And I shall leave 2008 with a few songs that represent how I'm feeling right now

Nominations for 2009 Blog Awards open

Go forth and vote.

Feel free to nominate this blog, although I'm never sure where it fits; Best Popculture Blog? Best Blog from a Journalist? Best Arts and Culture Blog? Best Music Blog? Best Personal Blog? Best Blog Post (for the food-band game - COME ON!)?

UnaRocks is equally all - and none - of those.

UnaRocks articles of the day

Jamie Lynn Spears decoy to sue LA - TMZ

Rufus Wainwright responds to Prop 8 comments - GCN

It's time to close down the shopping malls - The Big Money

The thriving NYC gay mag scene - New York Magazine

Nerdiest wedding ever - Pitchfork

Why celebrities are such bad drivers - Slate

Another transgender woman shot in Memphis - Advocate

No Age interview - Fader

In the ring with an Ultimate Fighter - Atlantic

A guide to prehistoric Dublin - Dubliner

Will Oldham transfigures American music - New Yorker

The top 10 fleeting celebs of 08 - Time

Debutantes indulge as nation reels - Gawker

How the Sex Pistols shook Ireland - Guardian

New Year's Eve

Don't forget the party in Spy on South William St tonigh; access all areas throughout Spy & Wax. In the Monkey and Lobby bar, it's Gossip Vs SoundCheck. In the Black and White it's Le Cirque, and in Wax it's Rubberband. So you have a choice of pop, disco, indie, electro, house and techno.

It kicks off at 9pm and is only a tenner in.

You can book your tickets at tickets.ie/spy in advance, and check this out, if you buy 6 tickets in advance, and get to Spy before 10pm you get a free bottle of bubbly. Rocking.

a review of my lunch

Considering that today I appear to be currently starring in the opening scenes of 28 Days Later, as no one in the universe is in work this week apart from myself (and a few colleagues), there were none of my usual haunts open for lunch.

In other words, Sushi King was closed.


So I walked past Georgian Fare, Abrakebabra, Burger King and eventually realised the only place nearby to get some food was Spar. The big shiny gold Spar on Baggot St. The one we here at Tribune Towers refer to as 'Super Spar', as it appears to contain everything.

I glanced at the deli counter, the dubious Indian food, paninis, sandwiches and picked up a salad. A 'Provencal chicken pasta salad' to be exact. I checked the ingredients for tomatoes (I have an irrational fear of raw tomatoes, can't have them near me) and decided it looked nice enough to buy. €4.95 or something, can't remember, it's in the bin now.

Now, what I want to know, is how you can put A FEW SIMPLE FUCKING INGREDIENTS in a plastic bowl; pasta, chicken, lettuce, and make it taste like the most offensive thing in the history of things. The chicken tasted like carpet, the pasta was sloppy, limp and covered in some sort of red sauce that was placenta-like in consistency and RIDDLED WITH TOMATOES, the lettuce was freezing, having probably been stored in vats of liquid nitrogen in a truck container for the past seven months, the red onion slices tasted like something you ate by mistake and there was some MYSTERY salad vegetable that was half sweetcorn kernal, half dehydrated pepper.

So, in conclusion: FUCK YOU SPAR AND YOUR SHITTY FUCKING DISGUSTING GIMP SALADS YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.

Ahem.

Tainer Bang is selling Lucy

Lucy aka Lucifer aka Google is now for sale on Tainer's blog (after eBay refused her.)

Bidding starts at Tainer's unusual approach to currency - "€I will give you a fiver".

Bye, Lucy.

1st Prize

I won Make & Do @ Pantibar last night for the first time. Yaysies. The theme was something like (can't remember the exact terms) 'a poem about 2008 told through the medium of a Book of Kells illustration/illumination.'

My poem was (somehow, I have miraculously remembered it this morning):

Update your status to "fuck the Pope"
Obama came, and gave us hope.

A change is cumming,
And so is your ma,
I spent 365 days
Wearing uncomfortable bras.

Got barred from The George
And the Dragon too.
What did Capital Bars
Ever do for you?

So "All Hail Panti!"
I'm saying this to win.
I need the free vodka,
For the recession's kicking in.

I may have missed a couple of lines. Anyway, I won the vodka - yes! After that, myself, FionnTimes, Tainer Bang, Davih, Will (and more people? Can't remember) went to Dragon where I nearly didn't get in AGAIN, but we forced our way in and then spent some time throwing fistfulls of glitter from the balcony down at the unsuspecting drinkers below.

Quite amusing.

I have to go now, my planet needs me

Gaff

I'm moving AGAIN. If anyone has a two/three bedroom house/apartment in Dublin City Centre for €40 a month with a sauna, monkey butler, gigantic Pez dispenser in the shower and roller-disco on the roof, (or similar) please contact me on jacksgraff@hotmail.com

The Coolness, aka the self-aware Spinal Tap

I was actually at that gig they played, but I didn't see them play. So then, I guess, I wasn't really at it.

everything is the new MGMT

For 2009, is two (band members) the magic number?

Empire of the Sun


Telepathe


Ugly Megan

Surprise

Just heard this song in a shop. Forgot how much I like it:



Me = soppy

all new brand new new stuff (on TV)

After Your Bad Self, RTE continues to pump out new material as they test the ground in the new year. Apart from season premiers of ER, Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, and Brothers & Sisters, there's a lot of homegrown shizz going down.

First up is Project Ha Ha, where four comedy pilots will run every Monday throughout the month of January. Dead Cat Bounce, Diet of Worms, David McSavage and an ensemble piece featuring comedians such as Bernard O'Shea, Collum McDonnell and Carol Tobin are all included.

Here's a taster of Diet of Worms' excellent Dublin Stories series, which has already been developed and matured online:


Lucy Kennedy also gets her own late night series in the new year, imaginatively titled 'The Lucy Kennedy Show'. There's an Ireland's Got Talent series called 'The All Ireland Talent Show' presented by Grainne Seoige and featuring a host of other RTE heads, and perhaps most interestingly is ex-New York Dog and Blogorrah publisher John Ryan's stab at Daily Show fame with 'This Is Nightlive', a satirical news broadcast.

Pass la popcorn, as they say in the States

UnaRocks articles of the day

Mariah Carey in trouble with mathematicians - NME

Top 10 movies of 2008 - Slate

Why Bush is backing Barack - New York Magazine

Worst album covers of 2008 - Pitchfork

Ugandan judge cites rights for lesbians - Advocate

Ariel Levy on a new edition of 'The Joy of Sex' - New Yorker

Cate Blanchett interview - Vanity Fair

Retail space helps brands collaborate - Springwise

Israel prepares ground invasion - New York Times

How YouTube changes the way we think - Wired

Growing up with big tits - The F Word

A list of the 'thinking man's sex symbols' is still a dumb sexist list, 'thinking' or 'no thinking'

Reading the Daily Beast today, I came across the type of idiotic list that you hope has disappeared from 'smart' media. Clearly not. Some bloke called 'Toure' who has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times has come up with what he calls 'The Thinking Man's Sex Symbols'. Guess what, 'thinking men' can also be thick, by the looks of this.

Here's how he has struggled with compiling the list, as it's easy to throw down a whole heap of Playboy Bunnies on a page, but when you want something more from a woman other than tits and ass and firm knees, Toure says, "Can a woman be independent, creative, sharp, witty, strong, and self-empowering without making me feel like she wants to be a man?" Ah yes, because independence, creativity, sharpness, wit, strength and self-empowerment are exclusively mate attributes, right?

Dumbass.

This song just keeps getting better and better

Santogold's record is my favourite of '09. The reason I like it is simple - it's pure quality pop with a bit of smarts. Everytime I listen to it, I find a new favourite track. At the moment, that track is 'Lights Out'. It's weird, even though I've been listening to the album for the best part of the year, it's this song that keeps getting better IMO. Maybe it's the nice harmonies, or the ska buzz, or the really swet breakdown, or the simple melody. As Paris would say, loves it.

Happy Birthday Meadzer!

This mild, bright weather is kind of freaking me out, although it was pretty cold last night. Ended up not going out apart from up to Tainer Bangs. Im glad i conserved my energy because its back to work tomorrow.

the 27th

I broke my Capital Bars embargo last night and went to the George. I wanted to go to Pantibar, but Michelle and Nicko were in the G and Tainer Bag got me drunk and I met Tiger and AdoFemBo and we all had fun (I think, can't quite remember.)

Don't ever got into Brown Thomas on sale day. Fucking carnage. I actually think I saw someone stab another someone in the face over a €1,460 Versace bag. Fucking idiots. Good look in the recession, kids! I honestly don't understand spending that kind of money on bags. Then again, I guess, if you have it... I like clothes and accessories with mystery, stuff that has a story, not something obvious that screams I AM A GIANT FUCK OFF EXPENSIVE VERSACE BAG MOTHERFUCKERS. I guess I miss the point with that whole branding buzz.

Now I'm in the burbs playing hungover hopscotch with my 2 and a half year old niece. I'm hungover, not her. Hopscotch is fucking tiring, man.

Think I'll hit Pantibar tonight because Phil is DJing and he's excellent. See you there.

New Year's Eve party feat. SoundCheck and much more

Details here.

This is gonna be hella fun.

My Top Ten Moments of 2008 Which May Or May Not Reveal What 2009 Will Be Like

End of year review lists are funny things.

I mean there's only so many times you can say Bon Iver or Foals released the best album of the year (although personally, my favourites were Santogold, Crystal Castles and Fight Like Apes, sorry, had to get the album picks in there somehow!), or what the best gigs over the past 12 months were (Leonard Cohen and Jay Z @ Glasto, Justice @ Webster Hall, Chromeo @ Electric Picnic, Ricardo Villalobos @ the Tivoli, fuck, there, I did it again, I'll stop now), or who you think should get Oscar nominations or whether Obama is a bigger story than the recession and so on.

So instead, I'm looking to the foo-ture, and on a whim have come up with a few points of reference which I think will probably influence the foundations and framework of behaviour in 2009. They happened in the past (this year) but seem relevant and telling enough to point to the future (next year). Most of them are recession-based/inspired/influenced, as you can't really get away from the economic reaper pointing a scythe in our direction at the moment, but others are about fashion, music, general social change and so on. I might be wrong, it's just how I'm thinking at the moment. Feel free to add yours in the comments section.

So, in no particular order;

Getting €10 notes from ATMs
Yes, in case you haven't noticed, we're all broke. Wage cuts, more conscientious spending and a drop in disposable income will change how we spend, socialise, give, receive and value money.
Keywords: I.O.U.

Going to a gig at the Hideaway House
Talk to anyone who attended gigs at the Hideaway House in Deansgrange this year, or anyone in the music industry who is aware of the work 21-year-old Dylan Haskins is doing, and they will all tell you that this guy and this scene (anti-scene?) is forming the starting blocks of a trend in how music is consumed and watched. I think a lot of 2009 will be about going back to basics, be that through non-commercial social spaces, warehouse parties, house gigs, or whatever. Because of the economic climate, the commercialism of gigging will have to be stripped down. Dublin is ready for this due to the maturation of various young creative minds, who are taking back clubs and parties, and coming up with inventive concepts that involve something other than sitting in a boozer and drinking.
Keywords: back to basics, creativity.

Attending 'going away' parties
Our friends are emigrating. For those who stay, this will transform our social circles, and it also provokes an internal debate. Why will you stay? What can Dublin offer you that London or Sydney can't? If you're going to stay, how will you improve your lifestyle and your surroundings? This will probably contribute to new projects for those justifying staying put.
Keywords: maybe the streets aren't paved with gold.

Seeing lay-offs left right and centre
Plenty of friends and acquaintances got the boot in the fourth quarter of 2008, and for the first time for my generation, job losses became something other than a montage of queues on Reeling In The Years. They became real. In the industry I work in - print media - it's pretty obvious that newspapers are being squeezed hard. Is this the beginning of the end, or merely a blip? What Irish newspapers will have to do is something that they are really shit at: adapting. Irish newspapers have yet to cop on that most people consume information online, this is not due to the lack of innovative, technologically aware and Internet-smart people working in Irish newspapers, but due to the people in management positions who are simply out of touch. Unless this changes now, newspapers will continue to be in trouble.
Keywords: Online presence, blogging.

Constantly wearing shiny leggings
While economic times are filled with doom and gloom, fashion should be the opposite and will be informed by everything sparkly, futuristic and, most importantly, GOLD. American Apparel opening in Dublin in '09 will have a big impact on the dress sense of the capital.
Keywords: American Apparel, popart (Kanye, not Warhol.)

LGBT Noise getting the crowd to boo civil partnership at Pride
(I recall Tainer Bang being pissed off about this.) With regards to the gay rights movement in Ireland, LGBT Noise were certainly the most vocal and innovative this year. Whether they might have also been the most rudderless is up for debate, but the advent of this group - whether you agree with their methods and beliefs or not - is very important, in fact, it probably has greater resonance with regards to what it means than what they actually achieve. In the macro picture, it marks a more forceful voice in the Gay Rights movement here at home, something which is echoed globally, driven this year by the huge mobilisation of gays before and in the aftermath of Prop 8. In the micro picture, it demonstrates the repatriation of gay rights to younger gays in Ireland. It seems to me that supporters of LGBT Noise feel that the old guard of gay rights activists in Ireland have essentially become collaborators in forthcoming government policy; policy, by the way, which they aren't happy with. As a result LGBT Noise are becoming a mosquito around Leinster House and also around other gay rights groups. Can they make their cannon a little less loose in '09?
Keywords: protests, unity, civil rights.

Realising some of the best gigs in town were by Irish bands
Whatever the boring bitches on the scene say, I believe we are entering an extremely exciting age for young Irish music. The most important thing about it is the lack of scene. Everyone seems to be operating rather separately, which prevents the pilfering of ideas, and encourages musicians to up their game and foster a healthy culture of competition. Fight Like Apes will probably break the UK in a big way in '09, and make inroads in Japan. A&R heads will come looking in Dublin for the source, and a few other bands will start a similar process.
Keywords: Choice Music Prize

Watching Sarah Haskins' 'Target Women' on Current TV
Haskins was one of the loudest voices in feminism in '08. Her deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the American TV advertising industry was a serious shot in the arm for female cynicism and smashing this silly era of what the Pussycat Dolls might call 'post feminism'. There wasn't just a dominance of women in comedy (Haskins, Silverman, Poehler, Fey, etc.) but as collective backlash to the ridiculous situation of anti-women sentiment and warped perception of the female ideal in popular culture. Ariel Levy started this current wave of change, and it will continue.
Keywords: Target Women.

Going to Sex and the City the movie
This category is also known as 'OMG, it's not just straight white men who go to the cinema.' Alongside 'Twilight', SATC opened up filmmakers eyes to a huge - and more importantly for them, lucrative - demographic. And so, expect a certain amount of money-grabbing diversity and tailored films for women of all ages in '09 and beyond.
Keywords: 'He's Just Not That Into You', Sophie Kinsella.

On the Record readers not knowing who Chris Brown is
Like in cinema, there's often a complete unawareness of what is beyond the demographic you exist in. The biggest acts in the world right now are the Jonas Brothers, the endless conveyor belt of starlets from the Disney stable (Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and so on) and High School Musical. The spending power of the kids who buy into these products will continue to be tested and milked.
Keywords: Fetch (joke)

Other keywords for '09; Obama, self-publishing, gay marriage, parties, anti-apartment living, homemade/DIY, bikes, creativity forced by unemployment (or as FionnTimes would say, 'opting out of the economy'), Pantibar and the indie gay scene, social spaces, thrift, collaboration, group blogging, and some buzzwords that don't even exist yet.

Sarah Haskins' lessons of 2008

Chill

Ive been running around the place the last few days, and taking a blogging break; DJing at the Fair City Xmas party- in CARRIGSTOWN!, kiss at the tivoli, make and do at pantibar, casinos, drinking in the front lounge a bit, hanging with the Apes and the Kidney Massive a lot, shopping, catching up with my family, stuffing my face in Residence and Odessa and South William, trying to catch up with friends, working, that kind of thing. Yeah, so not much blogging then, apart from messages like this from my phone. So today is Christmas, i hope you are with people you love and you have a nice day. Just chill. X

Fuck the Pope!

So poor aul Pope Benny who works in what is probably the gayest profession in the world decides to get a few digs in before the gays go home for christmas and will all now have to listen to their mothers telling them that they are responsible for the deforestation of the rainforest, or whatever the fuck he was on about. On one hand, i suppose, you can laugh this stuff off- who gives a fuck? Who cares what an old repressed dude in a wine dress says? Surely if you get pissed off by this it legitimises his statement as something worth listening to? Then on the other hand, this is a man with huge power and influence and a massive willing and listening audience who believes ten per cent of the population is evil. So, whats worse, a girl going down on a girl, or a guy sticking his dick up another guys ass, or a man teaching hate and discrimination and flying in the face of what he is supposed to be teaching- LOVE?

'We Gays Will Not Go Away'

Excellent (and inspiring) article by Quentin Fottrell in today's Irish Times.

The rebirth of Delorentos

"We've had our own worries and there were times when we looked at each other and wondered if we could keep going with no money, no stability and the feeling that our future was out of our hands..."

The lads fill us in on what has been going down in '08.

I've a feeling '09 is going to be very sweet for the Delos. As one of the best bands of their generation, they deserve a lot.

KOL Phantom Party

Yo, just to let yiz know, the Phantom 'Soundcheck Party' tonight before Kings of Leon is not affiliated with SoundCheck @ Spy. A few people have been asking me about it, so I thought I'd clear up any confusion!

Last night was officially our last SoundCheck of the year, apart from a special NYE party @ Spy which I'll be blogging about later today.

Rawk!

Oh, and anyone who is going to KOL tonight @ the O2, report back!

UnaRocks articles of the day

The year in NYC club shots - Village Voice

So Chris Martin DOES steal music - NME

The crazy plan to keep Holland above water - Slate

Obama's religious right - New York Magazine

Prison sentence for student's YouTube video - Wired

Lily Allen in trouble over Britney cover - Guardian

What rich people don't want you to know about their spending - The Daily Beast

So we told you it was going to be fucking mental

And indeed it was. SoundCheck was just crazily awesome last night. And it still is, apparently, as three of the billion afterparties are still going on.

There was the greatest mix of people ive ever seen in a club EVER, which has always been our goal; rich kids, broke kids, drag queens, clubber kids, nerds, indie heads, bloggers, djs, models, several bands, dykes, gays, artists, students, those enough to know better and those who still dont, journos, friends, rockers, scenesters, photographers, and fucking legends for one night and everything and everyone in between.


Mad love to everyone who made it such an epic night.

Details of a very special New Years Eve in Spy up on the SoundCheck blog today.




(photee stolen from James' mate on Facebook, more to follow on the SC blog today.)

SoundCheck tonight!

SoundCheck is going to be a (Christmas) cracker tonight with

FIGHT LIKE APES
VINNY CLUB
BITCHES WITH WOLVES
DUBLIN STREETS
SARAH FOX
UNAROCKS
CONOR LE SHARK

and more, all in the house @ Spy on South William St DJing.

It kicks off 7pm and goes all night, but please get there early as this is going to be a busy one!

Free in before 11pm, €5 after, loads of drink promos and free goodies.

If anyone's heading to the Role Model's screening, I'll see yiz down there and afterwards for the party!

Also, anyone heading to Jape in Tripod tonight, head down to SoundCheck after because the almighty Vinny Club, who just released his Christmas Cake mix today and is supporting Jape tonight will be down in Spy wrecking the gaff.

And of course, Le Cirque will upstairs from 11 with an awesome line-up including Drag Queen Bingo, TAC Djs and more.

Rock

(Spotted: McLovin making his way to SoundCheck just a few short moments ago.)

Jane McGinty lives and breathes

Introducing Jane McGinty! You may know Jane from her inappropriate Facebook status updates, so it should be interesting to follow her adventures as she shares EVERYTHING along the way.

Be Jane's friend.

Jennifer's Body

While trying to find out stuff on Diablo Cody's new movie, 'Jennifer's Body', I am reminded of how awesome this song is:



I have MANY heroes, new ones every day, but Courtney Love is one of my holy trinity heroes (the other two being Hunter S Thompson and Eric Cantona.)

looking for inappropriate Facebook status updates?

They're here.

My! This thing has take off. Thanks to Rick for featuring it on his show today.

My love for Ben Kweller

I've been completely taken with Ben Kweller for many years. In fact, since he was in Radish, who were my favourite band when I was 14 or 15. I loved their Nirvanaish pop-grunge, and they had TUNES MAN! Their album 'Restraining Bolt' was - and still is - one of my favourites, namely for 'Little Pink Stars' and the B-side to that single, 'Make It Up', which then reappeared reworked on Kweller's 'Sha Sha' album. You can listen to 'Little Pink Stars' on YouTube here. I think Kweller was 16 when that single came out. It made top 40 in England as far as I know, but Radish disbanded and Kweller went to work on solo stuff. Their 18-song follow up to 'Restraining Bolt', 'Discount Fireworks' was never released due to fuckery with Mercury, Polygram and Universal.

Some of his grunge sensibility remained on 'Sha Sha', like this tune.

Wasted And Ready


But Kweller isn't really a grunge head anymore. Most of his stuff is piano-driven and 'lovely'. Here's a tune of 2000's 'Sha Sha' (rereleased in 2002)

In Other Words


Since then, there have been three more albums, and a new one 'Changing Horses'. Sometimes I think it's funny that this kid I thought was the new Cobain when I was a teenager has turned into something so different a decade later. But he's still here. And I'm still listening to his music.

Fire and Flying

While browsing the Telegraph's 28 'spectacular' pictures of the year, which I saw linked on Rick's blog I noticed most of them depict two human obsessions; fire and flying. I would have thought much more of them would cover nature or something, but it's not, 2008 was all about fire and flying.

Some of them even combine the two; like two planes performing stunts to a backdrop of fire in Dubai, and firefighters extinguising flames of a military jet after a crash in San Diego.

Then there's a plane crash in Brussels, a light aircraft hanging from power lines in Germany, a stuntman jumping through a ring of fire in Russia, fireworks at The Palm in Dubai, fireworks at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, two pictures of volcanos, Red Star Belgrade fans with red torches in a stadium, a motorcyclist doing a double backflip (that comes under my flying category), a Swiss military pilot on a rocketeer flight, a stunt man in flames on a catwalk, a fire in Toronto, a firefighter in California, firefighters in Seoul, a surfer jumping through the air (x2, flying again) and a man diving from a platform at the Olympics.

So that's 19 out of 28 pictures are about fire, flying, or both.

I don't really know what it means, I'm just sayin'.

Nialler's best songs of 08

Great post here from Nialler9 detailing his favourite songs of 2008. Get over there now and scope it out.

I'm busy making music lists for work so won't be blogging about them yet. So just stop reading then, and listen to Nialler instead.

SoundCheck XXXmas

More details on the SoundCheck blog.

*update*: full line-up and line-up times now up on the SoundCheck XXXmas Facebook page.

Carol Singing with Ellen and Britney

Make & Do

We made and did at Make & Do in Pantibar last night. FionnTimes has returned from London (Happy Birthday, Fionn) and the gathering was in favour of that. And general artistic amazingness.

The theme was 'The Present You Would Not Like To Find At The End Of Your Bed On Christmas Morning.' I made a hymenoplasty out of plasticine, pipe cleaners and cotton wool. It was amazing, and disgusting. Amazingly disgusting. I also made a sex offenders register with 'me' listed on it. That one got down to the final 3.

FionnTimes made 'a lump of plasticine', the anti-drugs guy on a beer mat asking him for a civil partnership, and a deformed baby. I can't remember what Tainer made, but Lala WON! She made Santa fucking a reindeer. Other things that other people made? Amy Winehouse and Blake, an unopened condom, someone puking, lots of deformed people with giant penises, Penny the dog being raped, and so on.

I love Make & Do so much, almost as much as Panti. ALMOST.

Then we went to the casino and ate Chinese food.

Zadie

The New Yorker has an interesting podcast with Zadie Smith, where she talks mostly about comedy.

Inappropriate Facebook status updates

Myself, Fionn, Tainer Bang, Lynn and Lucy are in the Apartment in the Sky talking about inappropriate Facebook status updates.

Considering people are becoming more and more personal in their updates, imagine if there was someone who was TOTALLY HONEST and inappropriate with regards to their Facebook status updates.

So we've made an imaginary person called Jane McGinty, who is overly honest when it comes to updating her imaginary Facebook status.

(*update* a couple of people have been asking whether Jane McGinty is based on anyone. Unfortunately she isn't. She is called Jane McGinty because Jane is a common, anonymousy name, and McGinty because I say McGinty constantly about everything. It is my favourite word. I don't know why. Anyway...)

For example:

Jane McGinty just cheated. Shhhhh!

Jane McGinty was about to put a tampon in her vagina when there was already one in there!!!lol

Jane McGinty just got a little bit sick in her mouth and swallowed it, hope no one noticed

Jane McGinty saw her dad get out of the shower this morning

Jane McGinty is wondering whether second cousins are alright? Right?

Jane McGinty just got her chlamydia results - all clear!

Jane McGinty did it on the boardroom table

Jane McGinty took it up the ass for the first time last night

Jane McGinty just ate some coke snot, bonus!

Jane McGinty is wondering whether massage parlours do girl on girl as well as happy endings

Jane McGinty is checking her ex's voicemail

Jane McGinty is a serious 7 on the Bristol Stool Chart right now

Target Women: Jewelry

More Sarah Haskins. This one is great:

UnaRocks articles of the day

Minister Dick Roche held at gunpoint - RTE

Dizzee Rascal arrested - NME

FionnTimes on the pregnant man - Izznit

Online medical sites make you think you're sicker than you really are - Slate

Various reasons to love NYC, as if you need any more - New York Magazine

Why we need more torture in video games - Wired

What now for Alexandra Burke - Guardian

Police: 8-year-old killer angry over spankings - Houston Chronicle

Why was it so easy to throw things at Bush? - Gawker

Mother sells babies for lipo, world fails to see her point - London Times

best of '08s viral vids

Via President Panti.

Barbie girls in a Barbie world

For any of those interested in dolly birds, here's my column from yesterday's Tribune about the end of Bratz and a new era for Barbie.

Alexandra the Great

Im glad Alexandra won last night, even though ive grown to think shes a little fake, and even though her best friend is Joss Stone, and even though she seems to rehearse her emotional outbursts, and even though she will never be as good as Leona. JLS and Eoghan were dignified in defeat, but of course the real winner throughout all of this is Cheryl.

Sarah Haskins on Vampires

I think it's really interesting that she has left the studio, and is branching out giving Target Women a different kind of format. It's good for variation. When the fuck is someone going to give her her own TV show though? She is GOLD.

Miroir Noir

We haven't heard from Arcade Fire in a while, but on Monday, they will release Miroir Noir:


The 70 minute documentary was directed by Vincent Morisset and shot by Vincent Moon. You know him, he's the dude who does the awesome Take-Away Shows. The film follows the band as they make 'Neon Bible' and as they played the gigs that followed.

details of SoundCheck XXXmas announced

There's lots more goss to come, but here are the first bits.

EPIC!

My Little Piebald doesn't know how to slag people properly

So the three people who read My Little Piebald (a weekly Popbitch-esque Irish gossip mailout) have noticed I was slagged in it this week. Matt from Dublin Streets who were also crapply slagged in it told me last night. What shit digs though. Everyone knows I'm a complete knob, so you think they (and by 'they', I mean that dude called John who is behind it) could have stuck the boot in proper.

My Little Piebald wasn't venomous enough. I'm so disappointed. Why can't haters up their game these days?

All they did was quoted something boring I wrote on my blog this week and called me a "Sunday Tribune nobody". Although, clearly I wasn't a 'Sunday Tribune nobody' in the past anytime John from My Little Piebald has called me to get gossip for his mailout. BURN!

Why didn't they talk about my endless self-promotion? The shameless bias and plugging of my club night on this blog (PS: thanks so much to everyone for coming down last night, such a great buzz! Details of the epic XXXmas party next week on the SoundCheck blog this afternoon.) My clear favoritism of certain Irish bands over others? Putting that fucking annoying 'sies' thing at the end of wordsies? Attesting that I'm a serious music critic while constantly exposing my taste for shit tunes? Occasionally linking my own articles on 'articles of the day' posts - WANKER! The shit blog design? Stealing mp3 links?

I mean, come on!

It's also stupid of MLP to slag what is essentially their target audience. MLP should come up with proper gossip instead of just throwing crap digs (so John, if you want that leaked George Hook email to Newstalk staff, the real story behind the East Wall murder, rumours about more venue closures, details on how much various bars are losing, or any other salacious gossip, just give me a buzz this afternoon.)

Of course, all that I'm doing by making this post is giving My Little Piebald publicity (fuck it: subscribe to it by emailing mylittlepiebald@gmail.com). Of course I know that, but I can never let people bitching at me go by because I'm an arrogant motherfucker with too much time on my hands. EVERYONE knows that.

SoundCheck tonight!

Grand Pocket Orchestra and Dublin Streets in the house, special festive tasty treats, drink promos, and awesome tunes.

Kicks off at 11pm tonight because there's a party in Spy beforehand.

Message me on Facebook if you want guestlist.

RAWK!

(Will Smith and Sponge Bob Square Pants gearing up for SoundCheck just a few short moments ago.)

The Hives partially make up for their shitness with a good Xmas duet with Cyndi Lauper, which occasionally sounds like a Ham Sandwich track

"I bought no tree this year
And I slept with your brother
I wrecked your Daddy's car
And went down on your Mother.
I set your record collection on fire
And said I never knew
Felt kind of bad about that
And I know you did too"



MP3s on Hype Machine

I like Lissy Trullie

I think that song with Adam Green must have been recorded at a party after this gig where she covered Hot Chip:

Jim Claus and his Long Distance Swimmer

Head over to Jim's blog where he is giving away Adrian Crowley's Choice Music Prize-nominated album 'Long Distance Swimmer' for one week only. It's a great album, if you don't have it already, then go get it now.

Vintage clothes party

The Irish Cancer Society shop in Rathmines has been building a new collection of vintage threads recently, which you can now rifle through.

They're having a party tonight to celebrate the launch of this new rocking section of their shop. It starts at 5.30pm this eve. So drop in, buy some clothing, shoes, accessories or wotevs. I'll defo be dropping in at some stage, can't beat a good vintage bargain + a good cause.

UnaRocks articles of the day

'A Double Shot at Love With the Ikki Twins' is "so patently deplorable that it's not even any fun to deplore." - Slate

Top 50 albums of the year - Rolling Stone

Should gender equality extend to boozing? - New York Magazine

Brody Dalle has a new band - Spin

Bloggers V an author, no one wins - Village Voice

Capitalist foods (by Joseph E Stiglitz) - Vanity Fair

Musicians ask Gitmo screws to stop using songs as torture - Seattle Times

A Nikon DSLR that's smarter than you are - Wired

Killing at random: Tijuana drug gangs - Reuters

Closet gays take over People magazine - Gawker

Condi interview - Daily Beast


And now:
MONKEY NEWS:
Sedated monkey smuggled on plane - CNN

Hope for world's rarest monkeys as new colony discovered - Daily Mail

Black and Gold / Fucking Cold

How cold was it last night? Coldest yet, methinks. I grabbed some food with YoCo and Anthony and then demonstrated my might at Hoop Fever in the arcade beside the cinema on Parnell St. I am THE BEST at Hoop Fever, NOBODY CAN BEAT ME. That's a challenge.

After that, we played Mario Kart briefly and then myself and Anthony headed to Sam Sparro @ the Academy. We literally caught the last note as we walked in the door. D'oh. By all accounts it was a good gig, so I'm kind of pissed off I missed it.

Then we went to Pantibar for a little bit, and then up to Tetric in the Button Factory where Anthony was DJing for a bit.

In other news, Claire sent me a video of a steel drum band covering 'Disturbia' she saw in Jamaica recently:

5 weeks until L Word Season 6

I don't think I can wait that long. Might explode.

Here's the latest promo complete with shit Desperate Housewives-type voiceover:

Wantsies

Myself, Tainer Bang and YoCo had some food in that place 19 (I think that's what it's called) on Camden St yesterday. It's really good, I'd highly recommend it. Everything is under a tenner, food is just simple and nice, the restaurant itself is v pleasant, with nice art and a smoking balcony and the staff are lovely. Will defo be revisiting. Probably today. Oh, and they have mojito ice cream. And cocktails.

After that, myself and YoCo went to Smyths to play with toys and look for a new Wii game. I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT Kota the robot dinosaur. SO AMAZING:


After that, we played Mario Kart online. It's such a different game online because people are so much more aggressive and sneaky, so actually it makes it more fun! Mario Kart: the game that keeps on giving.

the three songs I can listen to all day on repeat and never get tired of them

Ink

I just saw Mulley's new ink on Facebook. Pretty rocking. I love tattoos. I wanted to do a post ages ago about what tattoos my friends have. I should probably just do it.

For now, I just have three tattoos - a black gangsta 'S' on my right foot (the result of a bet with Miss Sarah Fox, she subsequently got a 'U' horseshoe on her arm), a blue star on my right thigh, and a black and yellow lightening bolt on my right wrist (FionnTimes got the same one). Actually, I've just realised all my tattoos are on my right side, weird!

I want to get a cartoon diamond (something like this) on the inside of my left forearm next. I want to get it with a black outline, and then silver white shimmery ink. I've always wanted a gonzo fist somewhere too, that's one I've been thinking of forever.

So, what kind of ink do y'all have? Share!

So, Brenda won

I was kind of glad Brenda won the Apprentice in the end. RoRo called it right from the start! I think Brenda wanted it more, and Nikki is younger and has got great experience from the programme, so everyone's a winner, really. Go Brenda!

After The Apprentice, I watched Mean Girls for the millionth time. Such a brilliant film.


My current Apprentice-a-like TV addiction? 'I Wanna Work For Diddy'.

SoundCheck = Role Model

*update* this event is now BOOKED OUT. massive response, rock on.

The Chancer, Rick, myself and SoundCheck are hooking up with our homies @ Universal Pictures Internatational Ireland to sort you out with a free screening of the savage new movie Role Models before the SoundCheck XXXmas Party next Thursday (18th).

Yes!

Role Models stars Paul Rudd (Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Sean William Scott (American Pie) and - YES! - Mc Lovin from Superbad. It’s directed by David Wain.

The Chancer is calling it the first great movie of 2009, and he knows his stuff, so we believe him.

We’re having a FREE, BLOG-TACULAR PRE-CHRISTMAS PREVIEW SCREENING at CINEWORLD, PARNELL STREET, DUBLIN on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18th at 6.30. To score a ticket for two, RSVP at info@thechancer.ie immediately. First come, first served. Tell everybody.

After that, we all hit SoundCheck and party the night away, woohoo!

SoundCheck this Thursday

Yo! This Thursday SoundCheck is running at the later time from 11pm until 2.30am. We've got the awesome Grand Pocket Orchestra and Dublin Streets on hand too! Details are here.

Also, stay tuned for details on our AWESOME Christmas party later today.

ella, ella

Wouldn't this get a little annoying?

Via Jezebel.

smokey bacon

All Irish pork withdrawn globally and everyone warned against eating it because if you ate the contaminated pork three times a day for 40 years or something you might increase your chances of getting cancer.

Yet you can still buy cigarettes whenever you want.

I'm so glad there's a lot of perspective on this pork freak out issue.

Ze Weekend: Apes, Parties, Mario Kart

The Fight Like Apes gig @ the Academy on Friday was excellent. The crowd was pretty excitable and rose to the occasion of FLApes' largest headline show as much as the band did. Every song (even the new stuff) was greeted with huge cheers, an encore was demanded, and chants of 'suplex backbreaker' echoed long after they had left the stage for good.

There are a good few videos on YouTube from the gig. Here's one:


I hung around for a bit of No Disko (why the K?), but was home early because I had to be up at a reasonable hour to play some tunes at Gallery Number One, which was fun. By the way, if you're looking for some last minute Christmas presents, they have cool cassette tape purses/card-holders for €40 and also these awesome cushions by Pepin Le Malin for various prices (most of them are around €45 I think.)

After that, I had dinner with YoCo and Anthony and then we went for Christmas drinks in my sister's gaff. I wish I had pictures of the AMAZING icing and decorations I made for mini Christmas buns but I don't, so you're just going to have to take my word that they were works of art.

Then, X Factor. I wanted Eoghan to get chucked out, but I think Diana fucked it up by singing 'White Flag', which is a bit of a nothing song. Why didn't she sing something like 'Torn'? Anyway, Eoghan storming the stage was a bit much. He's clearly completely obsessed with her. You wouldn't know who's going to win the final now, would you? I really want Alexandra to win, but I think Eoghan and JLS might have more support than her.

After drinkies we went up to Tadhg's birthday drinks in that bar above L'Gueuleton. I didn't stay for long because I was super tired. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIGER!!!!

Yesterday, myself and Tiger hunted British pork in M&S and then went to Lili's with YoCo for brunch. Then Anthony came up and we pretty much spent all day unlocking levels in Mario Kart and playing 4-player tournaments on the Wii, which was a LOT of fun. Lili's favourite character is now King Boo. I'm still with Mario, YoCo loves Peach and Anthony picks whoever he thinks will piss us off the most (namely, Baby Mario in that stupid fucking buggy car.)

After that, we went to see Four Christmases which was a bit of fun. I went home and watched Chris Rock stand up afterwards, which was funnier.

Reading: Susan Pinker - 'The Sexual Paradox' and Alison Bechdel - 'The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For'
Watching: 'Your Bad Self' (RTE/Treasure Entertainment) DVD preview
Drinking: Starbucks vanilla latte, Christmas in a cup
Listening to: Britney Spears - 'Circus' (my review here)

"they were on stage for 2 hours but they sang for 6 minutes"

In preparation for tonight at the Academy, a rather blurry, but amusing video of Fight Like Apes @ the Roadhouse in Manchester:

Katie Cruisie

Is it just me or does she actually look really like Tom Cruise here? And talk like him too? Apart from his freaky laugh, of course.

I'm confused about Grandmaster Flash tickets

Right now, you can buy tickets to Grandmaster Flash at Tripod tonight on ticketmaster for €20. It's pretty good value, I think.

But do you know what's better value?

Buying a €14.50 ticket to Phantom's gig with Director & A Lazarus Soul in the same venue earlier that night, which guarantees you entry to the Grandmaster Flash gig after.

Bit of a mixed Message (boom boom), no? In fairness, I probably shouldn't be boring you all with this because I'm going to the Academy and the Spy tonight. But, yknow, whatever.

Your Bad Self

Via The Chancer, a new sketch comedy show airing on RTE on December 26th. Going by this clip, it's actually quite funny.



A little Man Stroke Woman, by the looks of things.

What? You never watched Man Stroke Woman?

UnaRocks articles of the day

Can Condi come out, already? - The Big Bang

They're remaking Romancing The Stone. Leave it alone! - Perez

How will an underwater dam in Venice work? - Slate

FionnTimes kills Santa - Izznit

Nialler has a new Indo blog - Nialler9

Check out the hotties who work for Obama - Gawker

Simon Cowell is a great shag (either that or his payoff to Sinitta is working) - NME

Bratz Dolls are dunzo - Wallet Pop

New Australian law helps lesbians and single women have kids - News.com.au

Interview with Eminem's mum - Village Voice

Mir:or gives physical objects digital meaning - Springwise

Filmmaker to install camera in his eye socket - Wired

Pendulum: rock heroes or dance traitors? - Guardian

D12 gig cancelled

Rather un-bizarrely (geddit?) D12's European tour has been cancelled. Rap's feeling the global economic pinch too, y'all. D12 were due to play Tripod on December 21st.

*update* Baby Dee @ Whelan's tonight has also been cancelled.

Thursday night off

Last night, because Boys Noize took over SoundCheck & Le Cirque, I had my first Thursday off in AGES, which was just as well because there was plenty to do. I went shopping in Size? (which should be called We Don't Have Your Size? because they never do) and Urban Outfitters where I got me a flimsy jacket even though I set out to buy a winter coat. I ALWAYS do that. Met Anthony and Barry in Market Bar and then went for dinner with Lainey, Meadzer and Ro in Soho which was nice.

After that, we went to Le Cirk because it was the only place that wasn't really that busy, so we could get a table for gossip.

Then I walked up to The Dragon because Ragin and Lynn were inside for a night called Dodge Ball (crap name) with DJ Karen. So, this is where it all went quite wrong. The bouncers completely unecessarily gave me the third degree. I had to take off my hat so they could "get a good look at me" was asked where I was previously, and why (?!) and a whole load of other shit. By the end of it I was so intimidated and humiliated that I just wanted to go home, but I sucked it up and went in.

And the place was dead. No wonder, with the bouncers being so rude, they were literally driving business away. We watched maybe 10% of the (few) people going up to the door being let in. It was ridiculous. I kept thinking, imagine going into a gay bar for the first time, like if you were some bird who heard about this night on Facebook or something and decided to go, and faced such ignorance and intimidation at the door. You'd never go out again! They should have had female security too, but that's another point...

Anyway, it only got worse. When Baby Helen and Nikki came up (for the record all of us there were more or less stone cold sober, so there was no hassle where that was concerned) they were refused entry. I got so annoyed, so I went to talk to the manager. I told him that we had come down to support DJ Karen's night and were just met with a serious attitude. None of us were drunk. All of us are/were regulars at Capital Bars. Two of us in the group of five had VIP Capital Bar keyrings (not that that should matter, but I was trying to make the point that we were meant to be 'valued customers'.) I said that the bar was practically empty yet the bouncers were driving customers away. The manager was nice and apologetic, but clearly the management in there have no control over the bouncers - earlier in the night he even had to go to the door to let his friends in!

What is there problem? It's not Bungalow 8 we're trying to get into. The bar was dying on it's arse last night, yet they wouldn't let people in! Are they stupid?! I have a lot of respect for bouncers because it's a really tough job. I see first hand the amount of shite they have to put up with from drunk, aggressive and annoying people. But we were none of those things. We were just trying to drop into Dragon for one or two drinks (or not even) and show our faces. And we were treated like shit. No wonder Pantibar and the Front Lounge are full these days. Later that night, Ragin said she was just walking past Dragon again and they were still refusing people entry.

Anyway, that kind of spoiled the night a little. I went up to Boys Noize after for a while. It was crazy! Brilliant vibe. I was a little tired and a little not in the mood though, so I headed home early enough. FLApes tonight! Woowoo!

UnaRocks articles of the day

How a dude broke the internet - Wired

Pinnacle Entertainment goes tits up - NME

Argentina is running out of coins - Slate

Mustaches are back - New York Magazine

State's best albums of 08 - State

Getting hassle from Pod bouncers - Bluebirds Are So Natural

Attacks in Iraq at lowest level since '03 - MSNBC

APTBS

After having dinner with Neilsies @ the Port House and meeting Meadzer for coffee, I headed to Le Cirk to a pre-gig drink with my sister and AdoFemBo. Then myself and Ado went to ALT. Sweet Jane's set was excellent. They're just a great band with a good sound.

A Place To Bury Strangers were awesome. Their set was a total sonic and visual assault. It was probably one of the loudest gigs I've ever been too. It's so hard to do what they do at that volume and make it sound good. 'I Know I'll See You' was brilliant as was the last tune they played. Deadly buzz. I did have to laugh at the bass player's Pabst Blue Ribbon t-shirt though. Self-aware, much? Speaking of t-shirts, me and Ado bought a couple. Mine is blue and amazing.

This morning, I am dismantling a giant Christmas cracker from TV3 and playing with the 3D glasses that come with Analogue Minefield's new album.

Awareness test

Thanks to Conor Le Shark for this.

Facebook demon

Tainer Bang has taken control of my Facebook account. All messages - including the one to Davih that told him to give up on Britney because she's never coming back - and status updates claiming 'Una Mullally is amazed by Etain's amazingness' are all false. Please ignore.

Tainer, you are DEAD. Revenge will be mine.

talking in Britney Spears lyrics while playing poker

I forgot to blog about how difficult it was to speak in Britney Spears lyrics the other night.

On Sunday when we were playing pre-Dream Phone poker in Tainer Bang's apartment in the sky, I was set the task of speaking in only Britney Spears lyrics throughout the game. Come to think of it, I think I was the one who set the task for myself, which was pretty dumb.

Mostly I said, "bitch", "oops", "isn't she lucky" (this was good when someone won a hand), "stronger", "you wanna piece of me" and then when I couldn't think of anything to say, but needed to get someone's attention, I would say "notice me", which as we know is the start of 'Everytime'. Anyway, it was too hard, so I stopped after about 15 minutes.

I wonder what would be the best band/artist to choose when playing this game again?

Mayer is the man

I'm hitting a couple of gigs this week; Ruby Sessions last night, A Place To Bury Strangers tonight, The Whip tomorrow and then probably Boys Noize after that, Fight Like Apes on Friday and then the 'if Carlsberg made DJs' dude Michael Mayer.

Myself and Loreana discussed Mayer briefly last night. Last time I saw him at the Music Centre, it was just crazy fun. On Friday, he plays in Wax, which is just going to be an amazing, mental night. I'm gonna head over after the FLApes gig.

It's 20 blips in, you can get tickets here.

(photee by Lili)

some SoundCheck news for y'all

Click here to git it git it.

Dream Phone: Unstable Ex-Boyfriend Edition

WEIRDNESS. Today I send Conor Le Shark a message on Facebook saying "I think we should video ourselves making an ad for Dream Phone Unstable Ex-Boyfriend Edition", as a total prank, thinking that this was just an in-joke between a few of us who played Dream Phone the other night. Obviously not.

Gallery Number One Xmas Fun

Over at Gallery Number One they've got some pretty sweet stuff. Like tthose carved Skewville sneakers you may have seen hanging from wires around town, The Rolling Thunder Revue collection, which features awesome photos of Bob Dylan and Boris Hoppek teddies. So drop in if you're looking to pick up some arty Christmas gifts.

Every Saturday in December, the gallery will have DJs, mulled wine and mince pies in store while you browse. I'm DJing this Saturday and Dublin Streets are doing next Saturday, so pop in for a gawk and a gulp.

Is 808s and Heartbreak about vulnerability or arrogance?

Good article about that here.

Ruby Sessions last night

Great buzz last night at the Ruby Sessions. Myself and AdoFemBo headed along to check out FLApes 'curation' - only the second time the reins have been handed to a band in the night's nine year history. The first band on was Sleep Thieves. It was only their 2nd ever gig so they were a little rough around the edges. I still enjoyed it, and would really like to see them on a big stage with big sound so you could get the full effect.

Next up was another dude I'd never seen play before, Filterface, aka Eoin who used to be in Soviet Filter. Enjoyable, some good tunes lurking in there.

Hoovers and Sledgehammers - the Gonzo Salvador Dalis of the Irish music scene - were amazing. I actually think 'Release The Priest' is the best song in the universe.

But the real surprise of the night for me was Grand Pocket Orchestra. I've seen this band play a bunch of times, and think they are awesome, but tonight, stripped down, they were incredibly intriguing and revealed a depth and a different sort of style that I for one certainly didn't realised was lurking underneath their tuned, quirky, catchy and brilliant pop that they have become known for. I had to go home and think about it!

I also got my fur coat back from MayKay, which was welcome in the FREEZING COLD, and in turn returned her Adidas zippy. Am really looking forward to the Apes gig on Friday. Should be a larf and a harf. Also, Duke Special hits the Ruby Sessions on the 16th, should be a great gig.

(GPO photee by Jill Redmond)

Izznit

FionnTimes has a new blog. It's here.

UnaRocks articles of the day

Graham Linehan says his Irish Times profile is bollox - Why That's Delightful

Gen Jim Jones: The Enforcer - Slate

Obama is the new black Reagan - Newsweek

On the Record readers don't know who Chris Brown is - On The Record

A guide to the best indie stuff in NYC - New York Magazine

Tainer Bang has a nightmare about Panti - The Big Bang

Uh oh, Max Boot digs Obama's foreign policy team - Commentary Magazine

Gay penguins want babies too - GCN

What Tina Fey wants - Vanity Fair

The Grants are the best unsigned band in the world - The Guardian

some of my recent album reviews from the Tribune

Kanye West - '808s & Heartbreak
Four years ago, when Kanye West sang, "we all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it" on a track on his debut album, hip-hop changed...

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
It doesn't help Axl Rose's cause that this album, 15 years and €10m in the making, opens with the line, "it don't really matter", because, well, let's face it...

The Killers - 'Day & Age'
There are a few really crap sax solos on The Killers' new album, but that's not all that's rubbish. Most pronounced is the overall lack of direction on this, their third record...

Ludacris - 'Theatre of the Mind
One of the most underrated rappers around, Ludacris consistently manages to combine fame and commercial success with realness and a remarkable, humorous flow...

Dido - 'Safe Trip Home'
*thump* Sorry, that was my head hitting the table, because for approximately the 14th time, I've nodded off while listening to this album. Having a womb, I've always quite liked Dido...

Pony Club - 'Post Romantic'
While the newer, younger, pony clubs get on with it, the original Pony Club is back. 'Post Romantic' is achingly and reluctantly grown up...

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - 'NYC'
It's one of the most exciting collaborations in music, and it continues to deliver...