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that's so wrong, but I'm not going to start dividing my friends up by socio- economic background and race and going into my own history to answer your point. Instead, I'd like to apologise for the ad- hominem point I made about you; it was stupid and I'm sorry. However, i think you should...

Working -class people are the ones who, by and large, tend to have to compete with immigrants for jobs/ resources and housing while the middle- classes avail of the resulting depression in labour costs (particularly for domestic servants). It's not surprising that some people feeling their...

Thanks, Padraig - kinda knew it wasn't Schubert, but for some reason thought it wasn't Schumann either

FE ? further education? or something stranger/ please advise

is it readers or writers?

Saw them the other night - in the line of work - and, well, I'm 25 years away from their target age group but, I have to say, best young 'industry' band i've seen in ages. For what it's worth.

had a record of his once, about which I remember nearly nothing except a note on the back announcing that 'this record was mixed digitally (i.e. using fingers)' reader, I chortled

When Zizek spoke in Dublin last November, he talked -to what point I now can't remember - about a piano piece by Schubert in which the composer notated a 'third part', not actually played (obviously) but to be suggested in the playing; and then he takes it out .......so firstly the performer has...

Padraig, you're right of course about 'Anti- capitalism' ; it's this generation's 'protest', and, as with that generation, the seeds of an new 'new capitalism' are sown by the ineffectual job lot campaigning against everything. Rather than Orwell's eternal jackboot, it will 'everything sounds...

'Dark was the night, cold was the ground' by Blind Willie Johnson and 'Jesus is a dying bed maker' by Charlie Patton the real low down shaking chill

He was oddly impressive last night - Padraig right to say that there wasn't much new, but I like his old- time insistence on hard work and solidarity rather than event junkie- dom - best bit, though was the first question about the corporatisation of UCD - or UCD Dublin as it now is on all...

I think there are a few different questions to address here Confucius in his/her original post makes the distinction between those who are deeply into music and those who are into it casually or socially; now I'm in my 40s and i can remember when music, specifically pop/ rock or whatever...

anyone else think he's Lewis Furey with an ego? (and minus the wit)

I read 'awopbopaloobopalopbamboom' when I was 14, back when there were about 10 books about rock and pop in the whole world; along with Charlie Gillett's 'the sound of the city' it saved me from prog rock. Wish there was something now I could recommend to 14 year olds to save them from...

once took a sleeper train from Bologna to Messina in Sicily - 17 hrs total 8pm to 1pm the following day. Fine except just south of Naples, the conductor came around and locked our cabins and then locked himself in - the explanation; 'bandits' ..... despite which, we slept soundly.

More early sixties than late fifties, but Generation X by ? (can't remember and can't find my copy) a series of interviews with teens and twenties in '63 is great and - possibly even harder to find - Personal Copy by Ray Gosling, an autobiog. about being young and hip in the East Midlands in the...