Pat Carty
@patcarty.bsky.social
Arts journalist all over the place but always open for offers. Weddings, parties, anything. And Bongo Jazz, a specialty.
Another wonderful review of SLEUTH-HOUND in the Irish Independent! @patcarty.bsky.social writes, "It all adds up to a highly entertaining addition to Sherlockiana." Thank you! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
Why can’t we get enough of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen? It’s elementary, reveals ‘Sleuth-Hound’
History
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lovely review of Experts in a Dying Field from @patcarty.bsky.social www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
‘Experts in a Dying Field’ review: Patrick Freyne puts band back together for cosmic, comic meditation on music and grief
The writer and former singer is on form with this soulful novel about love, friendship and redemption
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As you can see, there was a varied turnout in Rush yesterday to hear myself and the great @patcarty.bsky.social shoot the breeze at the Festival of Writing 😁
Like A Starving Dog Let Loose In A Deli: U2 roll away the stone with the marvellous Easter Lily. @independent.ie
Pat Carty on U2’s new ‘Easter Lily’ EP: Surprise release of the second batch of songs in just weeks shows how great a band they still are
I was packing a bag when the phone rang. Deirdre’s name, one of U2’s people, came up. “Typical,” I swore to myself. “It’s probably the Bono interview I’ve been angling after for years!” Ol’ Bug Eyes f...
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A great honour - and great sport - to interview Earl Slick in front of a kind crowd for the Dublin Bowie Festival. The stories and laughs kept coming so hats off to Earl who’s a lovely chap. Sitting beside him as he played those Station To Station riffs was pretty cool.
"Rocks like a battleship balancing on a bottle of milk..." I wrote about being caught on the hop by Days Of Ash, the new EP from U2 in today's Irish Independent.
A band revitalised and full of political fire – U2’s surprise ‘Days of Ash’ EP is their best release in decades
It’s tricky, if not near impossible, to keep things under wraps in this information-saturated age, but U2 just about managed it.
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In the new issue of Classic Rock Magazine I report back from Mike the Pies in Listowel where Ash proved yet again how marvellous they are, and the Dedication to Philip Lynott gig at 3Arena. In your newsagents now (with a few photos by me n’ all).
A review of Art Cure: The Science Of How The Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt for last week's Sunday Independent that didn't make it to their website...
Still All Biker Jacket Cool, And Still Swinging: Lucinda Williams at 3Olympia. @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Lucinda Williams review: US country star marks birthday with fine gig at Olympia in Dublin
Amidst all the great music, Lucinda Williams also took time to rail at Trump and the awful goings-on in her homeland. And one of Rory Gallagher's guitars even made it to the stage
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There are people who don’t like Hothouse Flowers. Those people are wrong. The Flowers At Dublin Trad Fest at the National Stadium. @irishtimes.com
Hothouse Flowers at Tradfest: Powerful night of music from a band with real soul
Hothouse Flowers are joined by several special guests, from Susan O’Neill to Steve Wall and more
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Leonard and Doubting Thomas. Reviewed The World Of Leonard Cohen for @independent.ie
A melodic gift and a focus on female characters: Why there’s more to Leonard Cohen than ‘Hallelujah’
Leonard Cohen was only nine when his father passed away. After the funeral, the boy wrote his first poem which he placed in one of his father’s bowties and buried in the back garden, “confronting unha...
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David Bowie in Ireland (with me down near the front). @davidbowiereal.bsky.social @independent.ie
Pat Carty: My one evening with David Bowie in Dublin was worth a thousand nights in the doghouse
My mother remembers the death of JFK being announced during a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. She says she left the cinema on O’Connell Street in shock at the loss of the American president...
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A moving farewell from Emmylou Harris @3arena.bsky.social @aikenpromotions.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Emmylou Harris review: Fond farewell to American country star at final gig at 3Arena, Dublin
Emmylou Harris impressed in Dublin with a combination of her own songs and well-chosen covers from the likes of Gram Parsons and Gillian Welch
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The quiff of Elvis, The moptops of The Beatles, Jagger's seismic style, Rod's pineapple, the dead animal on Bono's head, and my own tonsorial troubles - all are examined in depth in this @independent.ie investigation...
Pat Carty: Which came first, the rockstar or the rock-star hair? And what happens when you can’t field a mullet anymore?
Far be it from me to suggest you fashion a tinfoil hat but your phone is listening to you. The Ma asked about a Christmas gift and I suggested a luxury timepiece for a laugh. Cue an instant bombardmen...
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Marty & Bob's Wild Weekend: reviewed Insomnia by Robbie Robertson on RTÉ Radio 1's Arena with Evelyn O'Rourke. @rteradio1.bsky.social @robbierobertson.bsky.social
Insomnia by Robbie Robertson - review
Pat Carty reviews Insomnia, the posthumously released second memoir from The Band's Robbie Robertson.
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And what’s he, then, that says I play the villain: reviewed We Did OK, Kid by Anthony Hopkins for the Irish Independent/The Sunday Independent. @simonschusteruk.bsky.social @anthonyhopkinss.bsky.social @independent.ie
Anthony Hopkins’s memoir is a forthright portrait of a Welshman who has no truck with ‘touchy-feely’ stuff
After almost eight months in a West End production of M Butterfly, Anthony Hopkins was “bored and irritable” and fed up with “doing the same thing night in and night out” for what would become his fin...
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What Paul Did Next. Reviewed Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney for the Irish Independent. @independent.ie @paulmccartney147.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
What the McCartneys sent in the post after a Wings concert got a bad review
Dealing with failure is one thing but handling success is likely another matter altogether. Just imagine for a minute that at 27 you’ve already created a peerless body of musical work that literally c...
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Reviewed the 40th Anniversary Edition of Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues for Classic Rock Magazine (not on the web). @thepogues.bsky.social @warnermusic.bsky.social
Reviewed The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie for The Sunday Independent.
Interviewed Tim Wheeler out of Ash for @independent.ie
Tim Wheeler on early fame: ‘I got hammered during the gig. The next day we were doing MTV interviews but I woke up in my own vomit. Management were really upset’
Anyone with any sense joins a band as a teenager and dreams big. Once reality lashes out a few kicks, the majority get on with their lives but that’s not how it panned out for Downpatrick native Tim W...
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Good-humoured and Arse-kicking: reviewed the deluxe edition of Who Are You from The Who for @classicrockmag.bsky.social
This deluxe makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
"How all deluxe releases should be done"
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Disagreeing about agreeing to disagree... @independent.ie
Pat Carty on the trials of music criticism: ‘People can take it very personally when you express a preference contrary to their own’
It might seem obvious, but it’s OK not to like things. It’s fine not to like a presidential candidate or the last Mission Impossible movie (bit slow to kick off, I felt). What is not OK is the way peo...
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"A burgeoning superstar unsure of everything apart from the music." Reviewed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for @classicrockmag.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net
Jeremy Allen White shines in Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere
The review of the film of the book about the making of Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece, Nebraska
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He knows how to tell a story. I reviewed Truly by Lionel Richie for @irishtimes.com @harpercollins.bsky.social
Truly by Lionel Ritchie: A cut above the usual music memoir
Highly enjoyable read doesn’t shy away from discussing racism, money or personal struggles
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From tectonic tremolo rumbles to a librarian’s dream of a hush. Went to see the great Richard Hawley at 3Olympia Theatre for the Irish Examiner. @richardhawley.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Richard Hawley review: Songs of magnificence at the Olympia in Dublin
Richard Hawley revisited his classic Coles Corner album for a fine gig in Dublin
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