Friday 17 April 2009

Move D at Pod tonight, not to be missed.

The boss is not a Pod/Move D type of person, he probably won't be too happy with the contents of this blog, hence the following message to save my job.

On your way home you can drop into an Applegreen station and treat yourself to a free 500ml bottle of water with any sandwich or roll purchased. That way you can deal with the dreaded thirst and the munchies at the same time and won't put too big a hole in your pocket.

For anyone out there interested in great electronic music, the king is in town. Tonight HYPE at Pod on Harcourt Street in Dublin presents German music pioneer Move D. Nothing I can say here would do justice to David Moufang's (Move D's) talent. Suffice to say I know him a long time and can say without fear of contradiction that when it comes to innovation, genre bustin' panache and sheer groovability they don't come any better. Preferring life in the underground to mainstream fame has served his cause well and his latest incarnation as godfather of deep musical house is as sublime an experience as all the other great pinnacles of his musical evolution.

Have a great night.

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Monday 6 April 2009

Taking the stairs from now on.

Whew... the boss wasn't at all happy about my comments on the RTE football pundits. I just met him at the lift and got the old Alex Ferguson hairdryer treatment. It seems he is a big fan of John Giles and didn't like my implying that he wasn't relevant any more to Irish football. 

I tried to explain that my beef wasn't with Mr. Giles but rather with Commander Dunphy. Unfortunately there was no explaining to the boss, by the time we got to the first floor I had received a blitz synopsis of Giles' illustrious career, as we passed the second floor I was getting the "honesty of effort" treatment. By the time we reached the third floor he was into " respect for experience" and then suddenly as we reached the fourth floor he realised that he had wanted to get out at the second floor and with a harumph and a scowl in my direction he marched out of the lift and back down the stairs. 

That's a real pity. I wanted to tell him that we had raised €3500- last count for the Marie Keating Foundation with sales of  the Jivo earphones . I knew he'd be happy about that but unfortunately I didn't get the chance to tell him. Maybe he'll read this post and his humor will improve.

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Saturday 4 April 2009

Apres Match becomes a reality.

So pleased to see that other people also thought our RTE soccer pundits Dunphy and Giles were totally out of order with their analysis on Wednesday night. After the Ireland Italy game Eamon Dunphy delivered what can only be described as  a loutish and totally unfair and incorrect summary of the nights events. Giles delivered some smug remarks as usual displaying his inability to recognize the changes that have occurred in football since he was relevant


The truth is Trapatoni made the right changes that brought us a well deserved draw. There is no such thing as an Italian team that's complete rubbish. Young Caleb Folan set up the winning goal and the best chance of the game, credit where credit is due. Canavarro is not finished but rather did the work of two players up until he tired towards  the end and made some silly tackles and finally we hired Mr. Trapatoni to take us to the World Cup in South Africa and only consistently getting good results will do that. 
A report in the Irish Independent in the last few days  suggested that Dunphy and Co. had become a caricature of themselves and that Bill O'Herlihy had to carry some of the blame for his inability to stand up and behave correctly while all around him trotted out cliches and insults ad nauseum.  English pundits analyzing England's games have been accused (often rightly so) of being too inoffensive and mild but somehow in the face of what was paraded on RTE as in depth analysis on last Wednesday night, the fair, honest, albeit mild mannered antics of British football experts seems almost preferable. 

Congratulations are in order for the Irish team and Mr. Trapatoni for making the best out of the situation against a 10 man Italian team, in Italy, and grabbing what was certainly a valuable point. For Dunphy and Co. I doubt they will ever recover the form which inspired the hilarious early Apres Match sketches. Looks like the pundits have started to believe their own parodies. As  Ian Mallon in the Irish Independent so correctly remarked there's no need to caricature what already is a caricature.

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