Music Bird’s Bop Apocalypse | 100 Years of Charlie Parker Charlie Parker would have been a chin-stroking one hundred years of age this month. Kloop. Mop. Rebop. Apocalypse. Happy birthday, with a whirlwinding flurry of breathless demisemiquavers on top. He was Bird. His nickname. And we were bird…

Reviewables #121 | Ball Pond Shame with Sharon Mannion Reviewables is back back back (!) after a long pandemic induced hiatus and regular co-hosts Hannah and Ed are joined in studio by guest Sharon Mannion and extra host Andrea Farrell. Sharon Mannion is an actor, writer and improviser and has…

Film The Usual Suspects at 25 | The Bulletin Board For 90s Cinema "I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze." - Roger "Verbal" Kint The Usual Suspects is an illusion. A trick played out over 106 minutes that mirrors that of a magician. The prestige at the end leaves the audience…

Music Book Review | Heavy and the Power of Metal When we think of metal music, many lapse into instinctual cliches and stereotypes of darkness, volume, and anger, and, while much of this holds true, there is so much more to the genre. Dan Franklin’s engaging and expansive book encourages…

Poem of the Week Poem of the Week | After All by Hiram Larew After All by Hiram Larew For some reason you think in a different way as soon as you go outside. It doesn’t make any difference if you’re in the city or far up in the hills. It doesn’t matter if there is time or not or if it’s spring…

Film The Babysitter: Killer Queen | Comedy-Horror Sequel Short on Comedy and Horror McG's comedy horror The Babysitter was a Netflix original that many horror fans had zero expectations for. It seemingly came out of nowhere and strangely, it worked for the most part - delivering an enjoyable experience provided you did not…

Motherfoclóir #143 | Emma De Souza and the Good Friday Agreement Emma De Souza joins Darach and Gearóidín to talk about a battle for the integrity of the Good Friday Agreement. Once upon a time there was a young woman from Derry called Emma who loved dogs, baking and movies. She didn’t think about…