever you are. We have walks in over 25 cities around the world already planned but it's not too late to join in and celebrate Bloomsday in the psychogeographical way. Click here for more details.

One day to Bloomsday

2008-06-15T17:08:10Z

Tomorrow is Bloomsday and 1000 Joyce Walks. There's been a huge interest and we've got walks planned all over the world, from Berlin to Boston, Marakesh to Montevideo and everywhere in between. It's shaping up to be a great day. There's still time to join in and do a walk tomorrow go to the Joyce Walks site and create your own walk where ever you'll be tomorrow.

1000 Joyce Walks - 6 days left to sign up

2008-06-10T17:15:50Z

There are only six days left to Bloomsday and the 1000 Joyce Walks psychogeography project. Sign up now to participate.

Radiohead

2008-06-08T16:15:48Z

The big question for Radiohead, more pictures on my flickr page

Almost summer

2008-06-06T00:42:32Z

Nothing like some music tickets to make you feel summers almost here, kicking off with Radiohead this Saturday, July sees Tom Waits in Paris and, though I don't normally do the reunion tour thing, My Bloody Valentine also in Paris. I never saw MBV first time around (though I did grow up on the same street as Kevin Shields) but I'm a bit of a Loveless nut, you've got to love the back story it's got it all arrogance, obsession, insanity and reclusiveness and finally reunion - pure rock n roll. In keeping with my new academic bent a few academic references: From The Journal of Music and Meaning Torben Sangild, Noise - Three Musical Gestures Expressionist, Introvert and Minimal Noise and a Masters in Music Thesis on Loveless.

NCAD end of year show

2008-06-05T11:26:43Z

The NCAD 2008 Degree and Postgraduate exhibitions open tomorrow Friday 6th June 6pm at the NCAD campus 100 Thomas Street and the Digital Hub Thomas Street (Post Graduate Fine Art & Degree Media Department). The exhibition continues until the 15th, opening hours: Mon- Fri 10am - 8pm, Sat 10am--5pm, Sun 2-5pm Click Here for a Map of the locations

1000 Joyce Walks call for participation

2008-05-28T13:03:38Z

What: 1000 Joyce Walks When: Bloomsday June 16th 2008 Where: Any city in the world How: Generate a map and walk in your city I'm now seeking participants a new project 1000 Joyce Walks taking place on June 16th (Bloomsday) 2008. 1000 Joyce Walks is a participatory global intervention which aims to create a day of psychogeographical exploration with 1000 interventions in 24 hours across the globe. The project uses the Joyce Walks project to remap routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to any city in the world to be used as the basis of walks which navigate urban space in a new and unexpected way . Participation is easy all you have to do is - - Use the Joyce Walks website to generate a walk in any city of your choice, - invite your friends and peer group to join you on your walk - document the experience simply with some photos and/or videos, - use the Joyce Walks site to generate a googlemaps mashup of your walk to be shared on the Joyce Walks site or embedded on any webpage More information available here

Will Self talk at Google

2008-05-27T00:04:37Z

Will Self (in bossy schoolteacher mode) talks to Google employees (who seem a little ill at ease maybe because they had to close their laptops before the talk) about (his brand of) psychogeography.