Mister Hands

Long Road – A Guided Tour of Pearl Jam’s Dublin Gig

Mister Hands — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:04:19 +0000

The backstory is this: two nights ago, while loafing near a PC in a fog of sleep-deprived insouciance, I embarrassingly paid ten American dollars for the official “booted leg” of Pearl Jam’s recent Dublin show. As I detailed previously, I attended the show filled with a mixture of excitement and thinly-veiled disgust (joined mid-”Comatose” in [...]

Deborah Crooks: It’s All Up To You

Mister Hands — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:42:25 +0000

I have returned to my reviewing ways over on ZME Music with this unhurriedly written piece about Deborah Crooks’ vaguely new EP It’s All Up To You. I say “unhurried” – in actual fact the record was released in March, a good four months ago, and Crooks herself e-mailed me the .rar of the EP [...]

Things I Learned At Pearl Jam

Mister Hands — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:54:19 +0000

Two weeks and some days ago, my companions and I ventured to the O2 in Dublin to see Pearl Jam “do” a concert. In the months leading up to this, I had lost most, if not all, of my interest in the band, in precisely the way you don’t want to do after spending €75 [...]

Oh Hell, I’ve Been Doing This Long Enough To Link To It

Mister Hands — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:41:55 +0000

Every weekend for the last month or so, I’ve been doing a round-up on ZME of all the news we didn’t see fit to print during the preceding 5 days. It is very silly. I will link to it now. We Do The News. The basic thrust of the woeful thing is this: each round-up [...]

An Irishman in London

Mister Hands — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:50:59 +0000

This past Wednesday morning – and I do mean “morning”, since I left the house at 5.30am – I set off for England, for two days of sun, sightseeing, sweating, swearing and interviewing a lovely and talented indie songstress. Here, I document my travels, in the form of small updates I wrote as drafts on [...]